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  Bliss Montage - Stories

  Ling Ma

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  "Narrator Katharine Chin nails the dark humor and flat tone of this bizarre and fascinating short story collection."- AudioFile A new creation by the author of Severance, Bliss Montage crashes through our carefully built mirages.What happens when fantasy tears the screen of the everyday to wake us up? Could that waking be our end?In Bliss Montage, Ling Ma brings us eight wildly different tales of people making their way through the madness and reality of our collective delusions: love and loneliness, connection and possession, friendship, motherhood, the idea of home. A woman lives in a house with all her ex-boyfriends. A toxic friendship grows up around a drug that makes you invisible. An ancient ritual might heal you of anything—if you bury yourself alive. These and other scenarios investigate the ways that the outlandish and the ordinary are shockingly, deceptively, heartbreakingly alike.A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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  You Deserve to Know

  Aggie Blum Thompson

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  A brand new suspense novel from "the master of the suburban scandal" (Samantha M. Bailey), Aggie Blum Thompson. 
   
   
   
  Neighbors Gwen, Aimee, and Lisa share more than playdates and coffee mornings on their tranquil street in East Bethesda. They confide their deepest secrets, navigate the challenges of motherhood together, and provide a support system that seems unbreakable. 
   
   
   
  But when Gwen's husband is found murdered after one of their weekly Friday night dinners, the peaceful quiet of their cul-de-sac shatters. The seemingly idyllic world of the three close-knit mom friends becomes a web of deception, betrayal, and revenge. 
   
   
   
  As the police investigate, the veneer of friendship begins to crack, revealing hidden tensions, clandestine affairs, and long-buried jealousies among the three women. With suspicions mounting and the neighborhood gripped by fear, Gwen, Aimee, and Lisa must confront the chilling truth about their husbands, and the sinister undercurrents in their own friendship.

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  Not a Creature Was Stirring

  Dan Evans

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  Not a Creature Was Stirring by Dean Evans - This could be a Christmas story. If it is, it shows one way peace on Earth can be attained! 
  He was a tall, hard man with skin the color of very old iodine. When he climbed up out of the vertical shaft of his small gold mine, The Lousy Disappointment, he could have been taken for an Indian, he was that dark. Except, of course, that Indians didn't exist any more in 1982. His name was Tom Gannett and he was about forty years old and he didn't realize his own uniqueness. 
  When he made it to his feet, the first thing he did was to squint up at the sun. The second was to sneeze, and the third to blow his nose. 
  "Hey, you old sun!" he growled. "You old crummy sun, you look sicker'n a dog." 
  Which was literally true, for the sun seemed to be pretty queer. The whole sky seemed to be pretty queer, for that matter. Skies should be blue and the sun should be a bloated golden bauble drifting serenely across them. But the skies were not blue; they were a dirty purplish-gray. And the sun wasn't a bloated golden bauble; somebody had it by the scruff of the neck and was dragging it. 
  Gannett planted his big feet wide apart and frowned sourly around and sniffed the air like a dog at a gopher hole. "The damn world smells sick," he grunted. 
  Which was also true. The world did smell sick. The world smelled something like that peculiar odor that comes from an old graveyard carefully tended by an old man with dank moss sticking to the soles of his old shoes. That kind of smell.

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  Fight for You

  Jaclyn Quinn

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  One man is haunted by a past he can't outrun. One man is branded by a legacy he can't hide. One man is burdened by a guilt he can't deny. 
   
   
   
  The usually peaceful town of Riverside Falls has had its very core shaken by traumatic events. Three men find themselves at the center of it all, thrown together by circumstances beyond their control. 
   
   
   
  Sawyer Levy came to Riverside Falls four years ago to escape from . . . well . . . life, but when he finds himself in need of care, he's forced to trust not one but two men for the first time in years. 
   
   
   
  Grant Belford is riddled with shame in the tragic aftermath of incidents he didn't see coming, blaming himself for the terror that rocked his town over the last few months. 
   
   
   
  Captain Mason Lockley is struggling with the recent events that have shaken up the quiet town of Riverside Falls, tormented by one thought, over and over again: Did he miss the signs because of jealousy? 
   
   
   
  Having no choice but to lean on each other, the three men suffering with their own demons aren't expecting to have such an undeniable connection—or to fall so hard. It's a love they don’t understand, but will they realize it's worth fighting for? 
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  The Kingmaker Of Muguland - The...

  Dr. Ope Banwo

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  "The Kingmaker of Muguland" is a gripping political thriller set in the heart of a fictional African country blessed with immense wealth, natural resources, and intelligent citizens, yet plagued by corruption, greed, and mismanagement. At the center of this turmoil is Chief Biola Eleniyan, a ruthless political operator who has mastered the art of pulling strings from behind the scenes, shaping Muguland's political landscape to his advantage. 
    
  The novel takes readers on an intense journey through Muguland's chaotic political system, where ambition knows no bounds, power is seized rather than earned, and the people's cries for change are met with violent suppression. Chief Eleniyan, once content with being the ultimate kingmaker, now wants more—he wants the throne for himself. But to get there, he must navigate a minefield of enemies, betrayals, and moral dilemmas that could either make or break him. 
    
  With youth protests erupting on the streets, a fiercely divided nation, and political rivals who are just as dangerous, Muguland teeters on the brink of disaster. "The Kingmaker of Muguland" is not just a fictional tale of power—it's a chilling reflection of the realities many nations face today. Through cunning strategies, relentless ambition, and the moral price of power, the book explores the devastating effects of corruption on a country with limitless potential. 
    
  For readers who enjoy intense political dramas, morally complex characters, and stories where ambition comes at a deadly cost, "The Kingmaker of Muguland" delivers a suspenseful, thought-provoking narrative that will leave you questioning what it truly means to lead. 
  Key Themes: 
  The corruption and moral decay of power 
  The struggle for justice and the people's right to choose 
  The dangerous game of political ambition and betrayal 
  The resilience of a nation despite its broken leadership

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  On the Attack

  Kerry J. Donovan

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  Ryan Kaine is on the attack . . .  
   
   
   
  When Angela Shafer's stalker threatens to kill her, she is forced to call upon the services of The 83 Trust. Ryan Kaine vows to deliver justice in the only way he knows how. 
   
   
   
  After reaching Angela's home too late to prevent a terrible atrocity, Kaine calls in reinforcements in the form of his most trusted men; Danny Pinkerton and William Rollason. But in order for Angela and her daughter to be truly safe, Kaine and his team need to dismantle an entire criminal organization. 
   
   
   
  As an underworld kingpin and his brutal thugs close in, Kaine will need all the help he can get . . .  
   
   
   
  If you like Lee Child, Mark Dawson, and Robert Ludlum, you're going to find the Ryan Kaine series compulsively addictive.

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