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Fred's a mermaid. She's also a marine biologist, and doesn't sit on a rock combing her long ocean-blue hair (to match her eyes)....

Julie Sultana - scarred by her parents disastrous marriage - is Belfast's premier wedding planner: no detail is too small, no scheme too...

Alice Williams is here to help us with etiquette for the 21st century - from how to introduce a new partner to your particular kink ("i...

Waking suspended from a breadfruit tree on a tropical island, evidently a snack on hold for a group of cannibals, Tucker Case reflects on th...

Car accident patient Faith Parker has done the incredible - after six weeks in a profound coma she's woken up, astonishing her doctors. ...

Investigative reporter Weiner has combined the story of his mother's gradual decline from Lewy body dementia, a rare and only recently i...

A group of friends drag out a Ouija board looking for a bit of Halloween fun. What they get is the spirit of a suspected serial killer shot ...

Psychologist Alex Delaware and his LAPD Detective friend Milo Sturgis are embroiled in another case, where seemingly random and disparate el...

A woman left destitute when her husband disappeared in the Civil War opens her ancestral home in New Orleans as a boarding house. Receiving ...

Louise is the psychiatrist as Sloatsburg women’s prison. New to the role, newly divorced and sharing custody of her eight-year-old son with ...

Five friends meet two years after one took off for the Peace Corps as a way of breaking up with a boyfriend. Jess is staying with a handsome...

A vampire is terrorising the neighbourhood and a shapeshifter is asked by a vampire friend to help him pull the renegade into line. It was m...

In his 22nd outing, former FBI agent Gregor Demarkian ("the Armenian Hercule Poirot") and heiress/FSF writer and Bennis Hannafor...

This "astonishing compendium from the master of origins, customs and beliefs" is undoubtably informative and full of interesting m...

Pulitzer- Capa-Award winning photojournalist Jordan Glass, who follows in the footsteps of her revered father, MIA in Vietnam, comes across ...

Boulder psychologist Alan Gregory has a lot on his plate - his marriage is shaky but viable, and he and Lauren are working on integrating Jo...

When struck down by shingles a woman postpones her wedding for the third time and travels to the country to housesit for a distant relative ...

Offred remembers her life before, when women had parity, could do what they wanted, own things, and dress the way they chose. But in the Rep...

In an alternate universe, chimpanzees developed as the dominant species and humans are relegated to test subjects, zoo exhibits, and are obs...

More autobiographical, and less funny (though still comedic in parts) than the rest of his (already autobiographical) work, The Life and Tim...

Two partially disfigured bodies are discovered lying in a shallow pit. The rather inept attempt at burning the bodies is compounded by the f...

Accompanying Auditor Professor Vorthys, Miles goes to Komarr to investigate a serious incident of sabotage. The Auditors stay with Professor...

This is the fourth book in the Madonna Key series. When an epidemiologist with a gift for healing is sent to investigate an outbreak of a de...

During a combat mission Miles has a seizure and, as he was holding a laser set to fire, amputates the legs of the courier he was sent to res...

Mark, masquerading as Miles, raids Jackson's Whole with the aid of the Derendarii Mercenaries to free the clones that will otherwise be ...

Market gardener Perdita Dylan is wholly unprepared for the sight she discovers when making a delivery to the kitchen of one of her customers...

A teenager returning to her family home after living with her nomadic mother discovers that the fairies of her childhood memories are not th...

Subtitled Coming Out From the Silence , this 1994 collection of young adult short stories covers an array of gay and lesbian (not so much bi...

Chris and Mig have been plagued by their father's Aunt Maria ever since his car plunged over a cliff when he was on his way to visit her...

Tom Jericho is brought to the attention of the world when a spider-like alien who walked up to the main enterance of the Royal Ontario Museu...