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1) Long Gone
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Welcome to Lone County, Arkansas, where every corner holds a secret, and the past is never really buried.
Disgraced ex-detective Harper Adams has traded her badge for a desk job at her father's law firm, a move as dull as the small town she's returned to. But things take a turn when a local woman wants to declare her missing husband dead, five years after his mysterious disappearance.
With her father's firm representing the missing man's...
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"You Won't Miss Me 'til I'm Gone" is the sequel to "Victory Liner 504" written by Jack Tallinn. This additional work of fiction finds Jack Redhouse alone aboard his motor yacht (YP-504) in the Yucatan Peninsula prior to meeting up with his old Navy pals Sanjo Casagrande, Frank Valero, 'Crazy Joe' Melnik, and their girlfriends before setting out on a new Caribbean adventure that takes them from Cancun, Mexico to the Cayman islands, over to Cuba, and...
4) The Uprising
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In the land of Corravern, four different dragonkinds lived seperately. Until one day when a group who were deemed long gone returned to seek retribution.
5) Body Memory
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He remembers her. Her touch, her scent, the way her glance could make his heart race. His very body remembers her though she is long gone.Until his job began to grind it away, one small memory at a time.
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Fear and misery plague the nameless town on the edge of Horse-Eater's Wood.
An ancient curse is drawing the most powerful and vile creatures to the town with only one hope for protection-the Goon. But when it draws an enemy thought long gone, even the Goon's lifelong foe, the Zombie Priest, is subjugated to this power's evil will.
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An adventure in a clockwork world, a world of magic, steam and clockwork. A world that looks like something out of Victorian London with magic . . .
In this world are Creators who make fantastical dangerous monsters resembling creatures from myths long gone. Against them stands only one person, if he can be called a person.
This is his story.
How he came to be, how he hunts and his journey through life, his new life.
A strange person in a strange...
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A novel about one man's desperate gambling addiction. P is a school bus driver in Florida, and six month ago, he won a hundred grand at the casino. What his wife and family don't realize is that the money is long gone. To keep them fooled-and feed his ongoing compulsion-he indulges in bigger and bigger bets, scrounging for cash anywhere he can. Finally, faced with the ultimate financial crisis, he hits it really big. Yet winning, he soon learns, is...
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Sweetwater is classic, small-town America, complete with picket fences, a malt shop, and a wooden statue of an Indian chief on the sidewalk outside the tobacco store. It's the kind of place where boys give their steady girlfriends their class rings to wear. At least, that's the Sweetwater Gordon remembers, the one he left a year ago. But the town he sees now is abandoned. The buildings are falling down. And his girlfriend, along with all the other...
10) Fat Punk
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An aging man wanders the memories of a special summer forty years before when he blasted size prejudice, low expectations and self-doubt out of his way and became the big fat punk rocker of his dreams. By winning on his own terms, he proved that the only size that matters is the size of your courage. Fat Punk explores the liminal space beyond life and death, where memories live on even though the world that contained them is long gone. With its themes...
11) The Highwayman
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Though he is his father's heir, Bartholomew spends most of his time doing a whole lot of nothing, constantly reminded that his father doesn't need his help, and his siblings definitely don't want it.When he receives word that the village back home is being plagued by a highwayman, Bart leaps at the chance to prove to his family that he can handle more responsibility, that's he's more than an irritating older brother always getting in the way.But upon...
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Forced into marriage with a much older man after her father catches her in the arms of her female lover, Abigail accepts her lot in life in order to save her family. The love of her life is long gone, cast from her life by her selfless decision, and she must accept that the men in her life-her father and now, her husband-are in control and will do with her as they please.But after an untimely accident, as her husband lies dying, Abigail realizes...
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Spectral miners and lingering spirits Once Arizona's biggest economic base, mines and the towns that sprang up around them can be found scattered across the state. Stories of paranormal encounters in places like Jerome, Bisbee and Prescott persist, while ghost towns are rumored to host a multitude of lingering spirits. In Ajo, the dead are said to wander through the old Phelps Dodge Hospital, and legend has it that the shades of miners long gone still...
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Is it possible to let go of a dark past, even when you found true happiness on the present?
When Edwin got married, all he wanted was to start a family with his wife. However, when ghosts from his long gone past start to haunt him again, he decides to come back to where it all began and bury them once and for all.
Diana fought real hard to be with the man she loved and when he tells her he has to return to his old clan, she refuses to stay behind....
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The beloved 1930s comedienne becomes the famed detective's sidekick in the series that "transport[s] the reader back to a long-gone era of society" (Mystery Scene).
During a glamorous night on the town, Gracie Allen finds a dead body-and a cigarette case nearby that belongs to her date for the evening. Detective Philo Vance is on the scene, but questioning Gracie is causing more confusion than enlightenment. To prevent her from creating more chaos,...
16) Learning to Love
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After ten years away from home, bad boy caterer Gideon Marks has a lot to prove. Getting the holiday catering job at his childhood synagogue is the first step in demonstrating to everyone he didn't turn out to be the failure they predicted. What he doesn't count on is Rabbi Jonah Fine, his high school nemesis and secret crush, stirring up old feelings Gideon thought long gone and secrets he's buried deep for years.An unexpectedly passionate encounter...
17) Cult Classic
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The ninth book of this dark urban fantasy series follows necromancer Eric Carter through a world of vengeful gods and goddesses, mysterious murders, and restless ghosts.
Eric Carter has a lot on his plate.
He's hunting the Oracle of Las Vegas, a literal talking head that manipulates the future to make its prophecies come true. But it has a new trick. It can change the past, too.
Now Jazz Age Los Angeles is invading the present. Long gone buildings...
18) Switchback
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In the shadows of the Golden Gate Bridge, Hastings investigates a glamorous murder The killer is long gone from the crime scene when he realizes his mistake. It went perfectly, right until the end. He lured Lisa to the oceanfront park, entered her car on the passenger side, shot her twice, and escaped without being stained by her blood. He took the gun with him, as planned-but he forgot her purse, the crucial detail meant to make the crime look like...
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Since the 1940s, Marxist thought has blossomed in Nigeria. The history of 'Naija Marxism' is also that of the country's labour movement, its feminist movement, its social thought and political economy. It has been the mainstay of party politics in the case of illegal Marxist party formations and legal anti-feudalist forces and in the NGO sector. Long gone are the days when Marxism meant imported pamphlets and a disconnected ideology.
Drawn from...
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Tate's starring in a new action movie. It's exactly the kind of role she needs to shake her child star image for good. But she's about to discover just how shielded she was growing up. Can she handle the pressure of life on a set with judgmental colleagues and a megalomaniac director? Or will it bring up past issues she thought she were long gone?
Jack, meanwhile, can't stand to think about music right now. It was what he spent his life working toward,...