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Featuring Margo Lanagan's award-winning 'Sea-Hearts', the multi-award winning 'Wives' by Paul Haines and original works by Terry Dowling, Trent Jamieson, Cat Sparks and Louise Katz, journey beyond the borders of the real with six novellas, from the most exciting speculative fiction authors working in Australia today
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Thrill of the chase is on! Join Captain Lanna Ruik with her fearless crew aboard the majestic tall ship, Eagle's Claw, embarking on a daring, nail-biting endeavour across treacherous seas to reclaim stolen treasure from violent thieves.
Brace yourself for a cannon-roaring ship battle that will leave your heart pounding! Feel the rush of adrenaline as Captain Ruik leads her crew to engage during a fierce land battle with clashes of steel swords....
43) X Rubicon: Traverser la vie, le sexe, l'amour, & Les meurtres dans les guerres de procuration de la
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"Le livre de Sean emmène le lecteur à travers deux ans et demi de tromperie et de mort, et plus de 40 ans d'enfermement des émotions et de la vérité. Sa compassion transparaît lorsqu'il décrit les séquelles du syndrome de stress post-traumatique. Ce récit est choquant et déstabilisant, mais on a le sentiment que la connaissance de la vérité nous invite à changer la réalité de notre histoire d'amour avec l'armée. Nous pouvons nous réveiller,...
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The X Class submarines were conceived during WW2, small craft of around 51ft (16m) long, designed to be towed by a 'mother' submarine with a passage crew on board. Their midget size meant they could attack with stealth, and return to their towing submarine. Beginning with a look back over the wartime craft, this new study from ex-submariner Keith Hall charts the evolution of the X class subs, from X3 through X and XE, and onto the 1950s short-lived...
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Joe wanted another job, but he changed his mind.
Joe Ecks: X Band's Rock and Roll Guitarist. Though a musical genius, he's tortured and miserable under the demands of the industry. Dogged by bad headaches and other ailments, Joe erupts in violent outbursts. Ultimately (on page 1), Joe has a breakdown that results in a complete personality change. Joe now thinks of himself as Mike Smith: Harvard Grad. Mike Smith is the opposite of Joe Ecks in...
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One of Keeler's best, this is the second half of the notorious Marceau case, where a strangler baby dangling from an autogyro may have done the deed. Written in 1935 at the peak of Keeler's powers.
Xenius Jones, Chief Inspector of Scotland Yard, gave the exact date he would reveal the details of the infamous André Marceau murder. Then Alec Snide, an American reporter, broke the case before he did! But Jones insists that Snide is 100% wrong-and he's...
47) Xn: X to The Nth
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Evan Armada Nine and Chloe Rover Seven are only two of thousands of clones who work diligently behind the scenes to advance Cain's agenda and complete his top-secret projects. Although extreme measures are taken to ensure the female clones are kept isolated from their male counterparts, Dr. Wyczthack insists on tracking their every move with motion and sound sensitive video cameras and RFID chips embedded in their shoulders.
However, destiny will...
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Este libro, es la guía definitiva de la serie de televisión más importante de los 90s sobre el misterio y lo paranormal. El autor hace un recorrido por todas las temporadas, incluida las 2 películas, el regreso de 2 temporadas más, los videojuegos, novelas cómics, juegos de mesa y todo el merchandising que hará delicia entre los seguidores. También analiza el polémico final, trayendo a colación una explosiva teoría que removerá los sentimientos...
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Jonesing for a drive-in theater and a hotrod El Camino?
It's the dawn of the 1970s and everything is changing. The war in Vietnam is winding down. So is the Apollo Space Program. The tiny northwestern city of Spokane is about to host a World's Fair. But the Watergate Hearings and the re-entry of Skylab and the eruption of Mount Saint Helens are coming…as are killer bees and Ronald Reagan.
Enter 'The Kid,' a panic-prone, hyper-imaginative boy whose...
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Do you feel the need to be in intense relationships and always pick a mate, who is emotionally unavailable? Do you always need to be in love to feel whole? Read X Drama Queen and find out why.
Drama queens are like moths that are attracted to the flame. X Drama Queen not only explores the whys but gives practical wisdom on how to overcome self-defeating behaviors. As you read you will discover
• How past trauma impacts your life today
• How to...
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Straight edge-hardcore punk's drug-free offshoot-has thrived as a subculture since the early 1980s. Its influence has reached far beyond musical genres and subcultural divides. Today it is more diverse and richly complex than ever, and in the past decade alcohol and drug use have become a much, discussed issue in radical politics, not least due to the hard work, dedication, and commitment to social and environmental justice found among straightedge...
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Looking for that critical edge in your presentations? Learn how to engage, connect, and inspire with this unique and powerful approach.
Are you a presenter searching for a blueprint to wow bosses and clients? Longing to convey information in a long-term and meaningful way? Do you have great ideas but struggle to move peers to action? As the world's only economist turned Bollywood-dancing business storyteller, bestselling author and speaker Yamini...
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La Editorial EAFIT ha exaltado el género epistolar en su colección Rescates y en la Biblioteca Fernando González. Un género que hoy ha perdido su brillo gracias a la inmediatez de los mensajes electrónicos, pero que, traído a nosotros por familiares, amigos y destinatarios memoriosos que nos lo entregan en cartas amarilleadas por el tiempo, podemos mostrar al público más joven con su belleza y la gran significación
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In X-Finney Strikes Again there are three worlds; Villain World, Hero World and Earth. The bad guy X-Finney designs a soda, so he can control all the kids on earth. Now the Superheroes of Hero World must save them in time. Can they do it; can the Superheroes of Hero world save the kids before they are under X-Finney's Power?
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When Devin and Frankie get stuck in a swashbuckling novel, can they defeat the evil pirates and find the treasure before they're stuck on an island forever? Once again, best friends Devin and Frankie have neglected to do their English assignment. This week, the class is reading Treasure Island, and the two friends promise their teacher that they'll be ready to give their book reports the next day. Of course, this can only mean one thing: it's time...
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Sail Beyond Myths and into the Heart of Piracy's True Tales
Dive into the swashbuckling depths of history with "X Marks the Spot: Debunking Pirate Myths," your treasure map to unraveling the enigmas of the high seas. Forget what you think you know about pirates–the flagrant villains and the romantic antiheroes that Hollywood has offered you. It's time to meet the authentic buccaneers, whose stories have been shrouded in far more than sea mist.
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Gregory Simpson is thirty and trying to quit, keeping ten fingers glued to a keyboard in order to fight their incessant ache to hold a burning paper tube filled with dead leaves. In twenty entries in twenty days for twenty to a pack-one word for each cigarette inhaled over the course of ten smoke-filled years-he examines his life in tense, withdrawal-induced fits and starts: the friendships cemented and defined by nicotine; the intimate relationships...
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Renowned German aviation specialist Manfred Griehl has collected a unique and valuable selection of photographs of Luftwaffe projects that never made it into battle. They remained on the drawing board or at prototype stage either because they were deemed unsuitable or the developers simply ran out of time and the projects never went into production.
Most photographs come from the development sites and testing grounds of the major manufacturers of...
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