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  What is God?

  Billy Starbuck

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  Meet Bobby—a new kid in Sunday School with a brave question that makes the whole room go quiet: 
  What is God? 
  As his new classmates share their answers, Bobby discovers that God can feel different to different people—big and everywhere, a loyal friend, a healer for fearful hearts, and a loving Father who never gets too busy. With the gentle guidance of Elder Ross, Bobby learns he doesn’t have to understand everything at once. He can simply begin… by talking to God. 
  What Is God? is a reverent, comforting children’s story about faith, belonging, and the hope that grows when a child dares to ask a sincere question. 
  Perfect for:Christian families and churchesSunday School classrooms and faith-based schoolsBedtime reading and heart-to-heart conversationsHelping children explore prayer, trust, and God’s love

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  Top 10 Short Stories The -...

  Robert Louis Stevenson, HP...

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  Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart.  A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. 
   
  In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?  
   
  The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme.  Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. 
   
  Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made.  If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. 
   
  In this volume the wonders of Sci-Fi and its inventions are twisted with the darkness of horror to reveal narratives that grip us in inventive ways.  Perhaps only pens of the calibre of Lovecraft, Stevenson, Wells and their literary colleagues can so easily lure our senses into dark and terrifying times.   
   
  1 - The Top 10 Short Stories - Classic Sci Fi Horror - An Introduction 
  2 - Re-Animator - Part 1 by H P Lovecraft 
  3 - Re-Animator - Part 2 by H P Lovecraft 
  4 - The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde - Part 1 by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  5 - The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde - Part 2  by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  6 - A Thousand Deaths by Jack London 
  7 - The Operation by Violet Hunt 
  8 - Moxon's Master by Ambrose Bierce 
  9 - The Voice in the Night by William Hope Hodgson 
  10 - Carnivorine by Lucy Hamilton Hooper 
  11 - The Blue Laboratory by L T Meade 
  12 - Rappaccini's Daughter - Part 1 by Nathaniel Hawthorne 
  13 - Rappaccini's Daughter - Part 2 by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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  Lazarus - From their pens to...

  Leonid Andreyev

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  Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev was born on 21st August in Oryol, Russia to a middle-class family of Polish, Ukranian and Finnish ancestry. 
  He studied law in Moscow before working as a police-court reporter for a daily newspaper.  His literary efforts at this time were confined to poetry and those he did try to get published were all rejected.  
  In 1898 his first short story ‘Bargamot and Garaska’, published in the ‘Kurier’ newspaper caught the attention and friendship of Maxim Gorky.  Andreyev now discarded any other career path apart from that of author. 
  His first collection of short stories appeared in 1901 and sold over a quarter of a million copies.  He was a sensation. Using his interest in psychology and psychiatry gave him an almost unrivalled ability to delve into the human psyche and create astonishing characters. 
  During the first Russian revolution Andreyev was a staunch defender of democratic ideals and many of his stories reflected the heated mood of the times. With the 1905 Revolution’s failure his work became pessimistic and despairing. By the beginning of the following decade he began losing his audience to new literary movements such as the Futurists. 
  He published little after 1914 except political writings, instead working as the literary editor of the ‘Russian Will’ newspaper.  When the Bolsheviks took power he sensed catastrophe was coming and moved to Finland where he spent his last years in poverty distraught at the outcome of the Revolution. 
  Leonid Andreyev died of heart failure on 12th September 1919 at the age of 48 in Mustamäki, Finland. 
  His classic story ‘Lazarus’ brilliantly tells the story of Christ’s disciple, forced to wander the earth for all time is both chilling and heart-breaking in its Russian setting.

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  Bastard's Honor

  Elisabeth Wheatley

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  A crippled knight. 
  A widowed sorceress. 
  And a second chance at love—and revenge. 
  Born a noblewoman's bastard, Thadred has risen to become High Inquisitor, tasked with hunting escaped cythraul demons across the land. Despite the injuries that left him maimed for life, he has become indispensable to the empire. 
  Sair was a widowed sorceress who has become one of the Empress Amira's most trusted emissaries and confidantes. A skilled healer and spy, Sair works to ensure peace wherever the empress sends her. 
  A year ago, Thadred and Sair helped save the world from a fallen goddess, but it's not safe just yet. Unrest ripples through the empire, stray demons lurk in the shadows, and the denizens of a defeated witch still linger. 
  Now one of those denizens has taken Sair's young son. 
  Worse, they soon realize the boy's abduction may have more to do with the cythraul demons than anyone thought. Something evil is at work, and Thadred and Sair must stop it before it rains terror on the unsuspecting empire. 
  Bastard's Honor is a second-chance Fantasy Romance that takes place after the events of the Daindreth's Assassin series. It will contain heavy spoilers for the Daindreth's Assassin series, but can be read separately.

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  Royal Trials The: Seeker

  Tate James

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  One quest. One crown. One shattered heart. 
  The Royal Trials were never meant to be easy, not even for an imposter like Rybet Waise. But nothing could have prepared her for the magical storms, mutated animals, and malicious gods standing in her way. 
  There is no time for tears. Mere hours after being bathed in Prince Alexander’s blood, Rybet must embark on a quest. The second trial dictates she find a missing magical artefact—Queen Ophelia’s crown. 
  Released from the overbearing confines of the royal palace, Rybet competes not only with the other remaining ladies, but also with the land itself. Magic is more volatile than ever, and the gods have come out to play. 
  Royal love interests who don’t know how to share only make things harder for this dirty pond-dweller—if that’s really all she is. 
  Rybet will do whatever it takes to make it out alive, and with her heart unbroken.

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  Golden Retriever Mysteries 16-18...

  Neil S. Plakcy

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  Three charming cozy mysteries with heart-- and fur! 
  Dog of Thieves 
  Stolen treasures, a cane-whacking elderly woman and a couple of dead bodies.  
  In Dog's Image 
  Join Steve Levitan and Lili Weinstock as they navigate the treacherous waters of wedding planning-- and murder. 
  Blessing of the Dogs 
  Steve Levitan and Lili Weinstock are on their way to the altar—but dognapping and murder get in the way.

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