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In this representative volume, "The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories" the reader will find twenty-four of Mark Twain's best shorter works. Classic and unforgettable tales that span the author's career are included, such as "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", which is Twain's most famous short story and was his first great success as an author. It is the unforgettable tale of Jim Smiley, the gambler who will bet on anything including...
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From Gibraltar to Crete; the tangled lives of naval officers and their men, Pulver and Stebbings, of marines like O'Flynn, Maori warriors like Lieutenant Ngarimu, the healer 'Ronnie' Prasad and many more, following the orders of their political masters, intent on stabilising the newly-liberated Spain and smashing the German war machine on land, on seas patrolled by HMS Hood and her sisters, and in skies overflown by the RAF and the Luftwaffe. This...
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A Short History of the World illustrated H. G. Wells - A Short History of the World: with original illustrations
Although best known for his scientific romances that paved the way for the modern science fiction genre, H. G. Wells (1866-1946) produced significant works on politics, society, science and history. Fascinated as much with the real world as his imaginary one, and displeased with the quality of history textbooks at the end of World War...
4) Empire city
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"Book Description The author of the "urgent and deeply moving" (The New York Times) Youngblood returns with this bold and provocative novel following a group of super-powered soldiers and civilians as they navigate an imperial America on the precipice ofa major upheaval-for fans of The Fortress of Solitude and The Plot Against America. Thirty years after its great triumph in Vietnam, the United States has again become mired in an endless foreign war...
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A truth we all know... but agree not to talk about... was how the Clapping Lady from the secretive Consilience Foundation described it to a teenage Methuen Pryce in 2012 as they discussed his Segmented World model. But, it was also a 'truth' that Nick O'Grady, ambitious young CEO of the high-tech Allied Answers, had not 'talked about' that was, until he invited Methuen to his plush New York office in the summer of '23.
Against expectations, the bearded...
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First appearing as an anonymous serial in "Harper's Magazine" in 1895, "Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc" was Mark Twain's final novel and was published as a complete work under his name in 1896. The novel is a stark departure from Twain's usual comic and satirical writings, which is why Twain insisted it initially be published anonymously so that the public would take it seriously. The work is told from the perspective of a fictionalized version...
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A terrible curse strikes the White House: its occupants, whoever they may be, will not serve for very long...Alex Richards' imaginative and witty homage to Tom Anderson's 'The Curse of Maggie' takes the concept stateside, with hilarious results. After all, everything's bigger in America.
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An immortal, shape-changing alien seeking a reason for being...
A young woman on the brink of greatness...
Fu Hao, daughter of a chieftain, accepts the greatest of honors--to be one of King Wu Ding's sixty wives--propelling her to power in the Shang Dynasty and into the annals of history.
No one speaks of the mysterious "amah" who attended Fu Hao from her first to last breath. More devoted than a mother and possessed of the wisdom of ages, the amah...
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En lo más profundo de la historia de la iglesia, más allá de las páginas llenas de fe, esperanza y amor, yace un oscuro y perturbador pasaje que ha sido ocultado por siglos. Este libro, "La Iglesia: Los Horrores Ocultos en su Historia", tiene la valiente misión de desvelar esos aspectos sombríos y controversiales que han sucedido en la vida real.A menudo, la iglesia ha sido considerada como un faro de luz y guía espiritual para millones de...
11) Ponchi Fonchi
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Ponchi Fonchi is a classic book on two friends. It is a short story book.
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"A masterful and epic novel . . . a stunning portrayal of how things that seem infinitesimal can shake the entire world." -History that Never Was"The best alternate history novel I have ever read . . . daunting in its vision . . . this book is a dream come true." -Never Was MagazineOn September 11, the United States were destroyed.That is, September 11 of the Year of Our Lord 1620.In this alternate history, the Mayflower was lost at sea, and the English...
13) Quintessence
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Imagine an Age of Exploration full of alchemy, human dissection, sea monsters, betrayal, torture, religious controversy, and magic. In Europe, the magic is thin, but at the edge of the world, where the stars reach down close to the Earth, wonders abound. This drives the bravest explorers to the alluring Western Ocean. Christopher Sinclair is an alchemist who cares only about one thing: quintessence, a substance he believes will grant magical powers...
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Le doux parfum du champ de marguerites de Grand-mère Louise, fleurs qui, paradoxalement, comme tout le monde le sait, n'a pas de parfum, a jeté à tout le village un étrange sortilège. À la lecture, la frontière entre le magique et le réel se dissipent presque de la même façon que le souvenir d'un rêve au moment du réveil. Dans cet ouvrage, des crapauds mystérieux, une rigueur séculaire et ridicule d'écouter des coquillages, la fin du...
15) Virtual Fire
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Four Who Changed History: Meet the Narrators of VIRTUAL FIRE
Paul Simmons: Computer Nerd
In 1970, Paul "Tesla" Simmons and his best friend Toby Jessup were college seniors more interested in computers than politics. President Nixon's escalation of the Vietnam War and their friendship with student activist Meg Wells drew Paul and Toby into the antiwar movement and a choice between violent and non-violent protest. Today, Paul is a leading software...
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What if in 1946, an overstretched British occupying force had called on Denmark to aid in the occupation of post-war Germany? Would the world today be radically different? Or would it be mostly the same?
Tom Black's short story, told as a series of newspaper interviews, explores a present-day Denmark with a slightly different past. An examination of how alternate history need not only focus on great men and decisive battles, Zonen tells a simple...
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A raíz del colapso económico de Indonesia, las mujeres chinas son el objetivo de las Fuerzas Espciales imprudentes y brutales del yerno del Presidente. En un ambiente islámico en evolución, el sentimiento anti-chino lleva al país al borde del colapso, a medida que el interés internacional se ve reforzado por los relatos de periodistas protagonistas, sobre historias reales de supervivencia.
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Resumen Según una antigua teoría, el hombre solo se encontrará en armonía con el mundo y actor de su época en el trascurso de tres existencias: el alma vegetal, el alma animal y el alma racional. A comienzos del siglo XXI, entre los numerosos individuos que no habían encontrado su lugar en este mundo, pero que pretendían hacerlo, Niels, entonces un joven arquitecto griego atormentado por los mitos griegos del pasado, fue internado en un hospital...
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In August 1945, Japan was hit with two nuclear weapons. This, along with the Soviet invasion of Manchuria, caused the government to surrender.
What if it had not?
Paul Hynes imagines a world in which a fanatical junta takes over Japan and pledges a fight to the bitter end. Using real-world plans relating to the invasion of the Home Islands, along with an extensive knowledge of American, British, Soviet and Japanese attitudes and capabilities at...
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