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1) The Passage
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DO YOU BELIEVE IN EVERLASTING LOVE?
Jay Danforth Fitzgerald, known as "Fitz" to his few remaining friends, has learned from long and painful experience that there is no such thing as love that lasts. A failed an aging stockbroker full of angst and self-loathing, he fritters away his nights in Tiddly's Bar and his days aboard a derelict sailboat stuck in the mud of Charleston Harbor. But, when he meets a much younger woman named Gemma, his world changes...
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Rose looked back at her cards and began turning them over slowly. A red ace came up followed by a red King, red queen, red jack, and a red ten in the same suit. She had a 'royal flush.'
Captain Morgan smiled, "I think the pot belongs to Mr. Donovan, Gentlemen."
John Deer, stunned, stared at the pot in front of him.
Jed Smith reached into his coat pocket and withdrew a small pistol, and screamed, "No one's taking my stake! That's our money she's got!"
He...
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The roots of this book are real and full of characters and heroic stories of the sort one might expect from migration tales,, evoking border crossings past and present.
In Abou Farman's hands the stories turn into a larger meditation on movement, conveyed with humour and a subtle irony. Clerks of the Passage takes us on a journey in the company of some strange and great migrants, from the 3.5 million year-old bipedal hominids of Laetoli, Tanzania,...
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Starlit Carrara, aged ten, is in search of seven Tools of Power. To recover them, she must travel through space and time -- and must even pass into the hollow earth Agartha, where the Queen of Piora rules. Starlit learns from the Queen that rebels have wrongfully stolen the items and escaped with them to Earth. Yet through her personal experience, Starlit discovers that the thieves have good reasons for their so-called crime and that they may not...
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The origins of this book of contemplation spring from the long and arduous tour around India undertaken by the author's father back in 1965. The more he began to experience this great country, the more he wanted to move beyond merely describing its landscape and the treasures from its glorious past. His aim was to expand his interpretation of the world of India into a wholly new mode of thinking and thereby to understand humanity as a whole.
The...
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During an evening, promising adventure aboard a galleon, eighteen-year-old Giselle is marooned on a tropical island. As she begins to uncover remnants of an ancient civilisation, she learns that she has travelled to a parallel world and that the island was veiled four hundred years ago to prevent an ancient evil from escaping. As the mystery of the islands history unfolds, Giselle is drawn into a desperate quest for a key that will enable safe passage...
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A man named, Galloway, returns home following an unknown journey. After reentering the vacant cottage of his youth, nestled in the midst of a great valley, he sits down to tell the story of his time as only he can: meditating on transformation, loss, the nature of the divine, light and dark, and a soul's refusal to surrender; he transports us back to the days of his youth, telling of what caused him to flee the lands of his home, and what journey...
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A Legend tells that there are two seven-star lamps in the world. One lamp was found in the tomb of Zhouyi and used by Zhuge Kongming. But there is another one in Jiang Ziya's grave. For thousands of years, Jiang Ziya's grave has been a mystery. In order to search for his grave, later generations experienced a breathtaking grave robbery.
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The year is 1923 and the world continues its recovery from the ravages of World War I. In this second historical novel in the "Meuse Trilogy", MARIE DURANT CHAGALL, now 27-years-old, continues her own journey towards recovery, planning a return to nursing with a grand scheme of opening a rural health clinic, La Clinique Meuse.
Pressured by her Papa and sister Solange, now living in New York City, Marie reluctantly consents to a visit and sets sail...
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Bain and Alana MacMillan with their five-year-old child, Catriona, left Scotland in1738 aboard a ship bound for America, carrying with them very little other than their meager belongings. The one and only valuable possession they owned was a beautiful ruby ring handed down to Bain MacMillan from his mother.
So many Scots were on the ship that day, and among them was Robert Wardlaw with his wife and children. Robert Wardlaw was hoping this journey...
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Jim Prime deploys both memory and imagination in these short stories that take you from his youth on Long Island, Nova Scotia to the pitcher's mound at Fenway Park in Boston, and even deep into the North Atlantic's turbulent waters. Some tales are true and others...should be.
The book includes a special bonus: the first chapter of the long-awaited sequel to Fish and Dicks, the raucous stories of two fish-gutters and detectives on Digby Neck and...
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MYSTERY - ADVENTURE - MINOR HEROICS "Thrilling and suspenseful… The plot's clever twists and turns create a web of intrigue that had me glued to the pages until I reached the exciting finale." – Reader's Favorite, 5/5 starsTwin revelations upend sixteen-year-old Santa Monica native Jasper Faulks' near-normie existence after Dad disappears on the second anniversary of Mom's death: Dad used to be a member of a secret society of time benders, and...
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On Christmas Eve morning, Jenna receives a mysterious package from her great aunt who died several months prior. Jenna quickly discovers that what appears to be just a decorative pillow turns out to be a portal to another world. As Jenna visits the other world, she discovers her hidden talents and forms an unbreakable bond with a diverse team. Jenna and the team use futuristic technology as they take an incredible journey to save their world from...
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