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Fourteen Days

A Collaborative Novel

by The Authors Guild, Margaret Atwood, Douglas Preston ...

Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive collaborative novel from the Authors Guild, with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of New York neighbors has been secretly written by a different, major literary voice—from Margaret Atwood and Celeste Ng to Tommy Orange and John Grisham.One week ... Read more

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Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive collaborative novel from the Authors Guild, with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of New York neighbors has been secretly written by a different, major literary voice—from Margaret Atwood and Celeste Ng to Tommy Orange and John Grisham.One week
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Hag

Forgotten Folktales Retold

by Daisy Johnson, Kirsty Logan, Emma Glass, Eimear McBride, Natasha Carthew, Mahsuda Snaith, Naomi Booth, Liv Little, Imogen Hermes Gowar, Irenosen Okojie ...

'Engaging, modern fables with a feminist tang' Sunday TimesDARK, POTENT AND UNCANNY, HAG BURSTS WITH THE UNTOLD STORIES OF OUR ISLES, CAPTURED IN VOICES AS VARIED AS THEY ARE VIVID.Here are sisters fighting for the love of the same woman, a pregnant archaeologist unearthing impossible bones and lost children following you home. A panther runs through the forests of England and pixies prey upon ... Read more

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'Engaging, modern fables with a feminist tang' Sunday TimesDARK, POTENT AND UNCANNY, HAG BURSTS WITH THE UNTOLD STORIES OF OUR ISLES, CAPTURED IN VOICES AS VARIED AS THEY ARE VIVID.Here are sisters fighting for the love of the same woman, a pregnant archaeologist unearthing impossible bones and lost children following you home. A panther runs through the forests of England and pixies prey upon
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Night & Day

Dreadful Dark: Tales of Nighttime Horror/Merciless Sun: Tales of Daylight Horror

by Ellen Datlow ...

Series series Saga Doubles
Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award for AnthologyFinalist for the World Fantasy Award for Best AnthologyA horror anthology edited by the genre’s greatest, Ellen Datlow, with one side featuring stories about what haunts the night while the other side showcases the terrors that can exist in the light of day in this new addition to the Saga Doubles series.This anthology contains stories from some of ... Read more

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Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award for AnthologyFinalist for the World Fantasy Award for Best AnthologyA horror anthology edited by the genre’s greatest, Ellen Datlow, with one side featuring stories about what haunts the night while the other side showcases the terrors that can exist in the light of day in this new addition to the Saga Doubles series.This anthology contains stories from some of
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A Stroke of the Pen

The Lost Stories

by Terry Pratchett ...

"If you read just one of Pratchett’s books, you’ll want to read everything he wrote. That now includes A Stroke of the Pen.” — Washington PostA delightfully funny, fantastically inventive collection of twenty newly unearthed short stories by Sir Terry Pratchett, the award-winning and bestselling author of the phenomenally successful Discworld fantasy series. This special trove—featuring charming ... Read more

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"If you read just one of Pratchett’s books, you’ll want to read everything he wrote. That now includes A Stroke of the Pen.” — Washington PostA delightfully funny, fantastically inventive collection of twenty newly unearthed short stories by Sir Terry Pratchett, the award-winning and bestselling author of the phenomenally successful Discworld fantasy series. This special trove—featuring charming
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A People's Future of the United States

Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers

by Charlie Jane Anders, Lesley Nneka Arimah, Charles Yu ...

A glittering landscape of twenty-five speculative stories that challenge oppression and envision new futures for America—from N. K. Jemisin, Charles Yu, Jamie Ford, G. Willow Wilson, Charlie Jane Anders, Hugh Howey, and more.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLYIn these tumultuous times, in our deeply divided country, many people are angry, frightened, and hurting. Knowing ... Read more

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A glittering landscape of twenty-five speculative stories that challenge oppression and envision new futures for America—from N. K. Jemisin, Charles Yu, Jamie Ford, G. Willow Wilson, Charlie Jane Anders, Hugh Howey, and more.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLYIn these tumultuous times, in our deeply divided country, many people are angry, frightened, and hurting. Knowing
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Big Two-Hearted River

The Centennial Edition

by Ernest Hemingway ...

A gorgeous new centennial edition of Ernest Hemingway’s landmark short story of returning veteran Nick Adams’s solo fishing trip in Michigan’s rugged Upper Peninsula, illustrated with specially commissioned artwork by master engraver Chris Wormell and featuring a revelatory foreword by John N. Maclean."The finest story of the outdoors in American literature." —Sports IllustratedA century since its ... Read more

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A gorgeous new centennial edition of Ernest Hemingway’s landmark short story of returning veteran Nick Adams’s solo fishing trip in Michigan’s rugged Upper Peninsula, illustrated with specially commissioned artwork by master engraver Chris Wormell and featuring a revelatory foreword by John N. Maclean."The finest story of the outdoors in American literature." —Sports IllustratedA century since its
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Other Terrors

An Inclusive Anthology

by Vince A. Liaguno, Rena Mason ...

An anthology of original new horror stories edited by Bram Stoker Award winners Vince Liaguno and Rena Mason that showcases authors from underrepresented backgrounds telling terrifying tales of what it means to be, or merely to seem, “other”Offering original new stories from some of the biggest names in horror as well as some of the hottest up-and-coming talents, Other Fears will provide the ... Read more

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An anthology of original new horror stories edited by Bram Stoker Award winners Vince Liaguno and Rena Mason that showcases authors from underrepresented backgrounds telling terrifying tales of what it means to be, or merely to seem, “other”Offering original new stories from some of the biggest names in horror as well as some of the hottest up-and-coming talents, Other Fears will provide the
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Tales from the Territory

Stories from the World of Legends & Lattes

by Travis Baldree ...

Cover and interior illustrations by Leesha Hannigan.The world fell in the love with the cozy fantasy world of the No.1 New York Times bestselling series that started with Legends & Lattes and continued in Bookshops & Bonedust and Brigands & Breadknives.Now award-winning storyteller Travis Baldree takes us back to the Territory in a heart-warming set of five stories, three making their first ... Read more

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Cover and interior illustrations by Leesha Hannigan.The world fell in the love with the cozy fantasy world of the No.1 New York Times bestselling series that started with Legends & Lattes and continued in Bookshops & Bonedust and Brigands & Breadknives.Now award-winning storyteller Travis Baldree takes us back to the Territory in a heart-warming set of five stories, three making their first
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The Philip K. Dick Collection

by Philip K. Dick ...

Philip K. Dick's work explored philosophical, social, and political themes, with stories dominated by monopolistic corporations, alternative universes, authoritarian governments, and altered states of consciousness. His writing also reflected his interest in metaphysics and theology, and often drew upon his life experiences in addressing the nature of reality, identity, drug abuse, schizophrenia, ... Read more

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Philip K. Dick's work explored philosophical, social, and political themes, with stories dominated by monopolistic corporations, alternative universes, authoritarian governments, and altered states of consciousness. His writing also reflected his interest in metaphysics and theology, and often drew upon his life experiences in addressing the nature of reality, identity, drug abuse, schizophrenia,
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The Best American Short Stories 2026

by Viet Thanh Nguyen, Nicole A. Lamy ...

Desire. Longing. Tenderness. Passion. In this year’s volume, love lies at the heart of the stories that guest editor Viet Thanh Nguyen calls “so good that they may be bad for you”: a sixteen-year-old moves into town and effortlessly falls in love with a classmate who he knows he must abandon; a grandmother stitches together the hurts of her past when she connects with her granddaughter in the ... Read more

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Desire. Longing. Tenderness. Passion. In this year’s volume, love lies at the heart of the stories that guest editor Viet Thanh Nguyen calls “so good that they may be bad for you”: a sixteen-year-old moves into town and effortlessly falls in love with a classmate who he knows he must abandon; a grandmother stitches together the hurts of her past when she connects with her granddaughter in the
... Read more
The Wolf Border

A Novel

by Sarah Hall ...

From the award-winning author of Burntcoat and The Electric Michelangelo, one of the most decorated young British writers working today, comes a literary masterpiece: a breathtaking work that beautifully and provocatively surveys the frontiers of the human spirit and our animal drives.For almost a decade, zoologist Rachel Caine has lived a solitary existence far from her estranged family in ... Read more

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From the award-winning author of Burntcoat and The Electric Michelangelo, one of the most decorated young British writers working today, comes a literary masterpiece: a breathtaking work that beautifully and provocatively surveys the frontiers of the human spirit and our animal drives.For almost a decade, zoologist Rachel Caine has lived a solitary existence far from her estranged family in
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The Book of the Dead

An Anthology

by Jonathan Strahan ...

We are all going to die. But how? Will it hurt? Where will we go? What will we find there? What will happen to the people we leave behind? Jonathan Strahan, award-winning editor of The Book of Dragons and The Book of Witches, has compiled a stunning collection of brand-new stories of murder, myth, and misadventure including contributions from international bestsellers Garth Nix, Paul Tremblay, ... Read more

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We are all going to die. But how? Will it hurt? Where will we go? What will we find there? What will happen to the people we leave behind? Jonathan Strahan, award-winning editor of The Book of Dragons and The Book of Witches, has compiled a stunning collection of brand-new stories of murder, myth, and misadventure including contributions from international bestsellers Garth Nix, Paul Tremblay,
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The Big Book of Cyberpunk

by Jared Shurin, Madeline Ashby, Maurice Broaddus, Pat Cadigan, Cory Doctorow, William Gibson, Ken Liu, Janelle Monae, Neal Stephenson, Bruce Sterling ...

*A genre-defining—*and redefining—collection of the boldest, most rebellious, and most prescient speculative fiction, featuring stories from all over the globe.“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”Almost forty years ago, William Gibson wrote the line that began *Neuromancer—*and a movement that would change the face of science fiction.Award-winning ... Read more

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*A genre-defining—*and redefining—collection of the boldest, most rebellious, and most prescient speculative fiction, featuring stories from all over the globe.“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”Almost forty years ago, William Gibson wrote the line that began *Neuromancer—*and a movement that would change the face of science fiction.Award-winning
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Total Recall

by Philip K. Dick ...

The inspiration for the film Total Recall, starring Colin Farrell and Kate Beckinsale, and directed by Len Wiseman. This ebook-only edition of Philip K. Dick’s classic short story tells the story of Douglas Quail, an unfulfilled bureaucrat who dreams of visiting Mars, but can't afford the trip. Luckily, there is Rekal Incorporated, a company that lets everyday stiffs believe they’ve been on ... Read more

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The inspiration for the film Total Recall, starring Colin Farrell and Kate Beckinsale, and directed by Len Wiseman. This ebook-only edition of Philip K. Dick’s classic short story tells the story of Douglas Quail, an unfulfilled bureaucrat who dreams of visiting Mars, but can't afford the trip. Luckily, there is Rekal Incorporated, a company that lets everyday stiffs believe they’ve been on
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50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 3 (2024 Edition)

by Friedrich Nietzsche, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Henry Rider Haggard, Plato, John Cleland, Wilkie Collins, Margaret Cavendish, Elizabeth Gaskell, Lucius Apuleius, Marcus Aurelius, Victor Hugo, Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Daniel Defoe, Alexandre Dumas, Mark Twain, Rudyard Kipling, Charles Dickens, G.K. Chesterton, David Herbert Lawrence, Jack London, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Grant Allen, Dale Carnegie, Arthur Conan Doyle, Mary Shelley, Niccolò Machiavelli, Jane Austen, Joseph Conrad, H.P. Lovecraft ...

This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names- What's Bred in the Bone [Grant Allen]- The Golden Ass [Lucius Apuleius]- Meditations [Marcus Aurelius]- Northanger Abbey [Jane Austen]- Lady Susan par [Jane Austen]- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz [Lyman Frank Baum]- The Art of Public Speaking [Dale Breckenridge Carnegie]- The Blazing World [Margaret Cavendish]- The ... Read more

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This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names- What's Bred in the Bone [Grant Allen]- The Golden Ass [Lucius Apuleius]- Meditations [Marcus Aurelius]- Northanger Abbey [Jane Austen]- Lady Susan par [Jane Austen]- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz [Lyman Frank Baum]- The Art of Public Speaking [Dale Breckenridge Carnegie]- The Blazing World [Margaret Cavendish]- The
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The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories

by Agatha Christie ...

Hercule Poirot is joined by the mysterious problem solver Harley Quin in the pages of The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories—a collection of ingenious short masterworks of mystery and suspense that showcase the legendary Agatha Christie at her very best.A grand treasure for fans of the grande dame of mystery, The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories brings together nine rare and brilliant Christie ... Read more

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Hercule Poirot is joined by the mysterious problem solver Harley Quin in the pages of The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories—a collection of ingenious short masterworks of mystery and suspense that showcase the legendary Agatha Christie at her very best.A grand treasure for fans of the grande dame of mystery, The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories brings together nine rare and brilliant Christie
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Danse Macabre

by Stephen King ...

Before he gave us the “one of a kind classic” (The Wall Street Journal) memoir On Writing, Stephen King wrote a nonfiction masterpiece in Danse Macabre, “one of the best books on American popular culture” (Philadelphia Inquirer).From the author of dozens of #1 New York Times bestsellers and the creator of many unforgettable movies comes a vivid, intelligent, and nostalgic journey through three ... Read more

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Before he gave us the “one of a kind classic” (The Wall Street Journal) memoir On Writing, Stephen King wrote a nonfiction masterpiece in Danse Macabre, “one of the best books on American popular culture” (Philadelphia Inquirer).From the author of dozens of #1 New York Times bestsellers and the creator of many unforgettable movies comes a vivid, intelligent, and nostalgic journey through three
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The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story

by Ted Chiang, Percival Everett, George Saunders, Lauren Groff, Stephen King, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ...

A selection of the best and most representative contemporary American short fiction from 1970 to 2020, including such authors as Ursula K. LeGuin, Toni Cade Bambara, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sandra Cisneros, and Ted Chiang, hand-selected by celebrated editor and anthologist John FreemanIn the past fifty years, the American short story has changed dramatically. New voices, forms, and mixtures of styles have ... Read more

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A selection of the best and most representative contemporary American short fiction from 1970 to 2020, including such authors as Ursula K. LeGuin, Toni Cade Bambara, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sandra Cisneros, and Ted Chiang, hand-selected by celebrated editor and anthologist John FreemanIn the past fifty years, the American short story has changed dramatically. New voices, forms, and mixtures of styles have
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50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 1 (2024 Edition)

by Joseph Conrad, D. H. Lawrence, George Eliot, Leo Tolstoy, James Joyce, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, DxBooks, Edgar Allan Poe, H.P Lovecraft, Dante Alighieri, Honoré de Balzac, Anne Brontë, Emily Brontë, Samuel Butler, Miguel de Cervantes, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alexandre Dumas ...

This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names- The Divine Comedy [Dante Alighieri]- Emma [Jane Austen]- Persuasion [Jane Austen]- Pride and Prejudice [Jane Austen]- Father Goriot [Honoré de Balzac]- Jane Eyre [Charlotte Brontë]- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall [Anne Brontë]- Wuthering Heights [Emily Brontë]- The Way of All Flesh [Samuel Butler]- Don Quixote ... Read more

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This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names- The Divine Comedy [Dante Alighieri]- Emma [Jane Austen]- Persuasion [Jane Austen]- Pride and Prejudice [Jane Austen]- Father Goriot [Honoré de Balzac]- Jane Eyre [Charlotte Brontë]- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall [Anne Brontë]- Wuthering Heights [Emily Brontë]- The Way of All Flesh [Samuel Butler]- Don Quixote
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The Imago Sequence

by Laird Barron ...

The title story of this collection — a devilishly ironic riff on H. P. Lovecraft’s “Pickman’s model” — was nominated for a World Fantasy Award, while “Probiscus” was nominated for an International Horror Guild award and reprinted in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 19. In addition to his previously published work, this collection contains an original story. ... Read more

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The title story of this collection — a devilishly ironic riff on H. P. Lovecraft’s “Pickman’s model” — was nominated for a World Fantasy Award, while “Probiscus” was nominated for an International Horror Guild award and reprinted in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 19. In addition to his previously published work, this collection contains an original story.
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The Best Short Stories 2026

The O. Henry Prize Winners

by Jenny Minton Quigley ...

The prestigious annual anthology features prize-winning stories by an international array of talented writers, including Weike Wang, Colm Tóibín, Louise Erdrich, Samanta Schweblin, Jenny Xie, Kevin Wilson, Brandon Taylor, and Catherine Lacey.Continuing a century-long tradition of cutting-edge literary excellence, this year's edition contains twenty prizewinning stories chosen from the thousands ... Read more

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The prestigious annual anthology features prize-winning stories by an international array of talented writers, including Weike Wang, Colm Tóibín, Louise Erdrich, Samanta Schweblin, Jenny Xie, Kevin Wilson, Brandon Taylor, and Catherine Lacey.Continuing a century-long tradition of cutting-edge literary excellence, this year's edition contains twenty prizewinning stories chosen from the thousands
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靈魂擁抱【十五週年淬鍊真實紀念版】

by 侯文詠 ...

Series series 侯文詠作品
究竟是我們活出名氣，還是名氣活成了我們？侯文詠最膾炙人口的動人神作──穿透表象與真實，直指人心的終極「靈魂拷問」。人與人的靈魂，能夠真誠相擁嗎？抑或只是慾望、寂寞彼此在無盡地索求……一篇名為〈靈魂的擁抱〉的文章，讓暢銷作家俞培文的人生前所未有地沸騰著。總統引用、媒體炒作、民眾議論，這篇文章一躍成為俞培文的代表作。他看著自己沸沸揚揚的人生，突然有種很奇特的感覺。落在俞培文這個名字上的一切等同於他嗎？同樣的俞培文，可以是「好的知名度」，也可以是「壞的知名度」，哪一個才是真正的他呢？事實上，這篇〈靈魂的擁抱〉不是俞培文寫的。他不是沒想過公開澄清，只是，急著否認，人們就會認定他是個忠於自我的作者嗎？否認之後，會不會又陷入更複雜的政治泥淖中？這些想法像泡泡一樣，不斷地在俞培文的腦中浮現、破滅……隨著文章被收進新書、書名更改為《靈魂的擁抱》，俞培文的名氣飛速竄升... ... Read more

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究竟是我們活出名氣，還是名氣活成了我們？侯文詠最膾炙人口的動人神作──穿透表象與真實，直指人心的終極「靈魂拷問」。人與人的靈魂，能夠真誠相擁嗎？抑或只是慾望、寂寞彼此在無盡地索求……一篇名為〈靈魂的擁抱〉的文章，讓暢銷作家俞培文的人生前所未有地沸騰著。總統引用、媒體炒作、民眾議論，這篇文章一躍成為俞培文的代表作。他看著自己沸沸揚揚的人生，突然有種很奇特的感覺。落在俞培文這個名字上的一切等同於他嗎？同樣的俞培文，可以是「好的知名度」，也可以是「壞的知名度」，哪一個才是真正的他呢？事實上，這篇〈靈魂的擁抱〉不是俞培文寫的。他不是沒想過公開澄清，只是，急著否認，人們就會認定他是個忠於自我的作者嗎？否認之後，會不會又陷入更複雜的政治泥淖中？這些想法像泡泡一樣，不斷地在俞培文的腦中浮現、破滅……隨著文章被收進新書、書名更改為《靈魂的擁抱》，俞培文的名氣飛速竄升...
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Octopussy and The Living Daylights

A James Bond Adventure

by Ian Fleming ...

Series Book 14 - James Bond
FOUR TALES OF INTRIGUE THAT PUSH 007 TO THE LIMITIn “Octopussy,” a former operative in the Second World War must face the consequences of past sins when James Bond knocks on the door of his Caribbean fortress, and in “The Property of a Lady” Bond deciphers the elaborate codes of a Sotheby’s bidding war in order to catch a KGB agent. “007 in New York” takes Bond to the titular city to warn an ex ... Read more

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FOUR TALES OF INTRIGUE THAT PUSH 007 TO THE LIMITIn “Octopussy,” a former operative in the Second World War must face the consequences of past sins when James Bond knocks on the door of his Caribbean fortress, and in “The Property of a Lady” Bond deciphers the elaborate codes of a Sotheby’s bidding war in order to catch a KGB agent. “007 in New York” takes Bond to the titular city to warn an ex
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There Is No Cat

Schrödinger's Catastrophe and other stories

by Gene Doucette ...

A region of space with different laws of physics. A child’s story about black holes. An interoffice memorandum presaging the end of the world. An alien named Gerald.These are some of the stories you’ll find in There Is No Cat, a collection of short fiction by Gene Doucette. Each story is unique, both in the topic and the telling, as Gene never seems to approach his stories the same way twice. See ... Read more

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A region of space with different laws of physics. A child’s story about black holes. An interoffice memorandum presaging the end of the world. An alien named Gerald.These are some of the stories you’ll find in There Is No Cat, a collection of short fiction by Gene Doucette. Each story is unique, both in the topic and the telling, as Gene never seems to approach his stories the same way twice. See
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