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"Spells and stories, urban legends and immigrant tales: the magic in Isabel Yap's debut collection jumps right off the page, from the joy in her new novella, "A Spell for Foolish Hearts" to the terrifying tension of the urban legend "Have You Heard the One About Anamaria Marquez.""--
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This eighth volume of the year's best science fiction and fantasy features over thirty stories by some of the genre's greatest authors, including John Barnes, Elizabeth Bear, C.C. Finlay, Yoon Ha Lee, Kelly Link, Ian McDonald, Seanan McGuire, Vonda N. McIntyre, Geoff Ryman, Catherynne M. Valente, Genevieve Valentine, and many others. Selecting the best fiction from Analog, Asimov's, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, Meeting Infinity, and other top venues,...
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"A half-remembered children's TV show. A hotel that shouldn't exist. A mysterious ballad. A living flag. A group of girls goes camping. Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author Sarah Pinsker's second collection brings together her touchstones of music and memory, secret subversions and hidden messages"--
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When their father suffers a heart attack, the Bloomfield sisters rush home to Orchard Valley, Oregon. But surprises are waiting for them there!
Valerie
The last thing Valerie expects at a time like this is to fall in love-and with a man like Colby Winston. As a city businesswoman, she wants a different life than the small-town surgeon does, and she feels like his complete opposite. So Valerie can't understand why she's so attracted to him-or why...
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Finding love with grooms from the Lone Star State
Norah
Norah Bloomfield is feeling a bit unneeded these days. Her father is recovering from his heart attack, and her sisters are each busy planning their weddings. But then a cantankerous Texan named Rowdy Cassidy crashes his small plane in Orchard Valley, and into Norah's life. In all Norah's nursing experience she's never encountered a more difficult man. Or a more irresistible one. But Rowdy's...
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Unfaithful Together is a series of connected, steamy, romance, short stories following one couple, as they pursue their sexual desires together. They are intended to be read in order. Volume 15 – "Be gentle with me, boys."Margarette, Olivia's well-heeled, but emotionally high-maintenance mother, has an alter ego. "Lisa" doesn't have many opportunities to have fun, so when Margarette turns her loose at a local watering hole, she's ready to make the...
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The right person could appear anytime, anywhere, in these two stories of finding love and creating family.
Father''s Day
Robin Masterson's little boy wants a dog more than anything in the world. And there just happens to be one right next door! But the friendly black Lab belongs to Cole Camden, the unfriendliest man in the neighborhood. Cole hasn't always been so solitary, so aloof, but life has dealt him some harsh blows. Robin actually understands...
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'Tis the season for cozy stories of falling in love
Here Comes Trouble by Debbie Macomber
After rival columnist Nolan Adams writes an unflattering piece about rookie journalist Maryanne Simpson, she decides to make some big life changes. She needs to show the tough, streetwise Nolan that she deserves his respect. When they end up as neighbors, Maryanne discovers that she can't resist Nolan's gruff charm, and although he doesn't seem to be an appropriate...
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A SorcereR and Swordsman find themselves in a pitched battle for their lives… an aging protector questions his legacy… assassins in the same family try to find a common ground… a young woman finds herself in a strange world, fighting to protect her brother… a pirate captain slowly loses his boat to a mysterious fate… the power of the elements flow through a woman searching for her place in the world…An anthology of short stories by Quicksylver...
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A powerful businessman seeks refuge
...but his secrets can't be hidden.
Before he testifies in an important case, businessman Michael "Mikey" Fiore hides out in Jacobsville, Texas. On a rare night out, he crosses paths with softly beautiful Bernadette, who seems burdened with her own secrets. He hears whispers about a life-threatening condition, her solitary existence. This doesn't stop him from wanting her, which endangers them both. Their bond...
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The best laid plans become happy surprises for two rugged Texas ranchers! Unexpected Mommy Single father Chance Adams will do anything to get back his share of the family ranch—even if it means charming his uncle’s ornery stepdaughter, schoolteacher Jenny Adams. But he isn’t prepared to fall in love… Jenny always dreamed of finding the perfect man, but Chance, with his hellion, if lovable, son and his unbending grudge against her family, doesn’t...
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Dark, irreverent, and truly innovative, the speculative stories in Homesick meditate on the theme of home and our estrangement from it, and what happens when the familiar suddenly shifts into the uncanny. In stories that foreground queer relationships and transgender or nonbinary characters, Cipri delivers the origin story for a superhero team comprised of murdered girls; a housecleaner discovering an impossible ocean in her least-favorite clients'...
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From award-winning authors Charles Johnson and Steven Barnes comes a graphic novel anthology of interconnected Afrofuturistic parables inspired by the teachings of Buddha.
Eight strangers looking for enlightenment from an ancient spiritual teacher are trapped in a cave high in the mountains on their way to his temple. One of his acolytes directs them to each tell a story that the group can learn from as they wait out the horrible snowstorm that rages...
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Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #20 features the best in contemporary and classic mystery fiction, with a great linup of crimes and columns. This is a special All Sherlock Holmes Fiction issue! Here are:
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From Watson's Notebook, by John H. Watson, M. D.
Ask Mrs Hudson, by (Mrs) Martha Hudson
Non Fiction:
Screen of the Crime, by Kim Newman
Sherlock Holmes for Crown and Country, by Dan Andriacco
Fiction:
The Case of the Burnt Song,...
15) A country affair
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"Down-home charm and romance on the ranch.
A Little Bit Country
Stranded on the side of a country road with a broken-down car, Rorie Campbell is grateful when horse rancher Clay Franklin comes to her rescue. Stuck in the quirky small town, Rorie gets to know Clay, and she quickly starts to fall for the gruff, tough cowboy. Can a city girl make it work with a country man? Clay certainly thinks so. But their situation is…complicated. Clay and Rorie...
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Macabre meetings, sinister excursions, and deadly relationships; uncanny encounters; a classic ghost story featuring an American god; a historical murderer revived in a frightening new iteration; innovative Lovecraftian turns; shadowy fairy tales and weird myths; strange children, the unexpected, the supernatural, the surreal, and the all-too real . . . tales of the dark. Such stories have always fascinated us, and modern authors carry on the disquieting...
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In the latest Harlequin Romance by Rebecca Winters, when Dr. Françoise saves the life of a gorgeous stranger, she has no idea who he really is or that he's about to change her life forever!
Chance encounter…
…with a billionaire!
When Dr. Françoise Valmy meets gorgeous ex-army veteran Jean-Louis Causcelle in Nice, she is able-literally-to give him a new lease on life. She's as drawn to him as he is to her, but when Jean-Louis returns to Paris,...
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Every science-fiction story is a voyage of some kind-to a world of a far-off galaxy, to our own world of the distant future or the remote past, to some interior corner of the human soul. In VOYAGERS: Twelve Journeys through Space and Time, Science Fiction Grand Master Robert Silverberg collects twelve of his finest short stories and novellas, all of which carry readers to the next level of imagination and into a new universe of the mind. This new...
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Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince and Other Stories(1888) is an inscrutable, magical fairy tale collection that has filled readers of all ages with joy and wonder. Each story explores profound truths of love, morality, and suffering; yet there is a poignant beauty that shines through each of these remarkable and timeless tales.
The opening story, "The Happy Prince" is set in a town full of suffering, where a little sparrow who had been abandoned by...
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The Eisner-nominated best anthology — and best deal — in comics continues! 128 full-color pages featuring entirely self-contained short stories from the best cartoonists around the globe. Now #8 features new work from E.S. Glenn, Walt Holcomb, Henry McCausland, Zuzu, Theo Elsworth, Veronika Muchitsch, Nick Thorburn, Tara Booth, Sami Alwani, Maggie Umber, and Noah Van Sciver.
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