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  Curtain Call

  David Lemon

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  Former mind reader Leticia Faye thought her music hall days were behind her - but charismatic preacher Joshua King has other ideas. With little persuasion, Leticia becomes part of King’s act; magic mixed with a rabble-rousing call for revolution.Leticia enjoys the limelight, but is soon plagued by glimpses of a terrifying future. Is King’s ‘gospel’ all it seems to be? And what ‘role’ does he really want her to play?

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  High Crime Area - Tales of...

  Joyce Carol Oates

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  Eight stories from the author of A Book of American Martyrs that display her “mastery of imagery and stream of consciousness” (Kirkus Reviews).   Joyce Carol Oates is an unparalleled investigator of human personality. In these eight stories, she deftly tests the bonds between damaged individuals—brother and sister. teacher and student, two lonesome strangers on a subway—in the beautiful, bracing prose that has become her signature.   In the title story, a white, aspiring professor in Detroit tries to shake a black, male shadow during the summer of the city’s 1967 race riots. In “The Rescuer,” a promising graduate student detours to inner-city Trenton, New Jersey, to save her brother from a downward spiral, only to find herself entranced by his dangerous new world. Meanwhile, a young woman prowls the New York City subways in search of her perfect man in “Lorelei.” In each of these short stories, Oates portrays a desperate confrontation with the demons inside us. Sometimes it’s the human who wins, and sometimes it’s the demon.   “Oates offers unexpected glimmers of redemption amid the grotesquerie, degradation, and exploitation that fill this collection’s eight tales.” —Publishers Weekly

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  Tales Of Mystery & Imagination -...

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  Edgar Allan Poe was one of the most important and influential American writers of the 19th century. He was the first author to try to make a professional living as a writer. Much of Poe's work was inspired by the events that happened around him. His poetry alone would ensure his spot in the literary canon. Poe's notable verses range from the early masterpiece "To Helen" to the dark, mysterious "Ulalume." From "The Raven," which made him world-famous upon its publication in 1845, to "Annabel Lee," the posthumously published eulogy for a maiden "in a kingdom by the sea." Most famously, Poe completely transformed the genre of the horror story with his masterful tales of psychological depth and insight not envisioned in the genre before his time and scarcely seen in it since. Stories like "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Cask of Amontillado," "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Masque of the Red Death," and "The Fall of the House of Usher" reveal Poe's talent at its height. He was an early pioneer in the genre of science fiction. 
   
  Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States, and of American literature.

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  The Ankardine Pew

  W. F. Harvey

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  William Fryer Harvey (1885-1937) was an English writer of short stories, most notably in the mystery and horror genres, in which many of his works are recognized as masterpieces of the genre. "The Ankardine Pew" is one of W. F. Harvey's most famous works. It is a curious tale of a house haunted by the tortured soul of a previous owner who had once committed a most dreadful and unusual atrocity.

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  Number of the Beast - Paladin Cycle

  Max Redford, Lita Stone

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  An Epic Supernatural Thriller That Not Only Bends Space-and-Time But Also Genres 
   
  When a cosmic war brews between the Zodiac races and their gods, the life of a young waitress from small-town Texas becomes the key to saving or destroying the multiverses. And all hope may depend on a young warrior from a secret faction that has been fighting against cosmic evils since the fall of Sodom and Gomorrah.  
  Set in Contemporary USA, this epic supernatural thriller series crosses multiple genres including fantasy, mystery thriller, horror, erotica and romance with seamless transitions. And features a sprawling ensemble cast of all ages, races, and even species. It is genuine Fiction with all the genre trimmings thwarted. 
   
  === WARNINGS: === 
  Reader Discretion Is Advised! 
  Mature content: adult language, graphic (sometimes twisted) sex, gore and violence. 
   
  This is book one of the Paladin Cycle series. These ARE NOT stand alone books.  
   
  “I loved it! I know, it gets a little rough and rowdy sometimes, but that just adds to the overall feeling of the story. I'm a grandmother and I'm looking forward to reading the next book to find out what happens!” 
   
  “I went into this listen after having read/listen to a lengthy list of either light-hearted or YA books for the past few months. Number of the Beast reminded me that I do enjoy purely adult fiction. 
   
  That is what this is, adult and dark and disturbing. I was disturbed in ways I haven’t been since opening my very first Stephen King back in high school. If that is what you are looking for, please pick this up. Good writing is getting hard to find.”  
   
  “If you like your reading to be a maze of action, adventure, violence, sensuality, romance, politics, intrigue and maybe even a little social commentary, this book is probably for you.” 
   
  ". . . adult and dark and disturbing." 
  "An exciting and riveting page turner that has everything magic, paladins, love, sex, mythical beasts, and a whole realm of gods & demigoddesses." 
  "This book was phenomenal. I couldn't put it down!"

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  The Wrong Turn

  Tracey Chizoba Fletcher

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  In this dark fantasy adventure, an aimless young man finds his soul put to the ultimate test in the Land of the Dead.At twenty-eight years old, Chike wasn’t so much living as merely existing. He took each day as it came, with no particular plan or purpose. But now Chike faces a choice that could be described as life-or-death . . . if it weren’t for the fact that he was already in the Land of the Dead . . . Chike had been lost in thought when a simple wrong turn brought him to an abandoned house. By the time he felt the strange sensation of being transported, it was already too late. Now he must find the exit back to the Land of the Living, or risk forfeiting his soul. But something is terribly wrong in this strange other realm—something he could potentially set right . . . if he chooses to try.

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