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  Midnight Masquerade The: A Cozy...

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  🎭 Event planner Evangeline "Eva" Blackwood is orchestrating the social event of the season—the annual Venetian Masquerade Ball at the historic Crestwood Manor. The evening is a sparkling success until the lights flicker and the town's most influential philanthropist is found dead in the conservatory, still wearing her exquisite peacock mask. With all the guests in disguise and alibis impossible to verify, Eva realizes the killer could be anyone from the wealthy socialite circling nearby to the quiet librarian who organized the historical exhibit. Teaming up with the manor's handsome archivist, Eva must decipher clues hidden in the ball's elaborate decorations, musical selections, and even the secret language of fans used by masked attendees. But as she peels back the layers of deception, Eva uncovers a web of blackmail, stolen identities, and old scandals that someone is willing to kill to keep hidden. With the masks about to come off, Eva must reveal the killer before they decide one more disguise is needed—permanently.

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  Fierceland

  Omar Musa

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  'An impressive, urgent novel by a talented and courageous writer' Mohsin HamidHow do you mourn a person you loved who did terrible things? After many years abroad, Harun and Roz return to Malaysian Borneo for the funeral of their oil-baron father, Yusuf  - and to reckon with their inheritance. Yusef, might be a celebrity to many, but his children know that not only has he built the family's immense wealth by destroying huge tracts of rainforest, but also that he was also involved in the violent disappearance of a man who stood in his way.Harun is successful tech entrepreneur in Los Angeles while Roz is an artist struggling to stay afloat in Sydney, and both are determined to return something their father stole from the forests of their homeland. In their quest for redemption they grapple with the legacy of power and corruption and are haunted - by the ghosts of colonialism, the ghosts of family, the ghosts of language, and the ghosts of the forest itself. A trailblazing journey across the globe, Fierceland is a language-bending story that weaves the past and the present into an emotionally powerful family saga that plays out at a mythical scale.'The forest may be disappearing, but in Musa's words it still grows: fierce, alive, untameable' Guardian Australia

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  In the Marrow

  Amber Reinke

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  Hazel believes the creaking of her bones is due to age, disuse, or maybe diet...until the whispers start.

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  True Wolf

  Paige Tyler

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  Brielle Fontaine is a unique supernatural who can borrow the powers of other creatures near her—an ability that makes her wary of anyone who might want to use her for their own gain. She's suspicious of letting anyone get too close. Until she meets Special Threat Assessment Team (STAT) agent and werewolf Caleb Lynch. And when Brielle, Caleb, and the other STAT agents come under fire from terrorists seeking to start a war, that attraction could lead to something much more explosive...

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  Victorian Tales of the Weird - A...

  Nick Rennison

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  From a dancing automaton running amok at a ball, to a prehistoric beast lurking in the depths of a Yorkshire cave, this anthology explores the nature of the 'old weird', and unordinary stories which go outside the boundaries of everyday life.
  The anthology includes not only stories by well-known writers like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Jerome K. Jerome, but also by long-forgotten authors such as D. F. Hannigan and Reginald Bacchus. Focusing on the idea and history of what can be classified as 'old weird', compared to the 'new weird', Rennison applies experience and knowledge of Victorian literary history to bring these supernatural tales to the surface.

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  Terrible Old Man The (The Work...

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  A strange old man, "so old that no one can remember when he was young, and so taciturn that few know his real name," lives alone in an ancient house on Water Street in the town of Kingsport. Even among the locals, few know the details of the old man's life, but it is believed that he once captained East Indian clipper ships in his youth and accumulated great riches throughout his life. Those who had visited the property had seen bizarre collections of stones in the front yard and observed the old man carrying on conversations with mysterious bottles on his table, which make "certain definite vibrations as if in answer." Most locals take care to avoid the man and his house. Angelo Ricci, Joe Czanek and Manuel Silva, three robbers, learn about the old man's supposed hoard of treasure and resolve to take it. Ricci and Silva go inside to "interview" the old man about the treasure, while Czanek waits outside in the getaway car. After waiting impatiently for a long time, Czanek is startled by an outburst of horrific screaming from the house but assumes that his colleagues have been too rough with the old man during their interrogation. However, the gate of the house opens, revealing the old man "smiling hideously" at him. For the first time, Czanek takes note of the man's unsettling yellow eyes. The mutilated bodies of the three robbers are later found by the seaside, "horribly slashed as with many cutlasses, and horribly mangled as by the tread of many cruel boot-heels." The people of Kingsport talk about the discovery, as well as about the abandoned car and the screams heard in the night, but the old man shows no interest in their gossip.

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