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Author
Series
Joe Pickett novel volume 24
Language
English
Description
A rogue grizzly bear has gone on a rampage-killing, among others, the potential fiancée of Joe's daughter. At the same time, Dallas Cates, who Joe helped lock up years ago, is released from prison with a list of six names tattooed on his skin. He wants revenge on the people who sent him away: the people he blames for the deaths of his entire family and the loss of his reputation and property. Using the grizzly attacks as cover, Cates sets out to...
2) The fury
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"This is a tale of murder. Or maybe that's not quite true. At its heart, it's a love story, isn't it? Lana Farrar is a reclusive ex-movie star and one of the most famous women in the world. Every year, she invites her closest friends to escape the English weather and spend Easter on her idyllic private Greek island. I tell you this because you may think you know this story. You probably read about it at the time - it caused a real stir in the tabloids,...
3) The hunter
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"It's a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die. Cal Hooper took early retirement from Chicago PD and moved to rural Ireland looking for peace. He's found it, more or less: he's built a relationship with a local woman, Lena, and he's gradually turning Trey Reddy from a half-feral teenager into a good kid going good places....
4) Icarus
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
A thief who steals priceless art and replaces it with his father's impeccable forgeries while targeting Mr. Black, the man responsible for his mother's death, Icarus Gallagher is torn between family loyalty, revenge, escape and Mr. Black's son--the boy he's come to love.
Author
Publisher
[Independently published]
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Beverly Simmons returns to her hometown of Green Hills, New York with a dark purpose in mind: to enact revenge on her unsuspecting classmates who had once subjected her to relentless bullying and committed an unspeakable crime that scarred her for life.
7) Wild houses
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The riotous, raucous, and deeply resonant debut novel from "one of the best story writers in the English language today" (Financial Times), Wild Houses follows two outsiders caught in the crosshairs of a small-town revenge kidnapping gone awry. With his acclaimed and award-winning collections Young Skins and Homesickness Colin Barrett cemented his reputation as one of contemporary Irish literature's most daring stylists. Praised by Oprah Daily as...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Farrow hatches a dangerous plan to seek revenge on Queen Magrit and regain her magic, but when Farrow finds herself falling for the one person who could ruin everything, she must decide whether it is more important to live in the past or forge a new future.
9) Room service
Author
Publisher
Underlined/Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
No parents, no rules. Just four friends celebrating a birthday in a luxury hotel. Fender, Linnea, Lucas and Kate are here to make forever memories. They know not to bring up what happened last year. Then they receive messages at the door of their room, revealing more and more about what exactly happened a year ago. What the messenger wants is clear: revenge. -- adapted from back cover
Author
Publisher
Penguin Group
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"Rome, once mighty, lies in ruins. The city swarms with suffering and degradation, her citizens living in the shadow of the ruthless Borgia family. Only one man can free the people from the Borgia tyranny - Ezio Auditore, the Master Assassin. Ezio's quest will test him to his limits. Cesare Borgia, a man more villainous and dangerous than his father the Pope, will not rest until he has conquered Italy. And in such treacherous times, conspiracy is...
11) Charming
Author
Publisher
Solaris
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Prince Jean-Marc Charming Arundel, known to friends and enemies alike as "Prince Charming," is handsome, well-mannered, brave, a peerless swordsman, a cunning tactician - and a liar, a con man and a fraud. For years he has been travelling from one kingdom to the next, rescuing endangered princesses and maidens, securing their troths and his place in their fathers' palaces, then looting their treasuries and having it away before dawn. Until a chance...
Author
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Forced to fight for his life, the young Colter embarks on a perilous journey across a lawless frontier, hoping to save his sisters and salvage the dream they lived for. But first, Tim has to figure out how to survive. Luckily, he finds a new friend in Jed Reno, a grizzled one-eyed trapper who’s lived in the Rockies since the 1820s. Together, the mountain man and the greenhorn set out after the marauders, blazing a trail of vengeance. With danger...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In Victorian London, when she discovers her sister's death aboard the Makepeace was no accident and that the ship's scientist Edison Stowe was responsible, Maude Horton, to find the truth, begins shadowing Edison, enacting the ultimate revenge to get justice for her sister"-- Provided by publisher.
14) Pretty furious
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
This story of a small town, fierce friendships, and revenge served cold is a perfect companion to Exit, Pursued by a Bear. In the small town of Eganston, Ontario, five good girls have had enough. They've experienced the best of what their community has to offer, but they've seen the darker side too. Together, they've decided that it's time for a reckoning and that justice is their privilege to give.
15) A drop of venom
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The legend of Medusa is retold as an empowering feminist tale in an Indian-mythology-inspired world"--
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In this empowering Black queer romance reimagining of Charlotte Brontë's classic novel, Jane Eyre, the new governess at Thornfield Hall discovers her cruel employer has locked away his wife as revenge for withholding her inheritance and, as his dark plan unfolds, must find a way to save this woman she's come to love"--
Author
Publisher
[Jamell Ponder]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"When Evil Surged embodies themes of betrayal, romance and vengeance. As once eloquently stated, “There is a thin line between love and hate!” Harvey falls in love with Stephanie. He hopes she will be different. Betrayal and heartbreak catapults Harvey beyond his forgiveness limit; he snaps. The evil living inside of Harvey activates its will to win. The untimely death of Jeffery, leaves Stephanie’s heart shattered and averse to romance. As...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In an isolated lighthouse on the California coast, Rowan Winterbourne lives a solitary life with only her secrets for company. For she has a mission that drives her -- to avenge herself against Gregory Torval, the powerful drug and arms dealer who murdered her mother and vowed to eliminate everyone in her family. Then Joe Grantham arrives at her door and, for the first time, Rowan lets her guard down - a dangerous mistake when he blackmails her to...
19) Cape Rage
Author
Series
Danny Barrett thrillers volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Danny Barrett is caught between a family of criminals and the psychopath who is tracking them in the latest novel of the series the New York Times calls, "Dynamite." The FBI has a hundred undercover agents who can work in the city, but Danny Barrett is the one they call when they need someone to investigate crimes in the wilderness. This case is a particularly difficult one. For more than a century the Danby family have ruled as kings in their corner...
Author
Publisher
Eileen Saint Lauren Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A collection of eleven stories written by Mary "Myra" Boone, a recurring character in Saint Lauren's work. Saint Lauren has her characters speak guiding truth with the purest of voices by way of magical realism, the supernatural, sophisticated suspense, and the sublime. Each of the stories portrays a grotesque character or a horrific and bizarre act of revenge in the name of God and twisted love. Such repulsive events and grotesque people are the...