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  Captured by the Fae

  Vera Rivers

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  The Fae King's guards captured me. 
   
   
   
  Nobody is coming to save me. I've been kidnapped and charged for a crime I didn't commit. To stay alive, I need to convince the King of my worth. But he's my enemy. 
   
   
   
  I come face to face with my captor, the Fae King, and he's as terrifying as he is mesmerizing. His dark hair, chiseled body, and icy blue eyes draw me in, but he's dangerous—especially because I'm a human. 
   
   
   
  The King challenges me with an impossible task, and I prevail. Now, questions about my origin put a new target on my back. 
   
   
   
  I don't know who I am anymore. 
   
   
   
  I don't know who I can trust. 
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  X Marks the Pedwalk

  Fritz Leiber

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  X Marks the Pedwalk by Fritz Leiber - This is how it all began—the terrible civil strife that devastates our world! 
  The raggedy little old lady with the big shopping bag was in the exact center of the crosswalk when she became aware of the big black car bearing down on her. 
  Behind the thick bullet-proof glass its seven occupants had a misty look, like men in a diving bell. 
  She saw there was no longer time to beat the car to either curb. Veering remorselessly, it would catch her in the gutter. 
  Useless to attempt a feint and double-back, such as any venturesome child executed a dozen times a day. Her reflexes were too slow. 
  Polite vacuous laughter came from the car's loudspeaker over the engine's mounting roar. 
  From her fellow pedestrians lining the curbs came a sigh of horror. 
  The little old lady dipped into her shopping bag and came up with a big blue-black automatic. She held it in both fists, riding the recoils like a rodeo cowboy on a bucking bronco. 
  Aiming at the base of the windshield, just as a big-game hunter aims at the vulnerable spine of a charging water buffalo over the horny armor of its lowered head, the little old lady squeezed off three shots...

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  Liberty Bound - A dystopian...

  Nathaniel M Wrey

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  Society has turned on its head. The ‘free’ hide behind fortifications and the ‘imprisoned’ roam the wild, barren land beyond. 
  Finbarl-apcula guards the town of Athenia, an oasis in a parched, sparsely populated world. He keeps the citizens safe, ensures those who break the draconian laws lose their freedom, and protects what he prizes above all else: civilisation. 
  When Finbarl is made to lie to help convict a mother he once rescued from a bully, it delivers the first crack in his unquestionable faith in the system. As further lies and corruption are exposed, Finbarl’s world crumbles, allowing him to finally see that ‘prison walls’ exist everywhere, within himself, throughout society and in the very landscape he calls home. 
  No one is free and the civilisation he was willing to die for is at the root of the problem. 
  Finbarl begins a thrilling adventure of twists, rebellion, danger, discovery and tragedy to break the bonds imprisoning a world, himself and the future. Will he find what he really treasures most: true freedom? 
  In creating a dangerous but exciting ‘inverse’ world, where the true meaning of freedom is explored and challenged, Wrey invites the reader to consider how their own society, and the individuals within, are inhibited and restricted by ‘walls’ through fear and ignorance. 
  Speculative fiction to inspire you to think again about the world of today. A book for our time. A 2021 Readers' Favorite International Book Award winner. Finalist in the 2020 Wishing Shelf Book Awards for adult fiction. Winner of the International Review of Books Gold Award, a Readers' Favorites 5 Star Review Award, a HugeOrange Editor's Pick Winner Award, a Literary Titan Silver Award.

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  The Trumpet Major

  Thomas Hardy

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  Our heroine, Anne Garland, lives quietly in a rural community deep in the English countryside.  However, the arrival of several regiments preparing for an expected invasion brings colour and chaos to the county.  A graceful and charming young woman, Anne is pursued by three suitors: John Loveday, the trumpet-major in a British regiment, honest and loyal; his brother Robert, a merchant seaman and womaniser, and Festus Derriman, the cowardly son of the local squire. Set at the time of the Napoleonic wars, this is the author's only historical novel, and unusually for Hardy's books, some of the characters live happily ever after.  (Summary adapted from Wikipedia by Cori Samuel.)

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  Wingman #04 - Thunder In The East

  Mack Maloney

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  Disarmed and leaderless after a Russian sneak attack, the United States is united no longer. But a lone warrior from the skies—fighter pilot, Hawk Hunter has emerged to lift America from the ashes of defeat. The armies of freedom now control the western U.S. But the evil New Order is raising a huge mercenary force to reclaim America. Hunter is the only one who can prevent this. From the cockpit of his MiG-25 Foxbat, he launches his swift and bloody kamikaze raid. But a full-scale victory calls for an infiltration of the New Order’s inner circle. He must decimate every enemy of the free world in order to save the future of America.

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  To Dust You Shall Return

  Fred Venturini

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  Curtis Quinn is a Chicago mob legend with a price on his head and a particular set of skills. Beth Jarvis is a plucky teenager unwrapping the secrets of her hometown, Harlow, where no one is allowed to leave and a mysterious ceremony awaits her on her eighteenth birthday. What Beth doesn't know is the truth about her sister, Kate, who escaped over a decade ago and has evaded the town's sinister ruler, known only as the Mayor, and his High Servants, Scouts, and Disciples that rule the town, making her a local legend?and Curtis doesn't know that the girl he's fallen in love with, a woman he has called his wife for the better part of ten years, is Kate and that she's running from a threat far greater than the mobsters who want to kill him. When Kate disappears, Curtis follows the clues to Harlow, where he poses as the school janitor to investigate. When Beth tries to escape Harlow and the disgusting fate that awaits her, Curtis finds himself unraveling a mystery that leads to an impossible and terrifying conclusion?that the Mayor of Harlow is more than just a man and the hardest target he’s ever tried to kill.

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