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Level 26 series
Anthony E Zuiker, the creator of hit TV series CSI is back with a mixed modal creation – the world’s first digi-novel. What is a digi-novel? In this series, readers of the novels are provided with with codes in the books to unlock videos online at the level26.com website. These videos are professionally made, and [...]
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Confessions of a Fallen Angel
Synopsis: Following a near-dear experience as a child, the narrator becomes cursed with the ability to foresee the deaths of people closest to him. These visions come to him in his dreams and, following a disastrous attempt to save a friend from drowning, a series of terrifying events begins to unfold. As a young man [...]
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Diary of a Diet
This book is a collection of column articles by a Welsh columnist, Hannah Jones. Jones was put on a mission to go on a diet to start a new column about dieting, hence the 31-year-old size 24 columnist joined a gym, went to weight loss support groups, and wrote her column. In one of the [...]
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The Teahouse Fire
Elegantly crafted, The Teahouse Fire is a fiction set in late 19th century Japan. The protagonist Aurelia, a French young girl who lived in New York, was brought to Japan by her uncle. Following the death of her mother and the escapse from her abusive uncle, she finds herself taking refuge with a family who [...]
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The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil
Synopsis: Welcome to Inner Horner, a nation so small it can only accommodate one citizen at a time. The other six citizens must wait their turns in the Short-Term Residency Zone of the surrounding country of Outer Horner. It’s a long-standing arrangement between the fantastical, not-exactly-human citizens of the two countries. But when Inner Horner [...]
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Written on the Body
Zestarrest posted a review of this book a few days ago, and it intrigued me. While I was reading the book, I can’t help but notice how it resembled Lolita. That stalker predatory tone recounting past conquests and present lover. The protagonist is of unknown gender and deliberately so. Would it matter less, or more, [...]
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I am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced
The title says it all – a ten-year-old divorcee. This is the tale of 10-year-old Yemenese girl Nujood sold to a man 3 times her age. The book is short – she tells of her family’s struggle which led to the decision to marry her off, and how she managed to escape and go to [...]
Bookeen Cybook Opus
Remember I mentioned that I might get an e-book reader? I did. I’m such a geek sometimes; I cannot resist technology. Bad for my pocket, good for my soul. I think that’s a fair trade. I got a Sony Reader a month or so back, but it broke down on me before I could blog [...]
The Year After the Flood
The times and and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability. Adam One, the kindly leader of the God’s Gardeners – a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion, as well as the preservation of all plant and animal life – [...]
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Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives