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3) Crossbones
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389 pages ; 24 cm
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"A gripping new novel from today's "most important African novelist". (The New York Times Review of Books) A dozen years after his last visit, Jeebleh returns to his beloved Mogadiscio to see old friends. He is accompanied by his son-in-law, Malik, a journalist intent on covering the region's ongoing turmoil. What greets them at first is not the chaos Jeebleh remembers, however, but an eerie calm enforced by ubiquitous white-robed figures bearing...
4) Crossbones
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Keme didn't think his life could get worse until he's turned into a windigo--a creature with an insatiable appetite for human flesh. An attempt to end his life frees Arthur, the victim ensnared in Keme's internal soul-cache. Arthur is propelled into dominance and Keme recedes into obscurity. Two souls inhabit one body and the turnabout causes abominable evil to reign supreme. Arthur exacts revenge on Nathanial, the man who ruined his mortal life,...
5) Crossbones
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Campbell returns to his vision of the apocalypse, as humanity's last hopes struggle to outlive the end of the world. Leading the U.S.S. Nimitz survivors has forced Father Xavier Church to make some hard decisions, but he's protected his flock. Only, his fortress is about to fall, and, this time, he might not be able to save them all. Most people lost everyone they loved to the walking dead, but Evan Tucker didn't have anything to lose. The folks on...
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When George Rounsivel's pirate band captured the niece of the Governor of the Bahamas, that young American buccaneer was in a jam. For he already shared his cabin with a jealous pirate wench who would slip a dagger into him the instant he looked at another woman.
Yet he couldn't throw this blue-blooded captive to the lustful arms of the crew. For as a sea-wolf, Rounsivel was sailing under false colors - and a single word of this from the governor's...
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Sarah and Ryan are in deep trouble... they've discovered a dark secret... something that everyone in their hometown of Skeleton Creek, Oregon, seems to want to keep from them. Why? It just doesn't make sense.
The answers are at the old, abandoned dredge. The last time the two teenage detectives went out to the creepy dredge, Ryan ended up unconscious and in a cast at the hospital. Ryan is stuck at home, but Sarah can continue to solve the mystery...
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Rawhide and Crossbones. A Comedy in Two Acts. Black Jack has stolen the town payroll from the bank and the sheriff is hot on his trail. Meanwhile, the pirates ship is in port for repairs so what else is Black Jack to do but steal their treasure, too! Then he just might have enough money to carry out his plan. Can blood-thirsty pirates and routing tooting cowboys get past the villain's defenses? Can pirates and cowboys even get along?
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Every month, a ragtag group of Londoners gather in the site known as Crossbones Graveyard to commemorate the souls of medieval prostitutes believed to be buried there-the "Winchester Geese," women who were under the protection of the Church but denied Christian burial. In the Borough of Southwark, not far from Shakespeare's Globe, is a pilgrimage site for self-identified misfits, nonconformists, and contemporary sex workers who leave memorials to...
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Where On Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? volume 1
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Zack and Ivy hook up with Jamaican detective, Jasmine, when a ghostly robbery of antique cannons takes place at Fort Charles, Jamaica. Soon the kids are onto Carmen's plan to become the greatest seafarin' felon in history, as she patterns herself after famous female pirates, Anne Bonny and Mary Read.
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A cabin boy with a secret is lead astray in Tortuga's last great house of ill repute, where the ladies have all returned after death full of mysteries to be unravelled. The Captain promised Tobias Truman a night to remember, but what Toby seeks behind closed doors is a truth only a lady of the house can reveal. The first story in the Crossbones & Sorcery series, available as a stand-alone ebook (also included in the short story collection The Birdcage...
13) Mandy
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After, what was supposed to be a benign affair, after all, Tom had told Mandy that him and his wife were in an open marriage, they stayed together for the kids and his political campaign. All becomes revealed, as Mandy joins The Order of the Crossbones, and learns that Tom has opened up his marriage all over Washington DC.
Mandy, a naive, Indiana native just graduated from college and began the start of her dream career as a legislative aid to junior...
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xxiii, 352 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
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"Fletcher Hanks was the first great comic book auteur: he wrote, penciled, inked, and lettered all of his own stories. He completed approximately 50 stories between 1939-1941, all unified by a unique artistic vision. Whether it's the superhero Stardust doling out ice cold slabs of poetic justice, or the jungle protectress Fantomah tearing evildoers from limb to ragged limb, contemporary readers are stunned by the pop surrealism and outright violent...
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