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  The Bride Wore Pearls

  Liz Carlyle

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  “[Carlyle’s] final Fraternitas romance paints Victorian society with sensual undertones . . .  suspense and romance entwine to create an engaging read.” —Publishers Weekly 
   
  Beneath the elegant façade of Victorian high society, the rules of danger and desire are the only rules that apply for the mysterious men of the St. James Society. New York Times–bestseller Liz Carlyle carries readers deep into this realm of intrigue and passion once more in her breathtaking historical romance sizzler, The Bride Wore Pearls. The third book in her sexy, compelling, action-packed series, The Bride Wore Pearls is a scorching story of a very proper lady who flees her home in a far corner of the British Empire, entrusting her safety and her heart to a dangerous outlaw in Victorian London. Amanda Quick and Gaelen Foley fans will most certainly be enthralled. 
   
  Praise for the Fraternitas Aureae Crucis series 
   
  “Intriguing . . . engaging . . . an illicit delight.” —Stephanie Laurens, #1 New York Times–bestselling author  
   
  “Liz Carlyle weaves passion and intrigue with a master’s touch.” —Karen Robards, New York Times–bestselling author

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  Fear University

  Meg Collett

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  I've always known I was a monster.My mother abandoned me when I was ten years old because I have a freakish mutant disease that makes me incapable of feeling pain. I bounced from one foster family to another because too many people like to test my medical condition in a game of "Try to Make Ollie Scream." At sixteen, I killed a man for taking that game too far.Two years later, I'm still on the run in Kodiak, Alaska. Here, I'm the most dangerous person around, until I come face to face with a creature that should only exist in folklore. The monster is an aswang, and I, with my medical anomaly, am uniquely qualified to hunt the beast that haunts the night. At least, that's what the two scarred, mostly crazy 'swang hunters tell me when they kidnap me and take me to Fear University, a school where young students learn to hunt and kill aswangs.For once in my life, I belong. I'm needed. I make a home for myself inside the university masquerading as an old Alaskan prison. But when certain truths come to light and even more lies are exposed, I fear that I, Ollie Andrews, am the worst kind of monster of all. And, maybe, they should be hunting me.

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  John Gutenberg First Master...

  Franz von Dingelstedt

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  This is a brief sketch of the last years of the life of Johannes (John) Gutenberg, the man who invented the movable letter press. We join him in Mayence, where he lives in poverty. We get to know his enemies and his friends, and some information about why he isn't the rich man we'd expect him to be. This book was prepared and completed within two days by the volunteers at Distributed Proofreaders to mark their 15th anniversary with the 50,000th published book at Project Gutenberg. ( Claudia Salto)

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  The Last of the Valerii

  Henry James

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  An unnamed American painter resident in Rome serves as narrator in this story, watching as his god-daughter Martha, becomes the wife of Prince Marco Valerio. The young bride is eager to use some of her American fortune in the service of archeology at the Villa Valerio, her husband's somewhat run down Roman house. Archeology can be, her god-father suggests, a rather expensive hobby, but to his (and her) surprise, the dig brings to light a lovely marble statue of Juno. Martha is overjoyed, but it is soon clear that her husband is overcome by the discovery, and overcome in ways that are to be disquieting. In this, as in several of James's stories, there are elements of the supernatural -- or so the reader might invited to believe. To what, in any case, will the discovery lead? (Introduction by Nicholas Clifford

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  Saving Ashley - A Supernatural...

  Ty Perry

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  A hidden world of vampires. An insidious plot lurking in the shadows. And a pair of cops determined to bring a killer down - living or undead. 
  On the hunt for a man who has mysteriously vanished, detectives Susan Kaiden and Jose Alvarez think they’re on just another routine job - but when a vicious attack leaves Susan hospitalized and fighting for her life, the pair soon come face-to-face with an elusive vampire hunter and the dangerous world of the undead. John Reed knows he shouldn’t be alive - and as a newly sired vampire, he technically isn’t. Falling in with an unlikely group of allies, his kidnap and disappearance lie at the heart of a sinister plot that will lead him to dangerous and powerful enemies.  
  Thrown in over their heads into a dangerous world of murder, conspiracy, and mystery, Susan and Jose must team up with the secretive vampire cops to take down a powerful and enigmatic enemy. Their path will bring them into contact with John and a host of other characters both living and dead.  
  Unsure who they can trust and with the bodies piling up, can Susan and Jose unmask the killer lurking in the shadows? Or will the world of vampires be too much for them to handle? Perfect for fans of riveting supernatural thrillers, Saving Ashley is a page-turning vampire story that will keep you hooked from the very first word.

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  A Warning to the Curious

  M. R. James

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  A young antiquary and archaeologist named Paxton is on vacation in the south-east coast of England when he hears the legend of the three holy crowns. According to the legend, England was kept safe from being invaded when three crowns were buried long ago at sites near the coast. One of the crowns was later dug up, one is now beneath the sea but one still remains buried in the earth and keeps England safe from invasion. Members of a family named Ager long guarded the site where the crown was buried. When the last surviving member of the family, William Ager, died at the age of 28, the crown was left without a living guardian. Paxton finds out where the crown is buried and digs it up. He soon comes to regret doing so."A Warning to the Curious" first appeared in print in the literary journal London Mercury in August 1925. It was republished later the same year as part of the anthology A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories. It has previously been adapted for TV in the BBC series A Ghost Story for Christmas.

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