Curtis Smith

Advanced Dungeons and Dragons Adventure Gamebook

5 - Test of the Ninja (Dec-1985)

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  Test of the Ninja
  

  • Dec-1985
  • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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  Advanced Dungeons and Dragons Adventure Gamebook - 5
  

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  The Species Crown
  

  • Jun-2007
  • / General Fiction
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  Aaron Burch, editor of Hobart says, "There are elements in these stories we recognize-- the vacation story, the murder mystery, Godzilla, geometry-- and their brilliance is how Curtis Smith takes these expectations and plays with and against them, tw...

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  Sound + Noise
  

  • Sep-2008
  • / Romance
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  There's a heartbreak between sound and noise, the place where we are our only audience.

  Jackie and Tom are ordinary people living parallel lives. When their paths finally intersect, the background hum of their longings, hopes, and disappointments ...

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  Bad Monkey
  

  • Aug-2009
  • / General Fiction
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  Utilizing luminous prose and scintillating imagery, Curtis Smith plunges his readers into the company of lovers and murderers, false prophets and mute believers, Russian mobsters and one very bad monkey. In these fourteen stories, Smith breathes life...

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  Truth Or Something Like It
  

  • Mar-2010
  • / General Fiction
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  Is America ready for the Truth? Glen Tate didn't ask to be thrust into the heart of political upheaval. He has enough problems of his own--a love life adrift, his crew of disturbed schoolchildren, the lingering ghost of his dead brother... Yet these ...

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  Too Close To Home
  

  • Sep-2011
  • / Mystery
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  The first in a series, "Too Close to Home" introduces San Francisco's own Allison Baca, to the vast number of readers who wish to simply enjoy a "good exciting read". With "America's City" as the backdrop, this fresh and formidable ex-cop presses...

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  Beasts and Men
  

  • Feb-2013
  • / Literary
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  "What you feel first is the simplicity-of sentences, of tone, of description-but then before you know it, complexity has crept in on every level, and by the end of each of these stories you are left marveling at the layers of life history and humanit...

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  Saving Emoh
  

  • Mar-2015
  • / Fantasy
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  A brother and sister are given the task of saving an unknown land. The One True Spirit has called the siblings to show how love conquers all, and that by working together they can accomplish anything....

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  The Rising of the Elements
  

  • Mar-2016
  • / Action Adventure
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  Water, Air, Fire, Earth; the four elements that plague a dystopian Great Britain. From the age of 18, a teenager is required to battle an element, those who survive are returned to civilization, and those that fall to the element are taken to a reclu...

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  Lovepain
  

  • Mar-2018
  • / General Fiction
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  Eli was right. The act of kindness he envisioned as a lesson to his young son Mark would have serious consequences. Just not the ones he imagined. In carefully modulated prose, Curtis Smith takes us on a journey into one family's encounter with love,...

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  The Magpie's Return
  

  • Aug-2020
  • / Action Adventure
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  Kayla perceives her world in vectors and variables, in quantities given and determined. She's a prodigy. A genius. Yet there are equations she can't solve....

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  The Lost and the Blind
  

  • Sep-2023
  • / General Fiction
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  Mark Hayes has come up hard. Poverty. Chaos. Hunger. His mother a junkie. His father serving a life sentence. But as his senior year looms, Mark finds a bit of peace with his mother and her girlfriend in a farmhouse outside town. Here, he hopes to es...

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  Deaf Heaven
  

  • May-2025
  • / General Fiction
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  The world has broken Jason Driscoll' s heart. His abusive father. The daughter he lost to cancer. Buried beneath medical bills, he becomes entangled in a scheme that drags him to new depths. Violence. Infidelity. Murder. Having lost all h...

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