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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...
5) 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.
7) 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.
8) The Visitors
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A poignant and moving short story of the differences between the modern age and one long gone seen though the eyes of a man who has seen much in his journey through time. Coming near to the end of his life's work he encounters a couple of strangers who bring him some unexpected news.
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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...
11) All or Nothing
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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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Mario's biggest regret was losing Reesie. He hated that he lost the woman he loved to someone he didn't want to keep. After years of searching for her, Mario believes that he has the chance to make things right when they finally reconnect. Unfortunately for him, he failed to realize that Reesie's happy demeanor and pleasant smile hides the true fury burning deep within her. The Reesie he once knew is long gone. Now he's left with a scorned, hate-filled,...
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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...
14) 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...
15) 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....
19) Casual Cruelties
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She wants to escape the prison of her marriage-but after decades of mind games, does she have the strength to break free?
Fifty-three, long-married, and in the throes of menopause, Laura is dismayed. She's always tolerated her journalist husband's bel
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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,...