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  Born Unto Mayhem

  Timothy J. R. Rains

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  In an Age of Fear ...When Berserkers Haunt the Forests of Scandinavia ...A New Terror Rises in the North ... 
  I'm sixteen this year, and my mother says I should marry soon.  
  Loki.  
  I'd already be married if any cheiftains' sons were man enough to have me. 
  When I do find a husband though, I'll inherit the village of Borg, which as the Princess of Lofoten is my birthright.  
  We'll have several farms and command a fleet of viking ships. I'll give birth to mighty warrior sons or a fierce shieldmaiden like myself. And perhaps one day, if it pleases the gods, I'll take my grandfather's place as the Jarl of Hålogaland. 
  That's how things might have been - if my entire life hadn't been a lie. 
  But now the secret's out. Even if I am the last to know. 
  And the truth has awakened something ... something frightening within me. 
  I've always had a temper. There's enough young men with missing teeth who can attest to that. 
  But this? This is different. 
  This rage. This hunger. This intense thirst for blood. 
  It's more than I can control. 
  The worst part?  
  It all makes sense when I learn who my father really is.

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  Raising a Demon - A Second...

  Amy Cissell

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  A magical new paranormal women's fiction series from USA Today Bestselling Author Amy Cissell, author of the Eleanor Morgan novels and the Oracle Bay series. 
  Being a single mother has its challenges, but Evie had never imagined that “the talk” would involve Ouija boards and pentagrams.  
  Evelyn Addams had settled into a comfortable but unexciting life as a single mother in small-town Eden Valley. The gossip had died down and her daughter Liliana was gearing up for her tenth birthday and getting more independent by the day. She had everything she needed. A great kid, fantastic friends, and a decent job. She was forty-three, fabulous, and didn’t need a man to complete her. 
  But between Evie’s sudden onset accidental supernatural shoplifting and catching her daughter trying to summon a demon to grant three wishes, Evie knows that not only has she neglected some aspects of Lily’s mythological education, but that her façades of strength and normalcy aren’t as firm as she’d thought. Why else would Lily ask a demon to make her mother happy and bring back the father she never knew? 
  After a series of strange phenomena pop up around town, Luc, her summer fling from almost eleven years ago, walks back into their lives just in time for Lily’s tenth birthday party. Life’s about to get way more interesting than any woman in her 40s wants as Evie is forced to reevaluate everything she thought she wanted. Can she let go of the past and take another chance on the man she fell for more than a decade ago? And will she be able to accept the side effects that come with raising a demon’s daughter?

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  The Red Room - Skepticism Meets...

  H. G. Wells

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  A man who prides himself on logic and courage arrives at an old castle determined to disprove its reputation. The Red Room is said to be haunted, a place where past guests have fled or fallen victim to unseen forces. Certain nothing supernatural exists, he volunteers to spend the night alone inside, armed only with candles, confidence, and his belief in reason. 
  Once inside, the room reveals itself as a vast chamber filled with deep shadows, echoes, and unsettling stillness. As the night unfolds, small disturbances grow harder to explain, and the narrator finds himself locked in a struggle against something that cannot be touched, argued with, or escaped easily. The story builds relentlessly, using darkness and isolation to explore how the mind reacts when certainty begins to erode. 
  H. G. Wells was one of the founding architects of modern science fiction. Best known for works like The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds, he also wrote powerful short stories that blended psychological insight with speculative ideas. His fiction often challenged readers to confront uncomfortable truths about human nature. 
  In The Red Room, Wells strips away technology and futurism to focus on something far older and more personal. The result is a timeless tale that proves terror does not always need monsters, only the right conditions and a human mind left alone with itself.

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  Adeline Mowbray

  Amelia Opie

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  "Adeline Mowbray, or, The Mother and Daughter, is a novel by Amelia Opie that was published in 1804. The experiences of the heroine, Adeline, are loosely based on the unconventional life of Mary Wollstonecraft, an acquaintance of Opie. In the novel, Opie explores what might happen when a woman's idealistic philosophical beliefs conflict with society's notions about female sexuality.    The philosophically minded Adeline decides that marriage is an outmoded institution. She refuses marriage to Frederic Glenmurray (modeled on William Godwin) and instead chooses to live with him as his sexual equal. Although Adeline is honorable, clever, and honest, she faces social condemnation. She is disowned by her mother and respectable friends and harassed by men who assume she is sexually available. After Glenmurray dies, Adeline seeks protection by marrying the abusive Mr. Berrendale, who ultimately abandons her and their daughter, Editha. At the end of the novel, the ill Adeline is finally reunited with her mother. Adeline repents having transgressed society's expectations of women and, before she dies, leaves instructions on how Editha is to be educated."

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  Project Hemisphere

  T.S. Simons

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  Would YOU be chosen? 
  After a global outbreak that threatens to decimate the planet, Australian scientists select a group of highly skilled young people to establish a sustainable island community built on the modern values of equity, diversity, and inclusion. 
  Lonely and homesick, Cam Mackintosh overcomes his anxiety and finds belonging, passion, and friendship in his new life before his dreams are suddenly ripped from his grasp. Sent hurtling on a journey of discovery, he finds friendship and acceptance when he encounters other communities like his own, but he is forced to make a decision that will ultimately change everything.

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  Mortal Coils

  Aldous Huxley

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  Aldous Huxley was an English writer and philosopher. He wrote nearly 50 books—both novels and nonfiction works—as well as wideranging essays, narratives, and poems. 
  Born into the prominent Huxley family, he graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, with an undergraduate degree in English literature. Early in his career, he published short stories and poetry and edited the literary magazine Oxford Poetry, before going on to publish travel writing, satire, and screenplays. He spent the latter part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death. By the end of his life, Huxley was widely acknowledged as one of the foremost intellectuals of his time. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature nine times and was elected Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 1962. 
    
  Huxley was a pacifist. He grew interested in philosophical mysticism and universalism, addressing these subjects with works such as The Perennial Philosophy (1945)—which illustrates commonalities between Western and Eastern mysticism—and The Doors of Perception (1954)—which interprets his own psychedelic experience with mescaline. In his most famous novel Brave New World (1932) and his final novel Island (1962), he presented his vision of dystopia and utopia, respectively. 
    
  Mortal Coils is a collection of five short fictional pieces written by Aldous Huxley in 1921. Summary: The Gioconda smile  Permutations among the nightingales  The Tillotson banquet  Green tunnels  Nuns at luncheon. The title uses a phrase from Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1: To die, to sleep, To sleep, perchance to dream; aye, there's the rub, For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause … The stories all concern themselves with some sort of trouble, normally of an amorous nature, and often ending with disappointment. 

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