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What weird science lay in the mummy case of Ret-Seh? What uncanny power created this lovely, terrifying vision? excerpt The mummy case was the finest thing of its sort that Hargraves ever had seen;...

MacIan was a man with a secret, and it had followed him to Venus and the Legion, escape was impossible... Excerpt Silence was on the barracks like a lid clamped over tight-coiled springs. Men in rumpled...

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Christmas is just around the corner, and Ronja and Melissa's father is out of work. When ten-year-old Ronja hears about a job selling Christmas trees, she thinks it might be the stroke of luck they all...

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