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1) Dr. No
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James Bond series volume 6
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It was a naked girl, with her back to him. She was not quite naked. She wore a broad leather belt round her waist with a hunting knife in a leather sheath at her right hip. The belt made her nakedness extraordinarily erotic. She stood not more than five yards away on the tideline looking down at something in her hand. She stood in the classical relaxed pose of the nude, all the weight on the right leg and the left knee bent and turning slightly inwards,...
2) Goldfinger
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Secret agent James Bond had been warned not to tangle with Goldfinger. But the super-criminal's latest obsession was too strong, too dangerous. He had to be stopped. Goldfinger was determined to take possession of half the supply of mined gold in the world-to rob Fort Knox! For this incredible venture he had enlisted the aid of the top criminals in the U.S., including a bevy of beautiful thieves from the Bronx. And he had conceived so foolproof a...
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The rich man's children ate their good food and grew thinner and more peaked. The Bulosans, next door, went on eating their poor and meagre food, laughed, and grew fat. So the rich man sued Father Bulosan for stealing the spirit of his food. And Father paid him in his own coin, while the laughter of the Bulosans and the judge drove the rich man's family out of the courtroom.
The Bulosans lived in Binalonan, in the Philippine province of Pangasinan....
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In this novel, which was first published in 1939, author Joseph C. Lincoln collaborated with his son Freeman to produce the sort of fresh and salty tale of Cape Cod that has made him so famous and well-loved. Dick Clarke, in disgrace because of the theft of a valuable book from the Knowlton Library, finds himself on old Sepatonk Island, staying at the Ownley Inn, run by Seth Hammond Ownley, who, when asked the reason for the cannon on the front lawn,...
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A POWERFUL NOVEL OF ELEMENTAL LOVE AND FURY ON A DOOMED, ENCHANTED ISLAND WORLD….In the cradle of civilization, rocked by the waters of the blue Aegean, lies the tiny, barren island of Kalymnos. It is cloaked in antiquity and rich with the vibrant life of a proud and passionate people who have stubbornly endured the ravages of man and nature for three thousand years. And yet Kalymnos is dying, its means of survival crushed beneath the juggernaut...
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Originally published in 1943, SHE CAME TO THE VALLEY by Cleo Dawson became an instant bestseller. It is a story of the visions and successes, the heartbreaks and joys of pioneers who established the Texas-Mexican Border town of Mission Texas. Many of the incidents recounted in this book actually happened in the area at the time when thousands of "homeseekers" found in the rich Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas a place to start a new and challenging...
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In 1762, English novelist Sarah Scott published her most successful novel, A Description of Millennium Hall and the Country Adjacent. The book takes the form of a frame tale and a series of adventures, as the narrator's long-lost cousin relates how each of the residents arrived at the female Utopia, Millennium Hall. The adventures are remarkable for their reliance on a nearly superstitious form of divine grace, where God's will manifests itself with...
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This is a collection of folk tales from the exotic island of Trinidad, woven out of the vivid legends that live in the minds of the island's handsome inhabitants. Witchcraft and curses that spell death hang in the air, with happiness always just a step away from disaster.
The distinctions between man, nature, and the animal world blur and recede when a hunter shakes off the evil of the city and glides lithely into the forest, when a boa constrictor...
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Another in John Gould's Maine series, And One to Grow On: Recollections of a Maine Boyhood, originally published in 1948, is a wonderful collection of anecdotes from the author's very own boyhood in his hometown-where the mailman was a spiritualist, the harbor master rated a Navy celebration, a circus went bankrupt, and practical jokers were well loved. The maybasketing, the church suppers, the picnics, fishing, are all vividly remembered…
There...
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His voice was cast in a lower tone but it still carried the suggestion of a lionlike rumble. "...I want to explain everything for reasons you'll understand when you've heard. But not yet. This is the queerest and blastedest story that any human being has ever told; and every word of it true...It-well, it must be led up to." The older man's words were the first intimation aspiring young writer John Foraday had that something remarkably strange lay...
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Annie married Ed Bauer, reliable and stable, knowing that she would always love Hugh.
Annie was a fighter. If she couldn't have Hugh, she could be his neighbour and social equal. So she fought her way up-up in the world of business, up First Hill-until she made Seattle's first families stand aside for her. Then tragedy struck, and in her grief Annie returned to the waterfront.
When Deming's business began to slide he went to Annie for help. She...
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This wonderful book is a collection of nine tall tales from America by renowned children's author Irwin Shapiro: Pecos Bill, Anthony and the Mossbunker, Old Stormalong, Johnny Appleseed, Davy Crockett, the Yaller Blossom o' the Forest, Sam Patch's Last Leap, Paul Bunyan, John Henry and Joe Magarac the Steel Man.
Illustrated throughout by Al Schmidt.
13) Casino Royale
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James Bond series volume 1
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Casino Royale is the first novel by the British author Ian Fleming. Published in 1953, it is the first James Bond book, and it paved the way for a further eleven novels by Fleming, followed by numerous continuation Bond novels by other authors. The story concerns the British secret agent James Bond, gambling at the casino in Royale-les-Eaux to bankrupt Le Chiffre, the treasurer of a French union and a member of the Russian secret service. Bond is...
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James Bond series volume 5
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The Russians wanted to liquidate James Bond-ace British secret agent-in a way that would embarrass England. So they lined up their best team to pull off the job! Tatiana Romanova-an alluring brunette seductress who looks like Garbo although her heart belongs to the State. Red Grant-a renegade Irish hired assassin, who likes to kill for kicks. Rosa Klebb-head of Otydel II, department of torture and death, a hideous woman with a lust for inflicting...
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James Bond joins the world's most ruthless jewel ring…"We're going to find out who you are and who you work for and what you know....IF you think you can hold out on us you're wrong, dead wrong." Jack Spang spoke to James Bond gently...menacingly. Two hooded men entered the room and sat opposite the secret agent. They put down football boots beside them and started to unlace their shoes. Spang spoke again. "We'll make it a Brooklyn stomping. Eighty...
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James Bond series volume 13
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Bond goes to the Caribbean and track down Francisco Scaramanga, who has built a deadly laser for the express purpose of killing. With his gold-plated Colt .45 and his deadeye accuracy, Scaramanga is deemed too deadly to live .James Bond-"twisted like a dying animal on the ground and iron in his hand cracked viciously…""Pistols" Scaramanga-professional assassin for the KGB and other criminal organizations. A paranoiac and sexual fetishist, he used...
17) Moonraker
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James Bond series volume 3
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Flamboyant red cropped hair, florid skin, eyes blazing with hate-this is the face of Hugo Drax, the mystery man behind Moonraker. A stranger, he came out of nowhere to build England the deadliest weapon ever devised by a human brain. A maniacal genius, he now holds the life of secret agent James Bond in his fiendishly clever hands! James Bond has less than four days to discover the secret motive that is driving the mysterious Hugo Drax to build Moonraker,...
18) Live and Let Die
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James Bond series volume 2
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When 007 goes to Harlem, it's not just for the jazz. For Harlem is the kingdom of Mr. Big, black master of crime, voodoo baron, and senior partner in SMERSH's grim company of death. Those he cannot possess, he crushes; those who cross him will meet painful ends. Like his beautiful prisoner, Solitaire. And her lover, James Bond. Both are marked out as victims in a trail of terror, treachery and torture that leads from New York's black underworld to...
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James Bond series volume 12
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James Bond is about to be cashiered out of Her Majesty's Secret Service. The British agent whose exploits have been followed by millions of readers around the world, who has thwarted such arch-criminals as Dr. No and Goldfinger, now finds himself on a last-chance mission. Sick with grief over the death of Tracy, his beautiful wife of a day, Bond has bungled two important assignments. As You Only Live Twice opens, Bond faces an unspoken ultimatum....
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James Bond series volume 11
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In a closely guarded bastion of evil high in the Swiss Alps. Ernst Stavro Blofeld puts the finishing touches to a most fiendish plot involving ten beautiful and ingenuous girls…to a most diabolical plot for murder on a mass scale. Only one man can stop him and that man is Blofeld's archenemy secret agent James Bond. Ian Fleming's On Her Majesty's Service The superlative thriller that pits the secret agent James Bond once more against SPECTRE's archfiend...
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