The Compendium of F, Volume One


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This first volume collects all the stories F. Paul Wilson published in the Seventies and Eighties. Presented in chronological order with introductory notes by the author, this is a monumental and historical document as well as well as a wonderful celebration a staggeringly impressive career by one of our best. Included in this collection: The Cleansing Machine Ratman Higher Centers The Man with the Anteater He Shall Be John Lipidleggin' To Fill the Sea and Air Demonstrong Be Fruitful and Multiply Soft The Last 'One Mo' Once Golden Oldies Revival Dat-Tay-Vao Traps The Years the Music Died Ménage à Trois Doc Johnson Cuts Muscles Feelings Tenants Faces The Tenth Toe (or: The Beginning of My End) Buckets




The Tomb


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The Tomb kicks off the Repairman Jack series that Stephen King calls "one of the best all-out adventure stories I've read in years." Much to the chagrin of his girlfriend, Gia, Repairman Jack doesn't deal with appliances. He fixes situations—situations that too often land him in deadly danger. His latest fix is finding a stolen necklace which, unknown to him, is more than a simple piece of jewelry. Some might say it's cursed, others might call it blessed. The quest leads Jack to a rusty freighter on Manhattan's West Side docks. What he finds in its hold threatens his sanity and the city around him. But worst of all, it threatens Gia's daughter Vicky, the last surviving member of a bloodline marked for extinction. "One of the all-time great characters in one of the all-time great series." --Lee Child At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.




The Compendium of F, Volume Two


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This second volume collects all the stories F. Paul Wilson published in the Nineties. Presented in chronological order with introductory notes by the author, this is a monumental and historical document as well as well as a wonderful celebration a staggeringly impressive career by one of our best. Included in this collection: A Day in the Life Pelts The Barrens Rumors Topsy Please Don't Hurt Me Foet Bob Dylan, Troy Jonson, and the Speed Queen The Long Way Home When He Was Fab Itsy Bitsy Spider (the answer) Offshore Aryans and Absinthe Lysing Toward Bethlehem Night Dive Aftershock




The Compendium of F, Volume Three


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This third volume collects all the stories F. Paul Wilson published from 2000 to 2020. Presented in chronological order with introductory notes by the author, this is a monumental and historical document as well as well as a wonderful celebration a staggeringly impressive career by one of our best. Included in this collection: Anna Performance Sole Custody The Tapework Letters Hunters Interlude at Duane's Do-Gooder The Sound of Blunder Piney Power Prankters Renascence The Compendium of Srem Secret Ingredient The Long and the Short of It To the Lonely Sea and the Sky Ellie The Last Bonneville




Soft and Others


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Presents a collection of horror short stories, among them "Soft," "Green Winter," and "The Cleaning Machine"




Dead Harvest


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Meet Sam Thornton, Collector of Souls. Sam’s job is to collect the souls of the damned, and ensure their souls are dispatched to the appropriate destination. But when he’s dispatched to collect the soul of a young woman he believes to be innocent of the horrific crime that’s doomed her to Hell, he says something no Collector has ever said before. “No.” File Under: Urban Fantasy [ Souled Out | Damned If You Don’t | Collector Mania | On The Run ] e-book ISBN: 978-0-85766-219-4 From the Paperback edition.




Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, Volume One


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"The most remarkable, and in many respects the most valuable collection of Elizabethan keyboard music." — Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Here is Volume One of the famous early 17th-century collection of keyboard music. Features 300 airs, variations, fantasies, toccatas, and more by Morley, Byrd, Bull, Gibbons, and others. Modern notation.




A History of the Book in America: Volume 1, The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World


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Volume 1 of A History of the Book in America, The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World, encompasses the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It is organized around three major themes: the persisting colonial relationship between European settlements and the Old World; the gradual emergence of a pluralistic book trade that differentiated printers from booksellers; and the transition from a 'culture of the Word', organized around an understanding of print as a vehicle of the sacred, to the culture of republicanism, epitomized by Benjamin Franklin, and culminating in the uses of print during the Revolutionary era. The volume will also describe nascent forms of literary and learned culture (including the circulation of manuscripts), literacy and censorship, orality, and the efforts by Europeans to introduce written literary to Native Americans and African Americans.




The F. Scott Fitzgerald Collection Volume One


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Four unforgettable works by the author of The Great Gatsby—one of the greatest writers of America’s Lost Generation. This Side of Paradise: Amory Blain experiences a childhood of worldly sophistication before a medical condition forces him to face reality. From prep school and Princeton University to the horrors of World War I, Blaine searches for his place in the world—a quest that personifies the struggles of his generation. The Beautiful and the Damned: The presumptive heir to an enormous fortune, Anthony Patch is a bon vivant of New York society. He and his wife, Gloria, live a life of extravagant pleasure until Anthony’s inheritance disappears and the Great War breaks out, sending their glittering marriage on a disastrous downward spiral. Flappers and Philosophers: This collection of short stories includes the Jazz Age classic “Bernice Bobs Her Hair,” in which an awkward young woman is transformed into a popular beauty by her jealous cousin. Other gems include “The Ice Palace,” “The Cut-Glass Bowl,” and “The Offshore Pirate.” Tales of the Jazz Age: This short story collection includes “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” the classic tale of a man who ages backwards, as well as “May Day,” “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz,” and many others.




The Gretsch Electric Guitar Book


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Gretsch electric guitars have a style all their own – a glitzy, wacky, retro charm that over the years has drawn players from all kinds of popular music, from timeless stars to unknown teens. The Beatles, Chet Atkins, Duane Eddy, and Brian Setzer all made their mark with Gretsch, and new bands continually discover and fall in love with the Falcons, Gents, 6120s, Jets, and the rest. The Gretsch Electric Guitar Book comes right up to the present, including Gretsch's alliance to the powerful Fender company, a move that has done wonders for the reliability and playability of the modern Gretsch axe. Every great model is here, but the book also tells the story of the lesser-known guitars and the projects that almost never happened. There are archival and fresh interviews with Gretsch personnel over the years and with many leading Gretsch players, including Chet Atkins, Billy Duffy, Duane Eddy, and Brian Setzer. In the tradition of Tony Bacon's best-selling series of guitar books, his updated and revised story of Gretsch is three great volumes in one: a compendium of luscious pictures of the coolest guitars; a gripping story from early exploits to the most recent developments; and a detailed collector's guide to every production electric Gretsch model ever made.