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  Walking Dunes - A Novel

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  Growing up in the Plains country of west Texas, eighteen-year-old David Puckett is torn between his desire for commitment and intimacy, and a need for power and self-sufficiency. He's handsome and clever, and sometimes even lucky.

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  How to cut a tree without axe?...

  BARAKATH

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  Funny audiobook for you to enjoy.

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  Letters Written During a Short...

  Mary Wollstonecraft

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  Published in 1796, Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark is a personal travel narrative by the eighteenth-century British feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft. The twenty-five letters cover a wide range of topics, from sociological reflections on Scandinavia and its peoples to philosophical questions regarding identity. Published by Wollstonecraft's career-long publisher, Joseph Johnson, it was the last work issued during her lifetime. 
  Wollstonecraft undertook her tour of Sweden, Norway, and Denmark in order to retrieve a stolen treasure ship for her lover, Gilbert Imlay. Believing that the journey would restore their strained relationship, she eagerly set off. However, over the course of the three months she spent in Scandinavia, she realized that Imlay had no intention of renewing the relationship. The letters, which constitute the text, drawn from her journal and from missives she sent to Imlay, reflect her anger and melancholy over his repeated betrayals. Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark is therefore both a travel narrative and an autobiographical memoir. 
  Using the rhetoric of the sublime, Wollstonecraft explores the relationship between self and society in the text. She values subjective experience, particularly in relation to nature; champions the liberation and education of women; and illustrates the detrimental effects of commerce on society. 
  Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark was Wollstonecraft's most popular book in the 1790s—it sold well and was reviewed favorably by most critics. 
  Wollstonecraft's future husband, philosopher William Godwin, wrote: "If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book."The book also influenced Romantic poets such as William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who drew on its themes and its aesthetic. While the book initially inspired readers to travel to Scandinavia, it failed to retain its popularity after the publication of Godwin's Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in 1798, which revealed Wollstonecraft's unorthodox private life." (Summary from Wikipedia, revised a little by Stav Nisser.)

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  Sundown Holiday Beacon

  K.L. Noone

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  Three superheroes in love! Or one superhero, one former sidekick, and one redeemed supervillain, at least.
  
  
  Ryan, John, and Holiday have been partners -- in every sense of the word -- for two years. They've saved the world, fallen in love, and remodeled the secret base to include bookshelves and a bigger bed.
  
  
  But Ryan and John have always been the public face of the team. The world still believes Holiday's a villain. And he's been using that reputation to stay undercover and share information. Tonight, though, Holiday comes home injured, and his partners aren't sure the mission's worth his life.
  
  
  Caution: this story also contains lasagna, superhero theatrics, home renovation, a thunderstorm, and very enjoyable use of superpowers in bed.

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  The Asylum Thread

  Dave Stanton

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  Humiliated by a serial rapist in court, South Lake Tahoe’s sheriff and district attorney turn to Dan Reno for justice. 
  Dealing with his fiancée’s mental breakdown, Reno welcomes the distraction, but he knows the case makes no sense. Short of killing the criminal, what can he do? 
  Regardless, Reno begins investigating. As he peels back the layers, he learns the rapist has a genius IQ and is the brother of a Silicon Valley billionaire. Traveling to San Jose, Reno hooks up with his partner, Cody Gibbons, who has little patience or mercy for sexual predators. But the more they uncover about the rapist and his family, the deeper they descend into a grim rabbit hole with no clean exit. 
  Desperate for an angle, Reno and Gibbons finally find the necessary leverage, and a bloody reckoning becomes inevitable. But the resolution is one Reno never considered, and it’s only then that he learns how both criminal behavior and justice can be their own form of insanity.

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  The Swan Harp - Wings of Valenia...

  Elizabeth Creith

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  Kiar, royal daughter of a human father and swanfolk mother, is devastated when her sisters are able to take swan form and she is not. As next in line to the throne, Kiar is responsible for protecting the human kingdom of Valenia; but when three young swanfolk arrive to be fostered in the royal family, her friendship with spirited Willow and growing feelings for tall, thoughtful Tuan make her feel even more different.
  
  Her inability to change shape is not the only problem Kiar faces; the king of neighboring Noermark is determined to bring Valenia under his rule—either by force or by guile—including sending his son to ask for her hand in marriage.
  
  Facing down a human enemy is one thing, but when dark magic threatens the kingdom and tragedy tears the family apart, it's up to Kiar and her swanfolk friends to defeat the supernatural forces before Valenia falls.

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