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These books often provide stories that may cross genres, but do not easily fit into anyone category. The stories may be character driven or action-packed tales that will keep you glued to your seat. They provide the average reader with something different from what they may normally read. The stories are meant to make you think, to feel, to see the world a little bit differently.
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The House of the Seven Gables  |
The House of the Seven Gables
Pyncheon House, a 19th-century New England mansion, is beset with problems. Accusations of witchcraft are in the air, and a relative is soon to return from prison. But here comes the country cousin Phoebe, to raise their spirits and embark on a romance with the mysterious lodger Holgrave. Categories: Romance, Other Fiction, Historical Romance |
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The Scarlet Letter  |
The Scarlet Letter
Hester Prynn carries with her a mark signifying adultery, a true sin in 17th century Puritan Boston. The red letter A on her clothing brings public shame, but she will not name the father of her daughter, Pearl, no matter the threat to her own reputation and her life. Categories: Romance, Other Fiction, Historical Romance |
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Free Air  |
Free Air
Perhaps the original American road trip novel, Free Air follows Claire Boltwood as she travels from New York City to the Pacific Northwest in the early 20th century. If Claire can leave behind her upper-class background, she may find herself gaining the love of a down-to-earth man in her new home. Categories: Romance, Other Fiction, Inspirational Romance |
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A Rogues Life  |
A Rogues Life
An adventure cliffhanger, this tells the story of a grand life in Paris filled with art, friendship, fun and adventures. The many set backs faced by the narrator are met with optimism. It was originally serialized, with the cliffhanger chapter endings leaving the reader looking for the next adventure. Categories: Romance, Other Fiction, Romantic Suspense |
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The New Magdalen  |
The New Magdalen
Two very different women are forced to survive during the war between France and Germany. One is hit by a loose shell and the other decides to take the opportunity to leave behind her life as a fallen woman by assuming the other woman's identity and travels to England. Categories: Romance, Other Fiction, Historical Romance |
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Anne of Avonlea |
Anne of Avonlea
The sequel to Anne of Green Gables, beautiful Anne is now the village's only boarding school teacher. Anne quickly steps into her important place in the society by using her adventurous spirit to to improve the village and to raise the adopted twins of a woman who took her in when Anne was only ten. Categories: Romance, Teen, Other Fiction |
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A Tale of Two Cities - Volume 3 |
A Tale of Two Cities - Volume 3
This is an exciting tale of London and revolutionary Paris in the 18th century. Three men are obsessed over one woman, Lucie Manette. The twists and turns in the plot capture the harshness of the French Revolution, honorable sacrifice and loves lost and gained. Category: Other Fiction |
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A Tale of Two Cities - Volume 2 |
A Tale of Two Cities - Volume 2
This is an exciting tale of London and revolutionary Paris in the 18th century. Three men are obsessed over one woman, Lucie Manette. The twists and turns in the plot capture the harshness of the French Revolution, honorable sacrifice and loves lost and gained. Category: Other Fiction |
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A Tale of Two Cities - Volume 1 |
A Tale of Two Cities - Volume 1
This is an exciting tale of London and revolutionary Paris in the 18th century. Three men are obsessed over one woman, Lucie Manette. The twists and turns in the plot capture the harshness of the French Revolution, honorable sacrifice and loves lost and gained. Category: Other Fiction |
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A Christmas Carol  |
A Christmas Carol
This short story of love, goodwill and mercy centers around Ebenezer Scrooge who receives three ghostly visitors – Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. These ghosts give Scrooge a glimpse of an unhappy future if he doesn't open his heart to Tiny Tim and Bob Cratchit Category: Other Fiction |
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Anne of Green Gables  |
Anne of Green Gables
The life, trials, tribulations and friendships of Anne Shirley, a red-haired orphan with a fiery temperament who was adopted from an orphanage in Nova Scotia. Her misadventures and rivalries abound on Prince Edward Island where she enjoys her early teen years. Categories: Teen, Other Fiction |
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The Great Gatsby  |
The Great Gatsby
This love story is set in the 1920s - a period of jazz and decadence. Jay Gatsby, a poor army officer falls for Daisy who marries a rich man while Jay is overseas. After the war, Jay becomes a multi-millionaire focusing on making money, throwing parties and enticing Daisy to return to his life. Categories: Romance, Other Fiction, Historical Romance |
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The Mysterious Affair at Styles |
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
This baffling mystery story seeks to find who poisoned the stepmother – was it one of her sons, her new husband or someone else. The book captivates the reader with characters, clues and intrigue. Belgian detective Hercule Poirot closely observes all suspects to find a pattern to lead him to the murderer. Categories: Mystery & Suspense, Other Fiction |
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Pride and Prejudice  |
Pride and Prejudice
This is a 19th century England romantic story of the rebellious Elizabeth Bennet, a strong-willed young woman and Mr. Darcy, a mysterious and arrogant wealthy man. Her unwillingness to marry him threatens the future of her family. The book was first published in 1813. Categories: Romance, Other Fiction |
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Soldiers of God  |
Soldiers of God
Three stories weave together to present the struggle against fundamentalist extremists and the ruthless men that exploit them – an Arab grad student writes a thesis about what led to the third world war in the Middle East, a priest becomes involved with terrorist cells of religious extremists and a ruthless businessman goes after crude oil in South America. Categories: Mystery & Suspense, SciFi & Horror, Other Fiction |
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Seattle Quake 9.2  |
Seattle Quake 9.2
Wealthy Evan Cole thought his wife was lost at sea until he spotted her one-of-a-kind wedding ring in a New York City pawn shop. The detective agency he hired to find her was about to make a positive identification, when a powerful earthquake trapped her on the 43rd floor of a Seattle highrise. Categories: Mystery & Suspense, Other Fiction |
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Romancing A Stalker |
Romancing A Stalker
William Arflin escapes from prison while serving a life sentence for murdering three women he met on the Internet. Now anyone with a computer could be his next victim. Interpol is forced to put the entire computer world on alert when dead bodies appear all over the globe that link him to the crimes. Categories: Mystery & Suspense, Other Fiction |
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Full Medical  |
Full Medical
It is 2053. Periodic terrorist attacks are the aftermath of three wars in the Middle East. Three young look-alikes of important public figures escape from a secret government laboratory. A crime reporter, a cop, and an expert in transplant rejection try to determine which government agency can be trusted and how high the conspiracy goes. Categories: SciFi & Horror, Other Fiction |
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A Journey Through Hell: Visions of the Afterlife  |
A Journey Through Hell: Visions of the Afterlife
Derick Lombasto is a factory worker who has written a religous book and wants it published. When no one wants his manuscript, Derick meets with an agent, Craig Devon, who promises Derick that his book will be published for a fee. Derick agrees, while his girlfriend, Maria, tells him that the agreement with Devon is not a good idea. When Derick's estranged wife, Lydia, walks back into his life, Derick finds himself not only dealing with Devon's outrageous requests, but also trying to keep his and Maria's relationship alive. Can Derick survive Craig Devon and the trials of his personal life, or will he have to pay for both with his life? Categories: Mystery & Suspense, SciFi & Horror, Other Fiction |
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Its My Life & I Can Laugh If I Want To! |
Its My Life & I Can Laugh If I Want To!
These are very funny events involving memorable characters in everyday life. The authors experiences have been translated to fictional characters, and circumstances around these happenings. Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Humor, Other Fiction |
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Three Strikes - You Are Dead  |
Three Strikes - You Are Dead
How do you manage a baseball team that is in the middle of a heated pennant and is also being stalked by a serial killer? Beachcombers manager is finding out. Utility outfielder Rico Valley is the first victim of the serial killer. By mid season, three of his teammates have also become victims. Categories: Mystery & Suspense, Other Fiction |
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Flag Of Bones - The Journey of the Dragon Wynd - Volume 1 - The Shallows  |
Flag Of Bones - The Journey of the Dragon Wynd - Volume 1 - The Shallows
Pirate Captain Jalen Shenn swore himself to the End of the World to keep himself from being hung. Now, twenty years later, that promise comes back to him, and he finds himself racing the Empire to Deep water. With nothing left to return to, the question is whether he will once again Hang bones and tempt the noose. Category: Other Fiction |
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Retribution |
Retribution
Ryan Larkin is tied to a seat in the middle of a locked room, beaten and broken. He can't remember how he got there but a stranger points a gun at him and gives Ryan a minute to tell what he was doing earlier in the day. Maybe a bullet would be better than The Chamber. Categories: SciFi & Horror, Other Fiction |
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Forever Young |
Forever Young
A young girl wakes up with no idea of who she is or how she got there on an island ruled by a strict reverend. As she struggled to find her place among the island's other children she uncovers the reverend's terrible secret. Categories: Mystery & Suspense, Romance, Other Fiction |
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Catfish Charlie |
Catfish Charlie
This is the compelling story of a man who spilled his blood in war and came home to a war that raged in his mind. There is a great rivalry in Texas between the University of Texas and Texas A. and M. Returned Korean War hero, Jim Crawford thought enough of Texas A. and M. that he gave his life so his son could attend the school that would make him a man. Category: Other Fiction |
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Ms. Austen |
Ms. Austen
If you love historical romance novels, enjoy this fictional account of the last years of the life of Jane Austen. Had she not died in 1817 at the age of 41, she might have herself experienced the greatest love affair of all time. Categories: History, Romance, Other Fiction |
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September and Other Stories |
September and Other Stories
Go ghost hunting with a ghost. Have dinner with a demon. Explore the tomb of a forgotten pharaoh. Sixteen stories and poems in all. A Recommended Read by the Online Review of Books and Current Affairs. Categories: SciFi & Horror, Other Fiction |
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The Second Book of Iaddius Iohann  |
The Second Book of Iaddius Iohann
Five years have passed since Iaddius returned from the desert; five years since the slaughter at Dokhatar. An army has been raised, but betrayal, doubt, dissensions and conspiracies threaten to undermine the ultimate purpose. Categories: SciFi & Horror, Other Fiction |
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Urban Verses - Poetry To Make You Say Hmmm... |
Urban Verses - Poetry To Make You Say Hmmm...
This inspirational poetry speaks to love, defeat, loss and perseverance. This book of urban scribes will uplift the soul, make readers think about the state of their own world and how to make it better and motivate the spirit to do great things! Categories: Poetry, Other Fiction |
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Its a Shame to Be a Negro |
Its a Shame to Be a Negro
A young Negro man struggles to chase his dream. Society scorns him but he refuses to blame his failures on anyone. He is motivated by rejection and keeps going until he discovers the true meaning of life. He wonders if it is his fault for being a Negro and if he should apologize for being a Negro. Category: Other Fiction |
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The Finding |
The Finding
Mystery and action kick up when a land deal gone bad is another case to solve for a newspaper man passing through town looking to relax. Categories: Mystery & Suspense, Other Fiction |
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The Dead and The Dreamer  |
The Dead and The Dreamer
This fast-paced action novel follows the challenges of a struggling private eye who solves a murder mystery and helps a local singer when her 'big break' becomes a big rip-off. Categories: Mystery & Suspense, Other Fiction |
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Fatal Impact |
Fatal Impact
An easy money scam puts five people in a deadly game of cat and mouse as human targets of a wealthy business man. They think it is just a game, but to the hunter ... this is real. Until the last man is standing this is a rocky ride. Categories: Mystery & Suspense, Other Fiction |
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Gardenland |
Gardenland
This futuristic book tells romantic stories of love, relationships and life's conflicts in a futuristic society founded after devastation on Earth. The society faces conflicts as as it strives to meet the challenges of life with five-parent families designed to create and raise children. Categories: Romance, SciFi & Horror, Other Fiction |
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Enhanced |
Enhanced
In this futuristic tale of transgenic beasts and tribulation saints, a teen is one of millions offered the chance for stem cell therapy with DNA by a mystery organization of billionaires – therapy that will change the architecture of their bodies forever. Categories: SciFi & Horror, Other Fiction |
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The Anthrax Scare |
The Anthrax Scare
Not many romantic stories start with an Anthrax scare. Recovering from a failed romance, Agent Amanda Andrews stops a terrorist from releasing Anthrax over Washington and lets down her guard and falls in love with her new partner Keith Shepard. Categories: Other Fiction, Contemporary Romance |
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The First Book of Iaddius Ioahann |
The First Book of Iaddius Ioahann
Discover a frightening land of danger, brutal giants, captivity and horror and learn the secret Iaddius Iohann holds to bring peace back to this shattered world. Categories: SciFi & Horror, Other Fiction |
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When Mona Lisa Came to School |
When Mona Lisa Came to School
Three famous paintings come to life for teens - Mona Lisa by Leonardo de Vinci, the Scream by Edvard Munch and The Thinker by Auguste Rodin. Friendships make it hard for the paintings to return. Categories: Teen, Other Fiction |
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John and the Herodians - From the What a Strange Little Man Series |
John and the Herodians - From the What a Strange Little Man Series
A prison guard from 1st Century Rome time travels to join a fellow Christian from the past and a band of current day Christians to relight the passion of Christianity. Categories: SciFi & Horror, Spirituality, Other Fiction |
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The Tear Drop |
The Tear Drop
The story of one mans personal journey through a world where his memory holds no recollection. For as he is in search of his identity and how he had come to be there, he finds something far more fundamental than just the knowledge of his past. Category: Other Fiction |
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Lunaria: The Sunless Isle |
Lunaria: The Sunless Isle
Ashlyn lives in a beautiful, elfin haven but she has the chance to travel to a place known only as a myth. From the moment Ashlyn departs from home, a journey begins that can only end with the complete transformation of Lunaria. Category: Other Fiction |
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Family Reunion  |
Family Reunion
Charleen had a last wish - she wanted her family to get back together before she died. She hoped their family reunion would force her children to at least talk to one another. But nothing could have prepared the family for the turns all of their lives would take because of the family reunion. Category: Other Fiction |
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The Great Chain on Urantia |
The Great Chain on Urantia
A baby boy covered in fur is left at a monastery in Bhutan, an Asian country that honors the yeti. He survives an invasion by the Chinese cavalry and escapes. Follow his life to Canada while he struggles with his identity, finds his mother and uses physics to challenge space and time. Categories: SciFi & Horror, Spirituality, Other Fiction |
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How to Forget Your Life  |
How to Forget Your Life
Lesbian lovers and drug dealers combined with unemployment lead Penelope through this modern day romance novel. Penelope, a woman of contradictions, comes to terms with her values and sexual identity when she finds herself unemployed and broke. She searches for romance and turns to Ronald, a drug dealer and then to Hanna, a beautiful Dutch lesbian artist. Categories: Romance, Other Fiction |
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Jess the Journeyer |
Jess the Journeyer
Jess steps into the fantasy world his great, great grandfather wrote about a world of dragons, zyglots and magic and finds that he is the only one who can stop the evil wizard from destroying his new found world Categories: SciFi & Horror, Other Fiction |
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Tales For A Dark and Rainy Night  |
Tales For A Dark and Rainy Night
A collection of scary, very short stories perfect for those moments when you crave a thrill, want to read a free scary story and time is at a premium. Categories: Mystery & Suspense, Other Fiction |
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Jones of Old Lincoln |
Jones of Old Lincoln
A history buff searches for answers to the mystery surrounding one of the more prominent yet unknown 19th century citizens of his hometown, George Washington Jones. It is at once a ghost story, biographical narrative, mystery tale, love story, spiritual manifesto, and political analysis, and even an autobiography of sorts. Categories: History, Other Fiction |
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The Mockingbirds Ballad |
The Mockingbirds Ballad
History and romantic stories weave through this fascinating tale of life in the 1800s for a girl farrier (blacksmith) and her twin after being forced from their family by the Blood Law. She joins Wheelers Army of Tennessee horse mounted soldiers as one of the few women in the Civil War. Travel the Cherokee homeland in Georgia in the 1840s to the fever-ridden jungles of Cuba in 1898. Categories: Romance, Other Fiction |
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What A Strange Little Man |
What A Strange Little Man
Michael is a prison guard from 1st Century Rome who has his life turned upside down by a strange little man (Paul, the Apostle) whom he has guarded for the past two years. Is God real? Who is this Jesus? The answers to these questions and more take Michael on a life altering journey. Categories: SciFi & Horror, Spirituality, Other Fiction |
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Deception |
Deception
When a night out results in memory loss for Kelly, little does she realize what it means. Categories: Mystery & Suspense, Other Fiction |
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