This collection of seventeen classic mystery stories, dating from 1837 to 1914, traces the earliest history of popular detective fiction.
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Author: Card, Orson ScottSummary:
New York Times bestselling author Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Ryan wakes up to find his contractor dad building walls to turn their big old house into a duplex. The family that moves into...
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Author: Card, Orson ScottSummary:Danny North, the first Earth-born Gate Mage in nearly two thousand years to survive and claim his power, battled the Gate Thief and won. What he didn't know at the time was that the Gate Thief had...
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Author: Siger, JeffreySummary:When Special Crimes Division Detective Yiannis Kouros is summoned from Athens to the Mani region by his uncle, Kouros fears his loyalty to his boss, Chief Inspector Kaldis, is about be to be...
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Author: Bledsoe, AlexSummary:Twenty years ago, a barmaid fell for a young sailor who turned pirate to make his fortune. But what truly became of Black Edward Tew remains a mystery, one that has just fallen into the lap of...
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Author: Le Guin, Ursula K.Summary:
Since the golden age of the League of All Worlds, the people of Earth have fallen into semibarbarism and paranoia, ruled by the mind-controlling Shing. But a mysterious man with no memory may...
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Author: Card, Orson ScottSummary:
Orson Scott Card's The Last Shadow is the long-awaited conclusion to both the original Ender series and the Ender's Shadow series, as the children of Ender and Bean solve the great...
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Author: French, LeeSummary:
After six difficult years in foster care, Claire's vocabulary no longer includes "hope" and "trust." But everything changes when Justin, a Spirit Knight restlessly hunting dangerous ghosts that...
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Author: Huddy, JohnSummary:
This is the true story of a sixteen-month crime spree in 1998, when a Cuban-born former Red Army lieutenant launched a series of raids on the Las Vegas Strip, hitting five world-class hotels,...
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A new anthology of postapocalyptic literature from some of the most renowned authors in speculative fiction today. This eclectic mix of tales explores famine, death, war, pestilence, and...
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Assembled and edited by Julian Hawthorne and first published in 1909, the Modern English volume of The Lock and Key Library features classic mystery and detective stories by such luminaries as...
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Author: Borowski, TadeuszSummary:
In 1943, twenty-year-old Polish poet Tadeusz Borowski was arrested and deported to Auschwitz. This is the most complete collection of Borowski's major writings, brought together for the first...
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Author: Card, Orson ScottSummary:
Laz is a side-stepper: a teen with the incredible power to jump his consciousness to alternate versions of himself in parallel worlds. When he wakes up on a seemingly abandoned Earth, a question...
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Author: Hall, Wynton C., Greenfield, MartinSummary:
Taken from his Czechoslovakian home and transported to the Auschwitz concentration camp, Martin Greenfield was divided forever from his family. Here he remembers that horrific time-and how an...
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Author: Card, Orson ScottSummary:
Danny North knew from early childhood that his family was different-and that he was different from them. While his cousins learn how to create magic, Danny worries that he will never show talent-...
Genre: Fantasy fiction