Zane's Nervous

      Zane
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In this follow-up to the mega-sensation Addicted and the lead-in to the highly-anticipated upcoming novel, Vengeance (available May 24, 2016) , the New York Times bestselling Queen of Erotica delivers a shocking and steamy story about a woman with a split personality who must overcome her disorder before her chance at a happy ending is forever destroyed.Jonquinette Pierce has never felt comfortable around men—except when she's her alter ago, Jude, who takes over on the weekends to lead a life of wild and intense sexual escapades. Jonquinette knows she can't keep living like this and sets out to overcome her split personality with the help of Dr. Marcella Spencer. But Jude isn't about to let Jonquinette off so easily. Just as Jonquinette begins falling for her hot neighbor, Mason, Jude decides she's had enough and goes on a sexual rampage to keep her alter ego from riding off into the sunset. Nervous takes readers back into the...

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    Die a Little

      Megan Abbott
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By the author of Dare Me and The End of Everything Femmes fatales. Obsessive love. Double crosses. How does a respectable young woman fall into Los Angeless hard-boiled underworld? Shadow-dodging through the glamorous world of 1950s Hollywood and its seedy flip side, Megan Abbotts debut, Die a Little, is a gem of the darkest hue. This ingenious twist on a classic noir tale tells the story of Lora King, a schoolteacher, and her brother Bill, a junior investigator with the district attorneys office. Loras comfortable, suburban life is jarringly disrupted when Bill falls in love with a mysterious young woman named Alice Steele, a Hollywood wardrobe assistant with a murky past. Made sisters by marriage but not by choice, the bond between Lora and Alice is marred by envy and mistrust. Spurred on by inconsistencies in Alices personal history and possibly jealous of Alices hold on her brother, Lora finds...

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    Out of Bounds

      Val McDermid
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“McDermid excels in putting the reader at the center of the action . . . A tightly paced mystery . . . My bones tell me we haven't seen the last of Inspector Pirie—or at least I hope not." —Janet Napolitano, Los Angeles Times on The Skeleton RoadInternationally bestselling author Val McDermid is one of our finest crime writers, whose gripping, impeccably plotted novels have garnered millions of readers worldwide. In her latest, Out of Bounds, she delivers a riveting cold case novel featuring detective Karen Pirie.When a teenage joyrider crashes a stolen car and ends up in a coma, a routine DNA test reveals a connection to an unsolved murder from twenty-two years before. Finding the answer to the cold case should be straightforward. But it's as twisted as the DNA helix itself.Meanwhile, Karen finds herself irresistibly drawn to another mystery that she has no business investigating, a mystery that has its roots in a...

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    Charlie

      Lesley Pearse
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Can young Charlie find the strength to save her family?One glorious summer's day, sixteen-year-old Charlie Welsh has her privileged childhood brought to an abrupt and terrifying end when she witnesses her mother being brutally attacked in her own garden by two strangers.With her father mysteriously away Charlie has to face up to sinister forces that seem intent on shattering her family and even her belief in her parents.But she is not alone. Charlie meets kind, funny student Andrew, whose love helps her through the hard times and further unexpected tragedy. Together, can they unravel the mysteries of the past that haunt the Welsh family? And will facing up to those mysteries destroy their love for each other or make it stronger?

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    A Lady of Expectations

      Stephanie Laurens
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Jack Lester has to find a bride. . . But where can he find the perfect woman? She has to be attractive, kind, a good conversationalist. . . and most important, she has to accept him as he is: devilishly handsome, charming and, as far as anyone knows, poor as a church mouse! If London society discovers his hidden wealth, he'll never find the right wife. Jack's heart races when he first lays eyes on Sophie Winterton. She is everything he desires-and more-but he is caught in his own trap. Believing that Jack needs to marry into wealth, Sophie rejects all his advances, certain he would never marry a poor girl like her. As they play out a game of cat and mouse, can Jack convince her that she is the woman he wants-and that he is the husband she deserves?

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    Dream a Little Dream

      Megan Hart
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Can the man you meet in your dreams become your life mate? Don't miss New York Times bestselling author Megan Hart's scintillating romance...The first time Mariella Finch made love to Butler Meadows they had just escaped from a soul-eating monster. What began as Butler's nightmare turned into one of the most intensely exciting nights Mariella had ever had in the land of Ephemeros, the land of dreams. And in Ephemeros, Mariella has the power to shape reality and her physical appearance.When Mariella finds Butler in the waking world, he doesn't recognize her. Sweet and shy, Butler is the man she never knew she was looking for. But he's reluctant to show the passion he feels free to release in their nocturnal rendezvous.Mariella knows that she can use everything she learns about Butler in Ephemeros to make him love her. What she doesn't know is if she wants a romance built on lies and fantasy--or if Butler will ever trust her if...

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    Where Has Mummy Gone?

      Cathy Glass
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The true story of Melody, aged 8, the last of five siblings to be taken from her drug dependent single mother and brought into care. When Cathy is told about Melody's terrible childhood, she is sure she's heard it all before. But it isn't long before she feels there is more going on than she or the social services are aware of. Although Melody is angry at having to leave her mother, as many children coming into care are, she also worries about her obsessively – far more than is usual. Amanda, Melody's mother, is also angry and takes it out on Cathy at contact, which again is something Cathy has experienced before. Yet there is a lost and vulnerable look about Amanda, and Cathy starts to see why Melody worries about her and feels she needs looking after. When Amanda misses contact, it is assumed she has forgotten, but nothing could have been further from the truth...

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    If You Touch Them They Vanish

      Gouverneur Morris
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A story of singular originality and beauty. “One of the first men in the doubtful dawn of our new national letters.” -The Brooklyn Daily Eagle "Old Martha wondered if the Poor Boy would have a smile for her. He had had so many in the old days, the baby days, the growing-up days, the college days, the "world so new and all" days. There were some which she would always remember. The smile he smiled one Christmas morning, when he put the grand fur coat around her shoulders, and the kiss on her cheek. The smile he smiled that day when they met in front of the photographer's, and he took her in and had their photograph taken together: she sitting and glaring with embarrassment at the camera, he standing, his hand on her shoulder, smiling-down on her.”

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    The Lost Million

      William Le Queux
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“See! It’s—it’s in my kit-bag, over there! The thing—the Thing at which the whole world will stand aghast!” The thin, white-faced, grey-bearded man lying on his back in bed roused himself with difficulty, and with skinny finger pointed at his strong but battered old leather bag lying in the corner of the small hotel bedroom.

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    The Khaki Boys at the Front; or, Shoulder to Shoulder in the Trenches

      Gordon Bates
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Excerpt from The Khaki Boys at the Front: Or Shoulder to Shoulder in the TrenchesWe've lots of time yet, but we'd better be early than late back to camp. We are strangers in a strange land and we've quite a long way to go.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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    Motor Matt's Race; or, The Last Flight of the Comet

      Stanley R. Matthews
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Motor Matt's Race or the Last Flight of the Comet by Stanley R. Matthews. Motor Stories : Thrilling Adventure Motor Fiction no. 4 by Stanley R. Matthews Published 1909 ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT!! MOTOR STORIES A New Idea in the Way of Five-Cent Weeklies. Boys everywhere will be delighted to hear that Street & Smith are now issuing this new five-cent weekly which will be known by the name of MOTOR STORIES. This weekly is entirely different from anything now being published. It details the astonishing adventures of a young mechanic who owned a motor cycle. Is there a boy who has not longed to possess one of these swift little machines that scud about the roads everywhere throughout the United States? Is there a boy, therefore, who will not be intensely interested in the adventures of "Motor Matt," as he is familiarly called by his comrades? Boys, you have never read anything half so exciting, half so humorous and entertaining as the first story listed for publication in this line, called "Motor Matt; or, The King of the Wheel." Its fame is bound to spread like wildfire, causing the biggest demand for the other numbers in this line, that was ever heard of in the history of this class of literature. Here are the titles to be issued during the next few weeks. Do not fail to place an order for them with your newsdealer. No. 1. Motor Matt; or, The King of the Wheel. No. 2. Motor Matt's Daring; or, True to His Friends. No. 3. Motor Matt's "Century" Run; or, The Governor's Courier. No. 4. Motor Matt's Race; or, The Last Flight of the Comet.

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    Tom Strong, Lincoln's Scout

      Percy Keese Fitzhugh
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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

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    Count Bunker

      J. Storer Clouston
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This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.

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