Christmas Conflagration


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If Christmas under the hot Australian sun isn’t twisted enough, this story will turn it up a notch or ten. Matilda May McDonald, so-called crazy-cat-lady. Owner of four dogs. Trapped by her past. Perhaps this Christmas offers more than salvation.




Christmas Travesties


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Bitter and Sweet. Dark, nutty or plain. If Christmas under the hot Australian sun isn’t twisted enough, these stories turn it up a notch or ten. • Christmas Bonanza; - it takes beauty, brains and brawn to win The Christmas Bonanza - the most anticipated reality show on TV. But Edina Montrose wants to win. No matter the cost. But all is not what it seems. • Remains of Christmas - having spent all her life in the military, all Penelope Cradock knows is how to be a soldier. Never married, lost her unit and her family in the war. And while the Empire conquered her people, Christmas conquered the Empire. • Christmas Kisses - Ava Gibson, slightly stressed event manager, organising the Goldings Investment Bank annual Christmas dinner. Ryan Griffith, high flyer, confirmed bachelor, and Christmas Sceptic. Knocking heads together. Literally. • Christmas Conflagration - Matilda May McDonald, so-called crazy-cat-lady, owner of four dogs, trapped by her past. Perhaps this Christmas offers more than salvation. • Christmas Business - Vada Paloma was busy working undercover. So deep undercover she can't find her way back. Could Christmas be the key to unlocking her present? This collection is like a box of Christmas chocolates, there’s something for everyone!




The Spectator


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Stuck Together


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Joe Bennett, Dixie Mae Crandall, Hattie Cooper, and Clarence Cobb are hardly exemplary citizens, but they color the pages of this book with recognizable humanity. Thornburg, Indiana, is the kind of town in which such characters are not only tolerated but accepted as part of the scenery. Their lives intertwine, sometimes in spite of their intentions. Often against the odds they support and help one another to greater hope and a better life. Too involved with each other's business to be objective, they nevertheless regard one another with tolerance or, at their best, with love and admira-tion. With no two people alike, they form a mosaic of American life on a small scale, a kind of confusion which, as E.B White has noted, "makes a democracy so lovable and so frightening." You will likely find people you have known--or perhaps yourself--in these stories.




The First Rung


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The new broom sweeps clean... Dot Sayers sat at her desk, huffed on the plastic card that was her new class A Private Security licence, and buffed it with her sleeve. She was now a fully licensed private investigator! Problem is, she knows there’s something wrong with a background check. Can’t explain it. Needs to convince her boss to trust her intuition. Must find the truth behind the fiction.




Never Going to be a Hero


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No matter how far you go, you can't escape the triads. Mephisto station sits on the intersection of a dozen interglactic trade routes. Field medic Vee runs a repair shop. Does good deeds. Tries to escape attention. Until her past catches up with her. And won't take no for an answer.




Christmas in the Crosshairs


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Is there a War on Christmas? This book surveys the history of the world's most popular festival and the never-ending battles it has engendered ever since its hotly-contested invention in the Roman Empire.




The Last Case


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The problem with a family business... It gets personal real quick. After a break in at the White Family Investigations office, her grandfather dies mysteriously on a case, and Lily knows without a doubt there's more than meets the eye. Can she keep the business going? And more importantly, can she find out who the killer is and bring them to justice?




All In


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Do Cinderella slippers come in Chelsea boots? Rosa Velázquez. Heroine. Ran into a burning building. Twice. Jude Webb. Bespoke shoemaker. Believes his life is complicated enough. Is Rosa brave enough to take a chance on Jude?




ON A DARK CHRISTMAS NIGHT – 25 Holiday Spook Classics & Murder Mysteries


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This carefully crafted ebook: "ON A DARK CHRISTMAS NIGHT – 25 Holiday Spook Classics & Murder Mysteries" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The holidays are the best time to enjoy Christmas mysteries and classic ghost tales (for the fans of the genre) in the snuggling comfort of your home. This edition hence brings to you some of the finest literary gems together in one place to satisfy your cravings for some suspense. Enjoy: The Christmas Banquet (Nathaniel Hawthorne) What the Shepherd Saw: A Tale of Four Moonlight Nights (Thomas Hardy) The Wolves of Cernogratz (Saki) Markheim (Robert Louis Stevenson) A Chaparral Christmas Gift (O. Henry) The Flying Stars (G.K. Chesterton) The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance (M.R. James) Ghosts and Family Legends (Catherine Crowe) The Ghost: A Christmas Story (William Douglas O'Connor) Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions (Charles Dickens) The Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens) The Haunted Man (Charles Dickens) Thurlow's Christmas Story (John Kendrick Bangs) The Mystery of My Grandmother's Hair Sofa (John Kendrick Bangs) The Abbot's Ghost, or Maurice Treherne's Temptation (Louisa M. Alcott) A Christmas Tragedy (Emmuska Orczy) The Thieves who couldn't Stop Sneezing (Thomas Hardy) Mr Wray's Cash Box or, the Mask and the Mystery (Wilkie Collins) Wolverden Tower (Grant Allen) The Ghosts at Grantley (Leonard Kip) The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle (Arthur Conan Doyle) An Exciting Christmas Eve or, My Lecture On Dynamite (Arthur Conan Doyle) Glámr (Sabine Baring-Gould) Mustapha (Sabine Baring-Gould) Told After Supper (Jerome K. Jerome)