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Featured in the Netflix series Love, Death & Robots
Bestselling author Ken Liu selects his multiple award-winning stories for a groundbreaking collection—including a brand-new piece exclusive to this volume.
With his debut novel, The Grace of Kings, taking the literary world by storm, Ken Liu now shares his finest short fiction in The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories. This mesmerizing collection features...
Bestselling author Ken Liu selects his multiple award-winning stories for a groundbreaking collection—including a brand-new piece exclusive to this volume.
With his debut novel, The Grace of Kings, taking the literary world by storm, Ken Liu now shares his finest short fiction in The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories. This mesmerizing collection features...
20842) The Elves of Cintra
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With his groundbreaking New York Times bestseller The Sword of Shannara and its acclaimed sequels, Terry Brooks brought a new audience to epic fantasy. Now that story of clashing forces of darkness and light, of Shannara’s beginnings and the human race’s possible end, marches forward into an unforgettable second volume full of mystery, magic, and momentous events.
Across the ruined landscape that is America—hopelessly...
Across the ruined landscape that is America—hopelessly...
20843) Allan Quatermain
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Allan Quatermain series volume 2
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English
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After the tragic death of his son, Allan Quatermain's grief is inconsolable. Feeling that the only possible way to ease his pain is through an expedition, Quatermain seeks out Captain Good, Sir Henry Curtis, and the Zulu chief Umslopogaas, who all previously journeyed with him to King Solomon's Mine. After explaining his predicament, Quatermain persuades them to accompany him on one last journey-a search mission to find a lost city. Together they...
20844) Arena One: Slaverunners
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MorganRice
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English
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"Shades of THE HUNGER GAMES permeate a story centered around two courageous teens determined to buck all odds in an effort to regain their loved ones. But the true strength in any story lies not so much in its setting and events as in how the characters come across, come alive, and handle their lives—and it's here that ARENA ONE begins to diverge from the predictable and enters the more compelling realms of believability and strength....ARENA
...20845) Star Born
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Duke Classics
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English
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Dalgard Nordis, with his knife brother Sssuri, has gone on his man-journey. Three generations after his people came to Astra he has set out to explore the ruins of a city that once belonged to Those Others, thereby extending the Colony's map of this world and in the process demonstrating his suitability to sit on the Council of Free Men. In telepathic contact with the local fauna, Sssuri senses danger and the sight of a flaming object crossing the...
20846) Crosstalk: A Novel
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2016
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English
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Science fiction icon Connie Willis brilliantly mixes a speculative plot, the wit of Nora Ephron, and the comedic flair of P. G. Wodehouse in Crosstalk—a genre-bending novel that pushes social media, smartphone technology, and twenty-four-hour availability to hilarious and chilling extremes as one young woman abruptly finds herself with way more connectivity than she ever desired.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY...
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY...
20847) Dragon's Breath
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Tales of the Frog Princess volume 2
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English
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The hilarious and adventurous sequel to E. D. Baker's beloved The Frog Princess, which was the inspiration for Disney's The Princess and the Frog.
Emma and Eadric have no sooner turned back into humans (from being frogs) than Emma's mother is in a panic, Aunt Grassina is distracted because she's found her true love turned into an otter, and Emma's magic is so out of control she sends herself to the dungeon by mistake. The...
Emma and Eadric have no sooner turned back into humans (from being frogs) than Emma's mother is in a panic, Aunt Grassina is distracted because she's found her true love turned into an otter, and Emma's magic is so out of control she sends herself to the dungeon by mistake. The...
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Daredevil volume 319
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English
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It's the epic saga that reintroduced Elektra to the Marvel Universe! The Hand ninja clan unleashes a super-virus on New York, and only Daredevil can stop them - but not without some unexpected help from a long-lost love and a new, armored costume! Can the Man Without Fear come to terms with his past with Elektra in time to halt the Hand's terror plot, even if it means the end of his secret identity? And when Baron Strucker assembles a team of cyber-terrorists...
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Superb volume 1
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English
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After the Earth survived annihilation from an asteroid which was destroyed by a group of heroic astronauts, the resultant meteor shower turned Youngstown, Ohio, into a Level 5 impact zone. After a Columbine-like incident in which a superpowered teenager exploded and killed other youngsters, the Foresight Corporation took over Youngstown to find and regulate any other teenagers with emerging powers. Kayla Tate has returned to Youngstown because her...
20850) Vall's Will
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English
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A Nion warrior never kills. Never. But this time, she may have to destroy the man she loves.
They found him chained in the depths of an enemy ship. Half-starved, beaten, and abused in more ways than anyone could ever imagine, the man still exhibited a strength of character that impressed his deliverers, including Captain Willis Tayte.
Something about this one, whom his captors called Vall, tugged at her heart. It was too bad she wouldn't have the...
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Français
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Comment le Méta-baron, cet impitoyable mercenaire que l'on a découvert dans l'Incal, est-il devenu le guerrier le plus puissant de la galaxie? C'est à cette question que répondent Jodorowsky et Gimenez en nous racontant, génération par génération, l'évolution d'une caste d'invincibles guerriers, ancêtres du Méta-Baron. Depuis des siècles, les Castaka exploitent seuls la planète Marmola, grâce au secret de l'épiphyte, une huile antigravitationnelle...
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Superb volume 11
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English
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Kayla has caused enough damage to take top spot on Foresight's Most Wanted list. She is being pursued, and has become a key member in an underground resistance movement for people with enhancements and has taken on a new role as a rebellious freedom fighter determined to bring down the evil of Foresight. The problem is that she doesn't know everything that is going on within the walls of the facility, and the bigger picture is something no one saw...
20853) A Twist in the Rift
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English
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If you could travel to different worlds, would you ever come back to this one?
Lyrica is the usual final year university student, except that she has the ability to see Rifts – portals to other worlds in this Universe. When her acquaintance Basil, a time-travelling archaeologist from the future shows up and needs her help, well, why would she resist the call of adventure? But what of these new aliens that have joined their group – will they draw...
20854) The Fallen Ronin
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We survived the destruction of our brothers in Canis Mayor, where both the Alpha and X Legions were laid to waste by Ahmurai. After my rescue by the special forces agent Captain Setzune and her android Rin, we have found a way to return to the Milky Way. I hope we make it back in time. Ahmurai has threatened to destroy humanity as a whole, and we must get there as soon as possible. My fear is we will not make it in time-perhaps never make it at all....
20855) Fatgirl: Episodes 7-10
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English
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FATGIRL: EPISODES 7-10 BOX SET (FATGIRL OMNIBUS COLLECTION #3)
You'll never look at doughnuts the same way again.
Kallie's come a long way from accidentally stuffing her face full of Abuela-Blancha's radioactive doughnuts.
Now, Kallie's actually almost confident she can handle anything -- even if it means standing up to her best frenemy, especially when Amory declares no one in their group of friends will have a date for the Spring Fling. Too bad...
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Star Wars Bounty Hunters volume 29
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English
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Bossk vs. Tanka! Forced to take on a job for Crimson Dawn, the bounty hunters clash with the Empire! But Valance has a mission of his own, one that will put everyone he cares about in danger! What is the dark secret that threatens them all? T'onga and her team find themselves in the crosshairs of an old ally, and Valance is out for revenge against Darth Vader! Can his fellow bounty hunters save him from a fatal confrontation? Will Vukorah survive...
20857) Daredevil Vs. Bullseye
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English
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The devil and the death-dealer. Enmity towards each other casts a shadow across the bodies of Matt Murdock's loved ones, all the way to the big screen. Now, see how the first target was drawn in this collection of the earliest battles between Bullseye, Marvel's deadliest assassin, and Daredevil, the Man Without Fear!
20858) Being Matt Murdock
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English
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You will never look at Daredevil the same way again! In fact, you may even start to look at your own world a bit differently too. Welcome aboard a genre-bending ride that combines an ambitious exploration of the science of the senses with a deep dive into the comic book and live-action adventures of the Marvel superhero Daredevil.
What could possibly allow someone to hear heartbeats? Is there something it is like to "radar-sense"? Is it true that...
20859) My Life Among Humans
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A nameless alien data compiler comes to Earth to study humans, setting up shop on the outskirts of a small desert community in North America. Working under forced labor, it must watch humans in complete secrecy while sending regular reports to its manager back home. Using spore-like technology to read the minds of his hosts, the alien quickly takes a special interest in Will, one of his early subjects. That interest proves to be a problem when the...
20860) The Barrington Job
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Charming debutante by day, elite computer slicer by night, Charity Devalas is out to make amends by shutting down a global gun-running cartel. But just as she's on the verge of succeeding and maybe ending her nightmares, disaster strikes.
Forced to flee with the mysterious mercenary Spectre, Charity must brave the darkness of the Barrington Free Zone, one of the world's worst megacities. Pursued by mercs, slicers, and bounty hunters of all stripes,...
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