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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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The Death House
by Sarah Pinborough (Goodreads Author)
by Sarah Pinborough (Goodreads Author)
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date: May 29, 2017
To celebrate the publication of this new edition of THE DEATH HOUSE in paperback we're giving away 10 copies.
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Availability: 10 copies available, 331 people requesting
Giveaway dates: May 26 - Jul 08, 2017
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Future Discovered (Host Saga #1)
by Michael J. Farlow (Goodreads Author)
by Michael J. Farlow (Goodreads Author)
Release
date: Apr 30, 2017
Enter to receive one of fifteen signed copies of Future Discovered by author Michael J. Farlow.
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Giveaway dates: May 24 - Jun 21, 2017
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Cold Spot
by Lou Berthelson (Goodreads Author)
by Lou Berthelson (Goodreads Author)
Release
date: Mar 17, 2017
Frozen in time; Frozen in fear: Frozen in fact, but on fire throughout! Grabs you at the Prologue and will not let you put it down from there on after
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Giveaway dates: May 04 - Jun 12, 2017
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Aleatha Romig is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author who lives in Indiana. She grew up in Mishawaka, graduated from Indiana University, and is currently living south of Indianapolis. Aleatha has raised three children with her high school sweetheart and husband of nearly thirty years. Before she became a full-time author, she worked days as a dental hygienist and spent her nights writing. Now, when she's not imagining mind-blowing twists and turns, she likes to spend her time a with her family and friends. Her other pastimes include reading and creating heroes/anti-heroes who haunt your dreams!
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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come.
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― William Shakespeare, Love Poems and Sonnets
― William Shakespeare, Love Poems and Sonnets
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Yes, I am finally a match for Amy. The other morning I woke up next to her, and I studied the back of her skull. I tried to read her thoughts. For once I didn't feel like I was staring into the sun. I'm rising to my wife's level of madness. Because I can feel her changing me again: I was a callow boy, and then a man, good and bad. Now at last I'm the hero. I am the one to root for in the never-ending war story of our marriage. It's a story I can live with. Hell, at this point, I can't imagine my
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― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
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