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  The Crystal Egg

  H. G. Wells

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  Herbert George Wells (1866 – 1946) was a prolific English writer best known for his outstanding science fiction stories and novels.  He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times."The Crystal Egg" is a science fiction short story about an antiquarian dealer, Mr. Cave, who discovers that a crystal egg in his shop has strange properties. In certain light conditions it functions as a window on the planet Mars and he is able to observe the Martians and their bizarre cities and machines.

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  In Between - A Redemption Story

  Beca Lewis

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  Now that she’s dead, can she fix what went wrong? 
  Connie Mathews grew up with nothing. However, with the help and encouragement of the trailer park women, she dreamed of a life of success and fame. At twenty-two, on the cusp of fulfilling those dreams, the unthinkable happens. 
  Terrified of the consequences, Connie runs away, believing that choice will save her best friend’s marriage. She was wrong. And for the rest of her life, Connie has to live with the tragic consequences of her actions. 
  Fifty years later, with nothing to show for her life but a daughter she barely knows, Connie discovers that life after death is not what she expected. 
  But with the help of a young boy she meets in the in-between, Connie returns to Doveland, Pennsylvania, and is given a chance to fix what went wrong. 
  But will she know the right thing to do? And what will the consequences be this time? Can Connie go back in time without making things worse? 
  The In Between is a Stories From Doveland stand-alone novel about secrets, the past, and redemption. 
  If you like stories about magic in real life, community, and the power of love, you will love the In-Between’ 
  The Stories From Doveland is a series of stand-alone books, but they do follow an order. 
  Karass - Pragma - Jatismar -Stemma - Exousia -Paragnosis - In-Between -Missing- Out Of Nowhere

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  Hiding In Plain Sight

  Rachel Lawson

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  Reynard is hunting for Blake for a crime he didn't do. Lance the Necromancer did it to save Blake, who was being murdered. 
  Reynard, the Red Fox finally figures out where Blake is hiding He isn't he's in hiding from the police and the world in plain sight; he is posing as his own grandfather, the emperor of the universe, Rey's adopted brother. 
  How can Blake escape the law and the Fox?

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  With and Without Buttons -...

  Mary Butts

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  Mary Frances Butts was born on 13th December 1890 in Poole, Dorset. 
   
  Her early years were spent at Salterns, an 18th-century house overlooking Poole Harbour.  Sadly in 1905 her father died, and she was sent for boarding at St Leonard's school for girls in St Andrews. 
  Her mother remarried and, from 1909, Mary studied at Westfield College in London, and here, first became aware of her bisexual feelings.  She was sent down for organising a trip to Epsom races and only completed her degree in 1914 when she graduated from the London School of Economics.  By then Mary had become an admirer of the occultist Aleister Crowley and she was given a co-authorship credit on his ‘Magick (Book 4)’. 
   
  In 1916, she began the diary which would now detail her future life and be a constant reference point for her observations and her absorbing experiences. 
   
  During World War I, she was doing social work for the London County Council in Hackney Wick, and involved in a lesbian relationship.  Life changed after meeting the modernist poet, John Rodker and they married in 1918. 
   
  In 1921 she spent 3 months at Aleister Crowley's Abbey of Thelema in Sicily; she found the practices dreadful and also acquired a drug habit.  Mary now spent time writing in Dorset, including her celebrated book of short stories ‘Speed the Plough’ which saw fully develop her unique Modernist prose style. 
   
  Europe now beckoned and several years were spent in Paris befriending many artists and writing further extraordinary stories.   
   
  She was continually sought after by literary magazines and also published several short story collections as books. Although a Modernist writer she worked in other genres but is essentially only known for her short stories.  Mary was deeply committed to nature conservation and wrote several pamphlets attacking the growing pollution of the countryside. 
   
  In 1927, she divorced and the following year her novel ‘Armed with Madness’ was published.  A further marriage followed in 1930 and time was spent attempting to settle in London and Newcastle before setting up home on the western tip of Cornwall.  By 1934 the marriage had failed. 
   
  Mary Butts died on 5th March 1937, at the West Cornwall Hospital, Penzance, after an operation for a perforated gastric ulcer. She was 46. 
   
  Once more Butts reveals her wonderful talents.  Here, two sisters plan a prank on their neighbour.  But when real life imitates and amplifies their idea unease and dread come to the fore.

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  No Longer Safe

  A. J. Waines

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  For fans of Paula Hawkins, Ruth Ware and Lisa Scottoline comes a new thriller from best-selling author of "Girl on a Train", "Dark Place to Hide" and "The Evil Beneath". She was your best friend. Now she’s your deadliest enemy – and there’s nowhere to run… When Alice receives an invitation from Karen, her charismatic University friend, to stay in a remote cottage in Scotland, she can’t wait to rekindle their lost friendship. But two more former students arrive – never friends of Alice’s – and as the atmosphere chills, Karen isn’t the warm-hearted soulmate Alice remembers. Barely is the reunion underway before someone is dead and the fragile gathering is pushed to breaking point. As the snow cuts them off from civilization and accusations fly, Alice finds herself a pawn, sinking deeper into a deadly game she can’t escape. NO LONGER SAFE is a chilling psychological thriller that delivers a delicious sting in the tail.

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  The Face in the Frost

  John Bellairs

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  A fantasy classic by the author of The House with a Clock in Its Walls—basis for the Jack Black movie—and "a writer who knows what wizardry is all about" (Ursula K. Le Guin). 
  A richly imaginative story of wizards stymied by a power beyond their control, A Face in the Frost combines the thrills of a horror novel with the inventiveness of fairy tale–inspired fantasy. 
  Prospero, a tall, skinny misfit of a wizard, lives in the South Kingdom—a patchwork of feuding duchies and small manors, all loosely loyal to one figurehead king. Along with his necromancer friend Roger Bacon, who has been on a quest to find a mysterious book, Prospero must flee his home to escape ominous pursuers. Thus begins an adventure that will lead him to a grove where his old rival, Melichus, is falsely rumored to be buried and to a less-than-hospitable inn in the town of Five Dials—and ultimately into a dangerous battle with origins in a magical glass paperweight. 
  With a unique blend of humor and darkness, it remains one of the most beloved tales by the Edgar Award–nominated author also known for the long-running Lewis Barnavelt series.

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