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  Alice Adams

  Booth Tarkington

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  Alice Adams follows the day-to-day life of a young woman who dreams of climbing the social ladder and escaping from her middle-class background. 
  She struggles with the constant tension between her parents and her older brother. When a wealthy young man becomes interested in her, she weaves a fictional life during their discussions—but how long can she maintain the façade?

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  Shunned House The (The Work of H...

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  "The Shunned House" is a horror fiction novelette by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written on October 16–19, 1924. It was first published in the October 1937 issue of Weird Tales.
  For many years, the narrator and his uncle, Dr. Elihu Whipple, have nurtured a fascination with an old abandoned house on Benefit Street. Dr. Whipple has made extensive use of records tracking the mysterious, yet apparently coincidental, sickness and death of many who have lived in the house for over one hundred years. They are also puzzled by the strange weeds growing in the yard, as well as an unexplained foul smell and whitish phosphorescent fungi growing in the cellar. There, the narrator discovers a strange, yellowish vapour in the basement, which seems to be coupled with a moldy outline of a huddled human form on the floor. The narrator and his uncle decide to spend the night in the house, investigating the possibility of some supernatural force. They set up both cots and chairs in the cellar, arm themselves with military flamethrowers, and outfit a modified Crookes tube in the hopes of destroying any supernatural presence they might find.

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  The Stormer

  Gurmeet Mattu

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  Davina was her name and she pleaded that I should not write this, that I should not expose her to the world. Apologies, sweet Davey, whose standard would I bear if your starlit eyes had not so pleaded. Those days are gone. 
  These are the opening words of the Stormer, a romantic comedy set in Glasgow. It sees struggling artist,Hugh, think he's made it when he's commissioned to paint a mural on the gable end wall of a tenement in his beloved home town. He paints a nude of his long-lost first love, Davina. But she's married to a senior cop now who's none too pleased to see his wife depicted that way. 
  Enter a whimsical world where romantic ideals meet sheer idiocy, featuring a biker called Midden, a tramp called the Shame, a gang leader called Slab and a stuningly gorgeous redhead called The Stormer.

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  Riot Kings - A Reverse Harem...

  Ruby Vincent

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  A secret lies at the heart of this town. At the heart of my tragedies. 
  And I won’t stop until I find the truth. 
  Unfortunately, I can’t count all the obstacles in my way. 
  The battle between the Crows and Bedlam Boys is heating up. 
  No one is safe. No one is innocent. 
  Every move to protect the people I love brings them closer to danger, and I never thought that list would include the Bedlam Boys. 
  They’re falling for me. 
  Bringing me deeper into their world where I’ve never felt so safe and protected. 
  All I want is to beat back the shadows creeping into our lives. 
  But the more I discover, the more I begin to wonder if the person I can’t trust is myself. 
  Riot Kings is a dark contemporary reverse harem romance. This is the second book in The Bedlam Boys series.

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  Maya's Common Law Battle

  Jeffrey Morris

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  He took the oceanfront house. He stole the painting. He underestimated her.  
  They had built a life together. The law says it was never hers.  
  Maya Carson poured years of work, love, and savings into the Beach House she shared with Julian Barrett. She paid all the bills, invested everything in the renovation, painted every wall, sanded the floors and trim, rebuilt the gardens, and imagined the family they might one day have.  
  But when the relationship shatters, Maya faces a brutal truth: she was never married, and her name was never on the title. In the eyes of the Barrett family, she owns nothing. Julian’s older brother, Lucas—ambitious, calculating, and determined to control the Barrett estate—moves fast. He demands the sale of the Beach House, the transfer of a valuable vacant lot, and the return of a rare Riopelle painting Maya helped protect for years.  
  In a jurisdiction with no statutory protection for common-law partners, her years of contribution vanish on paper. But Maya refuses to be bullied. What follows is a tense, intimate fight over home, loyalty, and the stories families tell to justify what they claim. Caught between the man she once trusted and the brother who never hid his contempt, Maya steps into a high-pressure mediation that becomes a turning point in all their lives. Inside that room—off-limits to the public—truths are revealed, alliances shift, and the past refuses to stay buried. 
  In the mediation session, sit next to the mediator and watch the negotiations unfold in a true to life legal drama.  
  A gripping, emotionally layered novel about betrayal, inheritance, resilience, and one woman’s battle to claim the life she built when love alone isn’t enough to protect her.

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  A Night in the Lonesome October

  Roger Zelazny

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  Loyally accompanying a mysterious knife-wielding gentleman named Jack on his midnight rounds through the murky streets of London, good dog Snuff is busy helping his master collect the grisly ingredients needed for an unearthly rite that  
  will take place not long after the death of the moon. But Snuff and his master are not alone. All manner of participants, both human and not, are gathering with their ancient tools and their animal familiars in preparation for the dread night. It  
  is brave, devoted Snuff who must calculate the patterns of the Game and keep track of the Players—the witch, the mad monk, the vengeful vicar, the Count who sleeps by day, the Good Doctor and the hulking Experiment Man he fashioned  
  from human body parts, and a wild-card American named Larry Talbot—all the while keeping Things at bay and staying a leap ahead of the Great Detective, who knows quite a bit more than he lets on.  
   
  Boldly original and wildly entertaining, A Night in the Lonesome October is a darkly sparkling gem, an amalgam of horror, humor, mystery, and fantasy. First published in 1993, it was Zelazny’s last book prior to his untimely death. Many  
  consider it the best of the fantasy master’s novels. It has inspired many fans to read it every year in October, a chapter a day, and served as inspiration for Neil Gaiman’s brilliant story “Only the End of the World Again.”

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