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  Stories About Duels - French...

  Alexander Pushkin

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  The duel is specifically about honour.  A principle that humanity often takes too far, even today. 
   
  In centuries past the duel was fought by two men who could resolve their quarrel in no other way.  The victim felt anything from slighted to humiliated and must regain his honour, whatever the cost.  Pistols at ten paces, or rather closer with swords, should see the matter settled.  Of course, despite its arrival at violence there were many rules ands traditions to take account of. 
   
  In this volume our classic authors explore all sorts of duels and the consequences of those actions. 
   
  1 - Stories About Duels - An Introduction 
  2 - The Shot by Alexander Pushkin 
  3 - The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky by Stephen Crane 
  4 - A Coward by Guy de Maupassant 
  5 - An Ugly Customer by Bernard Capes 
  6 - Cavalleria Rusticana by Giovanni Verga 
  7 - The Middle Toe of the Right Foot by Ambrose Bierce 
  8 - The Duel by Nikolai Teleshov

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  Start Somewhere (The Strange...

  Jennifer Lauer

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  Newly minted investigator, Gray Cooper finds herself alone and adrift after her mother’s untimely death. Eager to move past her grief, Gray throws herself into her very first case—locating Werner Vondale, a missing grandfather with ties to Area 51. 
  Joe Nebraska only needs one more signature to close out Madeline Cooper’s estate: her daughter, Gray’s. After a fiery first meeting, an unlikely friendship forms—causing Joe to question everything and join Gray as she embraces her destiny to become Detective Gray Cooper, investigator of the paranormal. 
  With every twist and turn, THE STRANGE CHRONICLES: START SOMEWHERE offers a reading experience where the ordinary becomes extraordinary, and every ending is a new beginning.

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  Zero Saints

  Gabino Iglesias

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  Enforcer and drug dealer Fernando has seen better days. On his way home from work, some heavily-tattooed gangsters throw him in the back of a car and take him to an abandoned house, where they saw off his friend's head and feed the kid's fingers to...something. Their message is clear: this is their territory, now. But Fernando isn't put down that easily. Using the assistance of a Santeria priestess, an insane Puerto Rican pop sensation, a very human dog, and a Russian hitman, he'll build the courage (and firepower) he'll need to fight a gangbanger who's a bit more than human...

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  Death and Peaches

  Nova Walsh

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  After deciding to trade L. A.'s chaos for sweet small-town life, Abby Hirsch is finally making Sugar Creek home—starting with moving in with her best friend Cassie and launching her new catering business. But before she can even unpack, the town's beloved Peach Festival turns deadly when a city councilman drops dead from poisoning. 
   
   
   
  To make matters worse, all signs point to Abby as the prime suspect. Not only was she one of the last people to serve him, but he'd just denied her business license, giving her the perfect motive. Now, with her dreams crumbling like a peach cobbler and the town buzzing with gossip, Abby has no choice but to investigate. 
   
   
   
  At least she's not alone—she has Cassie, her too-cute rescue dog, and . . . the maddeningly handsome Sheriff Ryan Iverson, who keeps showing up at the wrong time (or is it the right time?). Ryan says he's just doing his job, but the more he warns Abby to stay out of the case, the more she can't ignore the spark between them. 
   
   
   
  As the festival heats up and the suspect list grows, Abby will have to unravel the truth before her fresh start is ruined—or worse, before she's next on the menu.

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  The Summer We Buried

  Jody Gehrman

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  Twenty years ago, Tansy was drawn to Selene’s hard edges, her grit, and her knack for survival. Since then, the confused tangle of guilt about covering up a murder shattered their friendship, and even now, at thirty-eight, Tansy has never come to terms with what happened that night. But now, Selene is back, demanding her old friend repay her. Selene’s daughter, Jupiter, attends the college where Tansy works as a guidance counselor. Selene is convinced that Jupiter’s boyfriend, Colton, is abusive and wants Tansy to intervene. As she is drawn back into the intensity of Selene’s world, Tansy discovers the ugly truth about Colton. But Tansy suspects there’s far more to the story, and now she’ll finally have to confront Selene once and for all.

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  Toxic Trigger-point

  Paty Jager

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  Adultery… Jealousy… Murder 
  Shandra Higheagle Greer is minding her own business when she walks into a room for a massage and it is already occupied—by a dead body. 
  Always the champion for someone she knows, when her favorite masseuse looks like the murderer, Shandra listens to her gut and dreams choreographed by her deceased grandmother. 
  Detective Ryan Greer can’t believe his wife has walked into another homicide. He’s learned no matter how he tries to keep her out of the investigation he can’t. But this time the consequences could be deadly for Shandra—she heard the murder happen. 

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