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When a fire burns down the historic Bartlett House, the body of young activist, Emmy d’Angelo is found inside, dressed in bondage gear. Her older lover, professor Will Adelhardt, is under suspicion, but the manner in which Emmy is found is incomprehensible to Adelhardt, who is devastated by her loss. Now he must take a dark voyage through the . . .
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BEHOLD! The most THRILLING tales ever committed to the inter-net! OBSERVE! As Victorian adventurer and gentle-man of action, Lord Likely, solves BAFFLING mysteries and battles TERRIFYING foes! GASP! As Lord Likely and his hapless man-servant, Botter, encounter killer prostitutes, undead gentlemen, female pirates and HORRIFYING beasts! THRILL! As Likely beds a succession of gorgeous females, while keeping . . .
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“Sentence of Marriage” is the first book in the three-volume “Promises to Keep”. The entire work covers twenty-five years; this first volume takes Amy from the ages of twelve to sixteen. Amy is a bright and imaginative girl who dreams of an exciting life in the world beyond the farming valley where she lives. But in nineteenth century New . . .
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When a fire burns down the historic Bartlett House, the body of young activist, Emmy d’Angelo is found inside, dressed in bondage gear. Her older lover, professor Will Adelhardt, is under suspicion, but the manner in which Emmy is found is incomprehensible to Adelhardt, who is devastated by her loss. Now he must take a dark voyage through the . . .
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“Why aren’t there any truly romantic men anymore? The kind that would slay a dragon for a glance or swim an ocean for a kiss. Men with words of honey that drip from their lips and cling to my soul . . . ” Purity Plumb has it all: beauty, money, and handsome enthusiastic suitors. What could go wrong? You’d be surprised. . . .
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Hard times and poverty in rural Norway, early 1800’s. Based loosely on some poor folks who had the misfortune to be my ancestors. One of them stole some potatoes and other food to feed her family of seven. For this she received 8 months in prison, where my great-grandfather was born. These are the facts. The rest, as they say, . . .
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Arthur Endswell has fallen on hard times and to keep his social standing has become employed as a ressurrection man for Dr. Faust Grey, who uses the bodies he procures for dissection purposes. What starts off as a lucrative business soon veers into the realm of murder when Arthur’s beloved Amelia’s cousin, Constance Gowain, finds her way on Dr. Grey’s . . .
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Divination from the spirit world. Con artistry. Cats and mirrors. The implications of Freudian psychology. Death. Life. Birth. Murder. And ice cream. . . . Charlotte Rowe has been cast in the role of medium from childhood, and studied under a clever fraud. But does Charlotte have a real vision into the spirit world? . . .
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A full understanding of Bent Magnus begins with his mind. Imagine if you poured the intellectual horsepower of Einstein, Edison, and Ben Franklin all into one man. Now imagine that the man wasn’t a total pansy, like those other guys, and you have Bent Magnus. Beginning with his birth at the “Fight of the Century” in 1910, Bent Magnus . . .
In 1989 the Soviet Union officially fell and once the prestigious Soviet athletic programs began selling their players to the highest bidders. Martin Ostrowski is a hockey player, and also Polish. He never belonged in Russia in the first place and now that Russia offers him no future and Poland offers him no past, if he wants to continue to . . .
Ennio could have been a great monk—if he hadn’t nearly killed another noviate the day before he was to take his vows. Forced to leave the monastery, he does his penance at the oars of a galley. Soon he discovers his true calling: the sea. He proves to be an uncanny navigator, the sort of man who can smell his . . .
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The novel follows the adventures of a pirate crew under Captain Abigail Sanders, a woman of considerable skill, ability and ferocity. The tale picks up when her vessel, the Raging Gale, seizes a captive, a young woman named Hope Harvey on her way to the New World, who goes from hostage to ship’s musician as the brigands plunder the sea . . .
The moon launch. The Challenger disaster. The Lewinsky scandal. And global warming. Someone’s behind it all, and it’s not for anything as mundane as corporate profits or political power. Join Jack Crowley and Jim Patterson as they race to stop the conspiracy before it’s too late. And maybe, just maybe, save the world. . . .
Bartlett House is a great read. At times, I found it riveting, and even when it’s not, the writing is still as smooth as silk.
The story begins with a deliberately set fire in an old, abandoned house, in one of the better parts of town. A body is found, and [more . . .]
It isn’t often that I get to leave a 5 star review, but what can I say? McLean and Poncy can write.
Bartlett House is ostensibly a murder mystery, but I have a feeling it is going to be much more than that. In these first eight chapters, we’ve met several [more . . .]