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Blackstone Publishing
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English
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"A follow up to the original groundbreaking collection, Again, Dangerous Visions features forty-six short stories from giants of the science fiction genre. Grand Master of the Science Fiction Writers of America and winner of countless awards-including the Hugo, Nebula, Edgar Allan Poe, and Bram Stoker-Harlan Ellison proved once more that he was both unpredictable and irrepressible in this second collection of innovative science fiction. Again, Dangerous...
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A cryptid collection volume 1
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Independently published
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English
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"The first thing to know, sweet reader, is that Thiside is everywhere. And also, Thiside is nowhere, and it is completely inaccessible, except under certain circumstances. Thiside is where the monsters, cryptids, and dream-creatures live, and Otherside is where you live assuming that you are, indeed, reading the Otherside edition of this text. An excellent selection of stories have been curated for you from the annals of Thiside, but as this missive...
3) Homecoming
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HarperCollins
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English
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The talents of four stellar authors are brought together in one passionate anthology that celebrates homecomings and the joy of love. This beautifully repackaged classic is sure to delight longtime fans and attract new ones! In "The Journey" by Fern Michaels, twelve years after being jilted at the altar, mountain guide Maggie Osborne Harper is about to make the hardest trek of her life. In "Heading Home" by Janet Dailey, Kate Summers has her reasons...
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Belaurient Press
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English
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A murderous Queen of Hearts, the problems of time-traveling mail, a horny merman who meets his fanged match, and Galactic Rangers dealing with kidnapped royals and libidinous cat queens. What do these have in common? They're all Random Realities, a compliation of ten speculative fiction tales by Melanie Fletcher that cheerfully romp across space, time, and a wide variety of genres.
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"Who cut off Medusa's head? Who was raised by a she-bear? Who tamed Pegasus? It takes a demigod to know, and Percy Jackson can fill you in on the all the daring deeds of Perseus, Atalanta, Bellerophon, and the rest of the major Greek heroes. Told in the funny, irreverent style readers have come to expect from Percy --
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Belaurient Press
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English
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Hungry aliens. Futuristic shoppers. Veteran spacers. Medical androids. Killer teddy bears. Janitors with raptor DNA. And now, they're all in one place. Tales From A Lone Star is the first anthology from the Future Classics speculative fiction writers group of North Dallas. Featuring fourteen stories from members such as Nebula nominee Jake Kerr ("The Old Equations") and 2012 Writers of the Future winner William Ledbetter ("The Rings Of Mars"), Tales...
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Belaurient Press
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English
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A man sent to stop the world's first zero-G birth. A deep space pilot who runs headlong into Einstein's theory of relativity. A synthetic human fighting for survival in a world that sees her as disposable. All these stories and more are in A Lone Star in the Sky, the second anthology from the Future Classics speculative fiction writers group of North Dallas. Featuring eighteen stories from members such as Nebula winner William Ledbetter (The Long...
10) Give Me A Texan
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Zebra Books
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English
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Roots that go deep. . .men who stand tall. . .and real women who have what it takes to love and be loved by them. Jodi Thomas, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, teams up with Linda Broday, Phyliss Miranda, and DeWanna Pace to bring you four of the best Texas romances ever. . .
Give Me A Texan
Hank Harris wasn't even looking for a woman when he ended up with a wife. Their hasty marriage is for appearances...
Give Me A Texan
Hank Harris wasn't even looking for a woman when he ended up with a wife. Their hasty marriage is for appearances...
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince and Other Stories(1888) is an inscrutable, magical fairy tale collection that has filled readers of all ages with joy and wonder. Each story explores profound truths of love, morality, and suffering; yet there is a poignant beauty that shines through each of these remarkable and timeless tales.
The opening story, "The Happy Prince" is set in a town full of suffering, where a little sparrow who had been abandoned by...
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Zebra Books
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English
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Feeling the chill of winter? Then grab a glass of egg nog, take a seat by the yule log, and warm yourself heart and soul with these four captivating tales of passion that make mistletoe seem so unnecessary...
A Bright Red Ribbon Fern Michaels
Being dumped by your boyfriend on Christmas Eve has got to be the worst. Still, Morgan Ames promised she'd wait two Christmases for his return — tonight — and she always keeps her promises....
A Bright Red Ribbon Fern Michaels
Being dumped by your boyfriend on Christmas Eve has got to be the worst. Still, Morgan Ames promised she'd wait two Christmases for his return — tonight — and she always keeps her promises....
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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Classic ghost stories of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Machen, and others.
In 1920, acclaimed author and editor Dorothy Scarborough collected what she believed to be the finest ghost stories of her time. Her quintessential anthology Famous Modern Ghost Stories includes entries from such pioneering horror writers as Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood, Guy de Maupassant, and Myla Jo Closser. As Scarborough...
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Harlequin
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English
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USA Today–Bestselling Author: A bargain of passionate desire threatens to consume two lost souls.
Jack Maguire was turned away from his father's house and has never forgotten that day—or how much he wanted his stepsister, Sally. Now a billionaire tycoon, by a twist of fate Jack's inherited his father's property—and has an opportunity to get revenge.
Jack has a bargain to make with Sally, who has grown into a beautiful,...
Jack Maguire was turned away from his father's house and has never forgotten that day—or how much he wanted his stepsister, Sally. Now a billionaire tycoon, by a twist of fate Jack's inherited his father's property—and has an opportunity to get revenge.
Jack has a bargain to make with Sally, who has grown into a beautiful,...
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Wildside Press LLC
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English
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Clark Ashton Smith (1893-1961) was a self-educated American poet, sculptor, painter, and author of fantasy, horror, and science fiction short stories. He achieved early local recognition, largely through the enthusiasm of George Sterling, for traditional verse in the vein of Swinburne. As a poet, Smith is grouped with the West Coast Romantics (alongside Ambrose Bierce, Joaquin Miller, Sterling, Nora May French, and others) and remembered as "The
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy is a story by Charles Dickens. Dickens was an English writer and social critic. Excerpt: "Mr. Buffle's family were not liked in this neighbourhood, for when you are a householder my dear you'll find it does not come by nature to like the Assessed, and it was considered besides that a one-horse pheayton ought not to have elevated Mrs. Buffle to that height especially when purloined from the Taxes which I myself did consider uncharitable....
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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You see, about ten years ago the people of Cimmeria got rather tired of the condition of their streets. They were badly paved. They were full of good intentions, but the citizens thought they ought to have something more lasting...
Sometimes a shade has to do what a shade has to do. The Americanization of Hades has brought with it upheaval and golf. The late James Boswell has a newspaper to run, and thus he borrows the Enchanted Typewriter of the...
18) Aesop's Fables
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English
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Revive your childhood wonder and fascination with the most exquisitely illustrated edition of Aesop's Fables -featuring breathtaking original artwork by #1 New York Times bestselling illustrator Charles Santore!
Captivating the hearts and minds of kids and adults for generations, Aesop, a former Greek slave, developed simple and meaningful adventures featuring animals or insects to teach a moral standard or lesson for living. The most well known...
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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The Lilac Fairy Book is a collection of short fiction comprised of over thirty tales ranging from a variety of descents, including Portuguese, Irish, British, and Celtic. Each tale is written in lively prose, depicting unforgettable characters. In The Brown Bear of Norway, a kind-hearted princess falls in love with a prince who is cursed to live as a bear by day. The Enchanted Deer follows a fisherman's son named Ian, who, after his father's death,...
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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A masterpiece of stories by H. G. Wells, masterfully tied together by time and place. First, a shop owner named Mr. Cave, enraptured by a crystal egg, struggles to find a way to keep his magical possession... Then we are, taken to a time when cave people struggled to find their place on the planet and keep their lives. The forward to the far future where, in the place the cave people once camped, a young couple's back are, bowed beneath the tyranny...
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