Top of the World: Tales of Mystery, Suspense, and Adventure


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Seven stories of mystery, suspense, and adventure featuring a coin from the future, a post-apocalyptic nightmare, a soldier surrounded by ghosts, and a rock concert turned séance! Plus a clown war, a scientist who thinks he's found the way to Heaven, and the true meaning of love! Top Of The World – in the wake of a planet wide plague, three mountaineers decide to climb Mt. Everest. Their argument is simple: "Why should dreams die, just because the world did?" But first they must cross the Bering Sea, then continental Asia, before they face the mountain itself. Along the way are the infected, the mockeries of humanity that stand in their way and threaten to contaminate them. And if they do make it to the top of the world, the question remains: what then? What is left for them in a world where everything they've ever known has been lost? The Coin – When Richard Harding’s uncle dies he leaves his nephew his coin collection, complete with a brand new 2012 dime. The problem is the year is 1982, and as the decades fade away, Richard must determine the significance of the coin before 2012 arrives. Stay Off The East Side – For years the east side was home to hobos, hookers, and bums. But now that it’s become gentrified, all the little kiddies want clowns for their birthday parties. The problem? The east side belongs to the local clown union 1344, and the 1802 doesn’t like it. They want a piece, and they’re willing to fight to get it! Houdini – Journey back to the hair metal days of the ‘80s and follow the band Miracle Machine as it goes on tour to promote its self-titled album. They’re a band on the rise, and their top song tells the story of Harry Houdini himself. The best part of their show is when they try to summon him to the stage as part of a séance, and with thousands of eager fans chanting his name, will Houdini answer their call? Valentine’s Day – It’s a story as old as the Earth itself: boy meets girl, boy falls in love, girl doesn’t love boy back. That forces the boy to get his hands on a love potion, but isn’t there a saying about getting what you wish for? Everything Is Everything – Dr. Michael Webber is a physics professor at a small university when his wife and children are killed in a plane crash. He then uses his knowledge of quantum mechanics to try to answer two questions: is Heaven real, and can he find it if it is? Haunted – When Mark Doren returns home from Iraq with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, he takes the only job he can find, that of night watchman in a downtown office tower. Then he starts to see ghosts, and as he walks its halls at night, he becomes painfully aware that he is not alone…. These are the stories that await within the pages of Top of the World!




More Tall Tales, Fairy Tales, and Bedtime Stories (For Former Children)


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Written in a traditional storytelling style, More Tall Tales, Fairy Tales, and Bedtime Stories (For Former Children) is a storybook for readers who have grown up but who haven't grown old. It's a synthesis of old and new, aimed at adults who are nostalgic for the tales of their youth. Angels, demons, witches, and wizards are some of the characters found within this collection designed to appeal to the young at heart, but written for those old enough to drink.




Tall Tales, Fairy Tales, and Bedtime Stories (For Former Children)


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"These witty fantasy stories kept me turning pages, wondering what could possibly happen next. I also laughed out loud! Very entertaining." – R.L. Stine, author of the Goosebumps books What If...? A witch worked at the 7-11? You could speak to the dead using Zoom? Aliens were infiltrating Hollywood? Someone was secretly cleaning your house when you weren't there? Would You...? Ask her out on a date? Cash in? Put them in a movie? Let them? Tall Tales, Fairy Tales, and Bedtime Stories (For Former Children) is a storybook for adults who grew up on Harry Potter, Goosebumps, and Bone and are nostalgic for the tales of their youth. Written in a traditional storytelling style, the ten episodes within Tall Tales cover topic matter of interest to adults in a format reminiscent of their childhood stories. Tall Tales, Fairy Tales, and Bedtime Stories (For Former Children) is a synthesis of old and new, aimed at readers who have grown up but who haven't grown old. Adult sophistication combines with childhood wonder to entertain an audience with one foot in each world. Ghosts, graverobbers, aliens, astronauts, Devil's Advocates, and tooth fairies abound in the collection. (Contains mild language.)




Bedlam & Belfry, Intergalactic Attorneys at Law: The 3rd Dozen


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Bedlam & Belfry are back -- again! This time around the solicitors from 32 London Lane face conspiracies, scandals, and online dating apps as they ply their trade in the New London legal arena. Follow them from lower to higher court as they take on stakes that range from life and death to beyond! Contains the stories: Bedlam & Belfry Get Cursed Bedlam & Belfry Swipe Right Bedlam & Belfry Fight The Power and three squared more! Also! A flashback to their early days! A hint of romance! Questionable moral judgement and sizable monetary rewards! All the legal nonsense that fits between two covers, and it can be yours today! Don't delay!




Bedlam & Belfry, Intergalactic Attorneys at Law: The 2nd Dozen


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Bedlam & Belfry are back in a second dozen of stories that test the bounds of legality, morality, and sanity! Travel with them to far off planets, dingy London bars, and dignified courtrooms to watch them bring the law down to their level! See them enter (and exit) rehab, defend celebrity litigants, and employ dubious methods to win the day! Witness their ratings explode, their clients' ascent into infamy, and their own audacity! Plus! A return visit from the Devil! A surprise appearance by Merlin the Magician! And other notable personages not yet famous in our time! Bedlam & Belfry return to the legal scene with twelve more tales of legal chicanery! To miss it would be criminal!




Tear Me Apart


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The follow-up to her critically acclaimed Lie to Me, J.T. Ellison’s Tear Me Apart is the powerful story of a mother willing to do anything to protect her daughter even as their carefully constructed world unravels around them. One moment will change their lives forever… Competitive skier Mindy Wright is a superstar in the making until a spectacular downhill crash threatens not just her racing career but her life. During surgery, doctors discover she’s suffering from a severe form of leukemia, and a stem cell transplant is her only hope. But when her parents are tested, a frightening truth emerges. Mindy is not their daughter. Who knows the answers? The race to save Mindy’s life means unraveling years of lies. Was she accidentally switched at birth or is there something more sinister at play? The search for the truth will tear a family apart…and someone is going to deadly extremes to protect the family’s deepest secrets. With vivid movement through time, Tear Me Apart examines the impact layer after layer of lies and betrayal has on two families, the secrets they guard, and the desperate fight to hide the darkness within. Don’t miss It's One of Us, the next page-turning thriller from New York Times bestselling author J.T. Ellison!




Tales of Mystery & Suspense: 25+ Thrillers in One Edition


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This carefully edited collection of "Tales of Mystery & Suspense: 25+ Thrillers in One Edition” has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The Great Impersonation The Double Traitor The Black Box The Devil's Paw A Maker Of History The New Tenant The Cinema Murder The Box With Broken Seals The Yellow Crayon The Yellow House; Or As A Man Lives Mr. Marx's Secret The Great Secret Mysterious Mr. Sabin The World's Great Snare The Lost Ambassador Havoc The Lighted Way The Kingdom Of The Blind The Evil Shepherd The Great Prince Shan False Evidence The Betrayal Jeanne Of The Marshes The Vanished Messenger The Zeppelin's Passenger A Monk of Cruta The Traitor A Prince Of Sinners Anna The Adventuress The Master Mummer E. Phillips Oppenheim, the Prince of Storytellers (1866-1946) was an internationally renowned author of mystery and espionage thrillers. His novels and short stories have all the elements of blood-racing adventure and intrigue and are precursors of modern-day spy fictions.




Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, Vol 1


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Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, A Checklist, 1700-1974, Volume one of Two, contains an Author Index, Title Index, Series Index, Awards Index, and the Ace and Belmont Doubles Index.




Down the Mysterly River


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Top notch Boy Scout Max "the Wolf" cannot remember how he came to be in a strange forest, but soon he and three talking animals are on the run from the Blue Cutters, hunters who will alter the foursome's very essence if they can catch them.




Speaking from Among the Bones


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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From award-winning author Alan Bradley comes the next cozy British mystery starring intrepid young sleuth Flavia de Luce, hailed by USA Today as “one of the most remarkable creations in recent literature.” Eleven-year-old amateur detective and ardent chemist Flavia de Luce is used to digging up clues, whether they’re found among the potions in her laboratory or between the pages of her insufferable sisters’ diaries. What she is not accustomed to is digging up bodies. Upon the five-hundredth anniversary of St. Tancred’s death, the English hamlet of Bishop’s Lacey is busily preparing to open its patron saint’s tomb. Nobody is more excited to peek inside the crypt than Flavia, yet what she finds will halt the proceedings dead in their tracks: the body of Mr. Collicutt, the church organist, his face grotesquely and inexplicably masked. Who held a vendetta against Mr. Collicutt, and why would they hide him in such a sacred resting place? The irrepressible Flavia decides to find out. And what she unearths will prove there’s never such thing as an open-and-shut case. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Alan Bradley’s The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches. Acclaim for Speaking from Among the Bones “[Alan] Bradley scores another success. . . . This series is a grown-up version of Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys and all those mysteries you fell in love with as a child.”—The San Diego Union-Tribune “The precocious and irrepressible Flavia . . . continues to delight.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Fiendishly brilliant . . . Bradley has created an utterly charming cast of characters . . . as quirky as any British mystery fan could hope for.”—Bookreporter “Delightful and entertaining.”—San Jose Mercury News




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