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  Mirage of Victory

  Martin Hicks

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  It is May of 1863 and the Civil War in North America has entered its third year. Facing a range of enemy threats, southern commander General Robert E. Lee proposes an invasion of the northern states to supply his army, relieve pressure on other imperilled fronts and to seek decisive victory on enemy territory that could end the war. Irish immigrant Daniel Ryan serves with his comrades of a Georgian regiment as the campaign unfolds, with Lee's army manoeuvring northwards through Virginia and across the Potomac River into Maryland and Pennsylvania, moving towards a fateful encounter with the Union army around the market town of Gettysburg.Martin Hicks lives in Fraserburgh in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. He began writing after a career in education and "Mirage of Victory" is his sixth book, based on the experiences of Daniel Ryan in the American Civil War of 1861-65.Other novels by the same author:A Gathering of SoldiersHard Passage NorthThe Rappahannock LineA Season for KillingA Deepening Twilight

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  Seeking Fortune Elsewhere - Stories

  Sindya Bhanoo

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  These intimate stories of South Indian immigrants and the families they left behind center women's lives and ask how women both claim and surrender power—a stunning debut collection from an O. Henry Prize winner 
   
   
   
  Traveling from Pittsburgh to Eastern Washington to Tamil Nadu, these stories about dislocation and dissonance see immigrants and their families confront the costs of leaving and staying, identifying sublime symmetries in lives growing apart. 
   
   
   
  In "Malliga Homes," selected by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for an O. Henry Prize, a widow in a retirement community glimpses her future while waiting for her daughter to visit from America. In "No. 16 Model House Road," a woman long subordinate to her husband makes a choice of her own after she inherits a house. In "Nature Exchange," a mother grieving in the wake of a school shooting finds an unusual obsession. In "A Life in America," a professor finds himself accused of having exploited his graduate students. 
   
   
   
  Sindya Bhanoo's haunting stories show us how immigrants' paths, and the paths of those they leave behind, are never simple. Bhanoo takes us along on their complicated journeys where regret, hope, and triumph appear in disguise.

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  Nightmares

  Michael van der Voort

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  Story 1: Feeding TimeStory 2: Of Shadows and SaintsStory 3: Death and SareenStory 4: Dracula’s ServantStory 5: Shades of AutumnStory 6: Tapping On GlassStory 7: The Birthday GirlStory 8: The Bogey Hole

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  A Change in Perspective

  Denise Carbo

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  What do you do when your perfect life blows up in your face? Move home to Granite Cove and hope you can put some of the pieces back together. Except what if the pieces no longer fit? 
  Lucinda reevaluates her life decisions and realizes many of her choices don’t paint a pretty picture. She’s determined to put her people pleasing habits behind her and discover the life she’s meant to live. 
  She’s known Bobby all her life—at least she thought she did. He keeps showing up at all the wrong times and making his dislike of her crystal clear. 
  Secrets and lies. Responsibilities and expectations. Betrayal and loss. Can love really heal all wounds?

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  WHEN WE DANCE: Small Town...

  Kimberley Montpetit

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  A feisty ballerina with a broken heart. A minister-in-training whose faith can work miracles. Can two strong-willed people find true love and a match made in heaven? 
  Jessica Mason is on track to become a world-renowned ballerina and she works hard to forget the tragedy in her hometown when Michael, her high school sweetheart, was killed in a car accident three years ago. When she visits Michael’s grave in the churchyard for the first time since his death, Jessica is shocked to meet handsome James Douglas, the pastor’s nephew who’s studying for the ministry. Pastor James knocks Jessica off her toe shoes—literally—but falling for the preacher is definitely NOT happening! 
  But gorgeous and enigmatic James is unlike any minister-in-training she’s ever met. He can not only dish back Jessica’s finely-tuned sarcasm but understands grief all too well, turning Jessica’s world upside down. 
  Can Jessica forgive herself for that terrible, fateful night? Can she take another risk on love?

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  The Montevideo Brief - A Thomas...

  J. H. Gelernter

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  A secret treaty will determine whether England can survive against Napoleon—Captain Grey races across the Atlantic to intercept a Spanish treasure fleet. 
   
   
   
  Vienna—June 1804. At the glittering debut of Beethoven's Eroica Symphony, a Spanish diplomat meets with Captain Thomas Grey, agent of His Majesty's Secret Service. In exchange for a gigantic bribe, the Spaniard discloses Spain's most closely-held secret, the terms of  its San Ildefonso Treaty with France. Spain's neutrality in Napoleon's war on Britain is only a ruse to keep the British navy from attacking the last great treasure-armada, now gathering in South America. Spanish warships will depart the port of Montevideo carrying 2,000 tons of gold; when the gold is safely in Madrid, Spain will declare war on Britain, ally with France, and divide the British Empire between them. Britain's only hope is a preemptive strike—to cripple Spain by capturing the armada on the high seas. The responsibility of delivering that blow falls to Grey.

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