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John Porter

Book 5 -

Corinne Morgan, Corbie

Teenage superhero Corinne Morgan (AKA Corbie) is back in Los Angeles and soon finds herself facing new challenges. Not only has the schoolyard turf war in which she's aligned with best friend Sadie Byrd against ruthless girl gang the I.C. taken new twists and turns in her absence, her great aunt Grace Morgan-Matterhorn has returned to the States demanding the family turn over the Mystical Sphere of the Bad...

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John Porter

Drug dealing can be dangerous. Other dealer... police investigations... self indulgence. Those are just the more glamorous hazards. But the insidious threats of greed and arrogance can do far more harm in the end, as one grower/dealer discovers. One in a series of stories from a compilation entitled A Collection Of Dirty Little Stories.

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John Porter

The large district of western Lancashire, denominated from time immemorial the Fylde, embraces one third at least of the Hundred of Amounderness, and a line drawn from Ashton, on the Ribble, to Churchtown, on the Wyre, forms the nearest approach to an eastern boundary attainable, for although the section cut off by its means includes more land and villages than properly appertain to the Fylde, a more westerly division would exclude others which form part of it. The whole of the parishes of...

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Peter Ackroyd, Geoffrey Chaucer

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Ron Keith, Toby Leonard Moore, Colin McPhillamy, John Curless, John Keating, Graeme Malcolm, Davina Porter, Steven Crossley, Tim Gerard Reynolds, Bianca Amato

Author Peter Ackroyd has won the Somerset Maugham Award, the Whitbread Novel of the Year, and the Guardian Fiction Prize, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Based on Geoffrey Chaucer's immortal work, this retelling of The Canterbury Tales follows a party of travelers as they tell stories amongst themselves about love and chivalry, saints and legends, travel and adventure. Through allegory, satire, and humor, the tales help pass the time during their journey.

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John Porter

John Porter’s landmark study of social and ethnic inequality, The Vertical Mosaic, became an instant classic when it was first published in 1965. A national best seller that sold more than 100,000 copies, the book was the first major study of Canada’s class structure and one of the foundational texts in Canadian sociology. Sociologist Irving Louis Horowitz described it as “the sociological study of present-day Canada.”Fifty years later, the book retains vast signi...

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John Porter

No erotica in this collection, despite the title! Just tales of people getting filthy mad at each other, commiting dirty deeds out of greed, lust or jealousy, and generally a whole swag of grubby goings-on. Some are filled with wry humour, others will make you laugh out loud, and some are filled with pathos. Adventure, mystery, smiles and history, there's something for everyone in this collection, so get down and dirty with Old Mrs Wilberforce, crazy Tapper the keyboard king, and a host of...

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John Porter

The date is 2280, and the world is very different. Virtual reality has replaced much of the actual world, and many of the planet's inhebitants are no longer even made of flesh and blood. But children are still children... they still crave new toys and games... they still deceive their parents... and they can still be very cruel. In a future where not everything is as it seems, the wish of parents to see their child do well in the world is still real enough. But pain and torture continue to...

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John Porter

The world in which we live is permanently poised between a series of extremes; up and down, dark and light, yin and yang... life and death.In fact the very fabric of what we experience teeters constantly on the knife edge that separates reality from fantasy.Sometimes it's very difficult to know where the division between the two truly lies, and often physical experiences and imagination share a hazy common ground where each one is as valid as the other. That's when matters ca...

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Joan Aiken

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John Franklyn-Robbins, Davina Porter, Simon Prebble

Aiken makes use of the hallmark of Gothic fiction-the haunted house-in this story of three authors whose lives become inextricably tied to Lamb House, a Georgian mansion situated in the town of East Sussex, England: Toby Thomas, who lived there in the 18th century; followed by Henry James, who discovered Toby's mysterious diary a century later; and ending with E.F. Benson, who struggled to put the agitated ghosts of Toby and Henry James to rest.

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John Porter

All small towns thrive on gossip. It's not what happens that matters but what's said about it. A clergyman visiting a crazy old lady soon finds that tittle-tattle can be socially harmful, as well as confusing, and quite dangerous to his own health. One of ten stories in a compilation called A Collection Of Dirty Little Stories.

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John Porter

Book 4 -

Corinne Morgan, Corbie

Corinne Morgan wasn't looking for a hard time when she decided to become L.A. county's rookie superhero, Corbie. All she wanted was a little bit of revenge against the terrible schoolyard trio the I.C., as a treat! But it wasn't long before she found herself at the heart of a family feud between her mentor, trickster goddess Morrigan, and nefarious younger siblings Neamhain and Macha. Now our battling bird...

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John Porter

Book 2 -

Corinne Morgan, Corbie

The origin story of L.A. County's battling bird gal continues! Corinne Morgan has found herself face-to-face with her ancestor, Celtic war goddess the Morrigan, returning after a thousand-year banishment. Both are hungry for revenge against their respective enemies - and for Corinne, that means taking down the I.C., Anna Dale Academy's terrifying trio of bullies! To do so, she forges an alliance with Morrigan, whose spirit now resides with...