Christchurch Photo Hunt 2015
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‘Arrivals and Departures — The Journeys that Have Shaped Us’. Take ownership of your city’s heritage: send in some of your old photos to help grow a photographic archive. You could win a tablet or eReader. Copies of photograph entries may be displayed in libraries and uploaded to Kete Christchurch.
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| The killing kind: a novel by Chris HolmMichael Hendricks died in an IED explosion - or so most people believe. What he's actually doing is living off the grid, supporting himself by killing mob hitmen (paid, of course, by the victims-to-be of those hitmen). Looking to rectify the situation, the mob sends an equally skilled killer after him. Also searching for him (and his would-be assassin) is a crack FBI agent. Quick and propulsive, this killer-with-a-conscience story is a good bet for readers of lone wolf characters such as those in Roger Hobbs' Ghostman. |
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We shall inherit the wind
by Gunnar Staalesen
1998. Varg Veum sits by the hospital bedside of his long-term girlfriend Karin, whose life-threatening injuries provide a deeply painful reminder of the mistakes he's made. Investigating the seemingly innocent disappearance of a wind-farm inspector, Varg Veum is thrust into one of the most challenging cases of his career.
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Flame out
by M. P. Cooley
After rescuing a badly burned woman from an abandoned factory building, Hopewell Falls, New York police officer June Lyons, while sifting through the factory's ruins, discovers the body of her partner's mother, which is linked to a cold case that will dangerously touch the lives of those closest to her.
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| Minute Zero by Todd MossBack in his second appearance (after The Golden Hour), State Department crisis manager Judd Ryker is sent to Zimbabwe to keep an eye on the presidential election there. Unsurprisingly, trouble is brewing between the corrupt six-term president and the opposition candidate. Drawing on his own experiences as a diplomat in West Africa, author Todd Moss has created a "tense, fast-paced, utterly convincing picture of chaos in the making" (Kirkus Reviews). |
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All the old knives
by Olen Steinhauer
After a failed rescue attempt of a hijacked plane in Vienna, two retired spies, former lovers, can't help but relive the past and determine if the mission went wrong because of a compromised agent on the inside.
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Coming of age at the end of days
by Alice LaPlante
Hiding her willful nature from her parents and friends, only to succumb to depression in her teens, misfit Anna becomes vulnerable to a cult and its prophecies about the end of the world. By the award-winning author of Turn of Mind.
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The Madagaskar plan: a novel
by Guy Saville
In an alternate history, Hitler orders the resettlement of European Jews to the remote island of Madagaskar where British forces conspire to incite a colony-wide revolt with the help of an escaped leader of the Jewish resistance while an ex-mercenary. By the author of the international bestseller The Afrika Reich.
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Gorgon
by Greig Beck
Alex Hunter has been found, sullen, alone, leaving a path of destruction as he travels across America. Only the foolish get in his way of the drifter wandering the streets late at night. Across the world, something has been released by a treasure hunter in a hidden chamber of the Basilica Cisterns in Istanbul. Something hidden there by Emperor Constantine himself, and deemed by him too horrifying and dangerous to ever be set free. It now stalks the land, leaving its victims turned to stone, and is headed on a collision course with a NATO base. The Americans can't let it get there, but can't be seen to intervene. There is only one option, send in the HAWCs. But Alex and the HAWCs are not the only ones seeking out the strange being, Uli Borshov, who has a score to settle with the Arcadian, moves to intercept him, setting up a deadly collision of epic proportions where only one can survive.
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The drowning ground
by James Marrison
Chief Inspector Guillermo Downs gets a second chance to make good on a promise he made when the body of a local man, who many in the town believe murdered his wife, is found and a connection between him and two girls who went missing 10 years earlier is made.
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| The night strangers: a novel by Chris BohjalianIn an emergency landing gone wrong, commercial pilot Chip Linton crashes into Lake Champlain, killing 39 passengers. Haunted by the experience, Chip moves with his wife and twin daughters to rural New Hampshire, where the family takes up residence in a ramshackle Victorian mansion. But during renovation, Chip realizes that something else may be haunting their home, whose basement contains a mysterious locked door, solidly held shut with exactly 39 carriage bolts... Spooky and suspenseful, this supernaturally tinged thriller is a "frightful ride" (Publishers Weekly). |
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| The stranger by Harlan CobenBestselling author Harlan Coben is known for fast-paced stories that explore just how fragile our domestic happiness can be - and just how close disaster looms. This one (which Kirkus Reviews calls a "100-proof nightmare") involves a man known only as "the stranger" who spills intensely personal secrets with devastating results. Though the central character is Adam - who's learned that his wife faked a pregnancy (and who disappears when confronted) - there are others who learn equally painful secrets. How are they connected? Only the stranger knows. |
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| The stranger by Camilla LäckbergA woman who never drank has been killed in a car accident, her blood alcohol content through the roof. A reality TV show contestant's body has been found, nearly unrecognizable, in a garbage truck (sending ratings skyrocketing). Initially, the two deaths seem unrelated, but as Detective Patrik Hedström begins investigating, links stretch out over decades and across Sweden. |
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| Don't talk to strangers: a novel by Amanda Kyle WilliamsDespite a reputation of being difficult to work with (she was, in fact, fired from the FBI for drinking on the job), Atlanta P.I. Keye Street also has a reputation of being worth the trouble. In this 3rd (and most recent) in the series, Keye travels to rural Georgia at the behest of the sheriff to track down a serial killer whose attacks come a decade apart. She is met with overt hostility by the local cops, and with stares from everyone else, as her Chinese heritage marks her an obvious stranger. But the abduction of a third girl means that Keye has no time to waste. Fans of S.J. Bolton's similarly intelligent but damaged Lacey Flint will enjoy the Keye Street books, which work well enough as standalones to start with this one. |
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