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The Arabian Nights is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies of contemporary historical,...
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An enterprise such as THE WORLD'S GREATEST BOOKS is to be judged from two different standpoints. It may be judged with respect to its specific achievement--the material of which it consists; or it may be judged with regard to its general utility in the scheme of literature to which it belongs. In an age which is sometimes ironically called "remarkable" for its commercialism, nothing has been more truly remarkable than the advancement in learning as...
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As the author of this novel, I prefer not to provide biographic data, except to disclose that I currently reside in Florida, having moved there in 2004 after working in the financial district of New York City. While still a rail commuter from New Jersey, my daily morning route included taking the PATH train from Hoboken into the basement of the World Trade Center where, especially when the weather was spring-like, I usually would exit the complex...
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NOVA Storys
Thomas Grüter: Freie Wildbahn
J. A. Hagen: Yuggoth
Anke Hüper: Außerirdische Daten
Karsten Kruschel: Kurz nach dem Einmarsch der Befreiungsarmee
Dieter Rieken: Jonas und der Held Terranovas
Glen Sedi: Kobo, das Wunschkind
Lukas Schneider: Alina
Rafael Torra: Die Spinne
Erik Wunderlich: Unearthing
Álex Souza: Unsichtbare Körper
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Tanine Allison: Woran man einen Kriegsfilm erkennt. Der zeitgenössische Science-Fiction-Blockbuster...
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James Coleman wanted a simple life. Money, women and booze. Former crewman of the military, a job onboard the colony ship Pytheas fits right in his alley. Ship people from a dying Earth to a terraformed planet named Anden ready for colonization. Couldn't get any simpler than that, he had imagined.
Reality had different ideas when the Pytheas is sabotaged and crash lands onto the planet. Stranded with little food and water, he is forced to find a...
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Janika is suppressing her pain but reluctantly shares it with a teacher. She shares her trials and thoughts that many young people may have a personal connection to. This story goes into her home and takes your heart to some very real lives of many children today. Janika is not aware of her situation of abuse and seems to have a very low self-image of her gifts and abilities.
Janika shares is a powerful tool for teachers to identify students with...
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Nine Classic Science Fiction Stories from the "Golden Age" by various authors. Featured stories: The Floating Island Of Madness by Jason Kirby, The Winged Men Of Orcon A Complete Novelette by David R. Sparks, The Metal Moon by Everett C. Smith & Roman Frederick Starzl, Spawn Of The Comet by H. Thompson Rich, Disowned by Victor A. Endersby, Out Around Rigel by Robert H. Wilson, Raiders Of The Universes by Donald A. Wandrei, The Einstein See-Saw by...
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Civilizations of the 2600 continue to expand out into the universe requiring a need for preserving the laws created by many colonizing worlds. A United Universe Service and the help of the Universe Diplomats in combination with a unique judicial system had been created to make this possible. Travel around the universe with a Universe Diplomat and follow the sacrifices and hardships he had to endure caused by one rouge agent. As he begins his retirement...
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SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY, HUMOR
* Cranky Goblin Cooks
* Unscrupulous Chemists
* Lecherous Space Pirates
* Disagreeable Alien Symbiotes
* Soul-Searching Snot Elementals
The Unidentified Funny Objects series serves an annual dose of funny. zany, and unusual science fiction and fantasy stories. All-new fiction from the genre's top voices! Our sixth volume features a Mad Amos story by Alan Dean Foster, a Harry the Book tale by Mike Resnick, and an Alexander...
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"Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor, Volume I" by Various. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices....
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Once escritores le van a transportar a futuros lejanos y más cercanos, a momentos posibles y creíbles de nuestro destino como seres humanos. Once visiones que harán que también sea capaz de afirmar: "Yo he visto cosas que vosotros no creeríais".
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Seiscientas preguntas de Alberto González Ortiz.
Trabajadores en caída libre de Víctor M. Valenzuela.
Global Owen INC de Álvaro López León.
FIYW (Feel If You Want) de Ángel Mirallas...
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AMAZING STORIES, Volume 1. Nine Classic Short Stories from The Golden Age of Science Fiction by various authors. Featured here: "The Seeder" by Max Williams, "A Matter of Taste" by Joseph Wesley, "Vassi" by Art Lewis, "Murder Beneath the Polar Ice by Hayden Howard, "The Contact Point by Jack Sharkey, "Superjoemulloy" by Scott F. Grenville", "The Non-Electronic Bug" by E. Mittleman", and "Virgin Ground" by Rosel George Brown.
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Welcome to Black Cat Weekly #37.
Another hefty issue is in hand, featuring novels and novellas by some of the greats of the mystery and science fiction fields. And, as expected, our acquiring editors have found some true gems. Michael Bracken has selected an original suspense tale from from N. M. Cedeño, Barb Goffman has a mystery from the always-superb Janice Law, and Cynthia Ward has Naomi Kritzer's "Evil Opposite"-a great alternate-universe tale...
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From Washington Irving (1783—1859) to F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896—1940), the authors represented in this expansive American short story anthology invite you to see the world as they saw it.
Irving's culture-defining tales of American life-"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle"-offer a turn of events that both surprises and chills the reader. In "Bartleby," Herman Melville introduces us to a lawyer whose easy way of life is upended by...
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This seventh volume of the year's best science fiction and fantasy features over thirty stories by some of the genre's greatest authors, including Elizabeth Bear, Paul Cornell, Cory Doctorow, James Patrick Kelly, Yoon Ha Lee, Kelly Link, Ken Liu, Sandra MacDonald, K.J. Parker, Robert Reed, Peter Watts, and many others. Selecting the best fiction from Asimov's, Clarkesworld, F&SF, Lightspeed, Subterranean, and other top venues, The Year's Best Science...
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Astounding Stories Of Super Science May 1931 features five Classic Science Fiction Stories from the "Golden Age of Science Fiction". Contents and short description: "Into The Ocean's Depth's" by Sewell Peaslee Wright: To Save Imee's Race of Men-Who-Returned-To-The-Sea, Two Land-Men Answer the Challenge of the Dreaded Rorn, Corsairs of the Under-Seas, "Murder Madness" by Murray Leinster: Murder Madness! Seven Secret Service Men Had Completely Disappeared....
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Astounding Stories of Super Science July 1930 features seven Classic Science Fiction Stories from the "Golden Age of Science Fiction". Contents and short description: "Beyond The Heaviside Layer" by Capt. S.P. Meek: For Eighty Vertical Miles Carpenter and Bond Blasted Their Way-Only to Be Trapped by the Extraordinary Monsters of the Heaviside Layer. "Earth, The Marauder" by Arthur J. Burks: Out of Her Orbit Sped the Teeming Earth-A Marauding Planet...
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Astounding Stories Of Super Science October 1930 features five Classic Science Fiction Stories from the "Golden Age of Science Fiction". Contents and short description: "Stolen Brains" by Captain S.P. Meek: Dr. Bird, Scientific Sleuth Extraordinary, Goes After a Sinister Stealer of Brains. "The Invisible Death", by Victor Rousseau: With Night-Rays and Darkness-Antidote America Strikes Back, at the Terrific and Destructive Invisible Empire. (A Complete...
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Astounding Stories Of Super Science August 1931 features six Classic Science Fiction Stories from the "Golden Age of Science Fiction". Contents and short description: "Danger From The Deep" by Ralph Milne Farley: Marooned on the Sea-Floor, His Hoisting Cable Cut, Young Abbot Is Left at the Mercy of the Man-Sharks, "Brood Of The Dark Moon" by Charles Willard Diffin: Once More Chet, Walt and Diane Are United in a Wild Ride to the Dark Moon. But This...
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