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  The Call of Mektoub - An...

  Helen S Michaelsen

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  When the sleigh and two young reindeer are stolen three nights before Christmas, the characters from an old book (The Land of Never Grow Old), must enlist the help of an English mother and daughter to save the Magical Lands of the North from being lost forever.  Their copy of the book has been handed down three generations of mothers and daughters and is one of only a few that remain in existence.  Similarly, the characters from the book can only exist for as long as children believe in them.Emma and her daughter, Lucy, must embark on an unexpected adventure that tests their courage, and determination, and reveals their willingness to embrace the kindness and compassion the world needs now more than ever.The story is presented in the style of an advent calendar, with a chapter for each night of December until Christmas Eve.  The chapters are enhanced by music and sound effects, with eight of them containing original songs created by the author and her musician friends.

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  Hamlet Prince of Robots

  Anônimo

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  Something is rotten in the state of cybernetics. 
  Elsinore Robotics is on the cusp of a breakthrough—the company is poised to create the first humanoid androids powered by true artificial intelligence. Their only rival, Norwegian Technologies, lost a publicly streamed contest between their flagship model, Fortinbras, and Elsinore’s HAM(let) v.1.  
  But when the first Hamlet model is found irreparably deactivated, the apparent victim of wild malware, the field of consumer cybernetics is thrown wide open. However, Hamlet v.1’s memories were not entirely lost in the accident.  
  Hamlet v.2 swears to avenge his progenitor, but is plagued by the aftereffects of integrating Old Hamlet’s backup into his own neural matrix. Beset by doubts about whether his feelings are truly his own, he worries his love for his boyfriend, Horatio, is an illusion, all the while driven by a consuming need for revenge. While he has a method, there is a madness in it, and Hamlet’s actions will leave no corner of Elsinore unscathed. 
  A beat-by-beat retelling of the Shakespeare classic, *Hamlet, Prince of Robots* grapples with conscience, ambition, and pain, and what it means to be, or not to be, human.

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  Adam

  R. E. Link

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  George Dalton, a brilliant software engineer at the J&A Company, finds that youthful arrogance, and a habit of making inappropriate remarks, hinders his advancement within the company. After making an ill-considered comment, George is tasked with a simple assignment as punishment. However, George desires a more exciting use of his time. Exploring an abandoned area, he unexpectedly encounters, Adam. 
  Despite the fact that they are completely different, George and Adam form a friendship, as their lives take an unexpected turn. They uncover a mysterious set of clues, left behind by a long dead and nearly forgotten inventor. George believes the clues hint at the existence of the inventor’s final creation: a time machine. While Adam is skeptical, George is convinced the machine is real, and was deliberately hidden years ago. Now it silently awaits for the clues to be understood and its location revealed. 
  George and Adam slowly unravel the cryptic and off times misleading writings of the inventor. As they come to understand the intricacies of time travel, and the genius behind it, they discover not only its potential, but also the danger it represents. 
  Adam and George decide to use their knowledge to help people, and protect the innocent. It could be as simple as keeping someone from walking into danger, to preventing murder. 
  It all awaits in ‘Adam.’

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  The Picture in the House

  H.P. Lovecraft

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  "The Picture in the House" is a short story written by H.P. Lovecraft. It was written on December 12, 1920, and first published in the July issue of The National Amateur—which was published in the summer of 1921.While riding on his bicycle in the Miskatonic Valley of rural New England, a genealogist seeks shelter from an approaching storm in an apparently abandoned house, only to find that it is occupied by a "loathsome  old,  white-bearded,  and  ragged  man," speaking  in  "an  extreme  form  of  Yankee dialect...thought long extinct." The narrator notices that the house is full of antique books, exotic artifacts, and furniture predating the American Revolution. The old man is apparently harmless and ignorant, but shows a disquieting fascination for an engraving in a rare old book, Regnum Congo, and admits to the narrator that it made him hunger for "victuals I couldn't raise nor buy"- presumably human flesh. It is suggested that the old man in the house was murdering men who stumbled upon the shack to satisfy his "craving", and that the old man has extended his life preternaturally  through  cannibalism.  The  narrator realizes the old man has been alive for over a century. The old man denies that he ever acted on his desire, but then a red drop of blood falls from the ceiling, clearly coming from the floor above, and splashes a page in the book. The narrator then looks up to see a spreading red stain on the ceiling; this belies the old man's statement. At that moment, a bolt of lightning destroys the house, bringing oblivion to the narrator.

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  Strife & Valor - Book II of The...

  Regina Watts

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  At long last, savor the audiobook edition of this second entry in Regina Watts's fantastical harem series--read to you by narratrix Louise Cooksey! 
  Rorke Burningsoul, Paladin of Weltyr, is free. 
  Free, and able to pursue the adventurers who left him for dead in the harrowing realm of the Nightlands: and when one of those treacherous adventurers falls right into his lap, all he can do is praise Weltyr and make use of his good fortune. When the paladin learns that the dwarf, Grimalkin, may have taken the Scepter of Weltyr for himself back to the dwarven nation, Rorke manages to convince his beautiful durrow companions to come on this retrieval mission—not just for his own purposes, but to increase their odds of successfully retrieving Valeria’s sacred ring. 
  Not everyone is on board, though. High elf druid Branwen, freshly rescued from the den of misshapen bandits, has some designs of her own…and though Rorke is devoted to assisting his former mistress, Branwen seduced him once before. She’s confident she can do it again. 
  But when a sensual wild witch from the mountains outside the Nightlands claims she knows the secrets of his heritage, Branwen will have to learn to play nice with the rest of Rorke's harem if she wants to keep him from being spirited away. 
  Mature readers only! This fantasy harem adventure in the style of Dungeons & Dragons contains explicit encounters between the lucky hero and many gorgeous women he encounters on his quest. Use discretion when purchasing.

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  Chaos

  Amanda Fleet

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  The Realm is full of hostile invaders who can bend minds. Fighting them only leads to more people dying. Can Aeron and Faran find a way to succeed, before civil war rips The Realm apart? 
  The portal to their world might have been destroyed, but hundreds of Vuthkrex were stranded in The Realm. Everyone wants to be rid of them, but how do you fight an enemy who can make you turn on your own people? 
  Thrust into new roles they’re not ready for, Aeron and Faran must negotiate not only with the enemy, but with their own people in order for The Realm to survive. And neither group wants to talk. Can they figure out a way to avert civil war and the downfall of The Realm, before it’s too late? 
  Don’t miss the thrilling conclusion to The Guardians of The Realm series.

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