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  Sybil Volume 1 - The Two Nations

  Benjamin Disraeli

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  The novel explores the stark divide between the rich and poor in Victorian England, symbolized as "two nations." Sybil, a working-class woman, and Charles Egremont, an aristocrat, navigate their differing worlds, revealing societal inequities and class tensions. Through their evolving relationship, Disraeli critiques industrialization, political corruption, and social injustice while advocating for reform and unity. Themes of love, loyalty, and moral responsibility intertwine with sharp social commentary, highlighting the struggles of the oppressed and the blindness of privilege. A compelling blend of romance and politics, the novel champions empathy and systemic change to bridge the gap between classes.

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  Hannah's Warrior

  s. e. smith

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  Hannah Bell, the oldest of the three Bell sisters, spends most of her time in the remotest parts of the world photographing endangered animals. She is also gifted with an extraordinary sixth sense which has saved her life on more than one occasion. When she senses something has happened to her littlest sister, Tink, she will do whatever it takes to protect her. What she doesn’t know is her sister’s best friend Cosmos’ new science experiment has opened a portal to another world. A world she is about to be taken to whether she wants to go or not.  Borj ‘Tag Krell Manok is the calmest of his four brothers, or so he always thought. The second oldest, he has been assigned the task by his father and the council to bring the sister of his brother’s bond mate to their world. Borj knows deep down that Hannah is destined to be his bond mate, something he has hoped for since his first mating rite ceremony. What he doesn’t expect when he meets her is her resistance or her independence. When she is kidnapped by a rival clan, Borj will do anything to get her back. Hannah and Borj’s escape into the vast forests of Prime draw them together in a fight not only for their lives but for a deeper understanding and trust between two vastly different worlds. Borj discovers Hannah is a fierce and cunning mate while Hannah discovers Borj is the perfect warrior to protect and love her.

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  Dani Argyle Takes on the Universe

  Vivian Jewell

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  Dani Argyle is a high school student whose best friend is a ghost-- the ghost of her father who has been missing for three years. Because her mother is overwhelmed with grief, Dani must fend for herself and her deaf younger brother.       
  Dani feels like she's fighting the world. Her peers do not accept her because she is overweight; her school is ill-equipped to handle an astute girl with ADHD, and the popular girls hate her for attracting the attention of the mysterious student from Japan. When everything about her life makes her feel confined and powerless, her only goal becomes dropping out of the institution that makes her feel stupid. But when Dani discovers that a psychic has been gutting her mother's finances, she finally has an adversary worth fighting.... if only she can control her own emotions long enough to out-con a con artist.

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  Before the Supreme Court - From...

  Lafcadio Hearn

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  Lafcadio Hearn was born on the 27th June 1850 on the Ionian isle of Levkás in Greece to a British Army officer and a Greek Mother. 
  His father, fearing for his career prospects at being married to a Greek Orthodox wife, sent them to Dublin whilst he continued to advance his career with further postings.  Life there was difficult for mother and son.  His father returned, wounded and traumatised, when Lafcadio was three.  He annulled the marriage and she remarried but had to give up care of Lafcadio to her sister-in law.   
  After brief periods for Catholic education in England and France he emigrated to Ohio in the United States when he was 19, taking on a series of casual jobs before embarking on a career as a journalist, publishing poems and essays in Cincinnati.  It was whilst here that he began a side-line in translating, starting with Gautier and Flaubert.  He married in 1874 to a 20 year old African-American woman in violation of Ohio's anti-miscegenation law.  The marriage soon failed. 
  In 1877 he relocated to New Orleans to write on a variety of themes before picking up a two year assignment from Harper’s to write in the West Indies, where he also wrote his first novel. 
  In 1890 Harper’s sent him to Japan.  Here he left journalism and took the remarkable decision to become a schoolteacher in the north of Japan.   Enraptured by the culture he was driven to explain it in various Western publications to those who had little, if any, knowledge of its culture.  Within the year he had fallen in love with, and married, a high-born Japanese lady, together they would have four children.   
  In 1895 he became a Japanese national and took the name Koizumi Yakumo, Koizumi being his wife’s family name. 
  The following few years, whilst a professor of Literature at the Imperial University of Japan, were his most creative and admired period.   
  Lafcadio Hearn died of heart failure on the 26th of September 1904, in Tokyo, Japan shortly before leaving to deliver a series of lectures at Cornell University in New York State.  He was 54.

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  The Body in the Stairwell - DCI...

  Nick Louth

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  You can run. You can hide. But you can’t escape… 
  Jonathan Hale is terrified. The wealthy property lawyer and money launderer is back home in Surrey after a nightmare experience in a U.S. jail. The police have him under secret surveillance. 
   
  But Hales’s fears lie elsewhere. His plea bargain has earned him the enmity of The Reptile, a notoriously cold-hearted gangster, now confined for life in a maximum-security jail in Arizona thanks to Hale. He’s taken precautions, moved house, hidden his identity and installed security for his wife and family. But still… what if The Reptile escapes? 
   
  For DCI Gillard it should be just another week at work. But before long he is involved in a desperate manhunt that will test him to his very limits. 
   
  Be prepared. 
   
  Strap yourself in for an intense and unforgettable crime thriller that won’t let go, perfect for fans of Karin Slaughter, Cara Hunter and Mark Billingham.

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  The Grandfather Paradox

  Rachel Lawson

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  A magician disappears without a trace and must be found. Blake, also known as The King Of Death, mysteriously vanishes.  
  He is wanted dead or alive for a violent shocking crime, a frame-up, his family suspect. It is suspected he has gone on the run by the police. 
  Is he dead or alive, no one knows, no one has any clue where he is. he could be anywhere in time or space. How will they find him? Where do you find a man who could be anywhere? 
  Lance finds him again as a ghost from the past. As an anomaly, even time can't repress, he can't explain.

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