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"I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new."
Jules Verne's classic novel Around the World in Eighty Days follows the adventures of Phileas Fogg and his faithful valet Passepartout as they attempt to circumnavigate the globe in 80 days or less.
A wealthy English gentleman, Fogg spends most of his time at his club. One day he got involved in an argument over a newspaper article stating that with the opening...
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The Prisoner of Zenda - Anthony Hope - The Prisoner of Zenda (1894), by Anthony Hope, is an adventure novel in which the King of Ruritania is drugged on the eve of his coronation and thus is unable to attend the ceremony. Political forces within the realm are such that, in order for the king to retain the crown, his coronation must proceed. Fortuitously, an English gentleman on holiday in Ruritania who resembles the monarch is persuaded to act as...
4) Heartstone
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"A debut novel that retells Pride and Prejudice in a world where creatures are dragons, hobgoblins, lamias, and gryphons are commonplace, HEARTSTONE takes Austen's classic tale and turns it into something new, engaging, and imaginative"--
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They're Retrieval Specialist, and they're the best there is. Snow and Cinder, operatives of an organization called The Kingdom, have been tasked with one of their most dangerous missions: find former teammate Alison Wonderland and bring her back alive. A year ago, Alison went missing, presumed dead, but now satellite imagery has revealed she's alive. Wherever she's been, whoever she's been with, Snow and Cinder have to take special care in bringing...
6) The Bookworm
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Gerald prides himself on his librarian skills-he's a teacher, a researcher, a human database, and the one he coined himself, a recommender, with just a few details, he knows the perfect book for every customer. Will his skills help him when a hungry newcomer, desperate to devour the books, arrives in his library. Supernatural horror from Emery and Hort.
7) Drama Dolls
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From the author of the critically acclaimed cult novel, ANONYMOUS, comes a dark tale about love and loss.
Meet Jeffrey. Jeffrey is turning forty. He has a good job, a loving wife, and a beautiful house. When the love of his life passes suddenly, his seemingly normal world turns upside down. The sudden death, along with his midlife crisis, causes Jeffrey to grieve the five stages in unnatural ways. He trades in his Toyota Corolla for a Corvette, smokes...
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Is it better to be a fake somebody or a real mister nobody?
Mister Nobody lives a very, average life, with an average job and average friends. He has a bullying mother, a failed marriage and low self-esteem and that's as good as life is going to get.
That is until Mister Somebody blazes into his work. Mister Somebody is the best, salesman known to man, a slick, fast-talking, womanizer with a huge house and fast cars. Nobody is awe-inspired by the...
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Garrett, un mercenario veterano, castigado por la vida y movido por sus propios intereses, ha recorrido durante años muchos de los rincones de Árcanthur en busca del culpable de la destrucción de su hogar. Durante ese tiempo, no se ha preocupado por nadie más que por sí mismo, pero todo empezará a cambiar cuando conozca a un muchacho que le pide ayuda para aprender a ser fuerte.
Mientras tanto, en las sombras, surgirá un corazón que cuestionará...
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HEIDI:
Ten days is all I have before the love of my life marries the Princess of Hell and my dreams for a smokingly hot happily-ever-after goes up in flames. It's DEF CON 666 and this girl is outta time and outta choices.
LOLA:
We're gonna find Zelda, the next Baba Yaga, have her yank me outta Heidi and shove me into a fresh new body then bingo bango, Lola's gonna get her groove on. It looks like I might even end up with some powers, seems Cookie,...
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Harmony: I swear, the next time somebody leaves me a house... I'm not moving in, I'm just droppin' it on one of my relatives.
See ya' in Asscrack. Anything's better than this crap.
Daphne: Some days you're the pin. Some days you're the voodoo doll...And some days there's not enough coffee or chocolate in the whole wide world to deal with the shenanigans that fall from the sky like bird poop on a freshly washed car.
Goddess, send help, I feel...
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In this action packed follow up to Fruitbasket from Hell, private investigator Alex Cheradon is faced with a nail biting case.
Reeling from the public relations nightmare that accompanied accidentally tackling a senator's daughter, Alex is approached by a man with a lethal case of amnesia. He wants to hire Alex to find out who he is, and since he just happens to have a winning lotto ticket that's worth 10 million dollars, money's no object. But as...
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While investigating possible Human abuse on the magical Islands of Fantasy, half-elf detective Eli Leafrunner questions a troll guard. In the middle of the interrogation, the troll's head explodes. Someone wants things kept quiet, and Leafrunner better figure out who fast - or he just might be the next victim.
14) RATS NEST
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Mysterious and sometimes hallucinogenic, RATS NEST builds a narrative out of the complexity and dialectical uncertainty that many people feel about being alive in the 21st-century.
This first full-length book by Mat Laporte introduces readers to a protoplasmic, fantastical underworld, as navigated by a self-reproducing 3D Printed Kid made especially for this purpose.
As the Kid descends the layers of a seemingly never-ending pit, its nightmares...
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2011
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Thirty-six of the most interesting writers in the Pacific Northwest came together for a week-long marathon of writing live on stage. The result? Hotel Angeline, a truly inventive novel that surprises at every turn of the page.
Something is amiss at the Hotel Angeline, a rickety former mortuary perched atop Capitol Hill in rain-soaked Seattle. Fourteen-year-old Alexis Austin is fixing the plumbing, the tea, and all the...
Something is amiss at the Hotel Angeline, a rickety former mortuary perched atop Capitol Hill in rain-soaked Seattle. Fourteen-year-old Alexis Austin is fixing the plumbing, the tea, and all the...
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La historia toma Moby Dick de Melville y lo adapta en una historia vaquero-occidental Es una historia definitiva de venganza, en la cual, Ahab persigue al criminal buscado, Moby Leviathan Dick. Te encantará este clásico marinero convertido en seco.
Se incluye una guía de discusión en este libro.
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Hauser is the wild boy of the MC, or at least that's what others say. Maybe he is, maybe he isn't, and the brothers wouldn't have it any other way. Along with the Dragons, he is ready to raise hell and ask questions later; busting heads, burning lives and bringing blood and chaos. Hauser will stop at nothing to guard what's important to him: his brotherhood, their honor and their loyalty. Feel no guilt. Bear no regret.Show no mercy.Sydney meets Hauser...
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Hola, metalero,
sí, te hablo a ti. Soy Omaha. Tengo una casa de seguridad y la uso para esconder drogas y armas. La casa esaba llena y quería hacer una venta final para retirarme, pero cuando rodearon la casa los poicias fui llevado a otro lado. Los policias también, pero la suerte no deja de sonreirme. Donde estoy hay brujas, leones cobardes, espantapájaros que hablan y otras tantas cosas, ah... también hay dos chicos británicos que parecen...
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Tom Statler was just going for a hike in the mountains He would like a bit of adventure, but was more wanting to relax and think about what he wanted to do and what he had done.Face it He had no idea of why he was out here, but was more than happy to be. It was nothing like he expected. All he knew was from books.He damned well hadn't learned any of this from a book
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"A wicked romp through the hallowed halls of academia!" Laugh out loud at these clever and sexy tales. Academia has never been so naughty! The university men in Professor Melanie Stevenson's life pressure her to take her proper place-under them. While the proper professor indulges in daring daydreams of…submitting to their will, her "evil" twin, Violet, takes on the role of academic avenger and cracks the whip, so to speak, to work out the kinks...
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