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Craven Fortune

Fred M. White

The moral of this story is clear to all, because it is relevant envy. It was a large, beautifully furnished room, filled with priceless paintings, bronze and old furniture. It was the mansion of a rich Stephen Morrison, a wise man. He hired an artist and gave him a check so that he could settle in the city. Everyone was jealous of Stephen.

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Crazy Rhythm

Max Brand

After 8 years in prison for murder, Jimmy Geary returns to his town Yellow Creek, and his past, and an ambush. Jimmy was very happy to see town again. But there are three men who arent happy to see Jimmy Geary return, and they conspire to make his stay this time very short... Neatly plotted and briskly told, it illustrates Max Brands remarkable gift for storytelling. One of the greatest western authors of all time, Frederick Faust wrote under sixteen different pseudonyms, including the best known being Max Brand. Although he wrote under many genres, westerns were his forte. Max Brand leads the reader on a very authentic tale of the old west the way it was.

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Création et rédemption

Alexandre Dumas pere

Cétait une nature de Dieu, incapable daimer un tre quil naurait point créé lui-mme. Aussi, seul et triste au milieu de la foule pour laquelle il navait pas de regards, ou navait que des regards distraits, il payait cher lambition de ses désirs. Comme le Seigneur avant la création du monde, il sennuyait. Ce jour-l, Jacques Mérey était assez content de la maniere dont se comportait dans la cornue la dissolution dun certain sel dont il étudiait les plus heureuses vertus curatives, quand trois coups précipités retentirent la porte de la rue. Ces trois coups éveillerent les miaulements furieux dun chat noir, que les mauvaises langues de la ville, les dévotes surtout, prétendaient tre le génie familier du docteur...

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Creatures That Once Were Men and Other Stories

Maxim Gorky

A collection of short stories by a popular and influential Russian author, the founder of the literary method of socialist realism and, possibly, the greatest Russian literary figure of the 20th century. He wrote short stories, plays, memoirs and novels that touched the imagination of the Russian people, and was the first Russian author to sympathize sympathetically with characters such as tramps and thieves, emphasizing their daily struggle with insurmountable difficulties.

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Creep, Shadow!

A. Merritt

Creep, Shadow! is the second novel in the Dr. Lowell series, preceded by Burn, Witch, Burn! . Its short and it moves along very quickly but theres plenty of tension and some genuinely creepy moments. Doctor Alan Carnac returns to the commonplace world of New York from the jungles of Africa, only to meet there a menace more mysterious and appalling than the savage magic of the witch doctors his best friend has inexplicably committed suicide and Carnac begins a frantic investigation which will lead him to come across charming but sinister women and into the horror of obscure sacrificial rites... A masterpiece of horror, mystery and paranormal, A. Merritts novel will make even the hottest blood run cold.

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Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

Is murder is permissible in pursuit of a higher purpose? Meet Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student in St. Petersburg who formulates and executes a plan to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker for her cash. Raskolnikov convinces himself that his motive for the murder is to benefit mankind. His struggle with himself and those around him becomes a battle of the individual against society, radicalism against tradition, and ultimately the will of man against the mysteries of divine providence. So begins one of the greatest novels ever written, a journey into the criminal mind, a police thriller, and a philosophical meditation on morality and redemption. The best known of Dostoevskys masterpieces, Crime and Punishment can bear any amount of rereading without losing a drop of its power over our imaginations.

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Crooks in the Sunshine

E. Phillips Oppenheim

This is another great collection of short stories by Edward Phillips Oppenheim, the prolific English novelist who was in his lifetime a major and successful writer of genre fiction including thrillers and spy novels, and who wrote over a 100 of them. He was the self-styled prince of storytellers., generally regarded as the earliest writer of spy fiction as we know it today, and invented the Rogue Male school of adventure thrillers. This volume is a collection of 10 mystery and investigation short stories of Commodore Jensen, a beloved Oppenheim character.

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Cross Currents

Ladbroke Black

On December 26, 2004, one of the largest earthquakes in human history occurred off the coast of Indonesia, causing a series of powerful tsunamis that hit countries bordering the Indian Ocean. Koh Phi Phi is a beautiful butterfly-shaped island off the coast of Thailand, an island that has long been a favorite destination for tourists. This is a fictional account of this disaster, of what happened, of the tragedies and triumphs of that day.