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bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America 
by: Yossef Bodansky
This book is more than the story of a single terrorist. It's a description of a whole movement waging a jihad--holy war--against the United States in the belief that America's modernizing influence on Arab nations thwarts Islamic fundamentalist goals.
Bin Laden is strikingly current, extremely well informed, and thoroughly detailed. He lives with his four wives and some fifteen children in a small cave in eastern Afghanistan without running water.
Readers interested in facts about the Middle East's violent underworld will find it fascinating--and chilling. Bodansky notes that bin Laden has become a hero to radical Muslim youth, and Osama is now a very popular baby name in many Arab countries. --John J. Miller
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Nine New Novellas, Part IV
Nine New Novellas, Part IV is author Jay Dubya's eighth story collection.- "The Bounty Hunter" is a unique tale that mixes suspense with a well conceived revenge plot.
- "Batsto Village" is a sci-fi time travel adventure with a clever surprise ending.
- "Dreamland" describes dramatic conflict in the life of a man whose dreams suddenly become reality.
- "Colliding Galaxies" is a science fiction offering that provides a rational explanation for man's petty place in the Universe. "Greek Statutory Law" describes how an American immigrant becomes wealthy and then is affected by the power of mythology.
- "Specters" depicts a man who develops the ability to have the ghosts of famous people become his modern day servants.
- Finally, "A Small World" is a chilling story that shows how a computer genius uses miniaturization to get even with past enemies.
- "The Music Disk" tells how two friends have lyrical adventure that ends in disaster.
- "The Amazon Sorority" is an imaginative tale about two astronauts discovering a civilization dominated by ancient women warriors in the Constellation Virgo.
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IT
by: Stephen King
Beware - this book will make you pay the price of the highly imaginative. This is a huge book, but it's well worth the time invested. The characters King creates are both incredibly real and heartbreakingly familiar. These people all have one thing that makes them different from other people, that gives other kids something to pick on them and scorn them for. However, i will be suprised if you don't recognize at least one of their traits in yourself. IT, a supernatural being, loves the taste of terrified kids. IT has the ability to change it's shape into whatever IT's prey is most afraid of, be it a werewolf...or a doberman pinscher. The main "good guys" in the story, known as the Losers Club, discovers the existence of IT and tries to kill IT. They are aided in their struggle by another being, who remains nameless and mysterious. This Other is never shown in the book. Who will win? Read it and find out!
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The Eighteen Story Gingerbread House
by: Jay Dubya
The Eighteen Story Gingerbread House' book is an eclectic collection of eighteen unique stories that can be enjoyed by children and adults alike. Four of the stories involve magic.- Other stories in the work utilize the literary personification' technique where animals are given human qualities. Three of the tales in the Eighteen Story Gingerbread' House have animals interacting with humans.
- Finally, two stories have humans as the principal characters. "Lu Vang" is a biography on a Laotian-American immigrant becoming a crewleader on a New Jersey' blueberry farm, and "Kandu's Great Discovery" shows the daily life and hazards experienced by a ten-year-old prehistoric Cro-Magnon' boy.
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Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales
by: Stephen King
His first collection of short stories since the release of Nightmares & Dreamscapes in 1993, Everything's Eventual represents King at his most undiluted. The short story format showcases King's ability to spook readers using the most mundane settings (a yard sale) and comfortable memories (a boyhood fishing excursion). The dark tales collected here are some of King's finest, including an O. Henry Prize winner and "Riding the Bullet," published originally as an e-book and at one time expected by some to be the death knell of the physical publishing world. True to form, each of these stories draws the reader into King's slightly off-center world from the first page, developing characters and atmosphere more fully in the span of 50 pages than many authors can in a full novel.
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Misery
by: Stephen King
In Misery (1987), a writer is trapped in an evil house during a Colorado winter. Each novel bristles with claustrophobia, stinging insects, and the threat of a lethal explosion. Each is about a writer faced with the dominating monster of his unpredictable muse.
Paul Sheldon, the hero of Misery, sees himself as a caged parrot who must return to Africa in order to be free. Thus, in the novel within a novel, the romance novel that his mad captor- nurse, Annie Wilkes, forces him to write, he goes to Africa--a mysterious continent that evokes for him the frightening, implacable solidity of a woman's (Annie's) body. The manuscript fragments he produces tell of a great Bee Goddess, an African queen reminiscent of H. Rider Haggard's She.
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Holy War,Inc.: Inside The Secret World of Osama Bin Laden
by: Peter Bergen
On September 11, 2001, the world in which we live was changed forever. The twin towers of the World Trade Center came crashing down, one side of the Pentagon burst into flames, and more than six thousand men, women, and children lost their lives in the most deadly terrorist attack on American soil. As shocking as it was, it had been long in the making: The assault was the most sophisticated and horrifying in a series of operations masterminded by Osama bin Laden and his Jihad group -- an organization that CNN's terrorism analyst Peter Bergen calls Holy War, Inc.
One of only a handful of Western journalists to have interviewed the world's most wanted man face to face, Peter Bergen has produced the definitive book on the Jihadist network that operates globally and in secrecy. In the course of four years of investigative reporting, he has interviewed scores of insiders -- from bin Laden associates and family members to Taliban leaders to CIA officials -- and traveled to Afghanistan, Yemen, Egypt, Pakistan, and the United Kingdom to learn the truth about bin Laden's al Queda organization and his mission.
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Thirteen Sick Tasteless Classics
by: Jay Dubya
Thirteen Sick Tasteless Classics is author Jay Dubya's twelfth e-book. The work satirizes thirteen famous literature' classic stories. From American literature Mark Twain's "Jumping Frog," "The Legend of Paul Bunyan" and Edgar Allan Poe's "Tell-Tale Heart" are given an adult-spin and thoroughly rewritten.
British literature is also broadsided with adult satirical renditions of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," "A Robin Hood Adventure" and "Gulliver in Lilliput."
Greek Mythology is also given a new interpretation with humorous versions of the myths "Odysseus and the Cyclops" from Homer's "Odyssey," "Daedalus and Icarus," "Pandora," "King Midas" and "Prometheus and Fire" being given entirely new slants. Finally, author Jay Dubya gives a new twist to the Biblical classic "David and Goliath."
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