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  A Line Too Far - Australia Under...

  Barry Colman

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  AUSTRALIA IS REELING. THE WORLD IS IN SHOCK. 
  Chinese commandos in a lightning raid have seized the vast, under-populated, resource-rich lands of Northern Australia. Thousands of Australian soldiers are held hostage. International realpolitik has left Australia abandoned by its supposed allies and its brittle social fabric is rapidly unwinding as the people panic. 
  A Chinese ultimatum demands the annexation of the country’s top half in ten days, or face a full scale invasion. As other politicians clamour to sue for peace, Prime Minister Gary Stone, in a desperate race against time and impossible military and political odds, must commit to a risky and radical plan to try and free the country . . .

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  Entangled Threads - A Victorian...

  M. Louisa Locke

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  “Oh what a tangled web we weave. When first we practice to deceive.” –Marmion, Sir Walter Scott 
  It is San Francisco in the summer of 1882, and Annie and Nate Dawson have finally found a good balance between the demands of family and work. Nate has an interesting legal case defending a young woman who has been left out of her mother’s will. Annie is looking into whether the financial difficulties facing the Potrero Woolen Mills are caused by bad management or bad luck. For her own reasons, Biddy O’Malley is eager to help Annie with her investigation. What none of the three of them could anticipate was how secrets and unexpected entanglements would complicate their search for the truth.  
  Entangled Threads is the eighth full-length novel in the USA Today best-selling author’s Victorian San Francisco Mystery series. However, it can be read as a stand-alone by anyone who enjoys cozy historical mysteries with an amateur female sleuth. 

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  Beneath the Surface - A Gripping...

  LL Hoopes

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  Nothing is as it seems. When Madi Williams gets the call that her sister, Claire, is dead, her world shatters. The police rule it as a suicide—an open-and-shut case. But Madi knows her sister would never take her own life. As she begins digging into the last weeks of Claire’s life, strange inconsistencies and buried secrets emerge. Sarah Palmer owns a successful business, but when one of her employees ends up dead, her perfect world begins to unravel. Someone is watching her. Do they know her secrets? As Sarah's life spirals into a nightmare of paranoia and fear, she must decide who she can trust. Beneath the Surface is a heart-pounding psychological thriller that will keep you guessing until the final shocking twist. Fans of Freida McFadden, Nicolas Sanders, and Sue Watson will love this fast-paced thriller about a sister’s determination to uncover the truth—no matter the cost. Get ready to plunge into the dark and dangerous depths where secrets don’t stay buried for long.

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  Lord Peter Views the Body The...

  Dorothy L. Sayers

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  "The Fascinating Problem Of Uncle Meleager's Will" is a short story from Dorothy Sayers' book, Lord Peter Views the Body.This is apparently the first Lord Peter story; it was originally published in Pearson's Magazine (July 1925).When old Meleager Finch dies, he leaves two wills: the first grants his fortune to the conservative Primrose League, while the second leaves everything to his niece, Hannah, a young, serious socialist. He writes a letter to Hannah explaining that this second will has been hidden somewhere, and that her only chance of finding it is "by the exercise of a sustained frivolity."Lord Peter, his sister Mary, and his valet Bunter travel with Hannah to help her find the missing will. They discover that Meleager was a crossword puzzle fiend, and find a trove of puzzles he had written, including one with no accompanying grid. When Peter falls into the impluvium, he discovers that the missing grid is the tiled floor of the fountain itself, and solving it reveals the location of the missing will.The story is notable for containing an entire crossword puzzle in which all the clues are rhyming couplets (or quatrains).

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  Her Daughter's Lies

  Mikayla Davids

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  I gasp out loud as I step through the door of the beautiful country hotel. My hands fly to my mouth in shock as I see the room is filled with my friends and family, my grown-up daughters and grandchildren at the center, gathered to celebrate my special birthday. 
   
   
   
  Everyone raises their glasses to toast me. I should be enjoying the moment but I'm on edge and I can't relax. Who organized this surprise party? How did they know I was going to be here? 
   
   
   
  Because I didn't come back to Burcott House to drink champagne and dance. Ten years ago, someone was murdered at this hotel. Tonight, after years of heartache, I planned to bury the past once and for all. 
   
   
   
  I look around the crowd of smiling people and my heart thuds as I see the frown on my eldest daughter's face and the way my youngest daughter is smiling widely but her eyes are puffy, like she's been crying. I think about the one person who should be here who isn't . . . 
   
   
   
  My family's secrets and lies swirl around my mind. Can I trust anyone in this room? Can I even trust my own daughters? 
   
   
   
  I was going to finish off what happened all those years ago but did someone else have the same idea? And will I survive my own birthday party?

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  Dear Butterfly - Wishes from the...

  Natalie R. Murphy

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  From Award-winning author Natalie R. Murphy. It has been 5 years since the tragedy of losing her boyfriend to violence and the abduction of their infant daughter turned Mya Stevenson's life upside down. She along with her two best friends, Shantel and Toni, have relocated to the small, up-and-coming town of Jasperville, IL. Now the owner of Pages Bookstore and Cafe in the small downtown area, Mya has moved on with her life, with the exception of love. She has allowed the fear of loving and losing, again, to prevent her from even entertaining the idea of a relationship. However, when the charming Reese Stallworth, the owner of Dapper Gents barber shops, rescues her from a flat tire in a rainstorm, feelings that she had long since buried are awakened. But as their relationship blossoms, Shantel's detective boyfriend gets a curious bug in his police cap and re-opens Mya's baby abduction case. The shocking revelations he uncovers will totally rock Mya's world. "Dear Butterfly...Wishes from the Heart" is a second chance at romance, captivating love story that will have your heart breaking, smiling, and bursting with love in the end!  Narrated by Joyce Licorish with DreamEmpire Productions

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