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  After Me Comes the Flood - A Novel

  Sarah Perry

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  “A beautiful, dream-like, unsettling narrative in which every word, like a small jewel, feels carefully chosen, considered and placed. Rarely do debut novels come as assured and impressive as this one.” —Sarah Waters, New York Times bestselling author of The Paying Guests 
  Elegant, sinister and psychologically complex, After Me Comes the Flood is the haunting debut novel by the bestselling author of The Essex Serpent and Melmoth. 
  One hot summer’s day, John Cole decides to shut his bookshop early, and possibly forever, and drives out of London to see his brother. When his car breaks down on an isolated road, he goes looking for help and finds a dilapidated house. As he approaches, a laughing woman he’s never seen before walks out, addresses him by name and explains she’s been waiting for him. Entering the home, John discovers an enigmatic clan of residents all of whom seem to know who he is, and also claim they have been awaiting him arrival. They seem to be waiting for something else, too—something final… 
  Written before Sarah Perry’s ascension to an internationally bestselling author, After Me Comes the Flood is a spectacular novel of obsession, conviction and providence.   
  After Me Comes the Flood is a haunting and elegant gothic thriller, perfect for fans of psychological suspense books. 
  With a closed bookshop owner and an enigmatic clan of residents, this novel will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very end. 
  HarperCollins 2024

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  The Sins of the Past

  Jason Wallace

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  Kevin Kendrick must come to terms with his grandfather not being who he's always been thought to be and that he killed Kevin's real grandfather decades ago.  As times wears on, Kevin feels his mind slipping away, with each tick of the clock stealing something from him.  Can he learn to forgive and put everything in the past, where it's always been, or can he, a mild-mannered man, bring justice full circle?

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  Short Science Fiction Collection...

  Various Various

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  Science fiction (abbreviated SF or sci-fi with varying punctuation and case) is a broad genre of fiction that often involves sociological and technical speculations based on current or future science or technology.  This is a reader-selected collection of short stories that entered the US public domain when their copyright was not renewed.Summary by Cori Samuel, with Wikipedia input.

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  Nocturnal Blood

  Villimey Mist

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  Anchorage, Alaska. A place where people don't care if someone goes missing. A place where Leia Walker tries her hardest to hide from the world, wanting a normal life without anxiety and OCD. 
  But Leia's bubble pops when an old friend is back in town and twists Leia’s reality . A bloody event proves what Leia is scared to learn—Sophie Gardner, her old high school friend and saviour from the bullies, is a vampire. 
  Forced to run away with Sophie, Leia's life takes a terrifying turn when vampires and hunters come after them. 
  The only thing preventing them from losing themselves is their friendship.. 
  But will it be enough to escape the inevitable blood bath?

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  What's the Moose Munter?

  Sean McNulty

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  Munter lives for his dreams, but lately his dreams have been provoking him.
  Living out his days in the city of Dublin, forgotten and anonymous, he is haunted by an alcoholic past, the pigeon-faced girls of his life, and the ghost of a Japanese rock star.
  While investigating this ghost, Munter meets and befriends Nobuko, a bereaved woman with a fierce drinking problem of her own. Their adventures bring them to late cafes and pub quizzes, as they roam the streets with the pale and the pole-axed, with God, Chinese philosophy . . . and a moose – whatever that is.
  Could Nobuko be Munter's ticket out of exile?
  But when his new ally disappears one night under mysterious circumstances, Munter must face up to all the demons he left behind.
  What's the Moose, Munter? is a ghostly bittersweet tale of lonely souls... and their slime-green cans?

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  The Shadows of Life

  Rachel Lawson

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  "What brings you to the land of the dead? asked Mortimer, the king of the grim reapers to his son another reaper called the Necromancer. 
  "Don't be dramatic, it's just a morgue," said the Necromancer his son. 
  "Did you come to visit your victims?" asked Mortimer, who was in human form like the Necromancer. 
  "No, I came because I needed your help, Dad," said the Necromancer. 
  Mortimer pushed up his glasses which were slipping down his perfect nose. 
  Mortimer put his hands on his perfectly clean lab coat on his perfect hips looking curiously and defiantly at his son ready to rebuff the sharp verbal jab he expected from his son.

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