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Snowbound in the high Rockies, Deputy Shorty McKay is given a simple task: deliver a payroll to a remote mining camp before dawn. But when pride outweighs good sense, Shorty refuses the safety of a mule—only to find himself robbed, captured, and riding one anyway…straight into disaster.

Unlike his two brothers, a merchant and a militarist, Ivan lacks insight into the ways of the materialistic world. He stays on the farm to look after his parents and sister. The story idealizes peasant life while pointing out the devious and destructive aspects of commerce and the military.

Shakespeare meets Dashiell Hammett in this wildly entertaining murder mystery from New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore—an uproarious, hardboiled take on the Bard’s most performed play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, featuring Pocket, the hero of Fool and The Serpent of Venice...

The seventh daughter of the Sea King, Ekaterina is more than a pampered princess - she's also the family spy. Which makes her the perfect emissary to check out interesting happenings in the neighboring kingdom...and nothing interests her more than Sasha, the seventh son of the king of Belrus. Ekaterina suspects he's far from the fool people think him. But before she can find out what lies beneath his facade, she is kidnapped!

«Корабль дураков»―книга, написанная знаменитым немецким мыслителем-гуманистом эпохи Возрождения Себастьяном Брантом. В этом философско-сатирическом произведении он выражает уверенность в том, что источник всех человеческих проблем, страданий и несчастий―обыкновенная глупость, и высмеивает различные проявления этого порока: невежество, своекорыстие, хвастовство, сутяжничество, подхалимство, дурные манеры и другие.

Oh, wie ist er stolz auf seinen Bart, der ihm fast bis zu den Knien reicht! „Mein langer Bart lässt mich so würdevoll und intelligent aussehen, fast wie ein Professor!“ Doch dann schlägt er ein Buch auf und liest einen folgenschweren Satz.