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1) The Stranger
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The moment Nicolette lays eyes on the mysterious boy in art class, she knows there's something different about him At Nicolette Storm's high school of over two thousand students, everyone has to belong to a group or they are nothing. Nicolette's place is happily in the Madrigals choir, where she and her friends wear beautiful costumes and sing like angels. But at the beginning of the school year, Nicolette is unexpectedly ousted from the group in...
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In The Stranger's Magic, Sir Max once again travels to the enchanted parallel world of Echo, where magic is commonplace and he fits right in. As an investigator of illegal magic with the Secret Investigative Force, Max has made more than a few enemies. Now one "pretty boy" Nennurex Kiexla has set out for revenge against Max in the most insidious of ways-by infiltrating his dreams.
Plunging back into the highly original realm first portrayed in The...
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The international-bestselling Russian fantasy author continues the adventures of Sir Max, the lazy gumshoe of the enchanted city of Echo.
The tales of Sir Max, who was a daydreaming loser before he discovered the parallel world of Echo, have become an international literary sensation. In the second novel of the Labyrinths of Echoes series, Max is still a hardened smoker, glutton, and all-around loafer. But once again, he finds himself travelling...
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Note: This is part one of a three part series. It is approximately 11000 words. We may be done with the past, but the past's not done with us... After being left for dead by the side of a lake, Jo wakes with no memory of who she is or how she arrived there. When she stumbles upon a handsome stranger willing to help, she's immediately suspicious; but, there's something about him that speaks to her heart's desire. When a mysterious group of men begin...
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Not having closure stings worse than goodbye. Something Erika knows all too well.When Brooks, her summer fling from seven years ago, unexpectedly shows up at her home, she's relieved to explain why she up and left town without saying goodbye. Brooks is overjoyed to reconnect with the woman he never stopped loving.As the first blizzard of the season blows in, they find themselves isolated together in Erika's home. And when tensions flare, Erika quickly...
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Dulcit City, Iowa, is about to ignite with the sizzling debut of a new reality TV show that's as daring as it is tantalizingly sexy. Meet Hamilton Peabody III, the visionary senior programming director whose scandalous past in Hollywood got him booted out of town to the heart of the heartland-and the drama is just beginning.Enter Hunk House, Hamilton's audacious brainchild set to increase the ratings for local cable channel KRUQ-and set pulses racing....
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It was Sameera's, a twenty two years young and married girl's strong desire to be the opposite sex and see how everything is to the opposite sex and Praomod, a twenty three years young and married man with a son, also has the same wish as much strongly as hers and it was just co-incidence that they both studied in the same class, same college and knew each other. It was also just co-incidence, that after they settled in their lives, they both met...
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Tracing the life of the author's father, this passionate, vivid memoir follows him through his childhood in the west of England, his successful 25-year career in the Indian Army prior to the country's independence in 1947, and his final years in Devonshire, where he raised a family while the symptoms of Huntington's disease gradually set in.
Born of a family of impoverished Cornish fishermen, he and his six sisters cared for their dying mother after...
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In 1938, at the tender age of eighteen months, Byron Stratford Davis, the author of this memoir, first set foot on British soil. Remarkably, from that moment, his memories crystallized with exceptional clarity, etching themselves permanently in his mind.
His mother, with a German lover back in Hamburg, may or may not have come to England as a German spy. The decision of her true intent is left to the reader's judgment. Raised in Scotland, his mother...
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Three civilians fight to survive China's communist revolution in the suspenseful debut novel from the acclaimed author of The Chinese Bandit China, 1948. As the Red Army marches south from Manchuria, the rest of the country awaits the defeat of the Nationalist regime with a paralyzing mixture of hope and fear. Andrew Girard, an American professor at a Chinese university, believes that the future holds the promise of a fairer, more peaceful China....
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Italian Protestants? Few people seem to have heard of them, but the author's mother's immigrant Italian family was Protestant while his father's were Catholic immigrants from Sicily. Relative Strangers describes the author's search for the religious roots of his parents' families in northern Italy and Sicily. He traces the history of the Waldensians, the Protestant sect which began in Lyon, France in the 12th century, often suffering persecution,...
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In 1936, the Nazi state created a massive military training site near Wildflecken, a tiny community in rural Bavaria. During the war, this base housed an industrial facility that drew forced laborers from all over conquered Europe. At war's end, the base became Europe's largest Displaced Persons camp, housing thousands of Polish refugees and German civilians fleeing Eastern Europe. As the Cold War intensified, the US Army occupied the base, removed...
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