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This early work by William Wymark Jacobs was originally published early in the 20th century and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Old Man of the Sea' is one of the author's short stories. Jacobs worked as a clerk in the civil service before turning to writing in his late twenties, publishing his first short story in 1895. Most of Jacobs' work appeared before the onset of World War I, and although the majority...
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Sebastian Jones's day starts badly enough. He's beaten up – twice. Then he's nearly killed. He doesn't think life can get much worse. He's wrong. When his delivery for El Duce goes awry, Sebastian takes the money and runs – all the way to the Rigel system. There, he meets Philippe LaGrain, a con-man who double-crosses Sebastian and leaves him to die on an airless asteroid. Sebastian claws his way back to civilization, but Philippe has organized...
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Moon, Jade, and other favorites from the Indigo Cloud Court return with two new novellas from Martha Wells.
Martha Wells continues to enthusiastically ignore genre conventions in her exploration of the fascinating world of the Raksura. Her novellas and short stories contain all the elements fans have come to love from the Raksura books: courtly intrigue and politics, unfolding mysteries that reveal an increasingly strange wider world, and threats...
4) Bestowal
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We were created by the Bestower, and placed on the world to rid it of its native life, unpleasing to Him. He gave us the living Bestowed to sustain us and replace what was there before. Thus say the priests, but now that myth is questioned: Native life has evolved; why not ourselves and the Bestowed that came with us? Are not all native, and necessary for survival? The evidence is contentious: Exterminate, or conserve? There is increasing dissension...
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Kuiper Station What appeared to be a simple but ambitious goal of establishing a new colony in the Kuiper Belt, a colony to service mining activities there, was more than it seemed. One side, led by the Solar Federation and the Jackson family, was determined to break humanity out of its almost century long stagnation and push it to embrace the stars. The other side, led by the Terran Federation, was determined to block such expansion and maintain...
6) Show Boat
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"Here, I thought, was one of the most melodramatic and gorgeous bits of Americana that had ever come my way. It was not only the theater - it was the theater plus the glamour of the wandering drifting life, the drama of the river towns, the mystery and terror of the Mississippi itself... I spent a year hunting down every available scrap of show-boat material; reading, interviewing, taking notes and making outlines."
Inspired by an offhand comment...
7) The Latchkey
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It's 11:00 p.m. Do you know where your children are?
Years ago, that question was asked of every parent as it aired nightly on national television. It was a simple question that prompted a simple answer: "Yes, I do" or "No, I don't." We live in a much different world today, a world in which the answer to that once simple question is not so simple anymore. While we may find relief in knowing that our child is at home in their room, typing away on...
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Harmony Harringdon is a teenager with her whole life ahead of her. She is beautiful, sweet, and talented. Harmony and her best friend Jake Butler are inseparable. As the pair grow from children to teenagers, their friendship becomes love. They weren't to know what fate has planned for them. It would all become too much for Harmony, despite having Jake there to support her.
Fleeing the shame and devastation she believes she has caused, Harmony leaves...
9) Life Drawing
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"Art gotta be high up and dangerous," the graffiti artist tells his mother. It has to be practiced diligently like playing the piano, the longtime members of a life drawing studio believe, and if your view of the model is the model's backside, you don't move for a better view. Art is a mysterious way into your model's sorrow when words fail. Art can open the rooms of your childhood. It existed before there was perspective. It can even be a dinner...
10) Ups and Downs
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"I only have one life to live on this beautiful planet, and I don't want to regret not doing the things I wanted to do at the end of it on my deathbed."
"Our capacity for happiness is inversely proportional to our capacity for sadness. You won't feel happiness without experiencing sadness. The sadder you feel, the greater your capacity for happiness becomes.
"Instead of dying peacefully without an adventurous life, I would love to die while...
11) Reality Checks
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This book brings you to reality about these characters different situations.
12) Orpheus' Blues
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We first meet Jack Stewart on his way back to his apartment in New York City, where he is pursuing a career as a jazz musician.As the novel unfolds, we learn of the difficulties he encounters, of the friendship he develops with George, his roommate-also a jazz musician-and the women he meets in the city. But more importantly, we learn of the very close relationship he has with his mother, who writes to him regularly from Southern Virginia. Through...
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Before the readers of this book are 25 interviews with renowned poets from all over the world, of all generations. The book Modern Talks on Poetry was created as a result of my journalistic work in the period from 2019 to 2022. What particularly inspired me to publish this book is the idea that poetry played a very significant role during the pandemic, primarily in a psychological sense, because many people turned to writing poetry during the lockdown,...
14) From A To Z
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"Ash has a basketball playing, popular jock boyfriend who can be sweet as honey. Yet,
sometimes she feels she can glimpse a darkness lurking right underneath the surface, waiting
to take over. As long as he makes up for the general toxicity with sweeping romantic
gestures, her mental health should be fine, right?
Zara is an introvert who comes across a girl called Cookie on Punstagram. She is hesitant to
grow attached. Yet, she feels seen and...
15) Betty & James
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James Robison is a 17 year-old boy who had a relationship with Betty Freeman. This changed when something happened. And all the rumors were true... He got involved with an illicit affair with August Summers.What will he do to win back Betty?
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Ryuke opened a door that was closed by the Gods eons ago, and now the nightmares were here to destroy our world. In the war between the two Truths, The Light and The Darkness, cities were destroyed and the kingdoms were at the verge of destruction. And then a new army of nightmares arrived with a celestial being to destroy everything. With no God to help and protect them anymore, will Ryuke and his friends be able to close the door?
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"Since the dawn of humankind, there has been an unending debate about whether one can create one's destiny or whether everything is predestined. Can one change the course of fate in the middle of the events, or are we puppets on the world's stage?
This book addresses the question of destiny in detail and presents some well-researched methods and proven tips to create or alter one's destiny. The book has elaborate debates on the role of luck and...
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"In this world where
sickness, chaos, hate, and death reign,
may we all find
healing, peace, love, and life again;
As long as we keep waking up
to witness mornings and moonrise;
May we keep on holding tight
to that hope and faith
that much better days are ahead
and already coming our way
-jcatipon"
19) Heartstrings
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"Sabrina ""Sia"" Waters unleashes a whole new world she didn't know existed in all her years of living in Savannah, Georgia. A mystery begins to unravel as her romantic life takes a few hits. She'll stumble upon the Silver Cupid's Club to learn cupid exists, but there isn't just one. There are several different variants of cupid from the popular cupid to the anti-cupid. She learns that the Silver Cupid is rare and thought of to be extinct.
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" Siya si Lexie Mazelle Tiangco, isang simpleng gurong babae na ang nais lang ay tahimik na buhay at magturo sa mga bata. Hindi niya aakalaing dahil lang sa isang gabing pakakamali ay may mabubuo sa kaniyang sinapupunan. Nagkayayaan lang naman sila ng kaniyang mga kaibiganna uminom sa isang bar at pagkagising niya kinaumagahan ay may katabi na siya na isang guwapong lalaki. Ang lalaking magpapabago ng kaniyang buhay.
Siya si Vhiel Adriel...
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