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10 best books like After Hours: Tales from the Ur-Bar (Joshua Palmatier): And Only to Deceive, Heartstone, Awakening, Dark Magick, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, A School for Unusual Girls, Sideways on a Scooter: Life and Love in India, The Winning Hand, The Coven, The Mammoth Book of Apocalyptic SF

And Only to Deceive
AuthorTasha Alexander
From gifted new writer Tasha Alexander comes a stunning novel of historical suspense set in Victorian England, meticulously researched and with a twisty plot that involves stolen antiquities, betrayal, and murder

And Only to Deceive

For Emily, accepting the proposal of Philip,...
Heartstone
AuthorElle Katharine White
A debut historical fantasy that recasts Jane Austen’s beloved Pride & Prejudice in an imaginative world of wyverns, dragons, and the warriors who fight alongside them against the monsters that threaten the kingdom: gryphons, direwolves, lamias, banshees, and lindworms.

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Awakening
AuthorCate Tiernan
ISBN0142300454
I have got to admit that a decent amount of this book is predictable but I find myself not caring too much. These audiobooks are so easy to fly through and the story is pretty decent. It's not a literary masterpiece but it's a really cool supernatural witchy series and I'm enjoying the heck outta it.

The...
Dark Magick
AuthorCate Tiernan
ISBN0141311126

This was an okay story although the pace made it drag a bit, even though it wasn’t very long. We got some real revelations about Cal in this book, and this pair ended this book in a very different place to where they started it. I always thought that (view spoiler)[ Cal’s mother was dodgy, but I didn’t...
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
AuthorT.S. Eliot
ISBN0151686564
T.S. Eliot is known for masterworks of poetry like The Waste Land, but somehow also the author of this delightful collection of cat poems. The full book consists of 15 very short poems, most of which describe a distinct personality of cat. There's the cat who can never be pleased, for example, the thieving...
A School for Unusual Girls
AuthorKathleen Baldwin
ISBN0765376008
Welcome to Stranje House.

It’s 1814. Napoleon is exiled on Elba. Europe is in shambles. Britain is at war on four fronts. And Stranje House, a School for Unusual Girls, has become one of Regency England’s dark little secrets. The daughters of the beau monde who don’t fit high society’s...
Sideways on a Scooter: Life and Love in India
AuthorMiranda Kennedy
ISBN1400067863
When twentysomething reporter Miranda Kennedy leaves her job in New York City and travels to India with no employment prospects, she longs to immerse herself in the turmoil and excitement of a rapidly developing country. What she quickly learns in Delhi about renting an apartment as a single woman—it’s...
The Winning Hand
AuthorNora Roberts
ISBN0373239955
"Did you say I won almost two million dollars?" Running away from her former life and her controlling fiance, Darcy Wallace was down to her last ten dollars. And in the bright lights of a Las Vegas casino, Darcy gambled and won! Suddenly the small-town girl was big news - and in need of protection. Robert...
The Coven
AuthorCate Tiernan
ISBN0142409871
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Morgan is a blood witch with strong magickal powers and a personal tie to witchcraft. After Samhain, she and Cal become a couple and, as a result, she finds herself targeted by her former friend, Bree. Aside...
The Mammoth Book of Apocalyptic SF
AuthorMike Ashley
ISBN1849013055
There have been full of stories of one or other possible Armageddon, whether by nuclear war, plague, cosmic catastrophe or, more recently, global warming, terrorism, genetic engineering, AIDS and other pandemics. These stories describe the fall of civilization, the destruction of the entire Earth,...
The Accidental Alchemist
AuthorGigi Pandian
ISBN0738741841
A modern tale of ancient intrigue from a USA Today bestselling author

When Zoe Faust--herbalist, alchemist, and recent transplant to Portland, Oregon--begins unpacking her bags, she can't help but notice she's picked up a stow away: a living, breathing, three-and-half-foot gargoyle....
Typewriter in the Sky
AuthorL. Ron Hubbard
ISBN0884049345
Lauded by authors and critics alike as a work of trend-setting importance in modern speculative fiction, Typewriter in the Sky is an extravaganza of vivid action/adventure and dazzling fantasy.Pianist Mike de Wolf suddenly finds himself the main character in a resounding adventure story of danger...
Sleight of Paw
AuthorSofie Kelly
ISBN0451234537
Small-town librarian Kathleen Paulson never wanted to be the crazy cat lady. But after Owen and Hercules followed her home, she realized her mind wasn't playing tricks on her-her cats have magical abilities.When the body of elderly do-gooder Agatha Shepherd is found near Kath's favorite local café,...
The Golden Ball and Other Stories
AuthorAgatha Christie
ISBN0312981694
Is it a gesture of good will or a sinister trap that lures Rupert St. Vincent and his family to magnificent estate? How desperate is Joyce Lambert, a destitute young widow whose only recourse is to marry a man she despises? What unexpected circumstance stirs old loyalties in Theodora Darrell, and unfaithful...
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