Mimic (A Spear Bearer Short)

      Stephen Clary
     Mimic (A Spear Bearer Short)

“Who is Kracken?”“No one. He never was.”Lizzie’s cousins have moved into a large old home. It’s a nice place, but it seems it had already been occupied by a spirit named Kracken. Lizzie has a job to do...her first job since facing the sorcerer in Spear Bearer Book 1. But for Lizzie being a Spear Bearer isn’t getting any easier.“Who is Kracken?” “No one. He never was.” Several weeks have passed since the events of Spear Bearer Book 1. Lizzie’s family is spending Thanksgiving with her mom’s sister’s family in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The family recently moved into a large old home. Not too long after they arrive, Lizzie’s four-year-old cousin Masi begins to talk about her ‘imaginary’ friend Kracken. Lizzie’s dad guesses that the friend is actually a Lost Soul—a ghost. Lizzie has a job to do...her first job since facing the sorcerer in Spear Bearer Book 1. But for Lizzie, being a Spear Bearer isn’t getting any easier.

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    Mark of Evil

      Tim LaHaye
     Mark of Evil

Economies have fallen, freedom has been suppressed, and peace is a distant memory. The world is falling apart. Joshua Jordan's protege Ethan March, along with Jimmy Louder and Rivka Reuban have been left behind in a world that is rapidly coming under the complete influence of the Antichrist. Technology is growing by leaps and bounds, with BID-Tag implants, robotic police units, and drone-bots flying overhead... all designed to control and dominate those who resist the Antichrist's reign of evil. As Biblical prophecy is fulfilled each new day, Ethan and the others in the Remnant struggle to eat, to procure necessary goods, and to avoid the Global Alliance -- in short, to survive. But when the forces of evil attempt to pervert the world's most powerful information system to their own sinister ends, eliminating everyone who gets in their way, it's up to Ethan and the Remnant to subvert their dark ambitions.

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    Song of Kali

      Dan Simmons
     Song of Kali

Calcutta: a monstrous city of immense slums, disease and misery, is clasped in the foetid embrace of an ancient cult. At its decaying core is the Goddess Kali: the dark mother of pain, four-armed and eternal, her song the sound of death and destruction. Robert Luczak has been hired by Harper's to find a noted Indian poet who has reappeared, under strange circumstances, years after he was thought dead. But nothing is simple in Calcutta and Lucsak's routine assignment turns into a nightmare when he learns that the poet is rumoured to have been brought back to life in a bloody and grisly ceremony of human sacrifice.

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    The Star Stalker

      Robert Bloch
     The Star Stalker

HOLLYWOOD. COLOSSAL. COMPELLING. CORRUPT. Where the only sin is “not making it” . . . where beautiful people do very ugly things to get to the top . . . where desperate men and women plummet overnight from the peak of power to the lethal valley of the dolls: DAWN—The superstarlet with a child’s face and a woman’s passions—ready for fame, ripe for corruption. HARKER—The great director, internationally praised, universally feared. A genius on the set—a monster in the bedroom. TOMMY—He stands apart from their deadly games—until he suddenly wakes to find himself trapped in the 24-hour nightmare called Hollywood. THE STAR STALKER is a searing, no-holds-barred novel that tells it the way it really is.

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    Capital Punishment

      Robert Wilson
     Capital Punishment

Meet Charles Boxer - ex-army, ex-police and now a high-stakes kidnap recovery specialist, he knows only too well how the dark forces in the city can reach out and ensnare an innocent victim. The hostage is the beautiful Alyshia D'Cruz, daughter of Indian tycoon Francisco 'Frank' D'Cruz. After a boozy night out she gets into the wrong cab home and Boxer is the only man Frank will trust to go down into the criminal underworld to retrieve her. Boxer knows that Frank's crooked business empire has made him plenty of enemies, but despite the vast D'Cruz fortune, the kidnappers don't want his cash. They prefer a crueller, more lethal game and to have any chance of saving Alyshia, Boxer must play it out with religious fanatics, London's home-grown crime lords and Indian mobsters, as his trail crosses paths with a terrorist plot on British soil. Capital Punishment is a thrilling journey to the dark side of people and places hidden just out of sight, waiting for the moment to tear a life apart.

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    Skull City

      Vince Darcangelo
     Skull City

October 3. It's opening night at Skull City, a haunted attraction just outside Pittsburgh. The pay isn't much, but it promises to be easy, seasonal work. Wear a costume, scare some kids.But a different breed of fear lurks within the walls of this spook house. It's a fear you know well. The haunted owner, his troubled past. Inside, you will learn, Skull City is an anamatronic roadmap of insanity."Whatever happens, it won't be the end..."Re-released with a whole new edit in 2017, now is a fantastic time to take the journey with the first in the Of Preludes & Epitaphs series..."Full to the brim with magic and wonder…”"This book is quite extraordinary, it is a breath of fresh air..."“This story is pure magic, and I’m very pleased to learn there’s more still to come…”“No book has engrossed me so much since Frank Herbert’s ‘Dune’.The usurper king of Matara razes a nation in search of its missing queen. The city witch fights for her life against the necromancer holding her prisoner. And in the faraway village of Rayan its people refuse to barricade their home, over-confident of their own safety.When tragedy strikes the survivors find themselves stranded and struggling to find help, blossoming love is torn apart and long-held secrets tarnish a courageous journey through their dangerous landscape and magical realms.Can they maintain solidarity and search for a saviour in the presence of the unbelievable? Will any of them truly be able to pull Prenitia from this darkest of times?When Telena delved into the dusty books she could never have guessed her own dark journey with these mythical names had but begun.Take up your sword for the brand new epic fantasy series, and prepare for The Fate of Vultures - the battles of magic have just begun...

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    The Mountain's Money

      Jan Tailor
     The Mountain's Money

Every winters day, snowboarders and skiers spend hundreds of dollars on lift tickets, food, booze, and rentals at the mountain. The mountain’s staff is made up of under paid dreamers happy to have a free ski pass. This is the story of the mountain’s security guard Brando, whose dream is to live on a beach.Paul a poor Nigeria boy who had not set his naked eyes on his father, went as far to get a job so as to do everything from preventing his mother from death as she was still in the hospital battling with leukemia. Paul went desperately to anywhere he can get a job along the line he got a temporal job with a cruel wicked man named, Jerry that take pleasures in seeing his swine as his family. Paul escaped when Jerry sent him and other of his ragamuffin to fetch some firewood for him from the forest. while escaping and avoiding been caught; Atinko a friend of Paul whom they both escaped saw an hunter on a tree and that almost makes Paul hope becoming a reality. Mr Silas took Paul and his friend Atinko to his house. That came as a beginning for Paul to battle to save his sick mother and to achieve his aims in life.

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    Headshot

      Julien Boyer
     Headshot

I've never had a dad. My mom was shot dead in front of me when I was five. You probably guessed I'm not a very typical teenager. My nightmares are so nasty I wake up more tired than when I go to bed.I thought my life was going to stay the dull ache that it had always been, until I found out the nightmares could be controlled. And *used*.This is the story of me turning it all around.Ever since her mother was killed before her when she was five, Eeva has had gruesome nightmares almost every night, leaving her barely able to function during the days. With the help of her new therapist, she tries to confront them, and finds out that the darkest secrets of her childhood are hidden within the dreams. As she digs deeper and deeper into the dream world, she comes to the realisation that dream and reality are closely intertwined.

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    Artificial

      Jason Phillips
     Artificial

Anton Splendor loses his leg in a car accident, and when he meets the man that caused the accident from a mutual acquaintance...can he learn to rebuild his shattered life, and more importantly...to forgive?Anton Splendor loses his left leg in a car accident, but along with losing his leg he also loses his drive..ambition and zest for life.But when he meets Michelle and starts dating her at behest of his friend Larry, everything changes!Until the day that he meets the man that caused his accident...can he learn to forgive and move on with his life?

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    No Rhyme or Reason, Volume Two

      Thomas Clagg
     No Rhyme or Reason, Volume Two

The journey of unimaginable terror continues in volume two. One person is set to find out what terror truly is. (highly recommend to read volume one first for free).The fast-paced journey continues to haunt everyday people who come face to face with kind eyes and the blade. Will someone find out who Mr. Beautiful is and why he is determined to cause the most inflicted pain anyone can imagine? (highly recommend reading Volume One first for free).

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    The New Life. (Book #1)

      David Alexian
     The New Life.  (Book #1)

This should be considered sample chapters in the novel: THE SKIES ARE LIGHTED WITH LAMPS, which will be out in a couple of months.Kiskadee can be a wonderful place to live. It is a small village on an island in the Caribbean. Life there is generally simple and serene. But in the middle of this little world, there exist an uneasy feeling that this is not one of the happily ever after stories.Kiskadee can be a wonderful place to live. It is a small village on an island in the Caribbean. Life there is generally simple and serene. But in the middle of this little world, there exist an uneasy feeling that this is not one of the happily ever after stories. And so, this village sets the stage for a family reuniting and another immigrating. Be prepared to keep guessing throughout this book, and of the series! This book is part of the series: The Skies Are Lighted With Lamps.

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    Recoil

      Jim Thompson
     Recoil

Patrick Cosgrove used to think he'd do anything not to be a prisoner of Sandstone State Reformatory. Fifteen years on the inside for a victimless crime, under the care of a warden whose penchant for violence is legendary--surely nothing could be worse. But when an unbelievably Samaritan act by a psychologist he's never met places Cosgrove in the care of Roland "Doc" Luther, Cosgrove's not so sure he hasn't traded the frying pan for the fire after all. On the one hand, Doc claims that Cosgrove owes him nothing, and seems at times like the most decent man alive. But at other times, Doc's potential for cruelty seems unimaginable. As it turns out, freedom's not as freeing as he thought it would be--especially when it might end up getting him killed.

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    Dead Zero

      Stephen Hunter
     Dead Zero

From New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Hunter comes a thriller that plunges deep into the world of high-tech national security, the hearts and minds of those who kill for duty, and the latest mission for veteran sniper Bob Lee Swagger— who may have finally met the only man who can outshoot him. Who killed Whiskey 2-2? And why won’t it stay dead? A marine sniper team on a mission in tribal territories on the Afghan-Pakistan border, Whiskey 2-2 is ambushed by professionals using the latest high-tech shooting gear. Badly wounded, the team’s sole survivor, Gunnery Sergeant Ray Cruz, aka “the Cruise Missile,” is determined to finish his job. He almost succeeds when a mystery blast terminates his enterprise, leaving a thirty-foot crater where a building used to be—and where Sergeant Cruz was meant to be hiding. Months pass. Ray’s target, an Afghan warlord named Ibrahim Zarzi, sometimes called “The Beheader,” becomes an American asset in the region and beyond, beloved by State, the Administration, and the Agency. He arrives in Washington for consecration as Our Man in Kabul. But so does a mysterious radio transmission, in last year’s code. It’s from Whiskey 2-2. MISSION WILL BE COMPLETED. CONFIDENCE IS HIGH. Is Ray Cruz back? Has he gone rogue, is he insane, or just insanely angry? Will he succeed, though his antagonists now include the CIA, the FBI, and the same crew of bad boys that nearly killed him in Zabol province? Not to mention Bob Lee Swagger and a beautiful CIA agent named Susan Okada who gives Swagger more than just a patriotic reason to take the case. Swagger, the legendary hero of seven of Hunter’s novels from Point of Impact to last year’s bestselling I, Sniper, is recruited by the FBI to stop the Cruise Missile from reaching his target. The problem is that the more Swagger learns about what happened in Zabol, the more he questions the U.S. government’s support of Zarzi and the more he identifies with Cruz as hunter instead of prey. With its hallmark accuracy on modern killing technologies, Dead Zero features an older, more contemplative Swagger, but never lets up on the razor-sharp dialogue, vivid characterizations, extraordinary action scenes, and dazzling prose that define Hunter’s landmark series. And with this installment, the stunning revelations— both political and private—will leave readers begging for more long after the last bullet finds its way home.

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    Trail of the Apache and Other Stories

      Elmore Leonard
     Trail of the Apache and Other Stories

Destiny, restlessness, and greed moved the white man west, into lands occupied for centuries by a proud and noble people: Arapahoe, Navajo, Apache, Sioux. The bitter misunderstandings and brutal clashes of cultures that resulted ultimately shaped the nation we know today. In seven classic western tales, the New York Times-bestselling Grand Master re-creates a world of violence, deception, vengeance, and strange beauty with the same peerless storytelling power that distinguishes his acclaimed suspense fiction.

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