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In The Atlantic Abomination, an exploratory expedition to the bottom of the ocean discovers the remnants of a long-lost civilization, and then, the enormous body of an alien being preserved for unknown millennia. An attempt to raise the body unleashes a horror beyond imagining as the creature revives from a long sleep and begins to exert control over men's minds throughout the world. This is a classic SF horror story in the mode of John W. Campbell's The...
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Does the Pentagon have the body of Bigfoot on ice?
What is the U.S. military hiding from us about lake monsters?
What is the link between the CIA and the abominable snowman?
Why is there a British government file on sea serpents?
What do the Russians know about animal ESP? For decades there have been persistent rumors, tales, and legends that government agencies all around the world have been secretly collecting and studying data on bizarre beasts,...
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Madeline volume 10
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Madeline, Pepito and the girls visit Miss Clavel's aunt and nephew in their Alpine chalet. The trip is laden with adventure - from skiing and skating to an abominable snowman sighting. Later, when the group is trapped in the chalet by a terrifying avalanche, it is Madeline's spirit and ingenuity that saves the day.
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Ce livre comprend le texte original anglais et la traduction française.
The Exile of Solitude is an anthology of 60 years of poetry and declarative verse, of satire and irony, constituting a compelling autobiographical odyssey from childhood to autonomy, first love, marriage, family, life's deceptions and dissolutions, leading to an apocalyptic renaissance.
The striking conclusion of this poetic epic describes the current, shockingly sinister...
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In 1858, members of Found Grace Church launched a Holy Crusade to travel from Illinois to Kansas in order to fight the abomination of slavery and cast votes to join the state to the Union as free. In 1859, they fight to protect the town of Brotherton (Fictional) from pro-slavery maraiuders bent on their destruction. To the people of Brotherton, their crusade brought them not to a Holy Land, rather to a Holey Land, one full of bullet holes.
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TAZZIE WALLAROO & THE PERFECT MATCH
The wildest and toughest adventurers in this world - and the next - have failed to find and capture the Abominable Snowman. Famed adventurer, Tasman Wallaroo (known as Tazzie) enters the scene, saying she will 'crush that cruel creep to crumbs!' Training hard until she is as trim and taut as Superwoman after a super make-over, she and her team of 28 shaggy-haired Siberian Cha-Wow-Wows depart the Point of No Return....
7) Witch
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Revolution has come to Starfall.
To some, Mirei is a savior. Born from the union of opposing forces, her existence offers a way to heal the division between warrior and witch, and brings powerful new magic into the world.
To others, Mirei is an abomination. She overturns the ancient traditions of the witches, threatening their stability and corrupting their magic with an influence that should be destroyed.
But even Mirei's power is not enough...
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Mère célibataire, Sarah se bat chaque jour pour maintenir le difficile équilibre entre sa profession d'infirmière et sa vie de famille, bien que son travail l'emporte souvent et l'empêche de passer autant de temps qu'elle le souhaiterait auprès de Lauren, sa fille de sept ans. La pire crainte de Sarah se réalise un jour, lorsque la fillette est enlevée lors de son retour de l'école. Pour sauver sa fille, Sarah devra faire face au plus impensable...
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The goddess of nightmares is dead, but Nicce and Eithan now face the threat of Sullo, the sun god and Nicce's father. Arrogant and vain, Sullo thinks of his children as possessions, extensions of himself. And no daughter of his should be dallying with an abomination like Eithan.Sullo wants Eithan dead and Nicce to do exactly as he says.Ciaska's body isn't even cold and they're already back exactly where they started. They are scraping and bowing and...
10) Empire: Capital
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Like Game of Thrones meets Lovecraft! Winning the demon war was the easy part. Rebuilding the Empire is a nightmare. Tia traveled to the imperial capital two years after the war to testify at the trial of a traitor tied to eldritch abominations. She remained to court the rowdy knightly heroes roaming the palace halls, hoping to snag a highborn husband. But now she is plagued with strange visions even as she is engulfed in palace intrigues. Worse,...
11) Silver Dust
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What would make you betray your family of deadly assassins?
A lethal abomination is roaming the streets of Agartha-a forbidden werewolf and vampire hybrid.
Nadia Navarra, half-werewolf and a young member of the Queen's Wraiths, knows this monster all too well. Lying low, she has tried to sever every connection to this beast.
When the creature reappears, crazed and tormented from his transformation into a monster, Nadia's loyalties to the Wraiths...
12) Shadow World
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He is the supernatural world's hand of justice. She is the abomination he's sworn to kill. Their love conquered all. Until now. When a dark spell hits San Francisco, former mercenary mage Sera Dering and dragon shifter Kai Drachenburg find themselves on opposite sides of a supernatural war that has been raging for centuries-with no memory of their love or the world that was. They have every reason to hate each other, but if they want to survive this...
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An illustrated adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic Sherlock Holmes mystery - at an easy-to-read level for readers of all ages!
Tell me, Watson, do you get a creeping feeling when you watch the snakes in the zoo? That's how I feel when I see Milverton. I've met more than fifty murderers in my life, but he is worse than all of them.
In an attempt to save a woman's marriage, Holmes is forced to come face to face with one of his worst enemies:...
14) The Final Hunt
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It's been too long since he committed his insidious atrocities against Zretaia, a secret city where terrified citizens hide under thousands of warring sorcerers.
Tonight, as Voua Azrain is swept up in the creation of a disastrous spell, the mad alchemist Matras conspires with the reckless justice Cusáhn to attack his dreaded tower, seize his treasure, free his captives and take his apprentice, the demonic Ulto, to justice!
But with Voua Azrain's...
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Collects Avengers (1963) #9, Wonder Man (1986) #1, West Coast Avengers (1985) #25, Avengers (1998) #14. No heroes in the Marvel-Verse are a bigger draw at the box office than Wonder Man! Get to know Simon Williams, the world's greatest Avenger turned movie star, beginning with his momentous debut - in which he is gifted amazing power but must defeat Earth's Mightiest Heroes in exchange! Will he go bad or make a heroic sacrifice? Don't count Wonder...
16) Terror Peak
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Abominable Peak is the gnarliest hill in the Rocky Mountains. Only hardcore boarders and skiers ride there. No groomed trail posers allowed. Skill, moxie, and money rule. Not this season.Former pro snowboarder Charles 'Chance' Hance is running from a drug addiction triggered by an injury, struggling with no longer being a pro, and chasing the ghost of his grandfather who died on the peak under suspicious circumstances. Riding is an addiction, and...
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Legends claim they are a pair born with souls so tarnished that they steal all the light and happiness from those who dare cross their path. Revered as beings of myth and legend, they are the first twins born in the Realm for eons. They have become the monsters parents warn children about when they misbehave. Many of the kingdoms see them as a dangerous abomination. Authenticity has been lost in time, leaving only the twisted and embellished tales...
18) Mother of Storms
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Adrian Cole's acclaimed "Star Requiem" series welcomes readers to Innasmorn, a planet where the elements are worshipped as gods....and where mankind is considered the enemy. MOTHER OF STORMS Star Requiem, Book 1 It is on this planet, where only the Windmasters can summon the devastating power of rain, gale, thunder, and lightning, that the last surviving remnants of humankind have come, fleeing the destruction of their empire at the hands of the alien...
19) Believe
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She believed in her destiny, then fate tore up their pact.Princess Samara, daughter of the Sorcerer King, is unimpressed with the current turn of her fortune. Her father's chosen another successor, after promising that she would one day be Sorceress Queen. Then, he begs her to go fetch the very boy who is to usurp her place on his throne. When a reluctant knight, who only thinks of bedding women or hunting dragons, is assigned as their escort, she's...
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2018 Readers' Favorite Book Award Winner in Fiction - Mythology. A Paranormal Romance meets Percy Jackson all grown up! Dive into mythology with a Dark Fantasy flair found in the Sookie Stackhouse and Black Dagger Brotherhood series. For almost a century, Lord Cedric has hunted the supernatural, hiding the fact he's one of Sorceress Morrighan's abominations. Fearful of others discovering his true nature, he weds the Lady of the Court, Angeline, after...