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Chris Barnham

Fifty-One, from south London writer Chris Barnham, is a mind-bending, time travel love triangle, set in past and future London, which has been compared with the classic 'The Time Traveler's Wife.'.Jake Wesson is sent back from 2040 to Blitz-era London, to stop the assassination of Britain's war leader, Winston Churchill. The assignment complete, the jump home goes wrong, stranding Jake in war-ravaged 1944. Stuck in the past, Jake tries to blend in. He clings to the...

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Shannon Allen, JR Campbell, Hayden Trenholm, Wendy N. Wagner, J.W. Schnarr, Calvin D. Jim, Douglas DiCicco, Al Onia, Michael Teasdale, J. Gordon, Kenzie Lappin, David F. Shultz, Ewan A. Dougall, Chris Barnham, Kirk Bueckert

Crime Is Not Bound by GravityTurns out, greed and passion are universal truths, and leaving Earth does not mean leaving behind humanity. Spaceships, other planets, even Virtual Reality: all carry the taint of human desires.Androids and robots fight for equal rights. The poor struggle to survive while the rich build private paradises high above the mess of Earth. Big Brother is watching and death remains the only equalizer, but some poor sod may try to unravel the mystery be...

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Susan Elia MacNeal

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Maggie Hope

**BARRY AWARD WINNER • Heralding the arrival of a brilliant new heroine, Mr. Churchill’s Secretary captures the drama of an era of unprecedented challenge—and the greatness that rose to meet it.“With any luck, the adventures of red-haired super-sleuth Maggie Hope will go on forever. . . . Taut, well-plotted, and suspenseful, this is a wartime mystery to sink your teeth into.” —Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Rose Code**London,...

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David Steffen

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Long List Anthology Series

This is the third annual edition of the Long List Anthology. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the previous year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. This is an anthology collecting more of the stories from that nomination list to get them to more readersThe Long List Anthology Volume 3 collects 20 science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories from that nomination list, totaling ov...

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Kathleen Brooks

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Bluegrass Brothers

Relentless Pursuit is the fourth novel in the Bluegrass Brothers series.Sometimes you have to fight for love…Pierce Davies watched as his older siblings fell in love—something this bachelor was not ready for. Though Pierce enjoyed the single lifestyle, his life has been his work and that hard work is set to pay off big time with the unveiling of a secret project that is big enough to change his life forever. However, this work hard, play hard attitude may have also landed h...

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Lynda E. Rucker, Samantha Henderson, Daria Patrie, Kaaron Warren, Richard Byers, Damien Angelica Walters, Spencer Leary, Joshua L. Hood, Jeff C. Carter, Simon Bestwick, Matt Maxwell, Shannon Fay, Adam Heine, Mike Allen, Darrell Schweitzer, Cody Goodfellow, Bruce R. Cordell, Pete Rawlik, A.C. Wise, Robert Brockway, Nate Southard, Molly Tanzer, Joshua Alan Doetsch, Thomas M. Reid, Clinton J. Boomer, L.A. Knight, Lizz-Ayn Shaarawi, J.M. Rozanski, Desirina Boskovich, Scott Gable, C. Dombrowski

Super science. Madness. Transhumanism.This is the dawn of posthumanity. Some things can’t be unlearned.Gleaming labs whir with the hum of servers as scientists unravel the secrets of the universe. But as we peel away mysteries, the universe glances back at us. Even now, terrors rise from the Mariana Trench and drift down from the stars. Scientists are disappearing—or worse. Experiments take on minds of their own. Some fight back against the unknown, some gi...

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Anne Bennett

A story of struggle and hardship and one girl’s battle for survival from the best-selling author of If You Were the Only Girl and Another Man’s Child.Angela McCluskey comes to Birmingham from Ireland with her family as a young girl to escape the terrible poverty in her homeland. But the dream of a better life is dashed as bad fortune dogs the family.When Angela marries her childhood sweetheart, she has hopes of a brighter future, which are dashed when her husband is called ...

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Year's Best Science Fiction

In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line between life and art. Now, in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection the very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world. This venerable collection brings together award winning authors and masters of the fie...

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Luca Veste

A brilliant Murphy and Rossi police procedural from Luca Veste, called 'A writer to watch' by Mark Billingham.Social media stars Chloe Morrison and Joe Hooper seem to have it all - until their bodies are found following an anonymous phone call to their high-profile agent. Tied and bound to chairs facing each other, their violent deaths cause a media scrum to descend on Liverpool, with DI David Murphy and DS Laura Rossi assigned to ...

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Skye MacKinnon

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Starlight Monsters

She's trapped in a deadly alien game. One orc warrior will tear the planet apart to reach her.Aliens are real.I know because they abducted me. Now I’m trapped in a deadly game and everything I do is for the entertainment of aliens. If I fail, I die. My only chance of survival is a big, scary monster…but is he truly on my side or is this yet another game?She’s my mate.They showed me my fated female, ...

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Susan Elia MacNeal

London, 1940. Winston Churchill has just been sworn in, war rages across the Channel, and the threat of a Blitz looms larger by the day. But none of this deters Maggie Hope. She graduated at the top of her college class and possesses all the skills of the finest minds in British intelligence, but her gender qualifies her only to be the newest typist at No. 10 Downing Street. Her indefatigable spirit and remarkable gifts for codebreaking, though, rival those of even the highest men in gover...

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Barbara Taylor Bradford

A delightful novella from the internationally bestselling author of A Woman of SubstanceJake and Maggie, each fleeing a failed marriage, meet and fall in love, but their pasts throw up obstacles.Jake Cantrell is suave, charming and a brilliant electrical engineer saddened by the failure of his marriage to Amy. Maggie Sorrell is a bright and elegant interior designer. She, too, has suffered a broken marriage.Jake and Maggie ...