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The Cavern of the Shining Ones
Hiring Layroh for his expeditions was a husky pickup truck and was part of a plan drawn up in the past....
Number of pages: ~ 19 pages

by H. B. Fyfe
Satellite System
Having freed the net from his bunk, George Tremont lost his temper. He ran his tongue over his lips and grimaced. “I wonder how long I slept ... you feel too long,” he muttered. “Well, they would call me.”...
Number of pages: ~ 14 pages

by Joseph Samachson
Dead Man's Planet
  • Fiction
  • 2009
  • Autor: Joseph Samachson
When a guided person comes into the world of a cemetery, what else can it be except for the end of the journey and the beginning of a new one?...
Number of pages: ~ 15 pages

by Anthony Gilmore
The Bluff of the Hawk
  • Fiction
  • 1932
  • Autor: Anthony Gilmore
Trick? Carse was known for them. Trap? But how?...
Number of pages: ~ 26 pages

by Mack Reynolds
Revolution
  • Fiction
  • 1960
  • Autor: Mack Reynolds
60s of the last century, the Cold War is in full swing. The famous CIA agent Paul Kozlov was sent to the USSR with the goal of intensifying the activities of the anti-Soviet underground and overthrowing Soviet power. The agent does everything and all that remains is to take the last step, but at the last moment he realizes in dismay that he is acting incorrectly....
Number of pages: ~ 25 pages

by Murray Leinster
The Ambulance Made Two Trips
  • Fiction
  • 1960
  • Autor: Murray Leinster
If you need to get a thief to catch a thief, what is needed to stop the racketeer?...
Number of pages: ~ 21 pages

by Robert E. Gilbert
Stopover Planet
  • Fiction
  • 1953
  • Autor: Robert E. Gilbert
Early morning deliveries were part of the Honeychile Bakery. But this particular morning the service was canceled!...
Number of pages: ~ 12 pages

by Mark Spitznagel
Safe Haven
What are safe haven investments? What role do they play in a portfolio? Why are they so difficult and counterintuitive to pursue? And, most importantly, how can one build a safer investment portfolio even from the worst of financial storms? Hedge fund manager and tail-hedging pioneer Mark Spitznagel answers these questions and more, and reveals just what makes one safe haven better than another. Safe Haven is the first major, comprehensive analysis of this broad asset class, written by one of its top practitioners. Investments covered and evaluated include precious metals, commodities, US...
Number of pages: ~ 208 pages

by Donna Tartt
The Goldfinch
A young New Yorker grieving his mother's death is pulled into a gritty underworld of art and wealth in this "extraordinary" and beloved Pulitzer Prize winner that "connects with the heart as well as the mind" (Stephen King, New York Times Book Review). Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don't know how to talk to him, and tormented above all by a longing for his mother, he clings...
Number of pages: ~ 760 pages

by Holly Black
The Queen of Nothing
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black, comes the highly anticipated and jaw-dropping finale to The Folk of the Air trilogy. He will be the destruction of the crown and the ruination of the throne Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold onto. Jude learned this lesson when she released her control over the wicked king, Cardan, in exchange for immeasurable power. Now as the exiled mortal Queen of Faerie, Jude is powerless and left reeling from Cardan's betrayal. She bides her time determined to reclaim everything he took from her. Opportunity arrives in the form...
Number of pages: ~ 321 pages

by Vikram Seth
A Suitable Boy
Vikram Seth's novel is, at its core, a love story: Lata and her mother, Mrs. Rupa Mehra, are both trying to find -- through love or through exacting maternal appraisal -- a suitable boy for Lata to marry. Set in the early 1950s, in an India newly independent and struggling through a time of crisis, A Suitable Boy takes us into the richly imagined world of four large extended families and spins a compulsively readable tale of their lives and loves. A sweeping panoramic portrait of a complex, multiethnic society in flux, A Suitable Boy remains the story of ordinary people caught up in a web of...
Number of pages: ~ 1488 pages

by Stephen King
The Institute
A NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2019 SELECTION From #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King, the most riveting and unforgettable story of kids confronting evil since It. In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there’s no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents—telekinesis and...
Number of pages: ~ 577 pages

by Gillian Flynn
Sharp Objects
  • Mystery
  • 2019
  • Autor: Gillian Flynn
NOW AN HBO® LIMITED SERIES STARRING AMY ADAMS, NOMINATED FOR EIGHT EMMY AWARDS, INCLUDING OUTSTANDING LIMITED SERIES FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GONE GIRL Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. For years, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows: a beautiful thirteen-year-old with an eerie grip on the town. Now, installed in her old bedroom in her family's Victorian...
Number of pages: ~ 272 pages

by Rick Riordan
The Tyrant’s Tomb
It's not easy being Apollo, especially when you've been turned into a human and banished from Olympus. On his path to restoring five ancient oracles and reclaiming his godly powers, Apollo (aka Lester Papadopoulos) has faced both triumphs and tragedies. Now his journey takes him to Camp Jupiter in the San Francisco Bay Area, where the Roman demigods are preparing for a desperate last stand against the evil Triumvirate of Roman emperors. Hazel, Reyna, Frank, Tyson, Ella, and many other old friends will need Apollo's aid to survive the onslaught. Unfortunately, the answer to their salvation...
Number of pages: ~ 450 pages

by Brandon Sanderson
Oathbringer
  • Fantasy
  • 2017
  • Autor: Brandon Sanderson
The #1 New York Times bestselling sequel to Words of Radiance, from epic fantasy author Brandon Sanderson at the top of his game. In Oathbringer, the third volume of the New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive, humanity faces a new Desolation with the return of the Voidbringers, a foe with numbers as great as their thirst for vengeance. Dalinar Kholin’s Alethi armies won a fleeting victory at a terrible cost: The enemy Parshendi summoned the violent Everstorm, which now sweeps the world with destruction, and in its passing awakens the once peaceful and subservient parshmen to the...
Number of pages: ~ 1220 pages