Quick reads by great writers. This book is a special edition of "Quick Reads" series. ... "To buy books would be a good thing", observed Arthur Schopenhauer , "if we also could buy the time to read them". All devoted readers long for more time to spend with their books, and the next best thing to buying time is making the most of the available moments. "Great Short Short Stories: Quick Reads by Great Writers" offers that opportunity. An outstanding collection of 30 brilliant short stories, each just six or fewer pages in length, it provides the chance to absorb an entire story (or ... |
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Charlie Hall has never found a lock she couldn't pick, a book she couldn't steal, or a bad decision she wouldn't make. She's spent half her life working for gloamists, magicians who manipulate shadows to peer into locked rooms, strangle people in their beds, or worse. Gloamists guard their secrets greedily, creating an underground economy of grimoires. And to rob their fellow magicians, they need Charlie. Now, she's trying to distance herself from past mistakes, but going straight isn't easy. Bartending at a dive, she's still entirely too close to the corrupt underbelly of the Berkshires. Not ... |
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Íèêîé íå èñêà äà âÿðâà â çëîâåùèÿ õàðàêòåð íà òàéíèòå, êîèòî ñà ñêðèòè äúëáîêî ïîä çåìÿòà â õèëÿäè âîåííè áàçè, ðàçïðúñíàòè ïî öåëèÿ ñâÿò, òâúðäè áèâøèÿò êàíàäñêè îôèöåð ñ ïñåâäîíèìà "Òèìúòè". Òîé èçïîëçâà òîçè ïñåâäîíèì, çà äà íå áúäå ïîäâåäåí ïîä îòãîâîðíîñò çà èçäàâàíåòî íà äúðæàâíà òàéíà. Ïîâå÷å îò 3000 äóøè áèëè óáèòè, çàùîòî ñå îïèòâàëè äà ðàçêàæàò çà îíîâà, êîåòî ñå ñëó÷âà â òåçè ïîäçåìíè áàçè. Ðàçêðèâàíåòî íà òàéíèòå èì ñå íàêàçâà ñúñ ñìúðò. "Òèìúòè" ðàçêàçâà çà ïîäçåìíè ñúîðúæåíèÿ, êúäåòî ñå èçâúðøâàò æèâîòèíñêè è ÷îâåøêè æåðòâîïðèíîøåíèÿ çà "÷óæäîðîäíèòå ñúùåñòâà", êîèòî äîøëè íà ... |
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The national bestseller. Write. Burn. Repeat. Now with new covers to match whatever mood you're in. Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat, TikTok, VSCO, YouTube...the world has not only become one giant feed, but also one giant confessional. "Burn After Writing" allows you to spend less time scrolling and more time self-reflecting. Through incisive questions and thought experiments, this journal helps you learn new things while letting others go. Imagine instead of publicly declaring your feelings for others, you privately declared your feelings for yourself? Help your heart by turning off the comments and ... |
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Eight stories by the famous American journalist and writer, Ambrose Bierce : "Owl Creek Bridge" - A man is hanged on a bridge. But then the rope breaks... "Beyond the Wall" - A pretty girl lives on the other side of the wall. What is her secret message? "An Adventure at Brownville" - Two young women are staying in the town of Brownville. Then one of them dies mysteriously. "The Damned Thing" - A man dies. What is the strange animal or "thing" that kills him? "One of the Missing" - A young soldiers's tragic experience of the American Civil War. "The ... |
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Write. Burn. Repeat. Now with new covers to match whatever mood you're in. Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat, TikTok, VSCO, YouTube...the world has not only become one giant feed, but also one giant confessional. "Burn After Writing" allows you to spend less time scrolling and more time self-reflecting. Through incisive questions and thought experiments, this journal helps you learn new things while letting others go. Imagine instead of publicly declaring your feelings for others, you privately declared your feelings for yourself? Help your heart by turning off the comments and muting the accounts that drive ... |
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Write. Burn. Repeat. Now with new covers to match whatever mood you're in. Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat, TikTok, VSCO, YouTube...the world has not only become one giant feed, but also one giant confessional. "Burn After Writing" allows you to spend less time scrolling and more time self-reflecting. Through incisive questions and thought experiments, this journal helps you learn new things while letting others go. Imagine instead of publicly declaring your feelings for others, you privately declared your feelings for yourself? Help your heart by turning off the comments and muting the accounts that drive ... |
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Write. Burn. Repeat. Now with new covers to match whatever mood you're in. Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat, TikTok, VSCO, YouTube...the world has not only become one giant feed, but also one giant confessional. "Burn After Writing" allows you to spend less time scrolling and more time self-reflecting. Through incisive questions and thought experiments, this journal helps you learn new things while letting others go. Imagine instead of publicly declaring your feelings for others, you privately declared your feelings for yourself? Help your heart by turning off the comments and muting the accounts that drive ... |
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Dark times have come to Hogwarts. After the Dementors' attack on his cousin Dudley, Harry Potter knows that Voldemort will stop at nothing to find him. There are many who deny the Dark Lord's return, but Harry is not alone: a secret order gathers at Grimmauld Place to fight against the Dark forces. Harry must allow Professor Snape to teach him how to protect himself from Voldemort's savage assaults on his mind. But they are growing stronger by the day and Harry is running out of time. ... |
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The bestselling author of "A pinch of Magic". A missing sister, a magical island and... ... Three sisters with a magical secret. A race against time to find a place that exists only in fairy tales. A journey that will take them into unimaginable danger... Set on a spellbinding adventure, from the bestselling author of "A pinch of Magic". "Enchanting" Sopie Anderson "Mesmerising" Abi Elphinstone "Adored it" Emma Carroll ... |
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Award-winning readers series of original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities. Called away suddenly to a secret meeting in New Zealand, British spy Ian Munro senses that he is being followed. Who's following him? And why is the coded information he is given so secret that others are prepared to kill for it? Can Munro escape and crack the code? ... |
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Destiny has a dark side. In Gitabria, land of wondrous contraption, the invention of an exquisite mechanical bird has brought spies from all over the continent who will kill to get their hands on it. But the bird holds a dark secret - one that will set off a war unless Kellen and his thieving squirrel cat can uncover it first."Exotic, original and gripping." Jonathan Stroud ... |
