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Autumn

David Moody presents the final book in the acclaimed Autumn series, available for the first time since 2008.The human race is finished. Mankind is all but dead and only a handful of frightened individuals remain.These people have survived through chance, not skill, and they are a desperate bunch: cheating lovers, workshy civil servants, permanently drunk publicans, teenage rebels, obsessive accountants, failed husbands, first-time cross-dressers, disrobed priests and more...Experience the end of the world as seen from almost fifty different perspectives. Part-companion, part-guidebook and part-sequel, AUTUMN: THE HUMAN CONDITION follows the individual stories of these desperate survivors through their final dark days.A vastly expanded new edition, containing nine new stories and a further four stories appearing as part of this collection for the first time.
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Stagecoach to Serenity

After Darren Norton shoots Arthur Hamlin dead during a card game, he goes on the run, leaving behind his girlfriend, Sal the Gal. A reward is put up for his capture and bounty hunter Gustavus Greeley is soon on his trail. He catches Norton in the hills and intends to take him back to Serenity by stagecoach to stand trial.
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Dead Bad Things

HE SOUGHT TO FLEE HIS TRAGIC PAST, but when Thomas Usher hears a clockwork voice on the phone, and sees ever-more disturbing visions in a derelict warehouse, Usher realizes that he has to return home - for the sake of his own sanity.Meanwhile, a deadly figure from Usher's past threatens to undermine the very fabric of reality.File Under: Horror [ Serial Murders | Hellish Visions | Closet Skeletons | Pilgrim's Progress ]e-book ISBN: 9780857661289From the Paperback edition.
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People Who Knew Me

Everything was fine fourteen years after she left New York. Until suddenly, one day, it wasn't.Emily Morris got her happily-ever-after earlier than most. Married at a young age to a man she loved passionately, she was building the life she always wanted. But when enormous stress threatened her marriage, Emily made some rash decisions. That's when she fell in love with someone else. That's when she got pregnant.Resolved to tell her husband of the affair and to leave him for the father of her child, Emily's plans are thwarted when the world is suddenly split open on 9/11. It's amid terrible tragedy that she finds her freedom, as she leaves New York City to start a new life. It's not easy, but Emily—-now Connie Prynne—forges a new happily-ever-after in California. But when a life-threatening diagnosis upends her life, she is forced to rethink her life for the good of her thirteen-year-old daughter.A...
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Spy Sub: A Top Secret Mission to the Bottom of the Pacific

Spy Sub is the tale of a top-secret submarine named Halibut that lowered miles and miles of special cable along the bottom of the Pacific Ocean in order to investigate a sunken Soviet sub. The mission was such a success that the Halibut itself received a Presidential medal in a secret ceremony. It's a true story, even the part about the sub getting a medal. Roger C. Dunham, a nuclear-reactor operator on board the Halibut during the mission, provides a firsthand account of an aspect of Cold War espionage that has only recently begun to surface. To this day, the Pentagon refuses to acknowledge such missions, in all likelihood because they are still going…
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Children of the New World

AN EXTRAORDINARILY RESONANT AND PROPHETIC COLLECTION OF SPECULATIVE SHORT FICTION FOR OUR TECH-SAVVY ERA BY DEBUT AUTHOR ALEXANDER WEINSTEINChildren of the New World introduces readers to a near-future world of social media implants, memory manufacturers, dangerously immersive virtual reality games, and alarmingly intuitive robots. Many of these characters live in a utopian future of instant connection and technological gratification that belies an unbridgeable human distance, while others inhabit a post-collapse landscape made primitive by disaster, which they must work to rebuild as we once did millennia ago.In "The Cartographers," the main character works for a company that creates and sells virtual memories, while struggling to maintain a real-world relationship sabotaged by an addiction to his own creations. In "Saying Goodbye to Yang," the robotic brother of an adopted Chinese child malfunctions, and only in his absence...
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The Night Flyers

When her homing pigeons disappear while her father is fighting in World War I, a twelve-year-old girl suspects a German spy may be responsibleWith her father in France, fighting in the war, Pam Lowder has the responsibility of taking care of the family's prize-winning homing pigeons on their farm. The birds are special because her father trained them to fly at night so they can bring messages to his family when he's not there. And now a stranger with a foreign accent has shown up in Currituck with an offer to buy the whole lot. But Pam isn't interested in selling. She loves the pigeons and would much rather spend time with them than go to school. Then she wakes up one morning to find some pigeons missing. After the disappearance of Caspian, her favorite, the plucky pigeoneer sets a plan in motion to catch the thief. She has a pretty good idea who it is. But how is she supposed to rescue her pigeons and outwit a German spy? This ebook...
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Banged Into Submission: Volume Four - 4 More Tales of Extreme Sex

From AE Publications comes a new collection of 4 more tales of extreme sex, featuring bdsm, anal, rough sex, alpha males, femdom, lesbians, threesomes, romance and more. Includes: One Hell Of A Dirty Girl by Dirk Rockwell, The Dirty Little Slut Has A Filthy Anal Threesome by Misty Rose, High Class Slut by Rickie Sheen & In The Ass Only by JT Holland. Adults only. 18+
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The Statue of Three Lies

When Jack Ramsden, a cabinet-maker and designer of stage props for magicians, was preparing his annual illusion for his wife's birthday, he was killed by a shot from a rifle on a stand. The problem was – he was alone in the room when the shot was fired and the door and windows were locked. A verdict of death by misadventure was declared at the inquest. Fourteen years later the official findings are being questioned by at least one member of his family. Professor Giles Dawson, a London historian specialising in magic and the great illusionists, receives a cryptic letter from Laura, Jack Ramsden's daughter whom he knew as a child. The letter urges him to return for her mother's 70th birthday celebrations to help prove that her father's death had been murder. Giles accepts the invitation and, during a weekend fraught with danger, he comes face to face with everyone who was present on the night Jack Ramsden died. Certain entries in the dead man's diary require explanation and...
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Codename Wolf

Roger Conway is a daring liar who has invented a new identity for himself and bluffed his way into M16. He carries out an audacious mission for the 'Disciples', a secret cell of Oxbridge and Ivy League academics who are the masterminds behind the security services. Roger's adventures in Cuba, during a new Cuban Missile Crisis, save the US from imminent rocket attacks, but frustrate the Disciple's political plot against the president. Aided by his assistant, Herbert Yarham, Roger emerges from as the top Anglo-US spy, a brilliant deceiver in a world of deceit.
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Death and the Maiden

Рассказ вошёл в сборники: The Machineries of Joy (Механизмы радости) Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales (Сборник ста лучших рассказов)
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