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Imperfect by Riley Edwards
Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSergeant Shiloh Kent has never quit anything in her life. She’s had to claw her way out of poverty. Fight to inch her way up the professional ladder. But after a barricade situation ends in tragedy, she’s rethinking her position on the SWAT team she fought so hard to join. The ugly seed of self-doubt has planted itself deep in her belly, and with each day, it grows and flourishes... -
![The Boy at the Back of the Class by Onjali Q. Raúf, اونجلی رئوف]()
The Boy at the Back of the Class by Onjali Q. Raúf, اونجلی رئوف
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsTold with humor and heart, 'THE BOY AT THE BACK OF THE CLASS' offers a child's perspective on the refugee crisis, highlighting the importance of friendship and kindness in a world that doesn't always make sense.There used to be an empty chair at the back of my class, but now a new boy called Ahmet is sitting in it.He's eight years old (just like me), but he's very strange... -
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Kill Shot by Vince Flynn
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 30 ratings#1 New York Times bestselling author of American Assassin—now a major motion pictureVince Flynn’s intensely suspenseful #1 New York Times bestseller puts the young, hungry, and lethal superagent of American Assassin in the crosshairs even as he kills with impunity... -
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Memorial Day by Vince Flynn
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsFighting terrorism on foreign ground, CIA superagent Mitch Rapp does whatever it takes to protect American freedom.CIA intelligence has pointed to a major terrorist attack on the United States, just as the nation's capital prepares for a grand Memorial Day tribute to the veterans of World War II... -
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![Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts]()
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 41 ratings"It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured."So begins this epic, mesmerizing first novel set in the underworld of contemporary Bombay...Categorized as:
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![The Orphanage by Serhiy Zhadan]()
The Orphanage by Serhiy Zhadan
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsRecalling the brutal landscape of The Road and the wartime storytelling of A Farewell to Arms, The Orphanage is a searing novel that excavates the human collateral damage wrought by the ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine...Categorized as:
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![The Black Widow by Daniel Silva]()
The Black Widow by Daniel Silva
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsNew York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva delivers another stunning thriller in his latest action-packed tale of high-stakes international intrigue featuring the inimitable Gabriel Allon. Another gripping thriller from the author of The Heist... -
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Smiley's People. by John le Carré
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsJohn le Carre's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge and have earned him -- and his hero, British Secret Service agent George Smiley -- unprecedented worldwide acclaim.Rounding off his astonishing vision of a clandestine world, master storyteller le Carre perfects his art in Smiley's People...Categorized as:
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![Extreme Measures by Vince Flynn]()
Extreme Measures by Vince Flynn
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 48 ratingsThe latest pulse-pounding thriller by #1 "New York Times" bestselling phenomenon Vince Flynn explodes onto the scene with a deadly and charismatic hero fans will cheer for all the way to the last riveting page.Vince Flynn's thrillers, featuring counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp, have dominated the imagination of readers everywhere...Categorized as:
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![Weston's Treasure by Riley Edwards]()
Weston's Treasure by Riley Edwards
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSilver Coyle thought she was doing the right thing—see something, say something. Now she finds herself kidnapped, chained to a pipe in the hull of a ship, and on a collision course with death. Her only chance of rescue is from the one man she never wants to see again—Weston Beil—the know-it-all former SEAL. He’s bossy, arrogant, and sexy all wrapped up in a tough-guy package. Untouchable... -
![Daughter of War by Brad Taylor]()
Daughter of War by Brad Taylor
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFormer Special Forces Officer and New York Times bestselling author Brad Taylor delivers a heart-pounding thriller featuring Taskforce operators Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill as they come face to face with a conspiracy where nothing is as it seems... -
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Indian Country by Kurt Schlichter
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt’s all-out war for ruthless red state special operator Kelly Turnbull when he returns in this blockbuster prequel to “People’s Republic,” Kurt Schlichter’s top selling novel of America after the polarized politics of blue versus red have split our country apart. “Indian Country” finds Turnbull sent back into the blue states to help those trapped inside resist a politically correct police state...Categorized as:
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Catalyst by Rachel Grant
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen a food storage depot in famine-struck South Sudan is torched, American aid worker Brie Stewart flees, only to land in a market where she’s the next item up for auction... -
![Obsession by Florencia Bonelli, Rosemary Peele]()
Obsession by Florencia Bonelli, Rosemary Peele
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhen Eliah Al-Saud and Matilde Martinez meet on a flight to Paris, they have little in common. Eliah is the rich and powerful son of a Saudi prince, and the owner of a French security company—actually a front for mercenary and espionage services—while Matilde is a pediatric surgeon from Argentina, whose only dream is to work in Africa helping children in need...Categorized as:
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![The Copper Scroll by Joel C. Rosenberg]()
The Copper Scroll by Joel C. Rosenberg
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFifty years after The New York Times broke a story that another Dead Sea Scroll had been found, a new evil is rising. White House advisors Jon Bennett and Erin McCoy find themselves facing a terrifying new threat triggered by an ancient mystery... -
![Primeval and Other Times by Olga Tokarczuk]()
Primeval and Other Times by Olga Tokarczuk
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsSet in the mythical Polish village of Primeval, a microcosm of the world populated with eccentric, archetypal characters and guarded by four archangels, this novel from Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk chronicles the lives of the inhabitants over the course of the feral 20th century in prose that is forceful, direct, and the stylistic cousin of the magic realism in Gabriel García Márquez's One...Categorized as:
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![Scarecrow Returns by Matthew Reilly]()
Scarecrow Returns by Matthew Reilly
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsDeep in the Arctic, a long-forgotten Soviet military base enshrouds a weapon of unimaginably destructive force—a Cold War doomsday device with the power to obliterate the planet... -
![Amish Promises by Leslie Gould]()
Amish Promises by Leslie Gould
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsJourney Down a Quiet Lane in Lancaster County Where Love and Heartache and Friendship and Healing Meet When Joel and Shani Beck arrive at their new home, they're looking for peace. Shani is thrilled to have Joel back from Iraq, but he needs time to heal, and the quiet of Lancaster seems just the place... -
![People's Republic by Kurt Schlichter]()
People's Republic by Kurt Schlichter
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAmerica’s growing political and cultural divisions have finally split the United States apart...Categorized as:
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![The Marine's Baby by Rogenna Brewer]()
The Marine's Baby by Rogenna Brewer
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratings"The baby I'm carrying is not my husband's?" In just a few months Caitlin Calhoun went from a wife to a widow to a mother-to-be. All she'd wanted was to honor her dead husband by having his baby. But that's not what she got. Thanks to an unfortunate mix-up, her child's father is her husband's half brother, Lucky... -
![The Kremlin Conspiracy by Joel C. Rosenberg]()
The Kremlin Conspiracy by Joel C. Rosenberg
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsNew York Times bestselling author Joel C. Rosenberg returns with a high-stakes political thriller set in Russia.Everything he learned to protect the president, he must use to take out theirs.With an American president distracted by growing tensions in North Korea and Iran, an ominous new threat is emerging in Moscow...Categorized as:
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![Drax by Annabella Stone]()
Drax by Annabella Stone
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDrax Mitchell had been one of the rising stars in Delta Force, when a yearlong mission undercover behind enemy lines, cost him the friend he always swore to protect. Or so he thought. Recruited by his friend’s former Navy Seal commander, to Red Squadron, a JSOC Task Force. Drax and Roman are reunited to cause havoc all over the Middle East... -
![Heart's Desire: an Angel Fire Rock Romance by Ellie Masters]()
Heart's Desire: an Angel Fire Rock Romance by Ellie Masters
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn Angel Fire Rock Romance; a Stand Alone Novel When you mix Hot Rockers with Military Special Ops You get the Whole Package! TSgt Ryker Lyons is an elite member of a six-man Special Ops Surgical Team, well five men and one vexing woman. That’s a problem because Major Tia Myers is fierce, competent, utterly breathtaking, and completely immune to his charms... -
![Hourglass by Danilo Kiš]()
Hourglass by Danilo Kiš
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDanilo Kiš was one of the most artful and eloquent writers of postwar Europe. Of all his books, Hourglass, the account of the final months in one man's life before he is sent to a concentration camp, is considered to be his masterpiece...Categorized as:
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![Spymaster by Brad Thor]()
Spymaster by Brad Thor
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe newest thriller in the #1 New York Times, #1 i>Wall Street Journal, and #1 i>Publishers Weekly bestselling series!Across Europe, a secret organization has begun attacking diplomats. Back in the United States, a foreign ally demands the identity of a highly placed covert asset. In the balance hang the ingredients for all-out war... -
![Heading Home by Katie Flynn]()
Heading Home by Katie Flynn
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn Katie Flynn’s wonderful new Liverpool saga, Louisa and Cormack Muldoon both have good jobs and live a settled life with their two young daughters. But then Grandpa Muldoon has a seizure and begs his son to return to Kilnevin and the family croft... -
![Daughters of Smoke and Fire by Ava Homa]()
Daughters of Smoke and Fire by Ava Homa
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe unforgettable, haunting story of a young woman’s perilous fight for freedom and justice for her brother, the first novel published in English by a female Kurdish writer Set in Iran, this extraordinary debut novel takes readers into the everyday lives of the Kurds. Leila dreams of making films to bring the suppressed stories of her people onto the global stage, but obstacles keep piling up... -
![A Trip to the Stars by Nicholas Christopher]()
A Trip to the Stars by Nicholas Christopher
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA young boy and his adopted aunt become separated when the youngster is kidnapped by his wealthy, eccentric great-uncle, but mysterious ties continue to link the two unknowingly over the fifteen-year separation...Categorized as:
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![The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati]()
The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsOften likened to Kafka's The Castle, The Tartar Steppe is both a scathing critique of military life and a meditation on the human thirst for glory. It tells of young Giovanni Drogo, who is posted to a distant fort overlooking the vast Tartar steppe...Categorized as:
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![Support and Defend by Mark Greaney]()
Support and Defend by Mark Greaney
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsOne of Tom Clancy's most storied characters, Dominic Caruso, is the only one who can stop America's secrets from falling into enemy hands in this blockbuster new novel written by Clancy's longtime coauthor.Over the course of three decades, Tom Clancy created a world alive with prescient action and remarkable individuals... -
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Command Authority by Tom Clancy
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsDecades ago, when he was a young CIA analyst, President Jack Ryan, Sr. was sent on what was supposed to be a simple support mission to investigate the death of an operative who had been looking into suspicious banking activities at a Swiss bank. Ryan's dogged tenacity uncovered not only financial deceit, but also the existence of a KGB assassin, code-named Zenith... -
![The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera]()
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 75 ratingsIn The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera tells the story of a young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing and one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover...Categorized as:
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![Savior by Nicole Blanchard]()
Savior by Nicole Blanchard
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI thought I put my past behind me. I lost everything when I testified against my fiancé for the murders of five women. After the jury delivered a life sentence, I ran. I hoped if I could disappear, maybe the horror he caused would, too. When I return to Florida for the first time after his conviction, I’m determined to face my fears and get my life back... -
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Deck the Halls (Darling, VT) by Donna Alward
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWith shades of It’s a Wonderful Life , one man must face his past to find his future this Christmas. In the last year, George's life has drastically changed. The formerly homeless veteran now has a job he likes, a family in the residents of Darling, VT, and for the first time in years, a home... -
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![Evidence Series Box Set: Volume 1 by Rachel Grant]()
Evidence Series Box Set: Volume 1 by Rachel Grant
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe first three books in the Evidence Series in one box set. Volume I includes two full-length (300 page) novels and one short (150-page) novel. Concrete Evidence A year ago she lost everything. Now she wants revenge… Accused of stealing artifacts from a five-hundred-year-old shipwreck, underwater archaeologist Erica Kesling is determined to clear her name... -
![Day of Wrath by William R. Forstchen]()
Day of Wrath by William R. Forstchen
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis novella by New York Times bestselling author William R. Forstchen imagines a horrifying scenario where, in the course of one day, the terrorist group ISIS carries out massacres in schools and on highways across the United States. With a surprisingly small but well-organized and ruthless force, the nightmarish devastation brings America to a state of near-paralysis... -
![Wait Until Dark by M.L. Buchman]()
Wait Until Dark by M.L. Buchman
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsPraise for I Own the Dawn: "A rousing mix of romance and military action thrills...Buchman blends tender feelings with military politics to keep readers riveted."—Publishers Weekly "I can't wait for the next book."—RT Book Reviews, 4 Stars "Filled with action, adventure, and danger... -
![Guapa by Saleem Haddad]()
Guapa by Saleem Haddad
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA debut novel that tells the story of Rasa, a young gay man coming of age in the Middle East Set over the course of twenty-four hours, Guapa follows Rasa, a gay man living in an unnamed Arab country, as he tries to carve out a life for himself in the midst of political and social upheaval... -
![The Disoriented by Amin Maalouf]()
The Disoriented by Amin Maalouf
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAfter 25 years in exile, Adam travels from France to his homeland in the Middle East to bid farewell to his dying childhood friend.One night, a phone rings in Paris. Adam learns that Mourad, once his closest friend, is dying. He quickly throws some clothes in a suitcase and takes the first flight out, to the homeland he fled twenty-five years ago...Categorized as:
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![Ildhjerter by Kamila Shamsie]()
Ildhjerter by Kamila Shamsie
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsThe suspenseful and heartbreaking story of an immigrant family driven to pit love against loyalty, with devastating consequences Isma is free. After years of watching out for her younger siblings in the wake of their mother’s death, she’s accepted an invitation from a mentor in America that allows her to resume a dream long deferred...Categorized as:
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![False Flag by Bobby Akart, Joseph Morton]()
False Flag by Bobby Akart, Joseph Morton
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsfalse flag (\'fols\ 'flag\): An operation designed to deceive in such a way that events appear as though they are being carried out by perpetrators other than those who actually planned and executed them. A false flag is used as an ideolgical weapon to control the citizenry with the fear of a manufactured enemy. The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself. ~ Franklin D...Categorized as:
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![Martial Law by Bobby Akart]()
Martial Law by Bobby Akart
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe end begins tomorrow.“Author Bobby Akart possesses the analytic capability of a supercomputer coupled with the expressiveness of an exceptional writer.”~ Amazon ReviewsA government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.~ Thomas JeffersonMartial Law is a prophetic and prescient novel by author Bobby Akart...Categorized as:
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![Damascus Station by David McCloskey]()
Damascus Station by David McCloskey
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsCIA case officer Sam Joseph is dispatched to Paris to recruit Syrian Palace official Mariam Haddad. The two fall into a forbidden relationship, which supercharges Haddad’s recruitment and creates unspeakable danger when they enter Damascus to find the man responsible for the disappearance of an American spy... -
![A Soldier For Keeps by Jillian Hart]()
A Soldier For Keeps by Jillian Hart
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLexie Evans is not looking for a relationship with Pierce Granger. And that’s just fine by the handsome soldier. Neither one has time for romance, but they can both commit to friendship, right? Then, after months as pen pals, Pierce visits Lexie’s family ranch in Wyoming. Face-to-face with her friend, Lexie realizes her feelings toward him have changed... -
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![The Forever Christmas Tree by Sandra Hill]()
The Forever Christmas Tree by Sandra Hill
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Christmas bells are chiming across the Outer Banks town of Bell Cove, North Carolina, but there’s one local ‘grinch’ who’s not listening . . . He’s got bad-boy looks and a Bah Humbug attitude, so when the local paper asks the villagers to vote on the “Biggest Local Grinch” as a fund-raising project, Ethan Rutledge isn’t surprised to hear he’s made the ballot... -
![Terminal Run by Michael DiMercurio]()
Terminal Run by Michael DiMercurio
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFormer U.S. Navy Admiral Michael Pacino and his nemesis, Alexi Novskoyy, match wits in a fierce undersea showdown as Pacino battles to regain control of the U.S.S. Snarc, a revolutionary robotic combat sub that has fallen into enemy hands, and stop a possible world war. Original... -
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Guardian by Catherine Mann
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTHEY’D DO ANYTHING FOR COUNTRY. AND EVERYTHING FOR EACH OTHER. After a dark ops malfunction, Major David Berg finds himself dead center in a military trial. It’s a race against time to root out the truth, and Major Sophie Campbell isn’t making that any easier. The hot JAG wants to bring down David’s unit and fast. His testimony is crucial to winning a case that will make her career... -
![The Realist by Abbie Zanders]()
The Realist by Abbie Zanders
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsClarissa Sullivan felt trapped by an unhealthy relationship and a job she hated. When she inherited a rustic mountain cabin from her crazy great-uncle, it gave her the perfect opportunity to leave the world behind and live out her dream: a life of solitude, free of commitments, entanglements, and unrealistic expectations. A life that did not include her hot, sexy, survivalist neighbor... -
![SEAL's Code: Bad Boys of SEAL Team 3, Book 3 by Sharon Hamilton]()
SEAL's Code: Bad Boys of SEAL Team 3, Book 3 by Sharon Hamilton
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDanny Begay has tried to drive out the voices of his ancestors for most of his young life, but the life springing from his Navajo roots will not die. He is summoned back to Arizona to visit his dying grandfather, one of the original Navajo Code Talkers... -
![A Prince Among Men by Cat Johnson]()
A Prince Among Men by Cat Johnson
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSergeant Ryan Pettit has a secret life blogging as Groundpounder, dutifully recording online a deployment where every day feels exactly the same-until a female reporter shows up at their all male camp. Then Ryan realizes nothing is ever going to be the same for him again. Ambitious Journalist Vicki Vanover is not above using her feminine wiles or a bit of blackmail to get a fabulous interview...
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