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1) Vintage Sci-Fi 11 - 26 Science Fiction Classics From Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Voltaire, Philip
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Vintage Sci-Fi 11 - 26 Science Fiction Classics from Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Voltaire, Philip K. Dick and more
• Ring Around the Sun by Isaac Asimov
• The Veldt by Ray Bradbury
• The Masked World by Jack Williamson
• The Small Bears by Gene L. Henderson
• Accept No Substitutes by Robert Sheckley
• Two Weeks in August by Frank M. Robinson
• Dance of the Dead by Richard Matheson
• Savage Galahad by Bryce Walton
• Death-Wish by...
2) Vintage Sci-Fi 8: 29 Science Fiction Classics From Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Jac
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Vintage Sci-Fi 8 - 29 Science Fiction Classics from Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Jack Williamson and more
3) Vintage Sci-Fi 9 - 17 Science Fiction Classics From Isaac Asimov, H. G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, Phi
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Vintage Sci-Fi 9 - 17 Science Fiction Classics from Isaac Asimov, H. G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick, Mary Shelley and more
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[2004]
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Stories to explore the unknown. From the radio shows of Dimension X, Lights out, X-minus one, Exploring tomorrow, The shadow, The Lux Radio Theatre and CBS Radio Workshop. Authors include: Robert A. Heiin, Isaac AsimoRobert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, L. Sprague de Camp, Philip K. Dick, Clifford D. Simak and H.G. Wells ...
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The critically acclaimed New York Times–bestseller and the basis for the Academy Award– and Golden Globe–nominated film starring Steve McQueen. As a spirit of nationalism inspired by Chiang Kai-shek's leadership begins to sweep through China, the river gunship San Pablo is ordered to patrol the region and to protect US citizens. Jack Holman is a machinist aboard the San Pablo, who has joined the navy in order to avoid jail time. Because he is...
6) Sanditon
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Following a chance meeting with Mr. and Mrs. Parker, Charlotte Heywood accompanies them to their home in Sanditon, a very new and all but deserted town, which nevertheless, and with no small effort from her hosts, begins to fill with holidaymakers and characters of varying degrees of absurdity and sense.
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Lanny Budd novels volume 4
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Lanny Budd's adventures from the Nazi Blood Purge through the beginning of the Spanish Civil War.
8) Island
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In his final novel, which he considered his most important, Aldous Huxley transports us to the remote Pacific island of Pala, where an ideal society has flourished for 120 years.
Inevitably, this island of bliss attracts the envy and enmity of the surrounding world. A conspiracy is underway to take over Pala, and events are set in motion when an agent of the conspirators, a newspaperman named Faranby, is shipwrecked there. What Faranby doesn't expect...
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Basil Hallward es un artista pintor que queda impresionado por la belleza del joven Dorian Gray a quien retrata. Charlando en el jardín de Hallward, Dorian conoce a un amigo de Basil y empieza a cautivarse por la visión del mundo de Lord Henry. Exponiendo un nuevo tipo de hedonismo, Lord Henry indica que «lo único que vale la pena en la vida es la belleza, y la satisfacción de los sentidos». Al darse cuenta de que un día su belleza se desaparecerá,...
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Shadow Wranglers volume 02
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Meet Jared-a cowboy with bit-in the latest paranormal romance from the national bestselling author.
Jared Johnson has always been a force to be reckoned with, first as an outlaw and now as a vampire. Caught in a war between immortals, he doesn't have time to waste, but when a female vampire is attacked, he can't just walk away. He expects a quick goodbye, but what he gets is a vulnerable woman who intrigues and seduces while giving...
Jared Johnson has always been a force to be reckoned with, first as an outlaw and now as a vampire. Caught in a war between immortals, he doesn't have time to waste, but when a female vampire is attacked, he can't just walk away. He expects a quick goodbye, but what he gets is a vulnerable woman who intrigues and seduces while giving...
11) Jace
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He had one need.
She had one hope.
Together they have one chance...
Vampire Jace Johnson was not a family man until he met Miri. But their forbidden relationship ended when she disappeared. After a year of searching, Jace finds Miri in a Sanctuary enclave.
After a year of cruel experimentation by the Sanctuary on her werewolf form, Miri is no longer the passionate wife Jace remembers. She only lives to rescue the daughter...
She had one hope.
Together they have one chance...
Vampire Jace Johnson was not a family man until he met Miri. But their forbidden relationship ended when she disappeared. After a year of searching, Jace finds Miri in a Sanctuary enclave.
After a year of cruel experimentation by the Sanctuary on her werewolf form, Miri is no longer the passionate wife Jace remembers. She only lives to rescue the daughter...
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Based on some of literature's horror and science fiction classics, this is the story of a remarkable group of women who come together to solve the mystery of a series of gruesome murders--and the bigger mystery of their own origins. Mary Jekyll, alone and penniless following her parents' death, is curious about the secrets of her father's mysterious past. One clue in particular hints that Edward Hyde, her father's former friend and a murderer, may...
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It was high hot noon on the Casket Ridge. Its very scant shade was restricted to a few dwarf Scotch firs, and was so perpendicularly cast that Leonidas Boone, seeking shelter from the heat, was obliged to draw himself up under one of them, as if it were an umbrella. Occasionally, with a boy's perversity, he permitted one bared foot to protrude beyond the sharply marked shadow until the burning sun forced him to draw it in again with a thrill of satisfaction....
14) As I lay dying
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Describes a family's struggle to get their mother properly buried, while they encounter catastrophes of flood and fire, as well as the chaos of their own feelings.
15) Finnegans wake
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Presents an experimental novel depicting a dream of world history, with characters from literature and history appearing and disappearing, written in a dream language that is a comical mixture of all the languages of Europe.
16) World's end
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Lanny Budd novels volume 1
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A cynical view of the world armament industry in the period preceding and during the European War. The first volume in the author's series of Lanny Budd novels.
17) Old Christmas
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"Old Christmas" by Washington Irving is a delightful exploration of the traditional English Christmas, taking readers on a nostalgic journey to the heart of 19th-century holiday celebrations. Renowned for his ability to capture the essence of early American and English culture, Irving, in this charming series of essays and sketches, brings to life the rich, festive traditions of a bygone era. Set in the English countryside, "Old Christmas" is a vivid...
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"When seventeen-year-old Molly Gibson's widowed father remarries, her life is turned upside down by the arrival of her vain, manipulative stepmother. She also acquires an intriguing new stepsister, Cynthia, glamorous, sophisticated, and irresistible to every man she meets. The two girls begin to confide in one another and Molly soon finds herself a go-between in Cynthia's love affairs--but in doing so risks losing both her own reputation and the man...
20) Giant A Novel
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This sweeping tale captures the essence of Texas on a staggering scale as it chronicles the life and times of cattleman Jordan "Bick" Benedict, his naive young society wife, Leslie, and three generations of land-rich sons. A sensational story of power, love, cattle barons, and oil tycoons.
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