Before the Snowfall: In The Dark for the Dark Web


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★★★★★ "...this is a rather breathless kind of story that will get your pulse racing and leave you with guilty, dirty, nasty dreams." - Sally Bend, Goodreads Lisa is a small town girl that escaped the big city. Barely out of high school she waits to hear from her sister to get a job as a flight attendant, but she needs to support herself in the meantime. Constant unemployment through no fault of her own makes her resort to posing on OnlySimps and having her own private Snapchat. However this leads to an offer that she knows in her heart that she should refuse, but is the money that is being offered too good to refuse? Is she willing to take her own safety out of her hands just to get money from a mysterious group of collectors? Will she be bought not knowing to whom the results will be sold?




Snowfall: Part One - Freeze Watch


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Miranda doesn’t normally submit to letting life happen to her—so she’s going to chase after what she wants. And she wants Cyrus. Smart, sexy, and not afraid to change her life’s course, Miranda is a stunning self-made 24-year-old who left Las Vegas for a career outside of Boston, Massachusetts. However, she didn’t plan on reliving the thirst of the Nevada desert when she met her neighbor, the rugged, assertive, but caring Cyrus McManus. She only knows that she needs him to quench that thirst… Miranda’s not looking for love—so submitting herself to a no strings attached arrangement with the dominate New Englander is fine with her… until she wants his strings. After almost a decade, widower Cyrus McManus continues to struggle with the emotional aftermath of his wife’s death. Focusing his life as the father of teenage twins, he is content with the occasional fleeting one-night stand. The bearded author has closed himself off from the hope of romance forever—or so he thinks. Will Cyrus be the proper father figure who takes Miranda in hand or will he give her a new meaning of daddy issues?







The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship


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When the Czar proclaims that he will marry his daughter to the man who brings him a flying ship, the Fool of the World sets out to try his luck and meets some unusual companions on the way.




The First Snowfall


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Experience the delicate and evocative beauty of ""The First Snowfall"" by Guy De Maupassant. This touching short story captures the serene and transformative moment of the first snowfall of the season. Maupassant’s narrative uses the snowfall as a backdrop to explore themes of memory, nostalgia, and the passage of time. De Maupassant skillfully evokes the emotional and visual impact of the snowfall, weaving a story that reflects on the changes brought by nature and the emotional responses they elicit. The story offers a contemplative and poetic reflection on the transient beauty of winter. ""The First Snowfall"" is ideal for readers who appreciate lyrical and reflective narratives. Perfect for those who value Guy De Maupassant’s ability to capture the subtleties of human emotions and natural beauty.




Dark Matter


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A terrifying 1930s ghost story set in the haunting wilderness of the far north. January 1937. Clouds of war are gathering over a fogbound London. Twenty-eight year old Jack is poor, lonely and desperate to change his life. So when he's offered the chance to join an Arctic expedition, he jumps at it. Spirits are high as the ship leaves Norway: five men and eight huskies, crossing the Barents Sea by the light of the midnight sun. At last they reach the remote, uninhabited bay where they will camp for the next year. Gruhuken. But the Arctic summer is brief. As night returns to claim the land, Jack feels a creeping unease. One by one, his companions are forced to leave. He faces a stark choice. Stay or go. Soon he will see the last of the sun, as the polar night engulfs the camp in months of darkness. Soon he will reach the point of no return - when the sea will freeze, making escape impossible. And Gruhuken is not uninhabited. Jack is not alone. Something walks there in the dark...




The Tri-State Tornado


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The Tri-State Tornado is a gripping account of the worst tornado disaster in American history. Claiming 689 lives during a three-hour rampage across Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana on March 18, 1925, the storm had one of the longest uninterrupted paths (219 miles) and one of the widest (up to one mile) of any recorded tornado. Its continuous energy was so extreme that it completely obliterated several small towns in its path. Although the fatality count was nearly that of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, with the exception of meteorologists and residents of the affected area, few had ever heard of this catastrophe until this book's initial release in 1992. The Tri-State Tornado reconstructs the tragedy, using vivid eyewitness accounts of fourteen survivors who lived along the tornado's path from the Missouri Ozarks to southwestern Indiana. The clarity with which they recall that day in their lives over sixty years earlier will give readers the unsettling feeling that the tornado struck days, not decades, ago.




A Bookman's Catalogue Vol. 1 A-L


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The Colbeck collection was formed over half a century ago by the Bournemouth bookseller Norman Colbeck. Focusing primarily on British essayists and poets of the nineteenth century from the Romantic Movement through the Edwardian era, the collection features nearly 500 authors and lists over 13,000 works. Entries are alphabetically arranged by author with copious notes on the condition and binding of each copy. Nine appendices provide listings of selected periodicals, series publications, anthologies, yearbooks, and topical works.




Out West Magazine


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Skiing


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