Everyone knows dragons are the vainest of all creatures. And if you're the last dragon? You're the vainest of them all.
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Fourteen year-old Rita Morse is the kind of girl that the teen-hating
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A boy receives a Velveteen Rabbit for Christmas.
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Seven stories, 20,000 words, endless horror.
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A horrific traffic accident (On the Curb)
An intersection in New Orleans that shouldn't exist (Four Corners)
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Test Pilot is a SHORT STORY approximately 4320 words long which translates to about 20 printed pages.
Space
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Captain Gregg Johnson was the best the Skull Squadron had to offer.
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XOXO 13 was the designation for
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Writing bestselling children's books isn’t a magic book. Opening it
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The law of the jungle?intense competition for one's niche?seems to apply
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Newport, RI
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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A legendary relic, a dragon-wrought amulet, the Heart of Fire may be the
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she learns caution too late. Only a hero can save her now, but he isn't
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Ryson Acumen finds that his time of service to the people of Uton is not
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The Sphere of Ingar has been destroyed and pure magic now flows freely
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Ryson
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A rolling tremor passes through the land of Uton signaling the return of
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Ben thinks his son’s talk of the magical kingdom of Lukana is just
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Naomi accidentally goes to another planet thanks to a unicorn horn.
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While spending the summer with their grandparents on a remote farm in
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he sky is dark. Neither the sun nor the moon have been seen in decades.
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h No! Principal Green says Santa can't come to the school Christmas party.
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Everyone keeps talking about holy cows, but nobody wants to discuss the
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Opal’s
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The Sugar Plum Fairies are tired of dancing for nothing. To make matters
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Everyone
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Emo
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Rafe Khatchadorian has enough problems at home without throwing his
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Please enjoy this free ebook featuring an exclusive preview of Kill Shot,
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Confucius is considered one of the preeminent thinker and social
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thinkers and religious figures. The philosophical system that was built
around his many pronouncements is known as Confucianism, and it has
remained one of the most important schools of thought in China and the
surrounding civilizations until the present time.
This translation of some of the more prominent saying of Confucius
dates from 1909. Consequently the language is a bit dated, but
essentially it is very clear and easy to understand. The transcription
of the Chinese names, however, is very different from the one that is
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More than a love story, "The Phantom of the Opera" is a gothic tale of
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Leroux noticed this potential. His descriptions of the place are creepy
and in the end we start wondering if it is not a true story indeed.
Leroux was very smart, writing a novel like he was only reporting
something --and not creating a work of fiction. Therefore there are
police reports, newspapers' scraps, witness interviews. More than a
narrator, the person who is telling the story is only gathering useful
information for the reader.
His characters are real human beings --even the `ghost', than
throughout the narrative we realize that he is the one with most human
characteristics. Sometimes, Christine is a little stereotypical, mostly
when she says she wants to be `the mistress of her faith' or something
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An absorbing mystery as well as a morality tale, the story of Pip, a
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Oliver Twist was Dickens' second novel and one of his darkest, dealing
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and instead making them worse. The author's moral indignation drives the
creation of some of his most memorably grotesque characters: squirming,
vile Fagin; brutal Bill Sykes; the brooding, sickly Monks; and Bumble,
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-John Owen, Advanced Micro Devices, Sunnyvale,
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FREE -- Emma [Kindle Edition]
Of all Jane Austen's heroines, Emma Woodhouse is the most flawed, the
most infuriating, and, in the end, the most endearing. Pride and Prejudice's Lizzie Bennet has more wit and sparkle; Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey more imagination; and Sense and Sensibility's
Elinor Dashwood certainly more sense--but Emma is lovable precisely
because she is so imperfect. Austen only completed six novels in her
lifetime, of which five feature young women whose chances for making a
good marriage depend greatly on financial issues, and whose prospects
if they fail are rather grim. Emma is the exception: "Emma
Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy
disposition seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence;
and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to
distress or vex her." One may be tempted to wonder what Austen could
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Charlotte Bronte's first published novel, and her most noted work, is a
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grows and is able to defy society's expectations of her. This is
definitely feminist literature, published in 1847, way before the
beginning of any feminist movement. Perhaps this is one of the reasons
why the novel has had such a wide following since it first came on the
market. It is also one of the first gothic romances published and
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Hugo's classic tale set against the backdrop of political upheaval in
19th-century France retains its timeless appeal in this notably
condensed rendition of the struggles of former convict Jean Valjean.
While the abridgment inevitably cuts many of the intricate subplots and
minor characters who enrich Hugo's vast tome, this suspenseful central
plot tracing Valjean's endeavor to emerge from desperate circumstances
while being pursued by the duty-obsessed Inspector Javert remains intact
and comprehensible to listeners. The principal characters retain their
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and the importance of authentic charity are undiminished. Narrator
Michael York adds vigor and distinct characterizations to the broad cast
of characters in this fittingly dramatic performance. Suitable for
collections that do not already contain one of the many audio versions
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Novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1850. It is considered a
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Swiss medical student Victor Frankenstein discovers the secret of life
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Kerri works for a cleaning service and always loves Thursdays. On
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Mistress Mary is quite contrary until she helps her garden grow. Along
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A naive young Englishman travels to Transylvania to do business with a
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