The Rain

      Andrew Klavan
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A dead source draws a newspaperman into a murder investigationMayforth Kendrick III is an unlikely name for a small-time drug dealer. As the grandson of a millionaire and the son of a Broadway mogul, Kendrick was minted for success from birth. But a fondness for controlled substances cut his education short, forcing him to make a living pushing drugs on the theater glitterati with whom he once mingled. New York Star reporter John Wells, who occasionally uses Kendrick as a source, may be his only friend. He is also one of the last to see him alive. He visits Kendrick’s seedy Alphabet City apartment because the young man has pictures to sell showing a Senate candidate involved in unsavory extramarital activities. Never a muckraker, Wells passes on them. The next day Kendrick is murdered and the pictures are gone. Wells smells a scoop, if he can only find the killer.

Mystery & Detective / Thrillers & Crime
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    Heaven Is Paved With Oreos

      Catherine Gilbert Murdock
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Fourteen-year-old Sarah Zorn intends to spend the Wisconsin summer with her “boyfriend” Curtis, waiting for a dead calf named Boris to decompose in time for the science fair. Her plans upend, however, when her fake-boyfriend strategy goes seriously awry just as her hippie Grandma Z invites her on a last-minute Roman holiday. As Sarah explores Italy’s ancient wonders, she can’t stop “boy-liking” Curtis... or puzzling over her grandmother’s odd behavior. Written as Sarah’s journal, this satisfying middle grade novel navigates the murky waters of first love, friendship, and family with heart and good humor.

Young Adult / Romance & Love
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    The Ginger Man

      J. P. Donleavy
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First published in Paris in 1955 and originally banned in America, J. P. Donleavy's first novel is now recognized the world over as a masterpiece and a modern classic of the highest order. Set in Ireland just after World War II, The Ginger Man is J. P. Donleavy's wildly funny, picaresque classic novel of the misadventures of Sebastian Dangerfield, a young American ne'er-do-well studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Dangerfield's appetite for women, liquor, and general roguishness is insatiable--and he satisfies it with endless charm.

History & Fiction / Humor
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    Dreadnaught

      Jack Campbell
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The Alliance woke Captain John "Black Jack" Geary from cryogenic sleep to take command of the fleet in the century-long conflict against the Syndicate Worlds. Now Fleet Admiral Geary's victory has earned him the adoration of the people-and the enmity of politicians convinced that a living hero can be a very inconvenient thing. Geary knows that members of the military high command and the government question his loyalty to the Alliance and fear his staging a coup-so he can't help but wonder if the newly christened First Fleet is being deliberately sent to the far side of space on a suicide mission.

Science Fiction
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    Shades of Earth

      Beth Revis
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The final book in the New York Times bestselling trilogy, perfect for fans of Battlestar Galactica and Prometheus!FUELED BY LIES.RULED BY CHAOS.ALMOST HOME.Amy and Elder have finally left the oppressive walls of the spaceship Godspeed behind. They're ready to start life afresh—to build a home—on Centauri-Earth, the planet that Amy has traveled 25 trillion miles across the universe to experience.But this new Earth isn't the paradise Amy had been hoping for. There are giant pterodactyl-like birds, purple flowers with mind-numbing toxins, and mysterious, unexplained ruins that hold more secrets than their stone walls first let on. The biggest secret of all? Godspeed's former passengers aren't alone on this planet. And if they're going to stay, they'll have to fight.Amy and Elder must race to discover who—or what—else is out there if they are to have any hope of saving their struggling colony and building a future together. They will have to look inward to the very core of what makes them human on this, their most harrowing journey yet. Because if the colony collapses? Then everything they have sacrificed—friends, family, life on Earth—will have been for nothing.

Young Adult / Science Fiction
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    Bite Me: A Love Story

      Christopher Moore
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“Christopher Moore is a very sick man, in the very best sense of the word.”—Carl Hiaasen The undead rise again in Bite Me, the third book in New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore’s wonderfully twisted vampire saga. Joining  his farcical gems Bloodsucking Fiends and You Suck, Moore’s latest in continuing story of young, urban, nosferatu style love, is no Twilight—but rather a tsunami of the irresistible outrageousness that has earned him the appellation, “Stephen King with a whoopee cushion and a double-espresso imagination” from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and inspired Denver’s Rocky Mountain News to declare him, “the 21st century’s best satirist.”

Fantasy / Humor
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    Blood Price

      Tanya Huff
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Vicki Nelson PI, former Toronto homicide cop, witnesses the first of many vicious attacks. She renews her tempestuous relationship with police partner Mike Celluci, who does not get along with another ally. Henry Fitzroy is the illegitimate son of King Henry VIII, a vampire on the side of good. Also TV Blood Ties tie-ins.

Fantasy / Mystery & Detective
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    Wandl the Invader

      Ray Cummings
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Wandl the Invader is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Ray Cummings is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Ray Cummings then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.

Science Fiction
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    Mr Farty Pants

      Nikolaj Vigrim
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Mr Farty Pants is born with a bang, trumpets his way through life and finishes with a even bigger bang!Kassandra is disappointed in love, but is happy enough living the single life. Then on holiday, she meets a strange Englishman named James on a Greek island.

Fantasy
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    The Cyberiad

      Stanisław Lem
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A brilliantly funny collection of stories for the next age, from the celebrated author of Solaris. Ranging from the prophetic to the surreal, these stories demonstrate Stanislaw Lem's vast talent and remarkable ability to blend meaning and magic into a wholly entertaining and captivating work.

Science Fiction / Humor
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    The Secret Wolf (Book One in the Tree Top Wolves Series)

      Stacey Card
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Alysha was just an ordinary girl, until she moveed to Tree Tops. When there she uncovered secrets, ones that she has been waiting all of her life to find answers for.Then there was Nick, tall, dark and handsome. Oh, yeah, and did I mention that he was a werewolf?But someone wanted Alysha dead, and they wouldn't stop until they saw her that way.When Kaman Wantanabe asks Betty and Sam to recover his brother's body from a distant, desert planet, little did our heros suspect the danger, peril and adventure waiting for them! Can Betty and Sam, along with Charlie, the gender-shifting ship's computer, succeed where an old man failed? Can Sam save Betty from the deadly world hidden beneath the dunes? Can Marty, the only carnivorous mammal from planet Xanadu, get all that sticky sap out of his fur?Join our crew on this wild adventure and find out!

Romance & Love
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    Death Without Parole #1

      Christopher Lee Cousino
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Patrick Noel is a prisoner at Cook Penitentiary, facing a life sentence for the murder of his wife and son, a crime he didn't commit. But Patrick is also keeping evil under lock and key in a prison of his own...his body. As Patrick tries to fight the monster within, he will discover that his curse may turn out to be the world's saving grace.Patrick Noel is a prisoner at Cook Penitentiary, facing a life sentence for the murder of his wife and son, a crime he didn't commit. But Patrick is also keeping evil under lock and key in a prison of his own...his body. As Patrick tries to fight the monster within, he will discover that his curse may turn out to be the world's saving grace.Rot in a cell next to Patrick as he faces Death Without Parole in this new horrifying short story from Christopher Lee Cousino, the author of the superhero novel Homeless, the Zombie Hero series, and numerous short stories.

Fantasy / Horror
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    Paradigm Shift

      Akhadya
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Radhika felt nobody had cared for her liking or disliking other than Pratul, whom she had dumped for the very family who never cared for her. She thought deeply about herself, ‘I have to think for everyone; but none thinks about me!’ This negative thought took over her mind and soul slowly but steadily.Her unhappiness towards her married life continued to grow day by day.Radhika returned back to her boring life once again. She felt nobody had cared for her liking or disliking other than Pratul, whom she had dumped for the very family who never cared for her. She thought deeply about herself, ‘I have to think for everyone; but none thinks about me!’ This negative thought took over her mind and soul slowly but steadily.Her unhappiness towards her married life continued to grow day by day.Finally, one day she took a decision to return to Pratul and telephoned him to take her away from her family.

History & Fiction
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    A Bohemian Mess: Sherlock Holmes Mystery

      Dmytro Shynkarenko
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The story is an unique version of Conan Doyle's "A Scandal in Bohemia" created with the help of Dialectizer. You've never read before Sherlock Holmes talking Jive or Doctor Watson talking Redneck. This version will help you to look at "A Scandal in Bohemia" from an unexpected angle and to appreciate it more. No offense to people who talk featured dialects intended...."Th' man who wrote it was presumably fine t'do," ah remarked, indeavo'in' t'imitate mah companion's processes. "Such paper c'd not be bought unner ha'f a crown a packet. It is peekoolyarly strong an' stiff." "Peculiar--dat be de real wo'd," said Holmes. "It be not an English sheet at all. Hold it down t'de light. Man!"...The story is an unique version of Conan Doyle's "A Scandal in Bohemia" created with the help of Dialectizer. We bet you've never read before Sherlock Holmes talking Jive or Doctor Watson talking Redneck. This version will help you to look at "A Scandal in Bohemia" from an unexpected angle and to appreciate it more. No offense to people who talk featured dialects intended.

Mystery & Detective
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    Oh Shit

      Hiranya Borah
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Always there is a funny side of any serious story. Here, I want to tell you some of imaginary stories, not necessarily related with the implementation of the present scheme, Swachh Bharat Mission. The characters described in the stories are fictitious and are not real. If any resemblance of any character is observed, it is mere coincidence only.2nd October, 2019 is the target date for making India open defecation free (ODF). All the stakeholders are taking all necessary steps to achieve this particular goal without any dilution. I also whole heartedly involved myself in this noble cause and as a part of my duties, I have to go to different places to know about the ground reality of the progress in the direction of declaring entire country ODF. Without saying, it is the greatest success story of modern India. But always there is a funny side of any serious story. Here I want to tell you some of imaginary stories, not necessarily related with the implementation of the present scheme. The characters described in the stories are fictitious and are not real. If any resemblance of any character is observed, it is mere coincidence only.

Humor
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    Episode Two: Final Flight Of The Phaseship Lelantos

      Cory Mccoy
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Shit is going down on the phaseship Lelantos as the interdimensional bountyhunter Vel finds his Mark and steps away from his calm. Someone will suffer greatly.Vaslus is a doomed world orbiting an unstable star. It could be weeks or it could be centuries away but their world will eventually succumb to its unpredictable solar prominences. To preserve their civilisation the Vaslusians are embarking on the greatest colonisation scheme ever imagined. In the first of this short story series follow Jump Master Tanlen and his new apprentice Relv as they embark on a jump to bring colonists to a new world only to find more than anyone had bargained for waiting at the other end.

Fantasy / Science Fiction
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    Tell Him

      Neva Teal
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Bonny is visited by an angel, Angel Cole, who forces her to declare her "eternal and undying love" for a boy she likes, Chuck.Unable to stop this angelic creature from pestering her, she gives up and declares her love for him, in the cafeteria, in front of everyone.Bonny is visited by an angel, Angel Cole, who forces her to declare her "eternal and undying love" for a boy she likes, Chuck.Unable to stop this angelic creature from pestering her, she gives up and declares her love for him, in the cafeteria, in front of everyone.However, one time is not enough for Angel Cole. He demands Bonny say it again. And again. This doesn't help the way she is viewed in school. One friend, though, Sam, stands by her.(Short story. About 4240 words.)

Fantasy
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    A Fortnight From God (A Dialogue with Dom)

      Richie Cooley
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This isn't a dialogue with Justin Martyr, but rather with Dom, a very normal Christian with a few hidden talents. When a philandering acquaintance runs into him on the way to catch a holiday flight, an awkward conversation ensues -- one that both men will be unlikely to forget anytime soon. This is a fictional short story written from a fundament Christian perspective. Come on! Give it a try!As a Prequel to the Aislyn's War book series, this is a short chapter to the character Jakin's first sight of Aislyn when her story starts and what he is thinking. With Jakin's unspoken love for Aislyn and his desperate need to keep her safe all without being allowed to be near her, Jakin remembers back to one of his best and worst days of his life. Jakin knows Rangdrone has nothing but villainous intentions towards Aislyn and feels he must warn her best friend before the situation is gets worse.

History & Fiction
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