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  Hunger

  Ian Rogers

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  tbc

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  The War of the Worlds by HG Wells

  H. G. Wells

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  The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells, first serialised in 1897 by Pearson's Magazine in the UK and by Cosmopolitan magazine in the US. 
  Written between 1895 and 1897, it is one of the earliest stories to detail a conflict between mankind and an extra-terrestrial race and is one of the most commented-on works in the science fiction canon. 
  The plot has been related to invasion literature of the time. The novel has been variously interpreted as a commentary on evolutionary theory, British imperialism, and generally Victorian superstitions, fears, and prejudices. Wells said that the plot arose from a discussion with his brother Frank about the catastrophic effect of the British on indigenous Tasmanians. What would happen, he wondered, if Martians did to Britain what the British had done to the Tasmanians, who were wiped out with the last dying in 1876. 
  The War of the Worlds has been both popular (having never been out of print) and influential, spawning half a dozen feature films, a record album, various comic book adaptations, a number of television series, and radio dramas, the most infamous being the 1938 radio programme directed by and starring Orson Welles that allegedly caused public panic among listeners who did not know the Martian invasion was fictional, although the scale of panic is disputed as the program had relatively few listeners. 
  The book was banned immediately in China, Japan, Vietnam, as well as North America due to political and scientific theories touted by the novel.

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  Maya - Illusion - The Story Of...

  Owen Jones

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  Lek begins to wonder whether everything that she had hoped for for fifteen years was all worth it now that she had achieved her goals.

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  The Last Way Home (Prince Edward...

  Liz Johnson

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  When Eli Ross left Prince Edward Island to join the NHL, he left a broken family behind. More than a decade later, he's broke and headed home to an uncertain welcome. He wants to make things right with the family he wronged, but his mom's business partner isn't making it easy. To top it off, the coaching job he's accepted turns out to be far more difficult than he anticipated. 
   
  For years, Violet Donaghy has put everything she had into making Eli's mom's ceramics shop a success, and she's not eager to forgive the man who hurt the family that's taken her in as one of their own. But when the kiln at the shop starts a fire that nearly destroys the studio, she'll need all the help she can get to save the business and their summer income. 
   
  Can these two strong-willed people come together to mend the broken pieces of the Ross family? Or will the ghosts of the past continue to haunt them? 
   
  Return to Prince Edward Island for a romantic story of family, forgiveness, and the power of love. 
   
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  "This testament to the power of family and God's forgiveness will have readers eager to see what Johnson does next."--Publishers Weekly 
   
  "Sweet, small-town romance filled with strong emotion."--Booklist

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  King Solomon's Mines

  H. Rider Haggard

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  "King Solomon's Mines" is a classic adventure novel written by H. Rider Haggard. The story follows the journey of Allan Quatermain, a hunter and explorer, as he leads a small expedition into the uncharted interior of Africa in search of the legendary diamond mines of King Solomon. The novel was first published in 1885 and has since become one of the best-known adventure novels of the 19th century.

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  Ghosts

  Mark Dawson

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  More than a million copies sold. Enjoy the series described by the Daily Telegraph as "a sensation." 
   
   
   
  John Milton was the most dangerous assassin in Group Fifteen, the black-ops organization that solves problems when diplomacy has failed. Now Milton is Her Majesty's most wanted fugitive—an anonymous loner with a deadly set of skills. 
   
   
   
  When Milton is arrested following a brawl in a Texas bar, the last person he expected to bail him out was a glamorous operative from the Russian Secret Service. The Russians blackmail Milton into finding his predecessor. But she's a ghost, like him, and just as dangerous. Milton finds himself in deep trouble, playing the Russians against the British in a desperate race against time with the life of his oldest friend on the line.

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