David Payne

• Nov-2025
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Escape from an oncoming army is only the first step in survival for Fer and Gerd and their family. Then they must make their way into the wilderness, find a way to survive. But what if survival requires a transformation that is other-worldly? What if...

• Oct-2025
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Rita Olsen, Captain of the Wraith, is counting down the days until her retirement from Earth's Global Navy, mostly while in cryo-sleep. However, when an anomaly appears by Pluto, it is up to her and her crew to investigate and report back. What is ou...

• Jul-2025
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Inanimate objects.Figments of the imagination.A voice without a body.A spider weaving a web in a window.These anthropods - objects and animals given human-like traits and feelings - are glimpses into worlds just on the edge of our own, some of them c...

• Jun-2025
• / General Fiction
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A gripping biographical novel that chronicles the harrowing journey of a British Army officer during The Troubles in Northern Ireland, Souls Run Wild explores covert operations, personal sacrifice, and the psychological cost of war. Through firsthand...

• Nov-2024
• / General Fiction
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Nine contemporary realism stories to remind you every day is a journey, of consequence or not is up to you. Taking those everyday moments and enjoying them, being scared by them, suffering through them. Take a walk to the edge of a chasm. Trudge thro...

• Dec-2019
• / Science Fiction
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Chandler Queenan awakens from a coma caused by a car accident to find that months have passed and nothing is like it was. He is heartbroken to learn his father and brother were killed in the same accident. Inexplicably he has also woken up with psych...

• Aug-2018
• / Fantasy
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Addicted to gaming and looking for his next fix, Joe Denver hears of ultra-realistic games run by the mob underground. He finds hmself in the most popular game of them all, the zombie apocalypse game called Deadhead, with a huge money prize at sta...

• Sep-2015
• / Fantasy
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Vampires were a problem in Florencetown as far as the Hue and Cry were concerned, not in the usual blood sucking way but rather in the manner of their financial dealings with humans. It was a matter beyond the wit and ability of the Hue and Cry's wer...

• Aug-2015
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-2015
• / Fantasy
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This a story about a boy and his brother and the complexities of growing up when language and learning don't come naturally. Tom has strange dreams that creep up on him when he doesn't expect them. And these dreams don't just happen when he goes to s...

• Jan-2015
• / Fantasy
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Seagrum is a dwarf who gets things done. When the Magister of the Hue and Cry recruits him to solve a little problem that he has with vampires , it seems pretty obvious that he is going to get it sorted. The only question that there should be is how ...

• Sep-2012
• / Fantasy
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This is a curious story of self -discovery in a world dictated by random events. It is a dark comedy set in a medieval place where books are rare and the currency of learning is the spoken word. The landscape is cold and unforgiving. The people are c...

• Jul-2011
• / General Fiction
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This is the first book in a series of tales about a journey. The simplest of journeys. The journey that we all make after our expulsion from Paradise. In The Collector of Tales, this journey is well underway and we find a man of middling years at...

• Jun-2006
• / General Fiction
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Now, in his new novel, Payne introduces us to Ransom Hill, lead singer of a legendary-but-now-defunct indie rock group who has come to South Carolina to turn over a new leaf. A bighearted artist and a bit of a wild man, Ran knows that his wife Claire...

• Apr-2003
• / General Fiction
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Adam Jenrette, thirty-one and a successful Manhattan artist, has been hiding from his past for too long. When a relative's death calls him back to North Carolina, he is pulled into an intense encounter with his own eighteen-year-old self and the two ...

• Jan-2001
• / General Fiction
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This first book by the young, brilliant American writer, currently living in Paris, is an impeccable collection of stories, all of which share the innocent vision of an ethereal dreamer with the experienced craft of a master storyteller.  

These ...

• Aug-2000
• / General Fiction
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Young anthropologist Joe Madden retreats to his family's summer home on Little Roanoke on North Carolina's Outer Banks to conduct an ethnographic study of the fishermen and their families, taking a job on a fishing boat as part of his study and embar...

• Sep-1993
• / General Fiction
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In North Carolina in 1954, sweethearts May Tilley and Jimmy Madden, who wed when May gets pregnant, cope with the hardships of parenthood and medical school, as they find life changing them in unexpected and divisive ways...

• Nov-1985
• / General Fiction
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From the tranquility of an Oriental monastery to the tumult of the New York Stock Exchange, the hero of this amazing novel embarks on a quest for a father, a fortune, and the ultimate essence of the universe. The illegitimate son of a Chinese woman a...

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