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The Glass Flower by George R. R. Martin |
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It’s been a lifetime and more since Cyrain has been challenged in the game of mind. When the cyborg arrives, she senses a worthy and dangerous opponent–one that’s been dead for 800 years… |
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Science Fiction |
| LENGTH: 16208 words; Reading time: 46-64 minutes
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A Marathon Runner in the Human Race by Dave Smeds |
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The new nanotechnology meant that no one need ever age or die again. There’s a new way of life–and to many, the adjustments are more than they can handle. |
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Science Fiction |
| LENGTH: 5931 words; Reading time: 16-23 minutes
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The Egg by Darrell Bain |
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It looked like a perfectly ordinary chicken egg, just like the others in the carton. There was only one difference. This egg couldn’t be broken. Becky wanted to throw it away. Carl decided to keep it and try to find out what it was made of. But then the egg began changing. And changing. |
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Science Fiction |
| LENGTH: 4233 words; Reading time: 12-16 minutes
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Death Between the Stars by Marion Zimmer Bradley |
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A Terran ignores xenophic bigotry and shares a starship cabin with a non-human telepath, with unexpected results. |
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Science Fiction |
| LENGTH: 5703 words; Reading time: 16-22 minutes
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| TITLE: |
 Early Model by Robert Sheckley |
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Professor Schligerd and his team had developed a new device to help the Explorer Corps. The Protek field would protect its wearer from any and all threats. But, as we all know, early models always have a few bugs to work out. |
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Science Fiction |
| RUNNING TIME: 0 hours, 18 minutes, 21 secs
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| TITLE: |
People Are Alike All Over: The Classic Twilight Zone Story read by Bill Mills by Paul W. Fairman |
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The story that inspired the famous Twilight Zone episode! “People Are Alike All Over” (which starred Roddy McDowall) became one of the most famous episodes of that classic television series. That memorable script was adapted from veteran science fiction author Paul W. Fairman’s story for Fantastic Adventures magazine, where it was published under it’s original title “Brothers Beyond the Void.” As the original magazine blurb described it, “To Marcusson, the thought that people are the same everywhere was comforting. Until he learned that sameness was the very thing he was fighting against!” Eerily familiar and similar to the television version, yet hauntingly different and unique, Fairman’s story is wonderful by itself. But for media fans, and especially for fans of the The Twilight Zone, it offers a fascinating example of the skills and the art of adapting a story for the ’screen’ and offers a textbook case of how Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling altered and refocused good stories to make them work even better for television. This first ever audio ‘dramatization’ of “People Are Alike All Over” is prefaced by introductory comments about the author, the story, and the Twilight Zone television show. Enhanced with music and sound effects this REB Inc Audio Book was adapted, produced and performed for this presentation by Bill Mills. |
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Science Fiction |
| RUNNING TIME: 0 hours, 24 minutes, 41 secs
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Deathwitch by Steven Popkes |
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Joe Walker is trailing the murderer of his wife and daughter. The trail leads through the dying world after a nuclear catastrophe. He knows the killer well: it is his mother. His mother doesn’t consider herself a murderer at all. |
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Science Fiction |
| LENGTH: 5006 words; Reading time: 14-20 minutes
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Rain, Steam and Speed by Steven Popkes |
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Franscois Gossic is a painter who has lost any inspiration to paint. He is invited to join the goodwill mission of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts to Centaurus but declines. That is, until he meets the pilot. |
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Science Fiction |
| LENGTH: 6948 words; Reading time: 19-27 minutes
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| TITLE: |
Operation Luna, Episode 7 [Journey Into Space] by Charles Chilton |
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When the crew wake up they find themselves traveling at a much faster speed that they had thought possible. Suddenly they find themselves approaching an unknown planet at the perfect flight profile for landing. Once they are on the ground they begin to explore what may be their home for the rest of their lives. |
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Science Fiction |
| RUNNING TIME: 0 hours, 24 minutes, 24 secs
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| TITLE: |
Take Two by James P. Hogan |
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An underclass of consumer robots discover religion. |
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Science Fiction |
| LENGTH: 11531 words; Reading time: 32-46 minutes
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$1.35 |
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| TITLE: |
The Absolutely Foolproof Alibi by James P. Hogan |
| DESCRIPTION: |
Perfection can have its problems. |
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Science Fiction |
| LENGTH: 15340 words; Reading time: 43-61 minutes
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$1.69 |
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Molt Brother by Jacqueline Lichtenberg |
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College students, human and nonhuman, raised together on the same planet, search for the origins of civilization in the Galaxy and find old magic and a vast, implacable conspiracy. Can they forge bonds of friendship and understanding among themselves strong enough to stand against greed, lust for power, and absolute domination of a hundred planets? If not, then why does the enemy fear them? |
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Science Fiction |
| LENGTH: 94186 words; Reading time: 269-376 minutes
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Red by Donna Taylor Burgess |
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A henpecked man is haunted by the sight of blood stains on his wife’s meticulously clean floor. |
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Horror |
| LENGTH: 718 words; Reading time: 2-2 minutes
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Scarecrow John by Donna Taylor Burgess |
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A man returns home to learn that his father carried some very ugly secrets to his grave. |
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Horror |
| LENGTH: 7462 words; Reading time: 21-29 minutes
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The Geezers by Ken Rand |
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Punks have muscled into the once-quiet neighborhood around Burgess Street Park, terrorizing the old folk. They beat up poor Mr. Lee, the grocer. And they play their damn hippie music too loud. The police can only do so much; punks overwhelm the city. Who you gonna call? Why, the Geezers, of course. |
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Humor |
| LENGTH: 3477 words; Reading time: 9-13 minutes
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| TITLE: |
I’m a Vampire … For Real by Jackie Rose |
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Contains some BDSM scenes. No animals were harmed in the writing of this book. Formerly the fourth bride of a Romanian vampire master, Crina Vyrdelek has come to Northern Virginia where she has become the leading saleslady at 21st Century Golden Real Estate. Now she is trying hard to please all kinds of crazy clients–including a BDSM dominatrix who is dead set against animal cruelty–but even more determined to lure Crina into her own lifestyle. Crina’s own tastes run more to the rugged were-Leading-Eye-Dog whom she hired to protect her. But before they can get together for hot sex and home sales, they must defeat the ones who are determined to stop them–by passing the Same Species Marriage Bill. Now the lovers’ only hope is another controversial couple–the country’s first openly undead congressman and the nation’s First Banshee, whose mother is the first First Witch. But it might take that ditzy Domme to whip the whole thing into shape. |
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Humor |
| LENGTH: 31946 words; Reading time: 91-127 minutes
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$4.99 |
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Dragon Touched by Dave Smeds |
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To seek the dragons of the Lost Isles is to court a horrible death–or worse. But the sorcerer claims to have a plan.. |
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Fantasy |
| LENGTH: 10864 words; Reading time: 31-43 minutes
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The Gods Perspire by Ken Rand |
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To their mutual dismay, Thor and Zeus find they’ve both chosen to use the same bookie for their weekend recreational betting. Two gods in one universe is one god too many; a final solution is called for. |
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Fantasy |
| LENGTH: 3817 words; Reading time: 10-15 minutes
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The Necromancer’s Apprentice by Lillian Stewart Carl |
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Lord Robert Dudley had been Queen Elizabeth I’s favorite since childhood. Rumors that she would remove herself from the European marriage market by marrying him flew thick and fast–except for one minor fact. He was already married, to Amy Robsart. Then Amy was found lying at the foot of a staircase, her neck broken, as dead as Robert’s hopes for marriage with Elizabeth. For how could the Queen of England marry a possible murderer? “The Necromancer’s Apprentice” is a new and magical angle on Amy Robsart’s mysterious–and very convenient–death. At his wits’ end, Dudley conscripts the services of magician John Dee’s apprentice, Erasmus Pilbeam. Can Pilbeam and his own apprentice exonerate Dudley before Dudley loses his patience and Erasmus his head? And what of Elizabeth herself? As Anne Boleyn’s daughter, she knows only too well how the marriage game can often have fatal consequences. |
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Fantasy |
| LENGTH: 5747 words; Reading time: 16-22 minutes
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| TITLE: |
Christmas Present by Isabo Kelly |
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Deanna Green has always loved Christmas. But one year when it looks like everything she’s worked so hard for may be taken away, she discovers that Christmas loves her back. |
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Fantasy |
| LENGTH: 30470 words; Reading time: 87-121 minutes
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$2.50 |
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| TITLE: |
People of the Dark: The Weird Works of Robert E. Howard, Vol. 3 by Robert E. Howard & Joe R. Lansdale |
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The third volume of the Weird Works of Robert E. Howard continues reprinting Howard’s fantasy from Weird Tales and Strange Tales in order of original publication. All texts have been meticulously restored to their original pulp appearances. Introduction by Joe R. Lansdale. This volume contains: The Black Stone Children of the Night The Dark Man The Footfalls Within Gods of Gal-Sagoth Horror from the Mound Kings of the Night The Last Day People fo the Dark The Song of the Mad Minstrel The Thing on the Roof. |
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Fantasy |
| LENGTH: 77085 words; Reading time: 220-308 minutes
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Gucci Doctor of Manville by Eugen M. Bacon |
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A drowsy town gets the jolt of her life when a fat little doctor sets foot on shore and sends her women up a creek. |
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Fantasy |
| LENGTH: 1954 words; Reading time: 5-7 minutes
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| TITLE: |
Hasa Kesla (Good-Bye) by Jim C. Hines |
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Two years ago, Dr. Jan Christopher lost her fiancé to a vampire named Celeste Bukwas. But when Celeste arrives at the hospital, suffering from an unknown disease, Jan will have to make a choice: betray her oath and allow Celeste to die, or fight to save the creature who destroyed Jan’s own life. Cover art by Alicia Austin. |
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Fantasy |
| LENGTH: 4664 words; Reading time: 13-18 minutes
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Inspecting the Workers by Jim C. Hines |
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The arrangement seemed more than fair to the struggling poor of Detroit: Kris Dobson’s team would reanimate the dead to help restore the city, and when the zombies broke down, the government would pay for full funeral arrangements. But life adapts … even undead life. |
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Fantasy |
| AWARDS: |
Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror Honorable Mention |
| LENGTH: 3076 words; Reading time: 8-12 minutes
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Highland Spirit by Lori Pepio |
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Raised on the tales of a lost soul, told by her grandfather, Jessica sets of to spend Christmas in Scotland. But a trip through time puts her to the test. Can her commitment and courage lead two lost souls back together? |
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Fantasy |
| LENGTH: 9497 words; Reading time: 27-37 minutes
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Sins of the Mothers [Journey of the Sacred King Book II] by Janrae Frank |
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Number 1 Bestselling Dark Fantasy Author! No one writes darker fantasy than Janrae Frank. Conan wouldn’t have lasted one minute in a Janrae Frank novel. Read her psychologically insightful and disturbing work and discover for yourself why critics and readers alike rate Frank number one in dark fantasy. In this second book in the “Journey of the Sacred King” quartet, Josiah has regained his magic, and won the love of the warrior Aejystrys Rowan, but the terrifying forces of arch necromancer Mephistis are moving to destroy them both. Mephistis has raised his dead wife, Aejystrys’ mad sister Margren, as a revenant and together they plot the downfall of Aejystrys. Allied with them is the vampire Lord Brandrahoon, the dreaded brother of Waejonan the Accursed. Her hands crippled by Margren, Aejystrys only hope is to reach the sword of the Sun God, Kalirion. Before she can, blood must flow! A true epic of Dark Fantasy over 150,000 words! Graphic violence, adult situations. |
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Dark Fantasy |
| LENGTH: 164764 words; Reading time: 470-659 minutes
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$4.99 |
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The UQBA Chronicles by George W. J. Laidlaw |
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When you are a witness to an assassination trouble stalks you. It was no different for David Niven and his friend Chris Stern. The last words of the dying Islamic scholar are a plea to destroy information the old man has discovered. His plea leads to further death. |
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Mystery/Crime |
| LENGTH: 57666 words; Reading time: 164-230 minutes
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$5.99 |
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| TITLE: |
The Cases of Joseph Muller, Detective by Augusta Groner |
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Never Before in One EBook! Here are all five of the classic tales of Joseph Muller, detective. Written in the early 1900s, they detail the adventures of Joseph Muller, Secret Service sleuth for the Imperial Austrian police. Muller is one of the greatest of all fictional detectives despite the fact that he is a small, humble, plain-looking man. But once he is on the case, not even Sherlock Holmes could out-detective him or Raffles most brilliant crime baffle him. Here are the five books in which he first appeared: The Case of the Golden Bullet, The Case of The Pocket Diary Found in the Snow, The Case of The Lamp That Went Out, The Case of the Pool of Blood in the Pastor’s Study, and The Case of the Registered Letter. To buy these five as eBooks would cost between $10 and $20. Read them now in one inexpensive, omnibus eBook edition. |
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Mystery/Crime |
| LENGTH: 102184 words; Reading time: 291-408 minutes
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Secret Agent by Brant House |
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“The Torture Trust” they called themselves–that unholy trio who met in a hidden room in a deserted part of the city. Brilliant men by day, leading scholarly and productive lives as far as the police and the outside world were concerned, secretly they donned black cloaks and ran an organization of evil … for “The Torture Trust” threatened their blackmail victims with a terrible acid bath, leaving a trail of faceless corpses to bear mute testimony to their power! Fearless, alone, Secret Agent X went against them in a desperate battle of wits at the gateway to destruction! A classic pulp adventure-mystery, ripped from the pages of the February, 1934 issue of Secret Agent “X” magazine! |
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Mystery/Crime |
| LENGTH: 38339 words; Reading time: 109-153 minutes
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Solid Lead by Eugen M. Bacon |
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Two little girls one sultry afternoon. Cerulean bikes, bopping rumps, feet working the pedals. And a maniac on the loose. |
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Mystery/Crime |
| LENGTH: 1479 words; Reading time: 4-5 minutes
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City of Toys by Lindy S. Hudis |
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Four beautiful women, each with their own demons driving them towards the fame and fortune they so desperately seek, come together in Hollywood, the land of shattered dreams and broken hearts. Marlo, the tough-talking, former child actress from New York, Rhonda, the small town beauty queen, Kim, the “nice Jewish girl” with a painful childhood, and Guyla, the “serious actress” with a debilitating, stress-induced illness, all meet and reside in the same apartment building deep in the heart of Hollywood. Each of these fame-hungry women experiences one painful disaster after another–from casting directors behaving in sexually inappropriate ways, to crazed stalkers and jealous, mentally deranged starlets hounding them. They begin to rely upon one another to get through the horrific maze called Hollywood. But when the pressure gets too much, will their friendship be enough to save them in the City Of Toys? |
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Mainstream |
| LENGTH: 91164 words; Reading time: 260-364 minutes
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Ho-Ho, Silver! by Lincoln Rogers |
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They don’t come much more cantankerous and irritable than old Roy, an unfulfilled farmer with numerous failed schemes for riches. One of those failures resulted in his ownership of the most lovable pooch in the County… a dog named Silver. The bundle of fun and affection never ceases to be a source of ire for the old man, but tonight is different. This Christmas Eve, there are trespassers afoot on Roy’s property and he has hopes to chase them off with his dog and a shotgun. Silver, of course, has other ideas… |
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Mainstream |
| LENGTH: 2750 words; Reading time: 7-11 minutes
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The Happy Campers by Gale Chester Whittington |
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Kent Weschester is an unlikely prison inmate. His gambling problem lands him in the Texarkana Federal prison camp, where he has to face the realities of his life. He’s lonely. He’s enamored with a completely unsuitable man, and soon he’s embroiled in a mystery that even a reluctant inmate can’t turn away from. This Arcus title is by turns funny, poignant, and philosophical, exploring what makes Kent tick, what makes the world of prison go ’round, and how a man can overcome predjudice and mental illness. Now if only Kent could overcome unrequited love. |
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Mainstream |
| LENGTH: 82561 words; Reading time: 235-330 minutes
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Lord of Misrule by Judith B. Glad |
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Katie and Luke are married, but they still have to learn to live together. Christmas with her big, noisy family makes them wonder just how big a mistake they’ve made. But Christmas is the season of love, so anything’s possible. |
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Romance |
| AWARDS: |
EPPIE Award Finalist, Affaire de Coeur’s Reader-Writer Poll Finalist |
| LENGTH: 21679 words; Reading time: 61-86 minutes
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$2.35 |
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Pink Gingerbread by Judith B. Glad |
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As a child, Sandra dreamed of being a superhero when she grew up, but she became a cartographer instead. Now she feels as if her life has lost all meaning. This latest mapping job takes her into Oregon’s Coast Range, where she finds a ghost town that can’t possibly be there. Its only inhabitant reminds her of someone she knew long ago … the man of her dreams? Or an impossible fantasy? |
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Romance |
| LENGTH: 5703 words; Reading time: 16-22 minutes
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Just Kiss Me [Hearts of Marshall's Bayou Book One] by Sarah Storme |
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In June of 1918, a drought grips Marshall’s Bayou by the throat. But no matter how bad things get, Alberta Strickler will never leave her home in southwest Louisiana again. More importantly, she’ll never let a man rule her life the way her father has. Isaac Broussard, an easy-going Frenchman, is visiting Marshall’s Bayou when he meets Alberta. He knows she’s the woman for him. Trouble is, he can’t seem to get her to see his way of thinking. With the social prejudices of the marsh and Alberta’s father working against them, can Isaac convince her that they belong together? |
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Romance |
| LENGTH: 62302 words; Reading time: 178-249 minutes
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Twist of Fate by Robin Stears |
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Tessa Grant, a university professor from Dublin Township, Ohio, finds herself inexplicably transported to Eden, Alaska in 1935–an uncivilized territory at the height of the Great Depression. At the exact moment, her great-grandmother, Amelia Richardson, finds herself in 2002, in Tessa’s place. Their only clue is the bracelet Alexander Richardson gave to his wife as a wedding gift with a cryptic message inscribed in Latin. Somehow, the bracelet is the key to switching back–but do they want to? |
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Romance |
| LENGTH: 68258 words; Reading time: 195-273 minutes
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From Depths So Deep by George W. J. Laidlaw |
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The bottom of the sea hold many remains of man’s effort to sail the oceans. Michael Stone’s life as a US diver is ruined when he risks his life to rescue two men in a bathyscaph trapped on a sea plateau where they are working on two iron age wrecks. That dive nearly killed Stone but he also finds a mystery about a German U-boat-443 that brings the ghosts of the Second World War too close to home. Both the U-boat and the suicide of his boss brings him to face death at its very deepest depth. He is forced to dive again because the lady he loves will be killed if he doesn’t recover diamonds that was lost on board a tramp steamer destroyed by the Israeli intelligence because it was being used to transport arms to the Palestinians. |
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Romance |
| LENGTH: 85196 words; Reading time: 243-340 minutes
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The Second Scarlet Pimpernel Omnibus: El Dorado; Lord Tony’s Wife; The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy |
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The Second Three Pimpernel Classics! Swordplay, daring deeds, romance, suspense, and more await you in books 4-6 of the Scarlet Pimpernel series. Here is Percy Blakeney at his best. Rescuing the boy King of France, matching wits with Chauvelin, passing in disguise before the very guards charged with slaying him. Then the Pimpernel’s best friend Lord Tony and Tony’s new wife face Madam Guillotine. With the mobs of Paris ready to tear him to pieces, does Tony dare ride to the rescue? And what about Lord Blakeney’s beautiful wife. Will she stand by his side, or be forced once again to betray him? How many betrayals can a marriage stand? Is this the end of their love affair? Find out in this first ever unabridged omnibus edition of these three classic novels! |
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Romance |
| LENGTH: 287273 words; Reading time: 820-1149 minutes
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Some Enchanted Autumn by Linda Andrews |
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Autumn leaves aren’t the only thing stirring in Pumpkin. Avalon Lynch has worked hard to escape her witching heritage. Everything she’s ever wanted is within her grasp, until a visit home and a mishap with a skeleton binds her to an offspring of The Dugan, Pumpkin’s equivalent of the boogeyman. Nicholas Dugan loves autumn–the changing leaves, the ripening harvest, the tricks played on Pumpkin. But a sinister Prankster pairs him with a sexy witch, and reveals his family’s dark past and their cursed future. The question is which is harder to survive–the danger from the Prankster or his desire for his bewitching partner? |
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Romance |
| LENGTH: 69295 words; Reading time: 197-277 minutes
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$4.99 |
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Second Chance at Forever [Black Tie Inc. series Book One] by Natalie Damschroder |
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A pregnant widow rebuilding her life. A shattered man rebuilding his own. Mountains of debt and unforgettable pasts don’t provide a recipe for romance. But Michael Ripley and Angie Detmer can’t resist more than friendship, despite having nothing to offer. Michael works as an exotic dancer for an upscale male dance review to pay the mountain of medical bills his deceased wife left behind. Angie lost her husband, business, and home, and is building a new life. Independence is everything to her. Can they pull themselves far enough from the depths of despair to grab their Second Chance at Forever? |
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Romance |
| LENGTH: 70701 words; Reading time: 202-282 minutes
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Like a Lover by Lynn Michaels |
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Is someone trying to kill Jay-Jay Lightbody? Her grandmother thinks so, and hires private investigator Jerry Kilroy to find out who caused the near misses. Jerry considers the rejected lover, the greedy relative, and anyone else who would benefit by the heiress’s death. But did the passion that flared between him and Jay-Jay increase her danger? Romantic Suspense by Lynn Michaels; originally published by Avon Velvet Glove |
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Romance |
| LENGTH: 60155 words; Reading time: 171-240 minutes
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| TITLE: |
One Small Spark by Muncy Chapman |
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Although their first meeting is confrontational, Lauren Delaney cannot suppress an undeniable attraction to businessman Craig Hightower. But daily confrontations with Zoey, Craig’s rebellious teenage daughter, warn Lauren that a relationship with this man could produce more problems than she wants to add to her already complicated life. Can Lauren hope to ignite a spark that will change the misguided mindset of a determined fourteen-year-old, or will Zoey’s unruly behaviour extinguish the tender flame of affection that is growing between Lauren and her father? Can that one small spark spread its warmth to include even delinquents like Zoey’s friend, Tony? Perhaps, but it would take a miracle! |
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Romance |
| LENGTH: 48222 words; Reading time: 137-192 minutes
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$3.75 |
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| TITLE: |
Lost and Found by Alexis Hart |
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Allison is not having her best day. She’s dealt with a wet flyer on her windshield, an arrogant stranger against her bumper, and a big wet dog obsessed with her. Things can’t get any worse. Will can’t believe he’s lost his dog. He wonders how he’ll ever be able to care for his niece if he can’t keep a pooch in hand. The flyers seemed like a good idea, until it rained, and the crazy lady in town tried to run him over. Even the rain can’t smother the sparks flying between Will and Allison, so is it any wonder their relationship will have to face off against chaos? (Did we mention the marriage?) But of course love is not all peaches and cream when Will faces the possibility of losing everything he holds dear. |
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Romance |
| LENGTH: 53242 words; Reading time: 152-212 minutes
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Heart of Gold by Rebecca Goings |
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Lindsay Harte has been in love with Bryson Pierce for the past five years, despite the fact that he’s never once looked at her romantically. But when a rugged, handsome cowboy enters her world, he threatens to disrupt not only her feelings, but her peace of mind as well. Jake Tanner is a cowboy looking for work at the Harte of Gold ranch just outside of Colton, a town in the Wyoming Territory. He finds himself powerfully attracted to Lindsay, the rancher’s daughter, and soon they become close friends. It isn’t long before their friendship turns into love. But when Lindsay finds out Jake isn’t a Christian, she endeavors to teach him about the love of God in the hopes that he will turn to Him. Yet Jake feels betrayed that she never told him she couldn’t marry him if he didn’t believe in God. When tragedy strikes, will Jake be able to find the Lord and forgive Lindsay? And will Lindsay finally understand how deep Jake’s love for her goes? |
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Romance |
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The Irish Upstart by Shirley Kennedy |
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Beautiful Evleen O’Fallon comes from a humble abode in Ireland, while Lord Thomas Linberry owns one of the grandest estates in England. Evleen finds herself an outcast in London’s ton, and Lord Thomas must ignore convention, if he is to pursue her. Will Evleen choose her simple Irish life or being with the man she loves? Regency Romance by Shirley Kennedy; originally published by Signet |
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Romance |
| LENGTH: 76430 words; Reading time: 218-305 minutes
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Between Dreams and Darkness by Claire Michaels |
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New Orleans isn’t the only thing that’s hot and steamy in this new paranormal romance from Claire Michaels. Heiress and talented photographer, Gabrielle James, finds herself the victim of a ghost from the past. Frightened beyond belief and not knowing who to turn to, the unwittingly beautiful Gabrielle serendipitously crosses paths with the endearingly charming, but somewhat shy, Trey Fairfax. Is it fate? Trey, an expert in paranormal psychology, is blessed with a sense of awareness that allows him to see and communicate with the dead. Work is Trey’s passion. Or, was, until meeting Gabi. Trey’s attraction to her is instant and undeniable, and they begin a smoldering affair that is as sensuously sultry as New Orleans itself. Will Trey make the ultimate sacrifice and save the woman he loves? This is a spectacular breakout novel by newcomer Claire Michaels. The settings are lush, the characters larger than life, and the plot is fast-paced. Between Dreams and Darkness promises to keep you on the edge of your seat and leave you begging for more. |
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Romance |
| LENGTH: 69295 words; Reading time: 197-277 minutes
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Harvey & Eck by Erin O’Brien |
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Funny, irreverent look at pregnancy through the eyes of motorcycle-riding Harvey, the thirtysomething mom-to-be who forges an unlikely friendship with Eck, a librarian whose life is as predictable as a tocking metronome. As Harvey’s belly blossoms, Eck grows in his own vicarious way. A cover-to-cover read that is sexy, sophisticated and tender. |
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Romance |
| LENGTH: 62893 words; Reading time: 179-251 minutes
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Briana by Tammy Boulds |
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Red Junction, Texas: Briana McBride is unhappy after learning her father hired a new man to run the family ranch–a job she wanted. And to make matters worse, her father sends her to the train station to meet him. But after meeting him, she discovers he is nothing more than a drunk. Nicholas McMurtry is a man with a tortured past and a young son to care for. So he accepts a job on the Silver LIning Ranch, but when he meets his new boss’ daughter he starts having second thoughts. Soon after their return to the ranch, a string of suspicious accidents bring the couple closer together. And Briana learns miracles come in many forms, even the form of a drunken foreman. |
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Romance |
| LENGTH: 68803 words; Reading time: 196-275 minutes
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Mistress of the Damned by Charles Nuetzel |
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A story of intrigue and violence in the underworld where lives were traded for money. Paul Phillips had been hired for big money, but not big enough to buy his loyalty to the United States government. Too late, he learned what he was being paid for and by whom. Two women were directed his way, to keep him in line and out of trouble. In Mexico he was linked to one trapped in a world of poverty. Prostitution had been her link to a better life. In the states he had been turned over to a woman who might be something far more dangerous than she appeared to be on the surface. Love was one thing he didn’t count on. To turn them in would be to lose the only woman he had ever really loved. A book with hot, heavy fast turns, exciting to the end, that has been updated especially for this Fictionwise edition. |
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Suspense/Thriller |
| LENGTH: 23283 words; Reading time: 66-93 minutes
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Operaton Double-Cross by Charles Nuetzel |
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The world of the terrorist since 9/11 has changed how we all live, and has affected everything. In this book Mr. Nuetzel offers a tense thriller, now updated to reflect present day realities. Mystery, intrigue, and passion mix in a blend of double-cross and betrayal, as Greg Hern mixes business with pleasure in the South Pacific. He is drawn into a web of international spies, narcotics rings and terrorists. And into the arms of two passionate women, determined to have him at all cost. And into this mix an undercover agent, named Agent Green, is determined to break up the ring of smugglers and desperate international gangsters that flock around Hern Industries. A story where romance and danger link arms to create a tense action thriller. |
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Suspense/Thriller |
| LENGTH: 34103 words; Reading time: 97-136 minutes
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Ho! Ho! Ho! [A Victoria Renard Thriller] by Tim Wohlforth |
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Victoria Renard, news reporter on the rise, can’t believe her luck. The Christmas season has brought her the best possible present. A serial killer with a twisted sense of holiday spirit. Three crime scenes, no obvious connection, and her on the brink of a story that could send her star shooting straight into the big leagues. The only problem is, finding herself at the mercy of a desperate man, the over-zealous Ms. Renard may not live long enough to see it all happen. |
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Suspense/Thriller |
| LENGTH: 6087 words; Reading time: 17-24 minutes
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Nobody’s Jaymie by Lynne D. McCloskey |
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You’d think the adopted teenage daughter of a famous television personality would have it all: friends, good schooling, clothes, boys–HA! Jaymie Forrester wished. The constant upheaval in her life, traveling with her mother to foreign lands, doing her homework in hotel after hotel, has become the norm. But when a promised vacation in Mexico is suddenly canceled and Jaymie finds herself being shuffled off to a llama ranch in California, it is too much. Jaymie decides to follow her friend Tish’s advice and take control of her life, but not without consequences. Jaymie’s main goal is to discover who and where her birth parents are. No one will discuss the circumstances of her adoption and she wants to–needs to–find the truth. Why does the llama ranch stir up strong memories of long ago? Could the wild motorcyclist, Dallas Tucker, who forced his attentions on Jaymie, actually be her brother? And why is there such a mystery about her adoption? Throughout her stay at the llama ranch, Jaymie discovers clues to the secret she so much wants to uncover. When Jaymie finally hears the true story, she is ready to understand, but can she forgive? |
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Children’s Fiction |
| LENGTH: 52076 words; Reading time: 148-208 minutes
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The Case of the Submarine Caves [From the New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes] by Dennis Green & Anthony Boucher |
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The island of Garth is one of the Channel Islands, privately owned and with only one thousand inhabitants. It pays allegiance to the British Crown by presenting the Crown with one pound of butter each year. And in the summer of 1886, the Queen and Mycroft Holmes requested that Sherlock be the official representative this year. But when he arrives with Dr. Watson, he finds that the owner of the island has died the night before their arrival. |
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Classic Literature |
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Enchantress by Rae Morgan |
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Successful businessman Eric Thorsson Ward has worked hard to reach the stage in life where he could have anything he wants–and he wants Gina Morelli. Problem is successful businessmen remind Gina of her father, a man who’d abandoned her mother, took her brother, and started a whole new family, one that didn’t include her. When she finds her brother shot and the threatening phone calls start, Gina reluctantly accepts Eric’s offer of protection and help. After all, even if he breaks her heart, she’ll still be alive. |
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Erotica |
| LENGTH: 35310 words; Reading time: 100-141 minutes
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White Wedding by Megan Hart |
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The long-awaited sequel to Amber Quill’s Best-Seller Opening The Door… Jack and Josie have been friends since childhood. Now they’ve made the leap to love, with a wedding on the horizon. Can they manage to get through the planning with everything falling to pieces around them? |
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Erotica |
| LENGTH: 17375 words; Reading time: 49-69 minutes
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Mystic Falls by Evelyn Starr |
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Illya Perepechenko had no idea anyone was in the house. All he wanted was valuables. The kind of small stuff a smart thief could sell for quick cash. But this time he’s made a mistake. Because the only valuable in this particular house is Kay Karen, an ex Vegas showgirl who’s got a few ideas of her own about what he’s going to steal and what he’s going to give in return. And that’s everything Illya’s got. |
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Erotica |
| LENGTH: 75213 words; Reading time: 214-300 minutes
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The Sexy Stranger by Kelli A. Wilkins |
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Lauren’s life was predictable and boring–until the day she met a sexy stranger along a deserted Nevada highway. When Matt, an ex-con, jumped into her car, he introduced her to a world of steamy passion and intrigue that she’d seen only in movies. Despite their unusual circumstances, Lauren trusts Matt and realizes that this “bad boy” has a romantic and passionate side he’s been shielding from her. When the police get involved, however, Lauren discovers that Matt has a few other secrets as well… Amber Heat Wave Contest Winner! |
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Erotica |
| LENGTH: 6452 words; Reading time: 18-25 minutes
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Time Series 2: Volume 3&4 by Treva Harte |
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Time Will Tell–Volume 3 Molly had a family and had been in love … but now she was alone on an isolated ranch with no one but her baby. She’d learned that even people you love can leave. J.B. drifted onto a ranch and into the life of a woman who needed help. He’d failed himself and others before and wasn’t interested in risking anything more. But was it time to try again? Time of Her Life–Volume 4 Dr. Antigone “Annie” Armstrong was terminally shy, overly bookish and completely in lust with her gorgeous, charming handyman. Kevin Turner was good with his hands and able to talk to anyone but, he’d never read a book in his life. There was no way his employer, an English professor, was ever going to take him seriously. That didn’t mean he couldn’t try. If nothing else, he planned to show her the time of her life. |
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Erotica |
| LENGTH: 98679 words; Reading time: 281-394 minutes
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The Zodiac Series: Virgo by Emma Bruce & Keira Ramsay |
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Fateful Fieldtrip–Emma Bruce On an ordinary day the last thing museum curator, Suzanne Tate and substitute teacher, Tim Mitchell expect is a steamy affair under the watchful eye of the Zodiac, but find themselves helpless to fight their desire after a chance encounter. But will their insatiable hunger for one and other prove to be more than just mind-blowing sex? Blink Of An Eye–Keira Ramsay Senior Airman Scott Carnes is sick and tired of being a hero. Recently returned from Afghanistan with a combat injury that resulted in a lost eye, Scott will do anything to stay in the Air Force, even take on a desk job he knows he’ll despise. Cassidy Thompson doesn’t know what’s hit her when the handsome young man with the haunted aura walks into her cafe. What she does know is that she’s never been more drawn to a man–even if he is at least ten years her junior. |
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Erotica |
| LENGTH: 29445 words; Reading time: 84-117 minutes
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Dream Lover by Jewel Adams [Midnight Showcase Special Edition Vol 05-08] by Jewel Adams |
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Erotic-ahh Historical Romance Time Travel, When a dream becomes reality, Mackenzie Richardson discovers her fantasy lover is no longer an unattainable image, but a very real, very powerful, flesh and blood man. Mackenzie finds no escape from the handsome but obstinate dream that shatters the fabric of time and thrives in Colonial America, the year of our Lord, 1773. Aaron Masters confronts the bewitching woman that haunts his dreams, to discover a very real and passionate Mackenzie. Be she God’s own angel or the Devil’s witch, she now belongs to him. Neither the powers of time, nor the perils of man will take away the woman he claims as his wife. Join Aaron and Mackenzie on a journey of discovery as they confront their love for each other and battle the forces to hold on to the treasure they find. Will they beat the power of time that tries to keep them separated? Or will their love end on the thrust of a pirate’s cutlass or the claim of a British spy that Mackenzie is his wife! The excitement and adventure will hold you spellbound to the explosive conclusion of DREAM LOVER |
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Erotica |
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CAPA Award Winner |
| LENGTH: 121158 words; Reading time: 346-484 minutes
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Sleeping Oaks by Jewel Adams [Midnight Showcase Special Edition Vol 05-09] by Jewel Adams |
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Erotic-ahh Historical Romance Time Travel Hostess of the Grande Ball to unveil the museum’s renovated plantation, Emma Browning never suspects a mysterious mirror will whisk her back in time to 1825 New Orleans. Neither does she expect to find herself engaged to a total stranger. Unable to explain her sudden appearance in this breathtakingly, handsome man’s life, Devon Chandlier rather believe Emma is the bait in a conspiracy to destroy him, than in her outlandish claim she is from the future! Join Emma and Devon as they discover their awakening love only to face its destruction when Devon’s enemy kidnaps Emma. She escapes her captor, but falls prey to the evil and powerful Andre La Pointe. To protect Devon and their unborn child, Emma agrees to marry the man she fears! Forced into a deathbed marriage, Emma refuses to give up and battles time to reclaim Devon’s love. A love now buried in betrayal to save the man too stubborn to see the truth. SLEEPING OAKS will carry you on a journey as unique as the love found in the realms of time! |
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Erotica |
| LENGTH: 104588 words; Reading time: 298-418 minutes
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Nights In White Satin by Adrianna Dane |
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Celine Valentini had found some measure of acceptance in her solitary life until the arrival of an unexpected, handsome visitor. He informs her that her grandfather is ill and he’s there to escort her back to him–and to the circus family she’d fled seven years earlier. Once a talented member of The Flying Valentinis, she must now face not only her fear of returning to the trapeze, but also the man who’d callously dismissed her love. Passionate, heartbreaking memories of her knight in white satin are the real reason she’s never been able to return. Peter Cortland, running from the tragic loss, first of his child, then his wife, found solace and some sense of peace behind the painted white facade of a clown, the presence of one lone teardrop the only outward evidence of the heavy sorrow he carried inside. Undeniably drawn to the vibrant and beautiful aerial performer, when a terrible accident almost takes her life, in a desperate act of self-preservation he forces her out of his heart. It’s taken seven years for him to come to terms with his tragedies and now he wants another chance at the love he threw away all those years ago. Beneath the Big Top, surrounded by the scent of sawdust, greasepaints, and the glittering energy of the center ring, can Celine and Peter face their inner fears and reclaim what they’ve lost? Five years ago it wasn’t an accident that almost killed Celine. Will a jealous, unbalanced rage rooted in the past again rear its ugly head, only this time to succeed in causing Celine’s destruction? |
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Erotica |
| LENGTH: 26567 words; Reading time: 75-106 minutes
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Hired Hands by Sable Grey |
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1887–North Dakota–Farm life is hard on a woman, even harder on a blind woman married to a man who drinks, gambles, womanizes, and is never around. But he’s the only man who would marry Tessa Marks so she does the best she can–until the day a stranger walks onto the farm looking for work. Will Ashton has come to Tessa’s farm to tell her that he’s killed her husband. He expects a woman filled with bitterness and feeling sorry for herself. Instead he finds once that can shoot as well as any woman with sight and who isn’t afraid of anything. He allows her to believe he is just a man looking for work but knows sooner or later, he will have to tell her the truth about what he’s done. |
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Erotica |
| LENGTH: 12643 words; Reading time: 36-50 minutes
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Storm in the Rockies by Sable Grey |
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Rex Reynolds makes a living flying tourists over the Rocky Mountains from Boulder. He lives a quiet, peaceful life in a cabin with his dog and his piano. His simple life is upturned when a sexy romance author suddenly needs his protection from a deranged stalker. Can he save her from this lunatic and still hold on to his heart, or will he too be swept away by the storm in the Rockies? |
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Erotica |
| LENGTH: 11164 words; Reading time: 31-44 minutes
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In the Strangest Places by Willa Okati |
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Boy next door Daniel is searching for true love. For Mr. Right. He wants a relationship, someone he can count on. Someone who will suit him, solid and quiet, someone who finds family and home as important as he does. Rack is a wild child searching for the next Mr. Right now. A tattoo artist, he’s used to wild nights and living on the edge. The chemistry is there when Rack hires Daniel to build his new studio, but is it enough for them form a lasting connection? Can they make it work, as different as they are? |
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Erotica |
| LENGTH: 62944 words; Reading time: 179-251 minutes
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Ghost of a Chance by Felicia Forella |
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The last thing Bethany Harris expects when she inherits a classic Corvette is to find a sexy, flight suit-wearing ghost in her passenger seat. She never imagined ghosts were so handsome or so doable. Who knew she’d find love with a man who died forty years earlier and who can only gain his Heavenly reward with her help? Why, oh why, does Nick Giordano have to be the embodiment of all her dreams? The only thing United States Air Force Captain Nicholas Giordano is interested in since his death in Vietnam is getting to the hereafter. Stuck in a Corvette and unable to communicate with the living, until Bethany climbs in the driver’s seat, he knows she’s the key. Hoping the answer lies back in Myrtle Beach in 1965, he takes Bethany with him to a time when he lived and loved. And has to die again. |
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Erotica |
| LENGTH: 66353 words; Reading time: 189-265 minutes
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Midnight Showcase–Holiday Voices [Christmas Erotic-ahh Digest Vol. 05-06] by Christy Poff & Nancy Pirri |
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Holiday Voices The coals in the fireplace glow deep red as mom cuddles up in her favorite spread. Her lips are warm to accept the kiss that she soon discovers in pages of bliss. Stories to stirs the embers of rapture hold her fast as she reads each chapter Holiday Voices will fill her nights, with pages and pages of pure delight! One Magical Night by Nancy Pirri Christmas Knights by Lynne den Hartog Remember Me Next Christmas by Herbert Grosshans Yule Desires by Christy Poff Spirit of Christmas by Ann Cory |
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Erotica |
| LENGTH: 51301 words; Reading time: 146-205 minutes
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Nancy [Plural Sex #3] by Carson Davis |
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Nancy’s story started with rape and from that came the startling harsh reality that her parents blamed her. They had strong religious beliefs that were rigidly against pre-marital sex of any kind, and the rape was considered just another form of sex–and in some way her fault! Considering today’s world, where we are in an open conflict with some of the Islamic fundamentalist movements, where an attitude concerning rape is to take it out on the women, up to and including a family member killing the victim rather than going after the rapist, one can simply say: Nancy was lucky to have been born to a fundamentalist Christian family. Though, sadly, the effects of her father’s reaction to her tragic rape set into motion a series of events that totally and starkly changed her whole life. |
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Erotica |
| LENGTH: 11181 words; Reading time: 31-44 minutes
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Ralph [Plural Sex #4] by Carson Davis |
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Ralph was one of those men who grew up highly moral, yet with some very open instructions from his father, early on, and then an introduction to sex with a professional call-girl which his father supplied. His story tells of how his marriage was almost devoured by circumstances best offered in his own words. This couple’s discovery of the pluses of Plural Sex, of living with two other couples in a house, mutually shared in every possible imaginable way, is the conclusion of this series, and leaves one wondering if this might be a look into the future. |
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Erotica |
| LENGTH: 11050 words; Reading time: 31-44 minutes
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Covering Cinde Rella by Belita Renn |
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Beautiful, young Cinde Rella sneaks away from her stepmother’s house to attend a forbidden ball, where she is introduced to sensual, decadent pleasure as the man of her dreams introduces her to bondage, group sex, and the pleasure his body can give. |
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Erotica |
| LENGTH: 15350 words; Reading time: 43-61 minutes
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Chances by Bridget Midway |
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What happens when Mr. Right comes in the wrong package? Christa wants it all: great job, cool place to live in the big city and a disposable sex partner she can easily leave when a better career opportunity arrives. Too bad her mind–and other parts of her body–have been on one of her co-workers. He has managed to woo her with only his voice since he works in another state and she’s never seen him. So when she goes to a company party, the last person she expects to see is her mystery man who is not what she has imagine. When a dream man does arrive and makes it obvious that he wants her, Christa has to decide if she should go with Mr. Right Now or if she should take a chance. |
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Erotica |
| LENGTH: 12773 words; Reading time: 36-51 minutes
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The View from Santa’s Sleigh by Lynn Crain |
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Tessa, very let down by love, is surprised to find herself comforted by the red-suited man himself on Christmas Eve. Thinking that he is the figment of her slightly tipsy mind, she pours her heart out to him hoping for just a little love, understanding and a good sexual encounter. Tessa gets more than she bargained for with an elf named Jedrick and both get the Christmas present of a lifetime. In only a short time, they find themselves realizing their love is for more than just the holiday season and more than just the sexual romp they had envisioned. But Tessa has obligations in the real world and Jedrick needs to begin designs for next year. Jedrick gives Tessa a very special locket, telling her to use it anytime and he will come right away. Once back in her world, Tessa finds it has lost its charm and knows that her place is with Jedrick. Their very humorous love-story is told amidst the backdrop of a post Christmas North Pole and the winter in Reno. |
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Erotica |
| LENGTH: 28396 words; Reading time: 81-113 minutes
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The Erotic Adventures of Rad Dracula by Eleanor Tremaine |
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Beware Dracula’s Sibling! Dracula lives! Rad Dracula that is! And he’s picking up women at the hottest bars in Hollywood, then taking them home to teach them some new, er, very old tricks. But they never complain. One little bite and you stay young and keep your good looks forever. What’s not to like about that? No wonder women are standing in line and stripping for the chance to spend even part of a night with old Rad. He’s the brother of the Transylvania dude, Vlad, who gets such negative press. But the Hollywood crowd all visits Rad’s castle high above Mulholland Drive in the Hollywood Hills. Rad Dracula may be a bit long in the tooth (he was born five hundred years ago) but no one in Hollywood can party as hearty as he does. Ask most of the actresses and starlets in town. Join a naïve young student who dares the Vampire Mash at Mailamunte Castle on spine-tingling Judas Cyrianus Day, and discover how Vampires swing for yourself. |
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Erotica |
| LENGTH: 38454 words; Reading time: 109-153 minutes
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Time and Again by C.A. Matthews |
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Rebecca is happy at her English University, where she studies history and shares her flat with the delectable and wild Rachel, but a new machine in the department brings her new opportunities and new problems. Opportunities to step into the love lives of people in the past and even more delightful opportunities with the lovely Richard, the blonde American technician who comes with the machine, and with the sexy Rachel. New problems aren’t far behind though, when her tutor tries to blackmail her into his bed. If Rebecca is going to turn the tables on the lecherous professor, she’ll need all her wits, the help of her friends and perhaps, just a little bit of luck! |
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Erotica |
| LENGTH: 28990 words; Reading time: 82-115 minutes
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The Pet: 1, 2, 3–Taking Alix by Nix Winter |
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Pets are cheap. Beautiful, intelligent, loyal pets, who arch into the lash and beg to be ridden hard are not so cheap. Alix was a simple musician, a delicate man with hair the color a blue sky and eyes full of life and curiosity, who had no desire to be taken by the ‘gods’. Captain Tristan Yarril did not want a pet to replace the one he’d lost. He would be Master to none. He’d rather share his bed with fading dreams. His crew has other ideas and Alix is to be come Tristan’s new pet. Innocent and virginal, responsive and beautiful he is presented as a birthday gift. Loneliness and fear soon mute into passion and love for them, but there is a coming civil war in Captain Yarril’s world and soon lives, both free and slave, will be worth less than the energy it takes to incinerate them. One master. One slave. And a love that could change the meaning of freedom forever. |
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Erotica |
| LENGTH: 21344 words; Reading time: 60-85 minutes
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Breeders by Alyna Lachlan |
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A world of vampires and dragons set on Eliscean Prime. Breeders is a sci-fi adventure. Stolen, no escape. Only one man can save her, a dark warrior of the realm. Will he be master, lover, or feed her to the dragons? |
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Erotica |
| LENGTH: 25630 words; Reading time: 73-102 minutes
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Tainted Pleasures by Alyna Lachlan |
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Dark and lonely, a torment soul plagued by an evil more powerful than anything humans had ever seen. Could this ancient warrior of the night save the woman who had become a pawn, or lose her and his soul to the beast? |
| CATEGORY: |
Erotica |
| LENGTH: 28516 words; Reading time: 81-114 minutes
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Snake Bite & Other Homoerotic Dark Fantasies by L. E. Bryce |
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Dark Fantasies About Gay Men! The erotica in this collection centers around themes of sacrifice, death and dark desire. Men who love men find themselves in strange encounters with the supernatural in a fantastic world of monsters and magic. “No Sound of Water” is about a young man is spirited away to the country by his father in an attempt to escape a lottery to the Rain God. In hiding, the young encounters a most unusual gardener. In “Red Clay” A bull dancer of Akkil has an accident in the ring that changes his life forever. Snake Bite focuses on Jhirin, a novice in the House of the Snake Mother, who is chosen to become the goddess’ chief oracle despite his mortal fear of snakes. What occurs on the night of his initiation, is something no one could have expected. Read Snake Bite at your own risk! “Grave Offerings” is based on a Germanic folk tale about a young man who is buried alive with a corpse and ultimately freed by tomb robbers. Here is an unusual combination of the homoerotic and the dark fantastic. Warning: |
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Erotica |
| LENGTH: 41461 words; Reading time: 118-165 minutes
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SoulBond: An Erotic Romance by Valentine Adams |
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He Bound Her Body and Her Heart! In the tradition of J. W. McKenna and Powerone comes a brilliant new author of the romance of domination and surrender. Five years ago Preston Hunter, a well-known, successful writer, hired Greta as a temporary assistant. But now, he realizes that Greta has become a part of his life, and Press wants more than just the office relationship. But he doesn’t know how to tell her. Press has already been married twice and neither relationship fulfilled his sexual needs. His only outlet is the erotic novels of bondage and submission he writes under a secret pseudonym, Valentine Hart. Valentine’s characters do the sort of stuff that Press only dreams about. Then Greta, who is a secret submissive, finds Valentine’s erotica online. His writings turn her on in a way nothing else ever has, and she develops a relationship with Valentine via email, never realizing he is actually her boss, Preston Hunter. However Press realizes who is emailing him, and sets out to use his writing to seduce her. Then, in a risky undertaking Val convinces Greta to become Preston’s slave for a weekend. The results of that weekend will change their lives forever. For what the pair discovers is that they are more than just soul mates, they share a SoulBond. |
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Erotica |
| LENGTH: 52230 words; Reading time: 149-208 minutes
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Strip-O-Gram by Ellie Marvel |
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Meet Kitty Bradshaw, sucker. When her best friend asks her to perform a birthday strip-o-gram for a guy at work, Kitty can’t say no–she needs the money and she doesn’t work there, after all. Who’s going to recognize her in a mask and corset? Answer: Nathan Guillame, the birthday boy, also known as her best friend’s boss, also known as the guy Kitty had a naughty fling with at her friend’s holiday party. What’s a pseudo-stripper to do when she realizes what a mistake she made putting on her mask one last time? Or would it be more of a mistake to take it off–take it all off? Amber Heat Wave Contest Winner! |
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Erotica |
| LENGTH: 11627 words; Reading time: 33-46 minutes
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Teacher Man: A Memoir by Frank McCourt |
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Nearly a decade ago Frank McCourt became an unlikely star when, at the age of sixty-six, he burst onto the literary scene with Angela’s Ashes, the Pulitzer Prize–winning memoir of his childhood in Limerick, Ireland. Then came ‘Tis, his glorious account of his early years in New York. Now, here at last, is McCourt’s long-awaited book about how his thirty-year teaching career shaped his second act as a writer. Teacher Man is also an urgent tribute to teachers everywhere. In bold and spirited prose featuring his irreverent wit and heartbreaking honesty, McCourt records the trials, triumphs and surprises he faces in public high schools around New York City. His methods anything but conventional, McCourt creates a lasting impact on his students through imaginative assignments (he instructs one class to write “An Excuse Note from Adam or Eve to God”), singalongs (featuring recipe ingredients as lyrics), and field trips (imagine taking twenty-nine rowdy girls to a movie in Times Square!). McCourt struggles to find his way in the classroom and spends his evenings drinking with writers and dreaming of one day putting his own story to paper. Teacher Man shows McCourt developing his unparalleled ability to tell a great story as, five days a week, five periods per day, he works to gain the attention and respect of unruly, hormonally charged or indifferent adolescents. McCourt’s rocky marriage, his failed attempt to get a Ph.D. at Trinity College, Dublin, and his repeated firings due to his propensity to talk back to his superiors ironically lead him to New York’s most prestigious school, Stuyvesant High School, where he finally finds a place and a voice. “Doggedness,” he says, is “not as glamorous as ambition or talent or intellect or charm, but still the one thing that got me through the days and nights.” For McCourt, storytelling itself is the source of salvation, and in Teacher Man the journey to redemption–and literary fame–is an exhilarating adventure. |
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People |
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On the Road with Francis of Assisi: A Timeless Journey Through Umbria and Tuscany, and Beyond by Linda Bird Francke |
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On the Road with Francis of Assisi offers a unique and lively travelogue of parallel journeys: that of Francis of Assisi on his way to sainthood in the thirteenth century, and that of author Linda Bird Francke, who followed his path through the beauty of central and coastal Italy–and even on to Egypt. Francke tells the compelling story of Saint Francis through the many places he visited. She and her husband, Harvey Loomis, used as their guidebooks medieval texts, including the first official biography of the saint, completed in 1229, just three years after he died. Theirs was not a spiritual journey but one based on admiration for a man whose legend continues to inspire and fascinate millions around the world. From Assisi–a small Umbrian town that now draws two million visitors a year, making it second only to Rome as an Italian pilgrimage destination–Saint Francis crisscrossed Italy for twenty years. And so too does the author travel through the “green heart” of Italy to such hill towns and cities as Siena, Bologna, Venice, Gubbio, and Rome, and to the many mountaintop Franciscan sanctuaries from La Verna and Le Celle di Cortona in Tuscany to the Rieti Valley. Along the way, Francke movingly depicts the many miracles Francis performed and draws us into the splendid beauty of the landscape that inspired the saint’s love for nature and regard for all living things. Unlike Francis, however, whose asceticism caused him to add ashes to his food to deaden its earthly pleasure, Francke and her husband indulge in the fabled Umbrian cuisine, from wild boar to the region’s famed black truffles, and the incomparable local wines. On the Road with Francis of Assisi embraces the spirit and person of its legendary subject, and invites the reader to marvel at his spiritual intensity and follow in his footsteps through the timeless beauty of Italy. |
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People |
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The Google Story: Inside the Hottest Business, Media and Technology Success of Our Time by David Vise |
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Here is the story behind one of the most remarkable Internet successes of our time. Based on scrupulous research and extraordinary access to Google, the book takes you inside the creation and growth of a company whose name is a favorite brand and a standard verb recognized around the world. Its stock is worth more than General Motors’ and Ford’s combined, its staff eats for free in a dining room run by the Grateful Dead’s former chef, and its employees traverse the firm’s colorful Silicon Valley campus on scooters and inline skates. is the definitive account of the populist media company powered by the world’s most advanced technology that in a few short years has revolutionized access to information about everything for everybody everywhere. In 1998, Moscow-born Sergey Brin and Midwest-born Larry Page dropped out of graduate school at Stanford University to, in their own words, “change the world” through a search engine that would organize every bit of information on the Web for free. While the company has done exactly that in more than one hundred languages, Google’s quest continues as it seeks to add millions of library books, television broadcasts, and more to its searchable database. Readers will learn about the amazing business acumen and computer wizardry that started the company on its astonishing course; the secret network of computers delivering lightning-fast search results; the unorthodox approach that has enabled it to challenge Microsoft’s dominance and shake up Wall Street. Even as it rides high, Google wrestles with difficult choices that will enable it to continue expanding while sustaining the guiding vision of its founders’ mantra: DO NO EVIL. |
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Business |
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U.S. History Flashcards Flip-O-Matic Volume 1 by Kaplan |
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Flip your way through U. S. History! Kaplan’s U. S. History Flashcards Flip-O-Matic is guarantted to make learning U. S. History simple and fun. Just clip the corners of pages you’ve mastered, then flip the book over for even more U. S. History terms. This compact resource includes: important people, events, and concepts in U. S. History. Entries sorted by historical era and numbered for easy cross-reference . A convenient, portable format for on-the-go studying Ideal for students who are preparing for AP or SAT Subject Tests, or anyone who needs a targeted review. |
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Education |
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Why Do I Love These People?: Honest and Amazing Stories of Real Families by Po Bronson |
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We all have an imaginary definition of a great family. We imagine what it would be like to belong to such a family. No fights over the holidays. No getting on one another’s nerves. Respect for individual identity. Mutual support, without being intrusive. So many people believe they are disqualified from having a better family experience, primarily because they compare their own family with the mythic ideal, and their reality falls short. Is that a fair standard to judge against?” In the pages of Why Do I Love These People?, Po Bronson takes us on an extraordinary journey. It begins on a river in Texas, where a mother gets trapped underwater and has to bargain for her own life and that of her kids. Then, a father and his daughter return to their tiny rice-growing village in China, hoping to rekindle their love for each other inside the walls of his childhood home. Next, a son puts forth a riddle, asking us to understand what his first experience of God has to do with his Mexican American mother. Every step–and every family–on this journey is real. Calling upon his gift for powerful nonfiction narrative and philosophical insight, Bronson explores the incredibly complicated feelings that we have for our families. Each chapter introduces us to two people–a father and his son, a daughter and her mother, a wife and her husband–and we come to know them as intimately as characters in a novel, following the story of their relationship as they struggle resiliently through the kinds of hardships all families endure. Some of the people manage to save their relationship, while others find a better life only after letting the relationship go. From their efforts, the wisdom in this book emerges. We are left feeling emotionally raw but grounded–and better prepared to love, through both hard times and good time. In these twenty mesmerizing stories, we discover what is essential and elemental to all families and, in doing so, slowly abolish the fantasies and fictions we have about those we fight to stay connected to. In Why Do I Love These People?, Bronson shows us that we are united by our yearnings and aspirations: Family is not our dividing line, but our common ground. |
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Family/Relationships |
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Flying Through Midnight: A Pilot’s Dramatic Story of His Secret Missions Over Laos During the Vietnam War by John T. Halliday |
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Riveting, novelistic, and startlingly candid, John T. Halliday’s combat memoir begins in 1970, when Halliday has just landed in the middle of the Vietnam War, primed to begin his assignment with the 606th Special Operations Squadron. But there’s a catch: He’s stationed in a kind of no-man’s-land. No one on his base flies with ID, patches, or rank. Even as Richard Nixon firmly denies reporters’ charges that the United States has forces in Laos, Halliday realizes that from his base in Thailand, he will be flying top-secret, black-ops night missions over the Laotian Ho Chi Minh Trail. A naive yet thoughtful twenty-four-year-old, Halliday was utterly unprepared for the horrors of war. On his first mission, Halliday’s C-123 aircraft dodges more than a thousand antiaircraft shells, and that is just the beginning. Nothing is as he expected–not the operations, not the way his shell-shocked fellow pilots look and act, and certainly not the squadron’s daredevil, seat-of-one’s-pants approach to piloting. But before long, Halliday has become one of those seasoned and shell-shocked pilots, and finds himself in a desperate search for a way to elude certain death. Using frank, true-to-life dialogue, potent imagery, and classic 1970s song lyrics, Halliday deftly describes the fraught Laotian skies and re-creates his struggle to navigate the frustrating Air Force bureaucracy, the deprivations of a remote base far from home and his young wife, and his fight to preserve his sanity. The resulting nonfiction narrative vividly captures not only the intricate, distorted culture of war but also the essence of the Vietnam veteran’s experience of this troubled era. A powerhouse fusion of pathos and humor, brutal realism and intimate reflection, Flying Through Midnight is a landmark contribution to war literature, revealing previously top-secret intelligence on the 606th’s night missions. Fast-paced, thrilling, and bitingly intelligent, Halliday illuminates it all: the heart-pounding air battles, the close friendships, the crippling fear, and the astonishing final escape that made the telling of it possible. |
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History |
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Helen of Troy by Andrew Lang |
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All day within the palace of the King In Lacedaemon, was there revelry, Since Menelaus with the dawn did spring Forth from his carven couch, and, climbing high The tower of outlook, gazed along the dry White road that runs to Pylos through the plain, And mark’d thin clouds of dust against the sky, And gleaming bronze, and robes of purple stain. |
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Classic Literature |
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Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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The immortal classic by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. |
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Classic Literature |
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The Rise of Roscoe Paine by Joseph C. Lincoln |
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I’m going up to the village,” I told Dorinda, taking my cap from the hook behind the dining-room door. “What for?” asked Dorinda, pushing me to one side and reaching for the dust-cloth, which also was behind the door. “Oh, just for the walk,” I answered, carelessly. “Um-hm,” observed Dorinda. “Um-hm” is, I believe, good Scotch for “Yes.” I have read that it is, somewhere–in one of Barrie’s yarns, I think. I had never been in Scotland, or much of anywhere else, except the city I was born in, and my college town, and Boston–and Cape Cod. “Um-hm” meant yes on the Cape, too, except when Dorinda said it; then it might mean almost anything. |
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Classic Literature |
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The Metal Monster by A. Merritt |
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The dawn, streaming into the niche, awakened us. A covey of partridges venturing too close yielded three to our guns. We breakfasted well, and a little later were pushing on down the cleft. Its descent, though gradual, was continuous, and therefore I was not surprised when soon we began to come upon evidences of semi-tropical vegetation. Giant rhododendrons and tree ferns gave way to occasional clumps of stately kopek and clumps of the hardier bamboos. |
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Science Fiction |
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Facing Rushmore by David Martin |
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The St. Louis Memorial Arch, 630 feet of gleaming stainless steel, twice the height of the Statue of Liberty, built to withstand earthquakes, has been so severely damaged that it’s barely standing. What’s even more unsettling to a nervous nation: The arch was damaged and turned black overnight but without apparent cause–no bombs, no guns, no chemicals. There are suspects, however. And Charlie Hart, a clean-cut FBI agent in the all-American mode, is on the trail of three: Lakota John Brown Dog, an otherworldly whore, and “the grandfather,” who’s in contact with a shadowy but powerful group known as the allies. And matters only get scarier for America after the arch is damaged … the four stone presidents on Mount Rushmore come under an attack that a hundred armed agents and a dozen assault helicopters are powerless to stop … then it’s on to a second battle of the Little Bighorn. The white man’s civilization ends with a lone wolf howling in the desolate forests of Manhattan. The force majeure behind these events is ghost dancing, which began in 1890 as a promise to Indians that America’s original illegal aliens–the Europeans and their descendants–could be eradicated without war, without killing. How this promise can be fulfilled more than a hundred years later, in present-day America, is one of the compelling mysteries at the heart of Facing Rushmore. Martin’s ten novels have given him a cult following. His thriller, Lie to Me, and his eccentric love story, The Crying Heart Tattoo, are adored by fans worldwide. But Facing Rushmore is in a class by itself. The novel’s unforgettable characters dare to consider a provocative question in the post-9/11 world: Can the technological power of the United States, a power that has dominated the world, be overwhelmed by a superior spiritual force? Facing Rushmore will thrill and provoke readers. It’s a history lesson, a page-turner, and one hell of a journey. If you’re a Martin fan, the good news is: He’s back. If this is your first trip with him, get ready for the ride of your life. |
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Mainstream |
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A Covington Christmas by Joan Medlicott |
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In this wondrous new holiday book in Joan Medlicott’s USA Today bestselling series, the Christmas season brings a host of surprises–not all of them welcome–to the lovely ladies of Covington and their small North Carolina mountain town. The new pastor at the Cove Road Church in Covington discovers that a former pastor from forty years ago was never ordained as a minister, and was therefore not qualified to marry anyone–which means that five longstanding marriages are invalid! With their marriages thrown into crisis, it’s decided that the couples absolutely must remarry on Christmas Eve. But with the church desperately in need of repairs and lacking the funds to fix the rotting floorboards and the outdated heating system, how can they ever get it ready in time? Sounds like a job for the ladies of Covington! Grace, Hannah, and Amelia step in to organize the weddings, while their friends and neighbors volunteer paint, lumber, and good old-fashioned elbow grease to fix up the church. But when last-minute obstacles threaten to stop the weddings, they’re going to need a miracle to turn Christmas Eve into a wedding day that no one will ever forget. Brimming with warmth, charm, and the spirit of the holidays, A Covington Christmas is a delightful gift for new fans and returning fans alike! |
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Mainstream |
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His Dark Desires by Jennifer St. Giles |
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You are in danger. Trust no one. The terrifying words from a mysterious letter echo in Juliet Bucheron’s mind. Destitute ever since her husband disappeared in the Civil War, Juliet has turned her New Orleans ancestral home into a boarding house–despite the rumors of ghosts, the whispers of scandal, and the stain of murder. But even more unsettling is Juliet’s new tenant, a handsome stranger named Stephen Trevelyan. Wealthy, educated, and seductively compelling, Stephen fills Juliet’s heart with uncontrollable longing–and her head with suspicion. Something, she senses, is lurking beneath the surface. And someone is stalking the hallways after midnight. As the danger draws nearer, Juliet wonders if she can really trust Stephen. But as he pulls her closer, she knows she cannot resist him … no matter what the price. |
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Romance |
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Life Shift: Let Go and Live Your Dream by Aleta St. James |
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Find your power, transform your obstacles, surrender to success Aleta St. James has spent the past twenty-five years as an emotional healer and life coach developing a system for creating deep and dramatic life changes with lasting results. In Life Shift, she shares the secret of how to bring enormous success and deep satisfaction into your life. In an effort to fully compete in a man’s world, contemporary women have become alpha females. We rely on masculine traits–the testosterone energies of action, focus, determination, and self-reliance–to create success and achieve our goals. We are now coming to realize that while we have mastered these means for pursuing our dreams, we have neglected the equally valuable and complementary energies of magnetism, receptivity, and intuition–the Magnetic Female. In Life Shift, Aleta presents her techniques for breaking through our emotional blocks and allowing our Magnetic Female and alpha energies to interact and harmonize with each other. She teaches skills that open the doors to a powerful cocreative relationship between these two forces within us and guides us to use these tools to identify our desires, engage our dreams, and realize our destinies. Using her renowned system, which integrates the teachings of primal therapy, Tibetan Buddhism, Hinduism, bioenergetics, and other life-enhancing practices and philosophies, Aleta shares with us all of the tools necessary to live our ideal lives. This Life-Shift Tool Kit incorporates techniques for realigning the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual bodies, inviting rather than pursuing success, recognizing the power of release, eliminating emotional blocks, and reorganizing energy centers within the body. Aleta also offers her expert techniques in regenerative organic breathing, physical and emotional release work, color healing, light therapy, focused reflections, power mantras, prayers and blessings, love baths, and support circles. Weaving together Aleta’s own dramatic story of inspiration, success stories from her elite clientele, and lessons from her journeys to spiritual “power spots,” Life Shift teaches you how to transform feelings of failure, frustration, doubt, and loneliness into a creative power that becomes a magnetic force attracting joy, fulfillment, success, and love. |
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Self Improvement |
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My Hero: Extraordinary People on the Heroes Who Inspire Them by The My Hero Project |
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In My Hero, some of the brightest lights from around the globe share–in their own words–stories about the people who have been the greatest source of strength and inspiration to them. With essays by military heroes, political leaders, and Nobel Prize winners, sports heroes, firefighters, scientists, and schoolteachers–and with an introduction by basketball legend, businessman, and philanthropist Earvin “Magic” Johnson–this collection gathers individuals who themselves are shining examples to tell us about the people who have illuminated their own lives. How did Dana Reeve come to find such grit and grace when her fairy-tale prince was thrown from his real-life steed, paralyzed from the neck down? What traits of baseball great Ted Williams have inspired war hero Senator John McCain since childhood? What impact did Nelson Mandela have on boxing legend Muhammad Ali? Why does one of the all-time greats of baseball, Yogi Berra, believe that he owes each of his legendary home runs to his brothers? How did Michael J. Fox find a woman who would walk away from a spectacular career in finance in order to fight for a cure for Parkinson’s disease at the helm of his nonprofit foundation? Why does John Glenn, a man who flew into space twice and served a quarter century on the Senate floor, look up to his own wife, Annie Glenn, as the true hero in the family? In a world hungry for good examples, My Hero reminds us that heroes come in all shapes and sizes. It also teaches us that the words and deeds of those who inspire us are as varied as the stars that illuminate the night. The editors of My Hero and the contributors are donating all royalties from this book to the nonprofit My Hero Project. |
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Self Improvement |
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The Master of the World by Jules Verne |
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If I speak of myself in this story, it is because I have been deeply involved in its startling events, events doubtless among the most extraordinary which this twentieth century will witness. Sometimes I even ask myself if all this has really happened, if its pictures dwell in truth in my memory, and not merely in my imagination. In my position as head inspector in the federal police department at Washington, urged on moreover by the desire, which has always been very strong in me, to investigate and understand everything which is mysterious, I naturally became much interested in these remarkable occurrences. |
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Classic Literature |
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Oedipus the King–Oedipus at Colonus–Antigone by Sophocles |
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To Laius, King of Thebes, an oracle foretold that the child born to him by his queen Jocasta would slay his father and wed his mother. So when in time a son was born the infant’s feet were riveted together and he was left to die on Mount Cithaeron. But a shepherd found the babe and tended him, and delivered him to another shepherd who took him to his master, the King or Corinth. Polybus being childless adopted the boy, who grew up believing that he was indeed the King’s son. |
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Classic Literature |
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The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore |
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A Rabindranath Tagore classic. |
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Classic Literature |
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Massacre at Paris by Christopher Marlowe |
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Prince of Navarre my honourable brother, Prince Condy, and my good Lord Admirall, wishe this union and religious league, Knit in these hands, thus joyn’d in nuptiall rites, May not desolve, till death desolve our lives, And that the native sparkes of princely love, That kindled first this motion in our hearts, May still be feweld in our progenye. |
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Classic Literature |
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Ethics by Spinoza |
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A Spinoza classic. |
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Classic Literature |
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The Wizard Hunters by Martha Wells |
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Once a fertile and prosperous land, Ile-Rien is under attack by the Gardier, a mysterious army whose storm-black airships appear from nowhere to strike without warning. Every weapon in the arsenal of Ile-Rien’s revered wizards has proven useless. And now the last hope of a magical realm under siege rests within a child’s plaything. |
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Fantasy |
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Mental Floss Presents Forbidden Knowledge: A Wickedly Smart Guide to History’s Naughtiest Bits by Mental Floss Publishing |
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Think of anything bad, from art heists to Genghis Kahn, and it?s likely to be included in this wickedly smart and humorous guide to the seedy underbelly of basically everything. The brainiac team at “mental_floss”, creators of the hit magazine and last year?s Condensed Knowledge, have scoured the darkest, dirtiest corners of history and the globe to gather this ultimate collection of the bad stuff you?re not supposed to know and you certainly never learned in school. Organized by theme, with chapters for each of the seven deadly sins, the book includes feuds, plagiarists, hoaxes, lies, schemes, scandals, evil dictators, mob bosses, acts of revenge, angry queens, cannibals and much more, all organized into bite-sized–albeit foul-tasting–lists (i.e.”The Fascist Style Guide: Five Dictator Grooming Tips”, ?Four Biblical Girls Gone Wild” and ?Three Delicious Animals We Charbroiled Into Extinction.”). It?s the perfect way to add some spice to a dull conversation and proves that learning can be not only easy, but exquisitely sinful. |
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Reference |
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3-Hour Diet On the Go: Set Your Metabolism in Motion and Lose Belly Fat First by Jorge Cruise |
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Imagine eating your favorite foods every 3 hours to finally get the results you’ve been searching for. NO calorie-counting, NO carb deprivation, and NO skipping sweets. Based on the revolutionary principles of Time-Based Nutrition, this pocket guidebook will give you the slimming secrets you need to enjoy fast food, restaurant meals, gas station gourmet, and much more! |
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Health/Fitness |
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Daily Readings from Your Best Life Now: 90 Devotions for Living at Your Full Potential by Joel Osteen |
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Renowned pastor Joel Osteen encourages people to discover their innate strengths and abilities on the road to success. Having started Lakewood ChurchÍs television outreach ministry, Pastor Joel Osteen has taken a message of hope around the world. Now, in Your Best Life Now, Osteen continues his mission to help others to go higher, rise above obstacles, and live in health, abundance, and victory. Osteen believes fervently that our self image should mirror exactly what God says about us, not what we feel or think. And he encourages readers to be people of faith, for when one can see the invisible, God will do the impossible. |
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Spiritual/Religion |
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Between You and Me: Mike Wallace Memoir by Mike Wallace |
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It is staggering to think of how many important historical and cultural figures Mike Wallace has interviewed over the course of his legendary career. With great humor and insight, he recalls his encounters with such luminaries as Eleanor Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Yassir Arafat, Frank Lloyd Wright, Salvador Dali, Barbara Streisand, Tina Turner, and many more. From his early days, Wallace displayed a no-holds-barred interviewing technique that distinguished him from his colleagues and earned him many accolades–but also often got him in hot water with his subjects and with his corporate bosses. In this remarkable book, Between You and Me, he reveals the story behind the story: what happened off-camera before, during, and after his most famous interviews. |
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People |
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Burn Before Reading: Presidents, CIA Directors, and Secret Intelligence by Stansfield Turner |
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As never before, the American public is fascinated by how the United States government gathers intelligence. And there is no one better than Admiral Stansfield Turner to reveal the politics and personal issues that can interfere with how the President of the United States deals with the intelligence community and the CIA Director in particular. In never before told anecdotes, Admiral Turner takes the reader inside the White House, into closed door meetings and tense discussions, showing the workings of the US government with a kind of understanding that comes from being an intimate of many high-level government officials, including ex-Presidents. |
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History |
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Swamp (Twenty Two) by Gary Clark |
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Quirky pranks, mischievous students, dopey ducks, plus many other crazy situations. Swamp covers all topics, from education, aviation, health, environment to the everyday situation. With Swampy characters such as ducks, crocs, birds, flies, rats, frogs, turtles plus many more. See all the zany Swamp characters living it up at the Swamp, in this coloured panel style cartoon from Australian creator Gary Clark. |
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Humor |
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Sev Trek The X Generation (Two) by John Cook |
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We recommend this eBook only be read on a device that has landscape mode. Sev Trek: A History Early in my cartooning career, I had a notebook where I’d doodle any weird idea that came in my head. Once while watching Star Trek: The Next Generation, I drew a cartoon spoofing the idealistic, utopian world that takes itself just a little too seriously. At the beginning I did it mostly for my own enjoyment–there was no practical way I could publish Star Trek parody. At the time my cartoons were only being published in newspapers and Sev Trek was a little too special interest to be used by them. Back then when the Internet was still young, I was only published in print newspapers. After I created my cartoon website, I thought it would be a good opportunity to publish some of my other cartoons so I drew that initial idea–a story called Pus in Boots where Commander Piker is afflicted with a sentient pimple. It quickly became the most popular cartoon on my website with online Trekkies (or is it Trekkers) coming out of the woodworks in droves. I began to think maybe I should draw more of this Sev Trek stuff. After Pus in Boots, I began the Sev Trek caption contest. I’d draw a single panel cartoon with the final speech bubble missing its punchline. Readers would submit punchlines and at the end of the week, a winner would be chosen and placed into the cartoon. We still run the same weekly contest, with over a decade’s worth of weekly contests now archived on the website. Once the Sev Trek comic strip got started, I opened it up for use on other people’s web sites (a way to spread the cartoon on the web). That was when Sev Trek really exploded–the Sev Trek equivalent of Zefram Cochrane inventing the warp drive. Suddenly a lot more people were visiting the site and a community began to build around the website. After several years of Sev Trek, I was contacted by Wally Fields, comedian and voice impersonator. He suggested we combine forces to produce a sci-fi spoof animation. While I liked the idea, I had no experience in animation so we asked online for animators. 3D animator Andrew Simpson joined the project. After a few short animations, we decided to try something a little more ambitious–a longer animation based on the original Pus in Boots storyline. Over the course of production, we recruited crew members from all over the world including USA, Australia and Brazil. Ultimately, the project took 2 years to produce a 41 minute film now released on video and DVD. Currently, Sev Trek continues to thrive online as well as being published in newspapers throughout Australia (and one paper in Fiji). |
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Humor |
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Frenetic Wanderings (One) by Jeff Swenson |
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Cartoon Ebooks is presenting a selection of some of my favorite Frenetic Wanderings gag cartoons that I have hand-picked myself. I have to admit to enjoying parodies of popular culture like the movies, the renewed interest in superheroes, TV shows and any celebrities who are making fools of themselves. You’ll see quite a bit of material in that direction. However, as usual, I have a morbid side too and, as many cartoonists do, I scoff at Death with doodles of crime, cemetaries, and car accidents. Okay, I don’t really “scoff.” It’s more like I tickle Death a bit and hope he can laugh and forgive. Did I refer to Death as a “he”? Sorry about that. Death could be a woman too. I’m not sexist. Though I assume Death’s genitals fell off quite some time ago so let’s say Death is gender-neutral and move on. Any questions from the reader can be sent to jeff@the-cynic.com as long as it isn’t, “Where do you get your ideas?” You people need to do some brainstorming and come up with some better questions. Though, the fact that you are asking, “Where do you get your ideas,” leads me to believe that brainstorming isn’t your best suit. At the very least, you should be asking, “Where do you get your ideas and why are you so handsome?”. I realize most everybody on the web has not seen me in person so you’ll just have to take my word for it that, yes, I am very handsome. The word “handsome” is a subjective term by the way, and you people laughing off to the side can go to hell. Anyways, you obtained this eBook not to read a wordy intro, but to read some cartoons. Have at it.–Jeff Swenson |
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Humor |
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Kong Unbound: The Cultural Impact, Pop Mythos, and Scientific Plauibility of a Cinematic Legend by Karen Haber |
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In 1933, Merian C. Cooper, Ernest Schoedsack, and Willis O’Brien created more than movie magic. King Kong is a pop-cultural icon and a central part of American mythology. But more than just another “Beauty and the Beast” tale, Kong Unbound also allows us to examine such themes as: The Great Depression and America’s place in the world Kong as Avatar of Repressed Sexual Energy Kong as a Symbol of Slavery and Racism Kong as Alternate Paleontology The Triumph of Technology over the Natural World These themes and more are explored in this wonderful collection of insightful essays by: Ray Harryhausen, Ray Bradbury, Karen Haber, Richard A. Lupoff, Christopher Priest, Robert Silverberg, Jack Williamson, Harry Harrison, William Stout, Paul Di Filippo, Esther M. Friesner, Howard Waldrop, Frank M. Robinson, Pat Cadigan, David Gerrold, Philip J. Currie, Joe DeVito, Alan Dean Foster, William Joyce, Michael Chabon, and Maurice Sendak. |
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Mainstream |
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Kiss the Year Goodbye by Brenda L. Thomas |
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New Year’s Eve is the time to make a naughty resolution, so shed your inhibitions and indulge in this sultry collection of escapades from four of the hottest writers around. In Brenda L. Thomas’s “Every New Year,” a shoot-out lands a respected doctor in the hospital with a bad case of amnesia, and in the care of a man too sexy to resist. In “Whatever It Takes” by Tu-Shonda L. Whitaker, a sassy older woman tries to break off her steamy relationship with her best friend’s twenty-three-year-old son, but he shows her he’s man enough to fulfill her needs. Crystal Lacey Winslow proves you can be “Dangerously in Love” when a prim and proper young woman’s wild side takes over after the man she’s dating slips up with another woman. In “My Boo” by Daaimah S. Poole, a Philly girl’s long-distance boyfriend never has time for her–not even around the holidays. So when her ex-roommate’s latest lover comes knocking, she’s ready to get the party started. |
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Mainstream |
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The School of Calvary by J. H. Jowett |
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The death and passion of our Lord is the gentlest, and at the same time the strongest motive which can animate our hearts in this mortal life; and it is quite true that the mystical bees make their most excellent honey in the wounds of the lion of the tribe of Judah, who was killed, shattered, and rent on Mount Calvary. |
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Spiritual/Religion |
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The Life of God in the Soul of Man by Henry Scougal |
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John Wesley said that of all the definitions of Christianity that he had encountered, the best was that of a Scotsman who lived in the 17th-century. He said: “Christianity is the life of God in the soul of man.” This timeless classic was originally written to encourage a friend and stimulate his spiritual life. It was so appreciated that it was later published as a book for a wider readership. 100 years later a copy was sent to George Whitefield by his friend Charles Wesley, it was instrumental in Whitefield’s conversion. This book provided much of the stimulation behind the Methodist Revival of Britain and the Great Awakening in America. |
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Spiritual/Religion |
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Seeker by Jack McDevitt |
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Thousands of years after an entire colony mysteriously disappears, antiquities dealer Alex Benedict comes into possession of a cup that seems to be from the Seeker, one of the colony’s ships. Investigating the provenance of the cup, Alex and his assistant Chase follow a deadly trail to the Seeker–strangely adrift in a system barren of habitable worlds. But their discovery raises more questions than it answers, drawing Alex and Chase into the very heart of danger. |
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Science Fiction |
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Magical Worlds of Narnia: A Treasury of Myths, Legends, and Fascinating Facts by David Colbert |
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After revealing the inspirations behind Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings, David Colbert takes a tour of C.S. Lewis’s Narnia–from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe to The Last Battle–in this indispensable guide to the origins of the classic book. |
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Fantasy |
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Harrowing the Dragon by Patricia A. McKillip |
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Now, for the first time, Patricia A. McKillip presents a book of previously uncollected short stories-full of beautiful dragons, rueful princesses, and handsome bards, and written in the gorgeous, and often surprisingly funny, prose she is known for. This is her world, wrapped up in the finery of fairy tales. |
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Fantasy |
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Drop-Dead Blonde: All New Mysteries to Dye For by Nancy Martin & Elaine Viets & Denise Swanson |
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Four beloved authors with all new fair-haired mysteries to dye for do. They’re blondes with style, money, and men falling at their feet. But now these perfect women are perfect victims. In Drop-Dead Blonde, four of today’s top mystery authors–Nancy Martin, Denise Swanson, Elaine Viets, and Victoria Laurie-spin four all-new tales of fair-haired sirens, secrets, and seduction. |
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Mystery/Crime |
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Over the Moon at the Big Lizard Diner by Lisa Wingate |
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Big Lizard Bottoms–where getting hitched is a local industry–is not any place Lindsey Attwood, a play-it-safe paleontologist who’s sworn off romance, ever expected to find herself. She’s here posing as a horse psychology student to help recover dinosaur tracks stolen from a local guest ranch. After only a day at the ranch, things start spiraling out of control. Her horse-therapy horse hates her, she’s been adopted by a huge stray dog with a bad reputation, and there’s this local rancher who has her all moonstruck. After years of digging around in the past, Lindsey’s wondering if it’s finally time to see what the present has to offer. |
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Romance |
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Take Me by Bella Andre |
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An appetite for sensual pleasures must never be denied … Lily Ellis has curves–soft, beautiful curves. The kind of voluptuous body she fears Travis Carson, the man she’s always loved from afar, would never crave. But Lily is about to be proven wrong. Her adventure begins when the demure San Francisco interior decorator agrees to model a plus-size dress for her fashion designer sister. Watching this sensual beauty move down the runway, Travis can’t believe it’s the same Lily he’s always known–and always rejected. In a whirlwind of electric attraction, Lily is soon moaning Travis’s name in his bed, not just in her wild fantasies. But Lily is all too aware that she’s nothing like his past lovers. Determined to beat Travis at his own game by guarding her true feelings, Lily partners with him on a business deal that takes them all the way to Italy. In the seductive warmth of the Tuscan sun, Lily plays a game of desire with the hot-blooded Travis. Will she be burned by an all-consuming ecstasy or will Travis open his heart to the sexy, exciting, and lasting love she has to offer? |
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Romance |
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A Manager’s Toolkit: A Ready Reference and Reckoner for Management Professionals and Students by S. Lomash |
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It is a well known fact that the concept of management is too complex to be explained and understood by the lone degree of MBA. We must not only accumulate knowledge, but develop abilities to actively integrate it and effectively use it. It is, in fact, by becoming ’street smart’ that we can get what we want and this book helps exactly do this. The job of a manager offers one of the most exciting and stimulating career opportunities. The future managers are expected to know a great deal about the new management techniques and concepts to face more challenging and complex tasks so that they can make significant contributions to their organisations and society at large and at the same time grow and develop as successful managers. We know that opportunities are aplenty but those of us who equip ourselves well to face the challenges, find our jobs rewarding. The book will help those who are aspiring to become managers and would be of great help as a refresher to consultants, teachers and practitioners. About the Author SUKUL LOMASH graduated in Mech. Engineering in 1975, with honours from MACT, Bhopal and joined BHEL, Bhopal in 1976, as Design Engineer. He completed his Masters Degree in Engineering Materials for Design and Production of Heavy Engineering Equipment from the same College. Later, he developed an interest in Management Sciences and did his MBA. Currently serving as an Additional General Manager and heading the Hydrogenerator and Turbogenerator Engineering Division of BHEL, Bhopal, he has not only designed more than thirty generators, but also has guided M.Tech. and MBA students in their research work. He has authored more than fifty papers and six books on management. He has lectured extensively to senior Management professionals and has been a guest faculty for the Diploma course of All India Institute of Materials Management, MBA courses of IGNOU and Barkatullah University. He is also a fellow member of the Institution of Engineers (India). He is an acclaimed fiction writer in Hindi. |
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Business |
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Beat the Flu–How to Stay Healthy through the Coming Bird Flu Pandemic by A A Avlicino |
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According to most experts, bird flu is coming. It’s not a question of if, but when. In 1918 up to 50 million died in the Spanish Influenza outbreak; with increased global travel, this next pandemic could be even worse. The avian flu virus, H5N1, could kill millions upon millions if it mixes with a human strain of influenza. It poses more of a threat to global society than terrorism, natural disasters or economic collapse. Our governments are aware of the threat, but are radically unprepared to protect us. Beat the Flu shows you how to protect yourself and your loved ones from bird flu, as well as regular flu. Full of life-saving tips, from the best way to clean your home and where to purchase effective air filters, to how to get hold of antiviral medication before it runs out, Beat the Flu also explores what to do if society breaks down following a major pandemic. By the time H5N1 mutates into its final ‘breakout’ form there is a 95% probability it will be too late to develop a vaccine. This book is packed with advice to keep you healthy. |
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Health/Fitness |
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Hamlet by William Shakespeare |
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This is a digital adobe eBook version of the classic Shakespearian work The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. |
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Classic Literature |
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Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare |
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This is a digital adobe eBook version of the classic Shakespearian work Romeo and Juliet. |
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Classic Literature |
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War and Peace by Leo Nikoleyvich Tolstoy |
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A digital version of the classic Leo Tolstoy work, “War and Peace.” This book is an excellent read for individuals who are interested in a unique perpsective of all sides of going to war. |
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Classic Literature |
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The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx |
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This is a digital copy of the classic radical political book which founded the ideas of communism and communistic expression. Karl Marx was the founder of this breed of political philosophy and this is his major work on the subject of communism. |
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Classic Literature |
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The Fated Sky: Astrology in History by Benson Bobrick |
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In a horoscope he cast in 1647 for Charles I, William Lilly, a noted English astrologer, made the following judgment: “Luna is with Antares, a violent fixed star, which is said to denote violent death, and Mars is approaching Caput Algol, which is said to denote beheading.” Two years later the king’s head fell on the block. “Astrology must be right,” wrote the American astrologer Evangeline Adams, a claimed descendant of President John Quincy Adams, in a challenge to skeptics in 1929. “There can be no appeal from the Infinite.” The Fated Sky explores both the history of astrology and the controversial subject of its influence in history. It is the first serious book to fully engage astrology in this way. Astrology is the oldest of the occult sciences. It is also the origin of science itself. Astronomy, mathematics, and other disciplines arose in part to make possible the calculations necessary in casting horoscopes. For five thousand years, from the ancient Near East to the modern world, the influence of the stars has been viewed as shaping the course and destiny of human affairs. According to recent polls, at least 30 percent of the American public believes in astrology, though, as Bobrick reveals, modern astrology is also utterly different from the doctrine of the stars that won the respect and allegiance of the greatest thinkers, scientists, and writers–Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Arab, and Persian–of an earlier day. Statesmen, popes, and kings once embraced it, and no less a figure than St. Thomas Aquinas, the medieval theologian, thought it not incompatible with Christian faith. There are some two hundred astrological allusions in Shakespeare’s plays, and not one of their astrological predictions goes unfulfilled. The great astronomers of the scientific revolution–Copernicus, Tycho Brahe, Kepler–were adherents. Isaac Newton’s appetite for mathematics was first whetted by an astrological text. In more recent times, prominent figures such as Churchill, de Gaulle, and Reagan have consulted astrologers and sometimes heeded their advice. Today universities as diverse as Oxford in England and the University of Zaragoza in Spain offer courses in the subject, fulfilling Carl Jung’s prediction decades ago that astrology would again become the subject of serious discourse. Whether astrology actually has the powers that have been ascribed to it is, of course, open to debate. But there is no doubt that it maintains an unshakeable hold on the human mind. In The Fated Sky, Benson Bobrick has written an absolutely captivating and comprehensive account of this engrossing subject and its enduring influence on history and the history of ideas. |
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History |
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A Billion is Enough: India’s Population Problem–A Way Out by Ashok Gupta |
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It is a university acknowledged fact that over-population is India’s problem No. 1. Various family planning programmes have remained less than successful as these were adhoc, isolated and non-comprehensive. No linkages were established between family planning programmes and removal of deprivations and disparities for the development of capabilities of the masses. As a result, we stand no better than where we were at the dawn of freedom. The plan of action for state intervention proposed in this book of has been designed on the basis of actual field experience as well as empirical study. The author not only offers a democratic solution to the problem of over-population in a fixed time-frame, but also paves the path for enhancing capabilities by reducing poverty and deprivation among the masses. Bases on field experience and data, the book is written in a style and a language that enders it both to a layman and a specialist. The book is an attempt by a concerned and conscientious career bureaucrat to suggest a viable plan of action for removing the biggest road block in India’s journey to progress and sustainable development. Some of the proposals suggested in the first edition of the book have already been acknowledged and adopted by the Governments of Haryana and Punjab. |
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After the Fall by Ryan Phillips |
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Abigail Walker and Jarvis Daniels are longtime sweethearts headed in opposite directions. Abby, an aspiring cellist, wants out of her humble Detroit surroundings and is willing to shed blood, sweat, and tears to make it happen. Jarvis, on the other hand, is perfectly content with life. For him there’s plenty of time to become a “responsible adult.” For now, he’s got everything he could want: a roof over his head, a PlayStation, and the love of a good woman. |
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Spiritual/Religion |
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Be a Hero: The Battle for Mercy and Social Justice by Wesley Campbell & Stephen Court |
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Be a Hero is a battle cry challenging the Body of Christ to be enlisted in the greatest battle of all times–the battle for mercy and social justice. Be a Hero opens with God’s interaction in the affairs of men and His plan to redeem the ‘invisible’ people through justice, mercy and compassion. Setting the stage theologically the authors then unveil the great exploits of those who have gone before us and the impact that they made in their own times and on their own culture. |
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Spiritual/Religion |
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King Henry VI, Part 3 by William Shakespeare |
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A William Shakespeare classic. |
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Classic Literature |
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Mother by Maxim Gorky |
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Every day the factory whistle bellowed forth its shrill, roaring, trembling noises into the smoke-begrimed and greasy atmosphere of the workingmen’s suburb; and obedient to the summons of the power of steam, people poured out of little gray houses into the street. With somber faces they hastened forward like frightened roaches, their muscles stiff from insufficient sleep. In the chill morning twilight they walked through the narrow, unpaved street to the tall stone cage that waited for them with cold assurance, illumining their muddy road with scores of greasy, yellow, square eyes. |
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Classic Literature |
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Killer Summer by Lynda Curnyn |
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Sharing a beach house on Fire Island seems like a killer way for best friends Zoe, Sage and Nick to spend summer together. But just as they’re dreaming of sunset margaritas and late-night barbecues, the body of their house hostess washes up on the beach. Talk about a buzz kill! Now all Zoe can think about is why the “grieving” husband is planning parties rather than mourning his wife. Nick suddenly has secrets he can’t tell a soul. And Sage is trying to score booty as if it’s her last summer on earth, which it just might be. Because despite the ocean views and endless parties, Zoe, Sage and Nick have stopped wondering if the good times will last and started wondering if they will. |
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Mystery/Crime |
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Do They Wear High Heels in Heaven? by Erica Orloff |
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Lily’s gay best friend Michael has seen her through good times and bad (including her husband leaving her for a younger woman) with laughter and affection. Now, diagnosed with cancer, she wants to name Michael as guardian of her two kids. |
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Romance |
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Before Sunrise by Diana Palmer |
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Jeremiah Cortez and Phoebe Keller haven’t seen each other in three years. But now they have to work together to solve a murder on an archeological site, leading them to dig up conspiracy, deception … and love. |
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Romance |
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Saint George and Saint Michael by George MacDonald |
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It was the middle of autumn, and had rained all day. Through the lozenge-panes of the wide oriel window the world appeared in the slowly gathering dusk not a little dismal. The drops that clung trickling to the dim glass added rain and gloom to the landscape beyond, whither the eye passed, as if vaguely seeking that help in the distance, which the dripping hollyhocks and sodden sunflowers bordering the little lawn, or the honeysuckle covering the wide porch, from which the slow rain dropped ceaselessly upon the pebble-paving below, could not give–steepy slopes, hedge-divided into small fields, some green and dotted with red cattle, others crowded with shocks of bedraggled and drooping corn, which looked suffering and patient. |
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Historical Fiction |
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The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart |
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Heaven and earth,” sang the tenor, Mr. Henry Wallace, owner of the Wallace garage. His larynx, which gave him somewhat the effect of having swallowed a crab-apple and got it only part way down, protruded above his low collar. |
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Classic Literature |
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Frenzied Fiction by Stephen Leacock |
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In many people the very name Spy excites a shudder of apprehension; we Spies, in fact, get quite used to being shuddered at. None of us Spies mind it at all. Whenever I enter a hotel and register myself as a Spy I am quite accustomed to see a thrill of fear run round the clerks, or clerk, behind the desk. |
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Classic Literature |
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Moonbeams From the Larger Lunacy by Stephen Leacock |
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The prudent husbandman, after having taken from his field all the straw that is there, rakes it over with a wooden rake and gets as much again. The wise child, after the lemonade jug is empty, takes the lemons from the bottom of it and squeezes them into a still larger brew. So does the sagacious author, after having sold his material to the magazines and been paid for it, clap it into book-covers and give it another squeeze. |
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Classic Literature |
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The Slave of the Lamp by Seton Merriman, Henry |
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Henry Seton Merriman published his first novel, Young Mistley, in 1888, when he was twenty-six years old. Messrs. Bentley’s reader, in his critique on the book, spoke of its powerful situations and unconventionality of treatment: and, while dwelling at much greater length on its failings, declared, in effect, its faults to be the right faults, and added that, if Young Mistley was not in itself a good novel, its author was one who might hereafter certainly write good novels. |
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Classic Literature |
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The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura |
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Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage. In China, in the eighth century, it entered the realm of poetry as one of the polite amusements. The fifteenth century saw Japan ennoble it into a religion of aestheticism–Teaism. Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the social order. |
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Classic Literature |
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A Personal Record by Joseph Conrad |
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As a general rule we do not want much encouragement to talk about ourselves; yet this little book is the result of a friendly suggestion, and even of a little friendly pressure. I defended myself with some spirit; but, with characteristic tenacity, the friendly voice insisted, You know, you really must. |
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Classic Literature |
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My Young Alcides by Charlotte Mary Yonge |
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Ideas have a tyrannous power of insisting on being worked out, even when one fears they may be leading in a track already worthily preoccupied. |
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Classic Literature |
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The Armourer’s Prentices by Charlotte Mary Yonge |
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I have attempted here to sketch citizen life in the early Tudor days, aided therein by Stowe’s Survey of London, supplemented by Mr. Loftie’s excellent history, and Dr. Burton’s English Merchants. |
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Classic Literature |
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The Dove in the Eagle’s Nest by Charlotte Mary Yonge |
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In sending forth this little book, I am inclined to add a few explanatory words as to the use I have made of historical personages. The origin of the whole story was probably Freytag’s first series of pictures of German Life: probably, I say, for its first commencement was a dream, dreamt some weeks after reading that most interesting collection of sketches. The return of the squire with the tidings of the death of the two knights was vividly depicted in sleep; and, though without local habitation or name, the scene was most likely to have been a reflection from the wild scenes so lately read of. |
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Classic Literature |
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The Little Duke by Charlotte Mary Yonge |
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On a bright autumn day, as long ago as the year 943, there was a great bustle in the Castle of Bayeux in Normandy. |
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Classic Literature |
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Code Name: Baby by Christina Skye |
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Wolfe Houston is a bioenhanced Navy SEAL who’s one of a few “supersoldiers” working on top-secret government missions. Some hi-tech hardware, and a top scientist, have gone missing from Los Alamos Labs, and it’s Wolfe’s job to track the missing genius and recover the technology. He’s also on the trail of a villain named Ramos, who runs an international crime syndicate, but who so far has eluded every snare the government has set. The technology in question is tied to a secret breeding program that was developing super-tracker search dogs; Kit O’Halloran, the dog breeder, has taken her talents and her dogs home after an accident for which she blames Los Alamos. Wolfe discovers that Kit and her dogs are somehoe mixed up with Dr. Merrigold’s disappearance–after all, the breeding program was his baby–and he’s convinced that she’s either in danger, or in this scheme up to her eyeballs. Either way, she bears close watching. Wolfe and Kit knew each other as teenagers–Kit nursed a schoolgirl crush on the older boy, but he never noticed her. He’s noticing her now, though; she’s every inch a woman, but unfortunately she wants nothing to do with him. Until she gets a good look at the man Wolfe’s become … and as she slowly learns to trust him again, he finds himself falling for her in a way that has nothing to do with the mission. When someone succeeds in stealing Kit’s puppies, she and Wolfe band together to track them–when they find Baby, the runt of the litter, they discover that the Lab has some abilities that surprise even Hope. With Baby’s help, they’re finally able to trace the missing scientist, only to discover that Ramos got to him before the government spooks could. Everything comes to a head in a breakneck race to Ramos’s hideout, where at last the puppies are rescued, the technology recovered, and the villain unmasked … leaving Kit and Wolfe with nothing to do but settle down happily ever after. |
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Romance |
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Boss Man by Diana Palmer |
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Blake Kemp was a man who knew his own mind and was as stubborn as the day is long in Jacobsville, Texas. As the town’s leading lawyer, he had a reputation to uphold, and he didn’t want the tender ministrations of his assistant to get in his way–even if he desperately needed her, since those big boots of his did have a tendency to step on toes? So, of course, the boss man fired pretty, gentle Violet, for having the nerve to, of all things, try to help him! But, being a smart as well as hard-headed man, Blake could soon see that without his guiding light, his life would soon be in darkness. Only one thing to do–hire her back and make sure that business didn’t mess with matters of the heart. Only then did he find that Violet had an agenda of her own–and it didn’t include letting the boss man forget how indispensable she was–both on and off the job! |
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Romance |
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Her Brother’s Keeper by Valerie Hansen |
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Church secretary Rebecca (Becky) Tate is happy living with her elderly Aunt Effie in rural Serenity, AR, until she discovers an old family photograph and realizes she looks exactly like the woman in the picture. Could that be the mother she’s never known? If so, is she the baby in the woman’s arms? Aunt Effie never mentioned her having a brother, either, so who is the little boy holding the man’s hand? On the back of the picture is the name “Keringhoven” and a date very near her birthday! Becky decides to look into the puzzle without telling her aunt because the old woman often acts disoriented and paranoid, especially lately, and she doesn’t want to upset her already fragile emotional health. Logan Malloy was ordanied as a preacher before a stint in the army redirected his life. He’s now a private investigator. One of Becky’s anonymous calls to a Keringhoven listing in IL has resulted in Logan’s firm being hired to seek her out. He suspects Becky may have been stolen as an infant and raised by her kidnapper! He decides to handle the case personally when he finds he has an old friend in Serenity, Brother Fred Fleming, the pastor for whom Becky works. Fred agrees to let Logan work undercover at the church while gathering evidence only because he trusts Logan to be fair and honest and doesn’t want a stranger sent in his place. Becky views Logan as an enigma and suspects he’s not the innocent associate pastor he claims to be. Brother Fred is getting ready to retire, yet Logan shows no interest in applying for his job. Moreover, Aunt Effie is frightened of Logan for no reason. The more Logan learns, the more sure he is that Becky is the kidnap victim he’s seeking. |
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Romance |
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$4.50 |
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Mr. Standfast by John Buchan |
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I spent one-third of my journey looking out of the window of a first-class carriage, the next in a local motor-car following the course of a trout stream in a shallow valley, and the last tramping over a ridge of downland through great beech-woods to my quarters for the night. In the first part I was in an infamous temper; in the second I was worried and mystified; but the cool twilight of the third stage calmed and heartened me, and I reached the gates of Fosse Manor with a mighty appetite and a quiet mind. |
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Classic Literature |
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The French in the Heart of America by John Finley |
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Most of what is here written was spoken many months ago in the Amphitheatre Richelieu of the Sorbonne, in Paris, and some of it in Lille, Nancy, Dijon, Lyons, Grenoble, Montpellier, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Poitiers, Rennes, and Caen; and all of it was in the American publisher’s hands before the great war came, effacing, with its nearer adventures, perils, sufferings, and anxieties, the dim memories of the days when the French pioneers were out in the Mississippi Valley, “The Heart of America.” |
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History |
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| TITLE: |
Non Profit Kit For Dummies by Stan Hutton & Frances Phillips |
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A friendly, complete guide to nonprofit basics This nuts-and-bolts guide is for real people–nonprofessionals who want to found a nonprofit or current nonprofit operators who need a little help. It covers vital issues like staffing, budgeting, fundraising, tax reports, and facilities. This new edition of Nonprofit Kit For Dummies includes new information on filing for tax exemption and adds much-needed detail about local laws, which vary by state. Other updated information covers constructing a clear mission statement, assessing client needs, and setting priorities and objectives. Stan Hutton (San Francisco, CA) runs the about.com guide to nonprofit organizations and is a program consultant for the Clarence E. Heller Charitable Foundation. Frances Phillips (San Francisco, CA) teaches grantwriting at San Francisco State University. |
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Business |
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| TITLE: |
Complete Medical Spanish by Joanna Rios & Jose Fernandez |
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Designed for use either as a stand-alone guide or as a built-in part of the series audio packages, Complete Medical Spanish offers health care professionals an enjoyable way to quickly acquire the skills and confidence they need to communicate with their Spanish-speaking patients. Each chapter focuses on a specific set of key terms and phrases and includes dozens of illustrations to help enhance understanding. Unlike other guides that make no distinction between levels of difficulty, this book introduces essential grammar concepts in a progressive manner. |
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Education |
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| TITLE: |
Podcasting For Dummies by Tee Morris |
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Podcasting-recording the equivalent of a radio show and making it available through Web download or an RSS feed-is the next big thing in online communications, with more than 1,300 podcasts currently listed on one directory site; This book shows would-be podcasters step by step how to get started, from recording a show to attracting a fan base; Topics covered include gathering the necessary software and hardware, recording and mixing a podcast, making the podcast available for sharing, spreading the word, and finding subscribers. |
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Technology/Science |
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