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Before I Wake is a thriller fan's dream, a rich, resonant collection that reminds us, once again, of its author's enduring and unmistakable importance. This is popular fiction as it should be written. It doesn't get better than this. Before I Wake shows us Morrell at the top of his game. Each of the stories gathered here is a compelling, beautifully crafted gem. Each is the clear product of a world-class storyteller. There are fourteen stories included...
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Cuatro alumnos ingleses encuentran, en la parte posteriora de un guardarropa, un pasaje secreto que da a la tierra mágica de Narnia; ahí ayudan a Aslan, el león dorado, a triunfar sobre la Bruja Blanca, que ha maldecido la tierra con invierno eterno. Four English schoolchildren find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist Aslan, the golden lion, to triumph over the White Witch, who has cursed the land with...
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— Mega-Sale as part of Book 5 launch —"...intriguing contraptions, appealing characters, snide villains, humor, and an exciting story." — Kirkus ReviewsIn a world where our nursery rhymes and fairy tales are real, a secret society's influence is crumbling. The Tub, led for decades by a butcher, a baker, and a candle-stick-maker, is no longer able to protect its allies like master inventor Nikolas Klaus.Rumors of a revolutionary invention...
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"Boy!" said Ralph to himself, his whiskers quivering with excitement. "Boy, oh boy!" Feeling that this was an important moment in his life, he took hold of the handgrips. They felt good and solid beneath his paws. Yes, this motorcycle was a good machine all right.
Ralph the mouse ventures out from behind the piney knothole in the wall of his hotel-room home, scrambles up the telephone wire to the end table, and climbs aboard
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El joven y humilde Aladino es engañado por un mago para apoderarse de un valioso y mágico objeto, pero eso será solo el comienzo de esta historia repleta de aventuras y fantasía que transcurre en una ciudad de China.
Aladino es una fábula deslumbrante, que emociona y deja una enseñanza acerca de los valores humanos.
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With Mr. Dashwood's death, his wife and two daughters, Elinor and Marianne, must accustom themselves to genteel poverty. When Marianne meets the man of her dreams, everyone expects a marriage; unaccountably, he rejects her, with devastating effect. It falls to Elinor, the sensible elder sister, to pick up the pieces, while harboring a secret longing of her own. In Sense and Sensibility, the warmth between two very different sisters contrasts with...
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December 1943. In the years before the rise of Hitler, the Gerber family's summer cottage was filled with laughter. Now, as deep drifts of snow blanket the Black Forest, German dissenter Franka Gerber is alone and hopeless. Fervor and brutality have swept through her homeland, taking away both her father and her brother and leaving her with no reason to live. That is, until she discovers an unconscious airman lying in the snow wearing a Luftwaffe...
14) Dracula
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Dracula, by Bram Stoker, one of literature's most beloved and frightening stories, is now available in a fine exclusive collector's edition featuring a laser-cut jacket on a textured book with foil stamping, making it ideal for fiction lovers and book collectors alike. Young lawyer Jonathan Harker journeys to Transylvania to meet with the mysterious Count Dracula only to discover that his nobleman client is a vampire who is thirsty for new blood....
15) Deadly communion
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A sexual predator is at large on the streets of Imperial Vienna. The killer is no ordinary 'lust murderer' but an entirely new phenomenon, his deviance revealing the darker preoccupations of the age. Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt appeals to his friend, psychoanalyst Dr Max Liebermann, for assistance.
17) Buy a whisker
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"Things have been quiet in the coastal town of North Harbor, Maine, since Sarah Grayson and her rescue cat, Elvis, solved their first murder. Sarah is happy running Second Chance, the shop where she sells lovingly refurbished and repurposed items. But then she gets dragged into a controversy over developing the waterfront. Most of the residents--including Sarah--are for it, but there is one holdout- baker Lily Carter. So when Lily is found murdered...
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