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Dark Mother Earth by Kristian Novak
14 ratingsAn amnesiac writer’s life of lies and false memories reaches a breaking point in this stunning English-language debut from an award-winning Croatian author.As a novelist, Matija makes things up for a living. Not yet thirty, he’s written two well-received books. It’s his third that is as big a failure as his private life... -
El secreto de Xein by Laura Gallego García
18 ratingsLos caminos de Axlin y Xein vuelven a cruzarse, pero ambos parecen estar más alejados que nunca. Ella trabaja en la biblioteca y sigue recopilando información para completar su bestiario, mientras investiga lo que parece una presencia anormal de monstruos dentro de los muros de la Ciudadela...Categorized as:
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The Works of Edgar Allen [sic] Poe: Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe
18 ratingsP. F Collier & Son published a five volume collection of Poe's work in hardback in 1903. This is volume 1, with a frontspiece in color from a painting by Arthur E. Becher.contains:Edgar Allan Poe, An Appreciation, by W.H.R.Life of Poe, by James Russell LowellDeath of Poe, by N. P... -
Odin's Wolves by Giles Kristian, Джайлc Кристиан
14 ratingsThey came from the North and fought their way through France and Spain. Now this fearless band of brothers sets sail for the greatest city in the world... -
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Not the End: Life Isn't Over Until It Is Over by Odin Dupeyron
18 ratingsNot The End was first released in 2001 and since that first edition has been read and reread, given, lent and recommended by readers of all ages, of all genders, of different religions, preferences and countries. It has passed from hand to hand and from mouth to mouth, changed publisher, cover, color and presentation... -
At the Lucky Hand: aka The Sixty-Nine Drawers by Goran Petrović
12 ratingsAt The Lucky Hand is an account of the different love stories that revolve around a very peculiar book: My Legacy, by Anastas Branica. At first glance, this is a book where there is no plot or characters, only descriptions...Categorized as:
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Captain Nemo: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and the Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
12 ratingsHere in one binding are both of Jules Verne's Captain Nemo novels. In 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea we meet the enigmatic Captain Nemo and The Nautilus. Even after many adventures and much derring-do Nemo's secrets remain his own, and at the end of the novel we are left with many mysteries concering this mysterious and tragic man. In The Mysterious Island we once again encounter Captain Nemo...Categorized as:
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A Thousand Lies by Sharon Sala
12 ratingsEvil comes in all shapes and sizes, but seems more deadly when hidden in physical beauty. Anson Poe hides behind a handsome face as he wreaks havoc upon those around him. Nothing touches his heart but power and greed; not the woman he married, or the four children they share. Brendan Poe shares his father's stunning looks while trying to live down the shame... -
Dad's Russian Mafia Bear Best Friend by Flora Ferrari, Willa Wolfe
6 ratingsThere’s a bear loose in the woods... and he wants to claim Callie Collins. Callie doesn’t know what to expect when she gets an internship in Russia at the last minute with Andrei, a friend of her father’s she hasn’t seen since childhood. She certainly isn’t expecting to find the hottest guy she’s ever laid eyes on. Unfortunately he doesn’t seem to notice her at all... -
Cast A Long Shadow by Kwen D Griffeth
6 ratingsEver try to fill boots a size too large? Ever keep pace with strides too long? Ever try to cast a long shadow? “Bad Bobby” Trent, star high school athlete, college scholarship holder, pro-rodeo circuit rider lived an unencumbered life. He was a man, who by his own definition, limited his concentration to no more than eight seconds at a time... -
The Devil's Fire by Mariam El-Hafi
6 ratingsAlthaia grew up protected and sheltered, not knowing about the Mafia World, despite her father being a Mafia Boss. Her mother took her away when she was younger to protect her from the dark world.However, at her cousin's engagement party, she met... him. Damiano Bellavia. The ruthless and powerful Mafia Boss. The one her father had desperately tried to hide her away from... -
Stone Junction by Jim Dodge
16 ratingsCharging like a runaway semitrailer on a downhill grade and spanning the era from Haight-Ashbury's Summer of Love into the darkness of 1980s Manhattan, Stone Junction is a wise and wildly imaginative novel about Daniel Pearse, an orphaned child who is taken under the wings of the AMO -- the Alliance of Magicians and Outlaws... -
The Book of Devices by İhsan Oktay Anar
16 ratings"He had sought to be the agent of all forces and actions on the Earth, and thus, just as he had transformed iron ingot into a music box, so had he strived to transform the Earth and all it contained into a machine." Ihsan Oktay Anar's 1996 novella, "The Book of Devices," is a skeleton key to the ever-inventive author's fictional world set in the Ottoman times...Categorized as:
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Stephen King's The Dark Tower: A Concordance, #1 by Robin Furth
18 ratingsThe Dark Tower is the backbone of Stephen King's legendary career. Inspired more than thirty years ago by works as diverse as J.R.R. Tolkien's epics, Robert Browning's poetry, and Sergio Leone's Westerns, this is the tale that Stephen King has never abandoned... -
The More Known World by Tiffany Tsao
6 ratingsThe Quest of the quirky Oddfits continues—and this time, beyond the Known World lies something unspeakable…Two years after Murgatroyd Floyd joined the Quest to understand and catalogue the wonders of the More Known World, the rash-prone, blue-eyed Oddfit starts having doubts about his exploratory skill...Categorized as:
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Looking Glass Sound by Catriona Ward
6 ratingsIn a lonely cottage overlooking the windswept Maine coast, Wilder Harlow begins the last book he will ever write. It is the story of a sun-drenched vacation of his youth, of the terrible tragedy that forever bonded him with his friends Nat and Harper in unknowable ways, and of the killer that stalked the small New England town where they spent their summers... -
It Happened in Boston? by Russell H. Greenan
8 ratingsFirst published by Random House in 1968, Russell H. Greenan’s It Happened in Boston? is the story of a brilliantly talented, unbalanced artist who strives to meet God face-to-face in order to destroy Him. It is “a magic spell of a book—phantasmagoric, lushly written, full of unforgettable characters and brilliant twists of plot,” writes Jonathan Lethem in his Introduction... -
Little Kingdoms by Steven Millhauser
8 ratingsCartoons that draw their creator into another world; demonic paintings that exert a sinister influence on our own. Fairy tales that express the secret losses and anxieties of their tellers... -
Beside the Ocean of Time by George Mackay Brown
8 ratingsIn this novel set on the fictitious island of Norday in the Orkneys, George Mackay Brown beckons us into the imaginary world of the young Thorfinn Ragnarson, the son of a crofter... -
The Pages of Her Life by James L. Rubart
8 ratingsNew from the award–winning author of The Five Times I Met Myself.“James L. Rubart’s writing always delivers characters that echo our own lives, living in a world not too removed from our own. The Pages of Her Life is another captivating taste of who we really can be... -
The Line Between by Peter S. Beagle
10 ratingsFeaturing the Hugo and Nebula award-winning original novelette from the world of The Last Unicorn, "Two Hearts."The long-awaited sequel to the popular classic The Last Unicorn is the centerpiece of this powerful collection of new tales from a fantasy master. As longtime fans have come to expect, the stories are written with a grace and style similar to fantasy's most original voices, such as J. R...Categorized as:
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The Gathering of the Lost by Helen Lowe
10 ratingsTarathan of Ar and Jehane Mor, ride into the great city of Ij in time for it's grand Festival of Masks. But soon after their arrival they witness a terrible slaughter as their fellow heralds are targeted an assassinated. They must flee for their lives across the city as they discover Swarm agents at work as they attempt to destabilise the entire River Cities network for their own ends... -
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Extraordinary Tales by Jorge Luis Borges, Adolfo Bioy Casares
10 ratingsThis edition contains a foreward written by Anthony Kerrigan, who translated from the Spanish... -
Kitab Omong Kosong by Seno Gumira Ajidarma
10 ratings"Tolong sampaikan agar cerita ini tidak usah dibaca karena membuang waktu, pikiran dan tenaga. Sungguh hanya suatu omong kosong belaka. Mohon maaf sekali lagi untuk permintaan tolong ini. Maaf, beribu-ribu mohon maaf."Togog Cerita ini memang ditulis oleh Togog, yang merasa minder dan terasingkan dalam sebuah dunia yang sangat memuja Semar... -
Kokoschka's Doll by Afonso Cruz
14 ratingsAt the age of forty-two, Bonifaz Vogel begins to hear a voice.But it doesn't belong to the mice or the woodworm, as he first imagines. Nor is it the voice of God, as he comes to believe. It belongs to young Isaac Dresner, who takes refuge in the cellar of Vogel's bird shop on the run from the soldier who shot his best friend... -
The Good Sisters by Helen Phifer
10 ratings‘So frightening I had to stop reading it at night’ – Judy (Netgalley)The chilling new horror from bestselling author, Helen Phifer 1933, Mother Superior Agnes offers sanctuary to a desperate young woman fleeing for her life. Only to wake in the morning to discover a terrible fate has befallen one of the Sisters – in a room locked from the inside... -
If Mashed Potatoes Could Dance by Paige Shelton
10 ratings"At Gram's Country Cooking School in Broken Rope, Missouri, Isabelle "Betts" Winston and her grandmother share the secrets of delicious home-style recipes. But there's one secret they keep from their classes--their ability to talk to ghosts from the town's colorful past.. -
Fear by Francine Pascal
8 ratingsI SWORE I WOULD NEVER BE LIKE MY FATHER. I SWORE I WOULD NEVER BETRAY THOSE WHO TRUST ME. I LIED... -
Song of the Shiver Barrens by Glenda Larke
8 ratingsLigea's son, Arrant, leaves Tyrans for Kardiastan to take his place as Mirager-heir, while Ligea prepares to halt an insurrection. But Arrant's skills as a Magoroth are dangerously inconsistent, and his father, Temellin, finds it difficult to communicate with this secretive young man he barely knows... -
The Shadow of Tyr by Glenda Larke
8 ratingsLigea Gayed has been lied to once too often. Now she has turned against her former employer, the secretive Brotherhood of the Tyrans Empire, and must evade Favonius and his Jackals while also recruiting others to fight with her.Yet, despite her best efforts, a rebellion is hard to come by. Except within her own family, of course... -
So You Think You Know Harry Potter?: Over 1000 Wizard Quiz Questions by Clive Gifford
8 ratingsSo You Think You Know Harry Potter is a trivia quiz book for fans of this young wizard... -
May We Shed These Human Bodies by Amber Sparks
8 ratings***Best Small Press Debut of 2012 -- The Atlantic Wire***May We Shed These Human Bodies peers through vast spaces and skies with the world's most powerful telescope to find humanity: wild and bright and hard as diamonds...Categorized as:
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Shadowrun Fifth Edition by Catalyst Game Labs
6 ratingsThe newest version of one of the most popular and successful role-playing worlds of all time- a fusion of man, magic and machine in a dystopian near-future. With rules for characters creation , magic combat, Matrix hacking, rigging and more... -
Weathercock by Glen Duncan
6 ratingsThe confession of Dominic Francis Hood - Roman Catholic, sadist, conspirator to murder, witness to a miracle. His childhood had the usual benefits, but after watching a miracle performed by Father Malone, Dominic realises a part of him is skewed, and that mere fantasy will never be enough... -
The Forever Knight by John Marco
6 ratingsLukien is the Bronze Knight, beloved by his kingdom and renowned in battle throughout his world. After betraying his king and losing his beloved, he wishes only for death, but rather than die, Lukien is given a chance for redemption: to be the protector of the Inhumans—those fragile mortals who live deep in the desert, far from the prying eyes of their world... -
Remember Why You Fear Me by Robert Shearman
6 ratingsDeliciously frightening, darkly satirical, and always unexpected, Robert Shearman has won the World Fantasy Award, the British Fantasy Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the Edge Hill Reader's Prize. Remember Why You Fear Me gathers together his best dark fiction, the most celebrated stories from his acclaimed books, and ten new tales that have never been collected before... -
L'estrange malaventure de Mirella by Flore Vesco
6 ratingsMoyen Age. Les rats ont envahi la paisible bourgade d'Hamelin. Vous croyez connaître cette histoire par coeur ? Vous savez qu'un joueur de flûte va arriver, noyer les rats en musique, puis les enfants d'Hamelin ? Oubliez ces sornettes : la véritable histoire est bien pire, et c'est grâce à Mirella, une jeune fille de 15 ans, qu'on l'a enfin compris... -
Brodie's Report by Jorge Luis Borges
18 ratingsAt the age of seventy, after a gap of twenty years, Jorge Luis Borges returned to writing short stories. In Brodie's Report, he also returned to the style of his earlier work with its brutal realism, nightmares, and bloodshed... -
The Fog Seller by Don Daglow
14 ratingsFrom the creator of the Emmy® Award winning Neverwinter Nights™, a novel with a unique hero, an unlikely love story, and more twists than San Francisco’s Lombard Street. It's not cozy but it's intimate. It's not procedural but it will make you think, which is why it's been honored both as a mystery and as literary fiction...Categorized as:
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Tonguecat by Peter Verhelst
12 ratingsTonguecat tells the story of a city's decline into chaos and violence upon the arrival of Prometheus, the titan who stole fire from the gods and gave it to mankind. In the Netherlands, the novel has been described as "a cross between Jorge Luis Borges's mystical labyrinth and William Gibson's futuristic sprawl" ("The Rights Report")... -
Elvis Has Not Left the Building by J.R. Rain
10 ratingsIt's tough being the King.Which is why in 1977 Elvis faked his own death and endured massive facial reconstruction surgery, and disappeared from the limelight to live a normal life as the unassuming Aaron King. Unfortunately, leaving fame behind also meant leaving his fortune behind, too, and now Elvis finds himself broke and living in near poverty in a small apartment in Los Angeles... -
Don't Cry For Me Aberystwyth by Malcolm Pryce
10 ratingsAberystwyth's celebrated crimefighter Louie Knight finds himself at sea caught in a web of intrigue spanning the world from Patagonia ato Aberystwyth. He sets out on the trail of a legendary document stolen long ago from Adolf Eichmann. It is said to contain a revelation about the ultimate fate of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid... -
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Selected Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
8 ratingsSince their first publication in the 1830s and 1840s, Edgar Allan Poe's extraordinary Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horror fiction and have also created many of the conventions which still dominate the genre of detective fiction.Yet, as well as being highly enjoyable, Poe's tales are works of very real intellectual exploration... -
When We Have Wings by Claire Corbett
6 ratingsThe dream of being able to fly is now physical reality but only the rich and powerful can afford the surgery, drugs, and gene manipulation to become fliers. Peri, a poor girl from the regions, will sacrifice anything to get her wings and join this elite but the price is higher than she could have imagined... -
Poe: New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe by Ellen Datlow, Gregory Nassif St. John
6 ratingsTo coincide with the 200th anniversary of the birth of Edgar Allan Poe, this anthology celebrates the depth and diversity of one of the most important figures in literature. Compiled by multi-award winning editor Ellen Datlow, it presents some of the foremost talents of the genre, who have come together to reimagine tales inspired by Poe.Sharyn McCrumb, Lucius Shepard, Pat Cadigan, M... -
The Thing about Great White Sharks: And Other Stories by Rebecca Adams Wright
6 ratingsIn this collection’s richly imagined title story, our brutal and resourceful protagonist is determined to protect her family from a murderous, shark-ridden world—at any cost. Elsewhere, an old woman uncovers a sinister plot while looking after a friend’s plants (“Orchids”), and a girl in the war-torn countryside befriends an unlikely creature (“Keeper of the Glass”)...Categorized as:
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Nếu gặp người ấy, cho tôi gửi lời chào by Takuji Ichikawa
12 ratingsCả hai im lặng một lúc, tôi nghe được cả tiếng ro ro của máy nén khí khi thổi ô xi vào bể thủy sinh. Xung quanh phảng phất thứ mùi như mùi của khu rừng vừa tạnh mưa. “Này, Satoshi.” Karin gọi tên tôi. Tôi có cảm giác như chỗ mỏng nhất của lớp da bao bọc trái tim bị rách toác, một thứ gì đó vừa được giải phóng ra. “Gì vậy?” Giọng tôi run run. “Gặp được cậu tớ vui lắm... -
Pictor's Metamorphoses and Other Fantasies by Hermann Hesse
10 ratingsSelected and with an Introduction by Theodore Ziolkowski.In the spring of 1922, several months after completing Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse wrote a fairy tale that was also a love story, inspired by the woman who was to become his second wife. That story, Pictor's Metamorphoses, is presented here along with a half century of Hesse's other short writings...
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