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21) Uncanny Tales
Craving a good scare? Dip into this carefully selected collection of freaky, fear-inspiring and fantastical tales written by a who's-who of writers from the golden age of horror. Just a fair warning, though: you'll probably be sleeping with the light on tonight.
The early twentieth century was a period of sweeping change in Western literature, culture, and art. As the conventions of the Victorian and Edwardian periods gave way to daring modernist experiments, the entire conception of what fiction was and could be shifted. The diverse pieces collected in The Best British Short Stories of 1922 function as a microcosm of this fascinating period in literary history.
A young woman mistaken for someone else falls neatly into what appears to be the perfect business opportunity, only to...
25) Poesía Para Oir
This volume collects the long-out-of-print, fan-favorite comics previously published in Nickelodeon Magazine and with the Airbender DVDs, plus over seventy brand-new comics pages. That's twenty-six stories...
Greatness comes in many forms, and as Garrison Keillor demonstrates daily on The Writer's Almanac, the most affecting poems in the canon are in plain English. Third in Keillor's series of anthologies, Good Poems, American Places brings together poems that celebrate the geography and culture that bind us together as a nation.
...This magical collection includes five early readers based on the Barbie films Barbie: Fashion Fairytale, Barbie in a Mermaid Tale, Barbie and the Three Musketeers, Barbie and the Diamond Castle, and Barbie: Thumbelina. Featuring fairies, princesses, mermaids, and more, little girls ages 4 to 6 won't be able to resist!
Mindfulness as a practice is very simple and its effects are well- documented. Now, modern biology and neuroscience can actually quantify many of the effects of mindfulness and you may be surprised by how powerful the impact can be. In Masters of Mindfulness, 11 top researchers and proponents of mindfulness discuss what modern science and contemporary research have revealed about this ancient practice and the many ways in which it can benefit
...Includes titles 1 & 2 in the Disney Fairies Collection: The Trouble with Tink and Beck and the Great Berry Battle
The Trouble with Tink
Tinker Bell is the best fairy in all of Pixie Hollow. But then she loses her tinker’s hammer. The good news is that Tink has a spare hammer. The bad news is that she left it at Peter Pan’s hideout and they’re no longer speaking! Will Tink be able to make up with her old friend –
...Includes titles 5 & 6 in the Disney Fairies Collection: Rani in the Mermaid Lagoon and Fira and the Full Moon
More magical adventures of Tinker Bell and her fairy friends in Pixie Hollow...
Rani doesn’t feel like she belongs with the water-talent fairies. When Rani sets off on a journey to find a new home, she is led deep into the lagoon to an underwater community where mermaids live.
Fira is a take-charge, light-talent
...This wonderful collection of short stories includes work by some of literature's most treasured names, with inspired readings by gifted actors.
This superlative treasury includes the following stories:
"Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, read by John Chancer"The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe, read by Robert Fass"Cousin William" by Harriet Beecher Stowe, read by Kate Fenton"How I Edited an Agricultural Paper" by Mark...A visionary whose writing broke through the boundaries of the science fiction genre, Philip K. Dick is regarded as a major figure of twentieth-century fiction. In 2007, he became the first science fiction writer to be included in the Library of America Series.
Investigating spiritual questions through science fiction imagery, these stories explore the boundaries of human consciousness as they entertain such themes as multiple realities,
...Tough gumshoes, rotten yeggs, and dangerous dames
In the 1930s and '40s, Black Mask was the single most important magazine for the modern mystery field. In its pages writers such as Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Earl Stanley Gardner reshaped the established view of mystery fiction, creating the "hard-boiled" private eye. Now comes this series in which the toughest of tough detectives are resurrected from its pages in sonic dramatization
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