Ultimate Supergirl #5 James Steel http://feedbooks.com/userbook/6710 en 2008 Ultimate Supergirl: World's Finest, Part One. Fresh from his appearance in Ultimate Batman and Robin, it's Nightwing! Dick Grayson follows a trail of smugglers from Gotham to San Francisco, where he comes face to face with the city's own heroine. However dark forces are at work which will lead directly into Kara's first real challenge as a hero. Comics DC3 Nightwing Supergirl Linda Danvers Kara Zor-El Houngan Amalgamax http://feedbooks.com/userbook/6710.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/6710.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/6710.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/6710.mobi Rowan of the Wood (Preview) Christine and Ethan Rose http://feedbooks.com/userbook/1998 en 2008 Rowan of the Wood, WINNER of the 2009 Indie Excellence Award for YA Fiction and a Finalist for the 2008 National Best Books Award, tells the story of a young boy Cullen who meanders through the redwood forest every day on his way to school, losing himself in books and fantasy worlds full of elves, fairies, and wizards. He loves to escape to these magical lands because reality for him is not fun at all. Cullen and his two misfit friends, Maddy and April, are terribly unpopular amongst the other kids, and they regularly endure ridicule and bullying. Cullen's life changes incredibly one day when he uncovers an ancient magic wand that is inhabited by a powerful wizard, Rowan. Inadvertently, Cullen releases Rowan from the wand and finds himself possessed by the wizard, with a great power and an obsessive need to find a lost love. When danger is near, Rowan emerges from the frightened child to set things right. He and Cullen try to understand what has happened to them, only to discover a deeper problem. Nearly fourteen centuries ago, Rowan and his bride Fiana were separated on their wedding day. Rowan manages to survive, trapped in time, until Cullen releases him from the wand. Fiana uses dark magic to stay alive as she continues searching for Rowan. Over the centuries, Fiana descends deeper into the darkness becoming something evil and eventually giving up her search...until a young boy brings Rowan back to her. The sequel, WITCH ON THE WATER, is now available on AMAZON and wherever fine books are sold. fantasy fantastique Young Adult YA Teen love Wizard Magic *dark druid Scotland Caledonia California orphan gothic tragic vampire vampires witch dark fantasy http://feedbooks.com/userbook/1998.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/1998.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/1998.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/1998.mobi The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Emma Orczy http://feedbooks.com/book/3568 urn:isbn:014037454X en 1905 Novels History Adventure In this historical adventure set during the French Revolution, the elusive Scarlet Pimpernel sets out to rescue men, women and children facing the horrors of the guillotine, while evading the relentless pursuit of his arch enemy, Chauvelin. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/3568.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3568.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3568.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3568.mobi How To Disappear Completely David Bowick http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3115 en 2009 www.bowick.net/books/ Sitting at the top of a Ferris wheel overlooking the Boston skyline, Josh’s life takes an unexpected turn, and things will never be the same. Along with the many surprises on his life’s new path, he’ll come to take life advice from a family of ducks, get in a bloody war with a dog, lose his job over a spilled drink, wake up in the hospital, apply to work at an adult-themed novelty bakery, and find out that people often aren’t what they seem. When you're at the top of the world, there's nowhere to go but down. fiction Contemporary comedy David Bowick how to disapear completely http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3115.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3115.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3115.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3115.mobi The Red House Mystery A.A. Milne http://feedbooks.com/book/3756 urn:isbn:0099521261 en 1921 Novels Crime/Mystery The Red House, stately mansion home of Mark Ablett, is filled with very proper guests when Mark's most improper brother returns from Australia. When the maid hears an argument in the study it isn't long before the brother dies... of a bullet between the eyes! Strangely, the study has been locked from the inside, and Mark Ablett is missing. Only an investigator with remarkable powers of observation could hope to resolve this mystery, and Antony Gillingham (with cheerful Bill Beverly at his side) is just the man. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/3756.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3756.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3756.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3756.mobi The Well at the World's End William Morris http://feedbooks.com/book/3628 urn:isbn:1598182986 en 1892 Novels Romance Fantasy Using language with elements of the medieval tales which were his models, Morris tells the story of Ralph of Upmeads, the fourth and youngest son of a minor king, who sets out, contrary to his parents' wishes, to find knightly adventure and seek the Well at the World's End, a magic well which will confer a near-immortality and strengthened destiny on those who drink from it. Although the novel is relatively obscure by today's standards it has had a significant influence on many notable fantasy authors. C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien both seem to have found inspiration in The Well at the World's End: ancient tables of stone, a "King Peter", a quick, white horse named "Silverfax", and a character named "Gandalf" are only a few, to say nothing of Ralph's journey home as denouement, anticipating the Hobbits' return and battle for the Shire. http://feedbooks.com/book/3628.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3628.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3628.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3628.mobi The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Francis Scott Fitzgerald http://feedbooks.com/book/3431 en 1922 Short Fiction This story was inspired by a remark of Mark Twain's to the effect that it was a pity that the best part of life came at the beginning and the worst part at the end. By trying the experiment upon only one man in a perfectly normal world I have scarcely given his idea a fair trial. Several weeks after completing it, I discovered an almost identical plot in Samuel Butler's "Note-books." The story was published in "Collier's" last summer and provoked this startling letter from an anonymous admirer in Cincinnati: "Sir-- I have read the story Benjamin Button in Colliers and I wish to say that as a short story writer you would make a good lunatic I have seen many peices of cheese in my life but of all the peices of cheese I have ever seen you are the biggest peice. I hate to waste a peice of stationary on you but I will." This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/3431.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3431.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3431.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3431.mobi Dream Days Kenneth Grahame http://feedbooks.com/book/3650 urn:isbn:143783597X en 1898 Short Fiction Fantasy Collections The further adventures of five brothers and sisters growing up in the English countryside in the late nineteenth century. Sequel to "The Golden Age.". This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/3650.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3650.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3650.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3650.mobi The Golden Age Kenneth Grahame http://feedbooks.com/book/3651 urn:isbn:1585790192 en 1895 Novels Young Readers Fantasy Biography Grahame’s reminiscences are notable for their conception “of a world where children are locked in perpetual warfare with the adult ‘Olympians’ who have wholly forgotten how it feels to be young”--a theme later explored by J. M. Barrie and other authors. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/3651.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3651.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3651.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3651.mobi The Wallet of Kai Lung Ernest Bramah Smith http://feedbooks.com/book/3643 urn:isbn:1438504497 en 1900 Short Fiction Fantasy Collections The Wallet of Kai Lung is a collection of fantasy stories by Ernest Bramah, all but the last of which feature Kai Lung, an itinerant story-teller of ancient China. It was first published in hardcover in London by Grant Richards in 1900, and there have been numerous editions since. Its initial tale, The Transmutation of Ling, was also issued by the same publisher as a separate chapbook in 1911. The collection's importance in the history of fantasy literature was recognized by the anthologization of two of its tales in the celebrated Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series, edited by Lin Carter and published by Ballantine Books; "The Vision of Yin" in Discoveries in Fantasy (March, 1972), and "The Transmutation of Ling" in Great Short Novels of Adult Fantasy Volume II (March, 1973). Although the collection is presented in the fashion of a novel, with each of its component stories designated chapters, there is no overall plot aside from each of the first eight tales being presented as narratives told by Kai Lung at various points in his itinerant career. The final tale is represented as being from a manuscript left by its own separate first-person narrator, Kin Yen. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/3643.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3643.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3643.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3643.mobi The Book of Tea Kakuzo Okakura http://feedbooks.com/book/991 urn:isbn:1933330171 en 1906 Non-Fiction Philosophy The Book of Tea was written by Okakura Kakuzo in the early 20th century. It was first published in 1906, and has since been republished many times. In the book, Kakuzo introduces the term Teaism and how Tea has affected nearly every aspect of Japanese culture, thought, and life. The book is accessibile to Western audiences because Kakuzo was taught at a young age to speak English; and spoke it all his life, becoming proficient at communicating his thoughts to the Western Mind. In his book, he discusses such topics as Zen and Taoism, but also the secular aspects of Tea and Japanese life. The book emphasises how Teaism taught the Japanese many things; most importantly, simplicity. Kakuzo argues that this tea-induced simplicity affected art and architecture, and he was a long-time student of the visual arts. He ends the book with a chapter on Tea Masters, and spends some time talking about Sen no Rikyu and his contribution to the Japanese Tea Ceremony. According to Tomonobu Imamichi, Heidegger's concept of Dasein in Sein und Zeit was inspired — although Heidegger remains silent on this — by Okakura Kakuzo's concept of das-in-dem-Welt-sein (to be in the being of the world) expressed in The Book of Tea to describe Zhuangzi's philosophy, which Imamichi's teacher had offerred to Heidegger in 1919, after having followed lessons with him the year before. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/991.png http://feedbooks.com/book/991.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/991.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/991.mobi Eight Keys to Eden Mark Irvin Clifton http://feedbooks.com/book/3538 en 1960 Novels Science Fiction The piercing wonder of man's climb to higher intelligence. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/3538.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3538.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3538.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3538.mobi Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen http://feedbooks.com/book/52 urn:isbn:0553213105 en 1813 Novels Romance Pride And Prejudice, the story of Mrs. Bennet's attempts to marry off her five daughters is one of the best-loved and most enduring classics in English literature. Excitement fizzes through the Bennet household at Longbourn in Hertfordshire when young, eligible Mr. Charles Bingley rents the fine house nearby. He may have sisters, but he also has male friends, and one of these—the haughty, and even wealthier, Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy—irks the vivacious Elizabeth Bennet, the second of the Bennet girls. She annoys him. Which is how we know they must one day marry. The romantic clash between the opinionated Elizabeth and Darcy is a splendid rendition of civilized sparring. As the characters dance a delicate quadrille of flirtation and intrigue, Jane Austen's radiantly caustic wit and keen observation sparkle. http://feedbooks.com/book/52.png http://feedbooks.com/book/52.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/52.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/52.mobi Birthday Girl: a novel Diane J. Wright http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2394 en 2008 Sixteen-year-old Tracey Burns has been confined to a single room for two years. One night, amid chaotic spring winds, she slips to freedom and inadvertently sets herself on a journey that takes her further away from the one thing she wants most: to find the mother who left her behind. Determined but starkly naïve, Tracey plunges into a harsh and confusing world where she is no more than a headline, a case file, another ragged face on the side of the California highway asking for change. It's only when she stumbles upon an enclave of irrepressible epicureans tucked in the flatlands of the Mojave that she begins to uncover the truth of her world, of herself, and of her missing mother. Download the entire novel at http://birthdaygirl.fatbrain.ca. Available for all eBook readers. http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2394.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2394.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2394.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2394.mobi Beasts of New York: A children's book for grown-ups Jon Evans http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2976 en 2007 An urban fantasy about the wildlife of New York City, starring a squirrel protagonist who has to find his way from exile in Staten Island back to his home in Central Park. http://www.beastsofnewyork.com/ fantasy animals urban fantasy http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2976.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2976.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2976.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2976.mobi Magic for Beginners Kelly Link http://feedbooks.com/book/3187 en 2005 Short Fiction Science Fiction Fantasy Collections Link's engaging and funny second collection -- call it kitchen-sink magical realism -- riffs on haunted convenience stores, husbands and wives, rabbits, zombies, weekly apocalyptic poker parties, witches, superheroes, marriage, and cannons -- and includes several new stories. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/3187.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3187.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3187.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3187.mobi Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions Edwin Abbott Abbott http://feedbooks.com/book/1596 urn:isbn:048627263X en 1884 Novels Philosophy Science Humor/Satire Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is an 1884 science fiction novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott. As a satire, Flatland offered pointed observations on the social hierarchy of Victorian culture. However, the novella's more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions; in a foreword to one of the many publications of the novella, noted science writer Isaac Asimov described Flatland as "The best introduction one can find into the manner of perceiving dimensions." As such, the novella is still popular amongst mathematics, physics and computer science students. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/1596.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1596.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1596.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1596.mobi Looking Backward Edward Bellamy http://feedbooks.com/book/829 urn:isbn:155709506X en 1888 Novels Science Fiction Set in Boston on December 26, 2000, but written before the turn of the nineteenth century, this classic Utopian novel is more significant and relevant than ever with its reappearance this millennium. Addressing moral and material concerns of late nineteenth century industrial America through romantic narrative, Bellamy suggests a fictionalized society in which war, poverty, and malice do not exist. http://feedbooks.com/book/829.png http://feedbooks.com/book/829.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/829.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/829.mobi Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe http://feedbooks.com/book/2201 urn:isbn:1840224029 en 1852 Novels Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the United States, so much so in the latter case that the novel intensified the sectional conflict leading to the American Civil War. http://feedbooks.com/book/2201.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2201.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2201.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2201.mobi Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell http://feedbooks.com/book/2100 urn:isbn:1416548890 en 1936 Novels Romance Margaret Mitchell's epic novel of love and war won the Pulitzer Prize and went on to give rise to two authorized sequels and one of the most popular and celebrated movies of all time. Many novels have been written about the Civil War and its aftermath. None take us into the burning fields and cities of the American South as Gone With the Wind does, creating haunting scenes and thrilling portraits of characters so vivid that we remember their words and feel their fear and hunger for the rest of our lives. In the two main characters, the white-shouldered, irresistible Scarlett and the flashy, contemptuous Rhett, Margaret Mitchell not only conveyed a timeless story of survival under the harshest of circumstances, she also created two of the most famous lovers in the English-speaking world since Romeo and Juliet. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://feedbooks.com/book/2100.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2100.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2100.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2100.mobi Little Women Louisa May Alcott http://feedbooks.com/book/139 urn:isbn:0517214628 en 1868 Novels Little Women or, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888). Written and published in two parts in 1868 and 1869, the novel follows the lives of four sisters — Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy March — and is loosely based on the author's childhood experiences with her three sisters. The first part of the book was an immediate commercial and critical success and prompted the composition of the book's second part, also a huge success. Both parts were first published as a single volume in 1880. The book is an unquestioned American classic. http://feedbooks.com/book/139.png http://feedbooks.com/book/139.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/139.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/139.mobi I, Robot Cory Doctorow http://feedbooks.com/book/337 urn:isbn:1560259817 en 2005 Short Fiction Science Fiction "I, Robot" is a science-fiction short story by Cory Doctorow published in 2005. The story is set in the type of police state needed to ensure that only one company is allowed to make robots, and only one type of robot is allowed. The story follows single Father detective Arturo Icaza de Arana-Goldberg while he tries to track down his missing teenage daughter. The detective is a bit of an outcast because his wife defected to Eurasia, a rival Superpower. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/337.png http://feedbooks.com/book/337.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/337.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/337.mobi Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town Cory Doctorow http://feedbooks.com/book/260 urn:isbn:0765312808 en 2005 Novels Science Fiction Alan is a middle-aged entrepeneur in contemporary Toronto, who has devoted himself to fixing up a house in a bohemian neighborhood. This naturally brings him in contact with the house full of students and layabouts next door, including a young woman who, in a moment of stress, reveals to him that she has wings--wings, moreover, which grow back after each attempt to cut them off. Alan understands. He himself has a secret or two. His father is a mountain; his mother is a washing machine; and among his brothers are a set of Russian nesting dolls. Now two of the three nesting dolls, Edward and Frederick, are on his doorstep--well on their way to starvation, because their innermost member, George, has vanished. It appears that yet another brother, Davey, who Alan and his other siblings killed years ago, may have returned...bent on revenge. Under such circumstances it seems only reasonable for Alan to involve himself with a visionary scheme to blanket Toronto with free wireless Internet connectivity, a conspiracy spearheaded by a brilliant technopunk who builds miracles of hardware from parts scavenged from the city’s dumpsters. But Alan’s past won’t leave him alone--and Davey is only one of the powers gunning for him and all his friends. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/260.png http://feedbooks.com/book/260.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/260.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/260.mobi ...After a Few Words... Randall Garrett http://feedbooks.com/book/2146 en 1962 Short Fiction Science Fiction This is a science-fiction story. History is a science; the other part is, as all Americans know, the most fictional field we have today. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/2146.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2146.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2146.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2146.mobi The Prize in the Game Jo Walton http://feedbooks.com/book/2232 urn:isbn:0765302632 en 2002 Novels Fantasy When a friendly competition leads to the death of a beloved horse and incurs the wrath of the Horse Goddess, the kingdoms of the island of Tir Isarnagiri are doomed to suffer. As the goddess' curse chases them down the years, four friends destined for kingship-Conal, Emer, Darag, and Ferdia-are forced into conflict as their countries build towards war. Matters are complicated when Emer and Conal fall in love, and dream of escaping together from the machinations of their respective families. But Conal and Ferdia are rivals for the High Kingship of the island, and Conal cannot simply leave. The contest between them will lead to a visionary quest on a mountain sacred to the gods-and terrifying to men. Yet Emer faces an even greater struggle. For when war finally comes, Emer has two choices: perform her duty to the homeland to which she owes everything, or protect the one she loves and be branded a traitor forever. The path she takes will become the stuff of legend, and forever alter the destiny of Tir Isarnagiri. Set in the world of Jo Walton's previous novels, The King's Peace and The King's Name, this book takes us to a shining era of dark powers, legendary heroes and passionate loves-all of them ruled by the hand of Fate. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/2232.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2232.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2232.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2232.mobi The Magic World Edith Nesbit http://feedbooks.com/book/1319 urn:isbn:0140367659 en 1912 Short Fiction Fantasy Collections This collection includes, "The Cat-hood of Maurice", "The Mixed Mine", "Accidental Magic", "The Princess and the Hedge-Pig", "Septimus Septimusson", "The White Cat", "Belinda and Bellamant", "Justnowland", "The Related Muff", "The Aunt and Anabel; "Kenneth and the Carp" and "The Magician's Heart" This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/1319.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1319.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1319.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1319.mobi Abducted to Oz Robert J. Evans Chris Dulabone http://feedbooks.com/book/1945 en 2003 Novels Fantasy Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/1945.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1945.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1945.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1945.mobi The Beautiful and the Damned Francis Scott Fitzgerald http://feedbooks.com/book/1417 urn:isbn:0743451503 en 1922 Novels This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/1417.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1417.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1417.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1417.mobi