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Winchester Remington Smith is a crack shot. Problem is, surrounded by roller coasters and merry-go-rounds, his talent is going to waste, knocking down ducks in a carnival shooting gallery. Win wants some real action, and he’s running off to join the US Marines to fight a guerilla insurgency south of the border. In the jungles of Central America, Win takes a different kind of roller-coaster ride. Quick and quiet, he’s now a runner. It’s a vital role, but he feels like a messenger boy, unable to put his rifle to good use.

Chief of the Intelligence Department Sir Leonard Wallace - bearing always the hallmark of coolness and wit - is up to his earlobes in trouble. Summoned by the Viceroy of India, he makes a rapid flight to India to investigate the mysterious death of British officer Major Elliot and the theft of some very important dispatches.

1803. The Napoleonic Wars. A Royal Navy warship is ordered to pursue an enemy frigate to the icy waters far south in the Indian Ocean. There, it must capture the enemy ship and retrieve a mysterious sea chest, contents unknown, failure not permitted. For the determined young captain and his eager crew, this already dangerous mission turns into a battle with a mysterious vessel that appears not in the sea, but unbelievably, impossibly, in the sky above. But nothing could prepare the crew for what lay beyond the 50th latitude of south.

Salò, marzo 1938. L'apparente calma del lago di Garda è messa a soqquadro dalla frenetica preparazione della Mille Miglia, la mitica corsa automobilistica che collega Brescia e Roma, diventata una vetrina decisiva per il regime fascista. Il commissario Italo Sartori ha appena litigato con la sua amante, la ricca, audace vedova Anna Arquati, che vive sull'altra sponda del golfo di Salò: la donna vuole partecipare alla Mille Miglia con la sua auto, ma il commissario Sartori, abruzzese di nascita trapiantato sul Garda come il sommo vate D'Annunzio, non è d'accordo.

ورث أبو الحسن عن والده مبلغًا ضخمًا من المال جعل بعض النّاس من حوله يغيّرون معاملته معهم لذا يقرّر إخفاء نصف الثروة والتظاهر بأنَّ النصف المتبقي هو ورثته فقط...

銭形の親分。ガラッ八。聞いたことないという日本人はおられまいと思えます。かの司馬遼太郎が、吉田茂が、夢中になった銭形を、絶品の語り口でお楽しみください。——外神田の三分の一も持っているだろうという河内屋又兵衛の跡取りが殺された。一番儲かるのは代わって相続する者だろう。が、夕方から夜通し、碁を打っていたというのです。　　監督/吉田純子・編集/三好達也_林岳史

銭形の親分。ガラッ八。聞いたことないという日本人はおられまいと思えます。司馬遼太郎が、吉田茂が、夢中になった銭形を、絶品の語り口でお楽しみください。――江戸で小唄の師匠といえば山谷のお寿と馬道のお政。この江戸二人師匠と名高いお政が命の危険を感じて八五郎に泣きつき、八五郎が二日も行かなければ迎えをよこすほどだというのです…　　監督/吉田純子・編集/三好達也_林岳史

銭形の親分。ガラッ八。聞いたことないという日本人はおられまいと思えます。貴顕紳士も夢中になった銭形を、絶品の語り口でお楽しみください――。柳橋は清川の大広間。芸妓たちと暗闇で眼隠し鬼に興じる板倉屋伴三郎でしたが「わッ、た、大変ッ」用心棒・白旗直八が頸をやられて死に、幇間の左孝が二階ら突き落とされて見つかったのです…　　監督/吉田純子・編集/三好達也_林岳史

銭形の親分。ガラッ八。聞いたことないという日本人はおられまいと思えます。かの司馬遼太郎が、吉田茂が、夢中になった銭形を絶品の語り口でお楽しみください。—五つの乙松が行方不明に。姉のお北は心配で泣いてばかり居るが、平次はこれは親が承知の上の事だとみて静観する。ところが、その父親が･･･編集/三好達也

銭形の親分。ガラッ八。聞いたことないという日本人はおられまいと思えます。かの司馬遼太郎が、吉田茂が、夢中になった銭形を絶品の語り口でお楽しみください。—「叔母さんが、身売りをしろって言うんです」真夜中の両国橋から身投げしようとしていた娘を、ガラッ八は五両を工面して助けてやりますが･･･編集/三好達也

Legendary mountain man Shakespeare McNair has seen enough winters in the wilderness to know when something isn't right. And beneath the waters of the lake near his new home, something is definitely off. Nate King and his family can see it, too - waves without any wind to create them, a huge force that pulls a fishing pole right from Evelyn King's hands, something malevolent out there...watching them. Shakespeare knows it's just a matter of time before the creature hurts someone. But he's not going to wait around. He's going to go after it himself, even knowing he might not come back.

So lautete einst der Untertitel von Karl Mays großem Kolportageroman "Das Waldröschen", dessen sorgfältige Bearbeitung in den Bänden 51 bis 55 der Gesammelten Werke Karl Mays seit Jahrzehnten viele begeisterte Leser fand. Vor historischem Hintergrund erzählt der Autor darin die Geschichte zweier Grafen, die - der eine in Spanien, der andere in Mexiko - von abgefeimten Schurken umgeben sind und von ihnen vernichtet werden sollen.

Young, happy and deeply in love, the future looks rosy for local beauty Lilliana Parker and her beau Robert, the dashing Earl of Sherborne. Their friends and family wait with baited breath for news of their inevitable engagement, certain that nothing can harm the charmed life of this golden couple. However, fate has other plans and the Earl is called to rejoin his Regiment in India on a mission that is both dangerous and vital to Queen and country.

Can you fall in love with someone before you meet them? Valona, the eighteen-year-old daughter of the deposed Prince of Piracus believes she can. Beautiful, spiritual and aching for adventure Valona is convinced that the perfect man exists because she has seen him in her dreams; all she has to do is find him. With no royal bride to offer the elderly King, it seems the only way to save Larissa from the threat of the encroaching Russian army is for Valona to take her place.

A bela e jovem Orlena finalmente encontrou o seu novo tutor, o homem que deverá proteger sua fortuna após a morte de seu pai. Mas Orlena não conseguia acreditar no que via: ela já tinha encontrado este homem antes! Ele era o mesmo jovem que a tinha abraçado e abalado os seus sentidos com um beijo apaixonado na noite anterior... Ela se encontrava agora numa encruzilhada de emoções. Como poderá continuar a conviver com este guardião por quem sentiu a mais pura atração?

Während der Sonnenkönig Ludwig XIV. regiert, schmachtet in der Bastille ein besonderer Gefangener: Ein Mann, dessen Namen niemand kennt und dessen Gesicht von einer eisernen Maske verdeckt ist. Aramis kennt sein Geheimnis und weiß, welche Gefahr er für den Königshof bedeutet – und ist bereit, den Bruch mit seinen alten Freunden zu riskieren.