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  Tarn & Beck: The Cursed Coin

  Courtney Bowen

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  Beck has grown up in the city of Silvo, bullied and alienated by others for years. He's struggled to fit in and maintain a respectable air. 
  But Beck’s had enough after he was fired from his clerk job for getting in a fight. Beck wants to leave Silvo and start over, running away like his father did. 
  But he needs money to do that. Years ago, his father Cedric buried a treasure trove of gold coins in a dead man’s coffin, claiming the coins were cursed. Beck decides to dig up the coffin to get the gold coins. 
  Tarn was hired as a graveyard guard, despite his dark, checkered, and mysterious past. There have been a rash of grave robberies and he finds Beck robbing a grave. 
  Then they're attacked by a Vampiric monster. Tarn and Beck fight off the Vampiric monster as Tarn recognizes the gold coins. 
  Tarn now has to save Beck as bandits and more chase after the cursed gold coins. 
  Author's Note: This involves a M/M romance for readers 18+, please be advised.

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  Serpent - A Deep Sea Thriller

  Michael Cole

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  Some things are meant to remain in the past. 
   
   
   
  Dr. Hugh Meyer believed he had created the ultimate miracle. Using the DNA of ancient creatures preserved in the Arctic, he had genetically engineered one of the most remarkable species of sea creature to ever exist: Serpentem Vectem Cel—Serpent Eel. Believed to possess the cure for countless diseases, the creature holds great promise for the medical community. 
   
   
   
  All goes awry when the beast escapes containment. With a rapid growth rate and remarkable physical evolution, the beast travels to the coastal town of Spiral Bay. There, the creature designed to save human life instead starts taking it. 
   
   
   
  Fishing vessels are found wrecked, paddleboaters mysteriously disappear, and large whales turn up dead. Realizing his creation has become Mankind's worst nightmare, Hugh Meyer must join forces with the local police chief, a skillful mechanic, and a rich reality show star to bring the Serpent's rampage to a dead halt.

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  Snowbound with the Billionaire

  Carole Mortimer

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  In this classic romantic story by a USA Today–bestselling author, a blizzard reunites estranged spouses on Christmas, but will it be a happy New Year? 
   
  The last person journalist Caro Montgomery expects—or wants—to see at Christmas is her estranged, super-sexy husband, Jake! But this is no accidental meeting . . . billionaire Jake has returned for good and is determined to win back his wife and baby! 
   
  But Caro can’t forgive Jake’s betrayal a year ago and resolves to refuse him in every way . . . Yet her plans soon change when a heavy blizzard leaves them snowed in together on Christmas Eve! This Christmas, will Caro get what she’s always wanted? 
   
  Originally published in 2009 in the anthology ‘Tis the Season.

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  Dark to Light and Other Stories

  Stephen Filbey

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  Life thwarts Floyd’s goals sooner or later. A rival challenges his new invention. His buried gold is confiscated by HM Treasury. He is wrongly charged with arson. He is unfairly dismissed. He campaigns to change part of English punctuation, yet inadvertently continues to use it afterwards. Helping a friend lands him in hospital. What has he done to deserve all this?Yet he is resourceful in dealing with his adverse situations, whether personal or confronting the might of the state. Other characters must eat humble pie to stay afloat. College lecturer Ed Beck forsakes his principles. And Matt abandons his business dreams to preserve an old friendship.

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  Householders

  Kate Cayley

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  A CBC BOOKS AND QUILL & QUIRE ANTICIPATED FALL BOOK 
  		 
  A LAMBDA LITERARY MOST ANTICIPATED LGBTQIA+ TITLE
  		 
  A 49TH SHELF BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021
  		 
  Linked short stories about families, nascent queers, and self-deluded utopians explore the moral ordinary strangeness in their characters’ overlapping lives.
  		 
  A woman impersonates a nun online, with unexpected consequences. In a rapidly changing neighborhood, tensions escalate around two events planned for the same day. The barista girlfriend of a tech billionaire survives a zombie apocalypse only to face spending her life with the paranoid super-rich. From a university campus to an underground bunker, a commune in the woods to Toronto and back again, the linked stories in Householders move effortlessly between the commonplace and the fantastic. In deft and exacting narratives about difficult children and thorny friendships, hopeful revolutionaries and self-deluded utopians, nascent queers, sincere frauds, and families of all kinds, Kate Cayley mines the moral hazards inherent in the ways we try to save each other and ourselves.

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  Two Bagger - With Bonus Story by...

  Michael Connelly

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  Suspense! Baseball! Here are two tales that combine both, written by master storytellers Michael Connelly and Elmore Leonard.
  In "Two Bagger," a pair of detectives follow a recently released felon who has been hired to make a hit at an LA Dodgers baseball game—and the suspenseful cat and mouse games begin.
  In "Chickasaw Charlie Hoke," a retired professional baseball player is looking for employment and telling stories—but are the stories true?
  These stories—by two of the best thriller writers to ever put pen to paper—is packed with twists, turns, of course, baseball.

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