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Bookstore Lore: The Stupidest Questions Ever Asked in a Bookstore

by Tom Lichtenberg

The original collection of "Most Stupid Questions Ever" with an introduction by Chris Haight, and collected by generations of bookstore workers from downtown San Francisco, California. Advisory: These are not...

The Great Gatsby

by Francis Scott Fitzgerald

In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple + intricately patterned." That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and...

Other Sides: 12 Webfiction Tales

by Ergofiction

The advent of digital publishing has seen the rise of a new breed of writers: independent, experimental and unfettered by convention. This brand new anthology features a small sampling of these very writers,...

Liberty Call

by FC1 Mark S. Haynes, United States Navy

"Liberty Call" is a non-fiction book, written by Mark S. Haynes, formerly of the United States Navy. Liberty Call is written as a first person narrative of the author's experiences while on his first deployment...

Maid for a Dragon

by Roderick Gladwish

A humorous fantasy story for children. What is a girl to do when a knight in shining armour is not coming to rescue her?

A Cultural Paradox: Fun in Mathematics

by Jeff Zilahy

“A Cultural Paradox: Fun in Mathematics” is ideal for students who need a little push to get motivated, and also great for scientists and those in the math community that like to be in-the-know on relevant...

A Cultural Paradox: Fun in Mathematics

by Jeff Zilahy

“A Cultural Paradox: Fun in Mathematics” is ideal for students who need a little push to get motivated, and also great for scientists and those in the math community that like to be in-the-know on relevant...

No stranger to the P45

by Dan W.Griffin

If you have ever wondered what it would be like to crash a fairground ride, upset the Russian mob, humiliate yourself in front of two and a half million people, fall asleep on a push-bike, pole dance, be Santa...

DMV

by Linda A. Lavid

Nothing was going to ruin Jaimie’s afternoon, not the rain, not the long line she was standing in at the DMV. The wall clock read 12:15. Paul expected dinner at six. Figure two hours for the sauce, add in...

Watch The River

by Shirley Glynn

The night was Halloween. The wind was howling. The river turned black and the imagination of a nine-year old boy soared. It wasn't ghosts or goblins that frightened him - it was the river, and dogs, and liquid...

Maelstrom

Rifters #3

by Peter Watts

An enormous tidal wave on the west coast of North America has just killed thousands. Lenie Clarke, in a black wetsuit, walks out of the ocean onto a Pacific Northwest beach filled with the oppressed and drugged...

Behemoth

Rifters #2

by Peter Watts

Lenie Clarke-rifter, avenger, amphibious deep-sea cyborg-has destroyed the world. Once exploited for her psychological addiction to dangerous environments, she emerged in the wake of a nuclear blast to serve...

Burn

by James Patrick Kelly

Colonization is the theme of this exciting, complex page-turner that provides a provocative and entertaining look at Thoreau's classic eco-text Walden. Eccentric billionaire Jack Winter has bought the planet...

Postsingular

by Rudy Rucker

It all begins next year in California. A maladjusted computer industry billionaire and a somewhat crazy US President initiate a radical transformation of the world through sentient nanotechnology; sort of the...

Starfish

Rifters #1

by Peter Watts

A huge international corporation has developed a facility along the Juan de Fuca Ridge at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean to exploit geothermal power. They send a bio-engineered crew--people who have been altered...

The Cthulhu Cult: A Novel of Lovecraftian Obsession

by Rick Dakan

After fleeing under a cloud of salacious scandal, Shelby Tyree has returned to the sleepy tourist community of Sarasota, Florida with a mysterious woman at his side and a strange new devotion to horror writer...

Uncle Bernac

by Arthur Conan Doyle

At this unexpected announcement Talleyrand and Berthier looked at each other in silence, and for once the trained features of the great diplomatist, who lived behind a mask, betrayed the fact that he was still...

The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard

The Great Shadow

The Mystery of Cloomber

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Near their residence, Branksome, is The Cloomber Hall, for many years untenanted. After a little while it is settled in by John Berthier Heatherstone, late of the Indian Army. General Heatherstone is nervous...