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Weather to Fly

Christopher LeGras

Weather to Fly

Weather to Fly is a collection of adventure stories, tall tales in the great American tradition. Inspired equally by Mark Twain, Amelia Earhart, Pancho Barnes, and P. T. Barnum, they are war stories, ghost stories, and love stories. There's a World War II warbird that may or may not have a soul or a conscience; In an Alaska saloon a bush pilot who thinks he's dying reveals a long-hidden secret; And the unlikeliest of pairs falls in love in an airport terminal. By turns whimsical and...

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Christopher LeGras

Crisis: Blue

J. A. Davis

Crisis: Blue

North Korea continues to taunt the United States by detonating nuclear weapons and launching long-range missiles across the Pacific. This threat is suddenly overshadowed by the destruction of the US fleet as it sails through the Straits of Hormuz and into the Persian Gulf. As the crisis escalates, little attention is paid to several blue, bloated, and grossly disfigured Asian sailors who wash ashore in Galveston, Texas. Meanwhile, the North Korean cargo ship, Il-sung, is able to slip into...

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J. A. Davis

Improbable Fortunes

Jeffrey Price

Improbable Fortunes

In Improbable Fortunes, Jeffrey Price takes us on a wild ride into Vanadium, a dusty, down-on-its-heels mining town in southwest Coloradowhere it would be fair to assume that nothing has ever happened. But you’d be wrong. As it turns out, quite a lot has happened starting with a suspicious mudslide that destroys the town’s Main Street and a cowboy, Buster McCaffrey, arrested for the death of one of the richest men in America, Marvin Mallomar.As the soon-to-retire...

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Jeffrey Price

A Dark and Promised Land

Nathaniel Poole

A Dark and Promised Land

A story of adventure and romance set in the wilds of Rupert’s Land in the early 19th century. When Orkneywoman Rose is shipwrecked on the shores of Rupert’s Land, she quickly falls in love with Alexander, a Half-caste man who is guiding her people into the dark heart of the continent. But after the death of her father at the hands of another Native, Rose turns against Alexander and all his kind. Heartbroken, Alexander returns to his wild life of running buffalo on the prairie. Although parted...

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Nathaniel Poole

The Indifference League

Richard Scarsbrook

The Indifference League

Can anyone be a hero in an age where the lines are so blurred? Sexy, racy, hilarious, and even moving, The Indifference League is a story of what happens when the starry-eyed optimism of the Greatest Generation crashes into the obsessions and fears of the New Lost Generation. Under the faded banner of Superman, Wonder Woman, and other heroes past steps the Indifference League: The Statistician, Time Bomb, Hippie Avenger, SuperKen, SuperBarbie, Miss Demeanour, Mr. Nice Guy, Psycho Superstar,...

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Richard Scarsbrook

Piau

Bruce Monk Murray

Piau

Details the never-before-told story of Pierre Belliveau, known as Piau Biography of an Acadian hero and iconic early Canadian leader, with no similar books on the market Piau’s story is a border-spanning saga of the formation of Atlantic Canada’s Acadian community, which thrives to this day Author is the brother of singer Anne Murray, who will write the Foreword Author has close connections to the Acadian community in North America, in particular the Institute for Acadian Studies at the...

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Bruce Monk Murray

Local Customs

Audrey Thomas

Local Customs

Nominated for the 2016 Forest of Reading Evergreen Award Nominated for the 2014 Victoria Book Prize An Englishwoman’s mysterious death in 19th-century West Africa haunts those left behind. Letitia Landon, «Letty» to her friends, is an intelligent, witty, successful writer, much sought after for dinner parties and soirées in the London of the 1830s. But, still single at thirty-six, she fears ending up as a wizened crone in a dilapidated country cottage, a cat her only companion. Just as she...

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Audrey Thomas

Storm Below

Hugh Garner

Storm Below

Originally published in 1949, Storm Below tells the story of a fictional Royal Canadian Navy ship and its crew. The adventure unfolds over six days of an escort run across the Atlantic Ocean to Newfoundland during the Second World War. The ship, the HMCS Riverford , is a composite of the vessels, mostly corvettes, that author Hugh Garner served on during his time in the Canadian navy, and the Canadian sailors whose experiences he relates are masterfully drawn from the crewmen he knew during...

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Hugh Garner

Cowboy

Louis Hamelin

Cowboy

Set against a backdrop of grey spruce and muskeg, Cowboy tells the story of Gilles Desches, a twenty-something who moves from Montreal to Grande-Ourse, a northern Quebec town haunted by the grisly memory of a twelve-year-old murder. Located at the back of beyond, Grande-Ourse is a dismal place with a bleak future. Until, that is, a Quebec consortium buys up the town, wanting to turn it into a hunting and fishing paradise for wealthy Americans seeking city comforts in the middle of nature. ...

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Louis Hamelin

Cena życia

Ксюша Ангел

Cena życia

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Ксюша Ангел

The Vine That Ate the South

J.D. Wilkes

The Vine That Ate the South

Wilkes' debut is a rich and heartfelt yarn that resonates as deeply as his music." — Kirkus Reviews With the energy, wit, and singularity of vision that have earned him a reputation as a celebrated and charismatic musician, The Vine That Ate the South announces J.D. Wilkes as an accomplished storyteller on a surreal, Homeric voyage that strikes at the very heart of American mythology. In a forgotten corner of western Kentucky lies a haunted forest referred to locally as «The...

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J.D. Wilkes

Found Audio

N.J. Campbell

Found Audio

* A Best Book of 2017 —Writer's Bone "[A] mysterious work of metafiction… dizzying, arresting and defiantly bold."—Laura Pearson, Chicago Tribune Amrapali Anna Singh is an historian and analyst capable of discerning the most cryptic and trivial details from audio recordings. One day, a mysterious man appears at her office in Dutch Harbor, Alaska, having traveled a great distance to bring her three Type IV audio cassettes that bear the stamp of a library in Buenos Aires that may...

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N.J. Campbell

Ghost Recon

David Knight

Ghost Recon

Ghost Recon: Marine One is about military treason and espionage. MI-45 references a secret congressional council, funding deep-cover black operations. This is a story about a secret military project genetically engineering hybrids and putting them into military service as presidential combat assassins. The hybrids uncover a major intelligence leak from the CIA to the Russian KGB and stop the leak. MI-45 congressional council funds this operation. The hybrids were kidnapped by the CIA and turned...

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David Knight

Oraefi

Ófeigur Sigurðsson

Oraefi

Austrian toponymist Bernhardt Fingerberg makes his way back to civilization following a solo expedition out on Vatnajokull Glacier, barely alive. While recuperating, Dr. Lassi digs into the scholar's strange trek into the treacherous mountainous wasteland of Iceland: Öræfi. Was he really researching place names out there, or retracing the footsteps of a 20-year-old crime involving someone very close to him?

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Ófeigur Sigurðsson

Texas

Carmen Boullosa

Texas

"Mexico's greatest woman writer."—Roberto Bolaño"A luminous writer . . . Boullosa is a masterful spinner of the fantastic"—[i]Miami HeraldAn imaginative writer in the tradition of Juan Rulfo, Jorge Luis Borges, and Cesar Aira, Carmen Boullosa shows herself to be at the height of her powers with her latest novel. Loosely based on the little-known 1859 Mexican invasion of the United States, [i]Texas is a richly imagined evocation of the volatile Tex-Mex...

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Carmen Boullosa

The Drop Edge of Yonder

Rudolph Wurlitzer

The Drop Edge of Yonder

* Time Out New York 's #1 Best Book of 2008 * ForeWord Magazine Gold Medal for Literary Fiction Rudolph Wurlitzer’s first novel in nearly 25 years is an epic adventure that explores the truth and temptations of the American myth. Beginning in the savage wilds of Colorado in the waning days of the fur trade, the story follows Zebulon Shook, a mountain man who has a curse placed on him by a mysterious Native American woman whose lover he murdered, to “drift like a blind man between the...

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Rudolph Wurlitzer

The Other Side of the World

Jay Neugeboren

The Other Side of the World

"Epic… The Other Side of the World can charm you with its grace, intelligence and scope… [An] inventive novel."Mark Athitakis, The Washington Post Charlie is a journeyman whose friend Nick convinces him to move to Singapore, where he falls in love with the vibrant and endangered world of nearby Borneo. One night, during a fight at a cocktail party in Singapore, Nick dies mysteriously, prompting Charlie to return to New England where he discovers that a former student has moved in...

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Jay Neugeboren

Nathaniel's Chorus

Gary Lightfoot

Nathaniel's Chorus

Nathaniel's Chorus combines espionage, adventure, loyalties and romance in an action filled mystery set in present day with solutions found in the past. An innocent fraternity created by three brothers, morphs into an international terrorist organization that threatens the very existence of everything they each hold dear. Nathaniel's Chorus is the first in a series following the lives and loves of three brothers and a secret society that permeates every strata of life. The brothers...

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Gary Lightfoot

Summer of Fifty-Seven

Stephen C. Joseph

Summer of Fifty-Seven

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Stephen C. Joseph

Devil Rising: The Heart of a Gunman

R. B. Conroy

Devil Rising: The Heart of a Gunman

Worn down by years of hard living and violence, aging gunman Jon Stoudenmire is on his way to find solace at his vineyard in California. His last stop along the way is a raucous mining town far out in the Sonoran Desert. Short of ready cash, an old friend asks him to stay on as acting Sheriff and he agrees. Jon soon discovers that a local man, wealthy Englishman Alex Faraday, is on a mission to take over the prosperous outpost. Smitten by beautiful saloon owner Elizabeth Thompson, a target of...

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R. B. Conroy

Return of the Gun

R. B. Conroy

Return of the Gun

In this savage tale of love, greed, and redemption in America’s early frontier famed lawman, Jon Stoudenmire, is on a quest to find peace at his vineyard paradise. Near his journey’s end and anxious to settle down with his true love Elizabeth Thompson, Jon meets up with his long-lost cousin Cliff Stone. Stone asks Jon to stay and join his fight against greedy gold mining magnate George Stanton. Reluctant at first, after a shootout with one of Stanton’s hired guns, Jon joins the fight. Stanton’s...

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R. B. Conroy

Dangerous Hilarity: The Great Adven...

Sioux Dallas

Dangerous Hilarity: The Great Adventures of the Jackson Twins, Their Family and the Dogs in Their Lives, A Novel for Teens and Young Adults and All Those Who are Young at Heart

Dangerous Hilarity came about because identical twin boys were playful and mischievous. One of them thought it was funny to play practical jokes and once almost lost his own life due to one of his jokes. Follow the Jackson family as they travel across the United States from Virginia to Alaska. It would be fun to get a map and follow their journey. The three years they spent in Alaska were adventurous and entertaining. It is heartwarming to grow with them and discover how they matured and learned...

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Sioux Dallas

Geogirl

Kelly Rysten

Geogirl

Geocaching (jee-oh-kash-ing) noun. The act of using a GPS receiver to locate hidden containers. A hobby, similar to a treasure hunt, using technological advancements to guide the way. Using military satellites to find cheap toys and trinkets. A hobby in which people accidentally find beauty, adventure, and sometimes love while purposely searching for containers hidden in odd places. Gwendolyn Amelia Brody is about to learn exactly what geocaching is. And Tony Van Yancy is just the right man to...

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Kelly Rysten

Beginnings

Edward Galluzzi

Beginnings

Beginnings is based on the lives of Greg and Charly that propels the reader on an emotional roller coaster, as events unfold in their lives, including the more absurd and humorous aspects of life. Beginnings traverses the singledom lives of Greg and Charly and what brings them together. The global benchmarks that help define them and a people unfold for each decade of their lives. We all encounter collectively many beginnings and beginnings of the end. We share them for they are part of what we...

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Edward Galluzzi

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