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Lonnie stops at his favorite watering hole for a beer as he usually does after a hard day and today was very hard so he really looks forward to enjoying his drink in peace e. But, a mysterious man named John arrives seeking conversation. Lonnie’s job is as high priest for the creatures and demons from hell who live among us and John has an unusual and dangerous request.
Welcome to a bar everyone knows you're immortal.
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Amanda Dark has an unusual gift. She sees and communicates with the spirits of the dead. Not just any spirits, those who are unable to cross over to their final destination.
Amanda greatest challenge is to discover why these spirits have been unable to cross over and must solve the mystery, so the spirit is freed of their earthly existence.
Too often the solution leads to the unexpected and the darkest corners of people's lives to reveal truths...
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Trevor Watkins writes coffee table books, but now he faces his biggest project yet. A coffee table book about coffee!
Problem: everyone he talks to has a different opinion of the perfect cup. Finally he discovers Almost, Oregon, a mysterious town where rumor has it there exists the best coffee in the world.
Trevor journeys to Almost and discovers more than the perfect cup. Much more.
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From modern tales involving myths re-told, to trips to the far future where the end of the world is imminent, to an alternate reality where a jetpack-wearing hero fights for truth and justice.
Other tales include a vampire and an elf vanquishing evil thus saving the worlds they inhabit.
A remarkable collection of exciting stories guaranteed to thrill you.
Stories included:
War Eagle
Captain Virtue and the League of Evil
The Beast of Cadboro Bay
Dark...
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Partners can make strange bedfellows, especially when they're your mother. James thought he had seen it all after he and his partner started The Eliminators Paranormal Investigative Service. When the ghost of his estranged mother shows up asking him to kill her things go from strange to downright weird. A strange tale of a ghost seeking closure, and the son who must decide to help.
6) Mind Readers
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Vancouver Police Department officers, Peter "Pumpkin" Jones and Arnie "Slant" Slantosky are assigned to investigate the mysterious disappearance of several sanitation workers. Pumpkin and Slant head into the sewage treatment plan tunnels in search of the missing workers. They discover a doorway to an underground city populated by a strange lost race and a deadly conspiracy threatening to engulf the entire world in chaos.
Prepare yourself for a journey...
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Wizards work for large corporations. Now a murdered corporate wizard begins an investigation by Detective Owlen Vay of the Ye Olde Vancouver PD. When Owlen calls in PI Rex Filagree (his oldest friend) to assist in the investigation, they travel the mystical world of corporate sorcery to find a killer.
A world where wizards, magic, and murder mix, and the guilty always pay.
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In Degenerate City there is only one private dick that hunts the names on the naughty list. Christmas Elf Cheerful Baby Vickers, C.B. Vickers to her enemies and Vickers to friends and coworkers, cleans up the streets to safeguard the integrity of the lists.
When a new case draws her into murder and conspiracy Vickers must uncover the truth and bring a killer to justice to complete her investigation.
Teaming with her sometime partner, DPD homicide...
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At the age of eight Charley Ispaymilt of the Lekwungen first nation meets a mythical sea creature named Robert who appears in the waters off Cadboro Bay near Victoria, British Columbia. Charley is startled to discover the creature speaks his tribes language. A friendship ensues as Robert begins to reveal to the boy the shortly of his people. As the decades pass and Charley grows to manhood he is unaware of the influence this mythic creature has on...
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