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"Set in contemporary Nigeria, Uche Okonkwo's A Kind of Madness is a collection of ten stories concerned with literal madness but also those private feelings that, when left unspoken, can feel like a type of madness: desire, desperation, hunger, fear, sadness, shame, longing. In these stories, a young woman and her mother bask in the envy of their neighbors when the woman receives an offer of marriage from the family of a doctor living in Belgium-though...
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"Happily Ever After" wasn't supposed to come with a do-over option. But when my husband of twenty years packs up and heads for greener pastures and my son leaves for college, that's exactly what my life becomes. Do-over. This time, though, I plan to do things differently. Age is just a number, after all, and at forty I'm ready to carve my own path. Eager for a fresh start, I make a somewhat unorthodox decision and move to a tiny town in the Sierra...
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"Retired romance novelist Sara Medlar has been comfortably sharing her large home with her niece Kate and her "honorary grandson" Jack. It's a convenient arrangement given the Medlar Three, as they've become known, are often working closely together to solve mysteries in their small town of Lachlan, Florida. But when real estate agent Kate announces she's been given the listing for the town's storied Lachlan House, it sets off alarm bells for Sara...
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"Mortimer Bray is not okay. It seems like everything in his life is changing for the worse. After his own much-loved dog dies, he can't bring himself to carry on with his dog-walking business; there's a strange new girl who's moved into the house next door; and suddenly there's a buzzing feeling of anxiety in his head and heart when he's faced with something new. His neighborhood, Townsend Heights, used to feel like the most comfortable place in the...
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"When Heimdall and Hyrrokkin abandon their 'children' to go on holiday, Odin sends Baldur - Thor's half brother and god of making Loki look bad - to babysit. As Baldur and Thor bond, Loki's attempts to prove he's good start getting a bit desperate. After the drama teacher casts him as the villain in the school play, Loki starts to wonder whether there's any point in being good when everyone seems convinced of his villainy. That is until he discovers...
6) Beach Bummer
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Audio narration brings the story to life in this enhanced eBook, while word-for-word highlighting text makes it easy for the reader to follow along.
#1 New York Times best-selling author Ryan T. Higgins celebrates the delights of summer in this bite-sized Little Bruce Book perfect for fans of Mother Bruce.
It's beach day in Soggy Hollow! Everyone is enjoying fun in the sun – everyone, that is, except for Bruce. It's too hot, too sandy, and too...
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A trio of "cheerfully screwy stories . . . delivers a steady stream of laughs" in this Geisel Honor Winner from the author of the Fox Tails books (Publishers Weekly).
In this silly sequel to Snail and Worm, the dynamic duo are back for more fun and giggles in three new comic shorts brimming with quirky humor and unflappable friendship. At turns clever and sweet, these laugh-out-loud stories are perfect...
In this silly sequel to Snail and Worm, the dynamic duo are back for more fun and giggles in three new comic shorts brimming with quirky humor and unflappable friendship. At turns clever and sweet, these laugh-out-loud stories are perfect...
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"Nayan Olak keeps seeing Helen Fletcher around town. She's returned with her teenage son to live in the run-down house at the end of the lane, and--though she's strangely guarded--Nayan can't help but be drawn to her. He hasn't risked love since losing his young family in a terrible accident twenty years earlier. In the wake of the tragedy, Nayan's labor union, long a cornerstone of his community, became the center of his life: a way for him to channel...
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Thomas must keep the treasure of Dies Dear from landing in the wrong hands, but there are many secrets beneath Drear House, and not everyone can be trusted
Thomas Small and his best friend Pesty Darrow have been keeping the secret of the vast treasure that’s hidden in Mr. Pluto’s cave, once a stop on the Underground Railroad. Pesty also has to keep the treasure a secret from her family, who want it for themselves. And there are...
Thomas Small and his best friend Pesty Darrow have been keeping the secret of the vast treasure that’s hidden in Mr. Pluto’s cave, once a stop on the Underground Railroad. Pesty also has to keep the treasure a secret from her family, who want it for themselves. And there are...
10) The Harvest
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After a nightmare about a disembodied, skinless head calling him from under the bed, Daniel woke with a jolt, but managed to fall asleep again with little effort. He was used to these hellish visions- while asleep. Now the visions have started to cross over to his waking life, and it' s game over. As he tries to bury the feeling that he' s being stalked by an unseen force, one of his closest friends takes their own life in front...
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During a routine drive to dinner with her parents, sixteen-year-old Annie Walker's car is struck by a pickup truck. The resulting accident kills her parents and leaves Annie unconscious. When she wakes up, she thinks she's in a hospital, but the truth is far stranger. Annie has been downloaded into a computer program called PATTIE.With the help of PATTIE's brilliant programmer, Eric, Annie struggles to come to terms with her new existence. She also...
12) One Human Minute
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Essays by the author of Solaris. Contains three essays--"One Human Minute," "The Upside-Down Revolution ," and "The World as Cataclysm"--from science fiction master Stanislaw Lem.
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The stunning conclusion to the saga of a doomed civilization and the heroes who fight to save it. In an empire on the brink of implosion, the Society of the Phoenix is the only alternative to catastrophe, yet it is regarded by the rulers of the Concord as treasonable and a greater threat than the ominous rumblings of a Bond uprising. The Phoenix is led by Alex Ransom, once the first born of the House of DeKoven Woolf, but Commander Ransom now lies...
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On the harsh Martian frontier, young Peter and Susan are left in the care of their impatient guardian, Mr. Caxton, while their parents explore the desert. The curious children spot mysterious clawmarks in the red sand, but their discovery is met with scorn. As night falls, an otherworldly creature materializes at their door, igniting terror and wonder.
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An ordinary man draws to the end of an extraordinary life.In this his final journey to the place of his birth, he has time to reflect on his past - a past of fears and promises, a past of forgotten wonders and hidden secrets, a past that holds the answers to questions as old as civilisation.It is also a time to contemplate his present and the mystery of his own being - of who he is, where he is, and why he is.And in his final hours he must decide...
16) Alien Child
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Alone on Earth, a young girl searches for a new beginning Nita is a child of the Institute. Ever since she can remember, she has roamed its sterile halls, living out her youth in the care of a fur-covered guardian from another world. The Institute's computers give her everything she could want-except another human to share her life with. Long ago there were people at the Institute, but something happened that wiped them out. As she matures, Nita slowly...
17) Prodigals
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If they're coming for us, who's coming for them? A first contact novel from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Relic.
The galaxy is vast, and not everything is what it seems. The invasion we always feared is here.
Which begs the question: what do the invaders fear? If not us, then what . . . or who?
And what happens to the would-be peacemakers when they find themselves in the middle of something else? Something dangerous,...
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A #1 international bestselling author offers up sixteen science fiction tales featuring aliens, magic, robots, time travelers, cyborgs, nanotech, and more.
These sixteen stories, ranging from flash fiction to novella length, extend from the far corners of space to the edge of time and back to cutting-edge explorations inspired by today's headlines. Read about clones and combat cyborgs, nanotechnology experiments and giant robots, super-sentient...
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Susan didn't invite the space aliens to use her quilt shop as a staging ground for their invasion of Earth, but they came anyway. Now she needs to find a way to save the planet without making too much of a mess.The aliens' biggest mistake is disguising themselves as bolts of beige quilting fabric. Susan and her friends know cotton, and this isn't it. With a little luck and a lot of chutzpah, they discover the aliens' weaknesses: lavender attracts...
20) A New Beginning
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In a post-war Earth, 3000 years in the future, 75% of the world population has been wiped out and most technology is lost. This first installment follows four characters as they struggle to survive the harsh environment, lead their people to a brighter future and help to establish an alliance to prevent future destruction of the world.
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