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1) Escape
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When Michael Rorke, a talented yet self-absorbed author, meets his untimely end in an accident, he awakens as a wanderer – a spirit caught between worlds, unsure of what afterlife, be it blissful or grim, lies ahead. In this liminal state, he is unable to return to the living and faces an uncertain path forward.
This twilight world is fraught with dangers, teeming with predators that prey on spirits like him. Michael's urgent quest for resolution...
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Escape to Ireland with these 3 clean & wholesome romances. A Match Made in Ireland Have you ever wanted to press the escape button on your life? Ruth Davenport writes about romance and happily ever after. But not from experience. After a heart-breaking rejection, she decides a change of scenery is needed. On a whim, she thinks Ireland is the place to go to write her next book. But when she arrives, everything that can go wrong, does. In the middle...
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Can you escape the sinking Titanic? Find out in this exhilarating adventure puzzle book as you make your way up the decks, solving problems and meeting a cast of characters on your journey to survival!
As the book begins you are a young traveler hiding on the lowest deck of the Titanic. You stowed away on the ship out of a desire for adventure, and a fascination with its construction, its awe and glamour.
As soon as you become aware that it's sinking...
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In early 2022, life in the port city of Mariupol, Ukraine was safe and predictable for Adoriana Marik. The 31-year-old tattoo artist loved walking her dog by the seaside and meeting friends at cafes and public gardens. But all that changed on February 24, 2022, when Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his "special military operation." Adoriana was forced to hide in a filthy network of basements and underground tunnels. For more than a month,...
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Get ready for an exhilarating touchdown in ""Escape the End Zone,"" is a simple, decodable phonics-based chapter book in the ""Story Mode"" series for beginning readers in grades 2-6!
When young Jack sits down to play a new football game, he finds himself living the dream as the quarterback of the team after clicking on ""Story Mode."" Suddenly, Jack's in the middle of a roaring stadium, not in his living room, leading his team in a high-stakes game....
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In search of authentic Christianity, author Jim Hohnberger and his family found the restorative power of God's love. As a result, the Hohnbergers have helped others remove life's draining distractions, and countless lives have been transformed. In Escape to God, readers will be challenged and inspired to put aside the card-punching religion of "Churchianity" and experience the indescribable peace and empowerment God intends for His people.
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Illegal migrants who evade detection, creators of value in insecure and precarious working conditions and those who refuse the constraints of sexual and biomedical classifications: these are the people who manage to subvert power and to craft unexpected sociabilities and experiences. Escape Routes shows how people can escape control and create social change by becoming imperceptible to the political system of Global North Atlantic societies.
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Carrie Hayes has a job she enjoys and a perfectly nice boyfriend. She's sorted. Isn't she? But Carrie's life wasn't always like this. As a young, wild drama student, she married fellow actor, Richard Maddox, after a whirlwind romance. Life back then was full of possibilities, but when Hollywood beckoned Richard, Carrie was left behind. Now an A-list superstar, Richard's life couldn't be moredifferent to Carrie's, so when their paths cross in glamorous...
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On October 14, 1943, six hundred Jews imprisoned in Sobibor, a secret Nazi death camp in eastern Poland, revolted. They killed a dozen SS officers and guards, trampled the barbed wire fences, and raced across an open field filled with anti-tank mines. Against all odds, more than three hundred made it safely into the woods. Fifty of those men and women managed to survive the rest of the war. In this edition of Escape from Sobibor, fully updated...
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Escape Perennial City is a metaphysical science fiction novel about a self-sufficient city in a frozen Wasteland, or so its citizens were led to believe.Charley Finch's first story arc details his struggles convincing his peers otherwise, leading to his escape from the walls boxing the city in.For fans who are inspired by superhero comics, manga, anime and movies, Escape Perennial City embodies larger-than-life ideas like the concepts of liberation,...
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Kim Stanley Robinson's Escape From Kathmandu is a light-hearted fantasy tribute to the world of extreme mountain climbing follows the adventures of two American expatriates living in Nepal.
Living in the city of Kathmandu in the Kingdom of Nepal are dozens of American and British expatriates who are in love with the Himalayas. George Fergusson is one of them--he works as a trek guide for "Take You Higher, Ltd.", leading groups of tourists into the...
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Two of the world's top assassins-fraternal twins separated from birth, but inevitably drawn to the same kind of women-find themselves married to a pair of sorceresses. When their firm schedules the hit men for cancellation, the brothers' one escape is through the women they love into a realm of magic, dragons, and warlocks, which will require both the assassins' and the sorceresses' skills to survive.
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It was the evening of August 31st 1939. The New Germany, the third Reich, led by chancellor Adolph Hitler, has invade Poland in a surprise attack involving 52 divisions of over 1,800,000 soldiers on three fronts, employing vastly superior mobility and air power. Germany was able to stage a complete
victory over Poland. At the same time, the Spanish civil war had ended with the dictator, Generalissimo Francisco Franco, assuming the position of president....
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On 6 November 1942 70 captured Red Army soldiers staged an extraordinary mass escape from Auschwitz. Among these men was prisoner number 1418 Andrey Pogozhev. He survived, and this is his story. Pogozhev was caught by the Germans in 1941 and was sent to Auschwitz. The fact that Pogozhev survived the appalling conditions in the camp is remarkable in itself. That he should also have taken part in one of the few successful escapes makes his gripping...
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She witnessed a murder and the killer knows it. He needs to get home in time for his brother's wedding, or the ceremony will be ruined. A chance encounter could be the solution they both need.An airport strike strands Ed Stokes twelve hundred kilometres from home with the rings for his brother's wedding. He snags the last available hire car, but it's a twenty-year-old bomb that might not make the distance.Tess Lim is on the run, but her one hope of...
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Life is better with tea and scones...Claire Mansfield is the host of the popular reality TV show Time For Tea and possibly the nicest person on British television – until a secret from her past ignites a media storm. Someone, it appears, wants to see her career destroyed.Seeking shelter, Claire runs to Brookford, the Cotswolds village she left behind nearly twenty years ago. Also back in town is Owen Gallagher, the man who broke her teenage heart...
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An extended vacation to Imperial space's hottest sunny destination is just what Zoey Connor needs to get over her divorce. But the universe has other plans in store for her when her shuttle breaks down before she can so much as sip her first cocktail on a pink sand beach. And the rebel faction who responds to her distress hail has no intention of escorting her to that beach. Thrown in a cell with kidnapped Imperial diplomat, Brandon Gray for company,...
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"Escape the Rat Race: Breaking Free from the 9 to 5 Grind is a transformative guide that navigates the reader through practical strategies and mindset shifts, empowering them to break free from the conventional work routine. This book explores alternative paths to financial independence, unconventional career choices, and the pursuit of a fulfilling life beyond the confines of the traditional 9 to 5 job. Packed with actionable insights and real-life...
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A woman wanting freedom. A man determined to keep his family safe and secure. A marriage doomed before it's begun… "A shepherd's hut, twenty-four hours, a stranger..." It's not the perfect start to Gemma Winters' new life--another man is the last thing she needs after the suffocating control of her ex. But this man proves hard to resist! Callum Mackenzie blames himself for his wife's death-he should have taken better care of her. So, when a one-night...
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Nathan Palmer and Jeff Morgan happen across an ambush too late to help the victims, but a dying man gives them a gun, a key and a cryptic message about 10,000 dollars being available in Fort Benton in five days' time. Now Nathan and Jeff set about getting their hands on the money. However, Fort Benton is the private empire of Mayor Decker and his ruthless form of justice. Before the day is out the pair are beaten up and thrown in jail. In Decker's...
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