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  • The Girl with Delphinium Eyes

    by Ingrid Pearce

    A young girl vanishes, swallowed by darkness, her story lost to time. Decades later, a compassionate nurse inherits a quiet country home from a woman she barely knew, stepping into a mystery that refuses to stay buried. Joanna Waters has built her life around caring for others, keeping her own painful past carefully contained. But when her elderly client Charlotte dies suddenly and leaves her everything, Joanna is drawn into a world that feels both strangely intimate and unfamiliar. As she and her husband settle into the late Charlotte’s rural property, disturbing dreams begin to haunt her. The land itself seems alive with memory, and the deeper Joanna digs, the more she senses that Charlotte’s past remains to be finished in the present. As fragments of history surface, Joanna must confront the possibility that her connection to Charlotte runs far deeper than chance. Themes of loss, belonging, generational trauma, and redemption intertwine as past and present begin to blur. But some secrets resist exposure, and some truths demand a reckoning: what really happened to the girl with delphinium eyes and how is Joanna a part of her story?

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  • A Life to Die For

    by J.G. Graham

    Sunlight filters beautifully through enormous stained-glass windows depicting stories of biblical classics, including a dominant centerpiece of the Last Supper flanked by lesser images of the Virgin Mary, the Holy Grail, crucifixes, and fantastic angels. One image in particular catches Adam’s attention as he staggers through debris-filled aisles, stumbling over felled hardwood benches with drunken clumsiness, the echoes of which resonate through the nave. He steps up onto the chancel and schleps towards an image of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden… “Where’s my Eve?” he shouts at the top of his lungs… Through a strange twist of fate, eleven-year-old Adam escapes a predator’s lair, only to discover he may be the sole human survivor of a zombie apocalypse. Twenty-six years later, Adam is living large, with fine art, great music, great booze, handy-long-life batteries, and plenty of gardening expertise to keep him healthy. And what he doesn’t have, he invents, using the raw materials he has at hand…which is mostly zombies. A Robinson Crusoe for the zombie age, Adam discovers ways to employ snapping zombie-heads and flailing zombie arms that make life pretty posh on his secluded estate, but there’s one thing missing—love. And so Adam has to invent that for himself too. Wildly irreverent, slyly erotic, and infused with unexpectedly moving perspectives on man’s yearning for connection, A Life to Die For marries dark humor, a delicious yuck factor, and reams of inventiveness to answer the question: What would you do if you were the last man on earth?

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  • Time Will Tell

    by B. E. Campbell

    Madeline and Dalton were once inseparable—childhood sweethearts bound by soft kisses and sweet dreams. Until their different worlds tore them apart. Years later, fate brings them together again. But is their love strong enough to survive the test of time and the sacrifices they will need to make? Madeline Thomas has everything she’s ever dreamed of—a brilliant legal career, gorgeous condo, loving family—everything, that is, except the man she still dreams about. Dalton Murray has left his tragic past behind. A visionary architect now, he’s claimed his self-worth and built a life on his own terms, caring for his young son and thriving in his new life. There’s only one part of his past he can’t forget: the girl who he pushed away. When Madeline and Dalton meet again, sparks fly and passion erupts; but that passion comes with dark memories and unresolved pain. Caught between the lives they’ve built for themselves and the future they both want; they must decide what they’re willing to sacrifice. Is love worth a second chance? Only time will tell.

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  • Home is a Place in Time

    by Najat Sinclair-Benrbia

    This novel follows Maha's journey through loss, resilience, and self-discovery as she navigates the emotional complexities of migration and human change. It is a story about the invisible distances that grow between people, the transformations that shape who we become, and the enduring hope that connection can survive even when life leads us in different directions. Through Maha's emotional homecoming, the novel examines the enduring connection between identity, family, friendship, and homeland, showing that although people and places evolve, the values and memories that define us remain a lasting source of strength.

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  • Charles Henry Chapman

    The Life of a Comic Book Artist by John C. Chapman

    A prolific British illustrator, CH Chapman (1878–1972) is best known for drawing characters such as Ally Sloper, Billy Bunter, and the rest of the Greyfriars School cohort. In this biography, John C. Chapman explores his grandfather’s long and satisfying career, including the Chapman genealogy and his birth to a father who had struck out on his own, disowned the family name of Richardson, and adopted the name Chapman. Chapman’s father recognized his son’s talent early on and encouraged him to pursue an education as an architectural artist. Through talent, pluck, and sheer determination, young Chapman went on to sell his drawings and prove himself in the exploding market for boys' storybooks and comics that thrived up until WWII. Chapman’s career reignited after the war as an illustrator for the Greyfriars stories, now in book form. Over almost sixty years, Chapman continued to rise to the challenges of workloads, deadlines, and keeping the illustrations fresh over several generations of boys who were enthralled by the ongoing episodes of life at Greyfriars. Charles Henry Chapman: The Life of a Comic Book Artist is illustrated throughout with family and archival photographs along with Chapman’s artwork. It will be of particular interest to students engaged in university-level studies of boys’ literature and aspects of social science of the early twentieth century, as well as the fellowship of Old Boys Cubs worldwide who grew up with the characters Chapman drew so faithfully.

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  • A Twist of Fate

    by Thomas Fulton

    A Twist of Fate continues the adventures of Freya and her sisters, Scara, Fina, Tauna, Pohla, and their new companions, Fordoc, Aidelle and Brunela. Having successfully escorted a group of troublesome halflings to and back from Edradour, they now set off on the final leg of their journey—getting the halflings home to Cornerbrook. The road is rugged and dangerous, particularly since the sisters thwarted a plan from the exiled Wolfric to ransom Lady Jassmyn of Alhambra. The sisters will need to be on guard from a retaliatory attack. On the road, Aidelle and Fina spy a ruined tower in the distance. Upon investigation, they discover that the tower is part of a larger settlement and castle that once belonged to Wolfric, until a dragon chased him out. With the help of an elvish ranger, Reyn, the group clears out an infestation of goblins that had taken up residence. Finally reaching Cornerbrook, Freya finds it to be a small, defenseless town that had recently been pillaged by Wolfric’s men. She and her party take up residence in the once-flourishing Black Swan Inn and strategize for an attack they know is coming. Meanwhile, Fordoc leads the task of constructing a way station—A Twist of Fate—that will serve as a commercial hub for the area. As they prepare their defenses and assist with the restoration of Cornerbrook and its mysteriously dried-up lake, the sisters face old demons and make new friends. Their party grows and so does Freya’s ambitions. The abandoned castle looms large in her mind. Perhaps it could use a new ruler?

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