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  Dedicated to Del

  Heather MacKinnon

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  It's not just her heart that's in danger. 
   
   
   
  Music has always been the most important part of Del McCoy's life. So, when she lands a gig opening for Nashville's hottest country-rock band, she's convinced it's her big shot. At least until she learns the guy she just slept with is their lead guitarist. Turns out he didn't appreciate getting left in her dust. 
   
   
   
  Theo Moore is living the rock and roll life he always dreamed of: a new city every day, playing music for hundreds of screaming fans, and then picking one or two groupies to spend the night with. But, everything changes when he meets Del. Now, the only woman he's interested in is the one he can't have. 
   
   
   
  When anonymous love letters and a mysterious gift show up for Del backstage, she's more confused than ever. Especially when the messages turn cryptic, and the present becomes disturbing. 
   
   
   
  Can they figure out who her stalker is before it's too late? Or is Del and Theo's clandestine relationship fated to end in tragedy? 
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  A Tale of the Ragged Mountains -...

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  Edgar Poe was born in Boston Massachusetts on 19th January 1809. His father abandoned his family the following year and within a year his mother had died leaving him an orphan.   
   
  He was taken in by the Allan family but never formally adopted although he now referred to himself as Edgar Allan Poe.  His father alternatively spoiled or chastised him and tension was frequent over gambling debts and monies for his education.  His university years to study ancient and modern languages was cut short by lack of money and he enlisted as a private in the army claiming he was 22, it is more probable he was 18. After 2 years he obtained a discharge in order to take up an appointment at the military academy, West Point, where he failed to become an officer. 
   
  Poe had released his 1st poetry volume in 1827 and after his 3rd turned to prose and placing short stories in several magazines and journals.  At age 26 he obtained a licence to marry his cousin.  She was a mere 13 but they stayed together until her death from tuberculosis 11 years after. 
   
  In January 1845 ‘The Raven’ was published and became an instant classic.  Thereafter followed the prose works for which he is now so rightly famed as a master of the mysterious and the macabre. 
   
  Edgar Allan Poe died at the tragically early age of 40 on 7th October 1849 in Baltimore, Maryland. Newspapers at the time reported Poe's death as ‘congestion of the brain’ or ‘cerebral inflammation’, common euphemisms for death from disreputable causes such as alcoholism but the actual cause of death remains a mystery. 
   
  Poe is also one of a number of authors credited with inventing the detective genre with his Parisian sleuth C. Auguste Dupin.  He featured in three stories including the legendary ‘Murders in the Rue Morgue’ and by sheer deduction, logic and a touch of Gallic arrogance revealed what was hidden to the rest of us.

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  After Thought

  Nate Eckman

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  AFTER THOUGHT is an electrifying and unforgettable dystopian thriller that imagines what society could look like after America’s second Civil War. In the wake of unspeakable violence, the United States adopts a technology to ensure everlasting peace. But one woman, Ada, uncovering her family’s redacted past and a surveillance company’s role in the war, pushes the nation to the brink of an even bloodier conflict.   
  What follows is the immersive account of our heroine, who realizes that she’s more than a victim of the last Civil War; she is the arbiter of the first Neural War. Through this journey Ada struggles to comprehend fact from fiction. Her knowledge, though a heavy burden, ultimately empowers her to brave, world altering decisions. After Thought is a tale for our times, which confronts readers with conventions of censorship and punishment, the necessity and danger of free speech, and horror we may face as technologies become indistinguishable from humans.

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  The Heir's Obsession: My...

  Luna Vance

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  Nora's life takes a sinister turn when her mother marries into the wealthy family of Victor's father. Outwardly, Victor is the perfect stepbrother—charming, popular, and the handsome school heartthrob everyone adores. But behind closed doors, he is a controlling, obsessive force who dictates Nora's every move with cruel punishments. When the school's mean girl, Vivian, targets Nora and boasts she can win Victor's heart in a month, Nora sees a dangerous opportunity. Vivian doesn't know Victor is Nora's stepbrother, nor does she suspect the darkness lurking beneath his charming facade. As Vivian's pursuit intensifies, Nora is caught in a twisted game between a relentless bully and a possessive stepbrother who will stop at nothing to keep her under his control. Who will survive when secrets unravel and obsession turns deadly? A gripping tale of deception, dark desire, and the fight for freedom in a gilded cage.

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  Breakthrough

  Ana Ashley

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  A young single dad. An older man. An impossible love story. 
  Milo 
  I lost everyone I’ve ever loved, but there’s one person I’m determined to keep. The baby I was left with when tragedy struck once more. 
  Now my life is all about surviving. I don’t have time to date, or relationships. 
  That is until Ellis, the sexy, older, and kind primary school teacher who’s currently living rent free in my head with no intention of moving out, gives me the second job I desperately need. 
  But why would he want a guy from the wrong side of town, who’s barely paying the bills and comes with a plus one? 
  Ellis 
  Moving to Stillwater was the fresh start I needed after having my heart stomped on and my career practically destroyed. 
  Despite my family’s best efforts, I’m determined that nothing shall break through the walls I’ve built around myself. No more relationships. 
  That is until I meet the much younger grocery store cashier with the warm brown eyes, and accidentally give him a job. 
  As I get to know Milo, brick by brick that wall is coming down and no matter how much I resist I’m starting to run out of excuses as to why I shouldn’t give in. 
  But why would he want anything with someone much older when he could have anyone else? 
  Breakthrough is book 3 in Ana Ashley’s series, Dads of Stillwater. This story contains an age gap, a sweet nine-month-old baby everyone will coo about, all the feels and Ana Ashley’s usual happy ever after. 
  Trigger warning: the content advisory is on the first page of the book and can be seen by downloading a sample or using the Look Inside feature.

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  Candelaria - A Novel

  Melissa Lozada-Oliva

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  Your granddaughters are lost, Candelaria. Bianca, the brainy archaeologist, had to forfeit her life's work in Guatemala after her advisor seduced and deserted her. Paola, missing for over a decade, resurfaces in Boston as a brainwashed wellness cultist named Zoe. And Candy, the youngest, is a recovering addict who finds herself pregnant by a man she's not even sure ever existed. None of this concerns you of course, until a cataclysmic earthquake hits Boston. Now you must traverse the crumbling city to reach the Watertown Mall Old Country Buffet—for a reason you still cannot disclose—battling strange entities and your own strange past to save your granddaughters and possibly the world. 
   
   
   
  Author of Dreaming of You Melissa Lozada-Oliva delivers an unsettling, raucous debut novel written with tongue-in-cheek humor and sharp cultural criticism that unearths one troubled family's legacy, feasting on diasporic identity politics and examining the limits of bodily autonomy and the dangers of wanting to belong at any cost. 
   
   
   
  A sweeping, mystical novel following three generations of women as they grapple with muddled pasts and predetermined futures, Candelaria is a story of love that eats us alive.

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