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  Praised

  Kate Hawthorne

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  FLYNN: I've never taken relationships seriously because I’ve never met anyone worth being serious for. I don't love them and leave them, but no-strings-hookup might as well be my middle name. Getting dared to kiss a gorgeous stranger with eyes like the ocean and hair like a cloud sounds like a surefire way to add another name to the list of men I've taken to bed, but before the night is over, I'll be proven wrong for the first time in my life. Rose Baker isn't like any man I've ever met before and one kiss—one night—in a hotel with him isn't anywhere close to enough. I want him again and I'm ready to break all my rules to get him.ROSE: My best friend swears the easiest way to get over my cheating ex is to get under the gorgeous, arrogant, and dominant man who held me up against the wall at Rapture and kissed me until I forgot my name. But Flynn doesn't do serious, and I'm too scared to put my heart out there for something that won't last. Our lives are different and there's no way around it, but Flynn is focused, he's dedicated, and he's not willing to walk away from the things he wants. And right now, he wants me. Flynn is ready to go all in with me, but am I strong enough to admit that I deserve his praise and attention or am I going to sabotage myself and lose his love for good? 
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  The Gregory Circle

  Murray Leinster

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  In a remote town near the Great Smoky Mountains, Bud Gregory fixes cars when he feels like it—and fixes them impossibly well. While the world begins to suffer unexplained deaths, equipment failures, and biological anomalies, Gregory remains unaware that his quiet brilliance may be connected to a growing global disaster. 
  Physicist Dr. David Murfree is the first to see the pattern. As evidence mounts, he follows the trail into the mountains, uncovering a terrifying truth rooted in pure intuition rather than formal science. What he finds challenges everything known about atomic energy, responsibility, and unintended consequences. 
  Murray Leinster blends scientific speculation with human insight, crafting a story where genius wears overalls and catastrophe grows from simple intentions. The Gregory Circle is a tense, idea-driven classic that builds toward an unforgettable confrontation between knowledge and instinct. 
  Murray Leinster, the pen name of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, was one of science fiction’s most influential early voices. Writing for decades, he helped define modern sci-fi with stories grounded in plausible science and deeply human stakes.

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  City Swimmers & Other Stories

  Steve Clark

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  In these ten stories, Steve Clark guides us through an urban terrain of relationships--marital and filial, romantic and bitter--exploring loss and longing in a timeless but modern cityscape. A man leaves his wife in bed with the flu and takes a walk through his past, encountering the dead and living, the real and surreal, on his last day alive in Paris. A couple, who've married each other three times, break up at an iconic New York piano bar. A wife casually confesses to a nonchalant husband that she's kissed a young hockey player at a Thanksgiving party. A girl in high tops becomes oddly entangled with an aspiring artist who works as a bouncer.... Sometimes brash, sometimes poetic, usually humorous, these stories provoke thought, provide experience, and aim to delight.

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  Time After Time

  Karly Lane

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  Alice Croydon has the perfect life: she has a large, close-knit family who loves her—even if they are sometimes a little too invested in her decisions—and she's about to marry her high school sweetheart Finn. Alice couldn't be happier. Except for the occasional niggle whenever she thinks about her career—or lack thereof. Fashion design has always been her passion, but living in the small north-western New South Wales town of Gunnindi doesn't offer much opportunity to pursue her dream. 
   
  Until one day the unexpected happens. The only problem? She has to move to the other side of the world and give up one dream for another. 
   
  Living in London should have been exciting, but for Alice, dealing with a broken heart, the only excitement she's interested in is work and learning from her boss—famous international designer Frankie Esquire. 
   
  Alice's sole focus becomes her career—after all, she gave up everything she loved for it—but she hopes that when she goes home she and Finn might still be able to pick up the pieces and try again. However, the world of fashion and the bright lights of big city living are a world away from Gunnindi and time doesn't stand still . . . and neither does destiny.

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  Mansfield park

  Jane Austen

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  Adopted into the household of her uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram, Fanny Price grows up a meek outsider among her cousins in the unaccustomed elegance of Mansfield Park. Soon after Sir Thomas absents himself on estate business in Antigua (the family's investment in slavery and sugar is considered in the Introduction in a new, post-colonial light), Mary Crawford and her brother Henry arrive at Mansfield, bringing with them London glamour, and the seductive taste for flirtation and theatre that precipitates a crisis. While Mansfield Park appears in some ways to continue where Pride and Prejudice left off, it is, as Kathryn Sutherland shows in her illuminating Introduction, a much darker work, which challenges 'the very values (of tradition, stability, retirement and faithfulness) it appears to endorse'. This new edition provides an accurate text based, for the first time since its original publication, on the first edition of 1814.

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  The Metal Man - Trapped Between...

  Jack Williamson

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  The Metal Man by Jack Williamson delivers one of the most unforgettable descent-into-the-unknown narratives in early science fiction. When Professor Thomas Kelvin’s search for radium reveals far more than rare minerals, he finds himself trapped inside a hidden crater world where gravity behaves strangely, metallic transformations creep through living flesh, and luminous entities drift through a toxic green mist. What begins as a scientific mission becomes a desperate struggle for survival as Kelvin fights a force that neither science nor instinct can explain. 
  Through his final manuscript—sent to a trusted friend just before his death—Kelvin recounts an ordeal that pushes him to the edge of terror, discovery, and sacrifice. The shifting sands, eerie crystal beings, and gravity-warping machines create a landscape as visually mesmerizing as it is dangerous. Williamson blends exploration, cosmic wonder, and creeping dread into an atmospheric tale that still sparks imagination nearly a century later. 
  Jack Williamson (1908–2006) stands as one of the foundational voices of American science fiction. His early works helped define modern speculative storytelling, from cosmic adventure to psychological futurism. Over his seventy-five-year career, he published in the legendary Astounding Stories and influenced generations of writers with his inventive ideas, scientific insight, and visionary world-building. Williamson’s legacy includes classics such as The Legion of Space, Darker Than You Think, and groundbreaking essays and teaching that helped shape the field. 
  A Grand Master of Science Fiction, Williamson brought a rare blend of wonder, intellect, and humanity to every story he wrote. The Metal Man remains one of his most atmospheric and unforgettable early achievements.

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