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  The Dark that Dwells Beneath Te Aro

  L.J. Percy

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  Pid's Aunt Betti has been mysteriously committed to the Porirua Lunatic Hospital; it's up to Investigative Journalist Benton Bright and their Finnish friend Marcus to determine why. The Dark that Dwells Beneath Te Aro is a cosmic horror set in 1920s Wellington, New Zealand. Will these three friends survive the threat that grows under the Te Aro valley? 
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  The Shark Wrangler - A Novel of...

  Matt Sanger

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  A forty-one-year-old rodeo champion breaks his back in Las Vegas, walks away from the only life he was ever meant for, and flies to a commercial tuna port at the bottom of Australia. He has no plan. He has no next. What he finds in Port Lincoln is a captain who needs a man willing to go into the Southern Ocean and untangle Great White sharks from a fishing net — and a discovery that everything twenty-three years on the back of a bull taught him about staying calm in the presence of something that wants you off its back translates, exactly, to working underwater with animals that are older than mammals and larger than a truck. 
  The Shark Wrangler is a spare, physical novella about loss, the intelligence of the body, and the late grace of a second life you did not plan.

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  Phantastes - A Faerie Romance...

  George MacDonald

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  First published in 1858, Phantastes stands as one of the earliest and most influential works of modern fantasy. In this dreamlike tale, George MacDonald leads his readers through the mysterious “Fairy Land,” where the boundaries between reality and imagination dissolve. Beneath its enchanted forests and shifting shadows lies a profound spiritual allegory—a journey of the soul toward self-knowledge, purity, and love.
   
  Though often whimsical and strange, Phantastes speaks to the deepest human longing for transformation and transcendence. Its influence echoes through the works of later writers such as C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, who both regarded MacDonald as a master of mythic storytelling.

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  Red Rose - A Western Romance

  J.C. Hulsey

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  (WANTED! BRIDES FOR LONELY MEN IN TEXAS) 
  He had sent money for expenses along with a train ticket. I had never had this much money to spend on myself.  
  If this is what it's like to be a Texas bride, then I like it.

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  The Japanese Quince - From their...

  John Galsworthy

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  John Galsworthy was born on the 14th August 1867 on the family estate, Parkfield, in Kingston-upon-Thames.  His family’s wealth came from the shipping industry 
  At age nine he began his education at Saugeen, a Bournemouth preparatory school, before moving to Harrow school in 1881, distinguishing himself as an athlete.  
  Galsworthy attended New College, Oxford to read law and left with a second-class degree with honours in 1889. The bar called him in 1890 but Galsworthy decided he would rather run the family’s shipping business. This also meant travelling to destinations such as Vancouver, South Africa and Australia. 
  In 1895 Galsworthy began a decade long affair with Ada Nemesis Pearson Cooper, the wife of his first cousin. It was only when, in 1905, she divorced and married Galsworthy that their affair became known. 
  His literary career began in 1897 with a short story volume, ‘From the Four Winds’, with the pseudonym John Sinjohn as were three further works. Under his own name, in 1904, came ‘The Island Pharisees’, a novel of social observation, seasoned with flashes of satire and propaganda. He also switched from small, independent publishers to the larger Heinemann and to whom he remained for the duration of his career. 
  1906 saw first major play, ‘The Silver Box’, and the novel ‘The Man of Property’. Each to considerable acclaim. The latter was the first in ‘The Forsyte Saga’ trilogy written between 1906 and 1921. It dealt with the questions of status, class and materialism through Soames Forsyte, who is acutely aware of his ‘new money’ status. Jealous of his wife, his machinations drive her into the arms of another. Soames engages in a terrible revenge with terrible consequences.  
  His social agenda was enlightened particularly in his condemnation over the use of solitary confinement in prisons, his attacks on theatrical censorship and campaigning for animal rights. 
  Galsworthy, having been passed over for active service, spent much of the First World War working as an orderly in a field hospital in France. 
  Despite his it was only in 1920 that he had his first blockbuster play ‘The Skin Game’, a melodrama dealing with ethics, property and class.  
  In 1920 ‘In Chancery’ also arrived with further discourse on the marital disharmony between Soames Forsyte and his wife.  
  The appreciation of his work gradually shifted from plays to novels, particularly through his detailing English social difference, tension and pretension with the Forsytes.  A second trilogy, ‘A Modern Comedy’, followed, examining his love for his daughter Fleur and the English commercial upper-middle class, its ideologies and Soames’ poisonous materialism.  
  Having rejected a knighthood in 1918 he was appointed, in 1929, to the Order of Merit. Galsworthy spent his last years writing a third Forsythe trilogy, ‘End of the Chapter’.   
  In 1932 he was awarded the Nobel Prize, but by now failing health meant he was too ill to attend the ceremony. 
  John Galsworthy died at his Hampstead home of a brain tumour on 31st January, 1933. He was cremated and his ashes scattered from an aeroplane over the South Downs.

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  Wrong

  Dave Duncen

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  My hand leaps to my cheek. I know my face is flushed. I can feel the heat coursing through me. "What do you mean?" I volley back with little emotion. 
  "Who sent you here?" He tilts his chin towards me. "You need to tell me right now who the hell sent you here?" 
  I close my eyes briefly as I try to absorb the words he just threw at me. "No one sent me here. I'm here because I want a job." 
  "You want a job?" he shoots back. "You tried to seduce my brother and now you're telling me you developed that app all by yourself?" 
  Wow. Just wow. A*****e alert. 
  I push my body forward hoping that the action will give me the courage I need to get through this conversation. "Mr. Parker, what happened with your brother was an unfortunate coincidence. I started talking to him completely by accident. I was actually testing out the mobile dating app that your…"

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