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Pandora's life changes when an inheritance forces her to confront her past. She is shocked to discover a daughter born in her teens and believed dead, is very much alive. Aided by her new love, the confronting Welsh psychiatrist Bryn Llewellyn, Pandora is consumed by her need to find the girl--only to be rejected. Tragedy reunites the pair in a painful and uneasy relationship? Contemporary Relationships Novel/Women's Fiction by Janet Woods; originally published by Robert Hale [UK]
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'At Paradise Jazz, myths became legends and legends took off their coats and played the kind of blues to leave blisters on your soul.' Kat Pomfret's colourful debut novel explores what happens in a small town when big secrets collide. A novel about family, history and identity, Paradise Jazz tells the story of two women who have to confront a violent and secret past. The stories of Georgetown Easy, looking for a father last seen in Texas 1978, and Helena Jones, who wants to forget the past as mu... more info>>
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Robert Bloch / Ben Bova / Algis Budrys / Avram Davidson / Samuel R. Delany / Joe L. Hensley / Keith Laumer / William Rotsler / Robert Sheckley / Robert Silverberg / Henry Slesar / Theordore Sturgeon / A. E. Van Vogt / Roger Zelazny / and Harlan Ellison, unassisted. If you mix Ellison with wild talents like those names listed above you've got a book as unique as the Abominable Snowperson. Here is the first collection of collaborative stories ever created, each deranged vision complete with introd... more info>>
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Sophie Katz has just offered a man $12,000 for his services? Is she desperate or just meshugeneh? Considering the kind of disasters that usually befall the half-black, half-Jewish mystery writer, probably both. Because the last time Sophie saw sexy P.I. Anatoly Darinsky, he practically danced a jig when she waved goodbye--a normal reaction for a man who'd nearly bought the farm trying to protect her from her own foolishness. What are the chances he'd agree to take incriminating pictures of her s... more info>>
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When aspiring author Anne Graham meets Graham Kingsley, she succumbs to his worldly charm and, despite misgivings, agrees to marry him. After they move into an ancient manor house in the heart of Dartmoor startling facts from Graham's past begin to emerge. Anne does her best to cope, but fears for her sanity when she begins seeing the characters she's written about in her book.
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While investigating what appears to be a series of tit for tat racial attacks in the back streets of Norwich, Theo Stern is asked to help in the search for gangster, Benny Lyle, said to have been kidnapped from his London home. But there is something cynically methodical about the Norwich attacks and Lyle is recently reported to have been seen in Norfolk's tiny Georgian town of Holt. So are the Norwich attacks simply retaliatory and has Lyle really been abducted? Stern has his doubts about both ... more info>>
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Maggie Duncan's love life goes from champagne and delphiniums to revelations of dead wives and dirty diapers in mere days. If that's not enough, her stare down with a sociopathic loan shark in a caterer's storeroom makes Maggie wish she hadn't pushed well-meaning heartthrob Bruce Herring out of her emotional jurisdiction.
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The 1960's brought Seth and Payton all they'd fantasized about--perfect friendships, a successful four-man band, and most importantly, each other. Together they embarked on a tour that brought them stimulating highs and shattering lows, and they prospered and suffered in one another's arms. The two men carried each other and carried a group that created both a history and a future for rock. But at some point their music blurred with the news of their love and the world was faced with the choice ... more info>>
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After years of friendship, the women of the SAHM I Am e-mail loop are finally meeting in person. But with two new moms trying to blend in with Dulcie and the gang, there's bound to be trouble! Earth-mother Iona and young mom Hannah are thrilled to join the weekend getaway sans hubbies and kids. But sparks fly when Hannah's know-it-all attitude clashes with the Queen of Ego, Rosalyn. When things go from bad to worse, one mom must step in to save the weekend from total disaster!
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An American boy and a warlord's engaged daughter have disappeared—together—in an Eastern European border country. Only one man can find them in time to prevent an international meltdown—Chet Stryker. But Chet is taken aback when he realizes the boy is the nephew of Mae Lund, Chet's former flame. When Mae insists on rescuing her relative herself, Chet knows he has to protect her from the enemy on their trail. Yet can he protect himself from falling for Mae again?
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Anne Lynch is back in town and wants to sink the Dwenglesmyth ship. She and the old guard teachers are convinced the little cockroach principal demolished their parish school teaching careers. Something has to be done to stop his running/ruining the parish school and reverse the decision to fire all the over forty ladies--just because--who gave their teaching lives to their beloved parish. So in a moment of questionable bravado, Anne infiltrates the parish complex as chief cook and bottle washer... more info>>
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Possibilities is set in the turbulent 1960's, and is the story of a young woman named Nora Steele. She must face her worst fears when she is dragged into a dark alley late at nigh, by an abusive would-be rapist, Jason Merk. Despite the fact that she was raised in an orphanage, Nora lands a decent job just before she has to move out on her own. Her hard work and dedication pays off however, when she wins the respect of her employer, powerful Detroit Michigan defense attorney Houston Ripley, and h... more info>>
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Ayeshia Smith has died, her organs donated to recipients around the country. FromBirth Ltd. and its leader Dr. Groome intend to profit from her death by creating a business of harvesting and donating organs. In an effort to increase the number of people willing to sign up to be a part of the venture, Mr. Mardin is hired to create a video for promotion of the company. In the process of making the film and interviewing those who received her organs, Mardin realizes those who benefitted aren't as... more info>>
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Praying Woman is not an inspirational novel, yet it can inspire. Praying Woman is not a romance, but romance is part of it. Praying Woman is a story of women united across time. One woman lives in the faded pages of an old diary, and her story is of love and strength and forgiveness. One woman lives her story today, a journey to self-knowledge and honesty. Praying Woman will speak to your heart.
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Gilly Soloman has been reduced to a mothering machine, taking care of everyone and everything except herself. But the machine has broken down. Burnt out by the endless days of crying children and menial tasks, and exhausted from always putting herself last, Gilly doesn't immediately consider the consequences when she's carjacked. With a knife to her throat, her first thought is that she'll finally get some rest. Someone can save her for a change.But salvation isn't so forthcoming. Stranded in a ... more info>>
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Many people believe ghosts are terrifying apparitions who evoke feelings of fear. My life held encounters that would spook most people. I taught school in a small farming community. Apparitions would visit me in an effort to communicate with the living. Over a period of time, I chronicled my encounters with the paranormal. Now, I'd like to share that experience with you.
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THE attempt to conceive imaginatively a better ordering of human society than the destructive and cruel chaos in which mankind has hitherto existed is by no means modern: it is at least as old as Plato, whose ''Republic'' set the model for the Utopias of subsequent philosophers. Whoever contemplates the world in the light of an ideal--whether what he seeks be intellect, or art, or love, or simple happiness, or all together--must feel a great sorrow in the evils that men needlessly allow to conti... more info>>
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A woman discovers that some Thanksgiving traditions carry on even after death. A work of flash fiction from our Nibs literary line.
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Teaching Sunday school at her brother's church in the Bay area was supposed to help former champion athlete Esther "Essie" Walker understand boys--the better to raise her newborn son as a stellar example of manhood. Fat chance! Enter the eight-year-old male psyche: awful jokes, disrespectful behavior and general mayhem. Essie, the queen of control, finds herself in a brand-new world of chaos.The pressure builds on all fronts--Sunday school class, husband's job, church pageant, aging parents, fin... more info>>
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It was just a day's work for Texas Ranger Egan Caldwell. Except this time, the victim of the crime was rich, beautiful heiress Caroline Stallings. Egan and Caroline couldn't be more different--she was upper crust, he was a lawman. Yet this woman stirred feelings in him that refused to be ignored. Problem was, Caroline's memory had gone the way of Egan's willpower and her amnesia had attracted a killer. Ensuring her safety was something he took very seriously. But giving in to their distracting, ... more info>>
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Caroline is about to go psychotic--and with her family, no surprise. Joseph can't talk to women even if he is a certified high IQ clever dick trying to take snapshots of the end of the universe. Ray and Marj have their own hassles with in-laws, but student terrorists get in the way. Meanwhile Brian, misogynist and wit, appalls everyone in the quipu world. Quipus? They're the scandalous fanzines that hikes traded before blogs were invented. Hikes? High IQ clever dicks, of course. In QUIPU (appear... more info>>
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This sweeping adventure depicts the heroism and determination of Traiko Ivanoff and his family against the Bulgarian Communists in 1958. Helpless to save his innocent brother from execution by a Secret Police firing squad, Traiko finds revenge, but not peace. The Police confiscate Traiko's money and lucrative transportation business except for a hidden 1928 taxicab, then imprison him and threaten him with death. As time runs out, Traiko has one last ploy to save himself and his family ... .
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Unruly Red knows she's no one's idea of a sweet old granny. But with one long-distance phone call, the fortysomething bar owner with the tattoos and tight jeans is suddenly responsible for two young grandchildren she hardly knows. Red's rowdy friends, late-night lifestyle and tiny apartment above her San Antonio saloon definitely aren't kidproof. And Red's pretty sure the hot young fiddle player she's been dallying with will run for the hills when he learns she has a daughter, let alone grandki... more info>>
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Winner of the Frank Collymore Award, Karen Lord's debut novel is an intricately woven tale of adventure, magic, and the power of the human spirit. Paama's husband is a fool and a glutton. Bad enough that he followed her to her parents' home in the village of Makendha--now he's disgraced himself by murdering livestock and stealing corn. When Paama leaves him for good, she attracts the attention of the undying ones--the djombi-- who present her with a gift: the Chaos Stick, which allows her to man... more info>>
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"You're what?" Thea Benedict had been about to--honest to God--tell her ex-lover Johnny Griego she was pregnant. Until Johnny's teenage daughter beat her to it with her big news! Thea knew Johnny wasn't a happily-ever-after kind of guy. And now he had his little girl's impending motherhood to think about. So you could have knocked Thea over when the sexy rancher asked her to be his wife! She should have guessed Johnny was the type to do the right thing by her. Except Thea had some crazy notion a... more info>>
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