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My Fellow Americans
by Keir GraffThe United States in crisis In the near future, America simmers in suspicion and fear. The president expands the global front of the war on terror, then declares martial law and sits, unelected, for a third term. In Chicago, Jason Walker, amateur photographer and architecture enthusiast, inadvertently arouses the suspicions of Homeland Security. Detained, interrogated, and tortured, he's finally able to convince his captors of his innocence. But his freedom comes at a price. There's a terrorist group operating out of a Lebanese cultural center, they say. They need a man inside. And Jason Walker's mother was Lebanese, wasn't she? Caught between an arrogant government agent and a charismatic Lebanese immigrant who calls himself a patriot - and a girlfriend who chooses an awkward time to become a political activist Jason Walker struggles to decide who deserves his loyalty. And the stakes couldn't be higher ...
My Friend Maigret
by Georges SimenonThree vintage Maigret novels by legendary mystery author Georges Simenon One of the world 's most successful crime writers, Georges Simenon has thrilled mystery lovers since 1931 with his matchless creation Inspector Maigret. In My Friend Maigret, Inspector Maigret investigates the murder of a small- time crook on a Mediterranean island. Told in Simenon's spare, unsentimental prose, Inspector Cadaver is a haunting exploration of provincial hypocrisy and snobbery, in which Maigret encounters a rival sleuth from his past. In Maigret and the Man on the Boulevard, Simenon's tenacious detective pieces together the life of a man who for three years lived a secret life-until he is found stabbed to death in an alleyway.
My Friend Maigret
by Georges Simenon Shaun WhitesideThree vintage Maigret novels by legendary mystery author Georges Simenon One of the world 's most successful crime writers, Georges Simenon has thrilled mystery lovers since 1931 with his matchless creation Inspector Maigret. In My Friend Maigret, Inspector Maigret investigates the murder of a small- time crook on a Mediterranean island. Told in Simenon's spare, unsentimental prose, Inspector Cadaver is a haunting exploration of provincial hypocrisy and snobbery, in which Maigret encounters a rival sleuth from his past. In Maigret and the Man on the Boulevard, Simenon's tenacious detective pieces together the life of a man who for three years lived a secret life-until he is found stabbed to death in an alleyway.
My Friend Natalia: A Novel
by Laura LindstedtAn Entertainment Weekly Best Book of the Month <P><P>One of Finland’s most dynamic novelists bursts onto the American literary scene with this erotic story of an ambitious therapist’s sessions with an unforgettable patient. <P>Natalia cannot stop thinking about sex. <P>With this mesmerizing tale of one woman’s potent affliction, award-winning Finnish writer Laura Lindstedt makes her American debut. Narrated by an unnamed, ungendered therapist who leaps at the chance to employ their most experimental methods, My Friend Natalia offers a gripping examination of the power dynamics always present but rarely ever spoken about in therapy. “Something flared within me,” the therapist notes, “and it wasn’t merely sympathy, the emotion I feel for most of my clients. It was more like a sudden experience of harmony, wholly inappropriate given the circumstances.” <P>It is clear from the moment Natalia barges into her new therapist’s office that she has motives beyond simply fixing her sex life. She is quick to mention that the same exact painting hanging on the therapist’s wall—an abstract piece titled Ear-Mouth—once hung in her grandmother’s living room. This comment deeply unsettles the therapist, as does the large alarm clock that Natalia brings with her, intent on timing the sessions herself. And the tape recorder. <P>At first, Natalia seems to play along with the rules of therapy. She partakes in the therapist’s pain-displacement exercises, word games, and even produces a few anatomical illustrations. She muses on the art of pornography, and boldly examines seminal figures like Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, about whom she poses the question, “Did Jean-Paul consider Simone a woman at all? Or was she nothing but a pencil sharpener?” By combining philosophy and literature, repressed childhood memories and explicitly unrepressed erotic experiences, the sessions quickly shed all inhibitions. Still, the therapist can’t help but wonder: What does Natalia really want? <P>Brilliantly translated by the award-winning David Hackston, My Friend Natalia buzzes in prose charged with sharp banter and double entendres as the therapist hurls strange—and hilarious—experimental exercises at Natalia, and their work builds to an explosive climax. In taking a deconstructive yet utterly scintillating approach to the self-help narratives of our time, Laura Lindstedt emerges as a rare and unflinching international literary talent.
My Funny Valentine (The Lizzie Hart Mysteries #4)
by Caroline FardigAll Lizzie wants for Valentine's Day is for her fiancé NOT to be the prime suspect in a murder investigation. Is that too much to ask?Lizzie Hart is finally living the dream. She's engaged to the love of her life, Blake Morgan, and more importantly, she hasn't even given a thought to dead bodies or murder investigations for an entire year. The only hurdle in Lizzie and Blake's way to wedded bliss is introducing their polar opposite families to each other at their engagement party. Blake's parents have thrown a lavish shindig, but the fun is quickly over when Blake's brother arrives with an unexpected guest, the woman who left Blake at the altar years ago. If that weren't enough drama for one evening, Lizzie and Blake find the town mayor dead and the detectives on the case put Blake at the top of their suspect list. It's a race against the clock for Lizzie and Blake to find the real killer before the police decide to lock Blake up and throw away the key.
My Gal Sunday
by Mary Higgins ClarkTopping her bestselling success with Alvirah and Willy, in The Lottery Winner,America's Queen of Suspense introduces a new sleuthing couple , Henry and Sunday, an ex-president and his young congresswoman bride. Henry Parker Britland IV is wealthy and worldly -- a beloved former president who, still youthful, is enjoying early retirement. His new wife, Sunday, is beautiful, smart and seventeen years younger than he, and has just been elected to Congress in a stunning upset victory that has made her the darling of the media. Henry and Sunday make a formidable team of sleuths -- and never more so than when they set out to solve crimes occurring among their friends in political high society. When Henry's former secretary of state is indicted for the murder of his mistress, Henry and Sunday suspect he is taking the fall for a crime of passion he did not commit. With cases ranging from a crime on the presidential yacht to a kidnapping that brings Henry back to the White House as he races against time to unravel the plot, there is never a dull moment for the ex-president and his bride -- or the reader. With her wit and gift for characterization, the creator of the popular Alvirah and Willy stories brings us another marvelously endearing sleuthing duo, destined to return again and again
My Gal Sunday
by Mary Higgins ClarkA dashing ex-president and his young congresswoman bride become an irresistible sleuthing duo in four acclaimed stories from the #1 New York Times bestselling Queen of Suspense.Henry Parker Britland IV—wealthy, worldly, and popular—is enjoying an early retirement. His new wife, Sunday—as clever as she is lovely—has just been elected to Congress in a stunning upset victory that has made her a media darling. Henry and Sunday make a formidable team...and never more so than when they set out to solve baffling high-society crimes. From a long-unsolved case they reconstruct aboard the presidential yacht to a kidnapping that brings Henry frantically back to the White House, the former president and his bride engage in some of the most audacious and original sleuthing ever imagined. Only Mary Higgins Clark can so seamlessly meld spellbinding suspense, wit, and romance. My Gal Sunday is entertainment of the highest order.
My Ghost Wife: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Yue LaiYueHaoMy name is Chen Fei, a forensic doctor! In order to pay respects to my grandparents and burn paper to sweep the tomb, I rushed back to my hometown. He had actually committed a taboo, attracting a beautiful ghost girl …
My Ghost Wife: Volume 2 (Volume 2 #2)
by Yue LaiYueHaoMy name is Chen Fei, a forensic doctor! In order to pay respects to my grandparents and burn paper to sweep the tomb, I rushed back to my hometown. He had actually committed a taboo, attracting a beautiful ghost girl …
My Ghost Wife: Volume 3 (Volume 3 #3)
by Yue LaiYueHaoMy name is Chen Fei, a forensic doctor! In order to pay respects to my grandparents and burn paper to sweep the tomb, I rushed back to my hometown. He had actually committed a taboo, attracting a beautiful ghost girl …
My Ghost Wife: Volume 4 (Volume 4 #4)
by Yue LaiYueHaoMy name is Chen Fei, a forensic doctor! In order to pay respects to my grandparents and burn paper to sweep the tomb, I rushed back to my hometown. He had actually committed a taboo, attracting a beautiful ghost girl …
My Girl: the CHILLING thriller from the bestselling author
by Jack JordanFrom the bestselling author of Do No Harm comes a brand new look for Jack Jordan's chilling thriller My Girl that you won't want to miss.Paige Dawson: the mother of a murdered child and wife to a dead man. She has nothing left to live for... until she finds her husband's handgun hidden in their house. Why did Ryan need a gun? What did he know about their daughter's death? Desperate for the truth, Paige begins to unearth her husband's secrets.But she has no idea who she is up against, or that her life isn't hers to gamble - she belongs to me.Readers can't get enough of My Girl . . .***** 'One hell of a book, fast paced, dark, disturbing and oh so much tension.'***** 'This was not the first I've read of Jack Jordan ... and it certainly won't be the last.***** 'I completely devoured this book in less than two hours!'***** 'All I really want to do is shout at you &“This book is brilliantly AMAZING! Buy it NOW!&”'***** 'This is a brilliant suspenseful thriller that will have you on the edge of your seat'
My Gun Is Quick (Mike Hammer #2)
by Mickey SpillaneThe second novel in Mickey Spillane's classic detective series starring hard-boiled private eye Mike Hammer. When a red-headed prostitue is killed in a hit-and-run "accident" Mike Hammer hunts down her killers and uncovers a powerful New York prostitution ring.
My Gun is Quick (Mike Hammer)
by Mickey SpillaneBefore Jack Reacher . . . there was Mike HammerPI Mike Hammer runs into a red-headed prostitute in a bar. He's not interested in her professional services, so he buys her a coffee and chats to her for a while. Tired, drained, he just wants someone to talk to, and she's a willing listener. He's just got paid, and in a fit of generosity he offers her enough money to buy some decent clothes and get a regular job.No big deal, except that the next day the streetwalker turns up dead. It's none of Hammer's business, but all the injustice of the world is suddenly crystallised in this one senseless death. And then Hammer begins to realise that the death, supposedly a hit-and-run accident, doesn't add up. It's starting to look like murder.But it doesn't stop there. The trail leads Hammer into a world of vice, corruption and violence . . .
My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy #1)
by Stephen Graham JonesWinner of the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel In her quickly gentrifying rural lake town Jade sees recent events only her encyclopedic knowledge of horror films could have prepared her for in this latest chilling novel that &“will give you nightmares. The good kind, of course&” (BuzzFeed) from the Jordan Peele of horror literature, Stephen Graham Jones.&“Some girls just don&’t know how to die…&” Shirley Jackson meets Friday the 13th in My Heart Is a Chainsaw, written by the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians Stephen Graham Jones, called &“a literary master&” by National Book Award winner Tananarive Due and &“one of our most talented living writers&” by Tommy Orange. Alma Katsu calls My Heart Is a Chainsaw &“a homage to slasher films that also manages to defy and transcend genre.&” On the surface is a story of murder in small-town America. But beneath is its beating heart: a biting critique of American colonialism, Indigenous displacement, and gentrification, and a heartbreaking portrait of a broken young girl who uses horror movies to cope with the horror of her own life. Jade Daniels is an angry, half-Indian outcast with an abusive father, an absent mother, and an entire town that wants nothing to do with her. She lives in her own world, a world in which protection comes from an unusual source: horror movies…especially the ones where a masked killer seeks revenge on a world that wronged them. And Jade narrates the quirky history of Proofrock as if it is one of those movies. But when blood actually starts to spill into the waters of Indian Lake, she pulls us into her dizzying, encyclopedic mind of blood and masked murderers, and predicts exactly how the plot will unfold. Yet, even as Jade drags us into her dark fever dream, a surprising and intimate portrait emerges…a portrait of the scared and traumatized little girl beneath the Jason Voorhees mask: angry, yes, but also a girl who easily cries, fiercely loves, and desperately wants a home. A girl whose feelings are too big for her body. My Heart Is a Chainsaw is her story, her homage to horror and revenge and triumph.
My Heavenly Favorite: A Novel
by Lucas RijneveldA harrowing, unforgettable masterpiece by the winner of the Booker International PrizeA confession, a lament, a mad gush of grief and obsession, My Heavenly Favorite is the remarkable and chilling successor to Lucas Rijneveld’s international sensation, The Discomfort of Evening. It tells the story of a veterinarian who visits a farm in the Dutch countryside where he becomes enraptured by his “Favorite”—the farmer’s daughter. She hovers on the precipice of adolescence, and longs to have a boy’s body. The veterinarian seems to be a tantalizing possible path out from the constrictions of her conservative rural life.Narrated after the veterinarian has been punished for his crimes, Rijneveld’s audacious, profane novel is powered by the paradoxical beauty of its prose, which holds the reader fast to the page. Rijneveld refracts the contours of the Lolita story with a kind of perverse glee, taking the reader into otherwise unimaginable spaces full of pop lyrics, horror novels, the Favorite’s fantasized conversations with Freud and Hitler, and her dreams of flight and destruction and transcendence.An unflinching depiction of abjection and a pointed excavation of taboos and social norms, My Heavenly Favorite establishes Rijneveld as one of the most daring and brilliant writers on the world stage.
My Honorable Brother
by Bob WeintraubFor Sal, running for governor was better than death at the mob's hands, if only the sex wouldn't get in the way.Mob head Sal Tarantino doesn't want big-time casino gambling to become legal in Rhode Island. His solution is to have to have the next governor comfortably in his pocket and ready to veto the legislation. The means calling in the debts owed to the mob by some of Rhode Island's most prominent politicians to clear the way for Doug Fiore, managing partner of the state's largest law firm and soon-to-be reluctant gubernatorial candidate.Sal's plan seems to be going smoothly until the primary draws closer, when Fiore's opponent, a supporter of state-sponsored gambling and the leader in the polls, is gunned down in a bar along with the establishment's bookie-in-residence. The public presumption, driven by columns in the Providence Herald in which Fiore's ties to the family are laid out, is that the Tarantino family had reasons to want them both dead. Things get even stickier when the winner of the Democratic primary is the husband of one of Fiore's law partners-who happens to also be one of his two mistresses. She learns with horror that her husband has a set of secret recordings taken in a hotel room where Fiore has met with both women.As the race draws to a close, the candidates are in a dead heat. Fiore, who now will stop at nothing to win, devises a scheme with both his mistresses to nail down his victory. The outcome is all in the sex.
My Honorable Brother: A Thriller
by Bob WeintraubA gritty political thriller in which a race for governor is rocked by sex scandals, mob hits, and one candidate’s blind ambition . . . To stop the legalization of big-time casino gambling in Rhode Island, mob boss Sal Tarantino calls in debts owed by some of the state’s most prominent politicians, clearing the way for reluctant gubernatorial candidate Doug Fiore. But when Fiore’s primary opponent, who’s leading in the polls, is gunned down in a bar, the public presumption is that the Tarantino family had reasons to want him dead. Things get even stickier when the husband of one of Fiore’s mistresses wins the Democratic primary—a man who possesses secret recordings that implicate Fiore in two affairs. As the race draws to a close, the candidates are in a dead heat. Fiore, who now will stop at nothing to win, moves to nail down his victory with an audacious scheme—involving both his mistresses . . .
My Hotel in Nether World: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Hong ChenQiuDuBecause Wang Siyao had been born with the Ghost Eye, she had received a black stone token from her ancestors when she was eighteen. From there, she had opened the door of the inn.
My Hotel in Nether World: Volume 2 (Volume 2 #2)
by Hong ChenQiuDuBecause Wang Siyao had been born with the Ghost Eye, she had received a black stone token from her ancestors when she was eighteen. From there, she had opened the door of the inn.
My Hotel in Nether World: Volume 3 (Volume 3 #3)
by Hong ChenQiuDuBecause Wang Siyao had been born with the Ghost Eye, she had received a black stone token from her ancestors when she was eighteen. From there, she had opened the door of the inn.
My Hotel in Nether World: Volume 4 (Volume 4 #4)
by Hong ChenQiuDuBecause Wang Siyao had been born with the Ghost Eye, she had received a black stone token from her ancestors when she was eighteen. From there, she had opened the door of the inn.
My Hotel in Nether World: Volume 5 (Volume 5 #5)
by Hong ChenQiuDuBecause Wang Siyao had been born with the Ghost Eye, she had received a black stone token from her ancestors when she was eighteen. From there, she had opened the door of the inn.
My Hunger (The Inside Out Series #10)
by Lisa Renee JonesFrom New York Times bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones, an Inside Out series e-short told from Mark's point of view, as he battles his all-consuming desire for Crystal.I am a Master, all about control, and yet right now, facing great tragedy, I feel as if I have none. I find sanctuary in the one place I've promised I will never be again, but cannot seem to resist. Her arms. I feel her hunger, taste her passion, as if this is her escape, too, as if she is running from something I do not know, burying it in this kiss. It calls to me, drives me to want more, tells me she does know loneliness. She knows pain and it is that pain that is bringing us here, to this moment. It's why me as Master and her as submissive do not matter. Why I crave every touch, every stroke of her tongue.
My Husband Is A Criminal: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Xuan CaoboheThe night I met him was a nightmare for me; the day I married him, I thought I had fallen into a fire; his actions and actions explained a man's unyielding enchantment; the coolness and danger of a man; he taught me to live delicately, but he did not teach me to love him well enough; I was his sin, he was the unquenchable addiction of my life.