Peter Holdway
1) King Lear
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Lear is a man of towering passion with the incredible mind and will to match it. Now, though, his increasingly irrational emotional state is eroding his purpose and control, his empathy and humanity. This is conflict: exciting, theatrical and revelatory.
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A historical thriller based on the real-life 1941 robbery of a Kentucky golf club that ended in the murder of a young champion golfer and her mother.
Today, the name Marion Miley is largely unrecognizable, but in the fall of 1941, she was an internationally renowned golf champion, winning every leading women's tournament except the elusive national title. This unassuming twenty-seven-year-old woman was beloved by all she met, including...
Today, the name Marion Miley is largely unrecognizable, but in the fall of 1941, she was an internationally renowned golf champion, winning every leading women's tournament except the elusive national title. This unassuming twenty-seven-year-old woman was beloved by all she met, including...
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When Mycroft Holmes is murdered in London, it is up to retired shadow executive Smith to track down his killer - and stumble on the greatest conspiracy of his life. Strange forces are stirring into life around the globe, and in the shadow game of spies nothing is certain. Fresh from liberating a strange alien object in Abyssinia - which might just be the mythical Ark of the Covenant - young Lucy Westerna, Holmes' protégé, must follow...
4) Clean sweep
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Innkeeper chronicles volume 1
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"On the outside, Dina Demille is the epitome of normal. She runs a quaint Victorian Bed and Breakfast in a small Texas town, owns a Shi-tzu named Beast, and is a perfect neighbor, whose biggest problem should be what to serve her guests for breakfast. But Dina is... different: Her broom is a deadly weapon; her Inn is magic and thinks for itself. Meant to be a lodging for otherworldly visitors, the only permanent guest is a retired Galactic aristocrat...
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"Hellboy has accompanied his girlfriend, Anastasia Bransfield, on a trip to Brazil to help colleagues who are conducting an archaeological dig in the jungle.
While they're having coffee, a colleague arrives...through a public square, sick and sluggish and in agony. He falls, and wasps begin to come out of his mouth. When he bursts open, more wasps emerge-his insides are full of a labyrinthine, gray, papery nest.
It becomes clear that something sinister...
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A Cornucopia of the Best New Mysteries
If you're a fan of The Best American Mystery Stories series, Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales by P. D. James or Her Body and Other Stories by Carmen Maria Machado, you'll love The Book of Extraordinary Amateur Sleuths and Private Eye Stories.
Collected by one of the genre's eminent editors, Maxim Jakubowski: One of the best mystery books of the 21st century, this volume features outstanding new stories of...
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Dina Demille may run the nicest Bed and Breakfast in Red Deer, Texas, but she caters to a very particular kind of guest... the kind that no one on Earth is supposed to know about. Guests like a former intergalactic tyrant with an impressive bounty on her head, the Lord Marshal of a powerful vampire clan, and a displaced-and-superhot werewolf, so don't stand too close, or you may be collateral damage. But what passes for Dina's normal life is about...
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Innkeeper chronicles volume 4
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Maud Demille is a daughter of Innkeepers -- a special group who provide 'lodging' to other-planetary visitors -- so she knows that a simple life isn't in the cards. But even Maud could never have anticipated what Fate would throw at her. Once a wife to a powerful vampire knight, Maud and her young daughter, Helen, were exiled with him for his treachery to the desolate, savage planet of Karhari. Karhari killed her husband, and Maud -- completely abandoned...
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"Tango's gang was a handful, but the Archon and his army, the Chosen, are more powerful than any enemy X has ever faced! Betrayed or abandoned by his allies, X must face Arcadia's newest threat the old-fashioned way: alone!
Collects issues #13–#16. Adapted from the issues and produced with a full cast of actors, immersive sound effects and cinematic music.
X faces the greatest foe Arcadia has ever seen!
Performed by Eric Messner, Rayner Gabriel,...
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"When Sammie made a discovery that could bring hope to all the survivors of the Black Flu, one man's twisted greed turned that dream into a nightmare. He destroyed Safe Zone E and caused the death of thousands.
After the destruction of her Zone, Sammie was voted in as leader of the former residents. She made them three promises: she would find them a new home, she would find her nemesis, Brian Crowe, and make him pay, and she would build a better...
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"Arcadia descends into chaos as old villains return to town and new ones are born! While X faces down suicidal psychos, superstitious mobsters, and thrill-junkie assassins, Leigh uncovers the secrets of his past . . . before he locked on his mask and became X!
Collects issues #9–#12. Adapted from the issues and produced with a full cast of actors, immersive sound effects and cinematic music.
Featuring the return of some of the original X characters...
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"When X attacks the notoriously corrupt narcotics squad known as ""The Dogs of War,"" the manipulative Lt. Setter fights back by pitting him against the last few honest cops in Arcadia... and X's battle escalates into a war for the soul of the city!
Collects issues #5–#8 of the series. Adapted from the issues and produced with a full cast of actors, immersive sound effects and cinematic music.
Includes the disturbing story of ""the 'Rents,"" three...
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A thief and con man who specializes in stealing the kind of things that can't normally be stolen, Gideon Sable, along with The Damned, the Ghost, the Wild Card and his ex-girlfriend, plans a heist to steal the only thing that matters to the worst man in the world.
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"Set high on top of Widows Hill, Harrow House has remained empty for years. Now, on behalf of an anonymous prospective buyer, Ishmael and Penny are spending a night there in order to investigate the rumours of strange lights, mysterious voices, unexplained disappearances, and establish whether the house is really haunted. What really happened at Harrow House all those years ago? Joined by a celebrity psychic, a professional ghost-hunter, a local historian...
15) Vampire Hunter D
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12,090 A.D. It is a dark time for the world. Humanity is just crawling out from under three hundred years of domination by the race of vampires known as the Nobility. The war against the vampires has taken its toll; cities lie in ruin, the countryside is fragmented into small villages and fiefdoms that still struggle against nightly raids by the fallen vampires-and the remnants of their genetically manufactured demons and werewolves.
Every village...
Every village...
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Night huntress volume 5
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When vampires begin to disappear and rumors of a new war surface, Cat Crawfield and her vampire husband Bones are forced to align themselves with the ghoul queen of New Orleans.
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"Part supernatural spy adventure, part historical romp, The League of Set is the beginning of a new fast-paced GraphicAudio Original series in the ancient world. Samuel ben Yohanan is a secret agent for the Judean Court in Exile in Babylon. A master of magical relics and ancient gadgetry, he'll do anything to get his people home (and perhaps to advance his personal ambitions as well). But after he goes rogue to help Cyrus the Great conquer Babylon,...
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"Veronica Lodge, a cheerleader at Riverdale Senior High who becomes a strigoi or a vampiress after being bitten by Ivan, a blood sucker, hundreds of years her senior. Forced to contend with this new, radical transformation, Veronica must deal with the prospect of feeding on her own small-town cohorts. She protects the people of Riverdale from other vampires as she attempts to break the curse on her and the other victims by destroying the master vampire....
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