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  Fractured Oak

  Annie Boyd

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  It’s hard to catch a killer when the only witness is a tree. 
  “Comprehensive, well-researched, and above all mesmerizing”—Readers’ Favorite 
  In 1853, after Catherine Miller is murdered for daring to become a doctor in a field full of men, a molecular fusion between human decay and natural rebirth transforms her into a Northern Red Oak. One hundred and seventy years later, she remains a mute but sentient tree, rooted near a secluded Northeast Ohio house. After she watches in horror as the newest homeowner murders one of his PhD students, Catherine is resolved, somehow, to see that justice gets served. 
  Fortunately, present-day Catherine has an unwitting ally: Lani Whitaker, a fourth-generation detective facing mandatory retirement and sick of being treated like a dried-up relic by her young chief of police. When the body of that same PhD student turns up in the woods, Lani is determined to solve the case and go out with a win. 
  Two women, generations apart, linked to each other through murder. Can solving a twenty-first-century homicide shed light on a nineteenth-century killer?

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  The Hare - A Short Horror Story

  Michael van der Voort

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  At first, the sound was subtle. A low, almost imperceptible tapping just on the edge of hearing, and yet, from the moment I heard it, the sound conjured that phrase: ‘The patter of tiny feet.’I had always hated that expression, ‘the patter of tiny feet.’ Even as a child, the words had sent a chill through me. I knew, of course, what they were supposed to mean, the joy of offspring, the sound of children in some other room or just out of view, playing merrily and creating said patter with their mischievous stumbling back and forth. In that context, it was a lovely phrase. An idiom that made others think of proud mothers seated downstairs as infants somewhere on the landing above giggled and ran between rooms. But that was for others...

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  Shadows Maps and Other Ancient...

  Meghan Ciana Doidge

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  I had new cupcakes to bake, a new treasure to hunt, and a new dragon in town — literally. Who wouldn’t be ecstatic filling their days with chocolate, trinket collecting, and martial arts training? 
              Yeah … me. 
              Because no matter how much chocolate I ate, I couldn’t fill the dark pit in my soul. A darkness born from blood alchemy. A darkness that reeked of the black magic I now knew I was capable of creating. 
              Maybe it was time to walk away. 
              But what if there were important things left to do? What if I was the only one who could do what needed to be done? 
              I wasn’t sure I could handle the responsibility, but as long as I had my chocolate stash and a good friend to back me up, I was willing to give it a try. 
  Shadows, Maps, and Other Ancient Magic is the fourth book in the Dowser series, which is set in the same universe as the Oracle, Reconstructionist, Amplifier, Archivist, and Misfits of the Adept Universe series. While it is not necessary to read all the series, in order to avoid spoilers the ideal reading order of the Adept Universe begins with Cupcakes, Trinkets, and Other Deadly Magic (Dowser 1). 

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  A Disgraceful Affair - Stories

  Anonymous

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  The short works of Dostoevsky exist in the very large shadow of his astonishing longer novels, but they too are among literature's most revered works and offer keys to understanding the themes in his longer works. Contained in this volume are the short stories ""White Nights,"" ""A Disgraceful Affair,"" and ""The Dream of the Ridiculous Man,"" three of Dostoevsky's most troubling, moving, and poignant works.

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  Their Love Nest - The Men of...

  Frankie Love

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  When Char is out of work and looking for a soft place to land, she never imagined she would wind up in a Love Nest with Bear.She wants a lifetime of happiness, but he isn’t so sure their is such a thing as happily-ever-after.Can their two hearts knit together before it’s too late?This is wild, fertile land, where the men are ready to whisk their women to bed.No hook-ups or one-night stands.Here in the Evergreen Mountains, the men are fiercely loyal.Here, love lasts a lifetime.

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  Poor Vinnie's Valor

  Nikki Elizabeth

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  Lavinia Bellamy, young and rebellious, struggles to accept her parents' insistence on an arranged marriage. Unfortunately for young Vinnie, she's bound to fall victim to the social confines of Tesland, a country governed by a corrupt administration and catered to by a wealthy and dangerous young tech mogul. After time and circumstance ages her, Lavinia's trust in a seemingly charitable individual has a ripple effect that condemns the citizens of Tesland to civil unrest and suffering.

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