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Flush with the proceeds from the 'Israeli Caper' Prentice takes up with Caroline Maxwell the daughter of Lord Stigwell of Bashwell Higham. She is working as a Financial Advisor at Spooner, Sedgewick & Pell a City branch of Standish Holdings Plc., her father's Business Empire - a relic of the Victorian Era. Prentice is looking for advice on where to invest his new found riches from the 'Israeli Caper'. But it all comes apart at the seams when Caroline...
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His wife wants to be Queen of Mackinac Island, Canada is conspiring against him, Russia is invading, and North Korea is looking to buy real estate for all the wrong reasons: where does Pete even begin?
After finding a 200-year old treaty, the residents of Mackinac Island discover that they're going to be ejected from the union unless they reverse the process in two weeks. Except Congress has other priorities-hearings to hold, speeches to spew,...
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Their borders secure once more, Hannibal II returns in triumph to his home city. As the soldiers of the army are released back into civilian life it is now trade that dominates the agenda.It is 152 AD, and Pax Carthaga has returned. Will Carthage prosper in peace?
4) Great Wars
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War comes for us all. In this anthology, nine talented writers tell stories about wars from across the wide swathe of human history, changing one key element to alter the war itself. Great Wars explores the fervor, despair, and tragedy that define the human experience during wartime. Featuring stories by: Eric AvedissianShaliz BazldjooM.J. FalkeStephen HowardE.L. LauretanoMark MellonCraig PattersonBen H. RomeVeronica S.
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In a place where loyalty can become a double-edge sword, Kassaya learns that the art of forming alliances is the true currency of survival. As she uncovers the secrets the Palace guards behind its magnificent facade, she thrusts both herself and her allies into even more danger. With a growing attraction to a man who is strictly forbidden to her, Kassaya finds herself at a crossroads of power and passion. There's only one way out and that will take...
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Luego de una separación, Martín, decide crear a Lina, una mujer mental que lo acompañará para dar vida a un espacio que su matrimonio con Geraldine no ha podido satisfacer. La mujer mental ayuda a Martín a reconciliarse con su esposa y a la vez a ser más sensible y evitar la cotidianeidad a la que él se rebela secretamente en el mundo donde vive. ¿Podrá Martín tener a Lina siempre para llenar ese vacío existencial?, ¿es vital en su...
8) Ridgeway
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When Jaclyn Sinclair researches the Fenian Invasion of 1866, a little known incident in US and Canadian history, strange things start happening, showing her tantalizing glimpses of the past. The incidents grow in intensity until she is flung back in time to the day the invasion began. Taken prisoner, she is questioned by Sean O'Dell, one of the invading Fenians. Now she's stuck in 1866, in the middle of a historical event she knows far too much about,...
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Woman seeks man in nightmare world...
But, for Jill Hately, getting one isn't so easy. She has almost everything else a beautiful young woman could want: an apartment overlooking the river, a cottage in the country, a trabbie, the most popular car of the time, and an MX222, the latest sex robot. And yet she feels strangely un-fulfilled. When she happens upon an old journal dating from 2017, a diary that belonged to one of her ancestors, an illegal...
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The Future Present: Part IIt is now life or death for Malcolm, Mary, and John as they face near-impossible odds. They are not just up against Deacon Shaedith, who has all but seized complete control over the United States, but also his army. He is further aided by a powerful dark hybrid spirit known as Black Cloud. All that stands in Shaedith's way is Malcolm (an American with PTSD), Mary (a Canadian with anger issues), and John (a young ATF student...
11) Caelium
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In a race against time, Edmund Asher, Earl of Wyverstone and spymaster extraordinaire, has only one choice - to win.With one month left before the Engineers World Gathering and a powerful enemy on the loose, the odds are not favouring the Earl of Wyverstone. However, an unexpected request for help from the Engineering School in Paris could be the breakthrough he has hoped for - or The Cerulean Lady's misfortune.The return of an old acquaintance bent...
12) Adolf Fittler
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My dad, John Fittler was a racist as was his father before him. Dad always said, to anyone who would listen, that if he had been born in Alabama or Mississippi in the USA, he would have been in the Klu Klux Klan, burning crosses and lynching niggers. Unfortunately for him, he was born in Middlesbrough in the county of Yorkshire in England. I started my life as a racist; I had little choice, as growing up that was all that my father talked about, every...
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Spinster Librarian Piety Plunkett is happy alone with her books, until her sister Polly transforms her with a bras octopus beautifying machine. With her new look, the librarian catches the lusty attentions of London's most notorious rogue. Blake Blackmore enjoys the favors of beautiful women from the brothels of London to high society's most fashionable debutantes but only the spinster librarian consumes his mind night and day. Piety insists she will...
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What goes on in Classroom 36? The twelve girls in that classroom have no teachers, sleep all day, apart from lunchtime, in beds provided for them in a completely blacked-out room, yet they always get the top marks in the school. They live in a world where only they can dream. The rest of humanity cannot form any pictures in their minds, and have no internal monologue. Average humans have become mind blind and mind deaf. They rest of the school hate...
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Dive Deep into The Man Who Found Infinity, where humanity's future hangs in the balance.Imagine a hidden civilization beneath the waves, centuries ahead in technology yet teetering on the brink of civil war. This is Atlanteas, a society born from the ruins of Atlantis, where fusion powers their lives, robots serve them, AIs perform the work of hundreds, and spacecraft pierce the veil of the unknown.But utopia breeds conflict. A powerful Cabal guards...
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Introducing Viola Stewart - a widowed optician with a penchant for detectiving - who stumbles upon a secret society of Men in Grey.Three short tales with a stempunk-ish twist...Who is taking the children? And what is the connection between Viola's missing patients, the photographer, and The Society?... and a dark Victorian mysterySomeone is stalking the women of London. An unexpected encounter puts Viola in grave danger. What if Jack the Ripper was...
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Viola Stewart returns for a third set of adventures. Viola needs a holiday.But even at the beach, or partying on the Grand Tour of Europe, there are things afoot. The Gadgeteers are lobbying for merchant rights in the Empire. The Men in Grey are keen to stretch their influence beyond British shores.And Viola is alone.Her past has returned to haunt her? Is there anyone she can trust?This is the final book in 'The Adventures of Viola Stewart' Victorian...
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Viola Stewart is detectiving again. The Men in Grey return with plans for her. Will the lure of technology seduce Viola or will Henry lose her forever?With her friend Doctor Henry Collins at Viola's side, she runs foul of mummies, curses, and murder. But this time the threat of Bedlam looms?Three short tales, and a dark Victorian mystery with a steampunk-ish twist.
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