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The Ultimate Book Club: 180 Books You Should Read (Vol.1)

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This summer, during these strange strange times, immerse yourself in words that have touched all of us and will always get to the core of all of us, of every single person. Books that have made us think, change, relate, cry and laugh: Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman) Siddhartha (Herman Hesse) Middlemarch (George Eliot) The Madman (Kahlil Gibran) Ward No. 6 (Anton Chekhov) Moby-Dick (Herman Melville) The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde) Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky) The Overcoat (Gogol) Ulysses (James Joyce) Walden (Henry David Thoreau) Hamlet (Shakespeare) Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare) Macbeth (Shakespeare) The Waste Land (T. S. Eliot) Odes (John Keats) The Flowers of Evil (Charles Baudelaire) Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë) Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy) Vanity Fair (Thackeray) Swann's Way (Marcel Proust) Sons and Lovers (D. H. Lawrence) Great Expectations (Charles Dickens) Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy) Two Years in the Forbidden City (Princess Der Ling) Les Misérables (Victor Hugo) The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas) Pepita Jimenez (Juan Valera) The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane) A Room with a View (E. M. Forster) Sister Carrie (Theodore Dreiser) The Jungle (Upton Sinclair) The Republic (Plato) Meditations (Marcus Aurelius) Art of War (Sun Tzu) Candide (Voltaire) Don Quixote (Cervantes) Decameron (Boccaccio) Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Dream Psychology (Sigmund Freud) The Einstein Theory of Relativity The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Agatha Christie) A Study in Scarlet (Arthur Conan Doyle) Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad) The Call of Cthulhu (H. P. Lovecraft) Frankenstein (Mary Shelley) The War of the Worlds (H. G.

Cozy Sidekicks

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Sidekicks can play such an important part in mysteries. Where would Sherlock be without Dr. Watson? Or Nero Wolfe without Archie Goodwin? Though the main character may not consider the sidekick an equal partner, every person is the hero of their own story. Collected here are stories from the sidekick’s point of view. Because, after all, they might be the star of the show. Issue 11 of Mystery, Crime, and Mayhem presents Cozy Sidekicks. So Criminal, it’s Good.

The Little Regiment

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The title story tells of two brothers in an unnamed Federal regiment during an unnamed battle (well, it starts marching along a river in the fog, crossing a pontoon bridge, going up through a partially ruined town, and the next day assaulting Confederate forces heavily entrenched on the Heights behind the town). It was as a result of that fight that the unit took for themselves the name "The Little Regiment".

Una cena perfecta

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Una novela sobre los sueños y los cambios, con un toque de magia.En algún momento de la vida, alguien nos preguntará quiénes son las cinco personas más importantes de nuestra vida.O quizás, como le pasó a Sabrina, tu mejor amiga te haga escribir en un papel con qué cinco personas te gustaría cenar dentro de muchos años, cuando cumplas treinta, por ejemplo. ¿Por qué escogemos a ciertas personas y no a otras? ¿Y qué ocurriría si finalmente esa velada tuviera lugar?Cuando Sabrina llega a la celebración de su treinta cumpleaños, descubre que no va a cenar solo con su mejor amiga, sino también con tres personas muy importantes de su pasado y, además, con Audrey Hepburn. Son los cinco nombres que, muchos años atrás, Sabrina escribió en aquella nota.Deliciosasin caer en la indulgencia, dulce, pero con una pequeña dosis de sabor amargo, Una cena perfecta es un maravilloso melodrama que, sin duda, abrirá el apetito de los lectores.Buen provecho.La crítica ha dicho:«Un cuento agridulce sobre el amor, la pérdida y la posibilidad de conservar bonitos recuerdos.»Kirkus

50 Masterpieces of Occult & Supernatural Fiction Vol. 1

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This volume contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors’ last names: Asquith, Cynthia: “The Corner Shop” Benson, E. F.: “Caterpillars” Benson, E. F.: “The Face” Bierce, Ambrose: “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” Bierce, Ambrose: “The Middle Toe of the Right Foot” Blackwood, Algernon: “The Willows” Bowen, Marjorie: “Scoured Silk” Braddon, M. E.: “The Shadow in the Corner” Burke, Thomas: “The Hands of Mr. Ottermole” Burrage, A. M.: “Smee” Burrage, A. M.: “The Sweeper” Chambers, Robert W.: “The Repairer of Reputations” Cobb, Irvin S.: “Fishhead” Crawford, F. Marion: “The Screaming Skull” Daubeny, Ulric: “The Sumach” Dickens, Charles: “The Signal-Man” Doyle, Arthur Conan: “The Case of Lady Sannox” Dunsany, Lord: “Distressing Tale of Thangobrind the Jeweler” Edwards: Amelia B.: “The Four-Fifteen Express” Edwards, Amelia B.: “The Phantom Coach” Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins: “Luella Miller” Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins: “The Shadows on the Wall” Harvey, W. F.: “Across the Moors” Harvey, W. F.: “The Beast with Five Fingers” Hawthorne, Nathaniel: “The Ambitious Guest” Hawthorne, Nathaniel: “Young Goodman Brown” Hichens, Robert: “How Love Came to Professor Guildea” Hodgson, William Hope: “The Shamraken Homeward-Bounder” Jacobs, W. W.: “The Monkey’s Paw” James, Henry: “The Turn of the Screw” James, M. R.: “Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad” James, M. R.: “The Treasure of Abbot Thomas” Kafka, Franz: “In the Penal Colony” Keller, David H.: “The Thing in the Cellar” Kuttner, Henry: “The Graveyard Rats” Le Fanu, J. Sheridan: “Carmilla” Lovecraft, H. P.: “At the Mountains of Madness” Lovecraft, H. P.: “The Shadow Over Innsmouth” Lovecraft, H. P.: “The Call of Cthulhu” Machen, Arthur: “The Great God Pan” Nesbit, Edith: “The Shadow” O’Sullivan, Vincent: “When I Was Dead” Poe, Edgar Allan: “The Pit and the Pendulum” Poe, Edgar Allan: “The Tell-Tale Heart” Preston, Guy: “The Inn” Ronan, Margaret: “Finger Finger” Saki: “Gabriel-Ernest” Saki: “The Open Window” Steele, Wilbur Daniel: “The Woman at Seven Brothers” Stevenson, Robert Louis: “The Body-Snatcher”

The Year of the Cat: A Cat of Fantastic Whims

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Most cats pursue the business of their lives in ways both fantastic and whimsical.In this entertaining volume of stories, cats perform as muses, inhabit fairy tales, consort with ghosts and zombies, and one cat even reigns as fantasy queen.Enter the fantastic world of whimsical cats and enjoy!Includes:"Searching for the Familiar" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch"Speechless in Seattle" by Lisa Silverthorne"Queen of the Mouse Riders" by Annie Reed"The Kingdom of Cats and Birds" by Geoffrey Landis"Cat Leading the Way" by Dean Wesley Smith"A Powerful Friend" by E. Nesbit"Clyde and the Ghost Cat" by Jamie Ferguson "Dead Fred" by Liz Pierce"Un-Familiar" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

The Best of Us

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From the Bestselling Author of the hit Netflix series, Virgin River!In Sullivan’s Crossing, #1 New York Times bestselling author Robyn Carr has created a place where good people, powerful emotions, great humor and a healthy dose of common sense are the key ingredients to a happy life. Sullivan’s Crossing brings out the best in people. It’s a place you’ll want to visit again and again.Dr. Leigh Culver loves practicing medicine in Timberlake, Colorado. It is a much-needed change of pace from her stressful life in Chicago. The only drawback is she misses her aunt Helen, the woman who raised her. But it’s time that Leigh has her independence, and she hopes the beauty of the Colorado wilderness will entice her aunt to visit often.Helen Culver is an independent woman who lovingly raised her sister’s orphaned child. Now, with Leigh grown, it’s time for her to live life for herself. The retired teacher has become a successful mystery writer who loves to travel and intends to never experience winter again.When Helen visits Leigh, she is surprised to find her niece still needs her, especially when it comes to sorting out her love life. But the biggest surprise comes when Leigh takes Helen out to Sullivan’s Crossing and Helen finds herself falling for the place and one special person. Helen and Leigh will each have to decide if they can open themselves up to love neither expected to find and seize the opportunity to live their best lives.

Aesop's Fables - Volume 01

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Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Though almost nothing is known of Aesop himself, and some scholars question whether he existed at all, these stories stand as timeless classics known in almost every culture in the world. This is volume 1 of 12.

Aesop's Fables - Volume 03

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The Magna Carta

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John, by the grace of God King of England, Lord of Ireland, Duke of Normandy and Aquitaine, and Count of Anjou, to his archbishops, bishops, abbots, earls, barons, justices, foresters, sheriffs, stewards, servants, and to all his officials and loyal subjects, Greeting.

El Rey Peste

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Uno de los cuentos más destacados del escritor clásico Edgar Allan Poe.

The Christmas Bouquet

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When it comes to family and Christmas, #1 New York Times bestselling author Sherryl Woods always looks to the O'Briens for a little holiday magic. For the very driven medical student Caitlyn Winters, catching the bridal bouquet at a Christmas wedding has set off a chain reaction that she's sure is more curse than blessing. Not only has she fallen in love with family medicine resident Noah McIlroy, but an unexpected pregnancy threatens her well-laid plans for the future. It doesn't help that Noah—with a whole lot of help from Caitlyn's O'Brien relatives—is completely on board with the prospect of marriage and happily-ever-after. It takes a whole lot of patience, love and family persuasion to help Caitlyn realize that she can still have everything she ever wanted, including a home in her beloved Chesapeake Shores and a man who understands all her dreams.

90 Masterpieces You Must Read (Vol.1)

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Invest your time in reading the true masterpieces of world literature, the greatest works by the masters of their craft, the revolutionary works, the timeless classics and the eternally moving storylines every person should experience in their lifetime: Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman) Siddhartha (Herman Hesse) Middlemarch (George Eliot) The Madman: His Parables and Poems (Kahlil Gibran) Ward No. 6 (Anton Chekhov) Moby-Dick (Herman Melville) The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde) Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky) The Overcoat (Gogol) Ulysses (James Joyce) Walden (Henry David Thoreau) Hamlet (Shakespeare) Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare) Macbeth (Shakespeare) The Waste Land (T. S. Eliot) Odes (John Keats) The Flowers of Evil (Charles Baudelaire) Ivanhoe (Sir Walter Scott) Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe) Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) Emma (Jane Austen) Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë) Lorna Doone (R.D. Blackmore) The Lady of the Camellias (Alexandre Dumas) Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy) Vanity Fair (Thackeray) Dangerous Liaisons (De Laclos) The Mill on the Floss (George Eliot) Dona Perfecta (Benito Pérez Galdós) Swann's Way (Marcel Proust) Sons and Lovers (D. H. Lawrence) David Copperfield (Charles Dickens) Great Expectations (Charles Dickens) Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy) The Wings of the Dove (Henry James) The History of a Scoundrel or Bel-Ami (Guy de Maupassant) Two Years in the Forbidden City (Princess Der Ling) Les Misérables (Victor Hugo) The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas) Pepita Jimenez (Juan Valera) The Way We Live Now (Anthony Trollope) The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane) A Room with a View (E. M. Forster) Sister Carrie (Theodore Dreiser) The Blazing World (Margaret Cavendish) The Jungle (Upton Sinclair) The Republic (Plato) The Golden Ass (Apuleius) Meditations (Marcus Aurelius) Art of War (Sun Tzu) Candide (Voltaire) Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes) Decameron (Giovanni Boccaccio) Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Frederick Douglass) Dream Psychology (Sigmund Freud) The Einstein Theory of Relativity by H. A. Lorentz The Science of Being Well (Wallace D. Wattles) As a Man Thinketh (James Allen) The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Agatha Christie) A Study in Scarlet (Arthur Conan Doyle) The Sign of Four (Arthur Conan Doyle) Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad) The Call of Cthulhu (H. P. Lovecraft) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Washington Irving) Frankenstein (Mary Shelley) The War of the Worlds (H. G. Wells) The Raven (Edgar Allan Poe) The Black Cat (Edgar Allan Poe) The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (L. Frank Baum) Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson) The Wonderful Adventures of Nils Holgersson (Selma Lagerlöf) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain) The Call of the Wild (Jack London) White Fang (Jack London) Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Jules Verne) Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll) The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett) A Little Princess (Frances Hodgson Burnett) The Jungle Book (Rudyard Kipling) Tarzan of the Apes (Edgar Rice Burroughs) The Complete Fairytales of Brothers Grimm The Complete Fairytales of Hans Christian Andersen Pygmalion (George Bernard Shaw) Botchan (Soseki Natsume) The Sorrows of Young Werther (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

The Memoirs of Wild Bill Hickok

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Wild Bill Hickok was a celebrity before there ever was a Hollywood. And he was dead before he was forty.Now Richard Matheson, Spur Award-winning author of Journal of the Gun Years, delves into the life and times of James Butler Hickok . . . gunfighter, U.S. marshal, legend. The cruelty that turned him violent. The fears that drove him. And the historic events that cause his name to live on more than century later.A compelling vision of the man behind the myth--and an unforgettable journey into the American frontier.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Lunes de fiel

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Peut-on échapper à la monotonie du couple ? Esquiver l'ennui par l'adoration, la lassitude par l'érotisme ? Telle est la question implicite que se posent les personnages de ce roman à bord du paquebot qui, dans les derniers jours de l'année 1979, les mène de Marseille à Istanbul. Le récit que l'un d'entre eux, Franz, fait à un autre voyageur, Didier, de ses amours avec une certaine Rebecca, également présente, sert de fil conducteur à leurs interrogations. Récit dont l'enjeu caché ne manquera pas d'infléchir à son tour les relations du voyageur et de sa compagne, Béatrice, avec laquelle il part en Inde pour s'évader d'une existence d'enseignants trop bien réglée. Double histoire et d'une déchéance amoureuse et d'un huis clos à l'intérieur d'un navire, Lunes de fiel est avant tout un roman de la cruauté. Des êtres en proie au désemploi de soi y cèdent à la fascination du bonheur dans la haine. Lunes de fiel, on l'aura compris, c'est l'autre face de notre rêve contemporain d'euphorie obligatoire, c'est la mise en scène des impasses de la vie privée dès lors qu'elle se replie sur elle-même et succombe sous le poids de sa propre frivolité.

Wszystko, co ukrywamy

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Podczas porządków w domu rodzinnym Beth Walsh znajduje ukryty dziennik dawno zmarłej matki. Nie może wyjść z szoku. Okazuje się, że kobieta wcale nie zginęła w wypadku samochodowym, jak myślały jej dzieci. Beth i jej rodzeństwo byli całe życie okłamywani przez ojca. Co takiego musiało się wydarzyć, że nigdy nie wyjawił prawdy o swojej żonie? Kilkadziesiąt lat wcześniej pani Walsh z przerażeniem odkrywa, że jest w kolejnej ciąży. Szuka dla siebie pomocy, ale żyje w czasach nieprzyjaznych kobietom. Jest jednak bardzo zdesperowana...Kelly Rimmer stworzyła trzymającą w napięciu powieś, w której oddaje głos kobietom z dwóch pokoleń. Czy zmagania w poszukiwaniu prawdy o przeszłości pomogą rozwikłać rodzinną tajemnicę?Powyższy opis pochodzi od wydawcy.

A Family Affair

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Beach Reads Add this page-turner to your beach reads list!Life’s biggest dilemmas can provide its sweetest rewards Anna McNichol knows how to take charge. Raised by a single mother, she’s worked to ensure her three children have every advantage she didn’t. And while her marriage has its problems, she values commitment and believes in "till death do us part." Now an empty nester, she’s at the peak of her career and ready to seize the opportunity to focus on her future. But life can change in an instant, and when her husband dies suddenly, Anna’s carefully constructed world falls apart. The mysterious young woman at the memorial service confirms her husband had been keeping secrets, and Anna is determined to get to the truth. For once, she doesn’t have the answers. Her kids are struggling with their grief, her mother’s health is in decline and Anna needs closure. Faced with one challenge after another, she finds support from an unexpected source. And as she puts her life back together, Anna realizes the McNichols may not be perfect but they’ll always be family, and family is forever.

Predator: Eyes of the Demon

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A brand-new anthology with fifteen exclusive short stories offering taut and dramatic tales set on Earth and in dark reaches of space, featuring the ultimate hunters, the Yautja—also also known as Predators. The diverse lineup of authors includes Stephen Graham Jones, Linda Addison, Jonathan Maberry, Scott Sigler, Peter Briggs, and many more.Fifteen original, never-before-seen short stories set in the expanded Predator universe from the first film, featuring the ultimate hunters, the Yautja from the movie Predator. Set in the recent past, the present, and the future, these edge-of-your-seat adventures by many of today's top SF and horror authors take place on Earth and in the dark, unforgiving reaches of space. The diverse, multi-ethnic group of authors includes New York Times bestsellers, Stoker Award winners, and acclaimed contributors to the Alien and Predator universes. Included in this volume are Native American award-winning horror author Stephen Graham Jones, Linda Addison— the first African American to win the Stoker Award, Peter Briggs, screenwriter for Hellboy, New York Times bestselling author and visionary podcaster Scott Sigler (Aliens: Phalanx), award-winning author Ammar Habib (The Heart of Aleppo), New York Times bestseller Jonathan Maberry, Emmy nominated writer Joshua Pruett of Mystery Science Theater 3000, Tim Lebbon, author of the Aliens vs. Predators “Rage War”, and many more. Featuring Stephen Graham Jones, Linda Addison, Jonathan Maberry, Scott Sigler, Peter Briggs, Tim Lebbon, Nancy A. Collins, A. R. Reddington, Robert Greenberger, Ammar Habib, Gini Koch, Kim May, Yvonne Navarro, Joshua Pruett and Bryan Thomas Schmidt. © 2021 20TH CENTURY STUDIOS

The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I.

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This is a list of the stories in Richard Francis Burton's translation of One Thousand and One Nights. Burton's first ten volumes—which he called The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night—were published in 1885. His Supplemental Nights were published between 1886 and 1888 as six volumes. Later pirate copies split the very large third volume into two volumes. The nights are in the style of stories within stories, and the frame story is The Story Of King Shahryar of Persia and His Brother or The Story Of King Shahryar and Queen Shahrazad, in which Shahrazad tells tales to her husband Shahryar.

Blood and Iron (American Empire, Book One)

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“Blood and Iron is a masterpiece.”—Sci Fi Weekly World War I—The Great War—has ended, and an uneasy peace reigns around the world. Nowhere is it more fragile than on the continent of North America, where bitter enemies share a single landmass and two long, bloody borders. In the North, proud Canadian nationalists try to resist the colonial power of the United States. In the South, the once-mighty Confederate States have been pounded into poverty and merciless inflation. The time is right for madmen, demagogues, and terrorists. With Socialists rising to power in the U.S., and a dangerous fanatic in the Confederacy preaching a doctrine of hate, more than enough people are eager to return the world to war. “A master storyteller as well as a trained historian with an imagination . . . [Turtledove] has succeeded in taking title as the premier writer in [alternate history], relentlessly asking what if one or two key events in our reality happened differently. The result is fascinating.”—Houston Chronicle “Turtledove is a master at weaving details of ordinary life into a much bigger canvas to produce a world that so easily could have been our own. [It] is what keeps readers coming back for more.”—Tulsa World

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