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Print: $7.99 Download: $1.99 Even as the ink began to dry on the Declaration of Independence proclaiming a break from the tyranny of European-style government, a faction began plotting to re-forge the chains and re-establish Europe in the new world.
When Thomas Paine returned to the United States in 1802 after a decade and a half abroad, he saw the leftover effects of a presidential administration who didn't trust the people to exercise the blessings of liberty appropriately. And so he wrote a series of eight letters, seven of them in fairly quick succession, with his thoughts about revolution, liberty and the state of the young nation he helped create.
These letters remain relevant to this day.
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Print: $13.95 Download: $2.99 Scientists have harnessed the power of the imagination as a source of energy. Of course, whenever a new power source is discovered, some idiot finds a way to create a weapon with it.
Bob Whelan and Pete Wong are independent interstellar truckers caught in the middle between those who have developed a bomb based on the principles of imaginary physics — and those who want to stop them.
Along the way they find a new friend, an old friend and a small pile of adversaries.
This edition features the full text of the unfinished sequel, The Imaginary Lover. Strange doings are afoot on Proximi Centauri 3, as Bob Whelan, Pete Wong and Baxter Hetznecker come to the aid of their friend Snooky, owner of the first and best bar that was ever built on PC-3.
And last but certainly not least, a sneak preview of the upcoming novel of freedom and nonviolent resistance, The Imaginary Revolution, coming in 2010.
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Print: $10.99 If Professor George Edward Challenger was the only memorable character Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ever created, he still would be a mighty figure in the field of adventure literature. Instead, of course, Challenger is — rather than being the main achievement of Doyle’s career — simply further evidence that the man who invented Sherlock Holmes was a creative genius.
The Lost World introduces this remarkable amalgamation of bombast, persistence and confidence and conceit ...
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Print: $17.99 Six scary tales from 19th Century Literature —
— Frankenstein • Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
— The Turn of the Screw • Henry James
— Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde • Robert Lewis Stevenson
— Dracula’s Guest • Bram Stoker
— Rappaccini’s Daughter • Nathaniel Hawthorne
— The Cask of Amontillado • Edgar Allen Poe
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Print: $9.96 Download: $1.25 The year was 1995, more or less. The cold war was over, people were still allowed to smoke on the job, and 9/11 was still six years off. The universe shifted, and something dark burst from a yawning crack in the nature of being.
Mankind needed a hero, and so there was a reason radio newsman Paul Phillips and his devoted girlfriend, Dana Dunsmore, walked into that antique store one stormy evening.
By the time the night was over, he wasn’t exactly Paul Phillips anymore — Myke Phoenix had been born!
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Print: $7.42 Download: $1.25 A man brings his vision of wildflowers before a skeptical city council committee ... Death comes to collect on an old loan ... Two little boys discover legs don’t necessarily stay attached forever and ever ... In the future, it will be possible for a murderer to serve multiple lifetime sentences ... Horace “Todd Kaye” Dodson yearned to live in the days of oldtime radio – and one day he gets his wish ... An artiste learns his vision isn’t the only vision of his vision.
These tales and more from storyteller Warren
Bluhm await within these pages ...
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Print: $8.99 “Renewal is an everyday task. Stoking the fire requires a constant vigil. Life is an endless struggle against forces that will beat you down, but only if you let them. Your greatest power is control over your own personal actions and reactions.” Thirteen essays from B.W. Richardson's blog "Montag ... and the clocks were striking thirteen."
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