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249901) Mr. Prohartchin: Short Story
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Mr. Prohartchin lives a miserable life. To his neighbors he is a man to be pitied, living in a bare apartment with little more than a mattress on the floor. His meals are sparse and frugal, and he is isolated from society. However, when his landlady investigates his apartment upon his death, she finds that there was more to Mr. Prohartchin than she and her other tenants ever could have guessed. "Mr. Prohartchin" was first published in Annals of the...
249902) Draconia Princess
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Claire Shimmerscale is a dragon shifter and treasure hunter for Draconia's elder council. She has a bit more freedom than her island sisters, but that's put in jeopardy when she finds her mate and becomes captured in his net. Their union isn't allowed, but they can't help but give in to passion, even knowing a future together is impossible.
After he's sent packing, Dustin Springs returns home to lick his wounds. There, he learns the truth about her...
249903) Dragon's Fake Mate
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Justin King lives by one code: play to win.As a CEO and as a dragon, Justin is never afraid to go after what he wants.But when his stock starts tanking and his bad boy image starts doing more harm than good, his publicist comes up with a strategy to change the whole game: Fake girlfriend.Justin's never had trouble with the ladies, but playing up a fake relationship for the press to make him look like a responsible good boy isn't going to be as easy...
249904) The Beach of Dreams
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The Beach of Dreams (1919) is a novel by Henry De Vere Stacpoole. Although he is more widely known for his novel The Blue Lagoon (1908), which inspired the 1980 hit drama starring Brooke Shields, Stacpoole was a prolific bestselling author whose dozens of literary works allow the reader to enter the world of nautical adventure. "It was as though deep in his being lay a blazing hatred born of injustice through ages and only coming to light when upborne...
249905) Kuwmyush- I Love You
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Kuwmyush- the Mohegan saying for "I love you." Based on the true story of Rebecca, daughter of the Grand Sachem of the Montauk, and Lieutenant Francis Bell, a British colonial officer. In the early 1600s, British settlers arrived in the New World. As they arrived, they found a land populated with many different civilizations, one of which was the Montauk tribe, led by Grand Cheif Sachem Wyandanch. His daughter Rebecca is betrothed, and on her wedding...
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Ben "Midas" Gates is the leader of his Delta Force team and is leading a mission to shut down a known terrorist working out of Panama and rescue hostages. When he arrives he discovers the mission is anything but easy and becomes even more complicated because he knows one of the hostages. It was a woman he had been in love with growing up and ran away from thirteen years ago.
The mission becomes even more dangerous when the team discovers someone set...
249907) Welcome to Visanthe
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Praise for Welcome to Visanthe... "An amazing story with a captivating magical world, dynamic characters, and a super intense plot!" ~ K. Egan, Cosmopolitan U.K. "Very character-driven, which I love! So even if you aren't a fantasy fan, you'll still really enjoy it!" ~ E. Carwile DESCRIPTION: THE SHADOWS HAVE AWAKENED... Raised on a small unassuming island in the Caribbean, with the kind of sleepy town lifestyle better suited to old fishermen than...
249908) De fil en aiguille: Roman
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Le récit d'une jeune fille devenue couturière.
Rose Vermelle, jeune orpheline, part sur les routes exercer son métier de couturière à domicile. Elle quitte son passé, prête à se lancer dans l'avenir.
De fil en aiguille relate son parcours du Pas de Calais à la Somme, du début du XXème siècle jusqu'à la seconde guerre mondiale.
Une tranche de vie, une tranche d'histoire.
Accompagnez Rose Vermelle, jeune orpheline, sur les routes du...
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Folktales often portray stories about the creation of certain places. Readers of this engaging play learn one tale of how the Hawaiian Islands came to be. The story of Ma-ui and his family is told with the help of captivating text and dialogue, as well as vivid illustrations that closely correlate with the textual content of the book. This exciting story is sure to get young readers excited about plays and folktales.
249910) A Man of Insignificance
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When disgraced small time politician Danny Senetti and local GP Maxine Wells become implicated in the ritualistic murder of a reclusive spinster they form an unlikely alliance.
Drawn inexorably back almost two hundred years to historic, famine-blighted Ireland they discover more unsolved killings as the trail leads them into the lives of two families across four generations.
Their discoveries unravel the source of the terrible mysterious curse of.....
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249911) Somebody's Darling
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He finally found the love of his life… 150 years after his death. Confederate soldier Jesse Spenser died in the battle of Gettysburg in 1863, and his restless spirit has remained earthbound ever since. Usually invisible, he spends his days watching tourists visit the battlefields and fighting with his ghostly arch-nemesis, a Union soldier named Joel. There is one source of light and happiness in Jesse's lonely existence. Lucy Westbrook. Lucy works...
249912) Heart Unheard
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A Hearts Entwined Novel. The attraction between Brent Berkheimer and Scott Spearman peels the wallpaper, but Brent is Scott's boss, and they're both too professional to go beyond flirting. Their priorities realign after Scott is badly injured in an accident that costs him his hearing, and Brent realizes what is truly important… he wants Scott. Scott pushes Brent away at first, fearing a new romance will just add to his problems, but perhaps he will...
249913) A Fine Line
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When a struggling author with a secret government past is hired by a wealthy philanthropist to investigate a cold murder case, he has no choice but to expose the dark and buried secrets of a powerful political family in Chicago.
Sebastian Drake is a novelist working out of a dilapidated apartment in the city who's trying to come up with his next story idea. But he's stuck.
Drake receives an unexpected visit from a man interested in hiring him for...
249914) Forest's First Day of School
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A shy girl is force into the spotlight when a wild boy goes to school for the first time!
At school, Olive expects her best friend Forest to be a "nobody," just like her, but Forest isn't one for standing on the sidelines-more like standing on the desks! His shenanigans transform boring school into a wild habitat filled with food fights and morning bird calls, and everyone loves it...everyone except for Olive. How did Forest make friends so fast?
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249915) A Stain on Utopia
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A nationally-known historian has disappeared while on a research mission in a small Massachusetts town that was born as a utopian religious community, and the St. Paul newspaper reporter-photographer team of Warren "Mitch" Mitchell and Alan "Al" Jeffrey is sent by their editor to cover the manhunt. Dr. Pinchas M. Butz, who was studying the life of 18th-century utopian minister Adin Ballou in the tiny town of Hopedale, has not been seen for several...
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A small town in the American Southwest ... everything in the desert is designed to prick you, wound you, or eat you. What better metaphor for 21st century Earth? Prickly City is a comic strip about the friendship between Winslow, a coyote pup, and Carmen, a straight and narrow kind of kid. Prickly City offers a conservative perspective on political and social events within an ongoing storyline. As Carmen might say, "We may not be correct but we will...
249917) A Hired Blade
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A sellsword's bargain.
A burgeoning desire.
A future balanced on the point of a blade.
Sellsword Des is travelling alone in a dry and dusty southern land, after a spectacular bust up with her best friend. She's running low on coin, so when former client Karina offers her a job leading her caravan's security through brigand country, it feels like a gift.
Des has done the route before, but she isn't sure about leading solo. She recommends...
249918) Hidden Magic: The Portal Opens
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Nicole Jameson's repressed power opens a portal to another realm-Veil-and her life in quiet Yuma, AZ comes to a screeching halt. When Raiden comes crashing into her world his nine years of isolation finally comes to an end, but he finds himself caught between his plans for revenge, orders from the leaders of his realm, and terrible visions of Nicole's future. The more time he spends with her the more he realizes he would do anything to stop those...
249919) Queen Catcher
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Killing Vampire queens is all in a day's work for Jo McReynolds....Now that she's got Holland trapped in a cave, killing her shouldn't be too much trouble. There's just one problem. Scott is convinced his dad and the other captured Healers are about to be killed. In order to save them, Jo and the others will have to take a huge detour back to the the States. Jo doesn't know if they have time to do that or if Lucas will continue to keep an eye on Holland...
249920) Sophie's Playlist
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Simultaneously a story of initiation, a thriller, and a love story, Sophie's Playlist — The Gramble Chronicles I takes the reader with a beating drum on a voyage through time and space from the 70s to the 90s and the present, between Paris and Miami with stops in Tokyo, Singapore, and even in Purgatory as described by Dante. The book is set against the background of crossed destinies of a pair of identical twins, Sophie and Adele, and those of three...
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