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Good and bad luck accompany Ned from New York to Florida on his way to a surprise party.

From the New York Times bestselling author of the pulse-pounding Vertical Run comes a spellbinding new white-knuckle thriller to keep you up all night. Charlie McKenzie is the best at what he does, and what he does best of all is the CIA's dirty work. At least he did until his bosses double-crossed him. Jailed and disgraced to cover up a mammoth intelligence blunder, Charlie wants to get even. Opportunity knocks when Irina Kolodenkova, a young Russian...

"Shuichi is on the hook to paying the company back his salary and his commission for the past year after losing multiple contracts. This new looming debt means that he will have to cancel the trip to Paris he and his wife have been planning for a year. A trip that his family desperately needs as his teenage daughter has stopped going to school and won't leave her room. Shuichi believes that he's the unluckiest person in Japan. A strange taxi driver...

When she's not hanging out at her family's sweets shop, Libby loves walking her dog around London. She always meets the most interesting people like Ethan, who's her age and also has a dog. They become fast friends, until Libby finds out his family are the new owners of a competing store! Libby tries to keep her parents' business a secret, because she really likes Ethan and wants to be his friend. But the secrets start adding up. Libby needs the charm...

"Fortune is a dazzling, endlessly surprising historical novel that opens the day Napoleon leads his victorious Grande Armée into Berlin after having conquered Prussia in battle. As crowds throng the streets to witness the emperor in his glory, a handful of lives that briefly touch are sprung from their orbits and set on courses that will take them across Europe and around the world--their fates and desires sometimes intersecting--to strange lands...

While walking home, an "unlucky" mouse suffers minor mishaps which repeatedly save him from being eaten by various animals.

Compared to the problems of some of the creatures the old man describes, the boy is really quite lucky.

Vietnam vet Jack Nelson makes a decent living peddling his flying talents to the highest bidder. When he rescues a young beauty from an attack on Ibiza, he ends up with the opportunity to pull off the heist of a lifetime. There are millions in sunken treasure for the taking in a go-for-broke caper tailor made for Nelson and his partner Harry Turk--and all he has to do to collect the loot is live through it.