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The Journey Continues, Eugene Miskelly

The story of how an ordinary healthy person finds himself on the wrong end of an unfortunate series of events leading to an extraordinary set of experiences – though thankfully not all bad. Eugene had never spent a day in hospital, except during the birth of his children, until he was diagnosed with an unusual

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A Darker Demise, M.C. Ryder

A Unity of Balance – It all started with Immilla and the prophecy of the Dragon’s Eye. A time when witches existed. A time when it was light magic versus dark magic. A time when a witch had to choose a side, for they could not represent both. Follow Immilla’s journey through her eyes. Will

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Thinly Veiled, Eliza Modiste

The past haunts her, the present beguiles her…and the future is ready to bring her full circle. Freshly escaped from her unfulfilling and unnecessarily stressful criminal past of drug dealing and theft (and the manipulative ex-boyfriend associated with it), the beautiful, foul-mouthed romantic Claire Branson needs a fresh start. Routine. Monotony. An authentic happiness that

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Wild Horses, Amy Pendino

What strings are attached to “easy money”? Dani Holden has lived in small-town Crestview, Iowa, for almost two years, but she won’t be able to stay without a new source of income, especially now that she’s adopted an old racehorse. Her good friend Donna introduces Dani to Jim, a trucker who’s become a regular at

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Watershed, Ranae Lenor Hanson

A personal health crisis, stories from environmental refugees, and our climate in danger prompt a meditation on intimate connections between the health of the body and the health of the ecosystem The body of the earth, beset by a climate in crisis, experiences drought much like the human body experiences thirst, as Ranae Lenor Hanson’s body

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The Name I Choose, Holly Brough

Questions about Amalia’s past become more concerning when she’s uprooted at the young age of fifteen from the only life she knows and into an abusive nobleman’s household. As a young female in nineteenth-century Spain and a dominant patriarchal society, Amalia’s choices are limited. That couldn’t be more evident than in her employer’s household. Manuel

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Grift and Shadow, L. Rigdon

Stealing from the largest security firm in the Rupt World was the easy part. Now, Bogdan and his team of career criminals, including two dragons (Hank and Peggy), a shape shifter (Will), and a non-human weapons expert (Sparks), will all have to put their grifting skills to the test as they pull the most dangerous

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Artefactum, J.E. Tobal

“Sam was only seven-years old when he destroyed his first universe. He didn’t do it on purpose, though. In fact, he had no idea what he was doing.” So begins the story of Sam, a sarcastic bartender who one day accidentally stumbles upon the means to travel to alternate realities by way of an Aboriginal

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Poetic Meditations for the Evolutionary Journey, Anjali Soi

Learn or meditate on the meaning of the zodiac from Aries to Pisces through astrology-themed poetry. Evolutionary Astrology focuses on Pluto, the Soul, and the path of evolution, embodied by the meaning of Scorpio and the 8th house. Pluto is the Soul’s Unconscious desires and the Plutonian theme of birth, death and transformation is alive

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson

Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle is convinced it was murder – and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced financial journalist

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Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn

On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick’s clever and beautiful wife disappears from their rented McMansion on the Mississippi River. Husband-of-the-Year Nick isn’t doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of

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City of Bones, Cassandra Clare

When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder― much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It’s hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible

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The Silver Linings Playbook, Matthew Quick

Meet Pat. Pat has a theory: his life is a movie produced by God. And his God-given mission is to become physically fit and emotionally literate, whereupon God will ensure a happy ending for him — the return of his estranged wife Nikki. (It might not come as a surprise to learn that Pat has

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Breaking News of Tomorrow, Igor Chirashnya

What would you do if you knew what would happen in the world news of tomorrow? Mike leads a quiet, unremarkable life. He is smart but lacks the charisma to rise in the ranks of his job. Tired of always being overlooked, Mike isn’t sure what to do. But all of that changes late one

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Room, Emma Donoghue

To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It is where he was born and grew up; it’s where he lives with his Ma as they learn and read and eat and sleep and play. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick

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From Darkest Skies, Sam Peters

After a five year sabbatical following the tragic death of his wife and fellow agent Alysha, Keona Rause returns to the distant colony world of Magenta to resume service with the Magentan Intelligence Service. With him he brings an artificial recreation of his wife’s personality, a simulacrum built from every digital trace she left behind.

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Bacon Grief, Joel Shoemaker

Tim, a lover of crinkle-cut pickles, black olives and other forgivably-disgusting crudités, belongs to a conservative Christian pastor and devout mother who move to the rural town to staff a small church that, predictably, holds little place for Tim. After meeting online and given the green light to attend a youth group at another church,

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A Few Casualties So What, Wilson Jackson

Some Body wants to start a gang war Two teens from rival crime families (Prohibition and Hip-hopper) die in a car bomb. Neither family knew about the forbidden Romeo and Juliet romance and the mayor fears a possible gang war between the rival families blaming the other for their children’s deaths. Enter ex hit-man now

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The Marlowe Murders, Laura Giebfried & Stanley Wells

In 1955, Alexandra Durant is unexpectedly dismissed from her graduate program mere months before receiving her PhD. Hardened by her experiences and the disease that took away her mother’s memory, Alexandra is wary when the powerful dean of the psychology department, John Marlowe, offers her a servant position at his elderly mother’s house with the

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Elvia and the Gift of Passion, Ruthy Ballard

An alarming family secret leads an adventurous girl into a world of witch doctors, child-eating lions, and an intragalactic submarine escapade in this delightful middle-grade portal fantasy. Passionate, ten-year-old Elvia Hill is bored with her safe, dishwater dull life with her stiflingly overprotective parents. She knows she was meant for something… more. But the young

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