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Dreams of Darkness [Everdark Wars Book 1] [MultiFormat]
by Elizabeth K. Burton
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Randrik alt Harbinnen liked life on the edge. Working for his aunt, however noble her intentions wasn't part of his plan. On the other hand, keeping the authorities from treating the innocent Drevnya Perian like they owned her body and soul was something he could really enjoy--until he found out the hourglass on his world was running down and somebody had picked him and his damsel in distress to save it whether they wanted to or not. Wanted by law and outlaw alike, Randrik has no choice but to f... more info>> (Published: 2002)
Words: 102138 - Reading Time: 291-408 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy/Romance
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Dudley's Fusiliers [MultiFormat]
by Harold R. Thompson
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Empire and Honor Book 1 When William Dudley enlists as a private in the Royal Hampshire Fusiliers, he discovers that life in the army of Queen Victoria is not the romantic adventure he had expected. Transported to the Crimean Peninsula, his dreams of glory are confronted by the harsh reality of war and death. Promoted to sergeant on the battlefield barely more than a year after his enlistment, Dudley must learn to command and inspire the soldiers he is called on to lead, and do so in the face of... more info>> (Published: 2010)
Words: 77732 - Reading Time: 222-310 min.
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Evergreen [MultiFormat]
by Bruce Golden
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The planet Evergreen is ripe for exploitation, and corporate Earth is only to happy to harvest the lush timber and mining resources to provide luxury goods for a world whose own resources were long ago eradicated. Like the frontier towns of early America, Evergreen draws the misfits, the outcasts, the unwanted of Earth, who exist as little more than slaves to pay off the huge costs of their trip to this magnificent wilderness. But others have come as well--a priest obsessed with finding God, an ... more info>> (Published: 2009)
Words: 96316 - Reading Time: 275-385 min.
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Eyes in the Alley [MultiFormat]
by Vallie Fletcher Taylor
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To most people, the Great Depression brings to mind shantytowns and fields buried in dust, breadlines and shuttered banks. For young Vallie Fletcher, it was a time when she startled her San Antonio neighbors by jumping off garage rooftops, convinced she can soar into the air. After all, that's what she did during a near-death experience at age two. It was a time when she looked into the face of a starving child, a face that would haunt her throughout her childhood. Segregation rules that did not... more info>> (Published: 2009)
Words: 109960 - Reading Time: 314-439 min.
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Footprints in the Snow: True Stories of Haunted Russia [MultiFormat]
by J. L. Choron
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Welcome to Russia ... the most haunted nation on earth. They are the damned, the forgotten--those who cry out to let us know they lived. They are all ages and sexes. They remain earthbound for many reasons--duty, devotion, a sense of responsibility, but most of all for the simplest and most compelling reason of all: love. Come explore the vast land that is Russia, from the metropolitan streets of Moscow to the windswept steppes and farflung plains of Siberia. Discover the strange tales of those ... more info>> (Published: 2007)
Words: 60247 - Reading Time: 172-240 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy/General Nonfiction
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Garlic Kisses: Human Struggles with Garlic Connections [MultiFormat]
by Chester Aaron
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Most people consider garlic a deterrent to social interaction, but for award-winning author and internationally renowned garlic expert Chester Aaron garlic has provided unique experiences that offer penetrating insights on life, love and the joys of good food and better friends. In these twelve stories--part memoir, part philosophy, part cookbook, all delight--he offers this gift: memories of a life of laughter and tears, seasoned with garlic and tempered with hope. (Published: 2004)
Words: 67404 - Reading Time: 192-269 min.
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Ghost of a Chance [MultiFormat]
by Linda Andrews
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Brighid Garvey wasted half her life earning fortunes for others. Her daughter's birth changed her priorities. Aided by her grandmother's ghost, Brighid steals the night's winnings and slips into the slums of New York. She hides among the destitute until a midnight rescue provides an opportunity to escape. Everett Grey needs a wet nurse for his infant daughter. Brighid needs the illusion of family. As the train races west, her heart yearns to make fantasy reality. Will love triumph over distrust ... more info>> (Published: 2003) PRISM Award Finalist
Words: 93652 - Reading Time: 267-374 min.
Category: Romance/Fantasy
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Gideon [MultiFormat]
by Chester Aaron
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"The important thing, Gideon, is to survive. In any way at any cost, survive. By surviving you can not only fight back, you can carry the story of what is happening in this ghetto. You are of no use to our people dead." The words of his father ring in Gideon's ears. They haunt him everywhere: on the Nazi-patrolled streets of the Warsaw Ghetto where he and his family are trapped; on the Aryan side, "cleansed of Jews," where he and a ruthless gang of smugglers form an uneasy alliance; and finally ... more info>> (Published: 2009)
Words: 34488 - Reading Time: 98-137 min.
Category: Young Adult/Historical Fiction
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Gillian [MultiFormat]
by Linda Andrews
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Gillian Grey knows all about men and their desire for money. Aidan Baird is just a rougher version of all her other suitors--a man willing to put up with her dubious ancestry for a share of her money. Aidan's dream of obtaining a ranch requires a down payment in gold--gold he's willing to earn escorting his boss's daughter around the desert on a "botanical expedition." But Gilly isn't looking for flowers. She's hot on the trail of Jack the Ripper. As the body count mounts, Aidan may have to sacr... more info>> (Published: 2010)
Words: 86680 - Reading Time: 247-346 min.
Category: Romance/Fantasy
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Godsdoom [MultiFormat]
by Nick Perumov
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In the world of Hjorvard, a Mage bent on revenge trains an apprentice in the ways of magic and battle, turning Hagen into the perfect weapon in his plan to challenge those who sentenced him to a millenium of exile. To further aid him, he rescues from dire punishment the rebellious Mage Rakoth, but a spell Rakoth casts in despair when doom seems inevitable unleashes an unstoppable evil just when Hedin's battle with the Mages of his Generation and the Young Gods begins. (Published: 2007)
Words: 230747 - Reading Time: 659-922 min.
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Gray Zone Wanderers: The Haunted Places of Norway [MultiFormat]
by Cherri Dohlen
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In Norway, a country of pragmatic denizens, it was trolls in previous centuries that sent shivers racing up and down splendid Nordic spines. Happily, capricious trolls have jumped from the pages of folk tales onto the stage, been cast in musical reviews, and finally come to rest in souvenir shops where they feel quite at home. This means that ghosts and apparitions have finally come into their own. And in this ancient land, with its wild, Viking past, there are ghosts aplenty. According to Sherl... more info>> (Published: 2006)
Words: 64723 - Reading Time: 184-258 min.
Category: General Nonfiction/Dark Fantasy
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Hearts of the Morning Calm [MultiFormat]
by Galen Kindley
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Since 2333 BC, long before the Western world was new, antiquity's name for Korea was Chosun?Land of the Morning Calm. In the fall of 1978, a small traditional jewelry shop in modern steel-and-glass Seoul, Korea, becomes Destiny's playground. Fate capriciously induces an American military officer to browse the store and, in so doing, meet an intriguing and lovely Asian woman. Foolishly, but helplessly, Jason and Young fall in love. Their chance encounter and reluctant commitment initiates a tang... more info>> (Published: 2010)
Words: 95081 - Reading Time: 271-380 min.
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Heavyweight Armagedddon!: The Tyson-Lewis Heavyweight Battle [MultiFormat]
by Scoop Malinowski
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Eighteen years after they first boxed together as teens, noted trainer Cus D'Amato's prophecy came true--Mike Tyson and Lennox Lewis waged fistic war in Memphis in 2002 in a colossal $110 million showdown for the most prestigious title in all of sport. This heavyweight championship event arrested the attention of the world for all the wrong and right reasons. Dressed in black, Mike Tyson, the infamously violent wrecking machine, faced the dignified and gentlemanly pugilist specialist Lennox Lewi... more info>> (Published: 2008)
Words: 57307 - Reading Time: 163-229 min.
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His Name Is John [An Elliott Smith Mystery] [MultiFormat]
by Dorien Grey
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Elliott Smith never considered himself to be anything special, if you didn't count having wealthy parents, whom he largely ignores. His profession is buying, restoring and reselling small apartment buildings around Chicago. Gay and contentedly single at 38, he has, in addition to his globetrotting parents, a devoted sister, a police detective brother-in-law, two nieces and a nephew. Everything in his life is going along perfectly fine until he wakes in the hospital after being hit by a car aware... more info>> (Published: 2008)
Words: 92142 - Reading Time: 263-368 min.
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Ice and Fire [MultiFormat]
by M. V. Mabery
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Tarralee Roessel likes living in the mountains with only her wolfdogs for company. The last thing she needs is some Hollywood hotshot showing up to turn her life inside out. She certainly isn't prepared to fall in love with him. She doesn't even like him all that much, despite the chemistry between them. Thanks to incomplete information provided by her brothers, award-winning director Tyrone Shields is expecting a man when he comes looking for the celebrated animal handler Terry Lee Roessel. Wha... more info>> (Published: 2009)
Words: 82103 - Reading Time: 234-328 min.
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Improbable Solution [MultiFormat]
by Judith B. Glad
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Welcome to Whiterock, Oregon, where peculiar happenings are taken for granted. Whiterock is where Sally Carruthers is stuck, nursing a dying father. She used to have a career and a bright future. Now all she has is an old house and a mending and alterations business that barely brings in pocket change. Whiterock is where Gus Loring seeks forgetfulness. To find it, he'd have to do the impossible and forgive himself. Once he was a successful engineer, on the fast track to fame and fortune. Now he ... more info>> (Published: 2006)
Words: 77269 - Reading Time: 220-309 min.
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Just One [MultiFormat]
by Esther Gerstenfeld Erman
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Based on the lives of the author's grandmother, mother, and herself: From a village in Poland to the streets of America.... From the ashes of a family destroyed to the resurgence of life.... After a life filled with both great heights of happiness and bitter depths of tragedy, Estera Wolinsky perishes in a gas chamber at Treblinka. Of her many loved ones, only one daughter survives. Estera's soul cries out in pain and loss. But then her spirit, summoned back to Earth by her granddaughter's longi... more info>> (Published: 2003)
Words: 99190 - Reading Time: 283-396 min.
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Kingdom of Dreams and Shadows [MultiFormat]
by David Lynn Anderson
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Father Sean McCauley has a dilemma -- he loves his work as a Roman Catholic priest, but part of him yearns for a wife and family like his sister Kate's. Torn between his calling and his heart's desire, he willingly accepts an assignment to investigate a charismatic evangelist named Joseph, hoping to find an answer long the way. Who is the handsome, enigmatic man whose message is so powerful people flock to him by the thousands, leaving home and work to live in his self-sustaining communities all... more info>> (Published: 2010)
Words: 108651 - Reading Time: 310-434 min.
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Langley's Choice [MultiFormat]
by Kate Dolan
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It's 1713, and Caroline Carter yearns for a taste of adventure. Tired of the secluded life on her father's tobacco plantation--less than thrilled with her engagement to the diffident, awkward Josiah Throckmorton--Caroline decides to masquerade as a boy and sneak into tavern displaying a sailor's treasures from ancient Greece. But the adventure proves to be more than she bargained for when Caroline awakens the next day as a prisoner aboard the Osprey, a privateer headed south to capture pirates. ... more info>> (Published: 2003)
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Memory's Desire [MultiFormat]
by M. V. Mabery
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A chance collision on the steps of Harvard brings unexpected passion to Sheena Lassiter and Travis O'Keefe. Sheena makes plans to join Travis in Arizona, but an unexpected accident deprives her of her memory and engulfs her in a maelstrom of confusion ... and murder. (Published: 2007)
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Meter Destiny [MultiFormat]
by M. D. Benoit
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A Jack Meter Case File Having saved the universe twice in less than a year, Jack Meter is looking forward to moving into his new downtown apartment and settling back into routine. Instead, he is hurled into his weirdest case yet: one of the Three Fates from Greek mythology has been kidnapped. Although the claim stretches his credulity to the breaking point, he soon must wade through a series of riddles and lies that threaten the life of his closest friends. Along the way, despite his attempts at... more info>> (Published: 2008)
Words: 89385 - Reading Time: 255-357 min.
Category: Science Fiction/Mystery/Crime
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Meter Made [Jack Meter Case Files Series Book 2] [MultiFormat]
by M. D. Benoit
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Jack Meter's new client has a serious problem--one of his buildings has disappeared into thin air and he wants Jack to bring it back. What Jack discovers is that when he saved the world by destroying his beloved Annie's clone he damaged the universe, and someone is taking advantage of it. The trouble is, they're making things worse--and one of them is his exact double. Before he's done, Jack is going to have the fate of all creation in his hands--again. (Published: 2007)
Words: 73013 - Reading Time: 208-292 min.
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Milky Way Marmalade [MultiFormat]
by Mike DiCerto
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What Douglas Adams did for the genre in the 20th Century, Mike DiCerto does for it in the 21st (and then some!) He blends his unlimited absurdist imagination, a cynical political sensibility with a dash of optimistic mystical thrill seeking, with a lump of orange gelatin! The result? A riotous, raunchy ruckus with a rock & roll heart. Milky Way Marmalade is proof that no matter how sick and evil things may become you can always count on a good guitar solo to save the day! (Published: 2003) Dream Realm Award Winner, EPIC eBook Award Finalist
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Murder by Metaphor [MultiFormat]
by Chester Aaron
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Professor Forest Butler is shocked to learn Farleigh O'Brien is dead. O'Brien, an award-winning, nationally renowned poet, was the star of the English Department at St. Catherine's University and seemed the last person to kill himself. As it turns out, he didn't--he was murdered. Forest decides his late colleague's case is the perfect basis for a mystery novel. He doesn't understand why his beloved wife Emerald is so upset over O'Brien's death, but the excitement of his new fiction project distr... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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Murder in Marshall's Bayou [MultiFormat]
by S. H. Baker
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Dassas Cormier returns to Marshall's Bayou, his hometown in southwest Louisiana, in the spring of 1924 to find that his old friend, Red Doucet, has been murdered. Dass's short career in law enforcement makes him the most likely person to solve the mystery surrounding Red's death. Grace, the only woman Dass has ever loved, is also back in Marshall's Bayou, and she wants Dass to look for her missing husband. He reluctantly agrees, and is surprised when his search leads to another murder. Are the t... more info>> (Published: 2003)
Words: 46347 - Reading Time: 132-185 min.
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