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The handsome Inspector Shamik finds himself undercover at a speed-dating event, much to his annoyance. He is there to apprehend a serial shoplifter who was notorious for escaping the clutches of the police. However, when he meets her, his gut tells him that she is not a shoplifter. He wonders if...

نشرتُ هذه المقالات في أماكن متفرقة، وإن كان معظمها في جريدة الدستور قبل اغتيالها، وفي موقع (بص وطل) على شبكة الإنترنت، يمكنك أن تجد كل حرف كتبته على شبكة الإنترنت،...

రావణుడు - ఆర్యావర్త వైరి: రావణుడు - ఆర్యావర్త వైరి అనే ఈ పుస్తకం అమీష త్రిపాఠి రాసిన 'రామచంద్ర గ్రంథ మాల' అనే...

Eine Thriller-Autorin aus Leidenschaft, ein Dämon mit Vorliebe für Spinat-Smoothies und ein gutaussehender Barkeeper, dessen Freundin spurlos verschwunden ist. Eine Nacht in einer verschneiten, von Bergen umgebenen Harzer Bar, die alles verändern wird. Schriftstellerin Oona Havenhurst hat gerade ihr neues Manuskript fertiggestellt und möchte diesen Erfolg mit einem Drink in ihrer Stammbar feiern, als sich ein Dämon zu ihr gesellt. Dieser hat es auf Oonas autobiographische Geschichten abgesehen, die sie bisher unter Verschluss hielt, denn sie hütet ein Geheimnis.

In the frozen wilderness of the Yukon, the line between survival and surrender is razor-thin. Jack London's To Build a Fire is more than a story; it is a stark, unforgettable confrontation with the raw power of nature and the frailty of human pride. Here, the biting cold isn't just a setting—it's an unyielding adversary, testing the limits of determination and the cost of hubris. The tale whispers of isolation so profound that silence becomes deafening, and of choices so crucial that a single misstep can spell the difference between life and death.

È una calda giornata d'estate."I Piccoli Sognatori" si danno appuntamento al lago. L'aria è carica di eccitazione, il sole splende alto, un vento fresco muove le foglie degli alberi e i passeri cinguettano che è un piacere star lì a sentirli.All'improvviso...La spensieratezza diventa panico. Un tuffo. E Lukyan non riemerge."Lukyan dove sei?". Urlano disperati.Spavento e terrore. Si guardano l'un l'altro. Occhi negli occhi.Senza dire una parola. Senza saper cosa fare. Yascha reagisce. Decide di lanciarsi. Gli altri si stringono in circolo, per farsi coraggio a vicenda. Scrutano l'acqua.

Buck, el perro del juez Miller, lleva una apacible vida en California, cuando es raptado y obligado a tirar de un trineo por las heladas orillas del río Yukón, donde miles de hombres llamados por la fiebre del oro buscan fortuna. Terribles experiencias y la crueldad de sus nuevos amos le empujan a reencontrarse con sus ancestros salvajes como única forma de adaptarse al medio y sobrevivir. El proceso de transformación que sufre Buck de perro doméstico a salvaje es impactante.

Atrévete a explorar nuevos mundos y a vivir nuevas experiencias con esta colección de clásicos que te transportará a las ocho aventuras más impresionantes de la historia. Nada se compara con el sentimiento que genera leer una buena historia de aventura. Todos queremos realizar el mayor número de viajes y conocer muchos lugares antes de que sea muy tarde, por este motivo esta una colección imprescindible para cualquier lector.

Level 50! Die meisten erreichen es nie, da sie entweder zu feige, faul oder bequem sind. Diejenigen, die es schaffen, sind entweder Meister in ihren Berufungen oder so total verskillt wie Rok, so das sie immer noch nichts wirklich können. Nicht so Kiran. Der kann nicht nur jetzt schon was, er hat auch drei volle Charakterklassen für dieses Ereignis gespart. Außerdem war Rok so blöde, ihm zu versprechen, das er ihm hilft. Also sieht sich unsere Ratte derzeitig einem etwas anderen Problemspektrum gegenüber, als "nur“ eine Gilde aufzubauen.

هذا الجزء من رواية 'روكامبول'، يظهر فيه الكثير من أنواع العذاب والشقاء البشري، الذي يتجسد خلف قضبان السجن، كما تتعدد فيه طرق التفريق بين الغني والفقير، حتى وراء...

Em Beatriz, a personagem que se tornou conhecida do público em Um erro emocional acompanha agora o autor em situações originais. Composto por sete histórias longas e um prólogo revelador, em que o autor confessa suas fraquezas, o livro de contos traz a marca do romancista: em todos está presente a mesma personagem, Beatriz, em momentos diferentes de sua vida, e às vezes Paulo Donetti, o escritor que é sua difícil paixão. Sete histórias entrelaçadas que são também a história da construção de uma personagem — alguém que quer falar, trabalhar e caminhar com as próprias pernas.

The Bell-Tower appeared in 1855 in Putnam's Monthly Magazine no. 32 (August). In the south of Europe, nigh a once frescoed capital, now with dank mould cankering its bloom, central in a plain, stands what, at distance, seems the black mossed stump of some immeasurable pine, fallen, in forgotten days, with Anak and the Titan.

"The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles" is a novella by American author Herman Melville. First published in Putnam's Magazine in 1854, it consists of ten philosophical "Sketches" on the Encantadas, or Galápagos Islands. An anonymous narrator unites the ten disparate "Sketches", each of which begin with a few lines of poetry, mostly taken from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene. All of the stories are replete with symbolism reinforcing the cruelty of life on the Encantadas.

"The Lightning-Rod Man" appeared in 1854, in Putnam's Monthly Magazine no. 20 (August). What grand irregular thunder, thought I, standing on my hearthstone among the Acroceraunian hills, as the scattered bolts boomed overhead and crashed down among the valleys, every bolt followed by zigzag irradiations, and swift slants of sharp rain, which audibly rang, like a charge of spear-points, on my low shingled roof. I suppose, though, that the mountains hereabouts break and churn up the thunder, so that it is far more glorious here than on the plain. Hark! - some one at the door.

تتكون المجموعة من أربع وعشرين قصة قصيرة. تدور أحداث معظم القصص حول الفعل والحركة وعدم الاستسلام. قد تهم المجموعة من يحب أن يفعل الأشياء بشكل مختلف، أو من يحب أن يراها من زوايا مختلفة. المهم أن تفعل شيئًا .. أن تكون شيئًا.. أن تكون الفعل لا رد الفعل.

Follow Chick Bowdrie’s adventures in these six classic westerns by America’s favorite storyteller, Louis L’Amour.Chick Bowdrie could have been an outlaw, but he rode a different trail. The Texas Rangers recruited Bowdrie to help pursue the most wanted men in the Southwest. And Bowdrie knew...

The storm arrives, unbidden yet unstoppable, sculpting the world in reckless white. The north wind, a faceless mason, works without plan or patience—bastions rise, wreaths drape, roads vanish. No symmetry, no restraint, only the wild hand of winter shaping chaos into fleeting grandeur. By dawn, the architect is gone. What remains is a frozen wonder, a masterpiece of whim and force, too perfect to last, too wild to be remade.

Lucas Mead-Slayer has seen it all. Or at least that's what he thought after over a decade of wandering the wilderness of his homeland and embracing everything it had to throw at him. He's fought terrible monsters, plundered ancient catacombs, and caught the eye of many unique and interesting adventuresses. After arguably the most harrowing situation of his life, Lucas has decided to seek out a friend in her home forest, maybe take a vacation, get away from all the craziness. Only it doesn't work out that way.

The North American Jules Verne Society is pleased to present its first-ever anthology of short stories, written by a select group of modern authors, inspired by classics like Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Around the World in Eighty Days, and other novels and stories by the 19th-century master of “Extraordinary Voyages,” Jules Verne.

Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century. The stories were written when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging; at a crossroads of history and culture, Ireland was jolted by various converging ideas and influences.