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Known for his outlaw ways, Lee Mattingly has hopes of changing his reputation when he becomes one of the owners of a new hotel. Business is good until Ike Nash, a man with money and power, takes all that Lee has. Lee only knows one way to respond, and that’s with violence. Along the way, Lee gets caught up in a robbery, a poker game, relationships, Huntsville prison, and revenge. LEE continues the story of The Landon Saga…

"The Return of Tarzan" is a novel written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the second in his series of books about the title character Tarzan. It was first published in the pulp magazine New Story Magazine in the issues for June through December 1913; the first book edition was published in 1915 by A. C. McClurg.

Miranda Lansing was known as 'the spinster who wore black' and liked to keep to herself. Whenever she had to come to town, she always wore a black hooded cape in order to keep her face covered so no one would see her true beauty. She had inherited a small cottage on the outskirts of rural Panguitch, Utah from her deceased aunt; however, there was a small curse that also came along with accepting the cottage. She had only recently learned how to undo the curse when quite by accident she discovered several gnomes who were living on her property. Will she be able to overcome the curse and find...

A collection of horror/thriller stories with surprise endings to chill you and thrill you to the bone. If you are fans of Twilight Zone, Tales From the Crypt, Night Gallery, Outer Limits, One Step Beyond, and horror stories with a plot and a twist ending, look no further. Billy Wells Horror is your ticket to a journey into the macabre if you dare. The average Amazon review rating on all Billy Wells Horror collections is 4.3!! The terrors include: COLD CALLS: Mortimer will stop at nothing to find new clients for a failing funeral parlor business passed down to him by his ruthless father. ...

Die weltbekannte Geschichte von Jules Verne erzählt die Abenteuer von Professor Aronnax, seinem Assistenten Conseil und dem Harpunier Ned Land auf der Nautilus, dem phantastischen Unterseeboot des rätselhaften Kapitän Nemo. Eine gefährliche Reise durch die unbekannte Tiefsee, in der ungeahnte Gefahren lauern...

A collection of horror/thriller stories with surprise endings to chill you and thrill you to the bone. The creepers include: FANGS: Harry wakes up one morning and bites his lip because of the fangs that grew in his mouth during the night. CATHEAD CREEK: Fred inherits property in Cathead Creek, NC and discovers all three of his brothers were the victims of a legendary monster. FRESH: Sam's TV died, and a fellow worker offers him a side job robbing graves for a doctor who pays obscenely well for fresh corpses. THE TOWER: Ever since the anesthesiologist administered the drug ketamine for my ...

The house on Benefit Street is shunned. With a dark forbidding exterior, a garden overrun by corrupt weeds and bent malformed trees, it simply looks wrong. The locals know its history, know how many people that house has killed, and fear it. Dr Elihu Whipple is not afraid of the house, he's fascinated by it and its history, and now he's decided to investigate its horrifying secret.

El Buscón nos cuenta las aventuras de Pablos, un pícaro con "altos pensamientos de caballero". En el deseo de mejorar su posición social, el protagonista sale de su Segovia natal hacia otras ciudades como Madrid, Toledo y Sevilla, desde donde embarca a las Indias en un desesperado intento de cambiar su suerte. El ingenio y la magistral pluma de Quevedo consiguen que el lector disfrute con estas aventuras y desventuras de Pablos.

A collection of horror/thriller stories with surprise endings to chill you and thrill you to the bone. These are my latest stories The creepers include: THE MAN IN THE MIRROR: While shaving, Paul notices his face has changed dramatically to something resembling a Neanderthal man who lived thousands of years ago. THE BLACK BOX: Someone has delivered something sinister in a black box, complete with black ribbons, to the Chandlers on Christmas Eve. PREMONITION: Marsha,a lifelong Miami resident who has never seen snow, is puzzled when she awakens from a dream that takes place in a frozen ...

Set in the early days of the Civil War, the four March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—grow from childhood to womanhood and eventually, motherhood, under the care of their mother, Marmee. Money is scarce while their father serves in the Union army, so Marmee works outside the home. The author, Louisa May Alcott, based the main character of the story—Jo March, an aspiring writer—on herself, and the three other March sisters resembled her siblings. An immediate success, Little Women was so popular that readers clamored to know more about the family. Alcott quickly penned a second book,...

En Lazarillo de Tormes, publicado en 1554 por Anónimo, Lazarillo debe utilizar sus ingeniosos para trampear a una sucesión de amos de mala reputación. En Rinconete y Cortadillo, publicado en 1613 por Miguel de Cervantes, dos hombres jóvenes aprenden a sobrevivir con el juego y los trucos. Estas dos historias cortas son sátiras de la sociedad que dibujan la sociedad de la época, incluso podríamos compararlas con el mundo en que vivimos hoy.

Ein gefährliches "Buschgespenst" treibt im sächsischen Hohenthal sein Unwesen...

Septembre 1759. Robinson est à bord de La Virginie faisant route pour le Chili. Une tempête formidable précipite le navire sur des récifs, et Robinson se retrouve seul survivant du naufrage sur une île déserte. Livré à lui-même, sa solitude va le contraindre à faire preuve d'ingéniosité, de persévérance et de courage, afin de survivre dans ce monde sauvage. Jusqu'au jour où, se croyant abandonné de tous, il rencontre un être humain pour le moins inattendu.

Der Lausbube Tom Sawyer schwänzt die Schule, prügelt sich und treibt sich nachts gern mit seinem besten Freund Huckleberry Finn, der in einer Tonne am Waldrand haust, herum. Aber man kann nun mal nicht immer ein Musterschüler sein. Vor allem dann nicht, wenn man ein Pirat werden will und einen echten Schatz finden möchte! Das wirkliche Abenteuer beginnt für die beiden Jungen allerdings erst dann, als eines Nachts auf dem Friedhof ein Mord passiert. Einzig Tom und Huck kennen die wahre Identität des Mörders.

American culture has changed drastically since Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote his bestselling historical romance The Scarlet Letter in 1850. Yet its themes of sin, guilt, and 17th-century Puritan legalism are still relevant today. The main character Hester Prynne commits the sin of adultery. When she finds herself pregnant, Hester refuses to name her lover. Her punishment? She is ordered to wear a scarlet “A” sewn to the front of her dress. The novel, while written over a century ago, contains all the elements of a modern romance: a forbidden affair, a child born out of wedlock, a woman who ...

"Momo" er Michael Endes udødelige fortælling om pigen, der forstår, hvad der betyder noget. For Momo er det at have tid til at lege, lytte, fortælle og bare være til, det vigtigste i verden, og derfor må hun tage kampen op, da folk omkring hende får så travlt med at effektivisere, at de helt glemmer at leve livet.

Armies are gathering from distant lands. In the midst of imminent war, two orphaned brothers, Dougray and Robbie, and their travelling companion Belle, have sought shelter with the elves. But even in their idyllic world, peace is short-lived when monstrous shrieks are unleashed into their treetop homes and destroy everything in their paths. The brothers are forced to flee with Navarre, the healer that once knew their parents. On the way to Twendlemark to obtain horses for their journey, they are given a cryptic prophecy about their future and narrowly escape Morgranus, an evil demon hunting...

It was now just five short years after George Bailey had his first miraculous meeting with a saving angel in Bedford Falls, and a new Bailey had come into town with his own great challenge that needed a miraculous solution! It was a wonderful life indeed when John Bailey and Anabelle Smith first came to be that otherwise perfect “match made in Heaven” shortly after they first met at the traditional New Year’s Eve Dance of Bedford Falls. It seemed so perfect, when Anabelle tragically died, and then far more surprisingly returned on that very next Christmas saying that she had come back...

A collection of horror/thriller stories with surprise endings to chill you and thrill you to the bone. The nightmares include: CARMEN: A horror novelist employs a man-eating plant to eliminate his most offensive critic. THE READING: After a reading by a fortuneteller, Emma believes her traveling companion is not who she says she is. HUMAN AFTER ALL THOSE YEARS: After four centuries, a vampire, who is bitten by a white dove is becoming human. THE CONNECTION: Marge is receiving calls from her daughter who drowned over a year ago and is buried in the Greenacre Cemetery. MR. CREEPY: Molly's ...

A collection of twenty horror/thriller stories with surprise endings to chill you and thrill you to the bone. The nightmares include: SOMETHING IN THE SKY: Strange things happen to two college students on Lovers Lane after a meteor cuts a path through a nearby cemetery. THE TOASTER: The City of Baltimore appropriates funds to move Edgar Allen Poe's grave site to a new mausoleum. LORD OF DARKNESS: Fred finds a large box on his doorstep with a horrific looking ebony statue inside that terrifies him. He abhors scary things and takes it to the city dump for disposal. THE METEOR: Newt is ...