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2012
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AFRICAN-AMERICAN CLASSICS presents great stories and poems from America's earliest Black writers, illustrated by contemporary African-American artists. Featured are "Two Americans" by Florence Lewis Bentley, "The Goophered Grapevine" by Charles W. Chesnutt, "Becky" by Jean Toomer, two short plays by Zora Neale Hurston, and six more tales of humor and tragedy. Also eleven poems, including Langston Hughes' "Danse Africaine" and "The Negro", plus Paul...
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Includes standard notation and tab for 22 Carter-style solos from bluegrass classics such as: Back Up and Push * The Big Rock Candy Mountain * Cotton Eyed Joe * Down Yonder * Jesse James * John Henry * Little Sadie * Man of Constant Sorrow * Midnight Special * Mule Skinner Blues * Red Wing * Uncle Joe * The Wabash Cannon Ball * Wildwood Flower * and more.
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Tank Girl was originally published in the legendary Deadline Magazine between the years of 1988 to 1995. Drawn and written, for the most part, by Jamie Hewlett and Alan Martin, it mixed punk aesthetic with Looney Tune style adventures. In this anniversary series we reappraise the initial run of comics, giving them a shiny new full-color treatment in a style consistent with their age and original production, and add context with artwork, strips, and...
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Jeder kennt die unheimliche Legende vom Kloster am Großen Bärenkopf - von den teuflischen Mönchen, die einen Pakt mit Asmodis geschlossen haben sollen. Aber niemand bekam sie bisher zu Gesicht. Als Roger Busceau Nachforschungen zu dem geheimnisvollen Kloster anstellt, findet man ihn am nächsten Morgen tot in seiner Wohnung. Ein Fall für John Sinclair!
Basierend auf den ersten John Sinclair-Romanen erzählt die CLASSICS-Reihe wie alles begann...
9) Adam Bede
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Originally published in 1859, "Adam Bede" is the first novel by George Eliot, which was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans. Eliot was one of the leading British writers of the Victorian era, as well as a noted journalist, poet, and translator. "Adam Bede" concerns a small, tight-knit, and fictional rural community called Hayslope and the romantic drama that develops between four of its young residents: the title character Adam, a young carpenter, the...
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HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'From that hour we had no further occasion for the exercise of reason, or judgment, or skill, or contrivance. We were henceforth to be hurled along, the playthings of the fierce elements of the deep.' In Verne's science-fiction classic, Professor Lidenbrock chances upon an ancient manuscript and pledges to solve the mysterious coded message that lies within it. Eventually...
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The Thubway Tham MEGAPACK™ presents 22 classic tales by Johnston McCulley (creator of Zorro) featuring his series antihero, a pickpocket named Thubway Tham. Included in this volume are:
THUBWAY THAM, FASHION PLATE
THUBWAY THAM'S DOG
THUBWAY THAM TUNES IN
THUBWAY THAM'S HONESTY
THUBWAY THAM'S HOODOO ROLL
THUBWAY THAM'S OPERATION
THUBWAY THAM'S CURIOSITY
THUBWAY THAM MEETS A GIRL
THUBWAY THAM'S ENGAGEMENT
THUBWAY THAM GOES TO THE RACES
THUBWAY...
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"The Bram Stoker Megapack" assembles 22 classic works by the author of "Dracula," including all of his classic horror novels and a selection of rare and famous stories. Of special interest is the mystery story "Old Hoggen," which has never before appeared in a complete, corrected text until this time (we transcribed it from the 1893 newspaper publication especially for this volume) - and it's worth the price of this volume by itself! In all, "The...
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The Lost World MEGAPACK™ explores strange lands and peoples lost from the rest of civilization - strange continents, hidden valleys, microscopic worlds, and underground kingdoms are just the tip of the iceberg! With classic stories from well-known authors like Jules Verne, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Arthur Conan Doyle to more recent works by Lin Carter, Don Wilcox, Eando Binder, and many others, this is the lost world collection you've been waiting...
14) Moll Flanders
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The story of a woman who is born in poverty and later becomes, in turn, a prostitute, thief, wife, and finally, rich penitent
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Diamonds Are Forever is the fourth novel by the English author Ian Fleming to feature his fictional British Secret Service agent James Bond. Fleming wrote the story at his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica, inspired by a Sunday Times article on diamond smuggling. The book was first published in 1956. The story centres on Bond's investigation of a diamond-smuggling operation that originates in the mines of Sierra Leone and runs to Las Vegas. Along the way...
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Also collects Captain America and Citizen V Annual 1998 #1, Thunderbolts #0, Avengers (1998) #12. The Thunderbolts have returned to Earth after an interdimensional journey to Kosmos, but there's no rest for the weary as they are immediately pursued by S.H.I.E.L.D. - as well as a recovering Baron Zemo, who is out for their blood! Also, what happens when Atlas must contend with the mighty Hercules, who is out for revenge for injuries suffered in years...
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Duck, duck, goose! DUCK: Because when you cross Wade Wilson with a certain feathered investigator named Howard, you get Deadpool the Duck! Can the Mallard with the Mouth complete his mission with webbed feet - and if he does, where does he send the bill?! DUCK: Because when Deadpool takes on the Punisher, you'd better duck! Can anyone win when the Regeneratin' Degenerate goes up against the one-man army? And GOOSE: Because the Marvel Universe's goose...
20) Confessions
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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Confessions is the first modern autobiography, and arguably the most influential autobiography ever written. What we think of as the "self," our self-sufficient identity, finds its roots in the Confessions. Rousseau's great autobiography speaks to us with a voice that is as relevant today as it was revolutionary and unsettling in the eighteenth...
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