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  For Your Eyes Only - A James...

  Ian Fleming

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  A STUNNING COLLECTION OF STORIES THAT SENDS BOND TO BERMUDA, THE BAHAMAS, AND BEYOND 
   “From a View to a Kill” whisks Bond to the French countryside where he must go undercover to expose a deadly secret-intelligence plot, and in “For Your Eyes Only,” 007 is absorbed into a private vendetta of M’s, blurring the lines between the personal and professional. In “Quantum of Solace,” Bond attends a dinner party in the Bahamas and learns how passion can soon twist into cruelty, while “Risico” forces the secret agent to fight for the lesser of two evils in a smuggling war set amid the Mediterranean. Finally, “The Hildebrand Rarity” lands 007 in an old-fashioned murder mystery at sea, where even he has a secret to keep. 
   A collection of both classic intrigue and intrepid self-examination, For Your Eyes Only packs full, vibrant worlds into five classic tales. 
   

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  The Grim Reaper and Child

  Rachel Lawson

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  "I feel weird going to a cemetery," said said a nervous teenage girl to her father. 
  "Why is me?" asked her father the Necromancer who was in the form of a grim reaper. 
  "Nuh," said the Necromantrix, "All the dead people here is freaking me out." 
  "They are just shells their souls are gone they can't hurt you," said her father, "you are my heir you need to get used to this." 
  "Yeah," said she said, "Death still freaks me out." 
  "It's natural, between you me and that grave stone it really freaks me out too," said her father...That's Just The StartYou won't believe how it ends!

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  Ancient Beacon

  Harold Anderson, Tom Lyons

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  It’s been hiding on Earth for millennia… 
  …but it was my job to hide it from you. If the American people knew what secrets lay beneath their feet, the U.S. government would have no way of controlling the paranoia that would ensue. 
  In Ancient Beacon, the second installment of The Palmdale Files, former agent Harold Anderson reveals the true story behind the discovery of a mysterious, terribly old, and not-of-this world relic found in a subterranean underwater cavern in New Mexico and the exceptional efforts the U.S. government went through to hide it. Ancient Beacon—also known as Event 348 Gamma—is the second in a series of forgotten and buried events the author once destroyed to protect the peace and security of the United States—events the government would rather hide forever. 
  The Palmdale Files share highlights from Harold Anderson's U.S. Air Force career, where he worked to defend the nation and the world from paranoid hysteria about unexplained phenomena and threats from above.

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  The Schoolmistress - and Other...

  Anton Chekhov

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  Experience life and hardships in turn-of-the-century Russia with this collection of provocative stories by one of the greatest writers of all time. Anton Chekhov captures life in late-nineteenth-century Russia with these evocative tales. For example, in “The Schoolmistress,” a hard-working, underpaid schoolteacher contemplates dating a man she knows is terrible for her. In “A Nervous Breakdown,” an idealistic young law student cannot handle what he witnesses after a night in Moscow’s red light district.  The author of such plays as The Cherry Orchard and Uncle Vanya, Anton Chekhov was also a prolific writer of short stories. His style, as present in this collection, will remind readers of other great nineteenth-century authors such as Guy de Maupassant.

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  Top 10 Short Stories The - The...

  Charles Dickens, George Eliot, D...

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  Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart.  A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. 
   
  In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?  
   
  The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme.  Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. 
   
  Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made.  If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. 
   
  An impossible choice.  An endless feast of talents.  Within these 10 stories are all the glory, the ambition and talent of authors that are now known and beloved by us all.  Genius in every name. 
   
  01 - The Top Ten - The English - An Introduction 
  02 - The Signalman by Charles Dickens 
  03 - The Lifted Veil - Part 1 by George Eliot 
  04 - The Lifted Veil - Part 2 by George Eliot 
  05 - They by Rudyard Kipling 
  06 - An Unwritten Novel by Virginia Woolf 
  07 - The Mortal Immortal by Mary Shelley 
  08 - The Rocking Horse Winner by D H Lawrence 
  09 - The Interlopers by Saki the pseudonym for H H Munro 
  10 - The Informer by Joseph Conrad 
  11 - The Old Nurses Story by Elizabeth Gaskell 
  12 - The Fiddler of the Reels by Thomas Hardy

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  Top 10 Short Stories The -...

  Edith Wharton, Mark Twain,...

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  Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart.  A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. 
   
  In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?  
   
  The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme.  Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. 
   
  Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made.  If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. 
   
  In this volume our authors explore the America that has expanded across the continent from Coast to Coast and is steadily adding industrial and military might to its rapidly growing and diverse population.  But, all the while, tensions among those huddled masses simmer and ferment

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