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The Petrified Ants - Kurt Vonnegut
SUMMARY: Look at the Birdie is a collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction. In this series of per... -
The Mystery of the Nervous Lion - Nick West
SUMMARY:Hired to discover why a wild-animal farm's tame lion has become unpredictably nervous, three young detectives begin an investigation that uncovers a smuggling operat... -
The Marquise of O and Other Sto - Heinrich von Kleist
Between 1799, when he left the Prussian Army, and his suicide in 1811, Kleist developed into a writer of unprecedented and tragically isolated genius. This collection of works from... -
The Liar - Stephen Fry
SUMMARY: Adrian Healey is magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life; unprepared too for the afternoon in Salzburg when he will witness the savage murder of a Hungari... -
The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun - J. R. R. Tolkien
The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún is a previously unpublished work by J.R.R. Tolkien, written while Tolkien was Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford during the 1920s and ‘30s, before h... -
The Hundred Days - Patrick O'Brian
SUMMARY: The year is 1815, and Europe's most unpopular (not to mention tiniest) empire-builder has escaped from Elba. In The Hundred Days, it's up to Jack Aubrey--and surgeon-cum-s... -
The Darkest Evening of the Year - Dean Koontz
EDITORIAL REVIEW: With each of his #1 *New York Times* bestsellers, Dean Koontz has displayed an unparalleled ability to entertain and enlighten ... -
The Book of Disquiet - Fernando Pessoa
From Publishers WeeklyWhen Pessoa died in 1935, a few years short of 50, he left behind a trunk of mostly unpublished writing in a variety of languages; his Lisbon publishers and v... -
The Angel in the Corner - Monica Dickens
An affair with the unpredictable Joe led to a marriage that Virginia was determined would work. But Joe had no reason to trust or respect women. As he drew her into one humiliating... -
Speak, bird, speak again_ Pales - Ibrahim Muhawi; Sharif Kana`nah
SUMMARY: Were it simply a collection of fascinating, previously unpublished folktales, Speak, Bird, Speak Again: Palestinian Arab Folktales would merit praise and attention because...