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The Terror [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
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 The men on board HMS Terror have every expectation of finding the Northwest Passage. When the expedition's leader, Sir John Franklin, meets a terrible death, Captain Francis Crozier takes command and leads his surviving crewmen on a last, desperate attempt to flee south across the ice. But as another winter approaches, as scurvy and starvation grow more terrible, and as the Terror on the ice stalks them southward, Crozier and his men begin to fear there is no escape. A haunting, gripping story b... more info>> (Published: 2007)
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A Winter Haunting [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Dan Simmons
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A once-respected college professor and novelist, Dale Stewart has sabotaged his career and his marriage--and now darkness is closing in on him. In the last hours of Halloween he has returned to the dying town of Elm Haven, his boyhood home, where he hopes to find peace in isolation. But moving into a long-deserted farmhouse on the far outskirts of town--the one-time residence of a strange and brilliant friend who lost his young life in a grisly "accident" back in the terrible summer of 1960--is... more info>> (Published: 2003)
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Darwin's Blade [Secure Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Dan Simmons
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 A series of high-speed fatal car wrecks--accidents that seem as if they may have been staged--is leading Darwin Minor down a dangerous road. A reluctant expert on violent ways to die, he sifts clues from wreckage the way a brilliant coroner extracts damning information from a victim's corpse. But the deeper he digs, the more enemies he seems to make, and the wider the conspiracy seems to grow. Before long, he'll find himself relying on deadly resources of his own in order to save his life--and t... more info>> (Published: 2007)
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Drood [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Dan Simmons
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 On June 9, 1865, while traveling by train to London with his secret mistress, 53-year-old Charles Dickens--at the height of his powers and popularity, the most famous and successful novelist in the world and perhaps in the history of the world--hurtled into a disaster that changed his life forever. Did Dickens begin living a dark double life after the accident? Were his nightly forays into the worst slums of London and his deepening obsession with corpses, crypts, murder, opium dens, the use of ... more info>>
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Hard as Nails [Joe Kurtz Book 3] [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Dan Simmons
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Somewhere in Western New York, there's an abandoned amusement park on a mountaintop in the moonlight, its overgrown rides filled only with corpses. If ex-PI Joe Kurtz doesn't unravel the secret of that place in five days, he'll be one of them. This time out, everyone wants a piece of Kurtz and most succeed in getting one. Unknown assailants gun down Kurtz and his female parole officer, giving Kurtz the headache of a lifetime but putting pretty Peg O'Toole on life support. Working his own case th... more info>>
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Ilium [Ilium-Olympos Saga Book 1] [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Dan Simmons
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From the towering heights of Olympos Mons on Mars, the mighty Zeus and his immortal family of gods, goddesses, and demigods look down upon a momentous battle, observing--and often influencing--the legendary exploits of Paris, Achilles, Hector, Odysseus, and the clashing armies of Greece and Troy. Thomas Hockenberry, former twenty-first-century professor and Iliad scholar, watches as well. It is Hockenberry's duty to observe and report on the Trojan War's progress to the so-called deities who saw... more info>> (Published: 2003) Hugo Award Nominee
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Olympos [Ilium-Olympos Saga Book 2] [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Dan Simmons
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Beneath the gaze of the gods, the mighty armies of Greece and Troy met in fierce and glorious combat, scrupulously following the text set forth in Homer's timeless narrative. But that was before one observer--Twenty-first Century scholar Thomas Hockenberry--stirred the bloody brew; before an enraged Achilles joined forces with his archenemy Hector; and before the fleet-footed mankiller turned his murderous wrath on Zeus, Hera, Athena, Aphrodite, Apollo, and the entire pantheon of divine manipula... more info>>
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Song of Kali [MultiFormat]
by Dan Simmons
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 Blood will curdle in Calcutta. In the most crime-ridden city, nightmares become real and evil is defined by frightening occurrences. When an American family finds themselves encircled by the terrors of this land, lurid events befall them and life takes on a new meaning--death. Song of Kali will chill the blood and frighten even the most jaded of horror fans. (Published: 1985) World Fantasy Award Winner
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Hard Freeze [Joe Kurtz Book 2] [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Dan Simmons
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Joe Kurtz is back in this thrilling sequel to the bestselling Hardcase. In Hard Freeze, we learn Kurtz isn't finished with the Farino mob family--or rather, they aren't done with him. In addition, Kurtz may have found out who really killed his girlfriend, Samantha, and he really wants to make them pay. If that isn't enough, a Mr. Frears wants to hire Kurtz to track down the man who killed his family--and will surely kill again. Simmons expertly juggles several storylines and weaves them together... more info>> (Published: 2002)
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Hardcase [Joe Kurtz Book 1] [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Dan Simmons
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Joe Kurtz has been wronged one too many times. When he takes out the drug-dealing thug who killed his girlfriend, the ex-PI gets to cool his heels for 11 years in Attica. There that he meets the son of Byron Farino, a New York mob boss. Kurtz goes to work for Don Farino in Buffalo, where one wrong move could mean a belly-full of lead. (Published: 2001)
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Phases of Gravity [MultiFormat]
by Dan Simmons
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Richard Baedecker thinks his greatest challenge was walking on the moon, but then he meets a mysterious woman who shows him his past. Join Baedecker as he comes to grips with the son and wife he lost in his passion for space exploration, his forgotten childhood and the loss he experienced during the death-flight of the Challenger. The most difficult exploration of his life is not the cold, rocky crevices of the moon, but the warm interior of his heart. Brilliant and beautifully written, PHASES O... more info>> (Published: 1989)
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Worlds Enough & Time [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Dan Simmons
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An extraordinary artist with few rivals in his chosen arena, Dan Simmons possesses a restless talent that continually presses boundaries while tantalizing the mind and touching the soul. Now he offers us a superb quintet of novellas--five dazzling masterworks of speculative fiction, including "Orphans of the Helix," his award-winning return to the Hyperion Universe--that demonstrates the unique mastery, breathtaking invention, and flawless craftsmanship of one of contemporary fiction's true gre... more info>> (Published: 2003)
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