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  His Fatal Legacy - A completely...

  Heather Atkinson

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  ‘Heather Atkinson’s Victorian chiller is one that will keep readers engrossed all through the night and terrified of switching the lights off.’ 
  Edinburgh 1896 
  Amy Alardyce's once-perfect life is in tatters. Her eldest son, Robert, has come of age, become the master of his own home, and married his childhood love Jane. But with maturity has come a terrible legacy, and the dark desires Robert inherited from his evil father Matthew, are fighting to get loose. 
  Whilst Jane is working hard to get her and Robert accepted into fashionable society, poor women are being hunted on the streets of Edinburgh, and Amy fears her son is to blame. And once the infamous Inspector Murphy takes up the case, Amy has to face a stark choice - denounce her son as a monster or risk her own safety to protect him from the consequences of his lethal actions. 
  If you love Emily Organ, Kate Saunders and Ann Granger, you’ll love the Alardyce series. Discover bestselling author Heather Atkinson and you'll never look back...  
  Please note this is an updated version of the previously published Ancestral Tides. 
  What readers are saying about Heather Atkinson: 
  ‘As soon as I started reading this book I knew I would enjoy it. What an exciting read. Loved it didn’t want it to end.’ 
  ‘I am not normally a fan of historical but holy smoke what a book! The author totally fools the reader with this adrenaline pumping, pulse racing story! Keeping me on the edge of my seat. I read this in one sitting….I couldn’t put it down.’ 
  ‘I was amazed at how even from the first chapter I was hooked. It’s so well written I felt like I was a fly on the wall watching Amy’s life unfold. I hated having to put this book down and in the end just had to binge read to the end. Amazing story.’ 
  ‘OMG what a fantastic book I have read all HA books and I have loved everyone, don't know where she gets her ideas from she must have had another life if you are a person that as never read any of her books then you need to start.’

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  Simon & Emily Are Going To Hell

  Lee Isserow

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  Simon & Emily are in love. They’re also damned to hell.It’s complicated, but trust me, I’ll walk you through the details.Perhaps I should introduce myself:Hi, I’m your narrator, and I talk too much. However, this is a story that requires lots of words to be told, lots of tangents and FAR too many expletives.Jane Austen, this is not.In this tome you’ll find Faustian deals, sex, expletives, comedy, tragedy, expletives, comedy, horror, comedy and expletives.And it’s funny, did I mention it’s funny?Also, the world ends and the heroes go to hell.**Spoiler alert

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  Intimations - Stories

  Alexandra Kleeman

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  From the celebrated author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine,a thought-provoking, often unsettling story collection that consists, broadly, of narrative diagrams of the three main stages in a human life: birth, life, and death. 
  Alexandra Kleeman’s debut novel You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine earned her comparisons to Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Ben Marcus, and Tom Perrotta. It was praised by the New York Times as ""a powerful allegory of our civilization’s many maladies, artfully and elegantly articulated, by one of the young wise women of our generation.""  
  In her second book, a collection of twelve stories irresistibly seductive in their strangeness, she explores human life from beginning to end: the distress of birth into a world already formed; the brief and confusing period of ""living"" where we understand what is expected of us and struggle to do it; and the death-y period toward the end where we sense it is ending and will end only partially understood, at best. 
  The title is taken from one of the stories (""Intimation""), but is also a play on Wordsworth's ""Intimations of Immortality""—only in this case it’s not clear exactly what is being intimated, but it’s nothing so gleaming and good as Immortality. The middle, ""Living"" section of the book, is fleshed out with a set of stories that borrow more from traditional realist fiction to illustrate the inner lives of the characters.  
  At once familiar and mysterious, these stories have an eerie resonance as its characters find themselves in new and surprising situations. An unnamed woman enters a room with no exit and a ready-made life; the disappearance of people, objects, and memory creates an apocalypse; the art of dance is used to try to tame a feral child; the key to surviving a house-party lies in knowing the difference between fake and real blood.  
  Elegant, surprising, wondrous, and haunting, Intimations is an utterly transporting collection from one of our most ingenious and brilliant young writers.

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  The Weather Woman

  Sally Gardner

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  The rich and atmospheric new novel from prize-winning author Sally Gardner, set in the 18th century between the two great Frost Fairs.Neva Friezland is born into a world of trickery and illusion, where fortunes can be won and lost on the turn of a card.She is also born with an extraordinary gift. She can predict the weather. In Regency England, where the proper goal for a gentlewoman is marriage and only God knows the weather this is dangerous. It is also potentially very lucrative.In order to debate with the men of science and move about freely, Neva adopts a sophisticated male disguise. She foretells the weather from inside an automaton created by her brilliant clockmaker father.But what will happen when the disguised Neva falls in love with a charismatic young man?It can be very dangerous to be ahead of your time. Especially as a woman.

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  For Annie

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  Life and death perceived through the enlightened mind of one living out his last minutes.

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  A Fruitless Assignment

  Ambrose Bierce

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  A reporter recounts his encounter with a haunted house.

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