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Every dog has his day, and for Lineker, a happy go lucky mongrel from London, the day his city falls is finally a chance for adventure. Too bad his master Reg plans to hide himself away from the riots outside. But when an abandoned child shows up looking for help, Reg and his trusty hound must brave the chaos in a journey that will prove not just the importance of bravery, but of loyalty, trust, and finding family in the unlikeliest of places.
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Dewey finds himself in a compromising position running dishonest tasks for Senator Howard while also protecting Saudi royals and finds he must make difficult choices.
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NAMED AN NPR GREAT READ OF 2018
From the Shirley Jackson Award–winning author of The Hole, a Kafkaesque tale of crime and punishment hailed by Korea's Wall Street Journal as "an airtight masterpiece."
Distinguished for his talents as a rat killer, the nameless protagonist of Hye-young Pyun's City of Ash and Red is sent by the extermination company he works for on an extended assignment in C, a country...
From the Shirley Jackson Award–winning author of The Hole, a Kafkaesque tale of crime and punishment hailed by Korea's Wall Street Journal as "an airtight masterpiece."
Distinguished for his talents as a rat killer, the nameless protagonist of Hye-young Pyun's City of Ash and Red is sent by the extermination company he works for on an extended assignment in C, a country...
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Man Alone is set in and around a complex Seattle where Rat City meets the Billionaires' Club. Zene, a man alone, lives in a chaotic, sexually disruptive and violence-wrecked world. His life ruined after a chain of disappointments and falls-the fruits of his violent nature-Zene runs into Karizma, a love-creature from his past, and he's smitten again, knowing all the while that for him, there's no future in love. Not your basic romance, for sure.
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Nap-town's Dirty Little Secrets reveals the dark side of a young man involuntarily forced out of his home at an early age to fend for himself in the dark alleys of the inner city. When one morning, he is befriended by a local (illegal) debt collector whose job it is to pick up weekly protection payments from local merchants by any means necessary.
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Very different type of ebook. Mark investigates violent crimes and writes a journal of his findings. The case files are Preppers vs non-preppers and it goes into the future. The violent crimes are waiting in our future if things don't improve.For Adults only.Word count 3,577 short and sweet.
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"Your parents know that somebody is spying on them? Why doesn't your father rip down the microphone?""He's proud of it.""Proud? It's an outrageous intrusion!""Father says: better spied on than not worth spying on."Jonathan Falla's sixth novel is a startling and creepy tale of exiles living in ruined factories in a city determined to ignore their presence. Until, that is, a well-meaning but naive doctor gets involved, and the political situation becomes...
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As a child, Aris, witnessed unbelievable levels of human depravity reminiscent of wartime atrocities. Someone gave his life a thesis statement, intentionally. Now it's happening again, the case of that first childhood tragedy is on the news. His whole middle school soccer team came up missing, no clues about either team were ever found. It happened on that field, in the forest where the big white house was; the house that everybody says never existed,...
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Anatomy of an Artist: Anatomy of an Artist is a superlative work of fiction that depicts the journey of a young boy named Arjun who grows up to be an Artist. It's a heart wrenching story of life throwing at him death, child sex abuse, poverty and all things possible. But when these experiences are sieved through the prism of his eyes they become life lessons, experiences for soul searching and joy. Each step up his journey where he experiences amazing...
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Ashes keep getting in the food, part of her spoon is made from the finger bone of a former neighbor. Meat is meat, mosquito, rodent or deceased stick figure. There is no proof either way of a favorite squirrel being Chex mix. The gray winds are swirling, that's when the gas smells are the sharpest. Seems the sun is a thing of the past, so are people sightings. Everything is damaged or gray, didn't Revelations contain some sunshine? Boils and sores...
11) A New Premise
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Could it happen?
In the near future a crisis erupts when terrorists change their target from buildings and people to the world money supply. They discover a way to duplicate all paper currency as well as credit and debit cards in a way that renders detection impossible. The markets are flooded with phoney products and chaos ensues. A new government emerges in the U.S. with tight control of economic markets, prices and wages. It introduce a new financial...
12) Hidden
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"Raw and moving.""Original, imaginative and compelling." Her instinct is to get to the truth. His instinct is to run like hell from it. In the abandoned buildings skirting the world's richest city is a hidden tribe – men who have turned their backs on their old lives and the society that rejects them. They have cultivated a new life, loyal to a doctrine that forbids them from dwelling on their pasts or speculating on their future. It keeps them...
13) Exposed
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"Great book. Didn't want to put it down.""An intense read." There's a price to pay for loyaltyWhen everyone else wants to bend the rules The men of the tribe have made their home in the empty buildings at the border, far from the demands and ruthless laws of those who control the city. Their only guidance is a doctrine that keeps them grounded, free from emotional disruption and at peace. At least, that was how it was meant to be… With their founder...
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An Army of Lovers begins with the story of two poets, Demented Panda and Koki, united in their desire to write politically engaged poetry at a time when poetry seems to have lost its ability to effect social change. Their first project is more than a failure, resulting in a spell that unleashes a torrent of raw sewage and surrealistic embodiments of consumerist excess and black site torture techniques. Subsequent chapters feature an experimental composer...
15) Ether
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A bearded man in a badly soiled suit known only as The Stranger wanders an apocalyptic landscape on the fringes of a dying metropolis, looking for a way to "get back on top." Thwarted and rejected at every turn by old friends and strangers alike, even by the author of this novel, whom he visits repeatedly in unsuccessful attempts to determine his own narrative, his impotence and rage are expressed in acts of seemingly senseless violence. The various...
16) Unmasked
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"Any book hereafter isn't going to be the same." If the past caught up with you and there was nowhere left to runWould you trust yourself to turn and face it? Time is running out for the men who hide at the edge of the city. The once peaceful existence of their tribe is threatened by an unstable government, one that grows ever more extreme in its desperation to be the richest metropolis in the world. For Jacob, the tribe's mentor, the sight of a construction...
17) It's Time Billy
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Billy and Travis loaded up their Honda 750 and left their run down trailers to the landlord for back rent due. It's no longer feasible to stay in Georgia, neither one has worked for over a year. They were starving, and could not last much longer. It was time for change. They landed a small Carpenter job to give them enough money to start their journey. Along the way in search of work, they meet like minded people in dire need such as themselves. The...
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Chase should be dead. The package he carried was supposed to blow up and take out the guy he handed it to. He was just the courier, the delivery mechanism for a hit. Collateral damage.But he's not.When his package starts ringing, he finds a loaded gun, a phone, and the defused remains of the bomb inside. The stranger on the other end of the line tells him that she saved his life.And that he now has the chance for revenge and the tools to take it,...
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Suivez deux personnages particuliers, des enfants qui tentent de survivre et de combattre l'ennui à Mondelaid. D'un cté, une fille mûre et responsable, de l'autre, un garçon crasseux et paumé.
La survie n'est qu'une succession d'opportunités à vivre. Se battre, comme il le fait lui, contre les coups de dent et de couteau, contre le canif et le fil de fer ; ou comme elle le fait elle, contre la tristesse et le manque de surprise, contre l'abandon...
20) Contract City
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The year is 2021 and the money is still green. The fully privatized city of Tulsa, OK, is home to Sara Paige Christie, a teenage girl with her heart set on a film career in L.A. and her camera trained on the graffiti-covered walls of the city's outskirts. In pursuit of a documentary subject that might propel her from college hopeful to film school admittee at USC, Sara has focused her ambitions upon a singularly ubiquitous tag-WH2RR?? From the facades...
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