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  Stories From The Shadows – Art &...

  W F Harvey, Jan Neruda, Willa...

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  An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.  
  But where do these ideas and stories come from?  A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form?  An inspiration from a Muse?  A suggestion from an everyday event? 
  Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work.  They help to nourish single words into sentences and paragraphs that ease themselves from the shadows and are suddenly upon us in twisted revelation that may thrill, may disturb, but will always engage and help us explore the edge of darkness where some of the very best literature patiently lurks …. waiting …. for the likes of me and you.

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  The Emperor's Pearl - A Judge...

  Robert van Gulik

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  The latest puzzling mystery facing Jude Dee begins on the night of the Poo-yang dragonboat races in 699 A.D.: a drummer in the leading boat collapses, and the body of a beautiful young woman turns up in a deserted country mansion. There, Judge Dee—tribunal magistrate, inquisitor, and public avenger—steps in to investigate the murders and return order to the Tang Dynasty. 
   
  In The Emperor’s Pearl, the judge discovers that these two deaths are connected by an ancient tragedy involving a near-legendary treasure stolen from the Imperial Harem one hundred years earlier. The terrifying figure of the White Lady, a river goddess enshrined on a bloodstained altar, looms in the background of the investigation. Clues are few and elusive, but under the expert hand of Robert van Gulik, this mythic jigsaw puzzle assembles itself into a taut mystery. 
   
  "If you have not yet discovered Judge Dee and his faithful Sgt. Hoong, I envy you that initial pleasure which comes from the discovery of a great detective story. For the magistrate of Poo-yang belongs in that select group of fictional detectives headed by the renowned Sherlock Holmes." —Robert Kirsch, Los Angeles Times 
   
  This audiobook is expertly read by Peter Kim, with audio engineering by Sam Platt. It was produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.

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  A Spirited Swindler

  Clare Lockhart

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  Empty nested and eager to start a new chapter in life, Quinn Delaney is almost ready to open her new lakeside café in the small town of Bookend Bay. 
   
   
   
  But her excitement turns to trepidation when she realizes she's being followed. 
   
   
   
  Confronting the stranger sets Quinn on a course where her problems no longer revolve around selecting a feature scone. She's suddenly questioning everything she believed about her marriage and her sanity. Midlife isn't supposed to bring a change like this! 
   
   
   
  When police question her about a murder, Quinn confides in her best friend Toni, the only one she can trust with her unbelievable secret: she's being stalked by a conniving ghost. 
   
   
   
  Things go from bad to worse when the ghost makes her agenda clear—an exchange of favors that could save or sink Quinn's café before she serves her first spiced latte. 
   
   
   
  The closer she gets to the truth behind the swindler's murder, the more afraid she becomes of a horrible secret that could ruin her life. 
   
   
   
  Now, she can't help thinking some secrets should rest in peace. Can she save her café and solve a murder before her life is ruined?

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  Charlotte Temple

  Susanna Rowson

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  Charlotte Temple, a cautionary tale for young women, follows the unfortunate adventures of the eponymous heroine as she is seduced by a dashing soldier, Montraville. Influenced by both her lover and an unruly teacher at her boarding school, she is persuaded to run away to America, where she is eventually abandoned by Montraville after he becomes bored, leaving her alone and pregnant. First published in England in 1791, it went on to become America's bestselling novel, only being ousted by Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. (Summary by BumbleVee)

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  A Poisoning at Castle Gloaming -...

  Kay Blythe

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  After a two-day train journey, peripatetic dressmaker Jemima Flowerday makes the final approach to her new job on foot, following the canal to Castle Gloaming, which stands in the rugged North Wales countryside overlooking the foaming River Dee.
  Jemima has come to clothe Mrs Cornelia van Doorn, a wealthy South African widow who has leased the castle from its impoverished aristocratic owner, intending to launch herself and her young stepdaughter, Honor, into London society. But on her arrival she's told she's actually been summoned to investigate the disappearance of the girl. Even in a place still haunted by mystery and magic, the seventeen-year-old can't have melted into thin air…

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  Paws Promises and Peril -...

  Faith Walker

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  Valentine's Day is just around the corner, and love is in the air in the quaint town of Cottageville. Dog groomer Sarah Carter, owner of Carter's Canine Coiffure, is feeling the pressure of overseeing the first annual Valentine's Day Pet Parade with her trusty Australian red heeler cattle dog, Whiskey, by her side. But if planning an all-day event for more than two hundred pets and their people wasn’t anxiety-producing enough, Sarah’s stress level skyrockets when a historic tree in Cottageville Park becomes the victim of an arsonist and Sarah’s best friend’s engagement party is overshadowed by a shocking theft. 
   
  Can Sarah and Whiskey and their closest friends find the fire starter and the thief before they strike again? Or will they all find themselves tangled in mysteries that could unravel more than just ribbons and hearts.

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