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1001 Arabian Nights [Volume 16 of 16] by Sir Richard F. Burton
Date of Ebook Addition: 05-04-2004
Category: Classic Literature
Description: Bawdy and exotic, 1001 Arabian Nights features the wily and seductive Shahrazad, who saves her own life by telling tales of magical transformation, genies and wishes, flying carpets and fantastical journeys, terror and passion to entertain and appease the brutal King Shahryar. First introduced in the West in 1704, the stories of The Thousand and One Nights are most familiar to American readers in sanitized children's versions. This edition, based on Richard F. Burton's unexpurgated translation, restores the sensuality and lushness of the original Arabic. Here are the famous adventures of Sindbad, "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves," and "Aladdin and the Magic Lamp." Here too are less familiar stories, such as "Prince Behram and the Princess Al-Datma," a delightful early version of The Taming of the Shrew, and "The Wily Dalilah and her Daughter Zaynab," a hilarious tale about two crafty women who put an entire city of men in their place. Intricate and imaginative, these stories-within-stories told over a thousand and one nights continue to captivate readers as they have for centuries. [Publisher Note: Contains footnotes to assist the translation.]

Average Jones by Samuel Hopkins Adams
Date of Ebook Addition: 05-04-2004
Category: Classic Literature
Description: A collection of early 20th century American detective fiction, including "The B-Flat Trombone"; "Red Dot"; "The Mercy Sign"; "Blue Fires"; "The Man Who Spoke Latin"

Cleaning Up at Slab's by John Gregory Betancourt
Date of Ebook Addition: 05-04-2004
Category: Fantasy
Description: Slab's tavern is the roughest bar in Zelloque, frequented by pirates, slavers, thieves, and other less savory patrons. It's also haunted ... and you never know who--or what--will show up. After the destruction of the city of Zelloque (as chronicled in Betancourt's novel, The Blind Archer), Slab's Tavern is left a mess. What's a sturdy tavern-keeper to do but make the best of things ... and try to open up again? This is the final Slab's Tavern story.

Comanche Moon [Pony Soldiers Book 3] by Chet Cunningham
Date of Ebook Addition: 05-04-2004
Category: Historical Fiction
Description: Still in pursuit, the Pony Soldiers get closer and closer to White Eagle, the kidnapper. He put the noose around his own neck the minute he enslaved Major Harding's daughter. Now he is being hunted like a dog, and the Pony Soldiers have no intention of showing any mercy. They want to tear White Eagle apart and feed him to the buzzards. His death draws nearer as the unrelenting, unstoppable Pony Soldiers seek his head.

David Crockett: His Life and Adventures by John S. C. Abbott
Date of Ebook Addition: 05-04-2004
Category: Classic Literature
Description: David Crockett certainly was not a model man. But he was a representative man. He was conspicuously one of a very numerous class, still existing, and which has heretofore exerted a very powerful influence over this republic. As such, his wild and wondrous life is worthy of the study of every patriot. Of this class, their modes of life and habits of thought, the majority of our citizens know as little as they do of the manners and customs of the Comanche Indians. No man can make his name known to the forty millions of this great and busy republic who has not something very remarkable in his character or his career. But there is probably not an adult American, in all these widespread States, who has not heard of David Crockett. His life is a veritable romance, with the additional charm of unquestionable truth. It opens to the reader scenes in the lives of the lowly, and a state of semi-civilization, of which but few of them can have the faintest idea. It has not been my object, in this narrative, to defend Colonel Crockett or to condemn him, but to present his peculiar character exactly as it was. I have therefore been constrained to insert some things which I would gladly have omitted.

Dawn by Harriet A. Adams
Date of Ebook Addition: 05-04-2004
Category: Classic Literature
Description: A classic romance.

Dickory Cronke by Daniel Defoe
Date of Ebook Addition: 05-04-2004
Category: Classic Literature
Description: A faithful and very surprising account how Dickory Cronke, a Tinner's son, in the County of Cornwall, was born Dumb, and continued so for Fifty-eight years; and how, some days before he died, he came to his Speech; with Memoirs of his Life, and the Manner of his Death.

Fatherhood by Steven Piziks
Date of Ebook Addition: 05-04-2004
Category: Fantasy
Description: Forcing a sylph to pay child support is always a tricky business.

Idylls of the King by Alfred Tennyson
Date of Ebook Addition: 05-04-2004
Category: Classic Literature
Description: The longest and most ambitious work of his career, Idylls is a reflection of Tennyson's lifelong interest in Arthurian themes. His personification of Arthur, the highest ideal of manhood and leadership, is achieved through a delicacy of phrase and metrical effect that are unmatched.

Lady Dearborn's Debut by Elizabeth Chater
Date of Ebook Addition: 05-04-2004
Category: Romance
Description: Clea Bradford is a striking creature with her sun-kissed hair and incredibly long legs, but definitely not in vogue. Her Aunt, Lady Floss Dearborn is determined to ensure that the girl's entrance to the ton is greeted with respect. She achieves her purpose, but it is by announcing Clea's fake engagement to an aristocrat who is better suited for her. But lurking behind every corner is Lord Ranulf, a man driven by vengeance. He mistakenly assumes the bohemian is her aunt and plans to exact his revenge for an unsubstantiated rumor of a wrong committed against his relative, Floss's deceased husband. Everywhere Clea turns, Ranulf is right behind her. But his searing hatred is beginning to melt beneath Clea's piercing gaze. Now, rather than burning with revenge, his heart is scorching with passion.

Manuel Pereira by F. Colburn Adams
Date of Ebook Addition: 05-04-2004
Category: Classic Literature
Description: The Sovereign rule of South Carolina, with views of southern laws, life, and hospitality.

Memory and Desire by Lillian Stewart Carl
Date of Ebook Addition: 05-04-2004
Category: Romance
Description: Claire came to the English village to find her best friend, Melinda, who'd vanished after performing in a play which re-creates a seventeenth century witchcraft trial. What she found was a murder mystery--and a man. A man who, like her, is trapped between memory and desire. The play takes place at the manor house where the protagonists lived and died, a house where the past is still a haunting presence. Did Melinda ask too many questions about the village's tragic history? To find her, Claire, too, must ask questions. What she learns is that everyone in the village is playing a role--not just in the melodrama, but in real life. Claire must walk a fine line between repeating the past and surviving the present. For if she puts one foot wrong she won't be seeing the future at all, let alone spending it with the man she's not only come to trust, but to love.

Murder Mile High [Liz Sullivan Mystery #3] by Lora Roberts
Date of Ebook Addition: 05-04-2004
Category: Mystery/Crime
Description: The very day Liz Sullivan, freelance writer, returns to Denver to visit her estranged family, her ex-husband's body is dumped at her parents' door. Since Liz had once tried to kill her extremely abusive husband, the police think she's their killer. Liz finds it necessary to do some dangerous sleuthing, if she doesn't want to find herself in prison again--or dead.

Preserver by Tim Waggoner
Date of Ebook Addition: 05-04-2004
Category: Horror
Description: Benjamin Moulton is losing the race against time. But Seina can change all that--forever.

Saving Face by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Date of Ebook Addition: 05-04-2004
Category: Fantasy
Description: A woman enters Winston's magic shop seeking a new face. Winston has small magic and tells her he lacks the power. Next thing he knows, she winds up dead. Is it his fault for refusing her? And can he solve a magical murder without revealing his own identity to the police? A stand-alone story about the characters who first appeared in "Familiar Territory."

Strangler by Parnell Hall
Date of Ebook Addition: 05-04-2004
Category: Mystery/Crime
Description: As if Stanley Hastings didn't already have bad luck, in his first case the guy he was looking for was found dead and Stanley was accused. But he got out of that one. What were the odds of it happening again? In Stanley's case, apparently very high. Now Stanley must fight to clear his name when the NYPD accuses him of another murder. This gunless, gutless P.I. must solve a case that even New York's finest can't. Is it time for Stanley to find a new line of work?

The Consolidator by Daniel Defoe
Date of Ebook Addition: 05-04-2004
Category: Classic Literature
Description: By 1705 already an established and tempestuous pamphleteer and journalist, this is a wonderful example of Defoe's direct and inventive style. Acknowledging its debt to prior works by Godwin and Wilkins, The Consolidator uses 'the lunar world to satirize England's political and economic abuses and to anticipate scientific inventions' (Gibson). Although most critics are content to analyse it as a prototype Gulliveriad, it is also a fascinating document in itself. Most of the work is dedicated to lengthy descriptions of the world in the Moon, given veracity through the claim that all of this information has been accrued during the narrator's lengthy sojourn in China, a land which has 'many sorts of Learning which these Parts of the World never heard of'. Defoe's unusual sleight of hand here is to say that in fact, Chinese innovation is due almost exclusively to the writings of Mira-cho-cho-lasmo, an ancient visitor from the moon who instructed them in the 'most exquisite Accomplishments of those Lunar Regions'. According to Gove, after a handful of editions in the first decade of the eighteenth century, this work was not republished except in pamphlet and extract editions until a Tegg version in 1840. Scarce on the market, this is a wonderful work and testament to Defoe's enduring importance to the imaginary voyage.

The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles Darwin
Date of Ebook Addition: 05-04-2004
Category: Classic Literature
Description: The Descent of Man looks at the emergence of humans in terms of primate evolution. Charles Darwin focuses on the origin and history of our own species, claiming that humans are closest in ancestry to African chimpanzees and gorillas. Darwin presents a strictly mechanistic and materialistic interpretation of the human animal that is free from superstition and spiritualism.

The Emancipation of Massachusetts by Henry Adams
Date of Ebook Addition: 05-04-2004
Category: Classic Literature
Description: Henry Adams's first work, The Emancipation of Massachusetts, by its vigorous assault upon the accepted manner of dealing with early New England history, attracted attention, caused retort, and served as a wholesome protest against a somewhat blind acceptance of ancestor-worship.

The Inhumanity of Socialism by Edward F. Adams
Date of Ebook Addition: 05-04-2004
Category: Classic Literature
Description: Two essays about the evils of socialism. In the first essay the author is a social darwinist. In the second he presents a socratic dialogue about property rights. The author believes that socialism is not the best way to insure that the fruits of society are evenly distributed. The author believes that inheritance is bad, that each generation should stand on its own accomplishments.

The Raging Hearts by Patricia Hagan
Date of Ebook Addition: 05-04-2004
Category: Romance
Description: Having experienced the agonies of war, Travis will not easily grant anyone his heart's affection ? that is until he is awestruck by Kitty's ethereal beauty. But when the Union solider leaves, promising to return, Kitty is faced with the hatred of the Southern town people, an out-of-wedlock pregnancy, and the unwanted affections from arriving carpetbaggers. Out of the rubble and debris of the Civil War, alone and hated Kitty rises to the seemingly insurmountable task of building a life for her family on their North Carolina farm. Her mind is set on her goal that she will let nothing--not even her raging heart's desire for the strapping Union soldier--stand in the way of keeping her land.

Thin Man by Steven Piziks
Date of Ebook Addition: 05-04-2004
Category: Fantasy
Description: Children fear the monster under the bed or the creature in the closet. But Victorian climbing boys, the poorest of the poor, have neither beds nor closets. What sort of monster would they fear? [Author Note: "Thin Man" was inspired by a pair of poems by William Blake, both titled "The Chimney Sweeper." The bits of information the editors mentioned about climbing boys struck me as both horrifying and fascinating. I read more on the subject and, after some research, came to realize these boys had at least one story to tell. Although the boys are fictional, their lives, their working conditions, and the dangers they face are historical.]

Twisting the Rope by R.A. MacAvoy
Date of Ebook Addition: 05-04-2004
Category: Fantasy
Description: R.A. MacAvoy is a truly gifted author who has no need to rely on the conventions of the science fiction genre in order to hold the reader's attention. Her highly original debut novel, Tea With the Black Dragon, combined elements of mystery and fantasy along with a fascination with computer technology, and was highly praised by critics, while her Lens of the World trilogy appeared on many "best of the year" lists in the national news media. In this sequel to Tea With the Black Dragon, Mayland Long is once again thrust into a maelstrom of mysterious happenings. The peaceful relationship he has established with Martha Macnamara is being threatened. A wild psychic force is loose in the world, while Martha's granddaughter has been kidnapped and one of her Celtic musician friends has been found dead, hanging by a rope of twisted grass. Now the Black Dragon must use his wits to hunt for the killer ? even if it brings him to a horrifying realization.