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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Fri, 8 Feb 2013 18:14:18 PST

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Copyright free ebook of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Fri, 8 Feb 2013 18:14:17 PST

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Copyright free ebook of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Northanger Abbey

Fri, 8 Feb 2013 18:14:14 PST

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Copyright free ebook of Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

The Importance of Being Earnest

Fri, 8 Feb 2013 18:12:42 PST

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Copyright free ebook of The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Fri, 8 Feb 2013 18:12:40 PST

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Copyright free ebook of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Anna Karenina

Fri, 8 Feb 2013 18:12:05 PST

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Copyright free ebook of Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Emma

Fri, 8 Feb 2013 18:12:04 PST

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Copyright free ebook of Emma by Jane Austen

A Tale of Two Cities

Fri, 8 Feb 2013 18:12:02 PST

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Copyright free ebook of A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Wuthering Heights

Fri, 8 Feb 2013 18:11:29 PST

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Copyright free ebook of Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Great Expectations

Fri, 8 Feb 2013 18:11:28 PST

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Copyright free ebook of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Little Women

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Copyright free ebook of Little Women by Louise M. Alcott

A Study in Scarlet

Fri, 8 Feb 2013 18:11:00 PST

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Copyright free ebook of A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

Jane Eyre

Fri, 8 Feb 2013 18:10:57 PST

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Copyright free ebook of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Fri, 8 Feb 2013 18:06:29 PST

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Copyright free ebook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Andersen's Fairy Tales

Fri, 8 Feb 2013 18:06:03 PST

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Copyright free ebook of Andersen's Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen

Titus Alone

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 17:23:00 PST

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In this final part of the trilogy, we follow Titus, now almost twenty, as he escapes from the Castle, flees its oppressive Ritual, and becomes lost in a sandstorm. Helped by the owner of a travelling zoo, Muzzlehatch, and his ex-lover Juno, Titus ends up stranded in a big, bustling city. No one there having heard of Gormenghast, the general consensus is that the boy is deranged, and with no paper ...

Witch Week

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 17:22:05 PST

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Glorious new rejacket of a Diana Wynne Jones favourite, featuring Chrestomanci -- now a book with extra bits! SOMEONE IN THIS CLASS IS A WITCH When the note, written in ordinary ballpoint, turns up in the homework books Mr Crossley is marking, he is very upset. For this is Larwood House, a school for witch-orphans, where witchcraft is utterly forbidden. And yet magic keeps breaking out all over ...

Lud-in-the-mist

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 17:21:06 PST

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The town of Lud is a prosperous, bustling little country port, situated at the confluence of two rivers: the Dawl and the Dapple. The latter, which has its source in the land of Faerie beyond the Elfin Marches and the Debatable Hills, is a source of great trial to Lud, which had long rejected such fanciful nonsense as fairies, elves and the like. Then a perfect plague of faerie influences hits t ...

The Long Earth

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 17:19:33 PST

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It's 1916: the Western Front. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring grass. He can hear birdsong, and the wind in the leaves in the trees. Where have the mud, blood and blasted landscape of No Man's Land gone? 2015: Madison, Wisconsin. Cop Monica Jansson is exploring the burned-out home of a reclusive - some said mad, others dangerous - scientist when she finds a curious gad ...

La ragazza di fuoco

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 17:17:11 PST

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Grazie a una minaccia di suicidio, Katniss e Peeta hanno vinto gli Hunger Games sfidando pubblicamente lo Stato. Il loro gesto ribelle scatena la reazione nei 12 distretti di Panem, diventando un simbolo di libertà. Ma il presidente Snow non dimentica e per vendicarsi indice una nuova edizione dei giochi: un torneo in cui a sfidarsi saranno tutti i precedenti vincitori. I protagonisti finiscono c ...

E se covano i lupi

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 17:16:17 PST

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In questo «romanzo di animali» il lupo è un filosofo, uno che ama starsene a pensare e scrivere, ma che improvvisamente vuole diventare meno astratto. La sua consorte anatra è un'anatra e basta, che svolazza spensierata ma ora si chiede se ai suoi figli, quando nasceranno, piacerà una madre che non sa niente del mondo. Hanno solo ventotto giorni, il lupo e l'anatra, per diventare quello che non s ...

Glamour in Glass

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 17:15:32 PST

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Mary Robinette Kowal stunned readers with her charming Nebula Award - nominated first novel, "Shades of Milk and Honey", a loving tribute to Jane Austen in a world where magic is an everyday occurrence. "Glamour" allows talented users to form any illusion they can imagine. After Napoleon abdicates, Jane and Vincent go to the Continent for their honeymoon. But the deposed emperor escapes his exile ...

Che animale sei?

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 17:14:35 PST

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Quando uno nasce, non sa chi è. E se non c'è nessuno che glielo dice, la vita diventa una bella complicazione. Lei, per esempio, non sapeva chi era, perché quando era nata, rotolando giù dal camion di Jack il Camionista, si era ritrovata sola e aveva scambiato per sua madre una pantofola di pelo. Una calda pantofola accogliente, dentro la quale si era accoccolata sognando di non essere ancora nat ...

Baudolino

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 17:13:50 PST

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In quella zona del basso Piemonte dove, anni dopo, sorgerà Alessandria, Baudolino, un piccolo contadino fantasioso e bugiardo, conquista Federico Barbarossa e ne diventa figlio adottivo. Baudolino affabula e inventa ma, quasi per miracolo, tutto quello che immagina, produce Storia. Così, tra le altre cose, costruisce la mitica lettera del Prete Gianni, che prometteva all'Occidente un regno favolo ...

L'estate incantata

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 17:11:42 PST

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Dream Country

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 17:11:13 PST

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The third book of the Sandman collection is a series of four short comic book stories. What's remarkable here (considering the publisher and the time that this was originally published) is that the main character of the book--the Sandman, King of Dreams--serves only as a minor character in each of these otherwise unrelated stories. (Actually, he's not even in the last story.) This signaled a coup ...

To Spin a Darker Stair

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 17:08:05 PST

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Hunger Games

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 17:07:04 PST

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Quando Katniss urla "Mi offro volontaria, mi offro volontaria come tributo!" sa di aver appena firmato la sua condanna a morte. E il giorno dell'estrazione dei partecipanti agli Hunger Games, un reality show organizzato ogni anno da Capitol City con una sola regola: uccidi o muori. Ognuno dei Distretti deve sorteggiare un ragazzo e una ragazza tra i 12 e i 18 anni che verrà gettato nell'Arena a c ...

Ansel Adams

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 17:05:01 PST

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In a career that spanned six decades, Ansel Adams produced a remarkable body of work that is at once an artistic tour de force and a powerful tribute to his beloved American wilderness. Adams was given his first camera, a Kodak Box Brownie, in 1916, and made his first photographs during a family vacation in Yosemite National Park. Thus began a career and a lifetime devoted to making indelible ima ...

The Nordlings

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 17:03:59 PST

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Fifteen-year-old Peggy is trying to run away from her problems at home when she finds herself thrust back into a long-forgotten fantasy world called Notherland.

The Way of Kings

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 17:03:17 PST

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A new epic fantasy series from the New York Times bestselling author chosen to complete Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time® Series.

Titus Groan

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 17:02:15 PST

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As the first novel opens, Titus, heir to Lord Sepulchrave, has just been born, he stands to inherit the miles of rambling stone and mortar that stand for Gormenghast Castle. Inside, all events are predetermined by a complex ritual, lost in history, understood only by Sourdust, Lord of the Library. There are tears and strange laughter; fierce births and deaths beneath umbrageous ceilings; dreams a ...

The Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 17:00:08 PST

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"Wake up, sir. We're here." It's a simple enough opening line--although not many would have guessed back in 1991 that this would lead to one of the most popular and critically acclaimed comics of the second half of the century. In Preludes and Nocturnes, Neil Gaiman weaves the story of a man interested in capturing the physical manifestation of Death but who instead captures the King of Dreams ...

The Doll's House

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 17:00:08 PST

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A being that has existed since the beginning of the universe, Morpheus rules over the realm of dreams. But after a decades-long imprisonment, the Sandman has returned to find that a few dreams and nightmares have escaped to reality. Looking to recapture his lost possessions, Morpheus ventures to the human plane only to learn that a woman named Rose Walker has inadvertently become a dream vortex a ...

La profezia dell'armadillo

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 16:11:24 PST

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Centotrentasei tavole, divise in storie brevi alla sua maniera, storielle di una o quattro/cinque pagine, che nell'insieme, tutte e centotrentasei le tavole, compongono una storia più grande.

Shades of Milk and Honey

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 4:16:21 PST

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This is a fantasy novel you wish Jane Austen had written. "Shades of Milk and Honey" is an intimate portrait of Jane Ellsworth of Dorchester, a woman ahead of her time in a version of Regency England where the manipulation of glamour is considered an essential skill for a lady of quality. Despite the prevalence of magic in everyday life, other aspects of Dorchester's society are not that differen ...

Sophie's Treason

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 4:02:56 PST

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For ages 10-14. It is 1838, and in the wake of the rebellion in Lower Canada, Sophie's and Luc's worlds are falling apart. Luc is powerless as his only brother stands trial for treason, while Sophie searches for clues to her father's mysterious disappearance. Meanwhile, her scheming brothers threaten to rip away Sophie's inheritance. Luc's brother is sentenced to die by hanging, and then, when it ...

Revenge of the Horned Bunnies

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 4:01:17 PST

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Danny Dragonbreath is excited about going to camp with his best friend Wendell and classmate Christiana even though his obnoxious, 7-year-old cousin Spencer is going too, but things change when Spencer finds a real jackalope.

The Sharing Knife Volume Two

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 4:00:33 PST

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Fawn Bluefield, the clever young farmer girl, and Dag Redwing Hickory, the seasoned Lakewalker soldier-sorcerer, have been married all of two hours when they depart her family's farm for Dag's home at Hickory Lake Camp. Having gained a hesitant acceptance from Fawn's family for their unlikely marriage, the couple hopes to find a similar reception among Dag's Lakewalker kin. But their arrival is m ...

The Sharing Knife

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 3:58:55 PST

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Troubled young Fawn Bluefield seeks a life beyond her family's farm. But en route to the city, she encounters a patrol of Lakewalkers, nomadic soldier-sorcerers from the northern woodlands. Feared necromancers armed with mysterious knives made of human bone, they wage a secret, ongoing war against the scourge of the "malices," immortal entities that draw the life out of their victims, enslaving ...

So You Want to Be a Wizard

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 3:56:37 PST

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Something stopped Nita's hand as it ran along the bookshelf. She looked and found that one of the books had a loose thread at the top of its spine. It was one of those So You Want to Be a . . . books, a series on careers. So You Want to Be a Pilot, and a Scientist . . . a Writer. But his one said, So You Want to Be a Wizard. I don't belive this, Nina thought. She shut the book and stood there h ...

Walking Backward

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 3:54:30 PST

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Twelve-year-old Josh, his four-and-a-half-year-old brother Sammy, and his Dad struggle to find their own way to grieve his mother's death after she dies ...

The Labyrinth

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 3:54:07 PST

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Here Monsters are hidden ... A lyrical anti-quest through a conscious maze without center, borders, or escape--a dark pilgrim's progress through a landscape of vicious Angels, plague houses, crocodile-prophets, tragic chess-sets, and the mind of an unraveling woman, driven on by the mocking guide who seeks to destroy as much as save. Enter the world of the Labyrinth, where Doors do not wait to ...

La valle della paura

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 3:51:56 PST

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Cinque settimane in pallone

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 3:51:32 PST

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C'è un tesoro in ogni dove

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 3:39:23 PST

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The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 3:39:14 PST

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Amazon Best Books of the Month, May 2011: Bibliophilic wyverns, enchanted woods, an evil Marquess, a magical talisman, dwarven customs agents, djinns, velocipedes--and that doesn't even take into account what's in the title of The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making. A fantastical tale that's somewhere between Lewis Carroll and Terry Pratchett, Cathrynne Valente's book ...

Testi e note

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 3:36:07 PST

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Una prestigiosa raccolta asimoviana, curata dell'autore e da lui annotata con quei tocchi inimitabili di vanagloria ed autoironia, di intelligenza critica e divagazione autobiografica che fanno dei suoi "commentari" una sorta di piacevolissimo racconto i più. Nella loro calcolata diversità di argomento e di tono le trentanove storie di questa antologia rispecchiano l'intero arco della produzione ...

Ventriloquism

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 3:35:35 PST

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Hootcat Hill

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 3:34:54 PST

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Linnet Perry is 13-year-old girl living in Wyrmesbury. Ordinary on the surface, she has hidden powers which she must be taught to use. When the ancient worldwyrm stirs, fear spreads throughout the town. People begin to disappear. Unless the wyrm is returned to sleep, there will be natural disasters and worse - too much old magic will leak into the world, disturbing the careful balance of modern l ...

The Folded World

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 3:33:46 PST

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Three narratives intertwine to tell the tale of the beginning of the end of the world: a younger, angrier Hagia, the blemmye-wife of John and Queen of Pentexore, who takes up arms with the rest of her nation to fight a war they barely ...

Il meglio dei racconti

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 3:31:56 PST

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Un'antologia che spazia dalle avventure di Hercule Poirot a quelle di miss Marple, di Tommy e Tuppence e del misterioso Parker Pyne.

La principessa Rose

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 3:31:43 PST

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Il prologo ufficiale della saga di BONE, il capolavoro assoluto di Jeff Smith. Le giovani principesse Rose e Briar Harvestar devono superare la prova finale dei loro studi con i monaci Veni Yan, per determinare chi tra loro sarà la nuova custode del Sogno. Ma un antico male scalpita nelle viscere della terra per trovare un corpo mortale che gli consenta di riprendere forma e conquistare il mondo. ...

The Making of Prince of Persia

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 3:30:30 PST

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The Night Circus

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 3:25:56 PST

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In 1886, a mysterious travelling circus becomes an international sensation. Open only at night, constructed entirely in black and white, Le Cirque des Reves delights all who wander its circular paths and warm themselves at its bonfire. Although there are acrobats, fortune-tellers and contortionists, the Circus of Dreams is no conventional spectacle. Some tents contain clouds, some ice. The circus ...

Hark! A Vagrant

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 3:24:32 PST

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E un'altra cosa...

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 3:23:24 PST

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Douglas Adams è morto prima di riuscire a scrivere il sesto episodio della Guida galattica per autostoppisti. Ma ora l'acclamato autore di bestseller Eoin Colfer è stato incaricato di rimettere in moto l'esilarante e scombinata banda di viaggiatori dello spazio. Arthur Dent, il leggendario protagonista della serie, ha ormai viaggiato in lungo e in largo per tutto lo spazio, avanti e indietro nel ...

Parable of the Sower

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 3:22:36 PST

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Octavia E. Butler, the grande dame of science fiction, writes extraordinary, inspirational stories of ordinary people. Parable of the Sower is a hopeful tale set in a dystopian future United States of walled cities, disease, fires, and madness. Lauren Olamina is an 18-year-old woman with hyperempathy syndrome--if she sees another in pain, she feels their pain as acutely as if it were real. When h ...

Il giogo del tempo

Fri, 26 Aug 2011 1:28:20 PST

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Specialista di mondi esotici e contaminati, Brian M. Stableford ci porta in un tempo in cui l'umanità sarà tornata alla superstizione e alla barbarie. Ma in quel mondo d'ombre circolano strane voci sulla prodigiosa scienza degli antichi. Bisogna ritrovare il Viaggiatore del Tempo! Una pericolosa avventura aspetta Matthew e John, due pellegrini disposti a tutto pur di trovare quel mitico superstit ...

To Dream in the City of Sorrows

Fri, 26 Aug 2011 1:27:40 PST

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Now in its fifth hit season, Babylon 5–TV’s hottest interstellar science- fiction phenomenon–has spawned its own series of definitive episode guides! Catch up on all the action, show by show, from the very beginning with the Babylon 5: Season by Season guidebooks. Veteran viewers or first-time fans, relive the adventure–or find out what you’ve been missing–with the complete companions to Babylo ...

The Hallowed Hunt

Fri, 26 Aug 2011 1:24:20 PST

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A magnificent epic tale of devotion, possession, obsession, and strange destiny from the author of the Hugo Award-winning Paladin of Souls Lois McMaster Bujold The half-mad Prince Boleso has been slain by a noblewoman he had intended to defile -- and Lord Ingrey kin Wilfcliff must transport the body to its burial place and the accused killer, the Lady Ijada, to judgment. With the death of the ...

The Curse of Chalion

Fri, 26 Aug 2011 1:23:22 PST

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Lois McMaster Bujold has won the Hugo award four times, and the Nebula award twice. In this, her first epic fantasy, we join Cazaril -- a former soldier, and courtier who is about to embark on a perilous journey, rife with lethal treacheries, demonic magic, and scheming characters. Lord Cazaril has been in turn courier, courtier, castle-warder, and captain; now he is but a crippled ex-galley sla ...

Dead Until Dark

Fri, 26 Aug 2011 1:23:01 PST

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Sookie Stackhouse is a cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana, but she keeps to herself and doesn't date much because of her "disability" to read minds. When she meets Bill, Sookie can't hear a word he's thinking. He's the type of guy she's waited for all of her life, but he has a disability, too--he's a vampire with a bad reputation. When one of Sookie's coworkers is killed, she fears she's n ...

The Great Gatsby

Fri, 26 Aug 2011 1:21:06 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 Red Necklace

Fri, 26 Aug 2011 1:18:03 PST

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The story of a remarkable boy called Yann Margoza; Tetu the dwarf, his friend and mentor; Sido, unloved daughter of a foolish Marquis; and Count Kalliovski, Grand Master of a secret society, who has half the aristocracy in thrall to him, and wants Yann dead. Yann is spirited away to London but three years later, when Paris is gripped by the bloody horrors of the Revolution, he returns, charged wi ...

Death in the Air

Fri, 26 Aug 2011 1:17:08 PST

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