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This book is about an assassin named Delia. Because of her profession, she must live a double life. In her civilian life, she is a high-powered lawyer with a loving and extremely understanding husband. In her professional life, she is an accomplished assassin for a secret organization that only kills bad guys. Upon finishing a job, she learns that her last target was actually a good person, causing her to start to question her career and the intentions of the company she works for. So, when she receives her next assignment, she wants to be sure that this guy actually should be killed.

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Under Brambles is a collection of very short stories and a few poems that explore little snippets of a character's life. A wide range of situations are covered, and each story is unique and examines situations from the point of view of very different characters.

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Restart: Book 2 is an adventure focusing on a teenager named Ulysses, who along with his two friends (Max and Xavier), is trying to help Max's dad with ending the technological apocalypse that occurred in the previous book. The story begins in space, where the last book ended. Max and her dad have a plan to quickly get back to Earth and hopefully foil what Queen Eve (who also happens to be Max's mom) has in store for Earth and the rest of the humans left there.

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This story is about a man named Vole who finds out his wife is dying, and soon. As he is getting some of her belongings together, he discovers an ability to stop time. Most of the book occurs while time is stopped, and Vole uses this extra time to try to give his wife, Bay, what he now wishes he could have given to her while they still had more time together. Meanwhile, he also reflects on his life with Bay and the choices he's made along the way.

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Decker Brown and the Monster Club is about a nerdy group of friends who live in a small town and have to deal with normal small town occurrences like bullies and walking by themselves through the quiet and safe neighborhood at all hours. After finding out that his family might have to move out of town, Decker decides he wants to have an actual adventure, which comes in the form of exploring the dangerous, boarded-up cave that the adults warn them not to go into. As Decker ropes his friends into getting involved with his questionable scheme, weird things start happening.



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