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If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio
“In the writing of this book I have consulted so many different editions of the complete works and the individual plays that it would be impossible to list all of them without the bibliography becoming longer than the story itself.” ~ M. L. Rio, Author’s Note, If We Were Villains “Here I must also acknowledge…
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Wolf Hall Companion (2020) by Lauren Mackay
An accessible and authoritative companion to the bestselling Wolf Hall trilogy by Hilary Mantel, published after the third and final book, The Mirror and the Light. Wolf Hall Companion gives an historian’s view of what we know about Thomas Cromwell, one of the most powerful men of the Tudor age and the central character in…
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Paint an Inch Thick by Adam Dompierre
A Madcap Mystery, California-Style: Eddie London might be the worst detective in all of Summerport. Then again, he assures himself, it’s a pretty big city. But when Veronica Lawrence hires him to find her missing husband, Eddie sees his chance to transcend the low-stakes (and low-paying) cases that have thus far sustained his fledgling operation….
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Then She Died by Michael Geczi
Emotional and psychological episodes are nothing new for Will Post. He’s got a lifetime of experience. More than anyone would want or believe. But he doesn’t have any experience dealing with his recent killing of three people, and that’s his newest challenge, along with haunting hallucinations and delusions. His solution: hit the road, get out…
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Unicorns Can Be Deadly by Charlotte Stuart PhD
A young boy witnesses a kidnapping in a homeless encampment and flees for his life. After rescuing a young boy trying to escape from two men who are chasing him, private investigator and single mom Cameron Chandler is repeatedly told that ” you can’ t save everyone.” Nevertheless, she takes on several clients who want…
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The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix
Like his bestselling novel The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, Grady Hendrix’s latest is a fast-paced, frightening, and wickedly humorous thriller. From chain saws to summer camp slayers, The Final Girl Support Group pays tribute to and slyly subverts our most popular horror films — movies like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, A Nightmare…
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Casino Royale by Iam Fleming
Casino Royale was Ian Fleming’s first novel, and the book that launched the global, iconic, legendary action adventure, espionage franchise that is James Bond/007. JAMES BOND PLAYS A DEADLY GAME OF CHANCE IN IAN FLEMING’S UNFORGETTABLE FIRST NOVEL “Le Chiffre” is a ruthless operative and the money-man for a Soviet cell in France, but he’s…
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Haunted Houses Creak: A Horror Collection by M. H. Altis
“I once read a F. Scott Fitzgerald (F. Scott Fitzgerald? what he’d do to you?) short story collection that gave a bit of context and descriptions for all the stories within, and I liked it. Not necessarily the stories themselves, but the idea. So, here were [sic] are — shouts out Scotty F regardless. “Be…
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Textkit
Update: March 2025 — Unfortunately, the site won’t load. When you hit the home page at Textkit.com it looks pretty sad. The site is obviously broken, the image and CSS files having been stored and linked from a rackspacecloud.com account which seems to have expired. The Facebook page is also pretty much dead. But if…
