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    30 Stories in 30 Days

    By David Wellington

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    The author of Monster Island, the 13 Bullets series, and the upcoming Frostbite made his mark reinventing the classic monsters for the 21st century—zombies, vampires, and now werewolves. He got his ...

    Rating: 4.29

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    Wikipedia Tour: The Grand Tour

    By DailyLit

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    Explore history, literature, and art with our Grand Wikipedia Tour. It's your personal journey towards cultural enlightenment--five minutes at a time.

    Rating: 4.18

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    Fetching Raymond

    By John Grisham

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    Wheelchair-bound Inez Graney and her two older sons, Leon and Butch, take a bizarre road trip through the Mississippi Delta to visit the youngest Graney brother, Raymond, who’s been locked away on d ...

    Rating: 5.00

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    DailyLit Selects

    By DailyLit

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    DailyLit has selected book excerpts that we think are worth reading. Recent selections have included bestselling author Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol and Say You're One of Them, an Oprah's Book Club pic ...

    Rating: 4.50

  • cover for Shoes, Bags, and Tiaras

    Shoes, Bags, and Tiaras

    By V&A Publishing

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    Be inspired by the history and art behind some of women’s most cherished fashion accessories. A little bit of fashion heaven, one shoe, bag, or tiara at a time.

    Rating: 4.75

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    Madame de Staël

    By Francine du Plessix Gray

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    Few women, indeed few people, have had a greater hand in shaping their culture than the 18th century aristocrat Germaine de Staël. And few have done so in more spectacular fashion. For twenty years t ...

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    Grammar Devotional

    By Mignon Fogarty

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    A series of tips from The Grammar Devotional have been made available for free on DailyLit by the book's publisher Macmillan. Click here to buy the paperback from Amazon. ... Millions of fans around t ...

    Rating: 3.33

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    Paranoia

    By Joseph Finder

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    It started as only a prank, but now Adam Cassidy is about to learn that nothing is what it seems and that it isn't paranoia...everyone is out to get him.

    Rating: 4.38

  • cover for The 50th Law

    The 50th Law

    By 50 Cent and Robert Greene

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    A New York Times Bestseller

    Rating: 3.60

  • cover for Get Cooking

    Get Cooking

    By Mollie Katzen

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    This book is part of DailyLit Tastes, a cookbook excerpt program. Recipes from cookbooks we think are worth reading—and tasting—will be sent to you periodically so you can sit back and wai ...

    Rating: 5.00

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    Crush It!

    By Gary Vaynerchuk

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    This extended excerpt is part of the DailyLit's on-going "Big Ideas" channel, designed to inspire you with new ideas for both work and play. ... Do you have a hobby you wish you could do all day? An o ...

    Rating: 3.00

  • cover for 100 Ways to Succeed/Make Money

    100 Ways to Succeed/Make Money

    By Tom Peters

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    The secrets to success in business and life are revealed in business icon and management guru Tom Peters' 100 Ways to Succeed/Make Money. Delivered in Peters' singularly irreverent voice, these tidbit ...

    Rating: 2.79

  • cover for Strange Things Happen

    Strange Things Happen

    By Stewart Copeland

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    Strange Things Happen has been made available for free to DailyLit readers by its publisher, HarperStudio. ... When Stewart Copeland gets dressed, he has an identity crisis. Should he put on “leathe ...

    Rating: 5.00

  • cover for The Ghost in the Pantry

    The Ghost in the Pantry

    By Erin Ferretti Slattery

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    Travel writing of the recipe kind, this cookbook and genealogy hybrid selects the best from tried-and-true, stain-spattered, dog-eared, and time-honored collections. The Ghost in the Pantry dishes up ...

    Rating: 5.00

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    There Will be Dragons

    By John Ringo

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    In the future there is no want, no war, no disease nor ill-timed death. The world is a paradise - and then, in a moment, it ends. The council that controls the Net falls out and goes to war. Everywher ...

    Rating: 4.16

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    An Unfinished Death

    By Laurel Dewey

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    Laurel Dewey is a suspense writer with as much storytelling energy and raw emotional power as anyone writing today. Readers share this appraisal, writing rhapsodically about their experiences with her ...

    Rating: 4.25

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    Little Brother

    By Cory Doctorow

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    "A scarily realistic adventure about how homeland security technology could be abused to wrongfully imprison innocent Americans. A teenage hacker-turned-hero pits himself against the government to fig ...

    Rating: 4.48

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    No Plot? No Problem!

    By Chris Baty

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    At midnight tonight the train departs. Fifty thousand words. Thirty days. An unforgettable ride. ... You've always wanted to write, but...just haven't gotten around to it. No Plot? No Problem! is the ...

    Rating: 5.00

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