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  The Saint and the Spool

  Mike DeFrench

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  One winter night, as the snows fall outside their home, and a boy cannot sleep, his father tells him the story of a Saint. 
  A martyr. 
  She is well known to all Christians in the land. Her, and her infant child. 
  She is credited with stopping the reign of the pagan king. 
  Here is her story...

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  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

  Mark Twain

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  Set along the mighty Mississippi River, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is Mark Twain's timeless tale of freedom, friendship, and the search for identity. Huck Finn, a spirited boy escaping the confines of his small-town life, joins forces with Jim, an enslaved man fleeing for his freedom. Together, they embark on a daring journey aboard a raft, navigating treacherous waters and encountering a vivid cast of characters, from crafty conmen to feuding families.Through Huck's eyes, Twain explores themes of race, morality, and the bonds that transcend societal divisions. Huck wrestles with his conscience and challenges the prejudices of his world, making this story as relevant today as it was in its time. A thrilling adventure and a profound exploration of human nature, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a cornerstone of American literature that will captivate readers of all ages.

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  Elephants Can Remember - A...

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  A classic Hercule Poirot investigation, Agatha Christie’s Elephants Can Remember has the expert detective delving into an unsolved crime from the past involving the strange death of a husband and wife. 
  Hercule Poirot stood on the clifftop. Here, many years earlier, there had been a fatal accident followed by the grisly discovery of two bodies—a husband and wife who had been shot dead. 
  But who had killed whom? Was it a suicide pact? A crime of passion? Or cold-blooded murder? Poirot delves into the past and discovers that “old sins leave long shadows.”

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  Wood's Gamble - Action and...

  Steven Becker

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  What is the cost of freedom? 
  When several shipping containers are lost during a tropical storm, an unexpected and deadly chain of events is set in motion. 
  A Russian oligarch plans to trade the contents of the containers for immunity. But when Mac Travis discovers what is inside, he is compelled to stop the transaction. 
  A story that highlights the beauty of the Keys while exposing their undesirable underbelly, Wood’s Gamble features the unique character of the island chain. Filled with boating, diving, and fishing, with plenty of action, unique characters, and stunning locations, escape on a tropical adventure in the latest in the bestselling Mac Travis Adventures.

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  The Haunting of the Necromancer

  Rachel Lawson

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  A hilarious farce. 
  When the king of the grim reapers's son needs help to take a ghost haunting his home, he asks his father to help remove it but was it a mistake.Good Quotes From The Haunting of the Necromancer 
  "We are not fake anythings!" said Lance. 
  "I could debate that with you," said Blake. 
  "Where is the ghost?" Blake said changing the subject. 
  "Now I have a ghost and a grim reaper in my lounge room!" said Lance infuriated. 
  "Grand Reaper? What's that?" the ghost asked. 
  "Another name for a couch potato!" Lance hissed, 
  "Dork why you shouting," said Junior walking in the room. 
  "Oh, he's no bother, he has good taste! Anyone who likes Neighbours is alright with me" Blake said. 
  "You sure this isn't The Munsters!" Blake asked. 
  "I want to watch this!" said the ghost standing up. 
  "Quit it stop using the voice let him watch this!" Blake said. 
  "He is a ghost he shouldn't be watching soapies!" said Lance. 
  "Dork!” snapped Junior in protest.

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  Mrs Pulaska and Other Stories

  Christopher Burns

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  With this new collection the acclaimed novelist Christopher Burns proves his mastery of the short story form. His intelligent but conflicted characters face their decisive moments across wide ranges of time and place, each action reshaping their futures and redefining their pasts. Interplaying with these choices are locations that underpin and define each story, such as a repository of unstable nitrate film, a desert outcrop where a daughter vanished, a winter barn in which a silent refugee works without explanation, and a Parisian suicide that echoes down far more than a century.
  In these stories, landscape itself can be a determinant, as essential to the narrative as the characters that walk into a draining reservoir, a Neolithic cave, or a remote Greek church. For these are driven people – haunted or determined, alert or unaware, lovers or doubters, saviours or perpetrators.
  Several of these stories have previously appeared in publications as diverse as Les Temps Modernes, Granta Shorts, Best British Short Stories, The Time Out Book of New York Stories and Prospect.
  Christopher Burns' work has been praised by Kazuo Ishiguro, Melvyn Bragg, Margaret Drabble, Hilary Mantel and others. He is the author of six novels, including The Flint Bed (shortlisted for the Whitbread award), The Condition if Ice, A Division of the Light, and an earlier collection of short stories, About The Body. He lives in Cumbria.
  This is a wholly distinctive, ambitious and challenging collection that can be read again and again.

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