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  The Wedding of Ginger and Basil...

  Lee Strauss

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  Clever and entertaining, you’ll love this charming Golden Age mystery series. And the fashion is to die for!” - Molly C. Quinn, actress, Castle 
  For fans of Ginger Gold and Basil Reed - this is the wedding you’ve been waiting for! The bride and groom prepare for their big day, but of course, things don’t go exactly as planned. Told from the alternating points of view of many of the beloved characters in the world of Ginger Gold, you’ll find yourself holding your breath, anticipating that happily ever after. 
  The Wedding of Ginger & Basil is a companion novella best enjoyed after book 7 (Murder at St. George’s Church) in the Ginger Gold Mystery series. 
  This is a mystery, but not a murder mystery.

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  The Greek Interpreter - Sherlock...

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  "The Greek Interpreter", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. The story was originally serialised in Strand Magazine in 1893. This story introduces Holmes's elder brother Mycroft. Doyle ranked "The Greek Interpreter" seventeenth in a list of his nineteen favourite Sherlock Holmes stories.
  On a summer evening, while engaged in an aimless conversation that has come round to the topic of hereditary attributes, Doctor Watson learns that Sherlock Holmes, far from being a one-off in terms of his powers of observation and deductive reasoning, in fact has an elder brother whose skills, or so Holmes claims, outstrip even his own. As a consequence of this, Watson becomes acquainted with the Diogenes Club and his friend's brother, Mycroft.

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  Nowhere Land

  Pamela K. Kinney

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  If Haunting of Hill House had a baby with Stranger Things, Nowhere Land would be the result. 
  Legends are told for centuries of a haunted land not far from Gloucester, Virginia. The local 
  tribes in the past had labelled it a place of demons. Wildlife is hardly seen there, and even insects 
  avoid it. Sound fluctuates; nothing above a whisper one moment, only to come back minutes 
  later. No reason for this weird phenomenon. Those who dare to cross the land never make it out, 
  mysteriously vanishing. 
  Parker Burkett and his sister, Lisa Polivka, inherit the land from their grandfather. They bring in 
  a group of investigators to find if the stories behind the property are true. Parker has plans to turn 
  it into a historical attraction and wants to debunk the ghost tales. He finds the paranormal group 
  gone the next morning, except for a finger still wearing a ring lying in the loft of one of the 
  buildings. It is the only evidence they’d been there. 
  Ben Neilson, who leads the paranormal team, Seekers of Paranormal World, wants to investigate, 
  but first he must convince Parker to let them. He also wants longtime friend and psychic medium 
  Neri Phelan to help his team. Neri left the group a couple of years ago after the death of her 
  younger sister on an investigation. She has a past with the cursed land, and she doesn’t want 
  anything to do with it. Nightmares and an attack from something dark that destroys her spirit 
  guide help her decide that it’s time to break the curse. 
  Will they solve the truth behind the legends? Or will Neri and Parker, along with Ben and his 
  team, join the countless others over the centuries and become sacrifices to Nowhere Land.

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  Brave New World Interviews &...

  Geoffrey Giuliano

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  "There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self." 
   
  "One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes." 
   
  "The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm." Aldous Huxley 
   
  Aldous Huxley was an English writer and philosopher. He wrote nearly fifty books, both novels and non-fiction works—as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives, and poems. 
  Born into the prominent Huxley family, he graduated from Oxford, with an undergraduate degree in English literature. Early in his career, he published short stories and poetry and edited the literary magazine Oxford Poetry, before going on to publish travel writing, satire, and screenplays. Huxley spent the latter part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death. By the end of his life, Huxley was widely acknowledged as one of the foremost intellectuals of his time. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature nine times and was elected Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 1962. 
   
  Includes a rare treasury of ultra-rare previously unheard conversations with the esteemed intellectual.

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  The Get - A Crime Novel

  Dietrich Kalteis

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  “If you like your crime hard and fast, Kalteis is for you.” — Globe and Mail
  		 
  A surefire plan that will end his marital and money problems in one swoop … what could go wrong?
  		 
  Lenny Ovitz has plenty of secrets, and his wife, Paulina, has become a liability. His life would be so much better without her in it.
  		 
  It’s the mid-’60s in Toronto, and Lenny works for a ruthless gangster whose travel agency is a front for a collections racket in the Kensington Market area. Lenny’s days are spent with his partner, Gabe, terrorizing the locals into paying protection on their shops and their lives. On the side, Lenny and Gabe co-own a tenement block that they bought with dirty money borrowed from shady individuals. Overextended, Lenny plans to pay them back with more borrowed money from other loans and by re-mortgaging his house, without the knowledge of his wife.
  		 
  Tired of his lies and scheming, Paulina demands a divorce. Lenny is certain she’s going to take him for everything, leaving him unable to pay the debt on the tenement block. And that’s likely to get him pitched off one of his own rooftops. Lenny would rather get than be gotten, so he comes up with a surefire way to end both his marital and money problems — Paulina’s going to have to get whacked.

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  Black Box Betrayal

  Kuuno Rähn

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  In June 2021, Sarah Walker, a meticulous FBI accountant, is handed a seemingly simple assignment in Colorado just before her vacation. Aboard Flight 382 from New York to Denver, disaster strikes when both engines explode shortly after takeoff. Miraculously, Sarah survives the crash, the sole survivor of 160 passengers, only to discover the horrifying truth: the crash was no accident, but a meticulously planned sabotage by the very agency she served. The botched explosion, intended to leave no trace, has instead left a witness – her.  
  Haunted by the fiery carnage and hunted by her former colleagues, Sarah embarks on a perilous journey across continents. From the deceptive tranquility of Germany, where a calculated romance with FBI spy Albert Hoffman crumbles into deadly betrayal, to the brutal confines of an American prison, and finally to the vibrant but precarious streets of Haiti, Sarah is relentlessly pursued. As she uncovers the FBI's dark secrets – a web of corruption and abuse of power that reaches the highest levels – she must use all her skills and resilience to expose the truth and survive, even if it means sacrificing everything. But the FBI's reach is long, and their secrets are worth killing for, leading Sarah to a tragic final confrontation where she utters, "This is the end..." before taking her own life.

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