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10301) Chinese Myths and Folk Tales
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The culture of China is rich with marvelous folklore and legendry that has informed its tale telling from the era of oral storytelling up through the current age of the written word. “Chinese Myths and Folk Tales” draws on that magnificent repository of lore, featuring more than 200 fables and folk tales drawn from Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio and other classic compendiums of traditional tales. Here are stories of ancient demons, strange...
10302) The Book of Martha
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Excerpt: "This book ought by rights to have borne Ruth's name on the cover instead of mine. Of the fifty years I have lived the first twenty were scattered and lost. The remaining thirty were gathered as they came, and threaded on a wire which formed them into a serviceable chain; that wire was Ruth. She has now broken off and formed other ties, therefore the years that remain will probably be scattered like the first, for there can be no second Ruth....
10303) Vikram and the Vampire
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Sir Richard Burton's classic loose reworking of the Sanskrit fable cycle Twenty five tales of Baital follows the tale of King Vikram who promises a powerful sorcerer that he will capture a vampire spirit that hangs from a tree like a bat and can inhabit and reanimate dead bodies.
10304) Lost Girl
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An appalling act of violence and an unsolved double murder.Small-town investigative reporter, Shelby Day, is determined to hunt a killer.As her search draws closer to uncovering the twisted truth, she begins receiving ominous warnings to stay quiet and drop the story. The young journalist is in danger. Her cameraman and best friend, a person with his own secret past, says he wants to protect her. But Shelby is headstrong and dodging anything that...
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CONTENTS:
The d'Artagnan Romances
- The Three Musketeers
- Twenty Years After
- The Vicomte of Bragelonne
Cycle des Valois
- Marguerite de Valois
- Chicot the Jester
- The Forty-Five Guardsmen
Cycle Memoires d'un Medecin
- Joseph Balsamo
- The Queen's Necklace
- Ange Pitou
- The Countess de Charny
The Novels
THE FENCING MASTER
THE CONSPIRATORS
GEORGES
AMAURY
THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO
THE REGENT'S DAUGHTER
THE CORSICAN BROTHERS
THE CHEVALIER...
10307) The Deluge, Volume 2
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The novel tells a story of a fictional Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth soldier and noble Andrzej Kmicic and shows a panorama of the Commonwealth during its historical period of the Deluge, which was a part of the Northern Wars.
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In these two provocative works, Percy manages to be perceptive and playful as he more directly explores the philosophical foundations of his groundbreaking fiction. The Message in the Bottle: In these profound and passionate essays that "have a way of quickening the spirit and cleansing the sight. He posits that the act of assigning meaning by naming things makes humans unique. Percy develops a theory of language through the example of Helen Keller...
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Astounding Stories Of Super Science March 1931 features five Classic Science Fiction Stories from the "Golden Age of Science Fiction". Contents and short description: "When The Mountain Came To Miramar": It is Magic against Magic As Garry Connell Bluffs for His Life with a Prehistoric Savage in the Heart of Sentinel Mountain, by Charles W. Diffin, "Beyond The Vanishing Point": The Tale of a Golden Atom-an Astounding Adventure in Size. (A Complete...
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It tells the story of the knight Cligès and his love for his uncle's wife, Fenice. Because of the story's de-romanticized depiction of adultery, it has been, called a criticism or parody of the Tristan and Isolde romances. Cligès scholar Lucie Polak not only verifies the Tristan and Isolde reworking found in the text, but also, suggests that Cligès may be, modeled after Ovid's character Narcissus. Chrétien's works include five major poems in rhyming...
10311) Body-snatcher
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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In 1815, a young medical student discovers that the corpses he and his peers examine in anatomy class are gotten by suspicious means. Soon, the young man finds himself an accomplice to murder! He helps dispose of the body and is soon helping procure the more specimen. This haunting adventure is now a striking graphic novel adaptation. Graphic Planet is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO Group. Grades 5-8.
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This story is like an engaging Hollywood movie. Rapid action, strong characters, dynamic events. It's also like a mirror. Everyone can see their own reflection in it, and his/her Maria Magdalena. Was she Jesus' lover? An evil sinner possessed by demons? Priestess of Isis preaching her own gospel? Who and why called it perfection over perfection? Each epoch has its own Maria Magdalena. And every man as well.Maria Magdalena is a reflection of the era...
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In L.M. Montgomery's Aunt Susanna's Thanksgiving Day Dinner, Agnes and her three artistic sisters must fill in for strict, judgmental Aunt Susanna and cook a Thanksgiving Day Dinner for several guests. Everything is going smoothly until the girls see the McGinnis boy fall off the fence and apparently into a well. While the girls are out, the dog gets into the kitchen and devours the turkey and upsets the other dishes. What will the girls do now? A...
10314) Johnny Crow's Picture Book
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A lively group of animal friends gather for hijinks in this compilation of three classic picture books. Brimming with simple but charming rhymes, pen-and-ink drawings, and luminous watercolor illustrations, the tales will captivate young readers and listeners, especially 3- to 8-year-olds. In Johnny Crow's Garden, the pig dances a jig, the elephant says something quite irrelevant, and the goose ― well, the goose is a goose. In Johnny Crow's Party,...
10316) The Bear
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Young widow Popova receives a visitor who asks to repay debts of her former husband. Smirnov has an urgent need for money in order to repay his own bank loans the next morning and is refusing to leave. After heated emotional exchange Smirnov suggests a duel notwithstanding that Popova being a woman does not even know how to handle guns. But she does not give up and accepts the challenge. One thing leads to another and shortly after we find them both...
10317) The Last of the Valerii
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This early work by Henry James was originally published in 1874.
10318) A Landscape Painter
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After his broken engagement, the heartbroken Locksley moves to rural New England to become a painter. He says, "I have determined to stand upon my own merits."
Art Fiction is a literary genre in which art is not solely an object, but is a reflection of what is human in all of us. Other examples are:
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Glimpses of Gauguin by Maryann D'Agincourt
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Printz by Maryann D'Agincourt
May...
10319) The In-Between Hour: A Novel
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"A tender and emotionally-charged…story of life, survival and, ultimately, of love that transcends all."-Karen White, New York Times bestselling author
What could be worse than losing your child? Having to pretend he's still alive…
Bestselling author Will Shepard is caught in the twilight of grief, after his young son dies in a car accident. But when his father's aging mind erases the memory, Will rewrites the truth. The story he spins brings...
10320) Cuentos detectivescos
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Español
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La obra de Edgar Allan Poe ejerció una influencia decisiva en la literatura por muchos motivos. Uno de ellos es haber inventado el género policial, que inicia con las tres narraciones que incluimos en esta edición. El protagonista de estos cuentos es el célebre Dupin, un detective solitario y excéntrico que, sirviéndose de la razón pero también de la intuición y de la imaginación, es capaz de develar los misterios más indescifrables.
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