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Braidee Otto

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Myths of the Empyrieos

Princess Aella and her best friend, Nyssa, the most wanted fugitives in the Empyrieos, must defy all odds to survive and reunite in this exhilarating, highly anticipated sequel to Songbird of the Sorrows.Spy. Princess. Songbird. Traitor.Aella is on the run. After freeing a mysterious prisoner from the Aviary, the spy order she once swore loyalty to, Aella has no choice but to flee with him. The pair form an uneasy alliance: She’ll help him...

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Braidee Otto

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Myths of the Empyrieos

In a magical world of gods and mythical races, an outcast princess turned spy infiltrates a rival kingdom—uncovering secrets that force her to choose between obedience and defiance—in the first book of a propulsive romantic fantasy series for fans of Danielle L. Jensen’s The Bridge Kingdom series.“An addictive new romantic fantasy that combines beautiful world-building, a thrilling combination of heist and trials, and a toe-curling forbidden romance.”—Demi ...

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Otto Penzler

Prepare to meet the most seductively female and the most shockingly fatal of femmes fatales, brought to you by seventeen of the finest authors of mystery and suspense fiction.Award-winning editor Otto Penzler presents a collection of short and sizzling masterpieces of kisses and kiss-offs, gams and gats, published for the first time anywhere. In "Third Party," Jay McInerney takes you on a wild ride through the Paris night with a party girl built for speed and sin ....

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The Best American Series

This "impressive crime anthology" presents a century of American greed, crime and comeuppance by some of the genre's greatest authors ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).James Ellroy, the author of such noir classics as The Black Dahlia and L.A. Confidential, joins forces with award-winning editor Otto Penzler to present this treasure trove of stories. Ranging from the 1920s to the present day, this collection represents noir at its best...

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Leo Kessler

Snatched off a beach by British Commandos, getting blind drunk in a reet Yorkshire pub, incarcerated with a troop of panty-wearing lady boys, and appearing on the front of every German newspaper. These are the continuing adventures of one good-for-nothing rogue, Otto Stahl esquire."Flashman for the Second World War" - Benjamin LindleyOtto avoids SS pursuers with the help of the Count and a spot of "honest work". Until, that is, the Secret Intelligence Service spoils their e...

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Erle Stanley Gardner

Perry Mason risks his freedom to prove the innocence of an unidentified client: "Fast-paced . . . the question of whodunit, as always, gets an unexpected answer." — Publishers WeeklyThe bait is half of a $10,000 bill, delivered to Perry Mason by a man who promises the second half of the note should his companion, a silent masked woman, ever require the lawyer's services. When a dead body is discovered soon after, Mason feels the hook―but ...

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Ronald Knox

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Otto Penzler's Locked Room Library

The business of death has given insurance investigator Miles Bredon a unique outlook on life in this witty Golden Age mystery.Jephthah Mottram has been given some bad news from his doctor. The very rich man has only two years left to live. But he doesn't even make it that far. While on a fishing holiday in the Midlands of England, he's found dead of an apparent suicide by gas.Sadly, that would be the best-case scenario for Indescribable Insurance, which wou...

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Erle Stanley Gardner

The lawyer who inspired the HBO series unravels a mystery surrounding a back-from-the-dead banker in "one of the best of the Perry Mason tales" ( The New York Times).Helen Kendal's woes begin when she receives a phone call from her vanished uncle Franklin, long presumed dead, who urges her to contact criminal defense attorney Perry Mason; soon after, she finds herself the main suspect in the murder of an unfamiliar man. Her kitten has just survived a poiso...

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Otto Rosenberg

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Why did I survive when so many others did not?'Otto was just nine years old when his family was captured in Berlin. All around him, Sinti and Roma families were being torn from their homes and broken up, many of them disappearing altogether.When Otto arrived in Auschwitz, he, as so many others, suffered unimaginable humiliation and suffering, and witnessed horrific violence and dehumanisation of his fe...

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Arthur J. Rees

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Otto Penzler's Locked Room Library

A classic locked room mystery from the genre's Golden Age by the renowned Australian author of the Chief Inspector Luckraft series.On the day of his wife's funeral, Robert Turold reveals that he has completed his lifelong quest to prove his family's noble blood and restore its barony title. His brother and nephew will be his heirs, skipping over his daughter who he believes is illegitimate due to a deathbed confession from his wife. With the granting of a peerage w...

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The Best American Series

Twenty great whodunnits from the first decade of this series, edited by the award-winning editor and founder of the Mysterious Press.This anthology collects the top twenty stories from the first decade (1997–2006) of The Best American Mystery Stories, selected and introduced by Otto Penzler. Contributors include Russell Banks, Jeffrey Deaver, Louise Erdrich, Brendan DuBois, Dennis Lehane, Elmore Leonard, Lou Manfredo, Ed McBain, Joyce Carol Oates, Scott Tu...

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Mary Otto

**Winner of the Studs and Ida Terkel PrizeAn NPR Best Book of 2017"[Teeth is] . . . more than an exploration of a two-tiered system—it is a call for sweeping, radical change."—New York Times Book Review**"Show me your teeth," the great naturalist Georges Cuvier is credited with saying, "and I will tell you who you are." In this shattering new work, veteran health journalist Mary Otto looks inside America's mouth, revealing unsettling truths ...