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When a couple wishes upon a cursed talisman, through horrors of their own, they learn why its last owner’s final wish was for death. This annotated version contains: * Story * Authors Bio * Commentary

"Whosoever pulleth that sword from the stone shall be rightful King of England!" But nobody can do it - except young Arthur! He becomes King of England, and so begin the adventurous tales of Excalibur, Merlin, the Round Table, and the Holy Grail! Included: A pdf file with track list!

Tra le letture preferite da Borges, "Il corsaro nero" è ormai un classico dove la penna di Salgari ci regala le avventure di un personaggio incredibilmente affascinante e malinconico. Quando viene a sapere che suo fratello, il Corsaro Verde, è stato giustiziato dal governatore di Maracaibo, il terribile ed odioso Wan Guld, il Corsaro Nero giura vendetta a lui e a tutta la sua famiglia e, bramoso di vendetta, si imbarca con i suoi filibustieri. In un incredibile viaggio nel Mar dei Caraibi, tra arrembaggi, tempeste, giaguari, sabbie mobili e perfino cannibali, trova anche il tempo di innamorarsi di una duchessa fiamminga che ha rapito per chiederne il riscatto.

Personnage haut en couleur, au verbe facile et à l'exagération constante, Tartarin de Tarascon est devenu un personnage légendaire. Il incarne la douce parodie du méridional hâbleur tout autant qu'il exprime le talent burlesque d'Alphonse Daudet. Par-delà sa force comique, l'œuvre de Daudet témoigne des forces d'unification et de différenciation au sein d'une France en pleine mutation industrielle, rurale et politique au XIXe siècle.

Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung is a sci-fi adventure novel by Victor Appleton. The US Government is letting Tom Swift Jr. manage the recuperation of its probe to Jupiter. But an unknown missile abruptly intercepts the probe and splashes it in the South Atlantic. Confronted with a massive search task to locate the probe on the ocean bottom, Tom soon understands that the same mysterious group that attacked the probe is racing to find it!

Classic Tales of Fear presents two classics of horror. "The Raven" is Edgar Allen Poe's masterful verse that tells of the mysterious raven that visits a man who finds himself in the deepest abyss of misery and despair. "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" tells the story of Ichabod Crane and his chilling encounter with the terrifying headless horseman.

Classic Tales of Terror collects two classic chillers of the supernatural. "The Cats of Ulthar" tells of an elderly couple with a penchant for animal cruelty. They kill the pet of an orphan and the animals retaliate with a terrible vengeance. In "The Yellow Sign", an artist encounters a horribly disfigured man who exudes a terrible aura of unspeakable evil.

Um Amad el Gandur, den Sohn des Scheik Mohammed Emin, aus der türkischen Bergfestung Amadije zu befreien, begeben sich Kara Ben Nemsi und seine Gefährten auf die gefahrvolle Reise in die kurdischen Berge. Kurdistan birgt viele Geheimnisse und Überraschungen. Was verbirgt die greise Marah Durimeh? Können die Gefährten den Bluträchern entkommen? Was sind die Ziele der christlichen Nestorianer?

"The Dragon's Secret" (1921) is a youth adventure novel by Augusta Huiell Seaman. Leslie Crane is a lively teenager companion to her sick aunt on a holiday spent on the beach. The aunt should have some calm repose to have her health recovered, but Leslie in her age of unrest finds the situation rather boring. She is not totally alone, though: she has a dog. Her dog digs out a box of metal, with a delicately carved dragon on it.

Wer jung ist, sucht das Abenteuer – den Glanz ferner Länder, die Träume der Fantasie. Seit vielen Jahren erfüllen Jugendromane diese Sehnsüchte. Ihre Heldinnen und Helden sind längst zum globalen Kulturschatz geworden.

From best-selling author duo Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff comes the exciting finale in the trilogy that broke the mould. Kady, Ezra, Hanna, and Nik narrowly escaped with their lives from the attacks on Heimdall station and now find themselves crammed with 2,000 refugees on the container ship Mao. With the jump station destroyed and their resources scarce, the only option is to return to Kerenza - but who knows what they'll find seven months after the invasion?

I thought my right-hand man was crazy when he nearly started a war over a woman. I seriously almost had his hide for it. But one look at his wife's best friend, and I'm willing to let my whole empire go up in ashes if it means the pretty little brunette will be mine. I know what I want, and I never give up, but Liz is just as stubborn as I am, and she wants no part of me or the mafia world. Or so she says. I see the way her breath catches when our eyes meet. I feel the way she trembles when our palms touch and I call her "lass." I'll do whatever I have to do to make the pretty little ...

Der Mark Twain Klassiker "Tom Sawyer und Huckleberry Finn": Die komplette Geschichte von Huckleberry Finn und Tom Sawyer auf 60 Minuten gekürzt, modernisiert und mit Musik untermalt! Eingesprochen von Wolfgang Rositzka.

A Billionaire’s Ball. A Fairy-Tale Dance. A Summer That Changes Everything. ✅ One Evil Stepmother? Check. ✅ Two Stepsisters who barely tolerate me? Check. ❌ A Prince and a happily-ever-after? …Yeah, right. This summer is my last summer before college. Seven more weeks of being invisible to my stepfamily, of working at the farmers’ market selling homemade soaps, of living in a basement that isn’t even mine. Until an invitation arrives. My billionaire cousin is getting married in the kind of over-the-top wedding that belongs in a storybook. Three days. Lavish parties. A ball ...

Autumn Runions is completely out of my league. She’s a pretty little straight-A student with doe brown eyes and the type of intellect I could never match. All I’m good at is playing football. It’s my ride to success, but Autumn is the only future I care about. The state championship is right around the corner. Everything hinges on the game, but the only thing I care about winning is Autumn. I just have to make her understand that. women they love. But their love is all-consuming and knows no boundaries—so much so that they become stalkers. Forget sugar and spice and everything nice....

Secondo dei tre romanzi che compongono il ciclo del Corsaro Nero, La regina dei Caraibi ci presenta il personaggio forse più affascinante e malinconico dell'intera opera salgariana. Accompagnato dai fidi Carmaux, Moko e Wan Stiller, oltre che da Yara, una bella principessa indiana, il Corsaro Nero, spinto anche dall'istinto che lo porta a ricercare l'amata Honorata, intraprende un lungo viaggio in mare che lo porterà fino a Veracruz, con lo scopo di vendicarsi del perfido Wan Guld.

Tall, mechanically talented, and with rugged good looks, Luke didn't want to be tied down anywhere ... or to anyone. Busty, blonde, and deaf, Holly didn't want leers or sympathy. Her passion was riding motorcycles.Brought together by their love of vintage motorcycles, Luke and Holly have more than just an out-of-tune Indian Chief to deal with. Spurned by Luke, the town's leggy crime boss, Tanya, wants revenge. She'll stop at nothing to hurt Luke and all those he cares about, including his new friend, Benji. Romantic Suspense featuring Benji, the stuck-in-the-20th-century time traveler from ...

Rifbjergs debutroman fra 1958 er en moderne ungdomsklassiker om venskaber, spirende kærlighed og bristede illusioner. Med humor og indlevelse fortæller Klaus Rifbjerg om Tores stormende forelskelse i Helle, der helst kun vil holde i hånd. Om Janus' jalousi og om hans erotiske forhold til Ellen. Om Fru Junkersen - Helles mor - der pludselig, som den onde dronning i eventyrene, bryder ind i kredsen med skæbnesvangre følger. Årtiers mest læste ungdomsroman - en klassiker i dansk litteratur og bogen bag filmen af samme navn med Susse Wold som den onde femme fatale.

Dagen för Annes och Gilberts bröllop är äntligen här. Och Anne får äntligen sitt drömslott: det lilla vita huset på Prins Edwards ö. Anne blir läkarhustru, och som sådan får hon träffa många nya människor. En är den sorgsna Leslie, som snart anförtror sig till Anne. Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) växte upp på en ö i Kanada, i samma område som böckerna om Anne utspelar sig. Till att börja med hittade hon ingen som ville ge ut hennes böcker om Anne på Grönkulla, men de väl gavs ut blev de en stor succé.

Kron Darkbow seeks vengeance, and he plans to have it no matter the costs. Returning to the city of his birth after 15 years, he hunts down the wizard responsible for the deaths of those he loved only to find out another was responsible for the murders. That other is Belgad the Liar, a former barbarian chieftain who is now boss of the city's underworld. Following his path for blood, Kron comes across the magical healer, Randall Tendbones, and accidentally reveals Randall's darkest secret to the world. It's a secret about the past, a secret that has kept Randall on the run for three years. ...