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Jezebel’s Daughter (Wilkie Collins Classic Fiction) (Kindle Edition)

Jezebel's Daughter (Wilkie Collins Classic Fiction)

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A novel set in the nineteenth century which tells the story of a forbidden romance which develops between the daughter of a disgraced and pennile (more…)

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The Same People (an Atlantic Fiction for Kindle Short Story) (Kindle Edition)

The Same People (an Atlantic Fiction for Kindle Short Story)

Richard Bausch was born in Ft. Benning, Georgia in 1945. -He was educated in the public schools in and around Washington, D.C., and after two failures to maintain a standing in college, served a stint in the Air Force, after which he returned to university studies, first in Virginia and then at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. He is the author of 11 novels and nine collections of stories, including the novels Rebel Powers, Violence, Good Evening Mr. & Mrs. America And All The Ships A (more…)

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Playing to the Bear (an Atlantic Fiction for Kindle Short Story) (Kindle Edition)

Playing to the Bear (an Atlantic Fiction for Kindle Short Story)

Ann Beattie has been included in four O. Henry Award collections and John Updike-s Best American Short Stories of theCentury. She received the prestigious PEN/Malamud Award and the Rea Award for the Short Story. She has written seven novels and eight collections of stories and publishes frequently in The New Yorker. Scribner will publish WALKS WITH MEN in June.

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Space Prison, The Survivors (The science fiction thriller classic!) (Kindle Edition)

Space Prison, The Survivors (The science fiction thriller classic!)

NOTE: This edition has been beautifully formatted (searchable and interlinked) to work on your Amazon e-book reader, Amazon Desktop Reader, and your iPod/iPad e-book reader. Space Prison (original title: The Survivors) – A ship heading from Earth to Athena, a planet 500 light years away, is suddenly attacked by the Gerns, an alien empire in its expansion phase. People aboard are divided by the invaders into Slaves and Rejects. The former to work under Gern’s command on Athena, t (more…)

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Olive Kitteridge: Fiction (Kindle Edition)

Olive Kitteridge: Fiction

From Publishers Weekly

Starred Review. Thirteen linked tales from Strout (Abide with Me, etc.) present a heart-wrenching, penetrating portrait of ordinary coastal Mainers living lives of quiet grief intermingled with flashes of human connection. The opening Pharmacy focuses on terse, dry junior high-school teacher Olive Kitteridge and her gregarious pharmacist husband, Henry, both of whom have survived the loss of a psychologically damaged parent, and both of whom suffer painful (more…)

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The Ultimate Science Fiction Collection: Volume One (22 Books) (Kindle Edition)

The Ultimate Science Fiction Collection: Volume One (22 Books)

Thousands of pages and dozens of books/stories make up this large Kindle collection with active table of contents.Authors Include:John W. CampbellTom GodwinAndre Alice NortonWorks include:The Black Star PassesInvaders from the InfiniteIslands of SpaceThe Last EvolutionThe Ultimate WeaponAnd Devious the Line of DutyCry from a Far PlanetThe Nothing EquationSpace PrisonAll Cats Are GrayThe Defiant AgentsThe Gifts of AstiKey Out of TimePlague ShipRalestone LuckRebel SpursRide Proud, (more…)

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Shovel Kings (an Atlantic Fiction for Kindle Short Story) (Kindle Edition)

Shovel Kings (an Atlantic Fiction for Kindle Short Story)

Book Description

The Irishman, named Rafferty, had many stories to tell, and none of them cheerful. He described a life of childhood hardship, an adulthood of hard work and harder drinking, and a final few years of melancholy and isolation. They became friends—until Rafferty could not allow himself even that unasked-for solace.

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Lauded by Philip Roth as “the most gifted woman now writing in English,” Edna O’Brien is the author of more than (more…)

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Beast and Bird (an Atlantic Fiction for Kindle Short Story) (Kindle Edition)

Beast and Bird (an Atlantic Fiction for Kindle Short Story)

Jennifer Haigh is the author of three novels: The Condition, Baker Towers and Mrs. Kimble. She has won both the PEN/Hemingway Award, for debut fiction, and the PEN L.L. Winship Award, for outstanding book by a New England author. Her fiction has been published in Granta, Ploughshares, One Story and many other journals and magazines. She lives in the Boston area. Available exclusively on Kindle, Jennifer Haigh-s “Beast and Bird” is the story of Annie, a quiet Polish girl, sent fr (more…)

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The Ultimate Science Fiction Anthology (33 books) (Kindle Edition)

The Ultimate Science Fiction Anthology (33 books)

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea- Jules VerneThe Island of Doctor Moreau- H. G. WellsThe Brick Moon- Edward Everett HaleFlatland- Edwin A. AbbottLooking Backwards from 2000 to 1887- Edward BellamyThe Gods of Mars- Edgar Rice BurroughsWarlord of Mars- Edgar Rice BurroughsA Princess of Mars- Edgar Rice BurroughsThuvia, Maid of Mars- Edgar Rice BurroughsThe Chessmen of Mars- Edgar Rice BurroughsAt the Earth’s Core- Edgar Rice BurroughsThe Land That Time Forgot- Edgar Rice BurroughsThe (more…)

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The World’s Greatest Books, Fiction – Eight Volumes (Kindle Edition)

The World's Greatest Books, Fiction - Eight Volumes

Super value! 200+ classics,8 volumes collected in 1 edition.Formatted for the Kindle. Linked Contents.CONTENTS (partial list)VOL. IABOUT, EDMOND, King of the MountainsAINSWORTH, HARRISON, Tower of LondonANDERSEN, HANS, ImprovisatoreAPULEIUS, The Golden AssARABIAN NIGHTSAUCASSIN AND NICOLETTEAUERBACH, BERTHOLD, On the HeightAUSTEN, JANE, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Abbey, Mansfield Park, Emma, PersuasionBALZAC, HONORÉ DE, Eugénie Grandet, (more…)

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