Diabolical Quest (Doomed Cases Book 2)

Diabolical Quest (Doomed Cases Book 2)
Author: Joanna Mazurkiewicz
Publisher: Joanna Mazurkiewicz
Total Pages: 243
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Diabolical Quest (Doomed Cases Book 2) Maxine Brodeur is working hard to stay out of trouble these days, running her private detective agency with business partner Ricky and still drinking way too much tequila, until something from her past comes back to hunt her down. She is hired by an old friend Ronan to track down his son The Nameless Thief, a man that has managed to steal a private collection of royal letters that were left in Ronan’s possession. Unfortunately this only Royal correspondence that Nameless took from his father, he also obtained a letter that Max had written to Arthur, in which she revealed the whole truth about her disappearance from two years ago. The letter that she didn’t even know existed. From then on Max is sucked back into royal affairs, and must get to Nameless before he realises what he has in his possession. Pairing up once again teaming up with deliciously sexy detective Quinton. They will both face many ups and downs, trying to resist their explosive attraction, while the future King has his own agenda in mind. Will Max chose right man this time and will she be able to prevent her secret being exposed?

Demonic Triangle (Doomed Cases Book 1)

Demonic Triangle (Doomed Cases Book 1)
Author: Joanna Mazurkiewicz
Publisher: Joanna Mazurkiewicz
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2020-08-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

A missing royal. A love triangle. Can Maxine crack the case before her heart is ripped in two? Maxine Brodeur has spent the past year recovering from a devastating breakup with Prince Arthur -- the realm’s future king. She’s kept a low profile as a half-human/half-demon, spending her days running “Doomed Cases,” a private supernatural agency. After illegally revealing her powers to save a human girl from attack, she gets an ominous letter bearing the royal seal. Rather than being punished, Maxine is hired to find the young, kidnapped Prince George. Back in the secretive life of the royals, she must learn to work alongside sexy detective Zachary Quinton. Her new partner has no respect for the rules, and her ex-lover Arthur is doing everything he can to win her back. Will Maxine find the missing prince quickly or will she cause another royal scandal in the process? Demonic Triangle is a paranormal romance with a dash of suspense. If you like witty dialogue, strong but flawed female leads, and dramatic love triangles, then you’ll love the first instalment in the Doomed Cases series by Joanna Mazurkiewicz. Paranormal Romance, royals, demons, witches, wizards, vampires, magic.

Virtue Hoarders

Virtue Hoarders
Author: Catherine Liu
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 83
Release: 2021-01-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1452966044

A denunciation of the credentialed elite class that serves capitalism while insisting on its own progressive heroism Professional Managerial Class (PMC) elite workers labor in a world of performative identity and virtue signaling, publicizing an ability to do ordinary things in fundamentally superior ways. Author Catherine Liu shows how the PMC stands in the way of social justice and economic redistribution by promoting meritocracy, philanthropy, and other self-serving operations to abet an individualist path to a better world. Virtue Hoarders is an unapologetically polemical call to reject making a virtue out of taste and consumption habits. Forerunners: Ideas First is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital publications. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.

Kingdom of the Wicked

Kingdom of the Wicked
Author: Kerri Maniscalco
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2020-10-27
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0316428442

A James Patterson Presents Novel From the #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Stalking Jack the Ripper series comes a new blockbuster series... Two sisters.One brutal murder. A quest for vengeance that will unleash Hell itself... And an intoxicating romance. Emilia and her twin sister Vittoria are streghe -- witches who live secretly among humans, avoiding notice and persecution. One night, Vittoria misses dinner service at the family's renowned Sicilian restaurant. Emilia soon finds the body of her beloved twin...desecrated beyond belief. Devastated, Emilia sets out to find her sister's killer and to seek vengeance at any cost-even if it means using dark magic that's been long forbidden. Then Emilia meets Wrath, one of the Wicked-princes of Hell she has been warned against in tales since she was a child. Wrath claims to be on Emilia's side, tasked by his master with solving the series of women's murders on the island. But when it comes to the Wicked, nothing is as it seems...

Murder of Angels

Murder of Angels
Author: Caitlin R. Kiernan
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2008-04-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101212799

Niki Ky spends her days in a medicated haze, haunted by the ghosts of those she left behind ten years ago after a confrontation against an unspeakable evil that left her shattered. To find peace, Niki must return to the house on the side of Red Mountain in Birmingham, Alabama-to face creatures no human should ever have to face...

Rabid

Rabid
Author: Bill Wasik
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2013-06-25
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0143123572

The most fatal virus known to science, rabies-a disease that spreads avidly from animals to humans-kills nearly one hundred percent of its victims once the infection takes root in the brain. In this critically acclaimed exploration, journalist Bill Wasik and veterinarian Monica Murphy chart four thousand years of the history, science, and cultural mythology of rabies. From Greek myths to zombie flicks, from the laboratory heroics of Louis Pasteur to the contemporary search for a lifesaving treatment, Rabid is a fresh and often wildly entertaining look at one of humankind's oldest and most fearsome foes. "A searing narrative." -The New York Times "In this keen and exceptionally well-written book, rife with surprises, narrative suspense and a steady flow of expansive insights, 'the world's most diabolical virus' conquers the unsuspecting reader's imaginative nervous system. . . . A smart, unsettling, and strangely stirring piece of work." -San Francisco Chronicle "Fascinating. . . . Wasik and Murphy chronicle more than two millennia of myths and discoveries about rabies and the animals that transmit it, including dogs, bats and raccoons." -The Wall Street Journal

Half Blood Rising: (Moonlight Academy Book 1)

Half Blood Rising: (Moonlight Academy Book 1)
Author: Joanna Mazurkiewicz
Publisher: Joanna Mazurkiewicz
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2020-09-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Academy romance, chance of a lifetime, and former rouge on the run–what could go wrong? Jaymin Clarance is a rogue half vampire—she’s hunting supernatural convicts and trying to stay anonymous, which doesn’t always go according to plan. When a mysterious Fae approaches her in Lviv and offers her a spot at the highly sought-after Moonlight Academy, it’s her only chance to finally turn her miserable life around. However, the Academy isn’t just an ordinary school for supernaturals—it’s also the place where students are prepped for admission to the most exclusive academy in Bucharest—The Elite. Soon enough, Jaymin and her new group are sent out on a mission in Moscow. Their job is to rescue the daughter of a warlock who’s been kidnapped by an ancient clan of vampires, however, an experienced member of the school, a handsome Scottish vampire named Lachlan, doesn’t trust a half breed like Jaymin. One mistake during her probationary period could jeopardize Jaymin’s chance to prove that she’s worthy of being considered for a trial in the Elite Academy, and pretty boy, Lachlan, would love nothing more than to see her expelled.

The Shadow of the Wind

The Shadow of the Wind
Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2005-01-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101147067

The New York Times bestseller “The Shadow of the Wind is ultimately a love letter to literature, intended for readers as passionate about storytelling as its young hero.” —Entertainment Weekly (Editor's Choice) “One gorgeous read.” —Stephen King Barcelona, 1945: A city slowly heals in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, and Daniel, an antiquarian book dealer’s son who mourns the loss of his mother, finds solace in a mysterious book entitled The Shadow of the Wind, by one Julián Carax. But when he sets out to find the author’s other works, he makes a shocking discovery: someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book Carax has written. In fact, Daniel may have the last of Carax’s books in existence. Soon Daniel’s seemingly innocent quest opens a door into one of Barcelona’s darkest secrets--an epic story of murder, madness, and doomed love.

House of Meetings

House of Meetings
Author: Martin Amis
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2007-01-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 030726730X

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An extraordinary, harrowing, endlessly surprising novel set in 1946, starring two brothers and a Jewish girl who fall into alignment in pogrom-poised Moscow—from "one of the most gifted novelists of his generation” (Time). “A bullet train of a novel that barrels deep into the heart of darkness that was the Soviet gulag and takes the reader along on an unnerving journey into one of history’s most harrowing chapters.” —The New York Times The brothers' fraternal conflict then marinates in Norlag, a slave-labor camp above the Arctic Circle, where a tryst will haunt all three lovers long after the brothers are released. And for the narrator, the sole survivor, the reverberations continue into the new century.

The Darkest Kiss

The Darkest Kiss
Author: Gena Showalter
Publisher: HQN Books
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2016-02-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1459295307

She has tempted many men…but never found her equal. Until now. Though she has lived for centuries, Anya, goddess of anarchy, has never known pleasure. Until Lucien, the incarnation of death—a warrior eternally doomed to take souls to the hereafter. He draws her like no other. And Anya will risk anything to have him. But when the merciless Lord of the Underworld is ordered by the gods to claim Anya herself, their uncontrollable attraction becomes an anguished pursuit. Now they must defeat the unconquerable forces that control them, before their thirst for one another demands a sacrifice of love beyond imagining…. And don't miss the latest book in the irresistibly seductive Lords of the Underworld series, The Darkest Torment, featuring the fierce warrior Baden who will stop at nothing to claim the exquisite human with the power to soothe the beast inside him… Previously published.