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One little package. So much trouble. Turn over the dream, or die. Rebecca's job, her life, have all been a lie. But if the price for knowing the truth is death, what can she do against the very people she used to work for? The Rucksack Universe series combines alternate history, speculative fiction, myth, adventure, globetrotting, and intrigue-all with well-poured pints of beer. Library Journal says Anthony St. Clair's storytelling has "universe building...
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Horrible birthday present. Aisling's sixth birthday began on a ride in a rowboat with her mum and dad, complete with honey cakes, songs, and stories. That was the last time anything in her life would be normal again, complete with the strange present clutched in her hand.
The Rucksack Universe series combines alternate history, speculative fiction, myth, adventure, globetrotting, and intrigue-all with well-poured pints of beer. Library Journal says...
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An ugly satchel holds an uglier truth. Nia Fox gave up everything for Guru Deep, so the perfect CEO could have the perfect executive assistant at his beck and call, every moment. Nia loves working for Guru Deep. He sees a path for the future that few comprehend. She knows today's groundbreaking ceremony for the Lotus, the new company headquarters in south London, dominates Guru Deep's thoughts. But why did he insist on wearing that damn satchel? The...
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Leader first. Grandmother second.In the heart of the world's largest mountain, a family in exile waits to see if one among them will fulfill a world-shaking destiny… or fall to an early death that dooms the world.The Rucksack Universe series combines alternate history, speculative fiction, myth, adventure, globetrotting, and intrigue-all with well-poured pints of beer. Library Journal says Anthony St. Clair's storytelling has "universe building...
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Good dog. Bad man. Highlow will never understand humans. Not even his wonderful sausage-giving Master. Humans smell through their eyes, talk instead of sniffing arses, and believe there's a maximum number of sausages a dog should eat at one time. What Highlow really doesn't understand, though, is the strange, hard, round thing he finds near the Black Cliffs of Dover. He especially doesn't understand why some newly arrived, orange-suited Fancyman is...
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The truth sleeps Aednat had nothing but her family, until The Blast took them and everything Aednet knew of home in Ireland. Aednat finds herself in France, with people who seem more like myths, in a rich world unlike anywhere she ever dreamed of belonging. Yet in caves in Ireland, strange images from the past tell the tale of a present unfolding in fire. Aednat and her companions make their way to find answers to the questions burning the world....
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Sword Fight Showdown In Kyoto, world-famous business leader Guru Deep runs from a stalking shadow. Fleeing into the subway, he finds himself trapped by his arch-nemesis, Rucksack, not only in a fight for his life, but a fight for the truth. The Rucksack Universe series combines alternate history, speculative fiction, myth, adventure, globetrotting, and intrigue-all with well-poured pints of beer. Library Journal says Anthony St. Clair's storytelling...
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A shattered weapon. A job undone. A new danger. An ancient hero and an uprooted inventor reunite to deal with an old problem, all the while confronting changes, new fears, and a duty without end.
"The Things She Made" is a short story set in Anthony St. Clair's acclaimed Rucksack Universe. The Rucksack Universe series combines alternate history, speculative fiction, myth, adventure, globetrotting, and intrigue-all with well-poured pints of beer....
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Her entire life was before her.The young woman had a man who loved her. They lived in an Irish town she was happy to spend the rest of her days in. Then the fires came, followed by a knock on her door that would change everything she thought she knew about the world, herself, and her destiny.The Rucksack Universe series combines alternate history, speculative fiction, myth, adventure, globetrotting, and intrigue-all with well-poured pints of beer....
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She knows what he will ask, but not how she will answer.
A bird poops on a blue dragon.
A gleaming white Tiger Pagoda stretches high above a city of bamboo scaffolding.
The moment Jade steps into Hong Kong's otherworldly Aw Boon Haw Garden, she knows she approaches a crossroads of her life. What love will the lifelong wanderer choose: the man, the road… or something else? If only Jade had gotten that extra cup of coffee to help her decide.
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The trouble is, kindness is trouble.
Disgraced. Jobless. Kicked out of the butler's guild. Pennyton believed he had done the right thing. The kind thing. Look where that got him. Yet when he answers a surprise knock on his door, Pennyton finds himself where he least expected: on a one-night gig driving a carriage for a rich journalist who paid in full and up front.
Trouble is, now Pennyton sits on his freezing arse. In the dark. On a hard carriage...
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The bite is worse than the burn.Not knowing who he is, where he is, or what he is, Unnamed awakens under a dark sky full of smoke. Who is he? Why are his clothes… and his skin… in tatters? In a world on fire, what sort of person will he become?The Rucksack Universe series combines alternate history, speculative fiction, myth, adventure, globetrotting, and intrigue-all with well-poured pints of beer. Library Journal says Anthony St. Clair's storytelling...
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Can he handle the most powerful force in the world?Jake Edinburgh's first day on the job at Scotland's Dram Ring Pub and Wedding Chapel is not at all what he expected-and that's just from meeting Angus the ringmaker.The Rucksack Universe series combines alternate history, speculative fiction, myth, adventure, globetrotting, and intrigue-all with well-poured pints of beer. Library Journal says Anthony St. Clair's storytelling has "universe building...
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Not all that gleams is light. "Guru Deep and I met in the receiving room at the penthouse of his hotel in London, four days after his father's murder. "The death of Deep Inc. CEO Guru Deep has left the business world reeling. Within hours of the discovery of the bloody scene at a Kyoto, Japan, subway station by local police, word spread not only around the world but also into the sky, where the disemboweled corporate genius's twenty-five-year-old...
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Finally. Proof. In the Mexico City night, the cops freed the prisoners and locked up their torturers. Nearby, the reporter picked up a torn scrap of fabric. What looks like plain black silk turns out to be covered in subtle yet intricate patterns. The very tongue of life, rendered in thread. Something small. Torn from something larger. World-renowned roving journalist BS Trotter knows that little clues add up to big revelations. And she knows the...
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