Free-eBooks.net | Download free Fiction, Health, Romance and many more ebooks Book Store « Beautiful Desolation Exceptions and Deceptions has arrived! A collection of genre-busting short stories encompassing the past fifteen years and highlighting an incredibly diverse roster of tales. Includes “Daughter”, a harrowing account of abduction, and the previously unpublished novella “Second Sight”. Nineteen stories, clocking in at over two hundred and fifty pages, with the added bonus of an author’s Afterword and notes on each of the tales. Gorgeous cover art by Joslyn Cain completes the package. A volume book-lovers and fans of fantastic literature will treasure. “Cliff Burns’s books belong on anyone’s five-foot shelf of essential reading, lodged snugly between Borges and Burroughs.” Stefan Dziemianowicz “I’ve been following Cliff Burns’s career for the past 25 years and there isn’t a finer horror writer in Canada.” Robert Runté, critic and academic For your signed copy: $17.95 (USA & Canada) + Shipping: $12.00 (Canada); USA $9.00 (Surface) $11.00 (Airmail) £12 (Great Britain) + $16.50 shipping Other:
Top 10 Vampire Romances That Don’t Suck While Stephanie Meyer’s 4 book series “Twilight” may have brought vampire romances out of their coffins in the eyes of the book-reading public, the paranormal genre has been going strong with these vampy romances for decades and, in at least one case, over a century! There are a few redeeming qualities in “Twilight” …fine maybe only two: it’s re-popularized reading for people across the globe, perhaps more so than that Harry guy- and it’s almost singlehandedly created Teen fiction sections in bookstores everywhere. However, taken in stride, the Twilight series has mainly given older adults a reason to look in the Teen fiction section, the writing isn’t very good, and it’s late to a ball that started way before teen angst tried strolling through a paranormal vampire’s world. This Top 10 list chronicles some of the most popular and best examples of vampire romances (series or standalones) minus the teen angst. 10. 9. 8. This series by J.R. 7. 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1.
Share Book Recommendations With Your Friends, Join Book Clubs, Answer Trivia Fictionwise Your Summer Reading Guide: 16 Great Books About To Become Movies "Yeah, but it wasn't as good as the book." You hear that about movies all the time pretty much no matter what, whether it's a spin on a huge best-selling series like Harry Potter or an intimate adaptation of a highbrow novel like Jane Eyre. We love movies here are much as anybody, but we also know there's nothing quite like the experience of reading book, feeling like you're living with these characters in your head for weeks and days on end, and imagining them in a way that's totally specific to you. But even if you're setting yourself up for disappointment, you can't help but look forward to an adaptation of a book you love, out of curiosity if nothing else. Dive into our Summer Reading List below, and let us know in the comments what you're thinking of picking up.
Wikibooks She Loves Hot Reads - Home Sacred Books of the East Index Sacred-texts home Hinduism Taoism Confucianism Buddhism Jainism Islam ZoroastrianismBuy CD-ROM Buy books: Sacred Books of the East Table of ContentsIndex of TranslatorsTransliteration TablesAvailable reprints The Sacred Books of the East (SBE) series, comprising fifty volumes, was issued by the Oxford University Press between 1879 and 1910. This series was the one of the inspirations for the sacred-texts website. NEW: The SBE is complete As of September 2008, we have now reached a key milestone, completing and posting substantial etexts of all of the original 49 volumes of the SBE. The difficulties of turning these books into etexts were enormous, and required great care and diligence. The SBE texts suffer from the usual disease of Victorian scholarly texts; they are replete with extensive (and often superfluous) introductory matter and footnotes. However, there are compelling reasons to revisit these books. The original Oxford University Press printing was of very high quality.
The Best Science Fiction Books (According to Reddit) Recently, someone asked Reddit for a list of the best science fiction books of all time. Being a fan of sci-fi, and wanting to expand my own reading list, I thought it would be helpful to tally the results and preserve them here for future reference. I've also included selected quotes from the comments, as well as my own notes on the books I've already read. PS: All book images in this post are copyright Amazon, and were retrieved using my Big Book Search Engine. So, without further ado, here are the Greatest Sci-Fi Books of All Time, ordered by upvote count: Dune Frank Herbert - 1965 "There's a reason it's the global top selling science fiction book of all time." - NibblyPig If you have a chance, track down the excellent full cast audiobook (unabridged!) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams - 1979 "I really love the cool combination of humor, philosophy, and sheer nuttiness of the entire series." - Scarbrow Ender's Game Orson Scott Card - 1985 Foundation Trilogy Isaac Asimov - 1942
The Very Best Books I've Read in 2010 // Brainsturbator I have dozens of projects and I neglect them all. This year, my biggest victim has been Brainsturbator, once the focus of my daily life, now mostly a museum to who I was four years ago. I am many things to many people, but there’s one constant: I read a couple hundred pages a day, minimum. So as we approach to end of 2010, I wanted to share some of my very highest reading recommendations with you fine folks… A Terrible Mistake, by HP Albarelli. Although this list is technically in alphabetical order, this also happens to be my number one draft pick. In the end, what’s most impressive about A Terrible Mistake is how much history it was not able to cover. After the New Economy, by Doug Henwood. The majority of my reading in the past year has been in Economics, shaped by a couple new jobs that required me to become a fake expert in the field. Equally Worthy: his earlier book Wall Street: How It Works and for Whom is just as good and thorough. C Street, by Jeff Sharlet. , Castle and Cathedral