Benjamin Fife
1) Just David
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If you have a soft spot for Eleanor H. Porter's beloved novel Pollyanna, you should definitely add Just David to your reading list. Written just a few years after Porter penned her best-known work, this emotionally resonant and uplifting tale mines many of the same themes, albeit from a starkly different vantage-point. David is a young boy who has lived an extremely sheltered life in the mountains, with just his father and his beloved
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In Bicycles of the Gods, the main character, Jesse, presents an earthly incarnation of Jesus Christ come to earth in the body of a 12-year-old boy in the company of Xavi, who is the earthly incarnation of Shiva, Destroyer of Worlds, also a 12-year-old boy. The pair stand on a hilltop above the city of Los Angeles contemplating how best to destroy it as a precursor to destroying the entire world to rid it of humanity so it can refresh and rebuild....
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But Mr. Bingley has begged for help with his sister, causing Elizabeth to be thrown together with Mr. Darcy. Her treasonous heart enjoys every moment.
Why? Such a proud and disagreeable man cannot love! But when Mr. Darcy shows a gentler side, Elizabeth knows she is in trouble.
Darcy has had his fill of manipulative women-and he is not shy about saying so. Now he must help Charles ward off his sister's undesirable suitor. To do this, he must work...
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It's the late 90s Internet boom, and Brendon Meagher has just lost his wife Sadie in a freakish car accident at the edge of Silicon Valley. The Cyclone Release follows Brendon as he emerges from tragedy and lands in a pre-IPO start-up that promises astonishing riches. Mo Gramercy, a bright and commanding colleague with her own deep secret, joins Brendon, disrupts his malaise, and takes him as her lover. The characters' careen toward IPO millions,...
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When the dragon Tyrmiss returns to the kingdom to ask Tessia and Norbert to help save the Western Dragons from extermination, the two heroes begin the greatest adventure of their lives, one that will take them into the underworld to plead with Mnuurluth, Lord Death himself, whom they have unknowingly been serving all along.
6) Enhancement
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Enhancement is a collection of short stories that consider what life would be like if humans drew energy directly from sunlight. Why have we not altered our bodies so we can photosynthesise?
How much of life would change if we could do so? Perhaps we would eat less, rest more, reduce our damage to the environment, maybe lives far into our hundreds.
An Australian university student starts the world down this path by extracting algae from corals and...
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Not that the mumps is foolish, but really. Hasn't everyone had it? Not Caroline Bingley, apparently.
So, the Bingleys and Mr. Darcy are stuck at Netherfield Park, along with guests invited by a mysterious relative known only as Aunt Jane. Who on earth is that? No one has met her, but Emma Woodhouse claims that she is no one to trifle with. Darcy has his doubts.
Later, when Elizabeth Bennet and her sister arrive seeking refuge, Darcy becomes even more...
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All Isom could think about was blood. He could smell it everywhere. This new existence was a daily struggle. One that he was not sure he would survive. With the Christmas season coming to early 20th Century Boston, Isom finds himself alone. With only the remnant memories of his past life as a prodigy violinist, this new vampire must strive to adapt to his new immortal existence. Though, this isn't easy. A series of unfortunate circumstances places...
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Norbert Oldfoot is a simple mage who makes his living traveling the Bekla River Road, selling trade goods, performing healing magic, and singing traditional songs of heroes. He becomes friends with Kerttu, a coppersmith who has developed a new alloy that is perfect for manufacturing swords.
When Kerttu is kidnapped by the evil Wizard Ludek. Kerttu's teenage daughter Tessia, a skilled hunter, recruits three friends, including Norbert, and sets out...
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"You have a widow, and we have a widower."
Darcy cannot believe his ears. Will John Knightley's suggestion solve his troubles with his widowed mother-in-law? Could it be so staggeringly simple?
Never mind that old Mr. Woodhouse does not wish for another wife. Or that Mrs. Bennet thinks only of finding husbands for her daughters. If Darcy and the Knightley brothers can bring about this match, their problems will be solved.
However, what sounded simple...
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What if Elizabeth had been sent away from Longbourn as a child to live with her aunt and uncle in London?
When a childhood accident forces Elizabeth Bennet to leave Longbourn and grow up under the care of her Aunt and Uncle Gardiner, her life takes an unexpected turn. On a trip to Derbyshire, she meets a young Fitzwilliam Darcy, whose father's guidance shapes the man he is becoming. What begins as a tender friendship blossoms into a love both fierce...
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Mr. Darcy's departure has solved nothing. He loves Elizabeth Bennet as much as ever-and he has left her vulnerable to Wickham's lies. Why not send her a warning? Anonymously, of course. He must conquer his obsession, yet he must also do something to protect her.
But when Darcy is dunned for a bill of Wickham's-an old trick-he sends the magistrate's men with a warrant. Wickham, however, is nowhere to be found. At the same time, a titled lady appears...
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Elizabeth's mother has lied. Now the horrible Thorpes have come for Christmas!
No matter that the fib is an old one, Elizabeth Bennet's cousins are certain that she is an heiress. Is not the Bennet's prosperous estate evidence enough? There is a fortune to be had through marriage, and John Thorpe is hungry for it.
Repelling the man's advances is only one of Elizabeth's troubles. John's sister has a devious plan to become the next mistress of Longbourn....
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Mr. Bennet had very often wished that, instead of spending his whole income, he had laid by an annual sum for the better provision of his children, and of his wife, if she survived him. Alas, he did not live long enough to do it. After her father's untimely death, Miss Elizabeth Bennet reads a letter from him in which he tasks her with the protection of her family.
Elizabeth is willing to do everything in her power to fulfill her father's dying wish,...
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It has been called 'The Greatest War Novel of All Time.'
All Quiet on the Western Front stands also as one of the greatest condemnations of war of all time.
Follow a firsthand account of German enlisted man, Paul Baumer as he recounts details mundane and profound. His account moves and tears at our hearts with the horrors of war and the stark realities of humanity. All while somehow skirting around the question: Why?
I bite into my pillow. I...
16) The Lost Prince
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War looms in a small forgotten eastern European country. But war is nothing new to Samavia. The once idyllic land has been in continual struggle since the last young rightful leader was smuggled across borders to prevent his death in a violent coupe centuries before. This lost prince, or his heirs, are possibly the only thing that can restore order and peace to a once vibrant land and people. But where have they disappeared to?
Two young boys are...
17) Quest
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Sylvalla escapes Avondale castle and the life of a princess, in search of the adventure she's always wanted. Once found, adventure bites back. Fortunately, she's not alone. Unfortunately, her new-found companions are less than heroic. Jonathan, would rather make money than learn wizardry. Dirk, would rather live a long and happy life than confront danger. And at 150, old Capro would rather stop gallivanting, and harangue unsuspecting wizardry students...
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Get ready to embark on a wild adventure that will leave you breathless! The Zak Bates Eco-Adventure series is back with a prequel that explores the origins of the last living magic cat, Ra-Kit. // In Ra-Kit's Initiation, you'll discover the secrets behind Ra-Kit's magical powers and how she became the last of her kind. Join Ra-Kit as her flying dog companion, Sampson, shares a quirky romp through London in the mid-1800s on how an orphan kitten joined...
19) Northanger Abbey
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Catherine Morland meets all the trappings of Gothic horror and imagines the worst. Disaster does eventually strike, as it does in the real world as distinct from the romantic one, but without spoiling the wonderful atmosphere of this story.
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Can heartbreak ever lead to greater happiness?
When Elizabeth weds one of Darcy's dearest friends he tries, and fails, to put his love for her behind him. Then, after two years of regretting his decision to step aside for his cousin, Colonel Fitzwilliam, Darcy is given that rarest of gifts, a second chance. Though he mourns the cousin he loved like a brother, Darcy can't help but wonder what might have been, and what could still be.
Elizabeth's...