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  Typhoon

  Joseph Conrad

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  Joseph Conrad’s classic oceanic adventure pits the will of man against the sheer destructive force of nature  The decks of the Nan-Shan boast young and imaginative first mate Jukes and no-nonsense captain MacWhirr. But when the ocean turns violent and the skies darken ominously, will the captain’s skepticism and the crew’s foolhardiness be the Nan-Shan’s undoing?   Based on Conrad’s experiences as a sailor aboard a turn-of-the-century freighter, this thrilling adventure has at its center the titular typhoon—a force threatening untold death and destruction, and humbling even the greatest of men.   This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.

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  The Best American Mystery and...

  Jess Walter, Steph Cha

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  A collection of the year’s best mystery and suspense short fiction selected by #1 New York Times bestselling author and guest editor Jess Walter and series editor Steph Cha.  
  New York Times bestselling author and “superb storyteller” (Boston Globe), Jess Walter flexes his genre chops and selects twenty short stories that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year. 
  Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

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  Who killed Zebedee?

  Wilkie Collins

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  William Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) is one of the greatest of the Victorian mystery writers. For several years he was on the editorial staff of Dickens' magazine All Year Round and became Dickens' close friend and collaborator.Alongside his great novels, Collins was the author of a great many superb short stories, mostly concerned with either the supernatural or crime. Who Killed Zebedee? is a classic detective story of a mysterious case where a young wife would appear to have murdered her husband while sleepwalking. Despite the lack of evidence to the contrary, one policeman is reluctant to accept the obvious conclusion and sets out to uncover the truth.

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  All Hallows' Eve

  Smith Gibbs

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  This charmingly illustrated volume collects classic works of eerie and ghoulish poetry and prose from the 19th and early 20th centuries.All Hallows’ Eve is the perfect gift for readers of all ages who revel in the spooky spirit of Halloween. These ghastly poems, sinister short stories, and curious black and white line illustrations throughout are sure to keep your bones chilled and your imagination ablaze.  Included here are timeless works by Thomas Hardy, Hugh Mearnes, William Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, and more.Read aloud by the fire, or read alone—if you dare.

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  The Count of Monte Cristo

  Alexandre Dumas

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  The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It is often considered, along with The Three Musketeers, as Dumas' most popular work. It is also among the highest selling books of all time. The writing of the work was completed in 1844. Like many of his novels, it is expanded from the plot outlines suggested by his collaborating ghostwriter Auguste Maquet. The story takes place in France, Italy, islands in the Mediterranean and the Levant during the historical events of 1815–1838 (from just before the Hundred Days through the reign of Louis-Philippe of France). The historical setting is a fundamental element of the book. It is primarily concerned with themes of hope, justice, vengeance, mercy, forgiveness and death, and is told in the style of an adventure story.

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  Second Thoughts

  Arthur Moore

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  In this age of instant access to information it would be thought that anyone’s past could be revealed.  Alas for the Victorian author Arthur Moore, details are almost non-existent.    
   
  Born on 14th January 1866 the only details that can be confirmed are that he wrote the short story ‘Second Thoughts’ and co-authored two works with Ernest Dowson.  From there we only have the year of his death – 1934. 
   
  However, his life aside ‘Second Thoughts’ is one of those short works, published in Volume 3 of the infamous Yellow Book in the late 1890’s, that have given a certainty of his existence and merits attention based on the quality of this writing & invention. 
   
  The story unfolds around a man returning home to England after almost twenty years away and finds things have changed that leave him both unsettled and unsure of how to move forward.  Seeing, by chance, an old friend reawakens his curiosity …. and hopes.

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