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World Classics eBook Series

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  • The Silent Bullet

    Series series World Classics
    "The Silent Bullet" contains twelve of Professor Kennedy's adventures. Reeve uses the newest technologies of the early 1900s, which were nothing short of revolutionary for the time. In the title story, for example, everyone is wondering how somebody could have been killed by a bullet without anyone having heard the detonation. In "The Deadly Tube" an evil doctors hurts his patients using x-rays. ... Read more

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  • The Poisoned Pen

    Series series World Classics
    "The Poisoned Pen" is a collection of twelve of Professor Kennedy's adventures. In these, Reeve uses the newest technologies of the early 1900s, which were nothing short of revolutionary for the time. The title story for example features the use of special inks, some appearing and others disappearing in sunlight, making the pursuit of a murderer incredibly difficult for the professor. Each story ... Read more

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    A fantastic tale of swashbuckling adventure set in an alternate universe where fairies roam England and all of Shakespeare's fictional characters are real.Winner of the Mythopoeic AwardA Nebula and World Fantasy Award FinalistWelcome to an alternate civil-war-torn seventeenth-century England—a world where Hamlet once brooded and Othello jealously raged. Here faeries and sprites gambol in English ... Read more

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  • Rogue Moon

    by Algis Budrys ...
    A Hugo Award Finalist: Humanity struggles to understand a killing labyrinth discovered on the Moon in this science fiction adventure about death and rebirthHugo and Nebula Award–winning author Robert Silverberg credits Rogue Moon with containing "the most terrifying pages in any SF novel I have ever read."A monstrous apparatus has been found on the surface of the moon. It devours and destroys in ... Read more

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  • Strange Devices of the Sun and Moon

    "[Lisa Goldstein's] magnificent book functions as both an eerie fantasy and an evocative period piece, overlaid with all the thrills of a convoluted conspiracy novel . . . The reader is plunged into a fantasy milieu reminiscent of some of Yeats's Faerie poems, illustrated perhaps by Arthur Rackham." —Paul Di Filippo ( Washington Post)London in the time of Queen Elizabeth I is a bustling place, its ... Read more

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  • The Devil in Velvet

    To solve a centuries-old crime, a man makes a deal with the devil: "The fantasy, the murder and the historical action are . . . all wonderful" ( San Francisco Chronicle).An aging scholar of Restoration history, Nicholas Fenton has long dreamed of traveling into the past. He has a date in mind—May 10, 1675—as well as a purpose: to solve the murder case of the woman he loves, his rakehell ancestor's ... Read more

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  • All Hallows' Eve

    A Novel

    In post-Blitz London, humanity's last hope of defeating a powerful magician's insidious plans lies with a ghost trapped in a surreal city of the deadDuring World War II, soon after Ms. Lester Furnival married her beloved Richard, she died in an accident. Now she wanders the dark and lonely streets with her friend Evelyn. An empty mirror image of the London she once knew, the city is a place where ... Read more

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  • The Novels of Alexander the Great

    Fire from Heaven, The Persian Boy, and Funeral Games

    by Mary Renault ...
    Series series The Novels of Alexander the Great
    A New York Times–bestselling trilogy about the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon and its leader from an author hailed by Hilary Mantel as "a shining light."Fire from Heaven is a gripping account of the formative years of Alexander's life. The story tells of his complex relationship with his parents; of his two great bonds—to his horse, Oxhead, and to his dearest friend and eventual lover, ... Read more

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  • A Study in Terror

    by Ellery Queen ...
    Based on the Sherlock Holmes film: Ellery Queen matches wits with the Baker Street sleuth to unmask Jack the Ripper in this classic by a Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster."A new Ellery Queen book has always been something to look forward to for many years now." —Agatha ChristieEllery Queen is struggling over his latest book when a friend brings him a mystery. It is a journal, written by a ... Read more

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  • Skin Folk

    Stories

    The SFWA Grand Master's award-winning collection "combines a richly textured multicultural background with incisive storytelling" ( Library Journal).In Skin Folk, with works ranging from science fiction to Caribbean folklore, passionate love to chilling horror, Nalo Hopkinson is at her award-winning best, spinning tales like "Precious," in which the narrator spews valuable coins and gems from her ... Read more

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  • Descent into Hell

    A Novel

    In this provocative, classic metaphysical thriller, a group of suburban amateur actors plagued by personal demons and terrors explore the pathways to heaven and hellCertain inhabitants of Battle Hill, a small community on the outskirts of London, are preparing to mount a new play by the neighborhood's most illustrious resident, the writer Peter Stanhope. Each actor struggles with self-absorption, ... Read more

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  • Raising Hell

    A Concise History of the Black Arts and Those Who Dared to Practice Them

    An occultism reference chronicling the quest for metaphysical truth, from astronomers to astrologers, necromancers to sorcerers, alchemists to prophets.If the history of black magic and the occult reveals anything, it's that the drive to marshal the unseen powers of the dark, and bend them to mortal will, is as old as mankind itself. Men and women have believed, in virtually every age and in every ... Read more

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