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Cristian Butnariu
Books in Order: 79 titles
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American Honey
If we're all aggressive, obedient soldiers, who's going to write the poems and play the blues and go on anti-war protest marches?" Jeannie raised her eyebrows. It was a surprising thought to come from a career soldier. "There's more to it than that,"...
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Annihilation
He had not stayed long. If I'd been in his shoes, Barrington thought, with Jeannie dressed like that, I would have stayed there all night and most of Sunday. He checked the car's clock for the twentieth time and decided to call Jim again. He might ha...
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The Couple Next Door
"But how are you keeping track?" I ask. "How did you know I had the tapes?" "You were easy," he says. "You stole my Walkman, Clay." We both laugh. And it feels good. A release. Like laughing at a funeral. Maybe inappropriate, but definitely needed. "...
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End of Watch
I wake in the dark to my pulse pounding in my head and my mouth bone-dry. Pulling on my jeans and shirt, I stagger down the hall. With no fire tonight, the sole source of illumination on the entire ground level is a timid nightlight plugged into an o...
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Fatal Attraction
“Hey.” He interrupted me smoothly. “Would it make you feel better if you didn’t have to know? If you could just do?” I wasn’t sure if it would or if it wouldn’t. I’ve never cared for surprises. I live my life according to calculations...
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Finders Keepers
"We shred the cards, yes, after twenty years, unless of course the patient has been readmitted, in which case the record is transferred to the computer." It was a sickening disappointment and a waste of precious hours that she needed to prepare her d...
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Get Rich or Die Trying
"Lord, I trusted Milford," Caroline muttered in a furious whisper. "I should have known better. If he calls himself your friend, then he's no better than you are." "The letter, Caroline," Bradford insisted. He stood up and stretched and then started ...
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A Great Reckoning
That was the quotation he'd read. It had started him working on the problem again. A new approach now. Before, he had stubbornly persisted in attributing all vampire phenomena to the germ. If certain of these phenomena did not fit in with the bacilli...
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The House of Cards
"Someone tampered with the wheel," Bradford told Milford as soon as they were on their way. "It was meant to come off." "You've been making enemies again, Brad?" Mil-ford inquired. He wasn't smiling now. Caroline was safely inside her home and he cou...
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Into tthe Water
He turns the key, the engine starts, and he flips on the headlights. “Do you want me to take you somewhere?” I grab the door handle and nod toward the house. “This is where I’m at in the tapes,” I say. “But thanks.” His eyes stare strai...
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Sleeping Beauties: Volume One
What makes horror literature so pervasive is that its need to evoke the necessary atmosphere and sense of emotional dread is utterly dependent on who we are as readers -- as people. As children, we might be afraid of the shadows looming from a half-c...
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Sleeping Beauties: Volume Two
Fresh from a study visit to the Center for Evolutionary Psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Clasen believes the timeless, cross-cultural appeal of horror fiction says something important about humans, and in turn, insights from...
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Satan's Smile
I don’t particularly care for the association of anything “super” with the diabolical as always playing the odds is a prudent course of action, but in necromantic consultation with Jimmy “the Greek”, he gave me 50-1 odds that I’d wind up ...
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A Wizard of Earthsea
I don't know if I would've had the opportunity to be on 'Wizards of Waverly Place' if it weren't for my heritage. I realize everybody wants what they don't have. But at the end of the day, what you have inside is much more beautiful than what's on th...
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Wizards at War
Wizards at War - Table of Contents: 01. Chapter One -- The Wizard's Daughter - 003 02. Chapter Two -- The Misty Valley - 032 03. Chapter Three -- The Witch of Delnabo -- 093 04. Chapter Four -- The Battle of the Birds -- 096 05. Chapter F...
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Devil in the Darkness
Demon power or not, I watched from beneath the sand as a man unlike any warrior I'd ever seen stood his own against a howling storm of viciousness. Although I heard the sound of the dogs, what I heard most of all throughout the fight was the deep res...
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Foreign Affairs
Romance fiction is smart, fresh and diverse. Whether you enjoy contemporary dialogue, historical settings, mystery, thrillers or any number of other themes, there's a romance novel waiting for you! Two basic elements comprise every romance novel: a c...
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Age of Darkness: Volume One
Science fiction is a genre of fiction in which the stories often tell about science and technology of the future. It is important to note that science fiction has a relationship with the principles of science -- these stories involve partially truepa...
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Age of Darkness: Volume Two
Urusander’s grey-blue eyes were fixed on Gurren, and the old man saw in them raw pain which was what he always saw in them, which was why he could never meet them for long. And he remembered how sick that weakness had made him feel. Urusander could...
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A Dangerous Place
It was the sound of something falling, a chair perhaps, that startled him in his winter sleep. He was still enveloped in the grogginess of slumber and it was minutes before he found himself rising from beneath the comfort of the quilt to the edge of ...
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The Forever War
Like the scientific method, science fiction provides an approach to understanding the universe we live in. It provides the tools, tropes, and cognitive framework within which we can explore ideas and safely run thought-experiments where we cannot or ...
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American Gods: Second Volume
Science fiction is a modern genre. Though writers in antiquity sometimes dealt with themes common to modern science fiction, their stories made no attempt at scientific and technological plausibility, the feature that distinguishes science fiction fr...
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Devices and Desires
Based on this principle, the suspense thriller has been loosely defined as a story in which the audience is waiting for something significant to happen. The protagonist's job is to prevent the speeding bus from exploding, or the aliens from eating th...
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Hidden Killers
A mystery is a story that has five basic but important elements. These five components are: the characters, the setting, the plot, the problem, and the solution. These essential elements keep the story running smoothly and allow the clues to the solu...
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In Cold Blood
In the drowsy heat of the summer afternoon the Red House was taking its siesta. There was a lazy murmur of bees in the flower-borders, a gentle cooing of pigeons in the tops of the elms. From distant lawns came the whir of a mowing-machine, that most...
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Little Pretty Things
What are crime novels? Well, they include a perpetrator or perpetrators -- the bad guys -- who've committed an immoral or illegal act and a protagonist -- the good guy -- who's trying to bring them to justice. Most crime novels are either who...
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Tales of Mystery and Imagination
There is now such a huge variety within the genre, it also has several sub-genres, including detective fiction (including the classic whodunnit), legal thriller, courtroom drama, hard-boiled fiction, Police Procedurals, Private Eye, Suspense, Thrille...
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Behind Closed Doors: Book One
The Fourth Floor Detainment Centre would look innocuous enough to an outsider, were any ever allowed inside. The Fourth was large and sprawling with winding halls leading off into separate holding areas. The sections looked exactly the same despite t...
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Behind Closed Doors: Book Two
Disbelief morphed into incredulous irritation and Sin's eyes narrowed as he stared at him. The anxiety that had been building inside him, the doubts that had run through his mind, all came crashing down on him and his stomach twisted. "What's your pr...
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The Never Ending Story: Second Volume
At just a few months of age, an infant can look at pictures, listen to your voice, and point to objects on cardboard pages. Guide your child by pointing to the pictures, and say the names of the various objects. By drawing attention to pictures and a...
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The Never-Ending Story: First Volume
What’s the most important trait you’d like to develop in your child? If you’re like most parents, intelligence is probably at the top of your list. We all want bright, smart children, which is why we spend so much time choosing the right school...
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Best Loved Bedtime Stories: First Volume
This first volume consists of a collection of short beautiful bedtime stories. Please see below table of contents: The Fountain from the End of the Rainbow - 03 The King Melon - 11 The Milky River - 20 The Truest Lie - 26 The Watch Dog - 29 Why My Do...
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Best Loved Bedtime Stories: Second Volume
This second book contains a collection of beautiful bedtime stories. Please see below table of contents: Youth without Age and Life without Death - 03 The Princess and the Fisherman - 12 The Little Purse with Two Half-Pennies - 17 Cunning Helen - 21 ...
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Best Loved Bedtime Stories: Third Volume
This is the last volume of our series of bedtime stories and it contains a collection of 37 beautiful short stories for children. Please see below the table of ontents: The Brothers who met Poverty �" 04 The Love of the Forest - 10 The Fool, the She...
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Citizen of the Galaxy
Development of Imagination Stories help to develop a child’s imagination by introducing new ideas into their world �" ideas about fantastical worlds, other planets, different points in time and invented characters. It’ll encourage the children t...
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The Enchanted Book
Table of Contents: Sleeping Beauty -- o04 Thumbelina -- 007 The Story of Cinderella -- 014 Ramirez -- 017 The Story of Beauty and the Beast -- 020 The Donkey Skin Girl -- 023 The Ugly Duckling -- 030 The Golden Crab -- 032 How the Beg...
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Legendary Warriors and Mystical Giants: Volume One
This first volume contains a great collection of mythological tales. Please see below the table of contents: Connla and the Fairy Maiden - 03 Guleesh - 05 The Field of Boliauns - 19 The Horned Woman - 22 Conall Yellow Calw - 25 Hudden and Dudden and...
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Legendary Warriors and Mystical Giants: Volume Two
The second and the last of our series of mytological stories continues with a beautiful collection of 14 tales. Please see below the table of contents: The King of Persia and the Princess of the See -- 03 Prince Camaralzamal and the Princess of Ch...
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Let Me Tell You a Story: First Volume
This first volume from our series of fairy tales consists of a beautiful collection of tales. Please see below the table of contents: Youth without Age and Life without Death �" 03 The Princess and the Fisherman - 12 The Little Purse with Two Half-...
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Let Me Tell You a Story: Second Volume
This second volume from our series of fairy tales consists of a collection of 14 beautiful short stories. Please see below the table of contents: The Battle of the Birds -- 03 Brewery of Eggshells - 15 The Prince and His Three Fates - 23 Levelling ...
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Let Me Tell You a Story: Third Volume
This is teh last volume of our series of tales and contains of a beautiful collection of 24 short stories. Plesae see below the table of contents: The Story Spirits �" 03 I know what I Know - 08 The Magic of Mushkil Gusha - 11 When the Twins Went to...
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The Lost Thing
We are happy to introduce this this new volume that contains a beautiful collection of short Australian tales for children. Please see below the table of contents: Preface �" 02 Dinewan the emu, and Goomblegubbon the stard �" 07 The Galah, and Oola...
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The Lucky Mill
Ioan Slavici (1848-1925) was an important Romanian writer. A native of Transylvania, he was a founding father of the nation of Romania's native story-tellers, active during the period when Transylvania unified with Romania, in 1918, and earlier when ...
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Old Arabian Tales: First Volume
Here is a very good collection of ancient tales called Arabian Nights Stories. This collection of ancient tales from Arabia, India, Persia, etc., is called Arabian Night. The Merchant and The Genie, The Enchanted Horse, The Little Hunchbacked, Sindba...
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Old Arabian Tales: Second Volume
The collection of Old Arabian Tales is the most famous literary product of a classical Islamic Civilization that was formed through a merging of Arabic culture (especially religion) and the great imperial traditions of the eastern Mediterranean and t...
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Tales of Historic Delhi: The Second Volume
This second book contains a collection of old Indian stories. See the table of contents below: The Tiger, the Brahman, and the Jackal �" 03 Loving Laili �" 06 The Cruel Crane Outwitted �" 14 The Magic Fiddle �" 17 The Broken Pot �" 20 Punchkin �...
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Tales of Historic Delhi: The Third Volume
This third volume contains of a unique collection of short old Indian fairy tales. Please see below the table of contents: Birth of Shrikrishna -- 05 Kalia -- 10 Kansa -- 16 Hanuman -- 22 Krishna and Indra -- 28 Gopal -- 33 Ganesh -- 37...
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The War of the Worlds
Science fiction is relevant, important and has much to offer the world, giving meaning to life, enlightening readers and as all those characteristics in a way that no other literature can hope to capture. Much more than five-armed blue monsters with ...
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American Gods
Science fiction is a genre of fiction in which the stories often tell about science and technology of the future. It is important to note that science fiction has a relationship with the principles of science -- these stories involve partially true- ...
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The Book of Lost Things
The "adult fairy tale" is a literary form popularized by the Italian writers Straparola and Basile in the 16th century, by the French salon writers of the 17th/18th centuries, the German Romantics in the 19th century, and the Celtic Twilight writers ...
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The Art of Personal Development
I would like to take you on a journey and introduce you to a personal power program over a period of 30 days. I am here to tell you that today you are beginning something that it will change the quality of your life, like forever. I am speaking fr...
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Cosmos and History
Had we not feared to appear overambitious, we should have given this book a subtitle: Introduction to a Philosophy of History. For such, after all, is the purport of the present essay; but with the distinction that, instead of proceeding to a spec...
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The Power is Within You
Give yourself permission to be I remember a bus response that I gave to one of my mentors over three years ago: "Mr X, so you may be". I understood then what he meant. I understand though that we need to let things happ...
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Use Your Brain for a Change
A personal development process must be led by qualified therapists that are designed to guide and guide the client through various therapeutic methods that lead to self-discovery, self acceptance and understanding. The benefits they get after...
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The Midsummer Night
"So be destroyed old!" Joanna thought, and quickly made her a few crosses. Maybe that's why I dreamed... When the doctor, many months before, was the decision to move Sofia villa old Walters, near Ploiesti, Adela burst out laughing her short, sharp, ...
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Long Forgotten Kingdom
Telli proved to be wrong in his prediction that he would one day be Lord of the Khrelling valley. It was his friend, Stellakis, who was to take on this role, the young smith's quick wits combined with his fluent understanding of Khrelling speech maki...
