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  Wood's Deception - Action &...

  Steven Becker

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  When a routine Ghost Trap Rodeo turns deadly, Mac Travis is dragged into the most explosive fight for the Florida Keys he’s ever faced. 
  A cold front has blown through the islands, scattering abandoned stone crab traps across Pine Channel. What should be a simple cleanup turns sinister when Mac, Bear, and Trufante haul up a trap packed with more than old line and algae—inside is a cache of engineered chemicals capable of destroying entire sections of reef. 
  Someone is using the traps to hide a weapon… and they’re not finished. 
  All signs point to a rival fishing boat run by Garland Hughes and his fiercely ambitious daughter, Isabella—locals with deep roots and deeper grudges. But when an eager young intern named Caitlyn stumbles onto something even bigger, Mac realizes the threat isn’t coming from a single boat… it’s part of a generational power play stretching from Key West politics to the dark side of the crab fishery. 
  As loyalties fracture and the water turns violent, Mac must navigate old feuds, shifting alliances, and a deadly conspiracy rooted in greed and environmental sabotage. With Mel questioning her place in his dangerous world, and Caitlyn proving she may be in way over her head, Mac is forced to choose between the people he loves and the islands he calls home. 
  In the unforgiving waters of the Florida Keys, even the smallest trap can hide a monster. 
  Packed with action, authentic Keys flavor, and characters as rough and real as the tides, this new Mac Travis Adventure delivers heart-pounding suspense from the first page to the last.

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  Love's Elixir: A Scientific...

  Ella Stories

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  In a town infamous for its seasonal love potion festival, a straight-laced scientist finds himself inexplicably drawn to the charismatic potion maker. Fighting against the whimsical magic surrounding him, he sets out to debunk the supposed love spell, only to question whether science can truly explain the spiraling sensation in his heart.

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  Dressing Up for the Carnival - A...

  Carol Shields

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  Carol Shields had a knack for turning the ordinary into the extraordinary and nowhere more than in this luminous collection of short stories. Throughout these stories runs Shields' preoccupation with identity—as in the title story, about a compacted day in the life of the world, in which a procession of characters try on new selves. Yet these stories and their quiet epiphanies reflect all the contrasts of human existence—from the bittersweet sexuality of "Eros" to the wicked skewering of pompous academic conversation in "The Next Best Kiss." Playful, graceful, acute yet tender, Dressing Up for the Carnival distills all Shields' elegance, wisdom, and humor into stories that are more like concise novels.

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  Demir-Kaya - From their pens to...

  Alexander Kuprin

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  Alexander Kuprin was born in Narovchat, Penza in Russia on 7th September 1870. 
  At 3 his Father died and he and mother moved to Moscow. By 10 he was enrolled at the Second Moscow Military High School and there his interest in literature began. The Alexander Military Academy followed and two years later he was a sub-lieutenant and posted to an Infantry Regiment for a further four years. 
  Despite his duties he was a now a keen writer and published his first short story at this time. His military duties also garnered him experiences for his breakthrough work ‘The Duel’.  Leaving the military he left for Kiev to work for local newspapers.  He continued to publish both stories and novels and by 1901 he was in St Petersburg becoming part of a group that included Chekhov, Ivan Bunin, Maxim Gorky and Leonid Andreyev.  
  In the years that followed further controversial works and acclaim followed.  His comments on the regime meant he was also put under secret police surveillance.   
  As World War I erupted, Kuprin opened a military hospital but was then given command of an infantry company in Finland. He was soon discharged on grounds of ill health.  
  The October Revolution saw him praise Lenin, but he warned that the Bolsheviks threatened Russian culture and might cause further widespread suffering to the peasants.  As Civil War raged he took his family to Helsinki and then on to Paris. 
  Exile saw his talents decline further and his succumbing to alcoholism. He became lonely and withdrawn. The family's poverty increased his malaise.   
  In May 1937, the Kuprin’s returned to Moscow.  He now saw his work published but wrote almost nothing new.  In 1938 his health rapidly deteriorated.  Already suffering from a kidney problems and sclerosis, he had now developed cancer of the oesophagus.  
  Alexander Kuprin died on 25th August 1938.

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  Top 10 Short Stories The - The...

  Mikhail Bulgakov, Franz Kafka, D...

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  Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart.  A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. 
   
  In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?  
   
  The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme.  Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. 
   
  Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made.  If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. 
   
  In this decade Europe is recovering from the Great War yet already the poisonous seeds for the next, even greater calamity, are taking root.  Our literary leviathans bring tales of pain and heartache, sorrow and humanity into every narrative.  Genius has many names. 
   
  1 - The Top 10 - The 1920's - The Europeans - An Introduction 
  2 - Morphine by Mikhail Bulgakov 
  3 - A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka 
  4 - The Horse Dealer's Daughter by D H Lawrence 
  5 - Twilight Alley by Stefan Zweig 
  6 - The Tale Of The Stairs by Hristo Smirenski 
  7 - The Imbecile by Luigi Pirandello 
  8 - My First Goose by Isaac Babel 
  9 - The Loathly Opposite by John Buchan 
  10 - Vampire's Prey by Hanns Heinz Ewers 
  11 - Rhapsody by Dorothy Edwards

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  Crimes on Lake Maggiore and Lake...

  AA. AA.VV

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  Fifteen crime stories set on or nearby the beautiful Lake Maggiore and Lake d'Orta.
  The backdrop for these stories are Stresa, Levo, Belgirate, Santa Caterina del Sasso, Luino, Maccagno, Sesto Calende, Brissago, Mergozzo, Orta and Pettenasco. Fifteen authors with different styles and united by a love of the lakes and a passion for writing.

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