Christopher Price
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F. Paul Wilson's engaging, self-employed, off-the-books fixer, Repairman Jack, returns for another intense, action-packed adventure in The Haunted Air. In Astoria, Queens, the lively ethnic neighborhood just across the river from Manhattan, a house is being haunted by the ghost of a nine-year-old girl in riding clothes. More than two decades before, she'd been abducted from stables in Brooklyn. Now it's up to Jack to uncover the truth of her story...
3) Legacies
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Repairman Jack isn't your average appliance repairman; he fixes situations for people, often risking his own life. Jack has no last name, and has no qualms when it comes to seeing the job done. Dr. Alicia Clayton is full of secrets, and she has inherited a house that holds another. She wants the house destroyed, but everyone she gets to help ends up violently killed. Alicia's brother Thomas is willing to do anything to get that secret himself, but...
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Set in mid-17th century Boston, this tale of passion, puritanism and revenge is one of the foremost classics of American literature. Its heroine, Hester Prynne, is compelled by her own moral autonomy to wear the scarlet letter but she emerges as a woman with her integrity intact.