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Permanent Midnight: A Memoir

Jerry Stahl

The harrowing, hilarious, classic memoir from the bestselling author of I,Fatty.

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On Basilisk Station (Honor Harrington Book 1)

David Weber

Honor Harrington in trouble: Having made him look the fool, she's been exiled to Basilisk Station in disgrace and set up for ruin by a superior who hates ...

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Moloka'i

Alan Brennert

Dreaming of far-off lands away from her loving 1890s Honolulu home, seven-year-old Rachel is forcibly removed from her family when she contracts leprosy and is ...

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Erotism: Death and Sensuality

Georges Bataille

Taboo and sacrifice, transgression and language, death and sensuality-Georges Bataille pursues these themes with an original, often startling perspective.

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City of Bones (Mortal Instruments)

Cassandra Clare

Suddenly able to see demons and the Darkhunters who are dedicated to returning them totheir own dimension, fifteen-year-old Clary Fray is drawn into this ...

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Fox's Book of Martyrs: A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Deaths of the Early Christian and Protestant Martyrs



This is a book which will never die--one of the greatest Christian classics.

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Things Fall Apart (African Writers Series: Expanded Edition with Notes)

Chinua Achebe

The first of these stories traces Okonkwo's fall from grace with the tribal world in which he lives, and in its classical purity of line and economical beauty ...

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The Letters of John Keats

John Keats

The correspondence of John Keats, English Romantic poet, who died at the age of 25 from tuberculosis.

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Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from The Power of Now

Eckhart Tolle

A collection of simple meditations and exercises helps readers highten their consciousness of the present and live in the moment more completely. 50,000 first ...

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Illuminator #2

Glenn Herdling, Marvel Comics

Just barely beginning to realize all the abilities and responsibilities of being a superhero, as well as understanding what his decision to become a Christian ...

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Concrete Island: A Novel

J. G. Ballard

Following a motor vehicle accident, Robert Maitland, a young architect turned modern-dayRobinson Crusoe, learns to survive on a traffic island in the center of ...

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The Wise Man's Fear (Kingkiller Chronicles, Day 2)

Patrick Rothfuss

Forced to leave the university and seek his fortune abroad, Kvothe travels to Vintas,only to become entangled in the politics and intrigues of courtly society ...

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Time of the Twins (Dragonlance: Legends Trilogy)

Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman

In the uneasy peace following the War of the Lance, Caramon and Tasslehoff the Kenderset out to reform Caramon's twin brother Raistlin, the most powerful ...

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High Druid of Shannara: Straken

Terry Brooks

"From the Hardcover edition.

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Time Machines: The Story of the Science-Fiction Pulp Magazines from the Beginning to 1950 (Liverpool University Press - Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies)

Mike Ashley

This is the first of three volumes that chart the history of the science fiction magazine from the earliest days to the present. This first volume looks at the exuberant years of the pulp magazines.

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Cirque du Freak : A Living Nightmare

Darren Shan

Darren and Steve, two boys who are best friends, visit an illegal freak show, where an encounter with a vampire and a deadly spider forces them to make life ...

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Great Short Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Poems Tales Criticism (Perennial Classics)

Edgar Allan Poe

The finest comic, Gothic, and satiric works of the nineteenth-century writer areincluded in an anthology that features a superb collection of poetry, critical ...

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Voice of the Gods (Age of the Five Trilogy, Book 3)

Trudi Canavan

Auraya, now the protector of the Siyee, is reluctantly drawn into the heart of a terrifying conflict between the immortal Wilds and their dangerous and ...

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fear and loathing in las vegas

hunter.s.thompson



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The Last Book In The Universe

Rodman Philbrick

After an earthquake has destroyed much of the planet, an epileptic teenager nicknamedSpaz begins the heroic fight to bring human intelligence back to the Earth ...

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The Wild Road

Gabriel King

Once in every age, there comes a special cat. His mission is not to rule, but to guide the rulers to their destiny, to uphold the balance of the natural ...

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The Last Wish

Andrzej Sapkowski

The Witcher, Geralt de Riv, a mercenary assassin, uses his vast sorcerous powers to huntdown the monsters that threaten the world, but he soon discovers that ...

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Vineland (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)

Thomas Pynchon

Zoyd Wheeler's old nemesis arrives in Vineland hoping to use Zoyd's daughter asa pawn to track down Zoyd's ex-wife

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Alice I Have Been: A Novel

Melanie Benjamin

Octogenarian Alice, who as a child inspired Lewis Carroll's famous Wonderland character, looks back on a life marked by an implacable mother, her halcyon days ...

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Twinkie, Deconstructed: My Journey to Discover How the Ingredients Found in Processed Foods Are Grown, Mined (Yes, Mined), and Manipulated into What America Eats

Steve Ettlinger

Traces the author's pop-science investigation into the sources and manufacture of processed food ingredients, in an account that uses the Twinkie label as a ...

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Tough Sh*t: Life Advice from a Fat, Lazy Slob Who Did Good

Kevin Smith

The producer of Clerks and the Oscar-winning Good Will Hunting distills his no-holds-barred advice as culled from his successful career of rule-breaking, sharing observations on such topics as what can be learned from the character Ferris ...

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

James Joyce



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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

Max Brooks

By the author of The Zombie Survival Guide. Reprint. 150,000 first printing.

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The Plutonium Blonde (Daw Book Collectors)

John Zakour, Lawrence Ganem

Mid-twenty-first-century private detective Zachary Nixon Johnson finds himself in over his head when he is hired by B. B. Starr, a former exotic dancer who is ...

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In The Company Of Heroes

Michael J. Durant, Steven Hartov

Published on the tenth anniversary of the Somali conflict, the story of Black Hawk pilotMike Durant recounts how he was shot down and taken prisoner in Somalia ...

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This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession

Daniel J. Levitin

A scientific exploration of the relationship between the mind and music draws on recent findings in the fields of neuroscience and evolutionary psychology to ...

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Dying Inside

Robert Silverberg

A re-release of a classic work by a Hugo Award and Nebula Award-winning writer followsthe experiences of a man whose ability to read minds irrevocably shapes ...

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Crucible: Star Wars

Troy Denning

Praise for Crucible “[Troy] Denning opens new pathways of adventure and recaptures the feel of the Star Wars universe and its beloved characters.”—Library Journal “Outstanding . . . an adventure that tantalizes the imagination ...

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Chindi

Jack McDevitt

When someone--or something--leaves a series of mysterious satellites orbiting around diverse planets in the galaxy, a crew sets out to uncover the origins of ...

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Day by Day Armageddon: Beyond Exile (Book 2)

J. L. Bourne

A sequel to Day by Day Armageddon is presented in the form of a journal by a struggling survivor who in the midst of a global zombie disaster endeavors to ...

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In the Realm of Elizabeth (Part of " What Life Was Like Series " ) (What Life Wa

the editors of Time-Life Books

What Life Was Like In the Realm of Elizabeth tells the fascinating story of QueenElizabeth's steely determination and skillful political manoeuvring along with ...

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Exile: The Legend of Drizzt, Book II

R.A. Salvatore

It followed me wherever I went–indeed, the farther I ran, the more it closed in around me. My enemy was solitude, the interminable, incessant silence of hushed corridors. –Drizzt Do’Urden From the Paperback edition.

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Anne of Green Gables (New Canadian Library)

L.M. Montgomery

A young orphan struggles to adjust to the new experience of a permanent home on Prince Edward Island.

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Zod Wallop

William Spencer

Harry Gainesborough wrote a children's story called "Zod Wallop".

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Hatchet

Gary Paulsen

Headed for Canada to visit his father for the first time since his parents' divorce, thirteen-year-old Brian is the sole survivor of a plane crash, with only ...

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One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest : A Play in Two Acts

Dale Wasserman, Ken Kesey

One Flew Over the Cuckoo 's Nest ... DALE WASSERMAN S ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO S NEST. FROM THE NOVEL BY KEN KESEY Production Designed by NEIL PETER ...

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Microserfs

Douglas Coupland

Microserfs: a hilarious, fanatically detailed, and oddly moving book about a handful of misfit Microsoft employees who realize that they don't have lives and subsequently become determined to get lives inside the lightning-paced world of ...

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The Jungle (Forgotten Books)

Upton Beall Sinclair

CHAPTER T was four o'clock when the ceremony was over and the carriages began to arrive. There had been a crowd following all the way, ...

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The Man with the Iron Heart

Harry Turtledove

Surviving a failed assassination attempt, the ruthless Reinhard Heydrich, the number-two man in the SS and an architect of the Holocaust, conceives a conspiracy designed to keep the German war machine alive, long after the supposed end to ...

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Hard Contact (Star Wars: Republic Commando, Book 1)

Karen Traviss

Darman, the demolitions expert in a four-man team of clone troopers on a desperatemission behind enemy lines, assigned to destroy a nanovirus research facility ...

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Pet Sematary

Stephen King

When a little boy's pet dies, and he persuades his parents to bury it in an oldIndian cemetary, reputed by legend to house restless spirits, a nightmare of ...

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Three Musketeers

Alexandre Dumas



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Elements of Astrology

L. D. Broughton

My friend quietly asked him, ' ' Do you know anything about Astrology? " ' ' No, and I do not want to know anything about it." There are vast numbers of ...

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Firebird (Fairy Tales, Book 1)

Mercedes Lackey

A young nobleman glimpses the legendary Firebird as it steals cherries from his father's orchards, and he journeys through a fantastical version of Old Russia ...

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Name of the Rose

Umberto Eco

It is the year 1327. Franciscans in an Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, but Brother William of Baskerville's investigation is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths. Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

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