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Blending genre, autobiography and blatant falsehoods into a damning tell-almost-all, 'Let Us Consider An Ugly Soul' is one wayward author's half-baked reconciliation of a lifetime of error with his dueling idolatries of James Joyce and J.R.R. Tolkien. (ft. YHWH)
When a soldier impersonates his dead friend to uncover the truth behind a 15-year-old murder, he never expects to fall for the friend’s sister, or to be drawn into a dangerous web of smuggling, revenge killings, and village secrets that could destroy them all.
In 1936 Seattle, an actor is having the time of his free-wheeling life, until he meets the woman of his dreams, who won’t let anything get in the way of her acting career. When her twin brother turns up dead, together they unearth a horrific set of murders, and a perpetrator who is untouchable.
In Seattle, 1935, a young girl right out of high school, falls in love with a glamorous older man, entering into a world of elegant gowns, cocktails, and dancing. But when he grows more controlling and violent in his pro-Nazi group, the Silver Shirts, she runs away with the help of an actor (Max)...
Before the body count rises, her newfound powers are needed to find a man who’s controlling vengeful skeleton ghosts and messing with the minds of her magical neighbors. And also, to stop an evil entity from killing again. Without ruining her manicure.
Thrown into a ruthless world ravaged by warring gods, an ordinary young woman must forge an alliance with a fallen dragon lord to find her way back to her own world and expose the lie on which the gods and their Elites built their power.
Deep beneath a vanished civilization, Origin—an ancient multi‑layered intelligence—splinters into rogue minds. When Elira awakens as the system’s lost key, she must stabilize its collapse before rising hidden worlds fracture reality itself.
Victoria Smoke, a queer country singer on tour, hunts for a magic bullet to kill The Devil who cursed her, at the risk of losing her band, her future, and the family she’s built on her odyssey.
In Walking Over Wet Paint, a guarded, emotionally reserved editor in vintage togs collides with a charming oncologist in the wake of her mother’s terminal illness, forcing both to re-evaluate their emotional defenses, past patterns, and ideas of permanence.
When a tattoo artist with the power to save damned souls by sinking some ink, though sadly not her own and she doesn't know why, tries to rescue a wayward demon-dog, she must use her talent and good karma index to undo the curse that's got 'em both trapped UNDER THE WHETHER GLASS of Meadowhawk Hall.
Caught between the inherited values of East Germany and the modern world she inhabits, a successful Berlin novelist discovers her new manuscript has been stolen and must uncover a conspiracy involving alternate versions of herself before her identity is erased.
I feel like a cabbage, there must be more to life than home, children and domesticity? The NHS was calling me back after ten years, but who would want to be a nurse? So here it is, the bare and naked truth of nursing. Bums, boobs and basic truths.
A Royal Navy submarine captain risks everything to save Tess, a teenage girl with a dangerous gift. As nations hunt her and nuclear tensions rise, their fragile but deepening bond becomes the one thing neither power nor politics can control.
When a bitter and lonely magpie named Sorrow spends his days booing other birds, an unexpected friendship with a cheerful magpie named Joy teaches him that life is better when shared.
A high school swimmer needs to overcome his obsession with sex (or lack of it) to succeed personally and athletically. With the help of his friends and a psychiatrist, he tries to find his sexual identity on his journey to winning a swimming scholarship at an upper-crust school
Arachne, a cursed angel who hides a monstrous spider-form, falls in love with Jayce—the woman she once saved—but to save her own life and keep her angelic soul, she must kill her—or lose both.
In 1692 Salem, Massachusetts, a Puritan mother is falsely accused of witchcraft after her cuckolded husband learns the baby she’s carrying isn’t his.
When a cold-water swimming club discovers a body during their dawn swim off Brighton beach, its eccentric members become amateur detectives, uncovering secrets far more dangerous than the icy waters they brave every day.
John Hopkins, a young Irish-American, believes he is worth more than his humble upbringing, so he tries for a job working for George Pullman, industrialist, who is building a futuristic city for his workers. At first, the two men hit it off, but when Pullman’s workers try to unionize, the two men...
Rosemary's Baby x Alien - After a devastating miscarriage, an interior designer relents and joins her hubby's 3-year space gig as non-essential personnel where they can try again only to discover that she must find a way to leverage her inferior status to survive this doomsday experiment from hell.
Gifted with the seventh sense, Elya is thrust into a millennia‑old war between secret orders that have shaped humanity from the shadows.
After surviving a classified operation that was erased from history, former commander Su-Hwa lives in isolation with fragmented memories she cannot trust. Working in civilian protection for high-profile figures, she begins to notice attacks that mirror tactics from her lost past. As suppressed...
The Nativity Story is probably the best known Christmas story. Its played by children in most Junior Schools and many Christian Churches. The Magi (Wise Men or Three Kings) make a cameo appearance and do not get another mention in the Bible. The making of the Magi tells the story in a different way...
When poorly and lonely William befriends a scruffy, one-legged pigeon he names Jack, he doesn’t just find companionship, he discovers the courage to imagine, explore, and heal. From their bedroom-window adventures to the moment William must finally fly solo, their friendship changes his world.
Nat’s ‘long-dead’ father is alive and hiding in plain sight. Finding him is all Nat ever wanted, but it will be far more dangerous than she imagined.
Mark, a transgender man and doctor, is crushed to learn that his only close male friend, Jim, is entering the priesthood, a conservative world that he doesn’t understand. As the two young men grow deeper in friendship, they both discover that to love someone is to want to learn something about them.
Two boys who meet on a playground and make a childhood pact that evolves into a life of crime and revenge.
