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The Thirty-Nine Steps

by John Buchan

Hanney, an expatriated Scot, returns from a long stay in South Africa to his flat in London. One night he is buttonholed by an American who appears to know of an anarchist plot to destabilise Europe, and claims...

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Fiction

Thrillers

Rupert of Hentzau

by Anthony Hope

Rupert of Hentzau is a sequel by Anthony Hope to The Prisoner of Zenda, written in 1895, but not published until 1898. Queen Flavia, dutifully but unhappily married to her cousin Rudolf V, writes to her true...

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Action & Adventure

Romance

Thrillers

Beasts of New York: A children's book for grown-ups

by Jon Evans

A violent, epic, action-packed urban quest full of very eccentric, often hilarious, extremely dangerous characters who also happen to be animals — the wildlife of New York City, to be exact.
A revised version...

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quest

animals

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Glamour (Rae Wilder #1)

by Penelope Fletcher

Rae Wilder has problems. Supernatural creatures swarm the earth, and humanity is on the brink of extinction. Stalked by a handsome fairy who claims she is like him, demonkind, Rae thinks maybe it was a mistake...

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dystopian

romance

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Across the Universe

by Beth Revis

Amy is a cryogenically frozen passenger aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed. She expects to awaken on a new planet, 300 years in the future. But fifty years before Godspeed's scheduled landing, Amy's cryo chamber...

Cassingle: Five Stories

by Jim Hanas

A follow-up to 2006's Single, Cassingle is a collection of stories that originally appeared in Fence, McSweeney's, Bridge: Stories & Ideas, and Twelve Stories. Toronto's Eye Weekly wrote of Cassingle, "No matter...

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fence

mcsweeneys

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Single: Two Stories

by Jim Hanas

"Single" contains two previously published short stories: "Miss Tennessee" and "The Cryerer," which first appeared in The Land-Grant College Review and One Story, respectively. Both appear in "Why They Cried,"...

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joyland

e-book

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Tokyo Zero

by Marc Horne

One man goes to Tokyo to end the world. It goes fairly well.
As a Japanese cult gets ready to stage a massive attack, they are forced to recruit a secretive young bio-chemist from the West. They hide out on...

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thriller

Creative Commons

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Typee

by Herman Melville

Based on Melville's actual experiences after having jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands, this work was extremely popular, and provoked disbelief among its readers until the events it described were corroborated...

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Fiction

Action & Adventure

The Junkmakers

by Albert Teichner

Eric was the best robot they'd ever had--perfectly trained, ever thoughtful, a joy to own. Naturally they had to destroy him!

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Fiction

Science Fiction

Short Stories

Jimbo

by Algernon Blackwood

"Jimbo is a delicious book, and one that should be read by all who long at times to escape from this working-day world into the region of haunting and half-remembered things."

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Fiction

Fantasy

Dead Man's Planet

by Joseph Samachson

When a driven man arrives at a cemetery world, what else can it be but journey's end—and the start of a new one?

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Fiction

Science Fiction

Short Stories

The Silver Lining - Moral Deliberations in Films

by Sam Vaknin

Moral deliberations and philosophical dimensions in eight modern films.

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psychology

physics

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Guerrilla Librarian

by Bruce Jensen

In one of history’s most incandescent bursts of library-building, the post-revolutionary Mexico of the 1920s created some two thousand new libraries in less than four years. This project’s driving force...

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librarianship

mexico

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Passable Gravity of Marriage

by Holden Wilde

1,000 words of fiction on current state of marriage from a reasonable gent

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cheating

marriage

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From Rome to Byzantium: Trade and Continuity in the First Millennium AD

by Tom Green

'From Rome to Byzantium' provides a detailed overview of trading activity in the Roman and Byzantine Mediterranean, grounded in recent archaeological research. In particular, it is argued that while state-sponsored...

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Byzantine

roman

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Neither a Borrower

by luke t. bergeron

Neither a Borrower is a novella set in the near future, where debt in America has skyrocketed and debtor's prisons have been reinstated. But the prison term isn't the worst part of the punishment. The story...

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virus

sick

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Lively Custard

by Michael Graeme

Short Story - a 25 minute read: Rogue trees are popping up all over the little town of Frinton-cum-Hardy and the residents have begun speaking in metaphors so mixed and mangled, poor Armitage, connoisseur of...

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romantic

humorous

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Eaglethorpe Buxton and the Sorceress

by Wesley Allison

Eaglethorpe Buxton, famed adventurer and story-teller is back, this time to put on a play about a sorceress. When the sorceress, subject of his play arrives with fire in her eyes, Eaglethorpe must pretend to...

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fantasy

sorcery

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Eaglethorpe Buxton and the Elven Princess

by Wesley Allison

Eaglethorpe Buxton, famed adventurer and story-teller, friend to those in need of a friend and guardian to those in need of a guardian. He is a liar and braggart, not to be trusted, especially around pies. Who...

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elves

elf

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