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Secrets & Lies

Everyone has skeletons in their closets... everyone has secrets... but when the corpse of an elderly recluse is found in her kitchen, the secrets she kept hidden so well, come spilling out & William Phillips, her wealthy son has the very fabric of his life turned upside down. Follow a web of intrigue through Rose Phillip's life to discover who wanted her dead & why the killer is now after William.He searches for his dead sister, Rhiann, whose marriage to the Devil has been arranged by their father as a means of enhancing his job prospects.Accompanied by a three-legged mutant and a spanner, Scherzo makes a perilous descent into Hell, whilst on the surface world plots shift and transubstantiate, past and future conjoin, entities expostulate, characters - living and dead - get stuck on roundabouts."A manic surrealist tapestry of outrageous colours and heady descriptive passages that may well burn holes in your brain. Or make a cat-flap."
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Troubletwisters

Are you a troubletwister? Jaide and Jack Shield's lives are changing in a very, very strange way. The weather is turning against them. Magical disasters occur when they're around. And a mysterious explosion has just destroyed their house...from the inside. Without knowing why, the twins are stolen away to live with Grandma X -- a relative they've never, ever met. At Grandma X's house, things are even stranger. Weather vanes point in the opposite direction of the wind. Doors appear and disappear. Cats talk. Jaide and Jack don't know the reason behind all this strangeness. They don't know that they're troubletwisters, and that they must defend the world against a dark, evil force. The time has come for them to discover the truth--and the powers that come with the truth. Are they ready?
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Lesson One - a short story

In in a chilling "what if" tale, writer S.S. Wilson (screenwriter of such films as Tremors and Short Circuit) calls into question everything we think we know about life - and death. Be forewarned that it's a little darker than my usual happy-go-lucky writing. Might seem controversial to some, too. Let me know what you think!.S.S. Wilson's first novel Tucker's Monster is the Winner of the 2011 Bill Fisher Award for Best First Book - Fiction, presented at the 23rd annual Benjamin Franklin Awards.S.S. Wilson, screenwriter of such films as Tremors and Short Circuit has just finished his first novel Tucker's Monster after 30 years. "It really was 30 years in the making," jokes the author. After being "side-tracked" by success in screenwriting and directing, Wilson returned to a book he began over three decades ago and is now writing his second novel Fraidy Cats.S.S. WILSON has always been a storyteller with a love of fantasy. His high school science project was an animated dinosaur that demonstrated the concept of persistence of vision, the "flaw" in human optics which makes movie watching possible.As a teenager, Wilson made backyard stop-motion animation "epics" with 8mm film and later went on to study film and television at Pennsylvania State University and the USC graduate film program, where he met writing partner Brent Maddock. He and Maddock landed early jobs writing material for animation giants Chuck Jones and Friz Freleng's television specials featuring the Road Runner and Daffy Duck.Wilson also wrote a book on special effects stop-motion animation, PUPPETS AND PEOPLE.
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For You: Poems of Faith, Hope and Love

Steven Clark delivers 52 original poems, including the favorites "Used To Think", "One with God", "Just Another Memory" and "Just One Time (the John Denver Poem)". These poems will make you fall in love all over again as well as renew your faith.Steven Clark delivers 52 original poems, including the favorites "Used To Think", "One with God", "Just Another Memory" and "Just One More Time (the John Denver Poem)". These poems will make you fall in love all over again as well as renew your faith. For You: Poems of Faith, Hope and Love is a collection of poems by Steven Clark. Written with simple clarity, these poems will take you on a journey of nature's wonders plus love and inspiration. Once read, you will want to share these poems with your family and friends. This book of poems was written For You.
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Hallowed Be Thy Name

Hallowed Be Thy Name is the second installment of the epic serial adventure series The Go-Kids from award-winning writer Ryan Schneider.Hallowed Be Thy Name is the second installment of the epic serial adventure series The Go-Kids from award-winning writer Ryan Schneider.July 13, 2047.7:13 a.m.Thousands of heavily-armed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are highjacked via remote control.But on that fateful morning, known simply as The Attack, Parker Perkins survives.Three years pass.Parker struggles to reassemble the pieces of his former life. Little does he know what awaits him.Hallowed Be Thy Name portrays universal themes of growing up, friendship, loss of innocence, and making difficult moral choices, filling this story with fast-paced action, deep characters, and emotional impact.Readers will come to know and love Parker, Sunny, Bubba, Igby, and Colby as their adventure unfolds, for though it is a story about kids, it is much more than just a kids' story.
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The Pain of Others

Letty Dobesh, a gorgeous, degenerate thief, is fresh out of the clink and back to her old tricks—in this case, burglarizing suites at a luxury hotel in Asheville, North Carolina. But when she’s surprised by returning guests on her last room of the day, she’s forced to hide in the closet to avoid getting caught, and inadvertently overhears a hitman being contracted to murder the wife of a wealthy lawyer. Letty is hardly a heroine, but this puts even her threadbare morality to the test. Only in hindsight will she see her choice to intervene for what it is…a dramatic fork in the trajectory of her life, propelling her toward a terrifying shocker of an ending that neither she (or you) ever saw coming. From the author of Desert Places, Abandon, and Serial Uncut comes this 10,000-word thriller novella, which also contains an interview with Blake, excerpts from all four of his novels, and two bonus excerpts.
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Psyche

Would you ever end your life?What if everyone turned their back on you? You're in pain and no one wants to help, like you’re a burden to everyone. Would it still be suicide or would it simply be a release, a way out?The main character in “Psyche” asks himself these very questions. Cory’s a normal guy with a normal life until an event changes everything and everyone begins to turn on him.Meeting women the old fashion way, picking them up at bars, had never been his style, and you can only buy so much at the local supermarket, so he’d tried a dating service. Each time he got a response it was like hitting the Lotto.
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The Dunes Saga

A girl finds her goddess in the Dunes. This is a triumph of the soul.The Dunes bring hope to a young girl's life through the Goddess. She faces her own personal battles but finds strength in the stark face of a goddess who rules the Dunes in a tree overlooking this kingdom. A message of hope.
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Earwig and the Witch

Most orphanages are horrible, but Earwig has a surprising amount of power over everyone at St Morwald’s Home for Children, and loves it there. The last thing she wants is to be adopted by the very strange Bella Yaga, demon-attended Mandrake, and talking black cat Thomas. Earwig wants to learn magic, but will need all her ingenuity and help from a familiar to survive. Expressive big eyes, twisty mouths, on stick figures flesh out the characters, action, and ravens and spiders adorn the margins.
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Soap Opera Uncensored: Issue 6 (UPDATED)

Weekly summary of soap opera's hottest news, stories, humour, gossip, blind items, top stars/stories/couples/characters to watch, snark galore, review, and analysis. Plus: Exclusive DIRTY SOAP and VENICE: THE SERIES coverage! And Daytime Emmy Awards reporting!INSIDE — Exclusive 2012 Daytime Emmy Awards Changes! Anonymous Reels! Guest Star Category! No More Bloc Voting! How All My Children Changed Next Year’s Race! Web Acting To Be Honoured! Lauralee Bell Exclusive: Would Bill Bell Bring Back Y&R’s Victoria Rowell? Plus: Her Father’s Upcoming Bio! The Current Creative State of Y&R! Beer Guzzling! Web Soaps! Story Shocker: DAYS’s Will Spies EJ and Sami’s Grief Sex! Kimberly McCullough out at GH? Which male GH superstar is out, too? B&B On Location Again! Which Major GH Fan Fave Becomes a Serial Killer? Jonathan Jackson Quits! Is Jake Alive on GH? All My Children Cancelled… Again? Was Gary Tomlin headed to Prospect Park? One Life Cancels Fraternity Row! The Great Eric Braeden Hits Toronto! Is Trevor St. John returning to One Life? Dirty Soap’s Farah Fath on Calling Deidre Hall “A Bitch!” Too Far, Too Fary: Mama Bjorlin Introduces Nadia to a New Man! Fearless November Sweeps Preview! GH’s Ingo Rademacher back? Garin Wolf out; David Kreizman in? Writer Kay Alden temporarily out at B&B! More Brandon Beemer: “Nadia’s Beemer Guzzling is always good for me!” Douglas Marland, who? Learn How To Wreck a Show in 12 Steps or Less! Andrew Trischitta: One Life’s Secret Weapon? Y&R’s New Supercouple: Avery and Sharon?! Last week’s Soap Reviews; Next Week’s Preview Cheat Sheet! And every week: Unbelievable Blind Items!
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Rivers of London

Probationary Constable Peter Grant dreams of being a detective in London’s Metropolitan Police. Too bad his superior plans to assign him to the Case Progression Unit, where the biggest threat he’ll face is a paper cut. But Peter’s prospects change in the aftermath of a puzzling murder, when he gains exclusive information from an eyewitness who happens to be a ghost. Peter’s ability to speak with the lingering dead brings him to the attention of Detective Chief Inspector Thomas Nightingale, who investigates crimes involving magic and other manifestations of the uncanny. Now, as a wave of brutal and bizarre murders engulfs the city, Peter is plunged into a world where gods and goddesses mingle with mortals and a long-dead evil is making a comeback on a rising tide of magic.
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Broken: A YA Paranormal Romance Novel (Volume 1 of the Reflections Books)

Sometimes love finds you when you aren't looking for it.The accident that forced Adri and her mother to move to a new high school also cost Adri her dad and sister. Adri just wants to blend in and buy herself time to grieve, but two of the most popular, gorgeous guys in school are about to take an inexplicable interest in her.Broken is a YA Paranormal Romance Novel.Sometimes love finds you when you aren't looking for it.The accident that forced Adri and her mother to move to a new high school also cost Adri her dad and sister. Adri just wants to blend in and buy herself time to grieve, but two of the most popular, gorgeous guys in school are about to take an inexplicable interest in her.Adri will be forced into a world where the players aren't all human. She will be forced to choose between Brandon and Alec, and this time the wrong choice could get her killed.Publisher's Note: Broken is a YA Paranormal Romance book, and is one possible entry point into the books that make up the Reflections Universe. The Reflections Universe is a series of clean books featuring vampires, shape shifters, werewolves and more, which has been written so that it can be safely enjoyed by both teens and adults. Broken is followed by Torn, and is one of several YA books available from Dean.The Reflections Universe: Some stories are too full of teen shifter romance and heart pounding action to fit into just one series!Dean Murray is the successful author of three clean young adult paranormal romance, urban fantasy, and epic fantasy series which collectively have more than 470,000 copies in circulation.
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The Baby - a short story

Ellie Simmons lost the love of her life, her husband Daniel. And now, two years later, baby Daniel is born -- a clone of the man she lost.But human cloning is illegal, and Ellie must be very, very careful. . . .Logan woke up with a big problem.He’s extremely dead.No one from his former life seems able to see or hear him, making his afterlife little more than a miserable nightmare. That is, until the day of his funeral, when the bitterly sarcastic Zoe, a friend from his childhood, starts calling him out at his own wake. Now his only chance at moving on means dealing with his sordid past—and the girl he never really got over.
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Deadline

Shaun Mason is a man without a mission. Not even running the news organization he built with his sister has the same urgency as it used to. Playing with dead things just doesn't seem as fun when you've lost as much as he has. But when a CDC researcher fakes her own death and appears on his doorstep with a ravenous pack of zombies in tow, Shaun has a newfound interest in life. Because she brings news-he may have put down the monster who attacked them, but the conspiracy is far from dead. Now, Shaun hits the road to find what truth can be found at the end of a shotgun.
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Closure, Limited and Other Zombie Stories

A terrifying new collection of short stories from the master of zombie fiction, Max Brooks, bestselling author of World War Z, The Zombie Survival Guide and Recorded Attacks.
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