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  • The Pumpkin Spice Girls by LainaStanford
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    expose' by A Rolling Stone Includes all five members of Pumpkin Spice: Cinnamon, Ginger, Clove, Nutmeg, and Allspice!
  • Geek 'n Dork by AuthorDavidBrown
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    Four total strangers. Four unusual names. Four guys who grew up as an only child. Four guarded hearts. Four lost souls. Now, four best friends. Each has lived his entire life as an isolated prisoner of a quirky identity. Together, they sense in one another a strange brotherhood. They need that and more to rise up and battle an eighteen year-old, naughty little scandalous girl, in a voter fraud fiasco that shocks New York City. Set to launch late January or early February. Brace yourself for the most fun, entertaining novel of 2012.
  • The Unfinished Tales of Afterworld: The Mortuus Terra Compendium by LordBassProshop
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    The sacred ark had been opened- God's sanctity reacted. Relish, a region of corpses, flowing a dune of cadavers. The sun, the enemy for 1,000 years in the new world of fowl. And yet, we persevere I made these short stories a while ago, planning on creating like a twilight zone-esk series but set in a post-apocalypse setting. Slowly, more and more lore would be added until a fully formed story plotline was made. Anyways, enjoy!
  • Love is a Losing Game by Rosee96
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    What starts as a chance encounter soon spirals into a dangerous game of love, lies, and betrayal. /Aaron August's long-standing loyalty to a vicious American cartel is put to the ultimate test when he is sent to recruit nineteen-year-old runaway Celine Saint-Émilion from across the pond, Witty, crass, unexpectedly tough and with motives of her own, Cel jumps at each and every opportunity possible in order to challenge Aaron's plan It is not love at first sight for the two, However, through many twists and turns on the road together, as their relationship develops gradually into something of a more intimate nature, the two must suddenly fight with their own beliefs as to achieve one common goal: To get out of the chaos they've caused unscathed, and, hopefully, Hand in hand
  • Wild and Free: The Wolf and the Princess by WildandFree125
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    Wolf and her adopted family live in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by man-eating monsters called Wilds. One day the heir of the worlds last known safe haven is flushed into her neck of the woods and she and her family set out on the impossible task of taking him back home.
  • Vicious Circle by JonLymon
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  • Wake Up the Night by KennethASilver
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    "Thought-provoking, inspired and inspiring... a choice pick for connoisseurs of nuanced literary fiction. Highly recommended."-Midwest Book Review "From the darkest corners of the human mind, to the threads of dark humor that buoy perseverance... unforgettable from cover to cover."-Small Press Bookwatch "Subdued, insightful tales of characters at dark points in their lives... Silver aptly couples sharp prose with playful narrative formats throughout this collection... There are intriguing thematic links among the tales..." -Kirkus Reviews "...incisive, searching character-driven fiction with premises that touch on science-fiction... Silver proves adept at the speculative elements... But his heart is in those lowdown characters, whose cruelty and suffering prove harrowing - Silver's people struggle to retain their humanity in a society set up to stub it out." -Booklife by Publishers Weekly This is a collection of stories, of words and ideas that flow like a dream, but is there anything less predictable or quite so fickle as a dream? Ken Silver creates narratives that are decidedly daring, and he is never afraid to reach, but never beyond the point at which (with lawyerly precision) he is unable to support his conclusions, scientifically or otherwise. Make no mistake though, it is hardly a tame piece of writing, but a rich harvest of beautifully imagined and thoroughly engrossing tales conceived by an original thinker who refuses to be shackled to curatorial conventions. Accordingly, each and every story, and the novel that follows, has a mind of their own.
  • Project Sincere by IdiosyncraticDiary
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    an introduction to Project Sincere, a collection of entries from an ordinary teen, and more importantly, me c: refer back to this text when looking for context for further entries will update when things change
  • Hawkmoth by avagrace46
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    Hawkmoth is the tale of a perfectly sane woman. She is a collector, a scientist, and a mother. Her kids are alive and well, and so is she.