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The Mask of Red Death
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Harold Schechter |
Suspense, intrigue, atmosphere, and vivid historical detail combine into a thrilling ride through nineteenth-century New York City in The Mask of Red Death. Harold Schechter delivers both a wonderful… |
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Courtship rite
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Donald Kingsbury |
From back cover Timescape paperback September 1983:
On the planet Geta, the only food is man. And one powerful family, the maran-Kaiel, must make an ambitious marriage with a beautiful, heretical… |
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Island of the Pelegostos
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Erin Stein |
"When Will Turner goes looking for Captain Jack Sparrow on a remote island, he has no idea what -- or who -- lies in wait. Can the ever-crafty Jack escape certain death yet again?"--Cover back. |
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Miracle in the Andes
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Nando Parrado |
A survivor of the horrific 1972 plane crash that stranded his rugby team in the Andes for seventy-two days provides his account of the ordeal and of his desperate expedition across seventy miles of f… |
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Sudden Impact Airquest Adventures
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Jerry B. Jenkins |
Pulse-pounding suspense and nonstop action, the twists keep coming. Air Force duty frequently takes Chad and Kate's pilot father far away, but their lives change completely when a car accident takes … |
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A nameless witch
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A. Lee Martinez |
Hiding her inherent beauty while hunting for men to consume, an immortal witch enters a reluctant partnership with the pure-hearted White Knight in order to counter the efforts of an insane sorcerer … |
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Savage harvest
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Hoffman, Carl |
Retracing Rockefeller's steps, journalist Carl Hoffman traveled to the jungles of New Guinea to solve a decades-old mystery and illuminate a culture transformed by years of colonial rule.
The myster… |
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Tales of the Peculiar
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Ransom Riggs |
Presents an illustrated edition of the fantastical book featured in the Miss Peregrine series that includes unusual fairy tales about wealthy cannibals, a fork-tongued princess, and the origins of th… |
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Anthropophagy
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Darling, Charles W. |
Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. |
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Season to taste
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Natalie Young |
Always let the meat rest under foil for at least ten minutes before carving ... Meet Lizzie Prain. Ordinary housewife. Fifty-something. Lives in a cottage in the woods, with her dog Rita. Likes cooki… |
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Cuentos extraños para niños peculiares
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Ransom Riggs |
Presents an illustrated edition of the fantastical book featured in the Miss Peregrine series that includes unusual fairy tales about wealthy cannibals, a fork-tongued princess, and the origins of th… |
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On the bone
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Barbara Nadel |
In Istanbul - the golden city on the Bosphorus - ancient myths and modern evils are at work. On a buzzing street in the fashionable district of Beyoglu, a young man drops dead. Ümit Kavas's death was… |
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Natalya's tale
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Mishka Zakharin |
"Who amongst us (if of an age) hasn't faced that daunting dilemma: the inevitability of turning 30?! And so then, in dire frustration over all that life is not, lapsed into another dimension of myth … |
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Crow Killer
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Raymond W. Thorp,Robert Bunker |
The true story (on which the film Jeremiah Johnson was partially based) of John Johnson, who in 1847 found his wife and her unborn child had been killed by Crow braves. Out of this tragedy came one o… |
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Nightwood
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Patricia Windsor |
The lives of eleven teenagers intertwine and turn nightmarish as they flee from a hideous monster. |
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Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España
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Bernal Díaz del Castillo |
A follower of Hernando Cortez describes how a small group of Spaniards was able to defeat the mighty Aztecs and lay claim to their territory and treasures for Spain. |
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History of the Donner party
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Charles Fayette McGlashan |
"The delirium preceding death by starvation is full of strange phantasies." |
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Lone Survivor
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Ken Hodgson |
Ken Hodgson, an authentic, powerfully original voice in Western fiction, returns with the most notorious story in the annals of the frontier… In 1873, Alferd Packer led 21 men from Utah to the gold f… |
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Cannibal
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Lois Jones |
The true story of the maneater of Rotenburg--and his willing victimGerman native Armin Meiwes killed and ate a man who answered his ad on a cannibal website. Now, Cannibal discloses for the first tim… |
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The collectors of lost souls
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Warwick Anderson |
This account of medical detective work traces the story of kuru, a fatal brain disease, and the pioneering scientists who spent decades searching for its cause. |
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