Showing results for "Michael Gold" in Literature & Fiction

Jack Neuman came to Wyoming as a fifteen-year-old orphan. He lodged with Crazy Horse and his Lakota tribe. He later scouted for the U.S. Army. Lonesome for company, Jack brought out his childhood sweetheart from Minnesota, Heather, and married her, but his devotion was on destroying the bad guys, not his marriage, and his beautiful young wife broke his heart.

Noted for his talent for creating suspenseful police dramas, William J. Caunitz is author of many New York Times best sellers. Cleopatra Gold, set in the New York nightclub circuit, carries undercover cop Alejandro Monahan deep into a drug kingpin’s empire. Alejandro is out to avenge his father’s murder—at the hands of Cleopatra herself.

Ihr habt meine Flügel gebrochen. Aber ihr werdet niemals mich brechen … Ich musste fliehen. Es war die einzige Möglichkeit zu überleben. Doch von einem gefährlichen Ort zu flüchten, bedeutet nicht, dass man eine Zuflucht findet. Manchmal landet man nur an einem noch gefährlicheren Ort. Wie Annwyn. Das Reich der Fae. Ein Land voller Magie und Wunder, wo doch an jeder Ecke der Tod lauert. Denn meine goldene Haut macht mich hier zu einem Symbol der Rebellion, zu einer Gefahr für den grausamen König der Fae.

Alles begann mit Magie. Alles endet mit Magie. Die Fae führen Krieg gegen Orea. Sie überziehen das Land mit Blut und Magie. Und auch mich versuchen sie durch Magie zu brechen. Sie wollen mir meine Erinnerungen stehlen, mich zu einer Gefangenen in meinem eigenen Verstand machen. Doch das lasse ich nicht zu. Egal, wie viele Lügen sie mir erzählen, egal, wie viele Löcher sie in meinen Geist schlagen, eines werde ich nie vergessen. Ich bin Auren Turley. Und ich werde kämpfen. Für meine Freiheit. Für meine Freunde.

Cade Hunter never had a place to call home - until veteran ranch hand Luke Tucker saw something worth trusting in him. Which is why Luke shares a secret with Cade. A secret of hidden gold. But when they try find the fortune, a cur from Luke’s past murders him and leaves Cade for dead. Now Cade has something to live for - revenge.

For Smoke and his daughter Denny, life on the Sugarloaf Ranch is more valuable than all the gold in the world. Which works out fine, since all the gold mines in Big Rock were squeezed dry years ago. Even so, that won’t stop a pair of businessmen from the East from trying to squeeze out a little more. One of them has developed a newfangled method for extracting gold—something called “hydraulics”—and they’ve bought up all the old mines to do it. Smoke isn’t sure what to think of. Especially when they hire a small army of gunfighters to protect their mines from sabotage.

Michael Palin reads this classic adventure by W. E. Johns, featuring pilot-adventurer James ‘Biggles’ Bigglesworth When Biggles receives a letter from an old wartime chum asking for help, he responds at once. With his comrades, Algy, Ginger and Flight Sergeant Smyth, our hero flies to Fort...

He was one of Russia's most infamous rulers, and he alone held the key to a legendary Byzantine collection of books, given to him in the dowry of Princess Sophia of Constantinople. Ivan Vasilyevich - otherwise known as Ivan the Terrible - owned a library filled with rare and priceless tomes that men would kill for. Would die for. But the czar carried the knowledge of its whereabouts to his grave. And it falls to archaeologist Annja Creed, almost 500 years later, to discover the secrets of the Library of Gold.

With his wife's killers dead and buried, Conrad Morgan - known as The Loner - is on his way to Mexico for some peace and quiet. But on the way he's sidetracked by some intriguing travelers who are hunting down a valuable golden artifact. They're not the only ones who want to get a hold of the treasure. A running gun battle with some killers lands The Loner and his cohorts in the Jornada del Muerto - a hellish, waterless wasteland in New Mexico Territory.

Matt Bodine and Sam Two Wolves don't look for trouble - it's usually there when they wake up in the morning. When they ride into the little silver mining town of Jordanville, high in the Colorado Rockies, all they want is a hot meal and something cold to wash it down. When they see an unarmed man getting brutally beaten by a hard case with a bullwhip, their plans suddenly change. Before they can spit, the blood brothers find themselves in the middle of a violent land war and up to their noses in claim jumpers and hired guns itching to open fire.

Tom Swift in the City of Gold by Victor Appleton, volume 11 of the Tom Swift series, takes us to the wilds of Central Mexico where Tom and his friends discover an underground city of gold. On the verge of becoming billionaires, their plans are thwarted by savage headhunters, and of course Tom's archrival Andy Foger. Please be aware that this book was written over 100 years ago, and may contain language and references that are today politically incorrect, insensitive and inappropriate.

In Dale, Colorado, any cowboy with good sense knows better than to step through the batwings of the Plowshare Saloon - and any sheep-herder crazy enough to belly up to the bar at the Red Dog is ordering the last taste of whiskey he’ll ever lift to his lips. The town of Dale is heading for an all-out war that will pit father against son and brother against brother.

Nur mit knapper Not sind Adam Salton und Nathaniel de Salis der unbarmherzigen Arabella March nach Indien entkommen. In Bombay treffen sie auf eine alte Bekannte Nathaniels - Helena Blavatsky, die Begründerin der Theosophischen Gesellschaft. Die geheimnisvolle Frau und Nathaniel scheint ein Geheimnis zu einen - das Wissen um den Heiligen Speer -, das Adam nach wie vor verschlossen bleibt. Als sich aber in den geheimen Tunneln der Parsen ein schwerwiegender Unfall ereignet, ist es an Adam, das Schlimmste zu verhindern. Ihm bleibt nur noch wenig Zeit - doch die Zeit ist nur ein Gefäß ...

Humanity has been brought to the brink of extinction. Each night, the world is overrun by demons - bloodthirsty creatures of nightmare that have been hunting the surface for over 300 years. A scant few hamlets and half-starved city-states are all that remain of a once proud civilization, and it is only by hiding behind wards, ancient symbols with the power to repel the demons, that they survive. A handful of Messengers brave the night to keep the lines of communication open between the increasingly isolated populace.