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  The Screwtape Letters

  C. S. Lewis

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  A Masterpiece of Satire on Hell’s Latest Novelties and Heaven’s Unanswerable Answer 
  C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters has entertained and enlightened readers the world over with its sly and ironic portrayal of human life and foibles from the unique vantage point of Screwtape, a highly placed assistant to “Our Father Below.” At once wildly comic, deadly serious, and strikingly original, C.S. Lewis gives us the correspondence of the wordly-wise devil to his nephew Wormwood, a novice demon in charge of securing the damnation of an ordinary young man. The Screwtape Letters is the most engaging account of temptation—and triumph over it—ever written. 

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  Dangerous Pursuits

  Susan Hunter

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  A pair of fancy red stiletto heels is found in a Wisconsin cornfield. The strangled body of a shoeless young woman in a red sequined cocktail dress is discovered the next day in a wood miles away. 
   
   
   
  That's the start of a twisty, tangled crime that sends author and struggling newspaper owner Leah Nash in pursuit of a cold-blooded killer. 
   
   
   
  As a dancer at the local strip club, the dead girl had ties to several prominent men who are anxious to remain secret. A naïve club bouncer was in love with her. She had a fling with a small-time conman. The list of potential murder suspects is growing by the minute. 
   
   
   
  Convinced that the police are after the wrong man, Leah and her overeager new reporter, Troy, dive headlong into the investigation. 
   
   
   
  But the killer's identity is a moving target. Witnesses lie, suspects won't talk, suspicions rise, distrust is sown as the murderer manipulates events behind the scenes. Everyone has secrets to conceal—some criminal, some shameful, some both. 
   
   
   
  And when a suspicious accident threatens to derail the investigation, Leah realizes that someone will do anything to keep their secrets safe. 
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  Drachen 3: Working Vacation

  Duffy Weber

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  Alex is bored. He's tired of being a sales rep for a communications company, and getting sent off regularly to the middle of nowhere. 
  Luckily, he sees a golden opportunity: the chance to swap with Daavi, one of the company's contractors, skipping off to a tropical island instead, to help Daavi's business partner Fran implement a new accounting system. Alex jumps at the chance for a sunny, low-key adventure, and trades places with him, dragging his junior colleague Vivica along for the ride. 
  But Alex has forgotten that 'adventure' and 'vacation' aren't the same thing. He finds that island life has its pitfalls. 
  Daavi isn't off the hook either: He's to travel out to a job site suspended over a ravine in a nature preserve. Aside from being mildly terrified of heights, Daavi has brought along his best friend Darryl, and their expectant wives, Millie and Stella, which might not have been the best idea with a vengeful, disgruntled ex-employee from Alex's company skulking around with a personal axe to grind. 
  To top it all off, Millie's baby is almost due, and expecting Drachen mothers can be, as Daavi puts it "adorably unpredictable." 
  This could all end without incident. But it's unlikely.

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  Silence - A Fable

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  Demon recounts the story of how he tormented a man in the Congo. The man was seated on a rock on the edge of a churning river. The river was bordered by water-lillies and surrounded by a forest of poisonous flowers. The man trembled in fear but did not run from the world he saw. Demon then cast a spell that turned the world into a violent one. The winds raged. The earth shook, but the man remained still trembling. The Demon then cast a spell of silence. The Earth ceased to move. The wind stopped as did the water. There was complete silence. The man stood and strained to hear something. The man was then overcome with terror and “fled afar off, in haste.”

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  The Cabin of Nowhere - Dandelion

  Flint Maxwell

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  Beware . . . The Cabin of Nowhere . . . 
   
  On their third anniversary, young couple June and Carson take a weekend camping trip in the secluded Ohio woods to celebrate their love. But when a freak storm moves in, destroying everything in its path, their peaceful getaway quickly turns into a desperate struggle for survival. 
   
  As they search for shelter from the high winds and constant lightning strikes, they stumble upon an abandoned cabin. It is while they're exploring this cabin that the two of them uncover an old library of leatherbound books—all of them without credited authors, all of them with titles written in red. 
   
  Although hesitant at first, June and Carson decide to pass the time by reading one of these strange books. They settle on "Dandelion," a seemingly innocent coming-of-age tale that grows more and more sinister the further into the story they get.Soon, the whispers from these pages echo through the cabin and into reality, and June and Carson realize that the fictional horrors within just may be creeping into their own lives.

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  Felix Unbound

  Cathy Gunn

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  Did you ever wonder what might happen if your cat turned human? When feisty Tiffany loses her temper with boyfriend Anthony, and accidentally topples a set of inherited Egyptian figurines, ancient forces take their mischievous revenge...and grant her careless wish that men were more like her tabby cat Felix.It's fun at first, as Tiffany and Felix gleefully launch him into her social circle, but it soon becomes clear that charismatic Felix spells trouble. As he wins lightning-fast success as a talented artist, Tiffany and her friends' relationships begin to flex and recalibrate - not always for the better.There's something more afoot here; and Tiffany realises that whatever's got into her cat and his art, has appeared before in her curious family.Suspicious elders, Ozzy and Iris, circle as 'Felix' and his artworks peak and spiral into trouble. Tiffany meets a promising new love and, in this tightly-woven dark comedy of manners, develops a conscience about some - but not all - of Felix's effects on her friends' lives. Torn between helping fast-deteriorating Felix evade Ozzy and Iris's sinister grasp, or just washing her hands of him, she finally chooses. But none see coming the bizarre opportunity seized by fading but predatory and cunning Felix.

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