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Signal Moon by Kate Quinn
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA short story about an impossible connection across two centuries that could make the difference between peace or war.Yorkshire, 1943. Lily Baines, a bright young debutante increasingly ground down by an endless war, has traded in her white gloves for a set of headphones. It’s her job to intercept enemy naval communications and send them to Bletchley Park for decryption...Categorized as:
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Every Hour Until Then by Gabrielle Meyer
Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsGifted with the ability to time-cross between Victorian-era London and World War II Washington, DC, Kathryn faces two lives fraught with danger. In 1938 amid the looming shadow of war, Kathryn is invited to the London Museum as a guest curator to create a groundbreaking exhibit on Jack the Ripper and his reign of terror...Categorized as:
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Forgetting to Remember by M.J. Rose
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDiscover a spellbinding love story in this dazzling time-travel adventure from the NYT bestselling author of The Last Tiara, M.J. Rose...Categorized as:
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Angel Down by Daniel Kraus
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe critically acclaimed author of the “crazily enjoyable” (The New York Times) Whalefall returns with an immersive, cinematic novel about five World War I soldiers who stumble upon a fallen angel that could hold the key to ending the war...Categorized as:
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Cthulhu'nun Çağrısı by H.P. Lovecraft
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 40 ratings'What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise...'Mad, macabre tales of demonic spirits, hideous rites, ancient curses and alien entities lurking beneath the surface of rural New England, from the man who created the modern horror story... -
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La Loterie et autres contes noirs by Shirley Jackson
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsDans le monde de Shirley Jackson, rien ne paraît sortir de l'ordinaire. De petites villes, des couples, des maisons, des gens qu'on croise dans le bus ou chez l'épicier. Au premier abord, tout est normal. Puis un détail sème le doute. Un autre fait tout déraper vers des zones noires et troubles, qui suscitent une profonde inquiétude chez le lecteur... -
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Two Past Midnight: Secret Window, Secret Garden by Stephen King, James Woods
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe second of a four-part audio series from Stephen King's bestselling book, Four Past Midnight. Recently divorced writer Mort Rainey is alone at Tashmore Lake--that is, until a figure named John Shooter arrives, pointing an accusing finger... -
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The Wehrwolf by Alma Katsu
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAlma Katsu, the visionary author of The Fervor, The Hunger, and The Deep, brings readers a terrifying short story about monsters among men—and the thin lines that divide them.Germany, 1945. In the waning days of World War II, the Nazis have been all but defeated. Uwe Fuchs, never a fighter, feels fortunate to have avoided the front lines as he cared for his widowed mother... -
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The Expert of Subtle Revisions by Kirsten Menger-Anderson
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA thrilling historical mystery about a young woman searching for her father, a young man trying to solve an impossible problem, and the quest for the power to transcend time.In Half Moon Bay, California, 2016, a young woman waits for her father's sailboat to arrive at port. They have agreed to meet on this day and time. Yet he never shows.He has told her this event might come... -
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Betrayals: A Novel by Charles Palliser
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAt once a hypnotic murder mystery, scathing literary parody, soap opera, and brilliant pastiche, Betrayals is an astonishing virtuouso performance by a modern master of literary gamesmanship in the tradition of Vladimir Nabokov and John Barth.The novel unforlds in a series of seemingly unrelated narratives, each written in a different style -- indeed, in a different genre...Categorized as:
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Dagon by H.P. Lovecraft, Paule Perez
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsThe story is the testament of a tortured, morphine-addicted man who relates an incident that occurred during his service as an officer during World War I... -
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Monster: Perfect Edition, Vol. 4 by Naoki Urasawa
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsHans George Schuwald, the most influential person in the state of Bayern, has come to trust Johan fully and made him his right-hand man. Johan now seems to be setting himself up as the wonder boy of the German financial world.Meanwhile, a private detective working for Schuwald investigates the mysterious events happening around the man and senses something massive and evil lurking behind it all...
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