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Need a Little Time by Adam Eccles
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSometimes, the strangest things can happen, right on your doorstep.When you find out your best friend and business partner is secretly sleeping with your wife, it may be time to move on… From your job and your marriage... Which is precisely what happened to Jamie Newgent... -
![The Oversoul Seven Trilogy: The Education of Oversoul Seven, The Further Education of Oversoul Seven, Oversoul Seven and the Museum of Time by Jane Roberts, Robert F. Butts]()
The Oversoul Seven Trilogy: The Education of Oversoul Seven, The Further Education of Oversoul Seven, Oversoul Seven and the Museum of Time by Jane Roberts, Robert F. Butts
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJane Roberts has contributed to The Oversoul Seven Trilogy as an author.Roberts was considered one of the most important psychics of the twentieth century...Categorized as:
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![Emma Frost: Volume 7-9 by Willow Rose]()
Emma Frost: Volume 7-9 by Willow Rose
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsASIN moved from less recent edition˃˃˃ EASY AS ONE TWO THREE:Mads and Signe are very young when they get married. They are ready to take on the world starting with their honeymoon to Egypt. Two years later, Mads is in a coma and Signe has vanished from the face of the earth... -
![Secrets and Seashells at Rainbow Bay by Ali McNamara]()
Secrets and Seashells at Rainbow Bay by Ali McNamara
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe sun is shining on the golden castle on Rainbow Bay - and change is in the air!Amelia is a single mother, doing her very best to look after her young son, Charlie - but money is tight and times are tough. When she first hears that she is the last descendent of the Chesterford family and that she has inherited a Real-Life Castle by the sea, Amelia can't quite believe her ears... -
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![The Pink House by Cindy Kirk]()
The Pink House by Cindy Kirk
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDeep in the forest, on a sun-drenched patch of lush green grass, surrounded by lily-of-the-valley, sits a pink house. With turrets towering like neighboring trees, and a wide welcoming front porch, the old Victorian is impossible to miss. Except that everyone in town has—everyone but Hannah Danbury... -
![Time Shelter: A Novel by Georgi Gospodinov]()
Time Shelter: A Novel by Georgi Gospodinov
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 13 ratings“A trickster at heart, and often very funny” (Garth Greenwell, The New Yorker), award-winning Bulgarian author Georgi Gospodinov has enthralled readers around the world with his labyrinth-like, Kafkaesque tales of contemporary Europe...Categorized as:
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![The Ferryman and His Wife by Frode Grytten]()
The Ferryman and His Wife by Frode Grytten
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn the spirit of Amor Towles and George Saunders, the renowned, bestselling Norwegian author Frode Grytten takes listeners on a quietly epic ferry driver Nils Vik’s last route along the fjord, on what he knows will be his last day alive. Nils Vik wakes up on November the 18th and knows it will be the day he dies... -
![Three Scenarios In Which Hana Sasaki Grows A Tail by Kelly Luce]()
Three Scenarios In Which Hana Sasaki Grows A Tail by Kelly Luce
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThree Scenarios in Which Hana Sasaki Grows a Tail is a debut collection of stories from Kelly Luce. Hana Sasaki will introduce you to many things—among them, an oracular toaster, a woman who grows a tail, and an extraordinary sex-change operation. Set in Japan, these stories tip into the fantastical, plumb the power of memory, and measure the human capacity to love... -
![Relive by K.J. Nelson]()
Relive by K.J. Nelson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat happens when you fall in love with the girl you murdered in your first life?An electrifying debut novel from KJ Nelson. It will leave you breathless and reading way past your bedtime!★★★★★There is a secret order called The Journeyers. They are a group of people that live their lives over and over. For the most part, they keep to themselves and enjoy their special kind of immortality...Categorized as:
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![Abyss by Laura Kreitzer]()
Abyss by Laura Kreitzer
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGabriella is falling to pieces. The aftermath of the Soul Stalker’s death weighs heavily on her shoulders. Andrew tries everything he can to help her fight off the new demon inside her, the one who wants to cause chaos and commit murder. When symbols begin to ink her skin they realize there is something greater going on in Gabriella’s soul. A war... -
![The Immeasurable Corpse of Nature by Christopher Slatsky, Jon Padgett]()
The Immeasurable Corpse of Nature by Christopher Slatsky, Jon Padgett
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the author of Alectryomancer and Other Weird Tales comes this devastating collection of fifteen stories and essays. A father's desperate search for his missing child leads to a cosmic haunted realm. A woman returns to her childhood home to find a past preserved in a semblance of life... -
![Powers of the Psalms by Anna Riva]()
Powers of the Psalms by Anna Riva
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe perfect prayer book - that is what the Book of Psalms has been called. Written over a period of about eight hundred years, these one hundred fifty poems and hymns are the most important existing collection of Hebrew national and religious poetry... -
![A Wandering Heart by Thomas Kinkade, Katherine Spencer]()
A Wandering Heart by Thomas Kinkade, Katherine Spencer
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAll the stars come out in Cape Light... New York Times bestselling authors Thomas Kinkade and Katherine Spencer continue their Angel Island series with a sparkling new tale set in Cape Light. Celebrity has landed on Angel Island, but it's new love that steals the show. Welcome to Angel Island. . . -
![The Delicate Prey and Other Stories by Paul Bowles]()
The Delicate Prey and Other Stories by Paul Bowles
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsPaul Bowles once said that a story should remain taut throughout, like a piece of string. That tense, stretched tone is the key to this collection of 17 eerie tales by the author best known for The Sheltering Sky. The Delicate Prey is dedicated: "For my mother, who first read me the stories of Poe... -
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![When the Yellow Mocker Calls by Lila M Beckham]()
When the Yellow Mocker Calls by Lila M Beckham
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn the South Carolina Hills, along the Savannah River Watershed, in the fall of 1829, 14-year-old, three-quarter Cherokee, Sahani, whose Christian name is Charity, sets out on a journey with her 83-year-old maternal, white grandfather to Fort Charlotte, for what she thinks is a trip to trade the pelts he has accumulated in order to replenish their supplies... -
![Wysłannik by Paulina Hendel]()
Wysłannik by Paulina Hendel
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNowy tom bestsellerowej serii Zapomniana Księga zmieni Wasze spojrzenie na świat ludzi i demonów! Ta opowieść nie mogła być tylko trylogią!Hubert wyrusza w daleką i niebezpieczną podróż w poszukiwaniu sprzymierzeńców. Wkrótce przekona się, jak niewiele wiedział o otaczającym go świecie oraz ludzkiej naturze... -
![We of the Forsaken World... by Kiran Bhat]()
We of the Forsaken World... by Kiran Bhat
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn a distant corner of the globe, a man journeys to the birthplace of his mother, a tourist town destroyed by an industrial spill. In a nameless remote tribe, the chief’s second son is born, creating a scramble for succession as their jungles are being destroyed by loggers... -
![The Fireballer by Mark Stevens]()
The Fireballer by Mark Stevens
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA poignant story about hopes, dreams, and how far one man’s talent takes him before he realizes it’s about what you do—and how you do it.Frank Ryder is unstoppable on the baseball field—his pitches arrive faster than a batter can swing, giving his opponents no chance. He’s being heralded as a game-changing pitcher... -
![Byron's Poetry by Lord Byron]()
Byron's Poetry by Lord Byron
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIt includes eighteen of his lyrics; Cantos One, Three, and excerpts from Canto Four of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage; two verse romances, The Prisoner of Chillon and The Giaour, the latter newly receiving critical attention for its prophetically disjunctive structure; Manfred; The Vision of Judgment; and Don Juan, presented in long self-contained extracts--the First, Fifth, Ninth, and Sixteenth...Categorized as:
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![Final Hour by Dean Koontz]()
Final Hour by Dean Koontz
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Following Last Light comes Final Hour, the second of two standalone eBook original novellas leading in to Ashley Bell, the highly anticipated new novel of suspense from Dean Koontz! Just by touching others, Makani Hisoka-O’Brien can see the darkest secrets they keep. The troubling talent has made the Southern California surfer wary of casual contact... -
![Summer by Ali Smith]()
Summer by Ali Smith
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn the present, Sacha knows the world's in trouble. Her brother Robert just is trouble. Their mother and father are having trouble. Meanwhile the world's in meltdown - and the real meltdown hasn't even started yet.In the past, a lovely summer. A different brother and sister know they're living on borrowed time.This is a story about people on the brink of change...Categorized as:
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![The Buying of Lot 37 by Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor]()
The Buying of Lot 37 by Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom the authors of the New York Times bestselling novels It Devours! and Welcome to Night Vale and the creators of the #1 international podcast of the same name, comes a collection of episodes from Season Three of their hit podcast, featuring an introduction by the authors, a foreword by Dessa, behind-the-scenes commentary, and original illustrations...Categorized as:
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![The Story Collector by Evie Gaughan]()
The Story Collector by Evie Gaughan
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Evie Gaughan has skillfully created a magical, original novel. Beautifully written and steeped in folklore - this suspenseful story is told with warmth, wit and charm." Niamh Boyce (The Herbalist) A beautiful and mysterious tale from the author of The Heirloom and The Mysterious Bakery On Rue De Paris...Categorized as:
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![Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone by Sequoia Nagamatsu]()
Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone by Sequoia Nagamatsu
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“You should be here; he’s simply magnificent.” These are the final words a biologist hears before his Margaret Mead-like wife dies at the hands of Godzilla. The words haunt him as he studies the Kaiju (Japan’s giant monsters) on an island reserve, attempting to understand the beauty his wife saw...Categorized as:
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![The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 440+ Short Stories, Complete Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings ... ... Land and Sea Tales, Captain Courageous…) by Rudyard Kipling]()
The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 440+ Short Stories, Complete Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings ... ... Land and Sea Tales, Captain Courageous…) by Rudyard Kipling
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis ebook contains Rudyard Kipling's complete works. This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume... -
![Abbey's Protectors by Lynnette Bernard]()
Abbey's Protectors by Lynnette Bernard
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHunter, Abbey, & Clayton's Story[ Erotic Paranormal Ménage a Trois Romance, M/F/M, werewolves, bondage, sex toys, HEA] Abbey Tyler is a successful business woman who has made one huge mistake. She married a man who only wants control of her business and her money. He is willing to do anything to get them—including killing her... -
![Death by Intermission by Alexis Morgan]()
Death by Intermission by Alexis Morgan
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAbby McCree spends a summer showing family films under the stars—only to end the season with an unexpected slasher flick . . .Ushered once again onto another committee by the mayor of Snowberry Creek, Washington, Abby is tasked with keeping the box office receipts of the town’s Movies in the Park nights. Cut to the director’s chair from where she’s suddenly organizing the summer’s last feature... -
![Waking Up Screaming: Haunting Tales of Terror by H.P. Lovecraft]()
Waking Up Screaming: Haunting Tales of Terror by H.P. Lovecraft
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratings“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.”–H. P. LOVECRAFTWelcome to the world of H. P. Lovecraft, the undisputed master of terror. His work has inspired countless nightmares, and this collection of some of his most chilling stories is likely to inspire even more... -
![The Unsettled Dust by Robert Aickman, Reece Shearsmith]()
The Unsettled Dust by Robert Aickman, Reece Shearsmith
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRobert Aickman, the supreme master of the supernatural, brings together eight stories in which strange things happen that the reader is unable to predict. His characters are often lonely and middle-aged, but all have the same thing in common: they are brought to the brink of an abyss that shows how terrifyingly fragile our piece of mind actually is... -
![Baby of the Family by Tina McElroy Ansa]()
Baby of the Family by Tina McElroy Ansa
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn evocative, delicately comic story of a girl’s coming of age. From the moment of her birth in a rural black hospital in Georgia, Lena McPherson is recognized as a special child, with the power to see ghosts and predict the future. Named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times...Categorized as:
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![Blackgentlemen.com by Zane, J.D. Mason]()
Blackgentlemen.com by Zane, J.D. Mason
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBlackgentlemen.com is the premiere web site showcasing African American bachelors. Women from around the country search the site in hopes of finding true love. Step inside this exciting collection of novellas about women that meet men on the site, penned by some of the hottest female novelists on the scene today... -
![Promises of the Heart: A Novel by Nan Rossiter]()
Promises of the Heart: A Novel by Nan Rossiter
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe first novel in a new series from bestselling author Nan Rossiter tells the moving story of a couple struggling to start a family and the young foster girl with a heart condition who changes their lives forever."A multi-leveled, beautifully written story that will glow in readers' hearts long after the last page is turned...Categorized as:
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![The Gold Bug Variations by Richard Powers]()
The Gold Bug Variations by Richard Powers
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA national bestseller, voted by Time as the #1 novel of 1991, selected as one of the "Best Books of 1991" by Publishers Weekly, and nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award--a magnificent story that probes the meaning of love, science, music, and art, by the brilliant author of Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance...Categorized as:
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![Vječna kletva by J.R. Ward]()
Vječna kletva by J.R. Ward
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe fourth book in the Croatian edition of the Black Dagger Brotherhood is the second part of Lover Eternal, book #2 in the Black Dagger Brotherhood by J.R. Ward... -
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![The Threads of the Heart by Carole Martinez]()
The Threads of the Heart by Carole Martinez
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThey say Frasquita knows magic, that she is a healer with occult powers, that perhaps she is a sorcerer. She does indeed possess a remarkable gift, one that has been passed down to the women in her family for generations... -
![The Metaphysical Poets by Helen Gardner]()
The Metaphysical Poets by Helen Gardner
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn this important and influential anthology Dame Helen Gardner has collected together those seventeenth-century poets who, although never self-consciously a school, did possess in common certain features of argument and powerful persuasion which have come to be described as 'metaphysical'...Categorized as:
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![The Tengu's Game of Go by Lian Hearn]()
The Tengu's Game of Go by Lian Hearn
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe rightful emperor is lost to the world, farther from the throne than ever before . . . The lord of the usurper clan has fallen ill, and further unrest looms . . . Shikanoko has withdrawn to the furthest reaches of the country, leaving his allies stranded and the Spider Tribe unchecked . .Categorized as:
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![Riders in the Chariot by Patrick White]()
Riders in the Chariot by Patrick White
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsPatrick White's brilliant 1961 novel, set in an Australian suburb, intertwines four deeply different lives. An Aborigine artist, a Holocaust survivor, a beatific washerwoman, and a childlike heiress are each blessed—and stricken—with visionary experiences that may or may not allow them to transcend the machinations of their fellow men...Categorized as:
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![Eenie, Meenie by Willow Rose]()
Eenie, Meenie by Willow Rose
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJohnny is a criminal. He has been locked up before - but never in a place quite like this. Now he wonders if he will ever make it through to his release date - alive...EENIE, MEENIE is a 15,000 word thriller novella from Willow Rose, author of the International Bestselling horror-series starring the Danish reporter Rebekka Franck. It is not for the faint at heart...Categorized as:
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![The Empathy Problem: It's never too late to change your life by Gavin Extence]()
The Empathy Problem: It's never too late to change your life by Gavin Extence
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsPerfect for fans of Graeme Simsion's The Rosie Project and Gavin Extence's debut novel THE UNIVERSE VERSUS ALEX WOODS, comes a wild and witty, searing and true novel about life's ups and downs.Driven by money, power and success, Gabriel has worked ruthlessly to get to the very top of the banking game. He's not going to let the inconvenience of a terminal brain tumour get in his way... -
![Łowca by Paulina Hendel]()
Łowca by Paulina Hendel
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHubert po latach odnajduje wreszcie Święcino. Ale nie wszystko wygląda tam tak, jak zapamiętał. Dla mieszkańców osady jest zupełnie obcy i nikt nie proponuje mu od razu posady strażnika. Chłopak musi na nowo zdobyć ich zaufanie. Chociaż wie, co się może za chwilę wydarzyć, nie jest mu wcale łatwiej. Zwłaszcza że zdobywając księgę demonów, zmienił bieg historii... -
![The Presence of Absence by Simon Van Booy]()
The Presence of Absence by Simon Van Booy
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratings“Flows with depth and power....wide-open wonder.”— Washington Post“Simon Van Booy electrifyingly combines story with parable....wise, witty and always breathtakingly beautiful...Categorized as:
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![Weathercock by Glen Duncan]()
Weathercock by Glen Duncan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe confession of Dominic Francis Hood - Roman Catholic, sadist, conspirator to murder, witness to a miracle. His childhood had the usual benefits, but after watching a miracle performed by Father Malone, Dominic realises a part of him is skewed, and that mere fantasy will never be enough... -
![The Crying of Ross 128 by David Allan Hamilton]()
The Crying of Ross 128 by David Allan Hamilton
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe year is 2085...America has splintered into various independent republics after a brutal civil war. Against this backdrop, space exploration is on the cusp of new technological breakthroughs. Jim Atteberry, a mid-30s English professor at City College in San Francisco, spends his free time listening for alien signals on the amateur radio astronomy bands... -
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![Splintered Souls by Erica Lucke Dean]()
Splintered Souls by Erica Lucke Dean
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Ava Flynn walks away from a scholarship to Georgetown and moves into her grandmother’s abandoned summer home in coastal Maine, she steps into the center of a centuries-old curse. On her first night, she notices a mysterious leather-clad stranger looking up at her third-story window... -
![Verdigris by Michele Mari]()
Verdigris by Michele Mari
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAt the tail end of the 1960s, the thirteen-year-old Michelino spends his summers at his grandparents’ modest estate in Nasca, near Lake Maggiore, losing himself in the tales of horror, adventure, and mystery shelved in his grandfather’s library... -
![Heaven's Peak by Miguel Estrada]()
Heaven's Peak by Miguel Estrada
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe resort town of Heaven's Peak is home to beautiful landscapes and terrifying secrets. After the tragic death of his mother, teenage photographer Kevin Miller moves to a new town with his alcoholic father and eight-year-old sister in the hope of bringing the family together and starting over. However, everything changes when Kevin witnesses his sister being kidnapped by a bizarre creature...Categorized as:
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![The Eighth Court by Mike Shevdon]()
The Eighth Court by Mike Shevdon
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Eighth Court has been established, but petty rivalries and old disputes threaten its stability. The mongrels that make up the court are not helping, and Blackbird enlists the help of the warders to keep the peace... -
![Endless Things by John Crowley]()
Endless Things by John Crowley
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsPraise for the Aegypt sequence: "A dizzying experience, achieved with unerring security of technique."-The New York Times Book Review "A master of language, plot, and characterization."-Harold Bloom "The further in you go, the bigger it gets."-James Hynes "The writing here is intricate and thoughtful, allusive and ironic. . .Categorized as:
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![Universal Love by Alexander Weinstein]()
Universal Love by Alexander Weinstein
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA hypnotic collection of speculative fiction about compassion, love, and human resilience in the technological hyper-age, from Alexander Weinstein, author of Children of the New World. Universal Love welcomes readers to a near-future world where our everyday technologies have fundamentally altered the possibilities and limits of how we love one another...Categorized as:
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