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  Deadly North

  Daphne Loveling

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  In the gritty streets where loyalty means everything and betrayal can cost you your life, I never thought I'd be tasked with protecting the one person I despise most in this world. 
   
   
   
  Gigi. She's the sister of my best friend, Fury, and the last person I ever wanted to lay eyes on again. But when my president orders me to be her bodyguard, I have no choice but to swallow my pride and do as I'm told. 
   
   
   
  She's a spitfire with hair as red as the flames she ignites within me. Her sharp tongue and fearless attitude are a constant challenge, testing my patience and my restraint. Yet, beneath all that defiance, there's a vulnerability that calls to me in ways I can't explain. 
   
   
   
  We're like oil and water, constantly at odds, each encounter sparking a battle of wills. But beneath the surface, there's an undeniable attraction that threatens to consume us both. I've always been drawn to her, even when I swore I'd never let her get under my skin. 
   
   
   
  As danger closes in and tensions rise, I find myself torn between my duty to my club and the growing desire I feel for Gigi. She's a temptation I can't resist, and with each stolen moment together, I can't shake the feeling that we're playing with fire. 
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  Omar the Perfume Seller and...

  Rob Stuart

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  This highly entertaining book, ‘Omar the Perfume Seller and other Fantastical Stories’, is an often tongue-in-cheek, always affectionate, homage to fantasy tales. ‘Omar the Perfume Seller’ is a cautionary tale that examines the consequences of upsetting a powerful Djinn; ‘Say it with Flowers’ is a detective story/ murder mystery with a twist, set in an alternative Britain; ‘The Kidnap Kaper’ is a noir-type story in which a ‘hard-boiled’ private eye is hired to resolve a kidnapping. Fans of the Brothers Grimm might well recognise the villain! The intriguingly titled ‘The Fabulous and Wonderful Frowla’ is a Quest Tale unlike any other. It begs to be read and pondered! Finally, two short, award-winning stories, ‘Stag’ and ‘Gossip’ round off the collection.

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  The Punishing Journey of Arthur...

  Bob Kroll

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  For readers of Paulette Jiles and Gil Adamson, a 19th-century tale of a father’s greatest regret and path to redemption
  		 
  Devastated at his wife’s death and stricken at raising two girls and a boy on his own, Arthur Delaney places his children in a Halifax orphanage and runs off to join the Union Army in the American Civil War. The trauma of battle and three years in a disease-ridden prisoner-of-war prison changes his perspective on life and family.
  		 
  After the war, Delaney odd-jobs his way up the American east coast and catches a schooner to Halifax. There he discovers the orphanage has relocated to a farm in rural Nova Scotia. His children are not there. They and others had been sold and resold as farm workers and house servants through the Maritime provinces, as well as Quebec and Ontario. Their whereabouts is unknown. Arthur Delaney sets out on a punishing 20-year journey across Canada to find them.
  		 
  This is a heartbreaking, beautifully told story of a father’s attempt to reconnect with his children

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  Chanakya Neeti

  B K Chaturvedi

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  One of the greatest figures of wisdom and knowledge in the Indian history is Chanakya. Chanakya is regarded as a great thinker and diplomat in India who is traditionally identified as Kautilya or Vishnu Gupta. Originally a professor of economics and political science at the ancient Takshashila University, Chanakya managed the first Maurya Emperor Chandragupta's rise to power at a young age. Instead of acquiring the seat of kingdom for himself, he crowned Chandragupta Maurya as the emperor and served as his chief advisor. Chanakya Neeti is a treatise on the ideal way of life, and shows Chanakya's deep study of the Indian way of life.

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  The Ash-tree

  M. R. James

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  Something ancient lingers beneath the surface of Castringham Hall. In the stillness of the Suffolk countryside, a presence takes root—silent, watchful, and patient. The Ash-tree is M.R. James at his most unsettling: a precise exercise in creeping dread, where history never rests easy and vengeance grows in shadow.

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  Pleasantview - A Novel-In-Stories

  Celeste Mohammed

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  Coconut trees. Carnival. Rum and coke. To many outsiders, these idyllic images represent the so-called easy life in Caribbean nations such as Trinidad and Tobago. However, the reality is far different for those who live there - a society where poverty and patriarchy savagely rule, and where love and revenge often go hand in hand.  
  Written in combination of English and Trinidad creole, Pleasantview reveals the dark side of the Caribbean dream. In this novel-in-stories, about a fictional town in Trinidad, we meet a political candidate who sets out to slaughter endangered turtles for fun, while his rival candidate beats his "outside woman" so badly she ends up losing their baby. On the night of a political rally, the abused woman exacts a very public revenge, the trajectory of which echoes through Pleasantview, ending with one boy introducing another boy to a gun and to an ideology which will help him aim the weapon. 

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