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    The Call of Cthulhu
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    The Call of Cthulhu

    Written in 1928, H.P. Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu defined the ancient gods as dark creatures who came from the stars and ruled the world before mankind. When these ancient ones awaken, humanity is plagued by a nightmare of terrors etched upon an epic...
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    The Green Berets
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    The Green Berets

    In Vietnam Robin Moore became on the of the first true "embedded" journalists, training and fighting alongside America's most elite fighters. Though fictionalized, The Green Berets exposed the American public to the horrors of the ground war in Vietnam,...
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    Shadow on the Trail
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    Shadow on the Trail

    In the days of the frontier West, it was not unusual for desperadoes and fugitives from justice to seemingly disappear from the face of the earth. Shadow on the Trail by Zane Grey, one of the bestselling authors of all-time, is the story of one such man...
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    Will Chase, "The Sioux Lands"
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    Will Chase, "The Sioux Lands"

    With the approval of the Elders that have told this story to the author, nowthis legend be told in print to the people of the world. This story is based on emotion, the personal identity of Chasing Hawk/ Will Chase, and the personal philosophy that Will...
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    Soldier, Spy, Heroine
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    Soldier, Spy, Heroine

    The Story of the Woman Who Fooled the Yankees and Rebels Alike. As a child, Sarah Emma Edmonds dreamed of faraway places and adventure, often picturing herself as a man. When her abusive father traded her hand in marriage for a few head of livestock, she...
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    The Mechanic
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    The Mechanic

    A story of justice through the ages . . . and revenge. Germany, 1945. The bloodiest war in history is at an end. Now the retribution and search for justice begins. In a series of Nuremberg trials, war criminals are hanged or commit suicide. Others are...
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    The Blast
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    The Blast

    San Francisco, 1916. The streetsroiling: pitched battles between radical workers and the henchmen of industrialbarons, and between a vibrant, largely Italian immigrant anarchist milieu andthe forces of state and church. All in the looming shadow of...
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    The Silverberg Business
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    The Silverberg Business

    Cover art by Jon Langford of The Mekons An eldritch Western noirAuthor has 2 books out in 2021 building up to this novel in 2022
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    The Escapement
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    The Escapement

    *Nominated for 2022 Phillip K. Dick Award*In this dazzling new novel evoking Westerns, surrealism, epic fantasy, mythology, and circus extravaganzas, World Fantasy Award winner Lavie Tidhar (Central Station) has created an incomparable dreamscape of dark...
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    Galactic Empires
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    Galactic Empires

    Neil Clarke, publisher of the award-winning Clarkesworld magazine, presents a collection of thought-provoking and galaxy-spanning array of galactic short science fiction From E. E. "Doc" Smith's Lensman, to George Lucas' Star Wars, the politics...
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    Veil of the Deserters
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    Veil of the Deserters

    Veil of the Deserters is the second book of Bloodsounder's Arc, which picks up as Captain Braylar Killcoin and his army continue to sow chaos among the political elite of Alespell. Braylar is still poisoned by the memories of those slain by his unholy...
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    Diaspora
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    Diaspora

    A quantum "Brave New World" from the boldest and most wildly speculative writer of his generation. Since the Introdus in the twenty-first century, humanity has reconfigured itself drastically. Most chose immortality, joining the polises to become...
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    Axiomatic
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    Axiomatic

    Axiomatic is a wonderful collection of eighteen short stories by Hugo Award-winning Australian author Greg Egan. From junkies who drink at the time-stream to love affairs in time-reversed galaxies; from gene-altered dolphins that converse only in...
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    Glorious Boy
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    Glorious Boy

    It's 1942. The Japanese have invaded Burma and are closing in on India. After five years in the remote Andaman Islands, aspiring anthropologist Claire Durant and her husband Shep, a civil surgeon, must evacuate with their beloved but mysteriously mute...
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    Among the Mermaids
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    Among the Mermaids

    From Homer's Odyssey to Pirates of the Caribbean, Mermaids have fascinated popular culture for centuries.Among the Mermaids is an enchanting collection of classic stories, facts, and tales of mermaids from around the world that will thrill every lover of...
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    Montana 1948

    The tragic tale of a Montana family ripped apart by scandal and murder: "a significant and elegant addition to the fiction of the American West" (Washington Post).In the summer of 1948, twelve-year-old David Hayden witnessed and experienced a series of...
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    BilbaoNew YorkBilbao
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    BilbaoNew YorkBilbao

    On a transatlantic flight between Bilbao and New York City, a fictional version of Kirmen Uribe recalls three generations of family history - the inspiration for the novel he wants to write - and ponders how the sea has shaped their stories.The day he...
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    Genoa

    "[Genoa] invites us to pass our minds down a new but ancient track, to become, ourselves, both fact and fiction, and to discover something true about the geography of time."-William Gass, The New York Times"Genoa is a spectacular confrontation with...
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    Bayonets, Balloons & Ironclads
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    Bayonets, Balloons & Ironclads

    This fascinating third volume in the Britannia's Fist series will have you pondering how easily history could have been swayed differently.Peter G. Tsouras presents the third installment in his Britannia's Fist alternate history series. The...
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    Once We Were Here
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    Once We Were Here

    As World War II intrudes upon their home, three young friends risk everything for freedom, love, and a chance at a better life.On October 28th, 1940, Mussolini provides Greek Prime Minister Ioannis Metaxas with an ultimatum: either allow Axis forces to...
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    Bell of the Desert
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    Bell of the Desert

    A grand historical novel about Gertrude Bell, one of the most influential women of the twentieth century. She was the most celebrated adventurer of her day, the brains behind Lawrence of Arabia, an adviser to kings and desert sheikhs, and the British...
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    Bonnie Jack
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    Bonnie Jack

    From the acclaimed author of the internationally bestselling Ava Lee novels, a bold and captivating new novel about a search for lost family and the cost of keeping secrets.As a boy, Jack Anderson was abandoned by his mother in a Glasgow movie theatre...
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    Benediction

    In 1907, the fifteen-year-old French-Canadian Ernest Dufault left his home in Quebec for Montana, where he was promptly arrested as a cattle thief. As a prisoner of the state of Nevada, he passed himself off as an American cowboy named Will James. Over...
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  • Mrs. Dalloway
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    Mrs. Dalloway

    In the wake of World War I and the 1918 flu pandemic, Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell shock and is on the brink of...
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    Fire of the Dark Triad
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    Fire of the Dark Triad

    "Fire of the Dark Triad" is a dark and compelling futurist tale of power lust, betrayal, and obsession. The Dark Triads, a malevolent group of humans born with DNA that makes them dangerous have wreaked havoc on Earth for centuries and nearly destroyed...
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    Compromised Vows
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    Compromised Vows

    Adrian Reilly has the life he's always wanted: a beautiful wife whose strength and tenacity match his own, and new friends that have become family, but retirement from Army Special Forces and a life lived in shadows is not all it's cracked up to be after...
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  • StarCraft II: Heaven's Devils
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    StarCraft II: Heaven's Devils

    For the poor, hardworking citizens of the Confederacy's fringe worlds, the Guild Wars have exacted a huge toll. Swayed by the promise of financial rewards, a new batch of recruits join the fight alongside a slew of mysteriously docile criminals-and a few...
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  • StarCraft: I, Mengsk
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    StarCraft: I, Mengsk

    Sixty-thousand light-years from Earth, the corrupt Terran Confederacy holds the Koprulu sector tightly in its tyrannical grip, controlling every aspect of its citizens' lives. One man dares to stand up to this faceless empire and vows to bring it to its...
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  • StarCraft: Liberty's Crusade
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    StarCraft: Liberty's Crusade

    Far in the future, 60,000 light-years from Earth, a loose confederacy of Terran exiles is locked with the enigmatic Protoss and ruthless Zerg swarm. Each species struggles to ensure its own survival among the stars in a war that will herald the beginning...
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    Warcraft: The Last Guardian
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    Warcraft: The Last Guardian

    In the mist-shrouded haze of the past, long before the beginning of recorded time, there stood the world of Azeroth. Every kind of magical being strode the countryside among the tribes of man, and all was at peace - until the arrival of the demons and...
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    The Color of Smoke

    The first major novel about Eastern Europe's Roma, or Travelers (Gypsies), by a Romani author, The Color of Smoke is both a work of passion chronicling one young man's rise to manhood and an epic work that conjures up a dark era of world history. It is...
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    Uncharted - The Fourth Labyrinth

    "Uncharted" follows the adventures of daring thief Nathan Drake who is in search of ancient ruins, priceless artefacts, and untold riches. Sony's "Uncharted" series has sold nearly four million copies to date. Known for breathtaking action sequences,...
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  • On The Edge
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    On The Edge

    Jen Shaw has climbed all her life: daring ascents of sheer rock faces, crumbling buildings, cranes - the riskier the better. Both her work and personal life revolved around climbing, and the adrenaline high it gave her. Until she went too far and hurt...
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  • Harp of Burma
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    Harp of Burma

    Harp of Burma is Japan's haunting answer to Germany's well-known requiem for the First World War, All Quiet on the Western Front.Winner of the prestigious Mainichi Shuppan Bunkasho prize, and the subject of an acclaimed film by Ichikawa Kon, Harp of...
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    Rosendorf Quartet

    Four German Jews , all refugees from Nazi Germany, and all first-rate musicians, arrive in Palestine in the 1930s. There they join a symphony orchestra, which although made up of Europeans serves as a propaganda vehicle for the Zionist...
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    Into A Canyon Deep
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    Into A Canyon Deep

    Not all secrets are buried deep . . . enough.Chris Black has spent two decades searching for answers deep within the world's oceans and is no stranger to the risks of undersea life. Alongside Mac Johnson, his childhood friend and former Navy SEAL, Chris...
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    The Free Fishers
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    The Free Fishers

    When Anthony Lammas, Kirk minister and Professor of Logic at St Andrews University, sets off for business in London, little does he realise that he will soon be entangled in a web of conspiracy. But Anthony is no ordinary professor.Set during the...
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  • The Three Hostages
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    The Three Hostages

    After distinguished service in the First World War, Richard Hannay settles into peaceful domesticity with his wife Mary and their young son. However, news comes to him of three kidnappings. With no more than a few tantalisingly cryptic lines of verse as...
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    Love and Death in Bali

    Set against the backdrop of the Dutch invasion of Bali just over a century ago, and the resulting "mass suicides" of the Balinese royalty, the moving story unfolds of the peasant Pak and his family and friends, and the tragedy that is their shared fate...
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  • Dukkha Reverb
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    Dukkha Reverb

    If you're going to fight bad guys, you might as well make them really mad at you!A few weeks ago, I had a good life-I was a respected Portland police detective and successful martial arts instructor. Then I shot somebody-then I shot two more people. It...
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    Kage

    Best Books Award Finalist - USA Book News Winner - eLit AwardIn the seemingly trackless waste of the desert outside Tucson, Arizona, a coyote cross border smuggler is found dead, another victim of the escalating violence on the southwest border.At the...
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    Swords of Waar
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    Swords of Waar

    Jane Carver, a hell-raising, redheaded biker chick from Coral Gables, Florida, had found a new life and love on Waar, a savage planet of fearsome creatures and swashbuckling warriors. Until the planet's high priests sent her back to Earth against her...
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    The Taiheiki
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    The Taiheiki

    An epic saga of samurai warfare in medieval JapanThis celebrated literary classic has delighted generations of Japanese. In its pages, you will find a vivid contemporary description of the fourteenth-century intrigues and battles that led to the...
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  • John Macnab
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    John Macnab

    In 1925, John Buchan published his second most famous novel, John Macnab; three high-flying men a barrister, a cabinet minister and a banker are suffering from boredom. They concoct a plan to cure it. They inform three Scottish estates that they will...
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    The Burning City

    In The Burning City, Alaya Dawn Johnson continues the trilogy begun with her debut, Racing the Dark, delving deeper into the world of magic wielded by women who understand the dark trade-offs of power and sacrifice. Lana, the heroine, has become the...
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    The Tale of Genji

    Centuries before Shakespeare, Murasaki Shikibu's "The Tale of Genji" was already acknowledged as a classic of Japanese literature and the past century has seen this book gain worldwide acceptance as not only the...
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    Emperor of the Eight Islands
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    Emperor of the Eight Islands

    Like George R. R. Martin, Lian Hearn has captivated millions of readers worldwide with her masterpiece of imagination, TALES OF THE OTORI. Now, against a dazzling canvas of wild forest, elegant court and savage battlefield, she brilliantly brings to life...
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