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8501) The Apprentice
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A successful serial killer takes on an apprentice in the art of murder. For twenty years his mission: to rid the of the old and useless. Now he will train his son to continue his work.A tale where murder has a deadly purpose, and a deadly legacy.
8502) First Year Problems
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A magic academy short story about those who run the classroom.
As a desperate college graduate, Willow pounces on the chance to teach at Smith Academy. Too bad she doesn't realize it's actually Runesmith Academy for the Supernaturally Gifted.
Three weeks into the school year, she's at her wit's end. Willow is intimidated by her much more magical coworkers, and her students have blown up her classroom. Can she find a reason to stay?
Full of humor,...
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Carlos Angelo, a sixty-two-year-old Italian man, works as an elevator operator in the Lower Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. He lives in an apartment a few blocks away from his workplace. It was his first and only job in America, after four decades in the country. Carlos has been a loyal employee for many years and always arrives at work early. He enjoys his job and has made many friends in the building. Carlos has received several "Employee...
8504) With Malice Aforethought
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From Havana to London, Senor Juan Menendez is being pursued by an unknown person determined to kill him. He approaches Sherlock Holmes for protection. But, is there really an enemy, or is it just imagination?
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From the Man Booker shortlisted author of The Lighthouse comes this uncanny collection of short fiction about the unhomeliness of home: fractured families, domestic claustrophobia, and the unseen menace of the everyday. Alison Moore moves deftly from flash fictions to novella, from insightful realism to chilling gothic horror. With the same emotional tension and tightly controlled prose that garnered her first novel such accolades, Moore once again...
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Age : 6 - 8 years old Reading Level : 2nd Grade
Step into Leonard the Wizard's magical world!
Leonard the wizard is taking a nice stroll with his faithful pet, Leon the dragon. Everything is perfect until Leon smells a rabit and starts running to catch him. A mad race thus begins...
This brand new series of stories will carry children into the magical and funny stories of Leonard the Wizard and his friends, the animals from the magic forest. These...
8507) As Luck Would Have It
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When Felicity was nearly run over, it's Hawk that's there to catch her before she falls...literally.
He's strong, handsome, and smart, and gave back to the community. Hawk's everything a woman would want, but he's also her competition.
They come from two rivaling bakeries, so that should mean there's no way they can be together. But it seemed fate had other plans.
Because as luck would have it, once Hawk had her, he's not letting her go....
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This is a story about a beautiful Golden Retriever called Phoebe, and the amazing adventure which she got involved in when she went out for a walk. This was originally written in order to read to my children at bedtime, but I thought I should also share it with a wider audience.
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At a glamorous masquerade ball in an opulent mansion the elite gather to celebrate the introduction of one of their own to society.
But the guests of this party aren't all knights in shining armor.
And tonight, Lucia DeMarco and Salvatore Benedetti will meet in a chance encounter one year before the contract that makes her his is to be fulfilled.
8510) We're All Dead Here
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From the author of Ghost Girl and Hurricane comes a collection of her best horror short stories and novellas. We're All Dead Here contains ten tales of bone-chilling terror.
Snowbound finds a young woman stranded on a desolate highway during a blizzard, a road that she was warned to stay off of. Sheltered inside her car, she is being stalked by night creatures with a thirst for human blood.
In Midnight At the Morgue, night watchman, Carlo...
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BoxersReal Men Don't WaxCinderella's clueless. Prince charming, he is not. But that's not going to keep one devil of a cat from having his happy ending. Join Mephistopheles as he tries to convince two people that their stars are well and truly crossed.Bast Fantasy An ancient race lives among us. They hide in the shadows. Some are benevolent, others not. For Edwin Cole, an ordinary college teacher, a chance encounter reveals both on the same night....
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The bite is worse than the burn.Not knowing who he is, where he is, or what he is, Unnamed awakens under a dark sky full of smoke. Who is he? Why are his clothes… and his skin… in tatters? In a world on fire, what sort of person will he become?The Rucksack Universe series combines alternate history, speculative fiction, myth, adventure, globetrotting, and intrigue-all with well-poured pints of beer. Library Journal says Anthony St. Clair's storytelling...
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Extrait : "La marquise de R... n'était pas fort spirituelle, quoiqu'il soit reçu en littérature que toutes les vieilles femmes doivent pétiller d'esprit. Son ignorance était extrême sur toutes les choses que le frottement du monde ne lui avait point apprises. Elle n'avait pas non plus cette excessive délicatesse d'expression, cette pénétration exquise..."
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8515) Escape to Long Hill
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Life is idyllic in the chicken farm, if you ignore the mysterious disappearances of your family and friends. The chicken community lives by the motto that ignorance is bliss, until the big storm. With the farm destroyed, three baby chicks, Chico, Yvette and Angel have to navigate through predators and unseen dangers to meet the rest of their community in Long Hill - the land for the happy and free. This is a charming short story that would delight...
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Extrait : "Les murs de la cellule étaient nus, peints à la chaux. Une fenêtre étroite et grillée, percée très haut de façon qu'on ne pût pas y atteindre, éclairait cette petite nièce claire et sinistre ; et le fou, assis sur une chaise de paille, nous regardait d'un œil fixe, vague et hanté"
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8517) The Wish Dragon
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When Carly finds a dragon statue in the garden of her new home, she has no idea how her life is going to change – again.Can Fred the Wish Dragon help Carly through a really bad time?And can Carly help Fred find a place to belong?
8518) Rebobinando
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"Cuentos en los que la acción se desencadena a partir de una espera. Cuentos de personas que se ven forzadas a salir de su quietud. Desde 'El imán' hasta 'Rebobinando', siete historias de seres que por algún motivo empiezan a quedarse afuera del mundo útil. Analítico, hiperbólico y descarnado, Rebobinando de Hilario González se mueve en el borde donde lo real puede volverse raro en un segundo, como en el brillante 'Arroyo de los Huesos'....
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An icon of Canadian short fiction, Keath Fraser has exerted a wide and trenchant influence since the publication of his first collection Taking Cover in 1982. Damages: Selected Stories 1982-2012 gathers the finest of his work across decades. Combining the craftsmanship of the form's greatest masters with the idiosyncratic voices and music of our contemporary moment, the stories selected here travel from the richly peopled worlds of Fraser's Vancouver...
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En esta historia, los Jumbalees se decepcionan al enterarse de que su centro juvenil tiene que cerrar por falta de fondos. Al no poder entrar, van a la playa a nadar, donde divisan un barco pirata acercándose a lo lejos. ¡Un encuentro con los piratas les provee una solución inesperada para el centro juvenil!
Esta serie de cuentos ilustrados para niños trata sobre los Jumbalees, un grupo de criaturas jóvenes y coloridas que viven y juegan juntas...
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