The Monster and the Magpie

The Monster and the Magpie
Author: Brianna Fenty
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2023-04-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1504085450

She supplies the goods and services that killers need. And in that line of work, the last thing you want is a dissatisfied customer . . . Hope Rippa may look like your average fashionista, but a dark secret bankrolls her luxury lifestyle. Although she might appear a legitimate businesswoman by day, after dark Hope serves as a personal shopper to some of Europe’s wealthiest murderers. You name it, she’ll find it—and charge a hefty sum for the convenience. She didn’t plan to marry one, though. Fifteen years ago, her engagement with prison chaplain Killian Glass ended after she discovered that he moonlighted as a murderer. Since then, their relationship has been strictly professional. In fact, he’s even her best client. Their arrangement works—that is, until Hope makes a mistake and Killian changes the rules. Now, a gruesome game of cat-and-mouse is about to be played in the never-ending night of Iceland’s northern winter . . . But who will come out on top? This literary thriller is perfect for fans of the TV Series Killing Eve and will keep you hooked right until the last page. This book contains reference to drug use, violence, and sex.

Moose and Magpie

Moose and Magpie
Author: Bettina Restrepo
Publisher: Sylvan Dell Publishing
Total Pages: 18
Release: 2009
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1607180626

Moose's friend Magpie tells jokes that help him find his way as he grows antlers, migrates, and then loses his antlers. Includes facts about moose.

The Murder Loop

The Murder Loop
Author: Ben Barnes
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2023-07-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1504086600

She’s trained to stop killers. He’s trained to be one. And they’re set to collide with potentially lethal consequences . . . Following personal trauma, Kate “Cass” Cassidy has resigned from the detective squad and retreated to her hometown on Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way to work a community policing beat. But to Cass’s dismay, her new boss immediately assigns her to an unsolved case—a murder with no clear suspects and few leads. At the same time, her colleagues are chasing a marauding gang committing violent burglaries in the region. When an elderly farmer is killed and his property ransacked, the evidence points in only one direction—until a former US soldier, Mason Brady, walks into the local station and sets the investigation on a startling new path. What neither Cass nor Brady realize is the extent to which their actions will cause both cases to overlap and see them become each other’s greatest threat. What links a scenic Irish tourist town to these crimes, to a daring international bank raid, and to Brady’s past? Is Brady an ally or an enemy? Who’s doing the hunting, and who’s being hunted? To find the answers, Cass will have to follow a path that leads her to the darkest of places . . .

A Forthcoming Wizard

A Forthcoming Wizard
Author: Jody Lynn Nye
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 431
Release: 2009-04-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1429936185

Halfling Tildi Summerbee led a typical, unexciting life, tending the house for her brothers while they managed the family farm...until she was forced to assume the identity of her recently deceased brother and accept his position as apprentice to a great wizard. Now she is on an important quest where the lessons of her apprenticeship pale in comparison to those learned in life-or-death situations. She has become the guardian of a very special book that can alter everything in existence... a race of centaurs gone with an editor's pen, a mountain range flattened with a revised rune, and life as Tildi has known it changed in the blink of an eye. Gone are her preconceptions of society and order. Gone are her trusting ways and belief in her superiors' honesty. But also gone is the shrinking violet smallfolk who masqueraded as a boy to secure an apprenticeship. Tildi has changed too, and she realizes that the fate of the world rests in her hands. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Oxford Studies in Metaphysics Volume 13

Oxford Studies in Metaphysics Volume 13
Author: Karen Bennett
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2023-02-23
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0192886037

Much of the most interesting work in philosophy today is metaphysical in character. Oxford Studies in Metaphysics is a forum for the best new work in this flourishing field. OSM offers a broad view of the subject, featuring not only the traditionally central topics such as existence, identity, modality, time, and causation, but also the rich clusters of metaphysical questions in neighbouring fields, such as philsophy of mind and philosophy of science. Besides independent essays, volumes will often contain a critical essay on a recent book, or a symposium that allows participants to respond to one another's criticisms and questions. Anyone who wants to know what's happening in metaphysics can start here.

The Magpie's Child

The Magpie's Child
Author: Susan Foti Engelken
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2003-11-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1411603044

A tale about a family, both dysfuntional and divine, who destroyed the boundaries between God and Man.

If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe

If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe
Author: Jason Pargin
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2022-10-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1250195845

New York Times bestselling author Jason Pargin’s hilarious and horrifying John Dies at the End series continues with If This Book Exists, You’re in the Wrong Universe. "Pargin once again delights with scathing social commentary thinly disguised as an outrageous action novel...This is a feast."—Publishers Weekly "Within the snarky humor is an incisive commentary on social media and the state of our connected world, and a story about trauma and how people lash out when they’re hurt...This isn’t just a funny tale of inept supernatural investigators; it’s a story of people struggling through pain to find a better path. Pargin offers us a welcome note of hope." — Booklist If the broken neon signs, shuttered storefronts, and sub-standard housing didn’t tip you off, you’ve just wandered into the city of “Undisclosed”. You don’t want to be caught dead here, because odds are you just might find yourself rising from the grave. That hasn’t stopped tourists from visiting to check out the unusual phenomena that hangs around our town like radioactive fallout. Interdimensional parasites feeding on human hosts, paranormal cults worshipping demonic entities, vengeful teenage sorcerers, we’ve got it all. Did I mention the possessed toy? It’s a plastic football-sized egg that’s supposed to hatch an adorable, colorful stuffed bird when a child “feeds” it through a synchronized smartphone app. What’s actually inside is an otherworldly monstrosity that’s enticing impressionable wayward youth into murdering folks and depositing their body parts inside the egg as if it’s a hungry piggy bank to trigger the end of the world. That’s where Dave, John, and Amy come in. They face supernatural threats so the rest of us don’t have to—and sometimes even earn a couple of bucks to so do. But between the bloody ritual sacrifices and soul-crushing nightmares, our trio realizes this apocalypse is way above their pay grade.

FoolBud

FoolBud
Author: Swonild Ilenia Genovese
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 38
Release: 2011-05-05
Genre:
ISBN: 1447704371

A timeless tale for adults and children that you can tell the night watching the stars or that you can read under the shade of a tree in a summer afternoon.

The Grimmelings

The Grimmelings
Author: Rachael King
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2024-05-09
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1916558267

The same evening Josh Underhill went missing, the black horse appeared on the hill above the house. Ella knows that words are powerful. So she should have known better than to utter a wish and a curse on the same day. Who is Gus, the boy with the impish grin, who seems to appear in answer to her wish? And what does the black horse want? When Ella finds that her grandmother's warnings of creatures that dwell in the lake are more than just stories, she and her pony Magpie are drawn into a dangerous, life-saving mission.