Barrie Kreinik
1) Sun house
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English
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"A random bolt from a DC-8 falls from the sky, killing a child and throwing the faith of a young Jesuit into crisis. A boy's mother dies on his fifth birthday, sparking a lifetime of repressed anger that he unleashes once a year in reckless duels with the Fate, God, or Power who let the coincidence happen. A young woman on a run in Seattle experiences a shooting star moment that pierces her with a love that will eventually help heal the Jesuit, the...
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Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
8 audio discs (10 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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American pop singer Jennie Jensen is ready to marry the love of her life, England's Prince Hugh, but someone is determined to keep her from becoming a princess, any way they can.
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"From Tracey Lange, the New York Times bestselling author of We Are the Brennans, comes The Connellys of County Down: a story about fierce family loyalty, good intentions gone awry, and the consequences of improbable love. When Tara Connelly is released from prison after serving eighteen months on a drug charge, she knows rebuilding her life at thirty years old won't be easy. With no money and no prospects, she returns home to live with her siblings,...
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English
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"An epic reimagining of the life of Margaret Fuller--America's first feminist and the pioneering journalist who inspired a generation of writers and activists. Young, brazen, beautiful, and unapologetically brilliant, Margaret Fuller accepts an invitation from Ralph Waldo Emerson, the celebrated Sage of Concord, to meet his coterie of enlightened friends. There she becomes "the radiant genius and fiery heart" of the Transcendentalists, a role model...
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English
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Inspired by real accounts of the Forgotten Blitz bombings, The British Booksellers highlights the courage of those whose lives were forever changed by war—and the stories that bind us in the fight for what matters most.
A tenant farmer's son had no business daring to dream of a future with an earl's daughter, but that couldn't keep Amos Darby from his secret friendship with Charlotte Terrington...until the reality of
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Abandoning her abusive fiancé in New York in 1943 to enlist with the Red Cross and head to Europe, Irene Woodward befriends Dorothy Dunford as they join the Allied soldiers streaming into France after D-Day where they are embroiled in danger, from the Battle of the Bulge to the liberation of Buchenwald, and where Irene learns to trust again through their friendship.
In 1943. Irene Woodward abandons an abusive fiancé in New York and heads to Europe...
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English
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"Shocking-and shockingly good. It is thought-provoking, anger-provoking, guilt-provoking, and-most importantly-it is a brilliantly written novel."-Roddy Doyle
Thrown together by a harrowing twist of fate, two girls will find hope and redemption in friendship in this award-winning, emotional gut punch of a novel from the author of Bright Burning Things.
Sassy, streetwise Sammy is a teenage girl who is falling through the cracks. Neglected by an...
8) Deep Hurt
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English
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He killed his daughter. Now he's taken his son.
Ingrid Skyberg joined the FBI to bring one man to justice: the man who abducted her best friend when she was fourteen. It's been eighteen years and she's never stopped looking for him... or for the friend who has never been seen since. Today's the day she's finally going to get some answers.
But before she gets the phone call she's always dreaded, Ingrid - the FBI's criminal investigator in London...
9) Below Zero
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English
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The fifth adventure in Eva Hudson's enormously popular Ingrid Skyberg Thriller series
Stockholm is under siege. A bomb has gone off, several high-profile people have been kidnapped, and the city is on lockdown. Unfortunately for Special Agent Ingrid Skyberg, everything is kicking off the day she arrives to complete a dangerous undercover assignment.
Her mission is so secret, and so illegal, neither the FBI nor the US government know about it. Her...
10) Fresh Doubt
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English
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How can you be sure when someone is lying?Ingrid Skyberg is a brilliant FBI agent working out of the US Embassy in London. She took a job in England to put some distance between her and the past, but this new case is forcing painful memories to the surface.An American student at an elite London college is in police custody, suspected of murdering her roommate. Convinced something sinister is happening on campus, Ingrid enters a world of deadly mind...
11) Flight Risk
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English
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They say she killed him. She doesn't remember.
Special Agent Ingrid Skyberg is ready to walk away from her life in London. She's at rock bottom and even wants to leave the FBI. But when Ingrid attempts to board a flight at Heathrow and sneak away without telling anyone, she's arrested for killing a man she's never heard of. Now Ingrid must stay in the country, and with the FBI, to prove her innocence.
Up against powerful forces who would rather...
12) Shoot First
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English
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The fourth adventure in Eva Hudson's enormously popular Ingrid Skyberg Thriller series
A teenage girl disappears after witnessing a gangland murder in Chicago. Nine months later and heavily pregnant, she arrives in England... only to disappear again.
Special Agent Ingrid Skyberg, working out of the US embassy in London, has just two days to find the girl and get her to testify or else a brutal killer walks free. But Ingrid isn't the only one looking...
13) Final Offer
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English
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One man wants to buy the presidency. One woman stands in his way.
A shadowy UK-based group has been trying to hack the US elections. When Special Agent Ingrid Skyberg is assigned to find out who's funding the hackers, she finds herself up against an invisible enemy who is extremely powerful and utterly ruthless.
To bring them to justice, Ingrid must go undercover and infiltrate the world of super-rich Russian oligarchs. But money buys all kinds...
14) Look Twice
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English
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A double agent. A double cross. This time, Ingrid is in double trouble.
When Special Agent Ingrid Skyberg discovers an undeveloped roll of film left behind by her predecessor in the FBI, she isn't sure what to make of the strange photos he took. A map of Scotland, an out-of-print book, a rare bird, a cluster of Post-It notes, an office party … do these images have something to do with crimes he committed as a Russian double agent known as "Skylark"?
Ingrid...
15) Code Dead
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English
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Special Agent Ingrid Skyberg has settled into her life in London working out of the US Embassy. She's got a new apartment, a new roommate, and such a busy caseload she has forgotten about her exceedingly un-busy romantic life.
But then she gets a call from an old friend that catapults her into a dangerous new assignment. Devious malware has infected computer systems across the globe, and a British blogger knows more about the code than anyone else....
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English
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Combining the wonder of The Midnight Library , the inventiveness of Ready Player One, and the artistry of Cloud Atlas, this novel by the bestselling author of The Oracle Year and Anyone explores the way we're all connected-and what can happen when we lose our capacity for joy.
A few years from now, in a world similar to ours, there exists a sort of "depression plague" that people refer to simply as "The Grey." No one can predict whom...
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English
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This program includes a bonus interview with the author.
A Well-Behaved Woman is the riveting audiobook about iron-willed Alva Vanderbilt and her illustrious family as they rule Gilded Age New York, from the New York Times bestselling author of Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald.
Alva Smith, her southern family destitute after the Civil War, married into one of America's great Gilded Age dynasties: the newly wealthy but socially shunned Vanderbilts....
18) Unsinkable
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English
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The Titanic was only the beginning. What she survived has become legend.
Violet Jessop is Miss Unsinkable.
Violet is a stewardess and wartime nurse who not only survives a shipwreck but also two sinkings, one on the infamous Titanic. No one can understand why she would return to sea, but Violet is simply trying to survive. Her childhood was fraught with illness and death in her family. Her distraught mother is too ill to work, that responsibility...
19) Dark of the West
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English
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Joanna Hathaway's Dark of the West, is a breathtaking YA fantasy debut--first in the Glass Alliance series.
A pilot raised in revolution. A princess raised in a palace. A world on the brink of war.
Aurelia Isendare is a princess of a small kingdom in the North, raised in privilege but shielded from politics as her brother prepares to step up to the throne. Halfway around the world, Athan Dakar, the youngest son of a ruthless general, is a fighter...
20) The Sea Gate
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English
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"I need your help getting Chynalls in order so I can stay in my own house. Come down right away!"After the death of her mother, Rebecca is sorting through her empty flat. Starting with the letters piling up on the doormat, she finds an envelope postmarked from Cornwall. In it is a letter that will change her life forever. A desperate plea from her mother's elderly cousin, Olivia, to help save her beloved home.Rebecca arrives at Chynalls to find the...