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  Echoes of the Veil - A Military...

  Michael Zmuda

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  In the deep forests of Veridia, Amelia is an outcast, cursed with visions of a sterile, metallic world that haunts the edges of her reality. In the perfect, logical city of the Axiom, Sergeant Owen Howard is an elite soldier, tasked with sterilizing the chaotic ‘errors’ that bleed into his world—anomalies from a reality he is sworn to erase. 
  When a catastrophic military experiment shatters the barrier between their realities, Owen is the sole survivor, stranded in the vibrant, impossible world he was trained to destroy. He is rescued by Amelia, the very woman whose ‘madness’ allows her to see the truth, and they must form a desperate alliance. She is a master of the world’s hidden magic; he is a weapon of cold, hard logic. 
  Now, they are hunted. In Veridia, a fanatical lord leads a witch hunt, determined to see Amelia burn at the pyre. From the Axiom, a silent black-ops team arrives with a single, chilling directive: terminate the rogue agent Owen and sanitize his mistake by eliminating all witnesses. Caught between zealots and ghosts, their only hope for survival lies in trusting the one person they were taught to see as the enemy. 
  But the true threat is far greater than any army. Their clashing realities are two halves of a sundered world, a prison built to contain a cosmic horror that devours existence. With every battle, the prison walls crack further, and an ancient hunger begins to stir. Amelia’s curse may be a beacon guiding the monster to their door… or it may be the one weapon that can stop the end of everything.

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  Forged

  Merry Farmer

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  The art of love is awakening to things you never knew about yourself with someone you thought was just a friend . . . 
   
   
   
  Nick Turner has always been the big, shy, silent type. He's always let his metalwork and blacksmithing skills speak for him. But now, as a widower with two small children to raise in the midst of the eccentric Hawthorne family and a sculpture that needs completing to make the deadline for a national competition, he knows he's in over his head. 
   
   
   
  Thank God for Baxter Hawthorne dropping into his life . . . 
   
   
   
  Bax Hawthorne is the black sheep of his family. He's an accountant in a sea of artists. But that doesn't mean he's not just as free-spirited and ambitious as his kin. The one thing he never thought he'd be, however, was a father. But when he's thrown into proximity with Nick and ends up helping to take care of his kids in a pinch, all that might change. 
   
   
   
  Nick could have sworn he was straight, but the closer he gets to Bax, the more he questions that. 
   
   
   
  Could one night of sparks between them end up forging a bond that brings the whole family together? 
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  Starbound

  Joe Haldeman

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  Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and John W. Campbell Award winner Joe Haldeman has given the world such science fiction masterpieces as The Forever War and Forever Peace. Here he tells the tale of Carmen Dula's six-year journey through space to the home of The Others, where she represents Earth in hopes of forging a peace accord. But due to Relativity, 50 Earth years have passed since Carmen left. And while humans have been busy constructing an enormous flotilla of warships, The Others possess power and technology far beyond anything Earth can imagine. ". important and entertaining ."-Library Journal

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  The Light That Failed

  Rudyard Kipling

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  This novel, first published in 1890, follows the life of Dick Heldar, a painter. Most of the novel is set in London, but many important events throughout the story occur in Sudan or India. It was made into a 1916 film with Jose Collins and a 1939 film by Paramount starring Ronald Colman.It is a tale of of a man who loves his work, friends and boats and starts in Dick’s childhood, then takes you through his life – the war in Sudan, friends abroad, life in England, his love for Maisie, the obstacles those closest to him meet when a very independent man fights becoming dependant and finally the life changes Dick faces as his eyes fail him.(summary by Magdalene)

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  A Slow Fall

  Mark Ayling

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  Alistair Duncan is nearly killed and it’s unclear this is an accident or deliberate attempt on his life. He returns from hospital to find his girlfriend has thrown him out and he takes refuge with Jon, a War Gaming loner with perceptive insight into people. Ally’s ex-wife goes missing and he is framed for her murder by a struggling painter with no talent who is having an affair with both Ally’s girlfriend and ex-wife. Meanwhile an Asian policeman suffering from a terminal condition and his female partner get caught up in these people lives which reaches a murderous conclusion. 
  A Slow Fall is a literary fiction novel. There are ambiguous and unfulfilled relationships between the characters and all to a greater or lesser extent are living in a society they cannot fully participate in. The major themes are of being displaced and marginalised, of racism and the mediocrity of those included.

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  Lovers in Paradise

  Barbara Cartland

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  Beautiful young Roxana Barclay cannot bear to see her wealthy widowed mother, Lady Barclay, marry a raffish fortune-seeker five years her junior.
   
  And so she flees to join her Dutch aunt and uncle, who are Missionaries, on their voyage to Bali in the East Indies.
   
  Matters are complicated further when Roxana discovers en route that her aunt is with child.
   
  Tragically her aunt dies of a fever after the difficult birth of her son, Karel, and then her grief-stricken uncle is found dead too, struck down Roxana is convinced by a Black Magic curse.
   
  Terrified of the colonial Dutch authorities, who would force Karel into an orphanage if they discovered his existence, Roxana entrusts him for safekeeping to a Balinese family.
   
  To her horror the repellent overweight Dutch Governor takes a predatory interest in her, making it clear that if she refuses to become his mistress he will have her imprisoned or she will be thrown of the Island of Bali. Which she become so attached to.
   
  Worse still the Governor introduces her to a dashing new arrival, Count Viktor van Haan, who also takes a keen interest in her and her beautiful wood carvings, which express so much of her and her attitude to life.
   
  But soon Roxana is surprised to find herself confiding in this handsome stranger and the Count is equally surprised to find that he has fallen in love!

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