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  Peter Pan

  or, Peter Pan and Wendy

  by J. M. Barrie

  It was Friday night. Mr and Mrs Darling were dining out. Nana had been tied up in the backyard. The poor dog was barking, for she could smell danger. And she was right — this was the night that Peter Pan would take the Darling children on the most breath-taking adventure of their lives, to a place called Neverland, a strange country where the lost boys live and never grow up, a land with mermaids, fairies and... (more)
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  D'Artagnan Romances: Book 5

  The Man in the Iron Mask

  by Alexandre Dumas, père

  Alexandre Dumas was already a best-selling novelist when he wrote this historical romance, combining (as he claimed) the two essentials of life--"l'action et l'amour." The Man in the Iron Mask climactically concludes the epic adventures of the three Musketeers: here, Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and their friend D'Artagnan, once invincible, meet their destinies.
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  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Book 1

  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

  by Douglas Adams

  The first of six books in this "trilogy" which is adapted from Adams' radio series with the same name.
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  Aesop's Fables

  by Aesop

  The fables of Aesop have become one of the most enduring traditions of European culture, ever since they were first written down nearly two millennia ago. Aesop was reputedly a tongue-tied slave who miraculously received the power of speech; from his legendary storytelling came the collections of prose and verse fables scattered throughout Greek and Roman literature. First published in English by Caxton in 1484,... (more)
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  Guardians of the Flame: Book 8

  Not Exactly the Three Musketeers

  by Joel Rosenberg

  Kethol--The pretty fellow, a long and lanky redhead with an easy smile and an easygoing attitude that his clever eyes deny. He is quick with a quick...and quicker with a sword. Durine--The big man, a head taller than most and twice as wide, built like a barrel, with a loyal heart and hands too thick to use anything more delicate than an ax handle. Pirojil--The ugly one, his face heavy-jawed, with an eye ridge... (more)
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  Snow Crash

  by Neal Stephenson

  In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo’s CosoNostra Pizza Inc., but in the Metaverse he’s a warrior prince. Plunging headlong into the enigma of a new computer virus that’s striking down hackers everywhere, he races along the neon-lit streets on a search-and-destroy mission for the shadowy virtual villain threatening to bring about infocalypse.
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  Bridge Trilogy: Book 1

  Virtual Light

  by William Gibson

  2005: Welcome to NoCal and SoCal, the uneasy sister-states of what used to be California. Here the millenium has come and gone, leaving in its wake only stunned survivors. In Los Angeles, Berry Rydell is a former armed-response rentacop now working for a bounty hunter. Chevette Washington is a bicycle messenger turned pickpocket who impulsively snatches a pair of innocent-looking sunglasses. But these are... (more)
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  Burning Chrome

  by William Gibson

  Ten brilliant, seminal, hard-edged, nerve enhacing stories from the most influential science fiction writer of our time. Since they were first published in the 1980s, Gibson's vision has become a touchstone - not only within the genre. Gibson in the nineties is the unchallenged guru, prophet and voice of the new cybernetic world order and virtual reality. The stories, with their vivid cast of lowlife characters in... (more)
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  Valdemar

  Brightly Burning

  by Mercedes Lackey

  Lavan Chitward is a very unhappy young man; pulled away from his country home by his parents' ambitions and resettled in the big city of Haven, he is desperately lonely, bullied and beaten at school, ignored by his parents. It is not surprising that he falls ill - but his illness is the first manifestation of a terrible power, the Gift of the Firestorm, a power which can and does kill. If controlled, the Gift of... (more)
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  Vlad Taltos: Book 8

  Dragon

  by Steven Brust

  After years of surviving in Adrilankha by practicing the trade I know best--killing people for a living--suddenly I'm in the last place any self-respecting assassin wants to be: the army. Worse, I'm right in the middle of a apocalyptic battle between two sorcerous armies, and everyone expects me to play a role they won't explain. All I've got between me and the worst kind of death is my wits. Oh, and a... (more)
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  Vlad Taltos: Book 6

  Athyra

  by Steven Brust

  Vlad Taltos, sorcerer, sometime witch, and former assassin, and his faithful jhereg take on the biggest hitters of the House of the Jhereg.
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  Vlad Taltos: Book 5

  Phoenix

  by Steven Brust

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  Brokedown Palace

  by Steven Brust

  Back in print after a decade, a stand-alone fantasy in the world of Steven Brust’s bestselling “Vlad Taltos” novels.   Once upon a time… far to the East of the Dragaeran Empire, four brothers ruled in Fenario: King Laszlo, a good man--though perhaps a little mad; Prince Andor, a clever man--though perhaps a little shallow; Prince Vilmos , a strong man--though perhaps a little stupid; and ... (more)
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  Viscount of Adrilankha: Book 1

  The Phoenix Guards

  by Steven Brust

  A thousand years before the birth of Vlad Taltos, the Dragaeran Empire is a hotbed of intrigue, sorcery, intrigue, swashbuckling adventure, and intrigue. For those who would be heroes, it is a delightful time to be alive--and an easy place to die. Khaavren of the House of Tiassa is a son of landless nobility, possessor of a good sword and "tolerably well acquainted with its use." Along with three loyal friends,... (more)
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  Agyar

  by Steven Brust

  Born over a century ago, Agyar was once a frivolous young man, before he found im-mor-tality in a woman's blood-red lips. Now he roams from woman to woman and decade to decade, finding himself at last in an Ohio college town, where he must choose between the seductions of salvation and of destruction.
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  The Gypsy

  by Steven Brust, Megan Lindholm

  Cigany is the gypsy, stalking the city in a cloud of magic. Stepovich is the seasoned cop, who keeps finding dead bodies in the gypsy's wake. The Fair Lady is Queen of the Underworld, drawing them both into her murderous web...until only the gypsy's broken memories stand between Stepovich's beloved city and the Lady's dark designs.
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  Viscount of Adrilankha: Book 2

  Five Hundred Years After

  by Steven Brust

  In which our Heroes--Khaavren, Pel, Aerich and Tazendra--are reunited again a mere five centuries later...just in time for an uprising that threatens to destroy the Imperial Orb itself! This is the story of the conspiracy against the Empire that begins in the mean streets of Underside and flourishes in the courtly politics of the Palace where Khaavren has loyally served in the Guards this past half-millennium. ... (more)
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  To Reign in Hell

  by Steven Brust

  Steven Brusts Vlad Taltos novels and his swashbuckling tales of Khaavren have earned him an enthusiastic audience world-wide. But To Reign in Hell has been out of print for yearscausing used copies to trade for improbable sums. Now, at last, To Reign in Hellreturns to print in a paperback edition, with an introduction by Roger Zelazny.
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  Vlad Taltos: Book 7

  Orca

  by Steven Brust

  With the help of his two jhereg, sorcerer and former assassin-for-hire Vlad Taltos takes on the corrupt House of the Orca as he sets out to uncover a huge financial scandal.
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  The Number of the Beast

  by Robert A. Heinlein

  When two male and two female supremely sensual, unspeakably cerebral humans find themselves under attack from aliens who want their awesome quantum breakthrough, they take to the skies -- and zoom into the cosmos on a rocket roller coaster ride of adventure and danger, ecstasy and peril.