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This eighth volume of the year's best science fiction and fantasy features over thirty stories by some of the genre's greatest authors, including John Barnes, Elizabeth Bear, C.C. Finlay, Yoon Ha Lee, Kelly Link, Ian McDonald, Seanan McGuire, Vonda N. McIntyre, Geoff Ryman, Catherynne M. Valente, Genevieve Valentine, and many others. Selecting the best fiction from Analog, Asimov's, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, Meeting Infinity, and other top venues,...
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Darkness surrounds us.We can find darkness anywhere: in a strange green stone etched with mysterious symbols; at a small town's annual picnic; in a ghostly house that is easy to enter but not so easy to leave; behind the dumpster in the alley where a harpy lives; in The Nowhere, a place where car keys, toys, people disappear to; among Polar explorers; and, most definitely, within ourselves. Darkness flies from mysterious crates; surrounds children...
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TAN Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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Christmas is a time for celebrating the birth of Jesus with family and friends, to gather together in sacred and jovial celebration of the Incarnation. Yet in our fast-paced, hyper-digitized lives, we are losing the sense of a good story, among good friends, around a good fire. In Christmas Around the Fire , Ryan Topping invites us to turn off the television set, put down the device, quiet ourselves, and gather our loved ones to enjoy some of the...
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Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc
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[2011]
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English
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February Thaw is the second e-collection by Tanya Huff and brings together some of the short fiction that helped define the field. From an Imperial Dragon in Toronto's Chinatown, to a heavy metal retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk, to the realization that the ancient gods are one highly dysfunctional family, Huff skews our world slightly sideways. These seven stories, each with a brand new introduction by the author, remind us that the weird and...
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Pelican Book Group
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[2018]
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English
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What happens when a desperate man seeks a 21st century marriage of convenience? Confirmed bachelor, Nigel Turner, needs a wife in order to inherit his father's millions. And he needs one in short order. His only option-other than kidnapping, which is illegal-is to use the Internet site Rent-a-Bride. Chloe Wilkes's brother signs her up on Rent-a-Bride as a joke, but when Nigel's details end up in her inbox, she decides to get her own back, and reply....
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MIRA Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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Two classic stories of finding love where you least expect it! MARRIAGE WANTED As far as Nash Davenport's concerned, marriage isn't shelter from the storm -- it is the storm. He's a divorce attorney, himself divorced, who believes no married couple can live up to their wedding vows. Savannah Charles, however, believes in the value -- and the values -- of marriage. She's a wedding planner who finds herself saying yes when Nash unexpectedly proposes....
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Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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[2016]
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English
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Collected tales of wonder, danger, and the future, including the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning title story This volume contains ten stellar short stories by science fiction Grand Master Clifford D. Simak. In "Grotto of the Dancing Deer," a man carrying an ancient secret finally speaks up, unable to bear any longer the loneliness he has experienced for millennia. In "Over the River," which Simak wrote in memory of his beloved grandmother Ellen, children...
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Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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[2016]
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English
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Ten stories of wonder and imagination by an author named Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America In the collection's title story, Frederick Gray is closing in on seventy and has outlived his usefulness as a professor of law. He has no family; his best friend, fellow faculty member Ben Lovell, has recently died. Before Gray moves into a retirement home, he takes a final canoe trip to a favorite fishing spot he and Lovell...
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Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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Twelve tales of the unknown from a master of science fiction Clifford D. Simak had a sublime ability to evoke a lost way of life. He spent his youth in rural Wisconsin, a landscape filled with mysterious hollows, cliffs, dark forests, and the Wisconsin River flowing in its deep-cut valley. As Simak wandered the countryside and the ridges, he peopled them with imaginary characters who later came to life in his stories. One such individual is Johnny,...
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Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #20 features the best in contemporary and classic mystery fiction, with a great linup of crimes and columns. This is a special All Sherlock Holmes Fiction issue! Here are:
Features:
From Watson's Notebook, by John H. Watson, M. D.
Ask Mrs Hudson, by (Mrs) Martha Hudson
Non Fiction:
Screen of the Crime, by Kim Newman
Sherlock Holmes for Crown and Country, by Dan Andriacco
Fiction:
The Case of the Burnt Song,...
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Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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In these two fan-favorite sports romance stories, winning is everything Making Him Sweat Admitted romantic Jenna Wilinski has just inherited a boxing gym. With it she can finally realize her dream of launching an upscale matchmaking business provided she can take on the very intimidating and wickedly hot boxer who stands in her way! Mercer Rowley vows to protect his home" from this stubborn, feisty opponent. But man, once the gloves come off, his...
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Harlequin
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Harlequin Presents – October 2021 – Box Set 1 of 2
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Harlequin Presents – October 2021 – Box Set 1 of 2
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Harlequin Presents brings you four full-length stories in one collection! Experience the glamorous lives of royals and billionaires, where passion knows no bounds. Be swept into a world of luxury, wealth and exotic locations.
This box set includes:
HER BEST KEPT ROYAL SECRET (An Heirs for Royal Brothers novel)
by USA TODAY bestselling...
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Harlequin
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Harlequin Presents brings you four full-length stories in one collection! Experience the glamorous lives of royals and billionaires, where passion knows no bounds. Be swept into a world of luxury, wealth and exotic locations.
This box set includes:
A BRIDE FOR THE LOST KING (An Heirs of Liri novel)
by New York Times bestselling author Maisey Yates
After years presumed dead, Lazarus must claim the throne he’s been denied. But to enact his royal...
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Harlequin
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Harlequin Presents – October 2021 – Box Set 2 of 2
Title:
Harlequin Presents – October 2021 – Box Set 2 of 2
BCC
Harlequin Presents brings you four full-length stories in one collection! Experience the glamorous lives of royals and billionaires, where passion knows no bounds. Be swept into a world of luxury, wealth and exotic locations.
This box set includes:
CROWNED FOR HIS DESERT TWINS
by Clare Connelly
To become king, Sheikh Khalil must...
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Harlequin
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Harlequin Presents brings you four full-length stories in one collection! Experience the glamorous lives of royals and billionaires, where passion knows no bounds. Be swept into a world of luxury, wealth and exotic locations.
This box set includes:
MARRIED FOR ONE REASON ONLY (A Secret Sisters novel)
by USA TODAY bestselling author Dani Collins
A few stolen hours with billionaire Vijay leaves Oriel with a lifechanging surprise – a baby! He demands...
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"The immense talent, passion and literary brilliance that Conan Doyle brought to his work gives him a unique place in English letters."-Stephen Fry
"Doyle's modesty of language conceals a profound tolerance of the human complexity"-John Le Carré
"Holmes has a timeless talent, passion and literary brilliance that puts him heads, shoulders and deerstalker above all other detectives."- Alexander McCall Smith
Arthur Conan Doyle's The Memoirs...
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Carina Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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Three heist-romance novellas that will steal your heart and make your pulse race ... Hoodwinked Hearts by Ainslie Paton Ten years ago, master thief Cleve Jones risked his freedom to fall in love with a dangerously sexy professor's daughter only to watch her disappear. Now Vegas hustler Aria Harp is back-and she's snatched the famous diamond Cleve's been casing. Aria's too smart to let Cleve break her heart, but he'll do anything to keep her safe....
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Diversion Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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Short stories by a pioneering female author who went on to become a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. This anthology includes some of C.L. Moore's best-known and most beloved tales, including: Shambleau: First published in Weird Tales , Moore's bizarre, imaginative, and wildly acclaimed debut features space outlaw Northwest Smith and his meeting on Mars with a strange young lady whose turban hides a terrifying secret ... Black...
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Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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A collection of nineteen short stories from the Nebula and Hugo Award–winning author of The Iron Dragon's Daughter and Stations of the Tide Written over the course of a decade, Tales from Old Earth contains nineteen masterful pieces of short fiction-including the Hugo Award–winning stories "The Very Pulse of the Machine" and "Scherzo with Tyrannosaur;" the World Fantasy Award–winning novella "Radio Waves;" Hugo Award finalists "The Dead,"...
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