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Thriller
Thrillers are characterized by fast pacing, frequent action, and resourceful heroes who must thwart the plans of more-powerful and better-equipped villains. Literary devices such as suspense, red herrings and cliffhangers are used extensively.
Thrillers often overlap with mystery stories, but are distinguished by the structure of their plots. In a thriller, the hero must thwart the plans of an enemy, rather than uncover a crime that has already happened. Thrillers also occur on a much grander scale: the crimes that must be prevented are serial or mass murder, terrorism, assassination, or the ov ...more
Thrillers often overlap with mystery stories, but are distinguished by the structure of their plots. In a thriller, the hero must thwart the plans of an enemy, rather than uncover a crime that has already happened. Thrillers also occur on a much grander scale: the crimes that must be prevented are serial or mass murder, terrorism, assassination, or the ov ...more
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Night Walker
by Aaron L. Speer (Goodreads Author), Jessica Augustsson (Goodreads Author)
by Aaron L. Speer (Goodreads Author), Jessica Augustsson (Goodreads Author)
1 signed copy of Night Walker, Book 1 in the Undeadly Secrets series.
Start your journey with a world first; an Australian Vampire novel.
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Start your journey with a world first; an Australian Vampire novel.
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Jan 01
- Feb 14, 2015
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Tell Me Why
by Sandi Wallace (Goodreads Author)
by Sandi Wallace (Goodreads Author)
Win an autographed copy of TELL ME WHY (RURAL CRIME FILES:01) by award-winning crime writer Sandi Wallace.
Melbourne writer Georgie Harvey is searching…more View Details »
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Jan 02
- Jan 31, 2015
2 copies
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Ice Man Cometh (Jeri Halston #1)
by C.T. Wente
by C.T. Wente
Jeri Halston should be working on Wall Street, not in a forgotten old bar in Flagstaff. But the brilliant, gorgeous twenty-six-year-old prefers barten…more
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Dec 16
- Jan 13, 2015
20 copies
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When I am alone with God I see that God is really all I have. All that matters. All that will last. At these times I realize that the magnitude of what I have is incomprehensible. Usually I cry for the sheer joy of it. Not tears of defeat, but rather tears of gratitude.
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― Pola Muzyka, Escape the Hezbollah
― Pola Muzyka, Escape the Hezbollah
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The sky is deep, the sky is dark. The light of the stars is o damn stark/When I look up, I fill with fear, if all we have is what lies here, this lonely world, this troubled place, then cold dead stars and empty space...Well, I see no reason to persevere, no reason to laugh or shed a tear, no reason to sleep and none to wake/ No promises to keep and none to make. And so at night I still raise my eyes tos tudy the clear but mysterious skies that arch avove us, cold as stone. Are you there God? Ar
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― Dean Koontz, The Book Of Counted Sorrows
― Dean Koontz, The Book Of Counted Sorrows
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