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The Little Prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Few stories are as widely read and as universally cherished by children and adults alike. Richard Howard's new translation of the beloved classic-published to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Antoine de Saint-Exupery's birth-beautifully reflects Saint-Exupery's unique and gifted style. Howard, an acclaimed poet and one of the preeminent translators of our time, has excelled in bringing the English text as... (more)
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The Snows of Kilimanjaro
and Other Stories
by Ernest Hemingway
The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories contains ten of Hemingway's most acclaimed and popular works of short fiction. Selected from Winner Take Nothing, Men Without Women, and The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories, this collection includes "The Killers," the first of Hemingway's mature stories to be accepted by an American periodical; the autobiographical "Fathers and Sons," which alludes, for... (more)
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The Stranger
by Albert Camus
Alternate title: The Outsider.Through the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd."
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The Eyes of the Dragon
by Stephen King
The evil wizard Flagg has watched and waited. King Roland, once powerful, is old and weak. Prince Peter, the measure of a king in all ways stands to inherit the realm. His younger brother, Thomas, is more to Flagg's liking. A few grains of Dragon Sand will change everything. Within minutes the king is dead, Prince Peter imprisoned for the murder, and Thomas is King. Flagg is in control of Delain. But... (more)
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Hercule Poirot: Book 3
Poirot Investigates
A Hercule Poirot Anthology
by Agatha Christie
Cross a movie star, an archaeologist, a French maid, a prime minister, a wealthy dowager, and an Italian count with Hercule Poirot and you get a collection of the detective's most intriguing criminal puzzles.
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Apprentice Adept: Book 3
Juxtaposition
by Piers Anthony
Stile had problems on two different worlds. On Proton he was threatened with murder, and on Phaze, an alternate world ruled by magic, he had to master magic, fight a dragon, win the friendship of a lady unicorn, locate his enemy among the paranoid Adepts and return out of Phaze to win the Great Games on Proton. After that, he was ready to face the real problems! THE APPRENTICE ADEPT Book OneSPLIT INFINITY Book... (more)
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The Vampire Chronicles: Book 2
The Vampire Lestat
by Anne Rice
Lestat, the mischievous creator of Louis in Interview, finally emerged to tell his own story in the 1985 sequel, The Vampire Lestat. As with the first book in the series, the novel begins with a frame narrative. After over a half century underground, Lestat awakens in the 1980s to the cacophony of electronic sounds and images that characterizes the MTV generation. Particularly, he is captivated by a fledgling rock... (more)
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Asimov's Robot Series: Book 3
The Robots of Dawn
by Isaac Asimov
Called to the Spacer world to solve a case of roboticide, New York City detective Elijah Baley teams up with humanoid robot R. Daneel Olivaw to prove that the prime suspect, a renowned roboticist, is innocent of the crime. Reprint.
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Humanx Commonwealth: Book 3
Nor Crystal Tears
by Alan Dean Foster
Before Man and insectlike Thranx had become allies, when the reptilian AAnn were just occasional raiders of Thranx colony worlds, one young Thranx agricultural expert lived a life of quiet desperation. A dreamer in a world of sensible, stable beings, Ryo buried himself in his work -- reclaiming marshland from a tenacious jungle -- until he came across a letter describing a relative's encounter with horrid,... (more)
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Michael Osbourne: Book 1
The Mark of the Assassin
by Daniel Silva
When a commercial airliner is blown out of the sky off the East Coast, the CIA scrambles to find the perpetrators. A body is discovered near the crash site with three bullets to the face: the calling card of a shadowy international assassin. Only agent Michael Osbourne has seen the markings before-on a woman he once loved. Now, it's personal for Osbourne. Consumed by his dark obsession with the... (more)
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Patrick McLanahan: Book 2
Day of the Cheetah
by Dale Brown
America's most advanced fighter plane is hijacked-and the greatest high-flying chase of all time begins... "Terrific. Authentic and gripping." ( The New York Times )
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Xanth: Book 8
Crewel Lye
A Caustic Yarn
by Piers Anthony
Jordan was a ghost in Castle Roogna now. Although once he had been the most valorus of knights--that is, until he was betrayed by two wily magicians and the woman he loves. Now, if he only can remember how he was killed, he'll be able to reassemble his body. And he is getting impatient....
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Yeager: An Autobiography
by Chuck Yeager, Leo Janos
Chuck Yeager tells his whole life story, from childhood with a hard working father, to breaking the sound barrier, to being a test pilot with the "right stuff".
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The Mote in God's Eye
by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle
Writing separately, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle are responsible for a number of science fiction classics, such as the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Ringworld, Debt of Honor, and The Integral Trees. Together they have written the critically acclaimed bestsellers Inferno, Footfall, and The Legacy of Heorot, among others. The Mote In God's Eye is their acknowledged masterpiece, an epic novel of... (more)
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red heroin: Book 1
Red Heroin
by Jerry Pournelle
When engineer and army vet Paul Crane agrees to accompany his police officer friend on a night cruise, he never expected a deadly shoot-out would lead to his being recruited in a CIA sting operation involving China and the heroin trade. There is high-voltage suspense from start to finish in this novel by Jerry Pournelle, author of many Co-Dominium novels and co-author with Larry Niven of THE MOTE IN GOD'S EYE,... (more)
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Lord Peter Wimsey: Book 9
The Nine Tailors
by Dorothy L. Sayers
Nine tellerstrokes from the belfry of an ancient country church toll the death of an unknown man and call the famous Lord Peter Wimsey to one of his most brilliant cases, set in the atmosphere of a quiet parish in the strange, flat, fen-country of East Anglia.
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52 Pickup
by Elmore Leonard
Detroit businessman Harry Mitchell had had only one affair in his twenty-two years of happy matrimony. Unfortunately someone caught his indiscretion on film and now wants Harry to fork over one hundred grand to keep his infidelity a secret. And if Harry doesn't pay up, the blackmailer and his associates plan to press a lot harder -- up to and including homicide, if necessary. But the psychos picked the wrong... (more)
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The Worlds of H. Beam Piper
by H. Beam Piper
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Asimov's Mysteries
The Singing Bell / The Talking Stone / What's in a Name / The Dying Night / Pate de Fois Gras / The Dust of Death / A Loint of Paw / I'm in Marsport Without Hilda / Marooned Off Vesta / Anniversary / Obituary / Star Light / The Key
by Isaac Asimov
A collection of short stories of Isaac AsimovThis contains: The Singing Bell; The Talking Stone; What's in a Name; The Dying Night; Pate de Fois Gras; The Dust of Death; A Loint of Paw; I'm in Marsport Without Hilda; Marooned Off Vesta; Anniversary; Obituary; Star Light; The Key; and The Billiard Ball.
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The November Man: Book 3
The Shattered Eye
by Bill Granger
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