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Winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novelette
Finalist for the Hugo, Locus, Shirley Jackson, and Sturgeon Awards
The Only Harmless Great Thing is a heart-wrenching alternative history by Brooke Bolander that imagines an intersection between the Radium Girls and noble, sentient elephants.
In the early years of the 20th century, a group of female factory workers in Newark, New Jersey slowly died of radiation poisoning. Around the same time, an...
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An odyssey wrapped in a love story, set in a near-future of artificial people
The Sisters Sputnik are a time-traveling trio of storytellers-for-hire, who are much in demand throughout the multiverse of 2,052 alternate worlds. Each world was created by the detonation of a nuclear bomb in Earth Standard Time, home of the Sisters' leader, aging comic book creator Debbie Reynolds Biondi, her 20-something apprentice Unicorn Girl, and their pop culture—loving...
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May, 1970. After a one-month launch delay, Apollo 13 lands in the Fra Mauro Highlands of the moon-and then the trouble starts.
The first in a series of what-if stories from the golden age of space exploration, Zero Phase was written based on meticulous research, and with assistance from two Apollo astronauts: Dr. Edgar Mitchell, who visited the Fra Mauro Highlands-and Captain Jim Lovell, who was supposed to. Dramatic, detailed, and finely written,...
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A quick-witted Irish safecracker juggles alchemy and automatons in the action-packed follow-up to the nineteenth-century United States steampunk adventure, King of the Cracksmen.
Liam McCool, the premier safecracker in 1877 New York, isn't the type to hang around fairy circles on the Celtic day of the dead. But an invitation from his Gram leaves the "King of the Cracksmen" possessed by the spirit of Finn McCool, the great hunter-warrior of ancient...
1205) Night of the Fallen
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Isabelle's mission seemed so clear: kill the king of the vampires to give humanity a fighting chance. Except she didn't count on falling in love with him. And she didn't realize he held secrets that could actually end up saving the human race.As the kingdom falls and Isabelle's heart is torn between two worlds, everything changes. There's something more dangerous out there, a plague that might destroy both humans and vampires alike. The only way to...
1206) The Texas Front: Salient
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The Martian invaders have overrun the American heartland. Between the Mississippi and the Rockies, only Texas holds out, written off by the high command in Washington, and with revolution brewing in Mexico. Texas has become the Martians' new target. Across the Lone Star State, soldiers, Rangers, and civilians alike prepare to repel the next attack, outmatched and outgunned – yet undaunted. Governor Colquitt and General Funston plan to build their...
1207) Sharpe's Christmas
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A Richard Sharpe short story, featuring scenes of action and adventure at Christmas.
'You'll like Irati,' Colonel Hogan said. 'It's a nothing place, Richard. Hovels and misery, that's all it is and all it ever will be, but that's where you're going for Christmas.'
Sharpe was sent to Irati because maybe the French were going there. The garrison planned to march at Christmas in the hope that their enemies would be too bloated with beef and wine to fight,...
1208) The Ghostly Tower
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Meet Heyward and Andersen, consulting detectives in a paranormal London you never imagined... Elspeth Heyward has never met a puzzle she didn't want to solve, or an adventure she didn't relish. Taking Sherlock Homes as her benchmark, she is determined to be the best detective and monster hunter in London.Lars Andersen's ambitions aren't nearly as demanding. He just wants to stay alive, out of trouble, and out of jail. But when your partner likes guns...
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When times are dark, fiction can whisk us away to other worlds to find new friends and have fantastical adventures. This collection of short fantasy, steampunk and fairytale fiction was created to entertain those in isolation or quarantine, or anyone needing to escape the worries of the world for a while.Stay safe.Quarantine Reads contains seven short stories of a lighter note, to inspire and transport you beyond four walls.
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An offbeat odyssey into the freezing heart of the modern Northlands, The Scandinavian Aggressors chronicles Rowdy Geirsson's tireless quest to uncover the secret history of the early 21st century's resurgence of authentic viking activity known as the Modern Viking Movement.
Along the way he meets modern viking luminaries such as Trond "Troll-Breath" Trondsen, who successfully raided a historic monastery's gift shop in England, Björn Svensson, who...
1211) Jamie
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He never wanted to become a vampire hunter...
Dr. Jamie Joplin has always had a fear of the dark and the creatures that crawl forth from the shadows after the sun goes down. His parents speak of immortal beings capable of destroying vampires, but Jamie decides at an early age, that is not the life for him. He's perfectly content to stay a human surgeon, fixing human afflictions.
When his sister is seriously injured pursuing a vampire, Jamie is the...
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Papou, un chat affectueux au centre des préoccupations de ses maitres et parents, nous raconte son histoire touchante.
Pour que l'hommage que je souhaitais rendre à ce chat Papou, désiré et aimé, soit à la hauteur de ce qu'il représentait, je lui ai laissé la parole.
Il vous raconte sa vie, un récit authentique comme en témoignent les nombreuses photos.
Amoureux des poilus ou pas, vous devriez être séduit par ce portrait aussi drle...
1213) Queen of the North
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1399: England's crown is under threat. King Richard II holds onto his power by an ever-weakening thread, with exiled Henry of Lancaster back to reclaim his place on the throne.
For Elizabeth Mortimer, there is only one rightful King - her eight-year-old nephew, Edmund. Only he can guarantee her fortunes, and protect her family's rule over the precious Northern lands bordering Scotland.
But many, including Elizabeth's husband, do not want another...
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Christian Alvarez nous plonge dans les dernières années de la vie de la célèbre chanteuse d'opéra.
Maria évoque librement les dernières années de la vie romanesque et tragique de la cantatrice Maria Malibran. Pourtant, l'opéra et la musique ne sont que le contexte particulier du destin d'une femme exceptionnelle.
Ce que l'histoire de Maria met en évidence, c'est la relation, obsessionnelle et destructrice, d'une artiste avec sa vie et son...
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The series that brings dragons and witches together in the underground beneath a war-torn beach town in Texas continues.
Dragon Arisen
Between a rock and a hard place… and two dragon shifters.
Lily's betrothed to one dragon shifter, and in love with another…
Cade's chosen to dedicate his life to fighting heinous monstrous enemies in the Aboveground, but his heart has never been able to leave Lily behind.
When news of the battles and causes...
1216) Orthogonal Procedures
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Everything you are about to read is true. Mostly. After US Postmaster Franklin D. Roosevelt showed the Nazis who was boss in 1942, the Postal Bureau-part of the Department of Transportation-ushered in an era of scientific marvels: simulcast via satellite, sub-orbital transnational flights, dazzle pistols, and electromagnetic driverless cars. However, long-simmering feuds between the Shamans of Commerce and the Wizards of Technology were not forgotten,...
1217) Stealing the Scream
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In 2004, masked thieves stole Edvard Munch's The Scream from an Oslo museum. Norwegian police recovered the painting two years later but never explained how or where they'd found it. This 70,000-word literary-leaning, humor-laced, crime novel Stealing The Scream tells what may have happened.
Retired CEO-turned-painter Percival Davenport's criminality starts when, fueled by insecurity, he hires a whiskey-drinking thief to break into museums and hang...
1218) Mask Pretty
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Ever since the UFO crash landing at Roswell brought the alien Trevi to Hollywood and made him a movie star, it's been hell for fixer Rik Vale. Bribes, threats, you name it. Anything to keep Trevi out of trouble. But Trevi is forced to live behind a mask, forced to live in loneliness, nowhere he can go. Grieving for the loss of his wife, Rick understands the loneliness. Tries to help. A startling revelation will change both their lives forever. A heart-warming...
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Trapped in an alternative universe where New England is at war, two young boys must find their way home. But first, they must help New England win the war. Larry Barnes has made a spectacular discovery-an invisible portal to a parallel universe, where Burger King is Burger Queen, cell phones are huge, and his hometown doesn't look anything like the place where he lives. When Larry returns, he tells his best friend, Kevin, who convinces him to re-enter...
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Des secrets d'État dévoilés par un ancien mercenaire. Gabriel Flamet découvre une part bien sombre des dirigeants du pays...
À Vannes, Gabriel Flamet découvre un milieu inconnu, entend des secrets d'État inimaginables en lien avec la fameuse «Françafrique». Jusqu'à l'ultime confidence de son surprenant client, la plus inattendue. La plus terrible aussi. Un mercenaire chevronné, qui a appartenu au «1er choc» du fameux «colonel» Bob...
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