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1) Thief's Coin
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In the river town of Opal, as the traveling players in Balthasar's Dream Palace perform, sorceress Illisandra Zayla's spymaster Jarn Sork captures Prince Derrius Hextor and imprisons him in a tower in the middle of the River Dolor. The prince's lover, the thief Stealth, must employ her cunning to outfox Sork and rescue Derrius, even though she knows her effort might result in his death.As Stealth begins her perilous ascent up the tower, the two warring...
2) Juno Lucina
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Her mother is a psychic artist, driven near to breaking point by a husband bent on conformity and control. The ugly childhood scenes have burrowed into Tess's mind and festered there. Buried, too, are Tess's own fledgling artistic and psychic abilities – unwanted 'proof' of the same inherent evil that has destroyed her family and stalked her dreams into adulthood. Tess flees into the safety of a teenage marriage, not realizing that the price of...
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And this really gave me a shiver. I stopped reading for a bit and just gawked at it. The sentence was written so flippantly yet surged with such strong words, oh man. I really liked how the dark humor was added which just adjoin to the thriller. I'll just add a small part of blurb to let in what this book was about "When Santa set out to create a superior breed of beings, the end result was a society of supremely honed weapons of war. What he created,...
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From an Adirondack cabin that starts as a refuge and becomes a trap ... to the high society of Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square and Main Line ... to the craggy beauty of Mount Desert Island, Maine ... to a general aviation airport struggling to survive, Ann Kinnear evolves from a woman whose past has punished her for practicing her spirit-sensing abilities to an expert whose skill rivals that of her sometimes-mentor, sometimes-competitor Garrick...
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The Realm of Faery owns and operates a massive entertainment complex in Las Vegas. Humans flock to the three floors of boutique shops, restaurants, and theaters, but are completely unaware of the magic that surrounds them. But what happens if one of the supernatural creatures serving the Dark King defies a direct order? His human glamour won't save him from the trolls who hunt him, and neither will the merely mortal police! A vividly realized race...
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Sometimes the smallest decisions that we make have the biggest impact on our lives. So it was with Will Anderson. While his wife was out of town visiting his sister, he decided to stop and have a beer on his way home at a bar that he had never seen before. When he meets a stranger and a woman that he recognizes from his days in high school strange occurrences begin to happen.Soon he become embroiled in a mystery that has many layers, including...
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Mécontent de sa vie à la maison et à l'école au Royaume-Uni, Guillaume Moreau décide de tout échapper et finit par s'enfuir. Il parvient à s'enfuir d'abord d'Angleterre en Écosse; puis il s'échappe en Chine et s'entraîne en tant que moine Shaolin en apprenant de nombreux styles d'arts martiaux. Alors qu'il était à l'école Shaolin en Chine, Guillaume se connecte soudainement avec son Soi Supérieur connu sous le nom de Démon; Guillaume...
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The Beggar's Lucky Coin, a supernatural horror story by Bruce Allsman When an avid coin collector, Datuk See Khor Jee, finds an old and rare coin in the begging bowl of Old So Chan, a beggar at a Taoist temple in Air Itam, Penang, he swears to have that coin, at any price. Old So Chan, however, refuses to sell his lucky coin. Driven by greed, Datuk See persuades Kwan Sook Im, his lovely young wife, his reluctant partner in crime, to help him steal...
10) Grey Feathers
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She traded in her wings for a news anchor job. When War, the second horseman of the apocalypse arrives, can she stop the escalating global conflict before it's too late? Becky can charm the pants off anyone with her news anchor good looks, genuine smile, and sparkling eyes. When she's exiled from Heaven and stripped of her powers, she has no trouble fitting in at the television network as their star reporter. Beneath her vain exterior, she cares about...
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Santiago sets out at his ranch in Phoenix, Arizona every Halloween and waits for an appearance from his friend, the legendary ghost man Greybeard.It's been six long years for Retired US Deputy Marshall Santiago Ramos since he lost his best friend Jimmy "Douglas" Greyson, better known as the son to the legendary Greybeard the Ghost of 489. He died in much the same way his father had, left on the side of a lonely highway late at night.This Halloween...
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Hazel Smith rides west on a mare she won at a poker table. When she reaches the town of Silence, she finds a tiny but welcoming community bookended by a church and a saloon. A good place to die. But the saloon has no mirror behind the bar, and nobody but the priest himself goes to the church. The only horse in the only stable is hers. In her final hours, Hazel has to make a choice between living forever and making her death matter.
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To save his sister, a special ops agent must stop deadly organization from unleashing the magic of the Nephilim in this military fantasy adventure novel.
Following the deaths of his wife and daughter, special ops agent Cody Willis has been struggling to cope with his overwhelming grief. When the burden becomes too much to bear, and Cody is sent on temporary leave, he finds himself even further adrift. But he's about to rediscover his purpose when...
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A tiny Ozark town is haunted by a long-ago crime in this "dynamic, captivating" mystery by the author of Bred to the Bone (Mid-Atlantic Book Review).
While visiting her mother in the rural Missouri town of Sycamore Bend, Catherine Hudson and her boyfriend go on a scenic hike-though it gets hard to see much of anything when a dense fog descends upon their trail. Then, in the rapidly fading sunlight, a young, barefoot boy appears, searching...
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Unhappy with his life at home & school in the UK Guillaume Moreau decides to escape it all and eventually runs away. He manages to first runaway from England to Scotland; then he escapes to China and trains as a Shaolin Monk learning many styles of Martial Arts. Whilst at the Shaolin School in China Guillaume suddenly connects with his Higher-Self known as a Daemon; Guillaume then develops many kinds of paranormal powers with one of them being TELEPORTATION!...
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There are stories of the night that our elders foretell during moments that idle. Those who genuinely listen attain knowledge of the urban legends that coexist within our realm of understanding. Where there is anarchy that looms before us, there are past troubles that are left to be uncovered. Those who seek to discover the truth without comprehending its outcomes shall be derailed and have their minds infiltrated by thoughts of crazed imagination.Three...
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An Alien in the Arboretum, a paranormal thriller by Bruce Allsman For the sake of his wife and daughter, Tom Gardner, a phytologist, moves with his family from the countryside to the city. In the city, he works in a shop that sells bonsai trees, and he also maintains the rooftop garden of his apartment building. The shop's owner is Saito-san, an old Japanese man from Okinawa. A few weeks before Saito-san's death, Tom receives a special gift from his...
19) Mara
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Mara, a supernatural horror story by Bruce Allsman After a near futile search for yet another replacement maid to care for their four-year-old daughter, Mara, Mr. and Mrs. Ho Chee Kooi, find Diwata, who seems to satisfy Mara compared to the previous maids who had either quit within a week or ran away. Despite her relief, Mrs. Ho, curious about the relationship between Mara and Diwata, soon uncovers an unspeakable horror, a shocking truth, not about...
20) The Soulless
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A small Arizona town is plagued by misfortune. car accidents, murder, and then struck by a pandemic. A scientist found a way to help her communty through it all. But a new threat has emurged. as things are spirling out of control the local sheriff calls Apollo Steel to see if he could help.what he finds is almost too much to handle.
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