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Nether Sea: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Qi LianIn 1976, a Chinese and British drilling team secretly entered the mountains of the barbarians on the border between China and Myanmar, carrying out a shocking plan.Members of different countries cooperate outwardly but each has its own agenda, secretly seeking their own best interests. When they for that plan more than 1000 meters underground, but found that someone had already arrived here, followed by many mysterious events emerge: the rebellion of the ancient nanzhao, the secret between the three emperors of the Ming dynasty, the mysterious underworld forged by the king of the yuan dynasty, the origin and decline of the west sea cloud country, the miao dynasty uprising...... Buried in this vast ocean of the dark!All sorts of disasters had come back to life due to death.In 76 years, only four out of hundreds of people came out alive, and my grandfather was one of them!A few decades later, my grandpa suddenly disappeared mysteriously, and a body that had long died at the bottom of Savage Mountain wrapped around me …
Baxian Hotel: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Li GouHaiNoon people eat lunch, midnight soul knocks on the door. The Yang World cannot enter, the Underworld's soul does not exist. The Eight Immortals Hotel only cared about matters that it couldn't explain.My name is Xia Siche, the fourth manager of the Eight Immortals Hotel, nicknamed "the fourth boss".The previous three managers had all not lived past the age of 50, but the eight stewards on the eighth floor of the restaurant were concealing the secret of this hundred year old shop.And the story I want to tell starts from the eight stewards …
Snake Venom: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Hu MeiMy family is from Yunnan, the ancestors caught snakes for a living, the snake cold-blooded and insidious. His body was filled with treasures, but it was also deadly. But that was not the most terrifying thing.In order to protect me, dad wouldn't let me enter the business, but by some strange coincidence, I didn't escape the shackles of fate.Do you really think that only Gu Manpeng and the little ghost are the scariest?Snakes gather around me in a sinister way. Let me count the strange things that happened after I entered the world.
Uncanny Stories of Devil Hunting: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Ye YangRefining corpses to tame demons, sacrificing one's life for the fire, the flower girl Grass Demon, the remnants of the Mountains and Seas, the people of the Li Clan Nine Strange ….Behind the ordinary human world, there was an even more mysterious lost world!The hatred between the witchers and the demons that could not be eradicated for generations still lasts in this world today.In order to pursue his ancestry, the youth Chu Chi was involved in the search, roaming the cities and countryside, facing the countless demons and devils, with no place to escape.
Nine Eyes Heavenly Bead: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Nan ShanJiuCangYu Jingyan, a merchant from Lang Sai city who was obsessed with collecting Heavenly Jewels, was caught in a prison by someone and accidentally got to know the No. 1 Quick Blade of the Kang District — Si Lang. After learning that Si Lang was also looking for the Nine-Eyed Sky Pearls, Yu Jingyan, along with Quick Blade Si Lang and Chen Ying, the security guard from Gu City, stepped onto the path of exploring Nine-Eyed Sky Jewels. Together, they explored the paths of gods and demons, along with treasures and dangers.This was a story about ancient artifacts and schemes, ghosts and monsters …
Soul-eating Golden Coffin: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Fei XingDianYunDouWhat can a birthmark give you? To me, I had encountered many horrifying things that even mortals would not have thought of. The Wall-Hitting Ghost, the Corpse Supporting Curse, and my strange dream …All sorts of bizarre encounters had not only caused him to struggle for his life, but also turned into taking the initiative to attack.Are there any other things in the city that you don't know about? A bomb shelter, a sound on the ceiling, or a fiend on the pillow?Are these the fates that no one with a birthmark can escape?I don't believe it! I'll tell you, no matter how hard it is, I just want to live an ordinary life. For this goal, I am willing to give up everything!
Ghost Breath: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Nan FangDeMengHave you ever felt that you were staring into a pair of eyes in the dark? Have you ever heard a voice that was not normal in your ears? Have you ever seen an unexperienced scene reflected in your mind? Have you ever realized that the mysterious aura around your bed in the middle of the night …A strange woman sitting on her back in a cinemaA human head was floating outside the door.A weird handprint on the apartment wall.The thousand-year-old female corpse at the bottom of the lake.A child with a twisted neck...Psyche, strange talk, horror, suspense stories.The short story was the main story, while the middle story was the main story.Please read in order.
Subdue Devil In 100 Days: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Nan ShanJiuCangRise on the Wheel PlatformAnnihilation before the Spiritual Shower PearlExtraterritorial search for mustard seedsBlack and White Books for Interrupting LoveThe boy ordered Tang Thirty-Six to find his father. In order to find his father, he and the fortune-teller Wang Heming and the Yin Yang Eyes set foot on a path that could not be turned back. Love and hate intertwined, trust and doubt intertwined, conspiracy and arrangement. For a hundred days, let's see how the three of them find their loved ones, capture demons, subdue demons, fight against the mysterious organization's wits, fight against the strong opponent to the death, and fight against the time race step by step … Waves strange cloud, the human heart is difficult to predict, who with you fight shoulder to shoulder, who with you wind and rain, who with you life and death?
Deadly Plot: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Lu XiaoChuanA "meticulously planned murder plot," a conspiracy that spanned tens of years! From the moment a famous actress' nude 'died in the hotel, a splendid revenge' assassination 'was quietly unveiled!A police officer who was expelled from the police force, a police officer who was in active service but had a dishonorable past, and a retired spy who was both righteous and evil but could not differentiate between the two, met each other on the killing stage.Truth, evil, lies, deceit. Where would one find the light of justice in this place filled with unknown dangers?With a single thought, he would become the Great Wisdom, and with a single thought, he would become the Great Wisdom. Everything was for nothing.
Drone Threat (A Troy Pearce Novel #4)
by Mike MadenTroy Pearce and his team of drone experts are called to action when ISIS launches a series of attacks on U.S. soil. On the eve of President Lane's historic Asian Security Summit, a hobby-store quadcopter lands on the White House lawn carrying a package and an ominous threat: Fly the enclosed black flag of ISIS over the White House by noon today or suffer the consequences. The threat further promises that every day the flag isn't flown a new attack will be launched, each deadlier than the first. President Lane refuses to comply with the outrageous demand, but the first drone attacks, sending a shudder through the U.S. economy. With few options available and even fewer clues, President Lane unleashes Troy Pearce and his Drone Command team to find and stop the untraceable source of the destabilizing attacks. But the terror mastermind proves more elusive and vindictive than any opponent Pearce has faced before . . . and if Pearce fails, the nation will suffer an unimaginable catastrophe on its soil or be forced into war.
The Innocent: A Suspense Thriller
by Harlan CobenYou never meant to kill him....<P> One night, Matt Hunter innocently tried to break up a fight--and ended up a killer. Now, nine years later, he's an ex-con who takes nothing for granted. His wife, Olivia, is pregnant, and the two of them are closing on their dream house. But all it will take is one shocking, inexplicable call from Olivia's phone to shatter Matt's life a second time....<P> An electrifying thrill ride of a novel that peeks behind the white picket fences of suburbia, The Innocent is at once a twisting, turning, emotionally charged story and a compelling tale of the choices we make and the repercussions that never leave.
The Perfect Date (Fear Street #Bk. 38)
by R. L. StineFear Street -- Where Your Worst Nightmares Live... After his girlfriend's gruesome death one year ago, Brady is finally ready to get on with his life. He's met Rosha and he's fallen hard. But he's also fallen into trouble. Terrible accidents seem to happen whenever Rosha's around. And a strange figure with a scarred face is following Brady everywhere he goes. Is Rosha really Brady's dream girl? Or has she brought his worst nightmare back to life? The Fear is Catching.
First Date (Fear Street #Bk. 12)
by R. L. StineFear Street -- where your worst nightmares live... Chelsea is the typical shy girl. Always home on a Saturday night, she would give anything to have her first date. Finally, Chelsea's luck begins to change when two new guys move into town and both ask her out. Too bad that one of Chelsea's new boys has a terrible hobby -- murder. Now Chelsea may be looking for love, but he's looking for a new victim. The Fear is Catching.
Wrong Number 2 (Fear Street #28)
by R. L. StineDeena and Jade are up to their old tricks, despite their vow to stop the phone pranks. Then the ominous call comes: "I'm getting out soon", the voice says, "and when I do, I'll come after you". Now the girls fear someone is out to kill them!
Switched (Fear Street #31)
by R. L. StineVisiting a strange cabin in the Fear Street woods, Nicole and Lucy are able to switch minds and bodies, but Nicole quickly learns that the switch is a trap that will enable Lucy to use Nicole's body to commit murder.
Killer's Kiss (Fear Street #Bk. 42)
by R. L. StineFear Street -- where your worst nightmares live... Delia and Karina are always competing. From getting the best grades, to being the most popular, to dating the cutest guys -- they always fight for the top spot. This year, they both want Vincent -- the hottest guy at Shadyside High. Karina's determined to get Vince. She'll do whatever it takes. And if she can't have him, she'll make sure no one else can either.... Including Delia.
Secret Admirer (Fear Street #36)
by R. L. StineFEAR STREET -- WHERE YOUR WORST NIGHTMARES LIVE... Selena has it all. She just scored the lead in her high school play, and everyone adores her. So when she starts receiving dead flowers from a secret "admirer" named The Sun, she just assumes it's a harmless fan. But Selena soon realizes that The Sun is serious...dead serious. First, her understudy is injured in a suspicious accident. Then, a speeding car almost kills her! Selena doesn't know what this psycho wants.... All she knows is that her number-one fan has become her number-one nightmare.
The Bradshaws of Harniss
by Joseph C. LincolnTHE BRADSHAWS OF HARNISS is a classic Cape Cod tale - of a peppery old Cape Codder called back into the saddle because his grandson has gone to war... Seldom, if ever before, has Joe Lincoln fastened upon a more likely plot or a more appealing group of characters.
The Boy in the Model-T: A Journey in the Just Gone Past
by Stephen LongstreetWHEN STEPHEN LONGSTREET was twelve years old, his grandfather (an unreconstructed G.A.R. officer) and his mother (one of the prettiest women of her day) took him across the continent and back on a year-long trek in a Model-T Ford. Now, a quarter of a century later, the mature and sensitive writer looks back on that time and projects it with drama, with humor, and with love.Before little Stevie returned from the trip, he had had his thirteenth birthday; he had fallen in love with a heartless sophisticate of fourteen; he had lived among the beer barons of St. Louis, been present at a hilarious Irish wedding in Montana, fished in the bayous of the Cajun country, learned to handle and love a hunting hawk, and absorbed a great deal about the meaning of both life and death.His mother, a woman of infinite determination and femininity, and his grandfather, as articulate, tough, and soft-hearted an old codger as ever chewed on a cigar, showed the boy our country—a picture full of courage and humor, pathos and wild hilarity, and, for those old enough to remember 1919, fraught with a heart-warming nostalgia.Pen-and-ink sketches by the author, a well-known artist, supplement a narrative style already famous for its rich vividness.
Soul Clap Hands and Sing
by Paule MarshallThe strong talent of Paule Marshall has matured in this, her second book. Woven through these four diverse and fascinating short novels is a theme that unifies them despite sharp differences of character and background.In each a man moving toward the later reaches of life experiences a climatic confrontation. In each a woman is involved as both a creative and a destructive force. In each a man is reaching out desperately to grasp at his life before it is gone. None succeeds, but the moment involves is presented with such vividness and dramatic force that it reveals and illumines depths of human experience.Paule Marshall writes a singing, effortless prose. Her insights into men and women are extraordinary: whether she is dealing with a small landowner in Barbados and the girl who is little more than a domestic slave; with a discredited college professor in Brooklyn and the lovely student he wants as consolation for a wasted life; with the last of a proud family of mixed blood in British Guiana and the woman who he feels robbed him of a crucial opportunity to prove his manhood; or a famous nightclub comedian and his woman partner in Brazil.—Print ed.
The Ecstasy of Owen Muir (Literary Classics Ser.)
by Ring Lardner Jr.This classic novel is the story of what happens when an idealistic, fiercely honest young man tries to reconcile Roman Catholic dogma with the realities of America of the 1940s. In this brilliantly comic and pungent tale, Lardner dissects the thought control of the McCarthy era, business ethics, racial intolerance, repressive sexual attitudes, the Manhattan nightclub set, "enlightened" penology, vigilantism, and other social phenomena. The ecstasy which Owen Muir seeks is of both the earthly and the spiritual kind, and his wonderfully funny fate lies in the fact that he cannot have his flesh and eat it, too.-Print ed.
Dry Bones: A Novel (The Fintan Dunne Mysteries #3)
by Peter QuinnMacavity Award for Best First Mystery Novel Strand Critics Award for Best First Novel Fintan Dunne, the detective at the center of The Man Who Never Returned and Hour of the Cat, is back in this spellbinding story of an ill-fated OSS mission into the heart of the Eastern front and its consequences more than a decade after the war's end. As the Red Army continues its unstoppable march toward Berlin in the winter of 1945, Dunne and his fellow soldier Dick Van Hull volunteer for a dangerous drop behind enemy lines to rescue a team of OSS officers trying to abet the Czech resistance. When the plan goes south, Dunne and Van Hull uncover a secret that will change both of their lives. Years later, Dunne is drawn back into the shadowy realm of Cold War espionage in an effort to clear his friend's good name and right an injustice so shocking that men would, quite literally, kill to keep it quiet. A literary thriller that will keep you guessing until the very end, Dry Bones completes the trilogy started in Hour of the Cat. Peter Quinn has crafted yet another smart and stylish historical mystery, following his longtime hero from the last gasp of the Third Reich to the heady days of the Cuban revolution. Quinn's signature prose--which Pulitzer Prize-winning author Frank McCourt described as "spare but passionate, wry but loving"--shines once again throughout. New York Times bestselling author James Patterson credits Quinn with "perfecting, if not actually creating, a genre you could call the history-mystery." Blending fact and fiction into a thoroughly compelling whole, this is Quinn at his very best.
Dead Extra: A Novel
by Sean CarswellA WWII vet wrongly reported dead is on the hunt for his wife’s killer in a “tough-as-nails hardboiled mystery” by the author of The Metaphysical Ukulele (Publishers Weekly). Los Angeles, 1946. Ex-cop and WWII vet Jack Chesley spent years in a German POW camp. But when he finally returns home to Los Angeles, he finds a new kind of torment waiting for him. It seems that after Jack was declared dead, his wife, Wilma, died a year later. The police said it was an accident. But Wilma’s twin sister believes it was murder. Setting out to find Wilma’s killer, Jack follows a dangerous trail through LA’s most unwelcoming corners—from the boozy booths of Musso and Frank Grill, to the Camarillo mental hospital, and a dirty motel where blackmailers shoot even dirtier movies. In the spirit of noir masters like Cain and Chandler, Dead Extra explores new shadows on the seedy side of midcentury Southern California.
Hiroshima Boy (A\mas Arai Mystery Ser. #7)
by Naomi HiraharaMas Arai returns to Japan in this Edgar and Anthony Award nominated novel—“a wonderful finale to a fine mystery series” by the author of Sayonara Slam (Jacqueline Winspear, New York Times–bestselling author). At eighty-five years old, Mas Arai hasn’t been back to his birthplace of Japan in nearly fifty years. The retired LA gardener and amateur detective has come to think of Altadena, California as his home. But now a sobering event calls him back East. Mas must bring the ashes of his best friend, Haruo Mukai—who survived the atomic bombings of 1945—to Haruo’s sister on an island off the coast of Hiroshima. Mas intends to stay in Hiroshima only long enough to perform his duty, preferring not to linger in a place with so many haunting memories. But the mysterious death of a teenage boy and the theft of Haruo’s ashes from Mas’s hotel room compel him to remain and confront mysteries both old and new in this “moving seventh and final Mas Arai mystery” (Publishers Weekly).
From Away: A Novel
by Phoef SuttonA family in mourning confronts ghosts from the past in this “complex, surprising, and haunting novel” from the New York Times–bestselling author (Tod Goldberg, New York Times–bestselling author of Living Dead Girl). After a fatal car accident, the only remaining members of the Kehoe family are Sammy, his sister Charlotte, and her four-year-old daughter Maggie. Together they visit their beloved family home on remote Fox Island, Maine, to support each other and find healing. Much to their surprise, Sammy and Charlotte each have relationship sparks with island locals. But the budding idyll is shattered when Sammy and Maggie’s unexplained abilities to “see things” are put to the test. Ghosts from the past are beginning to resurface. And they’re making Fox Island a very dangerous place to be. Peabody Award–winning television writer and New York Times–bestselling author Phoef Sutton offers “a page-turner of a different kind: mysterious, weird, and deeply affecting” with this novel of family and suspense (Tod Goldberg). “I loved this book—it’s the best take on ghosts and how they work that I’ve ever read. Scary and mad but real, with crackling dialogue, From Away is a rare creature: a proper novel and a proper ghost story. I massively enjoyed it.” —Steven Moffat, creator of Sherlock and executive producer of Dr. Who