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This is a look at many pursuits, travels, and activities I've undergone during my more than a few years in this world. It's a memoir with lots of fun details about my experiences in the U. S. and many other countries I've visited. Especially memorable were the people I got to know along the way, and the several I continue to stay in touch with decades later. Those who read this might find they - relate readily to many of their own adventures.
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2) Cold Meat
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While passing through the Colorado Rockies, David stops for a meal at a diner and ends up heroically saving a young waitress from her violent ex-husband. David hits the road again amid a dangerous blizzard, and one false move sends him into a ravine in the eye of the storm. Slowly running out of resources, it's hard to tell what will get him first: the cold or the beast that's prowling outside.
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The Prince Corin ... Decadent, seductive, master of the love affair.Corin is crown prince of Alfheim, the Elven lands. Considered the handsomest man in the land, he is well used to the females in his life indulging his every desire. But after losing the first woman who ever touched his heart to his best friend, he swears he'll never let anyone get that close again.Under pressure from his royal family to marry and produce an heir, he decides the only...
6) The Hunter
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Leeches. You know them as vampires, they seem to be normal people. Except the fact that they have ivory skin and blood red eyes. They try to hide in the normal world, but people like me, we can tell the difference. I'm a hunter, one of many. We're all over the world. Right now, they're looking for something, something that would destroy the human population withing days. I must stop them. I must save the human race. Even if it's the last thing I do....
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Ashes to Ashes. Dust to Dust. If vampires kill your entire family, vengeance is a must.I can't say my parents never warned me about vampires. I just never believed them. Not-that is-until six months ago when vampires broke into my home and killed my family. Thanks to all the skills my parents taught me, I managed to escape but I couldn't save them.Two vampires down and the rest of the world to go.My bid for revenge is going to have to wait, though,...
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A collection of "mesmerizing tales, each one creepier than the next" that go beyond the traditional vampire myths (Library Journal).
When we think of vampires, an image instantly arises: fangs sunk deep into the throat of the victim. But bloodsucking is merely one form of vampirism. For this brilliantly original anthology, multiple award-winning editor Ellen Datlow solicited stories from many of the most powerfully dark voices in contemporary...
9) Swamp Rats
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My name is Princess, and I live on the river. In the swamps. When I was nine, Mama left. She hated that Papa traveled on the river all the time to make money. She was lonely. After she left, I was alone.
Cree lived two doors down from me. He had three baby brothers, and he was strong. I watched him from my windows sometimes because Mama didn't let me play with him. She was born in the city, so she thought all the people out here were river rats....
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Academy Award®-Winner for Best Adapted Screenplay. Academy Award®-nominee Benedict Cumberbatch (TV's SHERLOCK, STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS) shines as real-life war hero and pioneer of modern-day computing, Alan Turing. THE IMITATION GAME follows Turing as he leads a motley crew of scholars, linguists, chess champions, and intelligence officers in cracking the so-called unbreakable codes of Germany's World War II Enigma machine, potentially saving millions...
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