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  Nocturnal Blood

  Villimey Mist

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  Anchorage, Alaska. A place where people don't care if someone goes missing. A place where Leia Walker tries her hardest to hide from the world, wanting a normal life without anxiety and OCD. 
  But Leia's bubble pops when an old friend is back in town and twists Leia’s reality . A bloody event proves what Leia is scared to learn—Sophie Gardner, her old high school friend and saviour from the bullies, is a vampire. 
  Forced to run away with Sophie, Leia's life takes a terrifying turn when vampires and hunters come after them. 
  The only thing preventing them from losing themselves is their friendship.. 
  But will it be enough to escape the inevitable blood bath?

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  Aesop's Fables

  Aesop Aesop

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  "Aesop's Fables" is a collection of brief stories, typically featuring animals that speak and behave as humans, and each ending with a moral lesson. Attributed to a slave and storyteller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE, these fables have been translated into countless languages and remain a touchstone in world literature. They have been adapted in literature, theater, and popular culture, teaching values, life lessons, and insights into human nature across generations.

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  Who Has Buried the Dead? - From...

  KGE Konkel

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  The Second World War was fought not only on the front lines but also in secrets, some of which have never been revealed. One such secret was buried in the deep, dark forest of Katyn, Poland. The other in the pages of a notebook hidden in an otherwise unremarkable café in an ancient Polish city.
  		 
  That notebook, known as the Scottish Book, was an obscure work of intellectual gamesmanship between a specialized group of mathematicians who met at a local pub near the town’s medieval university, where they shared and solved complex mathematical problems in the pages of the book. In 1939, as the Nazis overran the country, the book mysteriously vanished from its hiding place in the café. Some of its contributors avoided certain death by fleeing Poland  for America, where the government recruited them. Ultimately, some of these intellectuals became participants in a deadly undertaking: the Manhattan Project.
  		 
  Who Has Buried the Dead? may be fiction, but it draws on years of research to plausibly answer the real questions surrounding one of the last great secrets of the Second World War. What did the Scottish Book contain that led the NKVD, the Gestapo, and the Allies on a desperate search, using any means to find it? Why has its existence not factored into the telling of Second World War history? What is ultimately revealed within the Scottish Book that brought mortal enemies and their top spy operatives into a deadly contest for its discovery and seizure?

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  The Mountain Crown

  Karin Lowachee

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  War between the island states of Kattaka and Mazemoor has left no one unscathed. Méka's nomadic people, the Ba'Suon, were driven from their homeland by the Kattakans. Those who remained were forced to live under the Kattakan yoke, to serve their greed for gold alongside the dragons with whom the Ba'Suon share an empathic connection. 
   
   
   
  A decade later and under a fragile truce, Méka returns home from her exile for an ancient, necessary rite: gathering a king dragon of the Crown Mountains to maintain balance in the wild country. But Méka's act of compassion toward an imprisoned dragon and Lilley, a Kattakan veteran of the war, soon draws the ire of the imperialistic authorities. They order the unwelcome addition of an enigmatic Ba'Suon traitor named Raka to accompany Méka and Lilley to the mountains. 
   
   
   
  The journey is filled with dangers both within and without. As conflict threatens to reignite, the survival of the Ba'Suon people, their dragons, and the land itself will depend on the decisions—defiant or compliant—that Méka and her companions choose to make. But not even Méka, kin to the great dragons of the North, can anticipate the depth of the consequences to her world.

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  Runaway Royal

  Wendi Zwaduk

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  Will this runaway royal ever find her place…and true love?
  
  All Princess Catherine Zara of Lysianna wants to do is attend college like everyone else her age. So she's a royal and requires a security guard to move about in public, but if she goes to university, she doesn't have to marry the man chosen for her. He's not her true love, so why torture herself? All she has to do to get her life started is to run away to the US…
  
  And then she meets Luke.
  
  Luke Cobb wants to survive college with a degree in studio art and guarantees that he can show his paintings in the local galleries. All he needs is the right break to get his work mainstream and the right woman to stoke his dormant muse. When he meets Zara, he's smitten and his creativity sparks.
  
  Except, she's a princess and he's a commoner, which could be a big problem...

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  Dancing on Knives

  Joanne Rush

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  Laura, a Bosnian war survivor and Cambridge University librarian, has long tried to forget the horrors of her past. But when she and her husband Adam move to Serbia, disturbing memories start to emerge. Adam's work as a British diplomat takes him on a mission to capture war criminal General Ratko Mladić, leaving Laura isolated in the very country that invaded her own.
  As the spirits of those murdered in the conflict resurface, Laura finds herself running a guest house for ghosts. They cook, laugh, drink, play cards and share folktales of Bosnian water spirits, reminding Laura of the home she once lost. But when they develop a vengeful interest in the manhunt for Mladić, Laura must decide: are her guests a sign that she is unravelling, or can they help her confront the past she has fled for so long?

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