Aven Shore
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We All Need to Eat is a collection of linked stories from Alex Leslie that revolves around Soma, a young Queer woman in Vancouver. Through thoughtful and probing narratives, each story chronicles a sea change in Soma's life. Lyrical, gritty, and atmospheric, Soma's stories refuse to shy away from the contradictions inherent to human experience, exploring one young person's journey through mourning, escapism, and the search for nourishment.
The stories...
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What's in a Title? That which the System gives by any other Title might not smell as sweet.
In the System Apocalypse, a single Title can make or break a build. And in the entire Galactic System, there are Title Seekers, those who make it their life quest to acquire the most unusual and rare Titles possible.
Earth, a new Dungeon World offers multiple possibilities. Not least among them, the one from a familiar set of golden arches. For...
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The book everyone is talking about-you'll never see the ending coming.
Never question a mother's intuition.
My water isn't supposed to break while there's a storm raging, when my husband isn't on the island, and as the power flickers out. Darkness covers the cabin as I cling to my belly. I never imagined it happening like this.
Trained as a midwife, I know I can deliver my daughter.
I look at her, and I see her-I've always known her.
She's perfect....
4) Scammer Girl
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Technology complicates everything, including love.
Five years ago, Jo Harper did a bad thing. Dumped, injured, and in crippling debt, Jo did what any desperate woman with a PhD in psychology and above-average computer skills would: become an elite, undetectable online romance scammer. Now Jo and her team of four young women bring in enough cash to keep them securely afloat. Their targets? Married cheaters.
Jamie March, Bay Area royalty known as...
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RIDDLES, TREASURE, AND SORCERY
Here is a web to catch the wind - And a loom to weave a lay.
Riddles play on words, my friend - Play on these and play you may.
This simple riddle was the clue that started the sword-for-hire Corson and her sorceress companion, the Lady Nyctasia, on, a hunt for the greatest treasure ever hidden.
But this long-abandoned treasure is the hoard of the dread Cymvelan Circle, whose scattered members are coming together...
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On her fifteenth birthday Mira Storm weather made a wish to not be sent on any more dangerous missions, but destiny it seemed had other ideas.
Dark Wizard Damien Charmer has escaped from prison and is somehow more powerful than ever.
With the fate of the world in their hands, it's up to Mira and her friends to discover Damien's plan and stop him by any means possible, even if it means breaking a few Witch rules along the way.
During this time astonishing...
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Mira Storm Weather had always wondered why people thought she was strange. She had always thought she lived an ordinary life.
However, events at Halloween would prove to Mira how extraordinary her life could be.
On this night Mira discovered that she had inherited magical abilities.
She must gain knowledge and courage to fight the evil one in her village and find her true destiny as a witch.
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I didn't expect to meet a grieving ghost or her dead mother.
But then, I didn't expect to find out my town had been the site of a lynching, a lynching that had left my friend Sarah motherless and had made her a victim of murder as well.
Their deaths aren't ancient history, though, not when one man who was a witness still holds sway in our small town. My friends and I have truth on our side, but will that be enough to keep us safe?
If only telling...
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Anthony and Mira have been summoned to the side of a dying dragon. Glycinda's last deed on Earth is to hand over a book that she had been protecting for years. A book that would lead them to a castle within the Summer Forset that has been lost for centuries.
Anthony, Mira, and their friends set off on an adventure to find the castle. Where they encounter two ghosts, who need their help to find their murderer.
Whilst trying to solve the mystery,...
10) Silverglass
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The life of a sword-for-hire was often uncertain, but for beautiful, sensual Corson brenn Torisk it was the only one worth living.
When Corson was hired by the Lady Nyctasia, it seemed that fortune was smiling at last. The Lady was pretty, amusing, and rich, and her reputation for sorcery, she assured her new bodyguard, was greatly exaggerated.
For Corson had little liking for magic, and less for magicians. But she had a high regard for her own...
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It's not every day a ghost curls up in your lap...
When little Henrietta decides I'm trustworthy and introduces me to her teacher, Charlotte, I find myself wrapped up in the story of their murders. Before long, my friends and I are saving a building, solving a murder, and telling the stories that a lot of people in our small town would rather be left untold.
Our best hope for ourselves and for Henrietta and Charlotte is that the truth really will...
12) Steele Secrets
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Ghosts just don't show up for anybody.
So when I meet the spirit of a former slave named Moses, I know he needs my help.But I didn't expect to be taking on half of my town, or the powerful men who seem to run everything and have done so for years.
Secrets are being uncovered, and some people would do anything to keep them buried, no matter who gets hurt. I'll need the help of history and friends I can trust if I want to save Moses' graveyard and protect...
13) Jelly Jars
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A girl in the one place she never wanted to be.
Meeting the one person she never expected.
But what Peggy Nieman doesn't realize is that her life is about to change, as two broken souls fatefully collide. The only question is: will they heal one another ... or destroy one another?
Because one thing is certain ... they can't quit one another.
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With only her sorcerer's powers and the swordswoman Corson to protect her, the Lady Nyctasia was forced to flee her beloved city of Rhostshyl. Solving riddles and casting spells, fighting pirates and helping escaped slaves, sword and sorcery have stood back-to-back dueling with adventure. But now, Nyc's beloved city needs her. This is no street brawl, but a civil war, which Nyc must win... or all is lost!
15) Strangled Skein
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A three-hundred-year-old house should be full of metaphorical skeletons, not real ones.
But when Paisley Sutton is invited in to salvage the valuables from the attic of an old plantation house, she finds more than she expected amongst the Christmas decorations and trunks of old letters. As she begins to research, she discovers the story of this house has ties to almost everyone she knows, including her own family.
Can Paisley be brave enough to face...
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Salvaging old books is one thing. Finding bones is entirely another.
Salvager Paisley Sutton has been wanting to go inside the old two-room school for years, but when she finally gains access, just before a local community group begins a full restoration, she finds far more than great old desks and vintage textbooks. Soon, she's preoccupied with the hunt for a murderer who is trying to hide three decades of crime.
How much is the truth worth? Is it...
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Death favors no one.
In the bustling industrial cities of Victorian America, soot clouds darken the skies, plaguing citizens with black lung. Rich or poor, young or old, no matter their station, no one is able to escape the life-threatening disease, and the West family is no exception.
Overcome by death and sickness, the Wests flee to the New Territories for refuge, only to discover more devastation. Wind and drought ravage the land, burgeoning...
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Who knew that finding a rare book would also involve running for her life?
When Poe Baxter fled her job as an English professor, she was thrilled to be launching into her career as an antiquarian book dealer with a trip to Edinburgh. But she soon finds that her queries into a particular book's provenance are drawing some less desirable attention to her and her best friend Beattie. Not everyone is interested in sharing this particular story.
Will the...
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It's not every day you get to sit on pristine blue water holding a beautiful, first edition Nadine Gordimer novel, and wondering if you'll survive the day.
Poe Baxter has always wanted to go to Capetown, and when she hears that a rare book by a famous South African novelist has come on the market, she takes the opportunity to fly to the city. But as soon as she and her best friend Beattie begin researching the whereabouts of this supposed literary...
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She thought she was just going to reminisce, enjoy the Northern Lights, and celebrate an author, but a murderer had other ideas.
On her first trip to Iceland, Poe Baxter is excited about the scenery, the culture and the rare book she's hoping to find. But it soon becomes clear that Poe and her best friend Beattie are in for far more than a quiet, book-buying trip to the country. Will they survive their new bookish escapade?
When a case of nostalgia...