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Fiction
Fiction is the telling of stories which are not real. More specifically, fiction is an imaginative form of narrative, one of the four basic rhetorical modes. Although the word fiction is derived from the Latin fingo, fingere, finxi, fictum, "to form, create", works of fiction need not be entirely imaginary and may include real people, places, and events. Fiction may be either written or oral. Although not all fiction is necessarily artistic, fiction is largely perceived as a form of art or entertainment. The ability to create fiction and other artistic works is considered to be a fundamental a
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Devil's Call
by J. Danielle Dorn (Goodreads Author)
by J. Danielle Dorn (Goodreads Author)
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date: Jul 18, 2017
A pregnant witch in the Old West hunts down the possessed man who killed her husband. Enter for a chance to win one of five advance copies of DEVIL'S
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Giveaway dates: May 15 - Jun 05, 2017
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Bad Disciples: The Pie Night Chronicles
by Tiffany Kaye Chartier (Goodreads Author)
by Tiffany Kaye Chartier (Goodreads Author)
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date: Apr 04, 2017
Bad Disciples: The Pie Night Chronicles is not your typical pie-in-the-sky (pun intended) Christian novel.
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The Deceit Birds
by Gavin Eyers (Goodreads Author)
by Gavin Eyers (Goodreads Author)
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date: Dec 22, 2016
Enter for the chance to win a signed copy of The Deceit Birds, a spooky tale set in Blackheath, London.
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Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
Author of The Fact of a Body
Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich is the author of THE FACT OF A BODY: A Murder and a Memoir, which will be published by Flatiron Books (Macmillan) in May 2017. It is also forthcoming from publishers internationally. A National Endowment for the Arts fellow and Rona Jaffe Award recipient, she has twice been a fellow at both MacDowell and Yaddo. Her essays appear in The New York Times, Oxford American, Iowa Review, and many other publications, and were recognized “notable” in Best American Essays 2013, 2015, and 2016.
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― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
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