Action Comics #41 Pat Owen http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/8207 en 2009 Action Comics: Times Are Changing With the arrival of Superboy, Superman's had his hands full. But things become even more complicated when a new reporter shows up at the Daily Planet, Lex continues one of his old plans, and did we mention Parasite attacks? A new era for both the Man and the Teen of Steel begins! Comics DC2 Superman Lois Lane Parasite Superboy http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/8207.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/8207.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/8207.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/8207.mobi Butcher Bird Richard Kadrey http://www.feedbooks.com/book/227 urn:isbn:1597800864 en 2005 Novels Horror Fantasy Spyder Lee is a happy man who lives in San Francisco and owns a tattoo shop. One night an angry demon tries to bite his head off before he's saved by a stranger. The demon infected Spyder with something awful - the truth. He can suddenly see the world as it really is: full of angels and demons and monsters and monster-hunters. A world full of black magic and mysteries. These are the Dominions, parallel worlds full of wonder, beauty and horror. The Black Clerks, infinitely old and infinitely powerful beings whose job it is to keep the Dominions in balance, seem to have new interests and a whole new agenda. Dropped into the middle of a conflict between the Black Clerks and other forces he doesn't fully understand, Spyder finds himself looking for a magic book with the blind swordswoman who saved him. Their journey will take them from deserts to lush palaces, to underground caverns, to the heart of Hell itself. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/227.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/227.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/227.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/227.mobi Uncollected Stories Small Stories http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7283 en 2009 The second collection from the popular Feedbooks download author. 50 microfictions - sometimes funny, sometimes disturbing, always perfect for mobile reading. funny fiction weird short story surreal microfiction flash fiction very short story mobile reading quirky http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7283.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7283.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7283.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7283.mobi Star Maker William Olaf Stapledon http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2029 urn:isbn:0819566934 en 1937 Novels Science Fiction Widely regarded as one of the true classics of science fiction, Star Maker is a poetic and deeply philosophical work. The story details the mental journey of an unnamed narrator who is transported not only to other worlds but also other galaxies and parallel universes, until he eventually becomes part of the "cosmic mind." First published in 1937, Olaf Stapledon's descriptions of alien life are a political commentary on human life in the turbulent inter-war years. The book challenges preconceived notions of intelligence and awareness, and ultimately argues for a broadened perspective that would free us from culturally ingrained thought and our inevitable anthropomorphism. This is the first scholarly edition of a book that influenced such writers as C.S. Lewis and Arthur C. Clarke and which Jorge Luis Borges called "a prodigious novel." This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2029.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2029.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2029.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2029.mobi My Father, the Cat Henry Slesar http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3675 en 1957 Short Fiction Fantasy Henry Slesar, as we have said before, is a young advertising executive who has rapidly become one of the better known writers in the field. Here is an off-trail story that is guaranteed to make some of you take a very searching second look at some of the young men you know. "He wondered if I'd told her everything, and, faltering, I had to admit that I hadn't. She was wonderful—but human." Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3675.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3675.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3675.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3675.mobi The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3645 urn:isbn:0451530144 en 1908 Novels Young Readers Fantasy The Wind in the Willows is a classic of children's literature by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving and fast paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animal characters in a pastoral version of England. The novel is notable for its mixture of mysticism, adventure, morality, and camaraderie. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3645.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3645.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3645.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3645.mobi A Daughter of the Snows Jack London http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2852 urn:isbn:B0012G0HM2 en 1902 Novels London's first novel introduces the strong, independent, well-educated heroine that would run through much of his work. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2852.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2852.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2852.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2852.mobi The Book of Dragons Edith Nesbit http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2924 urn:isbn:8132015959 en 1899 Short Fiction Young Readers Fantasy Collections Eight madcap tales of unpredictable dragons — including one made of ice, another that takes refuge in the General Post Office, and a fire-breathing monster that flies out of an enchanted book and eats an entire soccer team! This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2924.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2924.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2924.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2924.mobi We're Friends, Now Henry Hasse http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4084 en 1960 Short Fiction Science Fiction The little man stood in front of the monstrous machine as the synaptic drone heightened to a scream. No ... no, he whispered. Don't you understand.... Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4084.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4084.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4084.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4084.mobi The New Arabian Nights Robert Louis Stevenson http://www.feedbooks.com/book/211 en 1882 Short Fiction Collections New Arabian Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1882, is a collection of short stories previously published in magazines between 1877 and 1880. The collection contains Stevenson's first published fiction, and a few of the stories are considered by some critics to be his best work, as well as pioneering works in the English short story tradition. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/211.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/211.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/211.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/211.mobi Dream Psychology Sigmund Freud http://www.feedbooks.com/book/176 urn:isbn:0380010003 en 1920 Non-Fiction Psychology The Interpretation of Dreams is a book by Sigmund Freud. The first edition was first published in German in November 1899 as Die Traumdeutung (though post-dated as 1900 by the publisher). The publication inaugurated the theory of Freudian dream analysis, which activity Freud famously described as "the royal road to the understanding of unconscious mental processes". This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/176.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/176.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/176.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/176.mobi The Art of War Sun Tzu http://www.feedbooks.com/book/168 urn:isbn:0762415983 en -514 Non-Fiction Philosophy War The Art of War is a Chinese military treatise that was written during the 6th century BC by Sun Tzu. Composed of 13 chapters, each of which is devoted to one aspect of warfare, it has long been praised as the definitive work on military strategies and tactics of its time. The Art of War is one of the oldest books on military strategy in the world. It is the first and one of the most successful works on strategy and has had a huge influence on Eastern and Western military thinking, business tactics, and beyond. Sun Tzu was the first to recognize the importance of positioning in strategy and that position is affected both by objective conditions in the physical environment and the subjective opinions of competitive actors in that environment. He taught that strategy was not planning in the sense of working through a to-do list, but rather that it requires quick and appropriate responses to changing conditions. Planning works in a controlled environment, but in a competitive environment, http://www.feedbooks.com/book/168.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/168.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/168.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/168.mobi The Zeppelin's Passenger Edward Phillips Oppenheim http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3870 urn:isbn:0554360225 en 1918 Novels Crime/Mystery War Excerpt: "Never heard a sound," the younger of the afternoon callers admitted, getting rid of his empty cup and leaning forward in his low chair. "No more tea, thank you, Miss Fairclough. Done splendidly, thanks. No, I went to bed last night soon after eleven—the Colonel had been route marching us all off our legs—and I never awoke until reveille this morning. Sleep of the just, and all that sort of thing, but a jolly sell, all the same! You hear anything of it, sir?" he asked, turning to his companion, who was seated a few feet away. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3870.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3870.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3870.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3870.mobi The Riddle of the Sands Erskine Childers http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3871 urn:isbn:0199549710 en 1903 Novels Adventure War Thriller The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service is a patriotic British 1903 novel by Erskine Childers. It is a novel that "owes a lot to the wonderful adventure novels of writers like Rider Haggard, that were a staple of Victorian Britain"; perhaps more significantly, it was a spy novel that "established a formula that included a mass of verifiable detail, which gave authenticity to the story – the same ploy that would be used so well by John Buchan, Ian Fleming, John le Carré and many others." Ken Follett called it "the first modern thriller." This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3871.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3871.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3871.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3871.mobi The Book of Tea Kakuzo Okakura http://www.feedbooks.com/book/991 urn:isbn:1933330171 en 1906 Non-Fiction Philosophy The Book of Tea was written by Okakura Kakuzo in the early 20th century. It was first published in 1906, and has since been republished many times. In the book, Kakuzo introduces the term Teaism and how Tea has affected nearly every aspect of Japanese culture, thought, and life. The book is accessibile to Western audiences because Kakuzo was taught at a young age to speak English; and spoke it all his life, becoming proficient at communicating his thoughts to the Western Mind. In his book, he discusses such topics as Zen and Taoism, but also the secular aspects of Tea and Japanese life. The book emphasises how Teaism taught the Japanese many things; most importantly, simplicity. Kakuzo argues that this tea-induced simplicity affected art and architecture, and he was a long-time student of the visual arts. He ends the book with a chapter on Tea Masters, and spends some time talking about Sen no Rikyu and his contribution to the Japanese Tea Ceremony. According to Tomonobu Imamichi, Heidegger's concept of Dasein in Sein und Zeit was inspired — although Heidegger remains silent on this — by Okakura Kakuzo's concept of das-in-dem-Welt-sein (to be in the being of the world) expressed in The Book of Tea to describe Zhuangzi's philosophy, which Imamichi's teacher had offerred to Heidegger in 1919, after having followed lessons with him the year before. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/991.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/991.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/991.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/991.mobi The Story of a Stuffed Elephant Laura Lee Hope http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3517 en 1922 Novels Young Readers From the "Make-Believe Stories": "Oh, how large he is!" "Isn't he? And such wonderfully strong legs!" "See his trunk, too! Isn't it cute! And he is well stuffed! This is really one of the best toys that ever came into our shop, Geraldine; don't you think so?" "Yes, Angelina. I must call father to come and look at him. He will make a lovely present for some boy or girl—I mean this Stuffed Elephant will make a lovely present, not our father!" and Miss Angelina Mugg smiled at her sister across the big packing box of Christmas toys they were opening in their father's store. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3517.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3517.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3517.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3517.mobi The Reluctant Dragon Kenneth Grahame http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3646 urn:isbn:0805008020 en 1898 Short Fiction Young Readers Fantasy The Reluctant Dragon is an 1898 children's story by Kenneth Grahame (originally published as a chapter in his book Dream Days), which served as the key element to the 1941 feature film with the same name from Walt Disney Productions. The story has also been set to music as a children's operetta by John Rutter, with words by David Grant. The story takes place in the Berkshire Downs in Oxfordshire (where the author lived and where, according to legend, St George did fight a dragon). It is Grahame's most famous short story. It is arguably much more well-known than Dream Days itself or the related The Golden Age. It can be seen as a prototype to most modern stories in which the dragon is a sympathetic character rather than a threat. In Grahame's story, a young boy discovers an erudite, mushroom-loving dragon living in the Downs above his home. The two become friends, but soon afterwards the dragon is discovered by the townsfolk, who send for St George to rid them of it. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3646.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3646.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3646.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3646.mobi The Lost Room Fitz James O'Brien http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2561 en 1858 Short Fiction Science Fiction In the tale, the unnamed narrator relates a tale where he literally loses his room in a surreal situation that sounds more like a rather unpleasant version of Alice in Wonderland. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2561.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2561.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2561.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2561.mobi The Man Who Was Thursday: a Nightmare Gilbert Keith Chesterton http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3680 urn:isbn:0375757910 en 1908 Novels Crime/Mystery Fantasy Thriller Religion The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare is a novel by G. K. Chesterton, first published in 1908. The book has been referred to as a metaphysical thriller. Although it deals with anarchists, the novel is not an exploration or rebuttal of anarchist thought; Chesterton's ad hoc construction of "Philosophical Anarchism" is distinguished from ordinary anarchism and is referred to several times not so much as a rebellion against government but as a rebellion against God. The novel has been described as "one of the hidden hinges of twentieth-century writing, the place where, before our eyes, the nonsense-fantastical tradition of Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear pivots and becomes the nightmare-fantastical tradition of Kafka and Borges." This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3680.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3680.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3680.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3680.mobi The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Francis Scott Fitzgerald http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3431 en 1922 Short Fiction This story was inspired by a remark of Mark Twain's to the effect that it was a pity that the best part of life came at the beginning and the worst part at the end. By trying the experiment upon only one man in a perfectly normal world I have scarcely given his idea a fair trial. Several weeks after completing it, I discovered an almost identical plot in Samuel Butler's "Note-books." The story was published in "Collier's" last summer and provoked this startling letter from an anonymous admirer in Cincinnati: "Sir-- I have read the story Benjamin Button in Colliers and I wish to say that as a short story writer you would make a good lunatic I have seen many peices of cheese in my life but of all the peices of cheese I have ever seen you are the biggest peice. I hate to waste a peice of stationary on you but I will." This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3431.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3431.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3431.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3431.mobi Tao Te Ching Laozi http://www.feedbooks.com/book/215 urn:isbn:0679724346 en -600 Non-Fiction Philosophy Religion The Tao Te Ching is fundamental to the Taoist school of Chinese philosophy and strongly influenced other schools, such as Legalism and Neo-Confucianism. This ancient book is also central in Chinese religion, not only for Taoism but Chinese Buddhism, which when first introduced into China was largely interpreted through the use of Taoist words and concepts. Many Chinese artists, including poets, painters, calligraphers, and even gardeners have used the Tao Te Ching as a source of inspiration. Its influence has also spread widely outside East Asia, aided by hundreds of translations into Western languages. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/215.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/215.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/215.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/215.mobi You are in the Matrix, Charlie Brown Stupidfic http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/6432 en 2006 Charlie Brown in the Matrix matrix Charlie Brown http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/6432.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/6432.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/6432.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/6432.mobi Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) J.M. Barrie http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3413 urn:isbn:0543949796 en 1911 Novels Young Readers Fantasy Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up and Peter and Wendy are the stage play and novel (respectively) which tell the story of Peter Pan, a mischievous little boy who can fly, and his adventures on the island of Neverland with Wendy Darling and her brothers, the fairy Tinker Bell, the Lost Boys, the Indian princess Tiger Lily, and the pirate Captain Hook. The story was written by Scottish playwright and novelist J. M. Barrie, inspired by his friendship with the Llewelyn-Davies family. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3413.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3413.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3413.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3413.mobi Danger Trail #1 Don Walsh http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/3864 en 2007 Danger Trail: The Blood & Dragon Affair, Part 1 (of 3) adventure Comics mystery vampires pulp fiction DC2 Enemy Ace Speed Saunders King Faraday http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/3864.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/3864.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/3864.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/3864.mobi Beasts of New York: A children's book for grown-ups Jon Evans http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/2976 en 2007 An urban fantasy about the wildlife of New York City, starring a squirrel protagonist who has to find his way from exile in Staten Island back to his home in Central Park. http://www.beastsofnewyork.com/ fantasy animals urban fantasy http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/2976.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/2976.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/2976.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/2976.mobi Batman: City of Crime #1 Grant LaFleche http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/5172 en 2007 Batman: City of Crime, Part 1 (of 5): Shadows Comics DC2 Harvey Bullock Matches Malone Mickey Fynn http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/5172.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/5172.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/5172.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/5172.mobi