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A man is lost in Antarctica.

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A poetic look at life and death.

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A poetic look at life and death.

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A poetic look at life and death.

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A poetic look at life and death.

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A poetic look at life and death.

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A poetic look at life and death.

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A poetic look at life and death.

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Hahn reflects on the world as it existed in 2076, before the war, and how the devastation unleashed by the war shaped the lives of the survivors. Hahn is keen that the school boy, Eugene, grasps that, while there were huge changes in technology before and after the war, the most important change was in people, and their attitude towards each other and the planet on which they lived....

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Eugene’s brow furrowed. ‘You mean you could choose who died?’ ‘Oh yes.’ Hahn’s tone was matter of fact. ‘But now I venture onto the territory of state secrets! Not only were we implanted with health chips, those of us who thought we were important were implanted with tags that identified our status. This was updated in real time. So if my car was in an accident with another, and there was a possibility that one car would be so badly damaged its passengers would die, one of the decisions taken by the cars’ on-board computers would be which passenger was higher status and should have the higher chance of survival.’ Eugene looked astonished, ‘But how could that happen?’ ‘You have to remember that our computers worked at a phenomenal speed and there was plenty of time for them to check which car carried the higher status individual and redirect that car to minimize impact on them. That might involve a far worse collision for the other car and its passengers.’ Eugene shook his head. ‘Weren’t people outraged at this?’ ‘That’s where the state secret came in. No one knew this happened, apart from the agency that monitored status, and t...

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A fantasy fiction, based on the legend about dr. Faust.

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THE SONNET Give those Immortals who’ve become swollen With pride, the benefit of the doubt, ‘Twas through their doings that they have fallen, This is what their sojourn was e’er about. Yearnings of going back to their own sphere, Within themselves intensely they’ve carried, Ad infinitum bound to interfere, In human affairs for’er stay buried. Tho’ longing for their abode o’er cloud nine, Anacamptic sound of harps in their hearts, They can’t evade it, but must lay supine, Unable to outsmart the Cupid’s darts. Knowing not what picking up this cherry Entails, they moan: Enjoy life, be merry! Meph ...

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A low-tech fantasy novel. Follows both a group of transgender idealists planning a revolution, and the guards of the government they are working to overthrow....

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“Ah, the wood Bound,” Sileas said, with a nod to the painting Corliss stood in front of. She spun, startled by the noise. “I saw it once when I was much younger,” Sileas continued. “I've never seen anything so beautiful or odd again. I had it drawn from my description.” The painting was delicately done in layers of richly pigmented oils. Not a brushstroke could be seen, and it glowed from within. A figure with emerald green skin slipped its way between trees. Its eyes were wide and dark as plums, its stomach round and swollen, its arms long and thin. ...

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Two People, Two Worlds: One Common Thread Eliska was assigned the task of protecting the last hope of her race. A warrior Princess par excellence, she never expected the Dark Forces to be so strong. In the end, she had to do the unthinkable. The world does not come to know about it, but the destiny of Eric, a normal human gets intertwined with hers. Strange things start happening around him. He starts seeing things and meeting people he had never known to exist. He has no one to help, but he has to find the answers. Will he find the reason behind the happenings? What happened to Eliska? and What the dark forces want?...

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Two People, Two Worlds: One Common Thread

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A young man already promising to grow to great size and athleticism, a budding warrior. Once he leaves the failing inn on the edge of the Wastes, he has to make his way in the world. But how? Becoming a mercenary soldier is a good first step, but does he want to follow orders his whole life? Or give them? When Bear meets the mysterious youth called Mouse, he realizes that the two of them together might be able to call their own shots, and live an independent life. He doesn't hesitate... What might their life be like? What might it be like to make a living in their world? Come see, as they find work in Solstice, in Blackwood, and all over their world....

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We trudged up to the border post in a steady drizzle. Nothing but a dry-stack stone hut beside the road, the post held a single guard, grizzled-looking but tough. She stepped up to the doorway, but not out into the wet. "Welcome to the Barony of Rain," she said. "State your business." She didn't just look tough, she was tough. One guard, facing me and Mouse? Especially when she's closer to Mouse's size than mine? Okay, Mouse doesn't look like much unless you've been around, but me plus anybody is enough to make most nervous. Especially ever since Mouse got me this idiot bearskin to wear. People get nervous. I look like I might go all grisly on them. "Got an invite," I said. "Your Captain Arturo sent for us." "Not my Captain Arturo," she grumbled. "Do I look like a palace guard?" "Look like a body who wants to stay away from all the spitting and polishing." "Hah," she said. "Got that one. So, you got an invite from the glorious Captain?" "Said we did." "Lemme see—" She caught herself. "It's not in writing. You can't read." "Hah," I said. "Got that one. Word came from a cloth merchant, name of Darak." "One ...

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Map Bear, in Youth Bear and Mouse, in Dogtown Bear and Mouse, in Solstice Bear and Mouse, in the Ground Bear and Mouse, in Blackwood Bear and Mouse, in Port Sinful Bear and Mouse, in Song Bear and Mouse, Entrapped Bear and Mouse, at the Fire Fountain Bear and Mouse, at the Top Bear and Mouse, Entombed Bear and Mouse, in Rain Bear and Mouse, Entangled Bear and Mouse, at Home Afterword and Appendices About the Author...

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Shade mammoths, iron buffalo, and dodos; honeyberries, lightning pines, and mistle… It's 1840 in the United States, but a different country from the one we live in. Magic has been known for tens of thousands of years, and the only reason the colonies freed themselves from British domination is that Pennsylvania Rifles outrange the tyrannical power of Mastery. The colonies haven't gotten far into the interior yet; a different man from Thomas Jefferson was born in this different world, no one sent a Lewis or Clark to cross the continent, and any such expedition would have had to fight their way through undervines and dust wolves and more anyway. Zebulon Japheth Wright finds himself in a pivotal position. Even though he grew up just another hunter-farmer, he knows about yet another danger: society's suspicion of people who might be witches, especially slave liberators, gets those people attacked. What Wright will do with the power he finds he has, how he will use it in a society of individuals that distrusts individual power, and how his use of it will shape both him and his society, underlies a tale of magic, exploration...

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I stepped into a world o' gold, gold and yellow and orange and all the colors 'twixt 'em, with a hint o' red too. I didn't see no underbrush, nor the scrubbier trees, leavin' only the giants, 'cept they rose on up even higher here, no leaves or branches till hunnerds o' feet up. I could see the stream a mile or so t' the north, same as the world back home, the other burblin' along t' the east, and t' the south the ridge risin' slowly up, all reddish, till it topped out a hunnerd feet up. A native warrior sat astride a horse up there, silhouetted against the dawn-sky, impossibly stretched out tall, just like the Old One. He held a spear I knew he could throw a-fore I could move, could pin me to the yellow-orange sandy soil a-fore I could breathe. I raised a hand slow-like t' him, but he didn't move. I knew he was still poised t' throw that spear. And I could understand. Couldn't blame him, not really, though I didn't want him to, nohow. Aunt had told me 'bout our grandparents and great-grandparents, and hunnerds and thousands of others, all comin' t' these shores, all 'scapin' the trollin'—controllin'—tyranny wars in the Old...

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Foreword: Different World, Different People Chapter One: Taken for a Witch, 1836 Chapter Two: Natura, 1840 Chapter Three: Magica Chapter Four: Diablerie Chapter Five: Charms Chapter Six: Shapeshifting Chapter Seven: Sorcery Chapter Eight: Mastery I Chapter Nine: Necromancy Chapter Ten: Fascination Chapter Eleven: Phylactery Chapter Twelve: Mastery II Chapter Thirteen: Liberation, 1840-1841 Chapter Fourteen: The Will of a Free People, 1841-1869 About the Author...

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'Lucifer - The First Angel' is a brutal epic about how and why the greatest hero of God fell to darkness. From the dawn of creation up to the ruin of all existence, it reveals the true nature of Good and Evil, the meaning of Life and Death, and that even in Hell it is possible to find honor and sacrifice. The author carried out an extensive detailed research on archaeological discoveries and teachings of Taoism, Buddhism, Jewish Christianity, Islam, Brahmanism, among other ancient beliefs and philosophies....

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O colecție de epistole de dragoste cu arome de valeriană, expediate de Galatea. Valeriana (Valeriana officinalis), denumită și odolean, năvalnic, gușa-porumbelului sau iarba-pisicii, este investită cu însușiri magice de tradiția populară, una dintre cele mai eficiente remedii în tratarea tulburărilor emoționale, precum și a bolilor fizice asociate lor. Pygmalion, regele Ciprului, nemulțumit de vanitatea și promiscuitatea femeilor din împărăția sa, renunță să-și caute o parteneră și își petrece timpul sculptând din marmură o femeie ideală, pe care o numește Galatea. Afrodita, fermecată de devotamentul său, face o minune: Pygmalion, întors acasă de la o serbare, îmbrățișează marmura și, dintr-odată, simte că i se întoarc îmbrățișările - Galatea este în viață....

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Este é um épico de fantasia e aventura que transcorre nas ruas de São Paulo, Brasília, Rio de Janeiro, Nova York e Washington, nos confins da floresta amazônica e sob o calor escaldante de Cuba. Caos, traições, preconceitos, esperanças e horrores emergem do encontro de povos fantásticos com pessoas comuns, do conflito entre o relativismo moral do nosso mundo e os valores absolutos do Bem e do Mal de uma estranha e perigosa terra encantada....

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With the long summer school holidays coming to an end, Rachel Cook's days are filled with hordes of homework and little time for boredom. But on an unusually hot and sticky Wednesday morning, her uneventful school break comes to a shuddering stop: an innocent trip to the park leaves her with more questions than answers about her family's strange past. As her parents' finances plummet towards the poverty line and beyond, the Cooks end up living high above a seaside town, in a creaky treehouse with a leaky loft. Rachel makes new friends when she rekindles an old one, and together they grapple the odd goings-on around the town of Lower-Inkcome-by-the-sea. With pirates aplenty, a murderer on the loose and a game of marbles hanging in the balance, she finally pits her wits against a most unpleasant stinky bird!...

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"We did not hunger for death or the manner in which we met it…We alone must atone for the tragedy that tore us apart… eternity beckons…"

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CHAPTER ONE Eleventh Night CHAPTER TWO Warty Wednesday CHAPTER THREE Raspberry Surprise CHAPTER FOUR Professor Shire’s Legacy CHAPTER FIVE The Mud Skipper Skips CHAPTER SIX Craspedacusta Carcer CHAPTER SEVEN The Sign of the Times CHAPTER EIGHT The Whispering Willows CHAPTER NINE Pigeon Pie and Sprouts CHAPTER TEN The Cadaverous Crypt CHAPTER ELEVEN Barker’s Dozen CHAPTER TWELVE A Rubbish Day CHAPTER THIRTEEN Tea and Tyranny CHAPTER FOURTEEN A Boring Tale CHAPTER FIFTEEN The Grumpy Pirate CHAPTER SIXTEEN A Death in the Family CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Funeral for a Friend CHAPTER EIGHTEEN The Devil’s Advocate CHAPTER NINETEEN Day of the Dead CHAPTER TWENTY The Rhyming Thaumatrope CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE The Orphan’s Marble CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO A Most Angry Bird CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE The Twin Dilemma CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR End of an Era...

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Raisha es considerada la maga más famosa y poderosa de todo Elendor, un mundo dividido entre el Imperio de La Luz y La Oscuridad.Un grupo de héroes, en los albores de una guerra entre ambos Imperios, verá unidos sus destinos por siempre teniendo que enfrentarse a sus propios miedos y desafíos para alcanzar la victoria.La Sombra, General de La Oscuridad, ha forjado El Gran Plan, que sólo ella conoce en su totalidad y que arrastrará a este grupo de héroes a una aventura de fantasía épica sin precedentes....

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Повесть преподносит читателю достоверную, практически документальную картину жизни в раю. Показаны эмоциональные бури, бушующие в душах героев повести – счастливых обитателей рая....