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Heart of Darkness & The Secret Sharer

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:09:29 PST

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In Conrad's haunting tale, Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the enigmatic Kurtz. Travelling to the heart of the African continent, he discovers how Kurtz has gained his position of power and influence over the local people. Marlow's struggle to fathom his experience involves him in a radical questioning of not only his own nature and valu ...

The Great Gatsby

Sun, 5 May 2013 17:54:51 PST

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Considered one of the all-time great American works of fiction, Fitzgerald's glorious yet ultimately tragic social satire on the Jazz Age encapsulates the exuberance, energy and decadence of an era. After the war, the mysterious Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire pursues wealth, riches and the lady he lost to another man with stoic determination. He buys a mansion across from her house and throw ...

The Amber Spyglass

Thu, 2 May 2013 2:17:07 PST

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『The Amber Spyglass』は、冒頭のシーンからいきなりスリリングな展開で読者の心をむんずとつかむ。差し障りのない範囲であらすじを紹介しよう。前作『The Subtle Knife』（邦題『神秘の短剣』）でライラを捕らえたのは誰かという謎はすぐに解き明かされる。だが、その人物のもくろみが善なのか悪なのか、それとも心を決めかねているのかは依然として謎のままだ。また、世界を分断するよう託された剣はまだウィルの手の中にある。そしてその彼をアスリエル卿がいる山頂の要塞まで導くように定められた、翼をもつ2人の天使が仲間に加わる。だが、この少年ウィルの目的はただひとつ。それは、友を救い、彼女に「真理計」（アレシオメーター）を返すことだった。アレシオメーターとは、彼女にとっても『The Golden Compass』（邦題『黄金の羅針盤』）と続編『The Subtle Knife ...

Dracula

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 20:26:57 PST

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This is the greatest gothic horror story ever written, brought to life in this exceptional pop-up graphic novel. The finest contemporary illustration, dramatic storytelling and superb paper engineering combine to make this spectacular edition. Feel Jonathan's fear as Castle Dracula looms ahead of you; beware the strange wolf leaping out of the page, and don't step too far into the graveyard where ...

The Year of Dreaming Dangerously

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 4:38:37 PST

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The renowned philosopher finds a utopian future in worldwide protests. Call it the year of dreaming dangerously: 2011 caught the world off guard with a series of shattering events. While protesters in New York, Cairo, London, and Athens took to the streets in pursuit of emancipation, obscure destructive fantasies inspired the world’s racist populists in places as far apart as Hungary and Arizona ...

Life

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 21:15:59 PST

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Wonderstruck

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 21:48:59 PST

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Having lost his mother and his hearing in a short time, twelve-year-old Ben leaves his Minnesota home in 1977 to seek the father he never knew in New York City, and meets there Rose, who is also longing for something missing from her life. Ben's story is told in words; Rose's in pictures.

The Haunted Hotel and Other Stories

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 4:41:55 PST

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Have you ever heard of the fascination of terror?' This is a unique collection of strange stories from the cunning pen of Wilkie Collins, author of The Woman in White and The Moonstone. The star attraction is the novella The Haunted Hotel, a clever combination of detective and ghost story set in Venice, a city of grim waterways, dark shadows and death. The action takes place in an ancient palazzo ...

Tales from the Arabian Nights

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 4:41:14 PST

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A collection of 26 tales told by Scheherazade to save herself and other young girls from death at the Sultan's hands.

2001

Thu, 26 Jul 2012 21:17:22 PST

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2001: A Space Odyssey is the classic science fiction novel that changed the way we looked at the stars and ourselves.... 2001: A Space Odyssey inspired what is perhaps the greatest science fiction film ever made- brilliantly imagined by the late Stanley Kubrick.... 2001 is finally here.... "Dazzling...wrenching, eerie, a mind-bender."-Time "Full of poetry, scientific imagination and typi ...

From Hell

Sat, 21 Jul 2012 5:58:27 PST

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Legendary comics writer Alan Moore and artist Eddie Campbell have created a gripping, hallucinatory piece of crime fiction about Jack the Ripper. Detailing the events that led up to the Whitechapel murders and the cover-up that followed, From Hell has become a modern masterpiece of crime noir and historical fiction.

The Art Of Comic-Book Inking 2nd Edition

Sun, 1 Jul 2012 21:26:22 PST

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Gary Martin's two volumes of The Art of Comic-Book Inking have become the industry-standard manuals for aspiring inkers seeking to take their work to the next level or for working professionals looking to broaden their skills base. Now, these two textbooks have been combined into a single value-priced volume and expanded with new material, including three additional blue-lined artboards featuring ...

Drawing

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 5:12:04 PST

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Working with a traditional view of drawing, this essential manual, for beginning andexperienced artists alike, covers monochrome media such as pencil, graphite ...

Marvel Chronicle

Thu, 7 Jun 2012 5:24:21 PST

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Dig into the archives of Marvel Comics with this massive compendium. Every iconic hero and villain of the Marvel Comics Universe is chronologically catalogued in this lush celebration of Marvel's seventy year history including Spider-Man, Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Captain America and hundreds more.

The Subtle Knife

Tue, 5 Jun 2012 5:46:58 PST

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Lyra finds herself in a shimmering, haunted underworld—Cittàgazze, where soul-eating Specters stalk the streets and wingbeats of distant angels sound against the sky. But she is not without allies: 12-year-old Will Parry, fleeing for his life after taking another’s, has also stumbled into this strange new realm. On a perilous journey from world to world, Lyra and Will discover an object of deva ...

The Grand Design

Sun, 27 May 2012 17:52:31 PST

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When and how did the universe begin? Why are we here? Is the apparent 'grand design' of our universe evidence for a benevolent creator who set things in motion? Or does science offer another explanation? In "The Grand Design", the most recent scientific thinking about the mysteries of the universe is presented in language marked by both brilliance and simplicity. Model dependent realism, the mult ...

Ptolemy's Gate

Wed, 9 May 2012 7:52:43 PST

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Three years have passed since the magician Nathaniel helped prevent a cataclysmic attack on London. Now an established member of the British Government, he faces unprecedented problems: foreign wars are going badly; Britain's enemies are mounting attacks close to London; and rebellion is fomenting among the commoners. Increasingly imperious and distracted, Nathaniel is treating Bartimaeus worse t ...

The Golem's Eye

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 18:48:32 PST

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The second adventure in the Bartimaeus trilogy finds our young apprentice magician Nathaniel working his way up the ranks of the government, when crisis hits. A seemingly invulnerable clay golem is making random attacks on London. Nathaniel and the all-powerful, totally irreverent djinni, Bartimaeus, must travel to Prague to discover the source of the golem's power. In the ensuing chaos, readers ...

The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 4:32:30 PST

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This new fear-filled volume of the world's most acclaimed Year's Best Horror series includes a masterful selection of the finest supernatural short stories and terrifying novellas from many of the biggest names and most exciting newcomers working in the genre. It also contains the most comprehensive overview of the horror year in all its fascinating forms, a detailed necrology of famous names, an ...

Monk

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 21:38:35 PST

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Prepare to be shocked. This novel, written in 1796, is a Gothic festival of sex, magic and ghastly, ghostly violence rarely seen in literature. The Monk is remarkably modern in style and tells a breathless tale of temptation, imprisonment and betrayal. Matthew Lewis recounts the downfall of Ambrosio, the holier-than-thou monk seduced within the walls of a Madrid abbey until he heads for the utter ...

Selected Tales

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 4:38:20 PST

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Jimi Hendrix

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:39:01 PST

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Sharon Lawrence is a journalist who knew Hendrix well, became his confidante and saw him a number of times in the weeks before his death. Jimi Hendrix tells and shows - in rich detail - who Jimi Hendrix really was and what really happened to him during his short life, and what has happened to his legacy in the more than thirty years of greed and game-playing since his tragically early death. The ...

The Ring of Solomon

Sun, 8 Jan 2012 22:22:34 PST

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Fans of Jonathan Stroud's "Bartimaeus" books will devour this book - a cracking adventure brimming with magic, intrigue and a treasure trove of characters that the reader can't help but fall for. We find everyone's favourite irascibly insolent djinni serving at the court of King Solomon in 950 BC Jerusalem, where he is causing his customary chaos and must help a girl assassin sent by the Queen of ...

Arguably

Sun, 8 Jan 2012 22:20:01 PST

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The Amulet of Samarkand

Thu, 1 Dec 2011 6:00:06 PST

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The first audiobook in a thrilling new trilogy about an apprentice magician and the powerful djinni he summons. Nathaniel is a young magician with only one thing on his mind: revenge. As an apprentice to the great magician Underwood, Nathaniel is gradually being schooled in the traditional art of magic. All is well until he has a life-changing encounter with Simon Lovelace, a rising, star ma ...

Slaughterhouse 5

Thu, 6 Oct 2011 17:44:07 PST

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One of Vonnegut's most well-known novels, this book was also made into a film. It concerns Billy Pilgrim, a man with the ability to travel in time, and his adventures as a result of this.

Hitchcock

Thu, 1 Sep 2011 3:55:32 PST

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One is ravished by the density of insights into cinematic questions...Truffaut performed a tour de force of tact in getting this ordinarily guarded man to open up as he had never done before (and never would again)...If the 1967 Hitchcock/Truffaut can now be seen as something of a classic, this revised version is even better. Phillip Lopate The New York Times Book Review

Full Dark, No Stars

Sun, 21 Aug 2011 22:14:02 PST

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Includes the new story Under the Weather

The Believing Brain

Sun, 21 Aug 2011 21:31:15 PST

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Draws on three decades of research to outline a provocative theory about how humans form beliefs about the world, tracing the ways in which the brain finds ...

August heat

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 20:54:08 PST

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Furðustrandir

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 18:26:55 PST

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Erlendur er á æskuslóðum sínum austanlands og fortíðin sækir á. Ekki aðeins atvik úr hans eigin lífi, heldur einnig önnur óleyst og óuppgerð mál. Fyrir mörgum áratugum urðu þarna óhugnanlegir atburðir þegar stór hópur breskra hermanna lenti í óveðri og villum í fjöllunum. Sumir komust til byggða við illan leik, aðrir ekki. En samtímis hvarf ung kona á sama stað og fannst aldrei. Saga hennar vekur ...

Letters from the Earth

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 18:24:56 PST

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"I have told you nothing about man that is not true." You must pardon me if I repeat that remark now and then in these letters; I want you to take seriously the things I am telling you, and I feel that if I were in your place and you in mine, I should need that reminder from time to time, to keep my credulity from flagging. In Letters from the Earth, Twain presents himself as the Father of Hist ...

The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee

Sun, 24 Jul 2011 22:26:09 PST

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More than 98 percent of human genes are shared with two species of chimpanzee. The 'third' chimpanzee is man. Jared Diamond surveys out life-cycle, culture, sexuality and destructive urges both towards ourselves and the planet to explore the ways in which we are uniquely human yet still influenced by our animal origins.

Zodiac

Sun, 24 Jul 2011 22:25:03 PST

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The Left Hand of Darkness

Sun, 24 Jul 2011 22:24:15 PST

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Ursula K. Le Guin's award-winning, groundbreaking science fiction classic takes us to the world of Winter, and introduces us to its inhabitants, the Gethenians-whose society is not based on gender roles.

3 Story

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 7:07:22 PST

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What would it be like to stand head and shoulders above everyone else - and to keep growing? Unable to interact with a fragile world that doesn't fit you anymore - with a wife who doesn't either? These details are conspicuously absent in Craig Pressgang's official CIA biography, Giant Man: Pillar of America. In reality, Craig's continuous growth creates a variety of problems as he becomes more is ...

Flowers for Algernon

Sun, 26 Jun 2011 9:51:14 PST

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Charlie Gordon is about to embark upon an unprecedented journey. Born with an unusually low IQ, he has been chosen as the perfect subject for an experimental surgery that researchers hope will increase his intelligence-a procedure that has already been highly successful when tested on a lab mouse named Algernon. As the treatment takes effect, Charlie's intelligence expands until it surpasses tha ...

The Book of Life

Sat, 25 Jun 2011 3:33:06 PST

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A new edition of the beautifully illustrated depiction of the dramatic story of survival and extinction. The Book of Life uses an exemplary fusion of art and science to tell the story of life on earth. The text, under the editorship of Stephen Jay Gould, provides a thorough understanding of the latest research and is accompanied by paintings prepared especially for this book. Never before has our ...

1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four

Sun, 5 Jun 2011 22:59:44 PST

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The Golden Compass

Sun, 15 May 2011 21:53:33 PST

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Lyra Belaqua is content to run wild among the scholars of Jordan College, with her daemon familiar Pantalaimon always by her side. But the arrival of her fearsome uncle, Lord Asriel, draws her to the heart of a terrible struggle—a struggle born of Gobblers and stolen children, witch clans and armored bears. And as she hurtles toward danger in the cold, far North, young Lyra never suspects the sho ...

The Woman in White

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 7:44:11 PST

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ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIPOne woman's journey through madness, murder, and mistaken identity -- a classic work of Victorian sensationalism.THIS ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: A concise introduction that gives readers important background information A chronology of the author's life and work A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical ...

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Sun, 13 Mar 2011 18:42:18 PST

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What if someone discovers your secret dream, that one great wish you would do anything for? And what if that someone suddenly makes your dream come true--before you learn the price you have to pay? "Something Wicked This Way Comes" is the story of two boys who encounter the sinister wonders of Cooger and Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show. They will soon discover the show's awful mystery--a mystery t ...

Catch-22

Sun, 16 Jan 2011 8:11:16 PST

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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Tue, 4 Jan 2011 7:47:59 PST

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In seeking to discover his inner self, the brilliant Dr Jekyll discovers a monster. First published to critical acclaim in 1886, this mesmerising thriller is a terrifying study of the duality of man's nature, and it is the book which established Stevenson's reputation as a writer. Also included in this volume is Stevenson's 1887 collection of short stories, The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fabl ...

A Christmas Carol, The Chimes & The Cricket on the Hearth

Fri, 24 Dec 2010 19:37:59 PST

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Generations of readers have been enchanted by Dickens’s A Christmas Carol—the most cheerful ghost story ever written, and the unforgettable tale of Ebenezer Scrooge’s moral regeneration. Written in just a few weeks, A Christmas Carol famously recounts the plight of Bob Cratchit, whose family finds joy even in poverty, and the transformation of his miserly boss Scrooge as he is visited by the ghos ...

Short Stories from the Nineteenth Century

Sun, 19 Dec 2010 19:08:39 PST

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Short Stories from the Nineteenth Century is a wonderful collection of classic stories specially selected and introduced by David Stuart Davies. These are tales from the golden age of the great storytellers presenting evocative snapshots from that bygone era while at the same time providing engaging entertainment and stimulation for the modern reader. All emotions are catered for in the offering ...

Canterville Ghost and Other Stories

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 18:20:50 PST

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4 of the famed English writer's finest works, among them "The Sphinx Without a Secret," "The Model Millionaire," "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime," and the title story, a delightfully comical tale of a 300-year-old ghost who fails to intimidate the newest occupants of his manor house. Also includes the author's 6 "Poems in Prose."

Beneath the Bleeding

Sun, 10 Oct 2010 17:53:47 PST

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The terrifying new psychological thriller featuring Tony Hill, criminal profiler and hero of TV's Wire in the Blood. The race is on to uncover the identity of a murderer with nothing to lose -- and everything to kill for. When Robbie Bishop, star midfielder for the Bradfield Vics, is poisoned by a rare and deadly toxin, profiler Dr Tony Hill and trusted colleague DCI Carol Jordan have their wor ...

The Stand

Sun, 12 Sep 2010 1:16:39 PST

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Wed, 1 Sep 2010 6:07:07 PST

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Raising the timeless and universal l issues of prejudice, bravery and hope, theAdventures of Huckleberry Finn was and still is considered the great American ...

The Metamorphosis and Other Stories

Wed, 1 Sep 2010 6:05:46 PST

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Virtually unknown during his lifetime, Franz Kafka is now one of the world’s most widely read and discussed authors. His nightmarish novels and short stories have come to symbolize modern man’s anxiety and alienation in a bizarre, hostile, and dehumanized world. This vision is most fully realized in Kafka’s masterpiece, “The Metamorphosis,” a story that is both harrowing and amusing, and a landma ...

And Then There Were None

Wed, 1 Sep 2010 6:03:42 PST

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Agatha Christie's world-famous mystery thriller, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Ten strangers, apparently with little in common, are lured to an island mansion off the coast of Devon by the mysterious U.N.Owen. Over dinner, a record begins to play, and the voice of an unseen host accuses each person of hiding ...

Full Moon

Sun, 8 Aug 2010 6:00:14 PST

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This book is a Blandings novel. When the moon is full at Blandings, strange things happen: among them the painting of a portrait of The Empress, twice in succession winner in the Fat Pigs Class at the Shropshire Agricultural Show. What better choice of artist, in Lord Emsworth's opinion, than Landseer. The renowned painter of The Stag at Bay may have been dead for decades, but that doesn't preven ...

On Becoming a Novelist

Tue, 6 Jul 2010 2:47:04 PST

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On Becoming a Novelist contains the wisdom accumulated during John Gardner's distinguished twenty-year career as a fiction writer and creative writing teacher. With elegance, humor, and sophistication, Gardner describes the life of a working novelist; warns what needs to be guarded against, both from within the writer and from without; and predicts what the writer can reasonably expect and what, ...

Barney's Version

Sun, 4 Jul 2010 22:59:46 PST

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Before his brain began to shrink, Barney Panofsky clung to two cher-ished beliefs. Life was absurd, and nobody ever truly understood any-body else. Even his friends tend to agree that Barney is 'a wife-abuser, an intellectual fraud, a purveyor of pap, a drunk with a pen-chant for violence and probably a murderer'. But when his sworn enemy threatens to publish this calumny, Barney is driven to wri ...

The Phantom of the Opera

Sat, 26 Jun 2010 18:53:21 PST

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Filled with the colour and theatrical spectacle of the Paris Opera House at the turn of the century, and the ageless fascination of love transformed into murderous obsession, this is a classic work of mystery and suspense.

Dracula

Tue, 25 May 2010 6:34:44 PST

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When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a London house, he makes horrifying discoveries about his client and his castle. Soon afterwards, a number of disturbing incidents unfold in England: an unmanned ship is wrecked at Whitby; strange puncture marks appear on a young woman's neck; and the inmate of a lunatic asylum raves about the imminent arrival of ...

Light My Fire

Wed, 7 Apr 2010 7:30:32 PST

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"Wryly intelligent...mixes juicy behind-the-scenes bits...with energetic, note-by-note accounts of the evolution of the band's songs."--People No other band has ever sounded quite like the Doors, and no other frontman has ever transfixed an audience quite the way Jim Morrison did. Ray Manzarek, the band's co-founder and keyboard player, was there from the very start--and until the sad dissoluti ...

Fables - The Deluxe Edition - Book One

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 5:54:19 PST

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When a savage creature known only as the Adversary conquered the fabled lands of legends and fairy tales, all of the infamous inhabitants of folklore were ...

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:30:38 PST

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There is a long tradition of Great Detectives, and Dirk Gently does not belong to it. But his search for a missing cat uncovers a ghost, a time traveler, AND the devastating secret of humankind! Detective Gently's bill for saving the human race from extinction: NO CHARGE.

The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 6:24:52 PST

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This is an excellent book by Mark Twain. This story's contents are so informing that it is a must for all students. Mark Twain is a true literary genius whose humor and wit has stood the test of time for over one-hundred years. Please Note: This book is easy to read in true text, not scanned images that can sometimes be difficult to decipher. The Microsoft eBook has a contents page linked to the ...

A Murder is Announced

Tue, 9 Mar 2010 6:09:55 PST

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The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn, including Jane Marple, are agog with curiosity over an advertisement in the local gazette which reads: 'A murder is announced and will take place on Friday October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6:30 p.m.' A childish practical joke? Or a hoax intended to scare poor Letitia Blacklock? Unable to resist the mysterious invitation, a crowd begins to gather at Little ...

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 4:17:22 PST

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Harry has been burdened with a dark, dangerous and seemingly impossible task: that of locating and destroying Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes. Never has Harry felt so alone, or faced a future so full of shadows. But Harry must somehow find within himself the strength to complete the task he has been given. He must leave the warmth, safety and companionship of The Burrow and follow without fear or ...

Lolita

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 7:32:59 PST

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Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, fastidious college professor. He also likes little girls. And none more so than Lolita, who he'll do anything to possess. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster?! Or is he all of these?

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 7:02:04 PST

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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince brings us Harry Potter's sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry as Lord Voldemort becomes ever more powerful with his followers increasing day by day in this continuing battle between good and evil.

American Gods

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 6:27:54 PST

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Shadow is a man with a past and wants nothing more now than to live a quiet life with his wife. When his wife is killed in a terrible accident, Shadow flies home for the funeral. As a raging storm rocks the plane, the strange man in the seat next to Shadow introduces himself as Mr. Wednesday. He knows more about Shadow than is possible--and he warns Shadow an even bigger storm is coming.

Comics, Comix & Graphic Novels

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 6:56:23 PST

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Comix & Graphic Novels is the first fully documented study to explore the graphic qualities of the comic book, and the development of the genre into a sophisticated and culturally revealing popular art form. The book traces the history of the comic from early cartoon-like woodcuts through to the graphic strips of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Organized thematically it explores the vario ...

Fahrenheit 451

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 6:38:39 PST

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The classic bestseller about censorship - more important now than ever before. Fahrenheit 451 ...the temperature at which books burn The novel of firemen who are paid to set books ablaze. Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires... The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books were for burning... along with the houses in which they were hidden. Guy Montag enjoyed his job. ...

Dream Story

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 6:38:14 PST

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Amidst a short spat between a married couple, the husband, a doctor, is summoned to the bedside of a dying man. So begins a series of involvements throughout the night in increasingly dangerous and deviant sexual adventures for Fridolin, who taken by a friend to a "secret" party, is forced to make choices that seem beyond his control. The dream-like events are made more frighteningly real by Schn ...

Murder on the Orient Express

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 6:37:38 PST

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E-book exclusive extras: Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on Murder on the Orient Express; "The Poirots": the complete guide to all the cases of the great Belgian detective. Just after midnight, a snowstorm stops the Orient Express dead in its tracks in the middle of Yugoslavia. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for this time of year. But by morning there is one passenger less. ...

Evil Under the Sun

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 6:37:21 PST

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Read by David Suchet, the voice of Hercule Poirot. One of Agatha Christie's most loved mysteries, Evil Under the Sun remains one of her best and most delightfully cryptic murder mysteries ever. It was not unusual to find the beautiful bronzed body of the sun-loving Arlena Stuart stretched out on a beach, face down. Only, on this occasion, there was no sun! she had been strangled. Ever since Ar ...

A Scanner Darkly

Sat, 8 Aug 2009 17:42:10 PST

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Bob Arctor is a dealer of the lethally addictive drug Substance D. Fred is the police agent assigned to tail and eventually bust him. To do so, Fred takes on the identity of a drug dealer named Bob Arctor. And since Substance D--which Arctor takes in massive doses--gradually splits the user's brain into two distinct, combative entities, Fred doesn't realize he is narcing on himself. Caustically ...

A brief guide to the Greek myths

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 5:19:37 PST

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... Key Characters Khaos (Chaos) The primordial void Ouranos (Uranus) The Sky, husband of Gaia (Earth); castrated by Kronos Gaia (Gaea, or Ge) The Earth; ...

The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:09:41 PST

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A collection of largely unpublished or out-of-print essays, journals, speeches, and interviews on issues from the merging of physics and metaphysics to the potential influences and consequences of virtual reality by the Hugo Award-winning author of The Man in the High Castle. Non-fiction.

The Patience of the Spider

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 6:26:32 PST

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The Doors of Perception

Mon, 6 Jul 2009 2:19:26 PST

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The Diary of Adam and Eve

Sat, 4 Jul 2009 18:37:41 PST

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In The Diary of Adam and Eve, master storyteller Mark Twain hilariously recreates the very first days of Creation. Adam, portrayed by Twain as something of a recluse, is a man ill–prepared for the arrival of Eve, a talkative, emotional, highly charged female. Yet, in time, and after many a conflict, they gradually learn to live together, realizing that men and women can, in fact, exist in harmony ...

The Neverending Story

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 18:57:12 PST

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Unicorns, dragons, sprites, will-o'-the-wisps: the inhabitants of an enchanted world. And into this word—through the pages of an old book—ventures Bastian, a lonely boy of ten or twelve. But Fantastica is slowly decaying, its childlike Empress dying. Only a real human being can set things right by giving the Empress a new name. Bastian takes up the challenge, and finds himself crossing the Swamps ...

Everything's Eventual

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:35:03 PST

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Through the Looking Glass

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:34:25 PST

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In this sequel to "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" Alice comes upon many characters who are chessmen ... and she is the pawn! Two 90-minute cassettes.

The Master and Margarita

Mon, 1 Jun 2009 22:34:27 PST

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One of the great imaginative novels of the century, a fierce political satire, filled with the most dazzling surreal humour. The devil makes a personal appearance in Moscow accompanied by two demons, a naked girl and a huge black cat. When he leaves, the asylums are full and the forces of law and order in disarray. Only the Master, a man devoted to truth, and Margarita, the woman he loves, remain ...

Holes

Sun, 31 May 2009 19:06:26 PST

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As further evidence of his family’s bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.

The Turn of the Screw

Sat, 30 May 2009 8:17:57 PST

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The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories

Sun, 3 May 2009 5:30:18 PST

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Nine tales showcase Twain's wit as he skewers greed and ypocrisy-and makes a memorable, tormenting statement on evil.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Sun, 5 Apr 2009 2:59:29 PST

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Harry is furious that he has been abandoned at the Dursleys' house for the summer, for he suspects that Voldemort is gathering an army, that he himself could be attacked, and that his so-called friends are keeping him in the dark. Finally being rescued by wizard bodyguards, he discovers that Dumbledore is regrouping the Order of the Phoenix - a secret society first formed years ago to fight Volde ...

The Man in the High Castle

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 5:50:34 PST

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It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. the few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some 20 years earlier the United States lost a war--and is now occupied jointly by Nazi Germany and Japan. This harrowing, Hugo Award-winning novel is the work that established Philip K. Dick as an innovator in sc ...

Watchmen

Sun, 15 Mar 2009 10:26:57 PST

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Has any comic been as acclaimed as Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen? Possibly only Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns, but Watchmen remains the critics' favorite. Why? Because Moore is a better writer, and Watchmen a more complex and dark and literate creation than Miller's fantastic, subversive take on the Batman myth. Moore, renowned for many other of the genre's finest creations (Saga ...

Marcovaldo

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 3:22:13 PST

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Marcovaldo se compone de veinte relatos. Cada relato se dedica a una estaciÛn; el ciclo de las cuatro estaciones se repite por tanto cinco veces en el libro. Todos los relatos tienen el mismo protagonista, Marcovaldo, y presentan más o menos un esquema idéntico. El texto de presentaciÛn dice: ìEn medio de la ciudad de cemento y asfalto, Marcovaldo va en busca de la Naturaleza. Pero ¿existe todaví ...

Cosmicomics

Mon, 2 Mar 2009 7:03:12 PST

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Enchanting stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical formulae and cellular structures. "Naturally, we were all there, - old Qfwfq said, - where else could we have been? Nobody knew then that there could be space. Or time either: what use did we have for time, packed in there like sardines?" Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolf ...

On Writing

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:51:37 PST

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スティーヴン・キングの『On Writing』（邦題『小説作法』）は簡潔で切れのよい作品だ。愛と皮肉を込めた自伝と、向上心に燃える小説家へ贈る厳しくも愛情こもった教訓という、2冊の本を合わせたような構成である。回想部分は実に驚くべき内容で、無作法だった子どもが作家へと成長していく過程を克明に描いている。著者を苦しめたツタウルシ、おなら攻撃をしかけてくるベビーシッター、厳しい教師たち、ジャック・ロンドンの体験を上回る汚さの洗濯工場の仕事。これらを読むと、読者は若き日のキングのそばにいるような気分になる。このウソのようなとんでもない話は、キング作品を読み解く際の大きなヒントだ。そこにいるのは、かわいい声で人気のあったサンドラ・ディーンではなく『Attack of the Giant Leeches（邦題『吸血怪獣ヒルゴンの猛襲』）』のイヴェット・ヴィッカーズを気に入るような子ど ...

The Selfish Gene

Sat, 17 Jan 2009 21:17:23 PST

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The million copy international bestseller, critically acclaimed and translated into over 25 languages. This 30th anniversary edition includes a new introduction from the author as well as the original prefaces and foreword, and extracts from early reviews. As relevant and influential today as when it was first published, The Selfish Gene has become a classic exposition of evolutionary thought. P ...

It

Sat, 27 Dec 2008 10:39:14 PST

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Stephen King's idea for It came from a favorite childhood image: the entire cast of the Bugs Bunny Show coming on at the beginning. He thought of bringing on all the monsters, one last time: Dracula, Frankenstein's creature, the Werewolf, the Crawling Eye, Rodan, It Came from Outer Space. It is about a group of adults who were once troubled children in the late '50s--"The Losers." One of them ...

Three Men in a Boat

Wed, 3 Dec 2008 18:57:48 PST

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Martyrs to hypochondria and general seediness, J. and his friends George and Harris decide that a jaunt up the Thames would suit them to a 'T'. But when they set off, they can hardly predict the troubles that lie ahead with tow-ropes, unreliable weather-forecasts and tins of pineapple chunks - not to mention the devastation left in the wake of J.'s small fox-terrier Montmorency. "Three Men in a B ...

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 18:30:20 PST

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The Number One international bestselling author of Jurassic Park, Congo and Sphere blends fact and fiction to create a near-future where genetic engineering opens up a whole new world of terrifying, page-turning possibilities...Is a loved one missing body parts? Are blondes becoming extinct? Has a human already cross-bred with a monkey? We live in a GENETIC WORLD. Fast, frightening - and potentia ...

Pigs Have Wings

Sun, 3 Aug 2008 19:06:41 PST

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Lord Emsworth's quick-witted brother must stop the portly Sir Gregory Parsloe's plan to slim down Emsworth's prize porker with a new miracle weight-loss drug.