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Vathek (1786) is a novel by William Beckford. Inspired by his travels, Beckford wrote Vathek in French before supervising its translation into English by Reverend Samuel Henley. Recognized as an instrumental work in the popularization of Orientalist fiction, Vathek is an early Gothic novel that influenced such writers as Edgar Allan Poe, Lord Byron, Robert Southey, and H. P. Lovecraft. Born into a royal family, Vathek is appointed the ninth caliph...
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A boy born with faerie sight.A journey into the world of the dead.A place darker than anything he could have imagined and filled with creatures that make the fey above ground seem like things from children's tales.This is the story of Makin Riley, a curious boy, whose obsession with faeries and monsters leads him to a cemetery that holds the doorway to the world of the dead. After being spotted by one of the reapers that travels between the worlds,...
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Hiro Sheuri lives a semi-comfortable life in the middle of a forest inhabited by territorial Jinns, except for the minor annoyance of being possessed by a Vampire Spirit. He has an easy job, cleaning up after the creatures of the Secret World run riot in human cities. He must hide the existence of demons but they have started obliterating whole cities. His life becomes unwelcomingly interesting when he is attacked on what was supposed to be a straightforward...
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Arinmalia is better than the rest of the Wild Elves and she knows it.
Arinmalia is better than the rest of the Wild Elves and she knows it.Arinmalia is better than the rest of the Wild Elves and she knows it.Too bad she seems to be the only one...
Too bad she seems to be the only one...But her tribe has other things to worry about Ralvaniar remains a dark, dangerous place, threatened by blood-drinking demons and other monsters.
But her tribe has...
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All that has been, will be again.
Brant, Warrior of the Sunset People. Sworn to protect.
Skala, Wise One of the Sunset People. Sworn to wait, watch, and guide.
Two elderly companions face the return of a menace from before the time of stories.
This time, only Brant stands between the shadows and the Light.
Can strength and loyalty prevail against primordial hate?
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People send their dreams and wishes floating down the Mae Ping River with the hope that those dreams will be captured, read and come true. It is a surprise what some wish for and why. One can never know what's inside someone's heart - what they really truly want, and those dreams sometimes reveal our true selves.
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Navvy Dypes is twenty-seven years old and lives at the bottom of a swimming pool in Palm Springs, California. By an "act of will," he has changed himself into a fish-complete with gills and scales-much to the chagrin of his father, who devises an insidious cure for his son's affliction. But Navvy is determined to retain his new identity, for it is only in the water that his consciousness expands beyond the limits of the human sensibility. A trip to...
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Callum McAllister is not a bad guy. Not really. He doesn't want to evict the nice old lady who lived on his property for the last forty years. But, he has to. Trust me. He can't explain his reasons because they involve things like Werewolves. And, now everyone in town seems to hate him. Especially the beautiful young baker, who under any other circumstances, would be his kind of girl. Except now that's never gonna happen because that 'nice old lady'...
30) Interlude
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INTERLUDE is a collection of short stories from the TRANQUILITY series. These stories are intended for those who have read the previous books and contains huge spoilers for both Blaze and Grief.
Love Notes is about Bethany and Arrago's first month working together.
Knight's Day Off is about poor Bethany taking a day off work. Things don't go according to plan. At all.
First Day on the Job is set after the events of GRIEF and is set about a week...
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Stories about mortals travelling into hell have been omnipresent in our literary canon for almost as long as weve had one, but young writer Su-Yee Lin has still managed to find modern resonance and new territory to explore in this lyrical and evocative vision of a trip to a place that is never quite what we expect it to be.
33) Death Betrays
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After destroying a horde of fledgling vampires with the help of her friends and allies, Natalie Pierce's hunt still isn't over. Her enemy has fled to parts unknown and will shortly begin to build a new army. The ancient vampire's ultimate goal is to turn the entire human race into his cattle. Nat and her friends aren't alone in their hunt. They have managed to forge a fragile alliance between the Japanese and European vampire nations, as well as with...
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A Speaking Demon infects a wealthy young man who would have been fed to a fire if his family was no will to pay a great deal to any sorcerer who will battle the demon. Amelina, the sorceress and Lanzo the student of many types of magic will attempt to do what has cost those who came before them their lives. In this battle one will learn of their part to play in fall of empires and the freeing of a creature that could devour countless lives. Whispers...
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Once a power reveals itself...there is no turning back.
Through a chance encounter at a biodiversity conference in Chicago, biologist Ethan Broughton is invited to investigate a potent medicinal plant and a rumor of curative miracles on Porringer Hill in East Tennessee. What he finds is an isolated community of disturbing superstition centered on a strangely compelling young woman possessed of a mysterious ability to heal all wounds.
Ethan believes...
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Way out west, where the wild wind blows, A young woman has been told it's time for her to go out and make her way inthe world. When Megan finds Tony D'ags, a Righteous Man whose job is to protect and champion plain folk when they seek justice in the Empire, she doesn't know just what she's gotten herself into. Her mentor seems like such a simple man, and his crew a funny collection of misfits brought together from all corners of the world.
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37) The Black Lily
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Courtesan. Spy. Assassin. Across the Kingdom of Arestea, the shadowy league of professional killers known simply as the Guild has long since earned its terrifying reputation. And none of its current members are more infamous than the Black Lily. No one knows who the Lily is, but everyone recognizes the efficiency with which he or she brings down even the most guarded targets. There is no one, it is said, who is safe from this fiend once they have...
38) Soul Guardian
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In an ever-increasingly evil world, vampires have invaded the human race and are growing at a rapid rate. To the naked eye, they cannot be detected until it is too late. Humanity on its own is helpless to fight back. Their only chance lies in the hands of a six-thousand-year-old man and his rookie Apprentice who had accidentally bumped into him at an airport. They are known as Soul Guardians.
These vampires, known as sangtiel, are desperate to...
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The Night Soil Salvagers no longer need to perform the service they have provided for longer than memory can account for. Instead, they pass the nights in playful and profound acts of artistry, music, trickery, gardening, and honoring the city they know and belong to more so than anyone.
Uncover the heart of this mysterious community through the tales they tell each other, the tales that others tell of them, and the scores of their Dadaesque nocturnes,...
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"The Language of Knives" by Haralambi Markov is about the death rituals of this secondary world. A strong-willed daughter is guided by her unloved parent in the customs of how to respect the remains of her favorite parent.
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