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Ill Never Get Out of This World Alive by Steve Earle

03 Nov 2025

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Doctor Who The Stealers of Dreams by Steve Lyons

03 Nov 2025

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Acqua Alta by Donna Leon

03 Nov 2025

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A Kiss of Shadows by Laurell K Hamilton

03 Nov 2025

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The Art of the Moving Picture by Vachel Lindsay

02 Nov 2025

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The 6th Target by James Patterson

02 Nov 2025

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One Good Soldier by Travis S Taylor

02 Nov 2025

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Enchanted by Nora Roberts

02 Nov 2025

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Dust of Dreams Book Nine of the Malazan by Steven Erikson

02 Nov 2025

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Dragons of Spring Dawning by Margaret Weis

02 Nov 2025

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Dead in the Dregs A Babe Stern Mystery by Peter Lewis

02 Nov 2025

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Dava Sobel by Longitude

02 Nov 2025

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Bleak Seasons by Glen Cook

02 Nov 2025

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The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong

01 Nov 2025

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Stiltsville by Susanna Daniel

01 Nov 2025

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Star Wars The Truce at Bakura by Kathy Tyers

01 Nov 2025

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Simon Baron Cohen by The Science of Evil On Empathlty

01 Nov 2025

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Robot Adept by Piers Anthony

01 Nov 2025

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One Wild Wedding Night Getaway by Leslie Kelly

01 Nov 2025

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Indignation by Philip Roth

01 Nov 2025

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Geralds Game by Stephen King

01 Nov 2025

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Five run away together by Enid Blyton

01 Nov 2025

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Void Moon by Michael Connelly

31 Oct 2025

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The Ring by Danielle Steel

31 Oct 2025

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Star Wars Lost Tribe of the Sith Savor by John Jackson Miller

31 Oct 2025

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Star Wars Jedi Apprentice 12 The Evil Experiment by Jude Watson

31 Oct 2025

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Slayer by D L Snow

31 Oct 2025

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Risky Pleasures by Brenda Jackson

31 Oct 2025

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Medusa by Clive Cussler

31 Oct 2025

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Gauntlgrym by R A Salvatore

31 Oct 2025

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Artemis Fowl and the Atlantis Complex by Eoin Colfer

31 Oct 2025

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Your Money or Your Life by Eric Tourssaint

30 Oct 2025

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Young Sherlock Holmes Death Cloud by Andrew Lane

30 Oct 2025

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You Shall Know Our Velocity - Dave Eggers

30 Oct 2025

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You Can Be a Stock Market Genius by Joel Greenblatt

30 Oct 2025

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You Become What You Think by Shubham Singh

30 Oct 2025

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You Are Not Your Brain by Jeffrey M. Schwartz

30 Oct 2025

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You Are a Badass at Making Money by Jen Sincero

30 Oct 2025

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Yesterday, I Cried_ Celebrating the Lessons of Living and Loving - Iyanla Vanzant

30 Oct 2025

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Year's Best SF 15 - David G. Hartwell

30 Oct 2025

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Year of wonders by Geraldine Brooks

30 Oct 2025

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Wyrms by Orson Scott Card

30 Oct 2025

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Witness in Death by Nora Roberts

30 Oct 2025

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The excerpts recount a complex murder investigation led by Lieutenant Eve Dallas of the NYPSD, centered on the on-stage stabbing of acclaimed actor Ri...

Witch Fire by Anya Bast

30 Oct 2025

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Winners by Danielle Steel

30 Oct 2025

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Wicked Enchantment by Anya Bast

30 Oct 2025

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Wicked by Sara Shepard

30 Oct 2025

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Where Mercy Is Shown Mercy Is Given by D D Chapman

30 Oct 2025

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The provided text is an excerpt from Duane "Dog" Chapman's book, "Where Mercy Is Shown, Mercy Is Given," co-authored with Laur...

What We Keep by Elizabeth Berg

30 Oct 2025

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Water The Epic Struggle for Wion by Steven Solomon

30 Oct 2025

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Wait until spring by John Fante

30 Oct 2025

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Venusian Lullaby by Paul Leonard

30 Oct 2025

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Use of Weapons by Iain M Banks

30 Oct 2025

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Until the End of Time by Danielle Steel

30 Oct 2025

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Unleashing the Power of Rubber Bands by Nancy Ortberg

30 Oct 2025

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Trial by Ice The True Story of Murder by Richard Parry

30 Oct 2025

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Travels with Myself and Another by Martha Gellhorn

30 Oct 2025

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Til Dice Do Us Part by Gail Oust

30 Oct 2025

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Tick Tock by Dean Koontz

30 Oct 2025

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The wrong Venus by Charles Williams

30 Oct 2025

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The Wraiths of Will and Pleasure by Storm Constantine

30 Oct 2025

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The Wives of Henry Oades by Johanna Moran

30 Oct 2025

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The wandering fire by Guy Gavriel Kay

30 Oct 2025

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The Third Door The Wild Quest to Uncover How the World's Most Successful People Launched Their Careers by Alex Banayan

30 Oct 2025

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The theory of almost everything by Robert Oerter

30 Oct 2025

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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Lyman Frank Baum

30 Oct 2025

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The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman

30 Oct 2025

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The Story of Stuff by Annie Leonard

30 Oct 2025

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The Six Messiahs by Mark Frost

30 Oct 2025

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The shadow rising by Robert Jordan

30 Oct 2025

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The Queen of the South by Arturo Perez Reverte

30 Oct 2025

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The magicians nephew by C S Lewis

30 Oct 2025

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The leper of Saint Giles the fifth chronicle by Ellis Peters

30 Oct 2025

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The lady in the lake by Raymond Chandler

30 Oct 2025

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The Island at the Center of the World by Russell Shorto

30 Oct 2025

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The Iron Queen by Julie Kagawa

30 Oct 2025

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The Great Influenza by John M Barry

30 Oct 2025

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The Fearsome Particles by Trevor Cole

30 Oct 2025

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The emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen L Carter

30 Oct 2025

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The demolished man by Alfred Bester

30 Oct 2025

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The Crucifix Killer by Chris Carter

30 Oct 2025

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The Black Ice by Michael Connelly

30 Oct 2025

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The assassin by WEB Griffin

30 Oct 2025

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Tess of the DUrbervilles by Thomas Hardy

30 Oct 2025

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Sweet Masterpiece by Connie Shelton

30 Oct 2025

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Sophies World by Jostein Gaarder

30 Oct 2025

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Shake Hands Forever by Ruth Rendell

30 Oct 2025

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See Me After Class by Roxanna Elden

30 Oct 2025

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Quantico by Greg Bear

30 Oct 2025

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Now and Forever by Danielle Steel

30 Oct 2025

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Once Around the Track by Sharyn McCrumb

30 Oct 2025

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Losers Town by Daniel Depp

30 Oct 2025

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Lightning by Dean Koontz

30 Oct 2025

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Intimate Seduction by Brenda Jackson

30 Oct 2025

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Instruments of Darkness by Robert Wilson

30 Oct 2025

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Immortal in Death by Nora Roberts

30 Oct 2025

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I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil by Josh Lieb

30 Oct 2025

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Chronicler of the Winds by Henning Mankell

30 Oct 2025

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House of Stairs by William Sleator

30 Oct 2025

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Hot for Him by Sarah Mayberry

30 Oct 2025

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