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Lorali Johnson needs a job fast. After looking for days, she stumbles upon a small office that looks like they are in need of a secretary. Once hired, she quickly finds out that the two men she works for are actually two of the wealthiest businessmen, in Silicon Valley. They run a tech company that is worth billions.
Jason and Gerald have been friends since grade school and started their business right out of college. They are self-made and don't...
11163) I'm Virtually Yours
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Need a virtual PA? Then Polly Jones is your girl!
Polly Jones is taken aback when a new client asks her to investigate the Robertson family business in Devon, after all, a 'virtual assistant' doesn't usually leave their home office! But she needs the work - and less proximity to an endless supply of tea and biscuits can only be a good thing right? So she sets off, with energetic puppy Rosie close by her side.
Polly's new job isn't quite in her comfort...
11164) To Dust
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The stinking, rotting Maliche devour the world, one city at a time, taking death away from humanity and replacing it with a shambling, eternal half-life. Imber holds the box, a magic box, that may be the key to the Maliche's destruction.If only she knew how to use it. A post-apocalyptic zombie story about the real value of death-and life. 4100 words / post-apocalyptic fantasy
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Qui, de Rollon ou Lennart, viendra à bout du Roi des Nains et rapportera l'Anneau?
L'Histoire telle qu'on la connaît n'est pas toujours celle qu'on croit. Les faits dévoilés ici seront jugés comme dérangeants par les pieux, ou seront bien accueillis par les hérétiques. Dans quel camp vous situez-vous?
Rollon et Lennart sont deux braves guerriers que tout oppose, entre autres l'amour de la fille du Jarl, qu'ils se disputent lors d'un combat...
11166) The Charleston
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For fans of reality dance shows, this series is strictly irresistible! Into the last stage of 'Who Dares Dances' blasts Meredith Denning, a tour de force! She's a voluptuous, beautiful Oxford grad looking for a direction in life. Merry is partnered with professional dancer Daniel, who is still nurturing feelings for a newly engaged Julia. Though it's not long before these two take their incredible chemistry from ballroom... to bedroom! With Daniel...
11167) Heavy Planet
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Discover MESKLIN - Gravity: 3g at the equator, 700g at the poles!
Hal Clement is a Grand Master of SF, and the one most associated with the subgenre of hard SF. From his classic stories in Astounding in the 1940s through his novels of the 1950s and on to the recent Half Life, he has made a lasting impression on SF readers, and on writers, too. For many of them, Clement's work is the model of how to write hard SF, and this book contains the reasons...
11168) Beyond the Farthest Suns
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7 remarkable stories, newly revised for this collection, showcase the award-winning talents of one of the 21st century's finest writers of speculative fiction Whether penning science fiction (Moving Mars, Queen of Angels, War Dogs), alternate history (the Mongoliad series with Neal Stephenson), or fantasy (Sleepside, The Infinity Concerto), Greg Bear tells stories that engage the reader's intellect while gripping the imagination. His short fiction...
11169) Nadine's Sunflower
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From the #1 Amazon bestselling author of The Collective a Soulful Mind, comes a striking novella that delves into the complexities and reality of familial trauma and abuse. The girl with golden hair and emerald eyes never loses hope that she'll one day run through the meadow of sunflowers she dreams about. The readers will fall in love with and be inspired by the strength and resilience of the kindhearted Nadine.
Once again, Helen has captivated...
11171) You Can't Stay Here
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Jasmina Odor's rich writing invites us to step into the shoes of Croatian immigrants living in Canada, and the Croatian soldiers and families who remain behind. Each passionate story in this collection varies in perspective, and yet all share Odor's sensual writing and undertones of the trauma of life during wartime. Through the stories in You Can't Stay Here, we are transported to the warm Adriatic Sea, rented rooms, wartime frontlines, and Canadian...
11172) Stray Decorum
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My dog Tapeworm Johnson needed legitimate veterinary attention. It had been two years since she received annual shots. I read somewhere that an older dog can overdose on all these vaccinations, and I have found-I share this information with every dog owner I meet-that if you keep your pet away from rabid foxes, raccoons, skunks, bats, and people whose eyes rotate crazy in their sockets, then the chances of your own dog foaming at the mouth diminishes...
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RAW LOVE is the story of an incarcerated man who finds love. It follows the author as he navigates life, love, and many lessons while simultaneously suffering behind bars.
As the story progresses, it reveals the depths of the relationship between the author and his significant other.
Along with the story, poetry that was written during each period of narration is presented as artistic expression of the hopes, hardships, and healing of the people...
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In the 1980s there was a kind of magic to the mixtape. They could be anything its creator wanted. The mixtape was like a letter, but it was also a personal soundtrack. You wanted it to say something about you - to express in some abstract way how you felt about the world, life, hopes, dreams and love. This book is like a mixtape because it is a mixture of things, all of them touching in one way or another on life in the 1980s and music. Through a...
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Ce recueil de nouvelles fantastiques réunit pour la première fois quatorze histoires sombres, SF et post-apocalyptiques, écrites par Françoise Grenier Droesch.
Dans ces récits elle aborde quelques-uns de ses thèmes de prédilection (l'interrogation sur nos possibles futurs, la déshumanisation du monde, les dérives sociétales d'une violence insidieuse, etc...) et place ses protagonistes - forcément piégés - dans des situations o ceux-ci...
11176) Don't Go Baking My Heart
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Baking fanatic, Charlie Quilter, inherits a vintage bus in her late uncle's will and is keen to give it a new lease of life. Charlie thinks it will be the perfect mobile café for afternoon tea, so she heads to the picturesque Cornish village of Porthgolow, hoping for a new start. However, Daniel Harper, the owner of the posh spa up on the hill isn't very pleased that her bus is parked outside his lovely hotel. Has Charlie's Cornish dream developed...
11177) The Innocent Party
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From "The Glass Girl":
On certain evenings in dark motels, she could transform her lip into the edge of the bottle, imagining her face was made of amber glass and the men paused above her only to take a drink of breath. Over the years, men drank and drank until there were only two sips left inside. They began sucking the air out of the glass that grew warm in the wrong places because of heat radiating off their hands. The men's breath along with...
11178) Mia
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Mia's tough. A fighter. She's been fighting her entire life. When she was a child, she fought her older sister---Debra. Later she fought Joyce, her mama. Now, most days, she has to fight the feelings of self-loathing and doubt that accompany her through the halls of John L. LeFlore.A year ago, at Phillips Prep, Mia was part of the "in crowd," mostly because she had been friends with Chandra Thomas since elementary. But things are changing, and Mia...
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This book forms part of our 'Pook Press' imprint, celebrating the golden age of illustration in children's literature. Edited by Anna Alice Chapin, the author of 'Humpty Dumpty' and 'The Everyday Fairy Book', it contains classics of the genre. The Grimm's 'Snow White and the Magic Mirror' and 'Little Red Riding Hood' are included, as is Charles Perrault's 'Beauty and the Beast' and 'Sleeping Beauty' alongside Mme. D'Aulnoy's 'The Three Bears' and...
11180) Enter Through the Crawlspace
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Enter Through the Crawlspace is a compilation of 20 short stories about neglected houses that talk, time travel that turned out to be not as much fun as the time traveler imagined, how a village dealt with a post-apocalyptic invasion, an alien up for a promotion, a shopping trip to another planet, a cursed cell phone, an entrance into a time warp, a rogue robot, a magical camera, a werewolf's experience in the human world, a cautionary tale about...
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