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Hoping to recoup his losses after answering a misdirected letter to Sherlock Holmes, barrister Reggie Heath represents a limousine driver who has been accused of murdering two tourists, a case that is complicated by a letter from a descendant of Professor Moriarty.
2) Masked
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MASKED - SOMETIMES IT'S BETTER TO NOT KNOW WHAT'S UNDERNEATH.
Jacob Davies is an alcoholic who's been sober for twenty years. When he watches his dad lose his battle against pancreatic cancer it sends his life into chaos and the cravings return stronger than ever. Lost in his grief, he starts to see visions of a masked man that no one else can see. A man who knows things Jacob is yet to find out. A man who has answers to questions Jacob didn't realise...
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After having found and successfully rescued his ex-wife from the diseased in Summit City, Rhys races to where he arranged to meet his son to discover he isn't there ...
But there's hope. The boy's left a trail.
With just enough breadcrumbs to keep them going, Rhys and his ex-wife follow the path of their son and his protector in a race against both the spread of The Alpha Plague, and a crazed psychopath hell bent on their destruction ...
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"One of Choice Reviews' Outstanding Academic Titles of 2018" Michael Robertson is professor of English at The College of New Jersey and the author of two award-winning books, Worshipping Walt: The Whitman Disciples (Princeton) and Stephen Crane, Journalism, and the Making of Modern American Literature. A former freelance journalist, he has written for the New York Times, the Village Voice, Columbia Journalism Review, and many other publications.
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5) Fugitive
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After helping clear a colony of vicious parasites, Seb Zodo has come back from his most recent mission with more questions than answers.How did the grubs find their way to Carstic in the first place?Does it have anything to do with Moses?Could the leader of The Shadow Order be that callous in his pursuit of wealth?To find out the truth Seb has to defy his obligation to The Shadow Order and go A.W.O.L.In a galaxy where Moses holds great power, Seb...
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Do you have a plan for the apocalypse?Rhys doesn't.But as he watches chaos spill from the Alpha tower, he knows one thing for sure ...He must get to his son before the virus does.If you like high stakes and edge of your seat action in a post-apocalyptic world, then The Alpha Plague is for you. Get it now to join Rhys at ground zero as he tries to save his loved ones and survive a disaster that will leave the world changed forever.
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After witnessing his father's murder and his home burned to the ground, Michael is left wandering the violent streets of London alone.Having been captured and managing to escape the clutches of the most heinous of men, he's terrified of recapture.All Michael wants to do is find somewhere safe. Somewhere he can call home.To do that he must survive in a city where he's the weak and the hunted---with no family or friends to help him.When he meets someone...
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"Winner of the 2009 Honor Book Award, New Jersey Council for the Humanities" Michael Robertson is professor of English at the College of New Jersey. He is the author of the award-winning Stephen Crane, Journalism, and the Making of Modern American Literature and the coeditor of Walt Whitman, Where the Future Becomes Present.
Despite his protests, Anne Gilchrist, distinguished woman of letters, moved her entire household from London to Philadelphia...
9) Fear
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Marie, eight months pregnant and grieving the loss of her parter, has fallen from grace in Nirvana. Recently a hardworking, privileged member of society, a chain of events has reduced her to nothing more than an estate rat and a drain on the system.
Under the oppressive boot heel of poverty-like all people on the estate-Marie battles the challenges of surviving the expansive gap between the two social classes. But Marie has one advantage ... she...
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Un abogado de Londres establece su sala en el 221B de la calle Baker, por lo que debe responder a las cartas que la gente escribe a Sherlock Holmes.
Reggie Heath ha establecido su nueva sala jurídica en la Londres moderna en el 221B de la calle Baker, la dirección donde Sherlock Holmes viviría si Sherlock Holmes fuese real.
Sherlock Holmes no es real, pero mucha gente cree que lo es, por lo que le escribe cartas. Aquellas cartas son enviadas...
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With extreme austerity driving everyone but the super wealthy into poverty, Matt joined the revolutionaries in their fight against the UK government. The previous monuments to political rule were toppled, and London was reduced to rubble ...... but they didn't win.It's ten years later and Matt's desperate for one last roll of the dice.Tired of spending his life in hiding, he's made a promise to himself and his twelve-year-old daughter. They're going...
13) Truth
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When the Rixon Corporation released New Reality, a fully immersive, five-dimensional entertainment experience, everyone logged on---everyone except Jake and Tom. Living in the ruins of the old world, the pair face the wrath of Rixon and starvation as they embark on a fight for survival and freedom. A post-apocalyptic/dystopian science fiction thriller and #1 Bestseller in British Horror.What the reviewers say: I started this book late last night...
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Marcie Hugo and Drake Soldado are unusual travel companions united by similar goals. A teenage girl and a man in his thirties. One is returning home to honour a promise, the other needs to find his daughters, which he hasn't seen for over four years since they were taken from him and sold as slaves.Marcie has promised her best friend and childhood sweetheart that she'll return from Prime City with the lung transplant he so desperately needs. She plans...
15) Highrise Hell
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21st century society has been rendered obsolete and London has fallen into the hands of violent gangs. George had begun to question his membership in a gang of murderers and rapists. Now that blood coats his hands, he can feel his humanity slipping away. All he wants to do is leave, but the leader of the gang is his psychotic brother-in-law and the only one who knows where George's pregnant sister is being kept. With just a few weeks left until she...
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Seb and Sparks were given a choice: Join the Shadow Order or rot in a prison cell.As Seb touches down for his first mission on a dark, damp, and cold planet, he wonders if he's made the right call.The First Mission Book Two of The Shadow Order - is a fast-paced, planet-hopping, space opera adventure.
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Hope has spent the past several months in a dark and dank cell; her only comfort, a soiled and sodden mattress. She has accepted that no one is coming to rescue her; she'll be Lucien's pet for the rest of her life and continue her existence of servitude and submission.Unless…The path to freedom is clear, but it involves doing the one thing she thought she'd never do-even after everything she's already endured during her stay. Faced with a choice,...
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Would you stop if you saw a little girl wandering through the woods at night?
Andy did.
He's now dead.
This is Andy's story.
The Girl in the Woods - A Ghost's Story is the first in a collection of Off-Kilter Tales. It's a short story about a man in the wrong place at the wrong time. Or the right place at the right time. You decide.
19) Run Free
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In a world where walls provide safety, Heidi finds herself wanting nothing more than to run free. Trapped in a community with people she despises, she volunteers to be the runner for them. The supply runs offer her relief in an otherwise claustrophobic environment …They also leave her vulnerable to attack in a broken city.
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Nirvana. A city of opportunity and excess; where a person's rights and freedoms are staunchly protected... unless you're from the Estate.
Those from the estate live in abject poverty and are victimised by all of those around them for entertainment.
In Nirvana, having a child out of wedlock is a one way ticket to the Estate.
Marie has hidden her pregnancy from those around her where she works for the corporation contracted by justice department...