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New London, Texas. 1937. Naomi Vargas and Wash Fuller know about the lines in East Texas as well as anyone. They know the signs that mark them. They know the people who enforce them. But sometimes the attraction between two people is so powerful it breaks through even the most entrenched color lines. And the consequences can be explosive. (Set during the 1937 New London school explosion, the deadliest school disaster in American history.).
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
332 p. ; 25 cm
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English
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Mary Higgins Clark, America's "Queen of Suspense," delves into the mystery of psychic powers and communication with the dead in her gripping new thriller, Before I Say Good-Bye. When Adam Cauliff's new cabin cruiser, Cornelia II, blows up in New York harbor with him and several close business associates aboard, his wife, Nell MacDermott, is not only distraught at the loss but wracked with guilt because she and Adam had just had a serious quarrel and...
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When a routine tour of a particle accelerator goes awry, Jack Hamilton and the rest of his tour group find themselves in a world ruled by Old Testament morality, where the smallest infraction can bring about a plague of locusts. Escape from that world is not the end, though, as they plunge into a Communist dystopia and a world where everything is an enemy.
Philip K. Dick was aggressively individualistic and no worldview is safe from his acerbic and...
4) Save me
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English
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When an explosion rips through the nearly empty cafeteria of an elementary school, Rose leads two girls to safety before racing to rescue her own daughter, Melly. But Rose soon learns that she may face both civil and criminal charges for her heroics because one of the girls she saved was seriously injured in the resulting fire that killed three school staff members. Media demands, legal maneuvering, and social pressures create tension, and dark secrets...
5) Heartbeat
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Jubilee Kentucky volume 3
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
473 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
When a series of exploding helicopters crashes into their mountain town of Jubilee, Kentucky, CPA Amalie Lincoln and IT technician Sean Pope believe there's something more sinister at work-something they'll have to stop or risking losing the love they've rediscovered.
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Looking glass (John Ringo) volume 1
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
278 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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Formerly of the 82nd Airborne Division, New York Times best-selling author John Ringo brings unmatched authenticity to his military science fiction. When a subatomic physics experiment causes a massive explosion, interdimensional gateways open in Florida-and aliens pour out. Some intend to bring Earth to its knees. Others seem willing to help, but will annihilate the planet if Navy SEAL Command Master Chief Robert Miller can't stop the menace from...
7) Vixen
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Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
201 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
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For the Southeast London police squad, it's rough, tough, dirty business as usual. The Vixen, the most sensuous, crazed female serial killer ever, is masterminding a series of lethal explosions. She is unpredictable, wild, angry--and the cops don't even know she exists.
Meanwhile, Inspector Roberts is helpless to stop the explosions and his subordinates aren't doing much better. Brant is consumed with an even-bigger-than-usual mean streak, and fast-rising...
8) Awakening
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Chasing yesterday volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
207 p. ; 20 cm.
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English
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Off the grid volume 9
Publisher
Fog City Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"He didn't just break her heart, he broke her soul. He is the last person she wants to see again. And the only person who can help her solve a deadly case... When a bomb exploded at her college, Caitlyn Carlson's life changed in an instant. Ten years later, she's no longer a vulnerable, trusting girl, but a tough, ruthless, FBI agent. But her hard exterior covers a deep, aching hole in her heart. Quinn Kelly has changed his life, too, trying to make...
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Alexander Vasin novels volume 1
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
305 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"A chilling and cinematic thriller set in 1961 in one of the most secretive locations in Soviet history. Ten days before the test of largest nuclear device in history--the Tsar Bomba--a KGB officer must investigate the murder of one of the architects of the bomb, and unravel a conspiracy that could set the world on fire"--
11) Under pressure
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Dr Lucas Page novels volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
437 pages ; 25 cm.
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English
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"On a beautiful October evening, New York City's iconic Guggenheim Museum is closed for a tech company's private gala. Until an explosion rocks the night, instantly killing 702 people, including every single attendee-yet the damage to the building itself was minimal. An explosion of that precision was no accident and, in response, the FBI mobilizes its entire team - but the sheer number of victims strains their resources. Were all 702 victims in the...
12) The good liar
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Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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An explosion rips apart a Chicago building. A year later, Cecily is in mourning. She was supposed to be in the building that day; she watched it come down with her husband and best friend inside. Kate, now living thousands of miles away, is hoping that her past won't catch up with her. And Franny, a young woman in search of her birth mother, watched the horror knowing that the woman she was so desperate to reconnect with was in the building. As the...
13) The human kaboom
Author
Series
Tales from the multiverse volume 2
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
389 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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"A collection of six stories, each one featuring an explosion of some sort"--
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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Told in their separate voices, six Muslim teens are falsely accused of an alleged attack on a Los Angeles beach and must trust or turn their backs on each other to prove their innocence. "As fireworks pop off at a rowdy Fourth of July bonfire party, an explosion off the California coast levels an oil rig--resulting in chaos and worse, murder. At the center are six Muslim teens - six patriots, six strangers, and six suspects. An old soul caught in...
16) Island of time
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Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
202 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
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The Geneva branch of Interpol - the international agency tasked with policing magic and the arcane arts - is where careers go to die. Action is rare as Switzerland banned magic seven hundred years ago. That's how Agent Jackson Burnett likes it. But then reports of an explosion lead Jackson to the home of businessman Bernard Bouchon. What's there is unfathomable: The family and their possessions have vanished into ash. Jackson's enigmatic new partner...
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