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  Requiem For Heroes

  Michael Anderle

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  The Viking job has to get easier in time, right? 
   
   
   
  That's wishful thinking on Valerie's part. The Jarls keep dropping her and Jacob into problems it would take Heimdall's foresight to unravel. Someone is messing with an inexplicable list of companies right here in America. Their connection is unclear, but Valerie sees Cleopatra behind every move. When will it stop? Is her enemy renting space in her head for free? 
   
   
   
  It's becoming obvious that Jacob is starting to worry about his partner. Is it in a good way, or a 'time for the straitjacket' way? 
   
   
   
  While Val appreciates his concern, how will she deal with him if it comes to that? 
   
   
   
  Val isn't the only one with an enemy taking up every waking thought. 
   
   
   
  Cleopatra has decided that the best defense is a good offense, and she knows who to use as bait. Val will do whatever it takes to save this person, even piss off a God. Can Valerie deal with Cleopatra's latest attack? 
   
   
   
  When the Chooser of the Slain is on a rampage, everyone needs to keep their heads down.

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  The Coming of Abel Behenna

  Bram Stoker

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  In the small coastal town of Pentclaste, two wealthy and handsome men, Abel Behenna and Eric Sanson, vie for the affections of the captivating Sarah Trefusis. After a year of courtship, Sarah announces that she will choose her suitor on April 11th. However, Sarah's ambitious mother intervenes, suggesting a joint investment venture with the men's combined wealth to determine who will marry Sarah.

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  The Little Colonel in Arizona

  Annie Fellows Johnston

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  In The Little Colonel in Arizona the story is centered around the Ware family, who, after their husband and father has died, and due to the mother's illness, have to move from Kentucky to Arizona. Joyce now has to take most of the responsibility for holding the family together. She is having difficulties in coming to terms with the family's new existence, feeling lonely and that her dreams for the future will never come true. But when she learns to know an invalid at Lee's Ranch who tells her the “Legend of Camelback Mountain”, and she learns the “Lesson of the Bees”, she begins to see a new hope growingA letter to Lloyd, “the Little Colonel”, has the effect that she comes to visit the Ware's at their Wigwam for a month. Here she meets the handsome and likeable Phil Tremont who stirs something in her heart, and she wonders if he might be the one written in the stars for her. But Phil, kind and likeable as he is, has his own problems and has to learn to handle them and to learn the “Legend of Alaka and the lost turquoises”.Another important person who we get to know more of in this story is the talkative and entertaining little Mary Ware, who has an important role in other, later stories. (Summary by Lars Rolander)

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  Gray Tones - The Case of the...

  R.L. Akers

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  NOT EVERYTHING IS BLACK AND WHITE. 
  When a grisly double homicide takes place in an old apartment building, no one doubts the guilt of the victims' next-door neighbor. Not only does the man have a history of mental illness, he confessed to the murder within hours. True, he had no apparent motive, but who needs motive when the supposed murderer is crazy? 
  The NYPD's lead detective would be happy to close the case, but he's facing his own demons, and letting the investigation drag on allows him to protect his own dark secret. Imagine his surprise when he begins uncovering facts that cast the murder in an all-new light. 
  Meet Gray Gaynes: a brilliant investigator, but also a man deeply wounded by his own personal tragedy... A man willing to go to great lengths to hide the truth of the irrevocable changes he is undergoing.

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  That Dangerous Energy

  Aya De Leon

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  Coming from a troubled youth, Morgan Faraday grabs every opportunity to up-level her life. So she definitely plans to keep oil-company heir Sebastian Reid interested...all the way to the altar. He’s brilliant and supportive and is turning his billion-dollar company green to make up for his ancestors’ exploitation. With him, Morgan can have love, money, and the power to make the world better. And securing her future is far more important than the attractive environmental activist she suddenly has unexpected feelings for... But once Morgan gets a glimpse of Sebastian’s secret allies and confidential emails, she’s stunned to find he’s only talking a good game. His company is responsible for several ecological disasters, and a chance encounter makes it clear to her the lengths he’ll go to stay on top. To gather enough evidence to expose him, she will have to rely on her quick wits and new friends to stay one step ahead of a corporate conspiracy. But as the danger comes closer, will she put herself first and run—or face down the risk, even at her cost of her life?

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  Living Life on Life's Terms -...

  Angie Galler Bowen

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  This book is pure fiction, influenced by real-life circumstances the author has witnessed over her lifetime. Primary plot: Cody and David fall in love and know they want to be together. However, their families are bitter enemies. Sound familiar? Unlike Shakespeare's characters, however, their lives do not end in suicide. Cody is a confident young woman who can take care of herself, right? 
  Cody 's biological father is a gay ex-con, but unlike her grandmother, Cody isn't worried about societal snobbery. Much to her family's dismay, she wants to meet this man. 
  David is the grandson of the recently murdered well well-known male socialite Rick Browning, and Cody 's grandfather was somehow involved! 
  Cody and David escape to Mexico for a "brief romantic weekend. "The drug cartel and David's need to please his father by developing a timeshare business create obstacles that these two must navigate together.

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