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  Cadet Morozov

  Dmitry Sheleg

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  So your projects are finally coming to fruition and beginning to yield an income worthy of your noble lineage? You've had a chance to grow your business while enjoying all the perks of a young lord's life? Don’t get too comfortable. This world has a new trial in store for you—the academy awaits, and you're about to become a cadet! 
   
   
   
  "Alert! Formation in the first-floor hall! Uniform number four! Move it, gentlemen! This isn't your family estate!"

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  A Danger Destroyed

  Michael Anderle, Auburn Tempest

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  Ye screw with this lass, ye get put on yer ass. 
   
   
   
  It is the Time of the Colliding Realms—the Keening—the Culling. 
   
   
   
  Everything that happened over the past eighteen months has led to this moment. The good and the bad. The triumphs and the tragedies. Now my family by blood, by choice, and by circumstance face the battle to balance our world's alignment. 
   
   
   
  United as Team Light. 
   
   
   
  When rays of first morn's light warm the depths of the sacred tomb / The powers of dark and light will hold their ground or seal their doom. Yeah, that's not daunting at all. 
   
   
   
  Attacked by powerful players from all sides, enemies, allies, and a few surprise guests rally to fight the fight of the millennium. Even if we win this war, the world as we know it will never be the same. 
   
   
   
  Fiona brings you more druid adventure, family shenanigans, and mythical tales of magic and mystery in A Danger Destroyed, the fifteenth and final installment of the Chronicles of an Urban Druid.

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  The Arrow of Gold - A Story...

  Joseph Conrad

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  In the 1870s, supporters of the pretender to the throne of Spain take advantage of a young man's attraction to the sea to persuade him to run dangerous missions on their behalf, with the financial support of a beautiful but exceedingly baffling young heiress, with whom the young man is soon giddily in love. Told largely in the first person, the novel is unusual, for Conrad, in focusing largely on the evolving psychology of a young man in the throes of a great romantic passion.

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  Shallow Death - A Hettie Shaw Novel

  Valerie Gee

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  Broken-hearted after a tragic accident killed her husband and daughter, Hettie Shaw, in her mid-fifties, finds escape in the arms of younger men. When military-trained, Sir Charles reluctantly hires Hettie to solve a blackmail case, it leads to a growing partnership. Their investigation causes a chain reaction that reveals a sinister web surrounding the Welsh town. As they dig deeper, Hettie bites off more than she can chew, and only Gran’s words of wisdom from beyond the grave stop Hettie from becoming a murder victim herself. 
  Set in present-day Wales, UK., free-spirited, PI Hettie Shaw is a feisty, fun, femme fatale, who strides into every situation with head high and a druid insight at full throttle. When troubled Lady Gwen falls to her death from Castle Cliff, everyone thinks she committed suicide. But, when the police accuse her twin brother, Lord Ambrose of murder, he hires Sir Charles and Hettie Shaw to clear his name. As they investigate the twisting trail through the underbelly of Wales, it leads Hettie to insist they exhume the bodies of Lord Ambrose’s parents, which uncovers a terrible family secret. 
  Meanwhile, Charles is battling his own problems with his new fiancé—an out-of-control spendthrift. Finally, the brutal murder of a young girl leads them to a dungeon where both Hettie and Charles race against time to save themselves from falling victim to the deadly killer.

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  Walden

  Henry David Thoreau

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  "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately..."
  
  In 1845, Henry David Thoreau moved into a small cabin he built himself on the shores of Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. His goal was simple: to strip away the "superfluities" of modern life and discover what is essential. Walden is the extraordinary record of those two years, two months, and two days. Part memoir, part philosophical treatise, and part natural history, it serves as a powerful call to awaken from the "quiet desperation" of a consumer-driven society and reconnect with the rhythms of the natural world.
  
  The Economy of the Soul: Thoreau begins his journey with a radical audit of human needs. He meticulously tracks his expenses—down to the last cent spent on beans and nails—to prove that true freedom comes not from wealth, but from the reduction of one's requirements. By minimizing labor, he maximizes his "leisure" for thinking, reading, and observing the changing seasons.
  
  A Blueprint for Modern Mindfuless: Though written over 170 years ago, Walden's critique of a life spent working just to pay for "modern improvements" resonates more than ever. Thoreau's insights on the value of solitude, the beauty of the wild, and the necessity of individual conscience have inspired generations of environmentalists, social reformers, and seekers of a simpler path.
  
  Step away from the noise. Purchase "Walden" today and learn to live deep.

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  Further Chronicles of Avonlea

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

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  Nestled between the ocean and the hills of Prince Edward Island is a road. This road leads to the house—Green Gables—where a girl named Anne grew up, and to the wonderful place called Avonlea.In this second volume of heartwarming tales by L. M. Montgomery, a Persian cat plays an astonishing part in a marriage proposal; a ghostly appearance in a garden leads a woman to the fulfillment of her youthful dreams; a young girl risks losing her mother to find the father she never knew; and a foolish lie threatens to make an unattached woman a laughingstock when an imaginary lover actually comes to town. Filled with warmth, humor, and mystery, these unforgettable stories re-create the enchanting world of Avonlea.

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