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Private investigator Josephine Macloud has just suffered the mysterious accidental death of her husband. Despite the accidental ruling, her investigative skills point to something much more devious and she refuses to stop until she finds the truthwhich is how she makes the acquaintance of Donovan OHara and Corin OLeary. Donovan is a cop who knows the world is more than it seems. Hiding from the human race are paranormal creatures known as vampires,...
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The magical world has been ruled by a group called The Counsel and their laws. The highest law is that good and evil can not mix. The eldest of the immortals, Destiny, has grown too tired of living and brings together a high witch of a covenant, Mara Hews, that equaled good, and a demon general, Verex, equaling evil. He brought them together, and they had a child. The child was a mix of good and evil. The reason The Counsel didnt want good and evil...
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Fourteen-year-old Vanessa Simons is just like any other girl her age well, almost. Despite her thin body and long blonde hair, Vanessa has a few characteristics that set her apart like pale skin, giant fangs, amazingly fast speed, and an insatiable craving for human blood. After her parents recognize Vanessas growing inability to hide her vampire identity from her classmates, they enroll her at Monstero Academy, a special school that teaches monsters...
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Simon Spicer is a lonely, melancholy professor in Maine. A widower, he was once a talented poet, but writes no more. At the age of thirty-five, he simply exists, aged beyond his years by disappointment. Spice is unaware of the physical and mental properties that set him apart from his fellows and fit him for a bizarre missionbut he will soon find out. In the world of the Keepers, one of their own has gone rogue. Calling himself ShadowCaster, he has...
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For generations, the kingdom of Arten has stood alone against the ancient dark mage Mercer, a man no longer bound by time. But when King Wern is kidnapped, Queen Arin will risk everything to get him back. Lynden Trenadin is chosen to join the ranks of the elite Queens Champions both for her prowess as a warrior and her remarkable resemblance to the queen. She has spent her life battling at Arden's borders, but now she must defend the queen with her...
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A mystical, whimsical romp through the universe and the Heavens for an answer to a question that cannot wait until tomorrow. Fraser. He's English, eight years old, and has a big question. One night in bed, he calculates distances between things, his house and his uncle's, his uncle's and London, and then on to the Moon, the nearest star, and beyond, until he experiences infinity. He sits up in bed riveted with this question: when you go all the way...
7) The Gemstone
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One gemstone that changed her life.... Now it was almost before me. My breath quickened as I struggled to let go of the necklace. I even stood to pull the box with me, but the ribbon of the necklace reddened my wrist like a hot coal and I cried out in pain. Suddenly all I heard was my breathing, out. The figure moved quicker and quicker, closer and closer The figure was now above me, drifting over my head, and then it tumbled on me with the force...
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Step into new worlds and read news dispatches from the Alternate Reality News Service, which regularly gets the scoop on The Associated Press, Reuters and the rest of the competition.
In a series of articles written by the wire service's handpicked reporters, you'll read satirical reports that give glimpses into the relationship between humanity, technology and Robert Novak's eyebrows.
Who would have ever thought that an intelligent undershirt...
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Travel with Angelica as she travels through a mysterious island with her friends trying to unravel the mystery of a ring they found on the beach. Their trials as they travel meeting with different puzzling obstacles and places throughout the island, and the beauty that find on the island.
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The angel has always been in the temple. Nathaniel has lived through countless ages, but now the Khmer is coming in force, and there is no resisting them. Nathaniel cowers in a hidden cave as death awaits him at the hands of the Khmer. Laura and Belle Donovan have just arrived in Cairo to view the pyramids in typical tourist fashion. While visiting a shop, Laura stumbles upon a quill pen she is sure her father, Gabriel, will love. But as soon as the...
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When eight-year-old Andrew Finnegan's family is murdered in their home in Derry City of Northern Ireland in 1958, Aunt Eibhln brings him home to live with her. While growing up in her Bureen Woods home, Andrew and his aunt form a special and lasting bond the ability to communicate telepathically. Now, decades later, Andrew has failed to reach his aunt through their mental communication. He fears that she may be in danger. With his wife, Colleen, and...
12) The Pack
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It is the fifteenth century, and three kingdoms are caught up in the dire conflicts of their time. As the possibility of a peaceful resolution provides hope that a decade-long war will finally end, no one realizes that dark forces are waiting to invoke chaos as a full moon rises. On a farm nestled beneath the Euralene Mountains along the western border of Medinia, young Willie works for the Smythes as a serf. One moonlit evening when the Smythes are...
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Adam Tiller is a sixty-three-year-old author of detective/crime novels; several of which had become bestsellers. He attained great fame and fortune, but remained restless and unfulfilled. As he deals with the death of his wife after thirty unhappy years of marriage, Adam decides that he has to get away. He is bored with writing novels in his particular genre, and dreams of creating something new and refreshing for both himself and his readers. In...
14) Mind Surfing
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A botched surveillance during a drug bust in an abandoned bowling alley leads Karen Simpson, a young Ottawa Police officer to an encounter that changes her life forever.
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Nyx Stewart is a woman on the run. With a unique ability to hear lies and a blossoming drinking problem, this anxious Canadian ex-socialite is trying her best to lay low in a new city and forget the severed branches in her family tree. But after witnessing a horrifying accident only Nyx seems to believe was a murder, a letter arrives from her estranged blue-blood mother and a mysterious invitation to an exclusive vampire-themed nightclub lands in...
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Sean OReilly is a wee Irishman who loves just three things sleeping, two Irish of liquid refreshment, and telling tales about the adventures of Sean and Himself, an eight-inch-tall leprechaun with an infectious grin and amicable nature that hide his cunning and crafty side. After Sean captures Himself, he soon realizes he just needs one thing to make his life complete the pot of gold the tiny leprechaun possesses. Like Sean, Himself loves to natter...
17) Vampire's Lust
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The need to live can push people to do terribly extraordinary things, but when a new vampire is made, survival takes on a new meaning. Learn the truth about a vampires lust and how 200 years and a lot of miles couldn't quench his thrust. Keep this one by your bedside to help warm you on those cold winter nights. Warning very explicit.
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The Bandits of Bandarson is the fifth book of The Valley Series. In previous works, you have learned of the trials that all of rightful magic have been forced to face. In the last book, The Dark War, you learned of the pains that all must endure, when they fight for what is right. The cost in lives had been high in The Dark War, and the mourning for those lost, went on for years. The new Overseer of the Realm, Namson, and his wife, Glornina, lead...
19) Nikkola of Dur
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Nikkola of Dur is no mans slave, no mans property, and no mans fool. She refuses to be a victim to the darkness that threatens everything she loves and dreams about. Rather than join those who did nothing to escape from the slavers, she chooses to flee into the wilderness. Even though her planet has been enslaved by imperial forces, she will not be discouraged by the overwhelming fear and hopelessness that surrounds her. Hers is a story of great eviland...
20) Profit
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Almost seventy years have passed since 1984, the classic dystopian novel about a totalitarian future society, was published. Since then, the world has changed and so has the future In this second novel of the Joad Cycle, teenager Gil Rose and his great-grandfather, Bernie Rosenthal, have taken revenge on the chairman, but not without a price. They are now fugitives. They flee to northern Maine, where Bernie tries to instruct Gil so he can lead the...
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