ONCE upon a time, a long while ago—in fact long before Egypt had risen to power and before Rome or Greece had ever been heard of—and that was some time before you were born, you know—there was a king who reigned over a very large and powerful kingdom. Now this king was rather old, he had founded his kingdom himself, and he had reigned over it nine hundred and ninety-nine and a half years already. As I have said before, it was a very large kingdom, for it contained, among other things, the whole of the western half of the world. The rest of the world was divided into smaller kingdoms, and each kingdom was ruled over by separate princes, who, however, were none of them so old as Intafernes, as he was called.

LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD from "Brothers Grimm" ONCE upon a time... in the middle of a thick forest stood a small cottage, the home of a pretty little girl known to everyone as Little Red Riding Hood. One day, her Mummy waved her goodbye at the garden gate, saying, "Grandma is ill. Take her this basket of cakes, but be very careful. Keep to the path through the wood and don't ever stop. That way, you will come to no harm." Little Red Riding Hood kissed her mother and ran off. "Don't worry", she said, "I'll run all the way to Grandma's without stopping". Full of good intensions, the little girl made her way through the wood, but she was soon to forget her mother's wise words. "What lovely strawberries! And so red..."

Diamants, danger et disparition Un thriller judiciaire de Katerina Carter Dans son emploi de juricomptable, Katerina Carter a du mal à s’arrêter. Cela la conduit dans des situations assez difficiles et précaires. Maintenant qu’elle n’a plus de travail et est à court d’argent, Kat a besoin de trouver de nouveaux clients. Sinon, elle devra retourner occuper un misérable box à son précédent cabinet de comptabilité. Pour Kat, ce serait pire que d’être endettée. Lorsque Susan Sullivan, la PDG des mines de diamants Liberty, l’engage pour retrouver le directeur financier qui a disparu et une grosse somme d’argent détournée, Kat est un peu trop impatiente d’accepter le poste. La misère est une grande source de motivation pour accepter des cas difficiles, mais l’enthousiasme de Katerina se transforme bient?t en terreur lorsque deux employés de la société sont sauvagement assassinés. Elle se rend compte que cette enquête pourrait être plus dangereuse qu’elle ne s’y attendait. Pour compliquer les choses, elle découvre un lien sinistre entre des diamants de sang et le crime organisé. Il ne lui reste plus qu’à obtenir des preuves, tout en évitant de se faire tuer avant de démasquer les véritables criminels. Avec l’aide de ses amis et d’un oncle excentrique, Kat doit avancer avec précaution. Sinon, sa première affaire pourrait bien être la dernière… Stratégie de sortie est un thriller légal et financier, bourré d’action, dans le style de Michael Connelly et de John Grisham.??Une histoire internationale de diamants, danger et disparition, Stratégie de sortie m’a captivée dès la première page...????Stratégie de sortie, le premier livre de la série bourrée d’action des thrillers judiciaires de Katerina Carter, est un thriller psychologique dont le suspense vous fera rapidement tourner les pages?!????[...] une tension et des intrigues à vous couper le souffle?!?? Les Livres de Colleen Cross La Couleur de l’argent?: Enquêtes criminelles de Katerina Carter Rouge vif – Nouvelle Lorsque Katerina Carter, juricomptable menant des enquêtes pour fraude,et Jace Burton, son petit ami journaliste, acceptent une invitation de dernière minute à une fête,le crime est bien la dernière chose qu’ils ont en tête.Mais un investissement réussi dans le vin laisse un go?t amer dans la bouche de Katet elle dévoile une fraude vinicole s’élevant à plus d’un million de dollars,le tout avant le d?ner?! Lune bleue – Roman court La perspective d’un d?ner chic tombe à l’eau pour Kat et son petit ami Jacelorsqu’elle découvre que Fiona, sa voisine ?gée,a installé un ex-détenu chez elle comme pensionnaire.Le programme de jardinage organisé bénévolement par Fiona à la prison locale a changé des vies,mais étendre davantage sa générosité pourrait mettre sa propre vie en danger. Les soup?ons de Kat sont renforcésquand elle apprend l’existence d’une assurance-vie souscrite récemment.Une mort accidentelle rapporte le double.? Mise au vert – Roman Katerina Carter, juricomptable, et son petit ami Jace Burtonpartent passer un week-end dans un chalet de montagne luxueux juste avant No?l.Pendant qu’il écrit la biographie d’un écologiste milliardaire, elle explore la nature enneigée. Quand deux manifestants locaux meurent dans des circonstances mystérieuses,Kat et Jace entament une course contre la montre pour échapper à une catastrophequi pourrait s’avérer encore plus mortelle. Crimes et enquêtes?: Thrillers judiciaires de Katerina Carter Stratégie de sortie L’enquête pour fraude de la juricomptable Katerina Carter met au jour une gigantesque affairede blanchiment de diamants de sang dans les mines de la compagnie Liberty,juste au moment où deux protagonistes clés de Liberty sont assassinés.Kat pourrait bien être la prochaine victime,à moins qu’elle ne laisse les vrais criminels en liberté. Théorie des jeux L’enquête pour fraude de la juricomptable Katerina Carter met au jourun gigantesque système de Ponzi lié à l’obscur Institut du Monde,un groupe de réflexion mondial dont les intentions cachées vous feront frissonner.Kat est prise au piège dans un complot politique aux enjeux élevés.Les joueurs ne reculeront devant rien pour obtenir ce qu’ils veulent,dans un jeu qu’elle ne peut pas se permettre de perdre. ?ruption La juricomptable Katerina Carter et son petit ami Jace Burton enquêtent sur une mystérieuse secte des années 1930 sur une ?le peu peuplée au large de la c?te ouest du Canada,tandis qu’un autre mystère se déroule à bord du yacht de leur h?te milliardaire,avec des conséquences mortelles pour tous. ?uvres de non-fiction?: Anatomy of a Ponzi: Scams Past and Present Site Web?: http://www.colleencross.com Pour être informé de mes dernières parutions, veuillez visiter mon site Web à l’adresse http://www.colleencross.com et vous inscrire à ma newsletter. Fran?ais édition enquêtes criminals policiers detectives ?romans noirs suspense, thrillers judiciares financiers, romans noirs, détectives privés des enquêteurs, mystères confortables, women female femme sleuth

Londres, 1824, el relojero Dorff es asaltado por dos emboscados y recibe la ayuda de Renato de Giac, marqués de Brezé. Más tarde, ya en casa de Dorff, éste le entrega a Renato un manuscrito y un cofre con documentos importantísimos que los que están en el poder en Francia, Luis XVIII y su jefe de policía Lecazes, pretenden arrebatarle. La autora aborda por primera vez el género de la novela histórica mediante la recreación de la compleja historia de Luis XVII, el delfín perdido, el hijo de Luis XVI y María Antonieta. Asistiremos también a la intriga amorosa de Renato de Giac y Amelia, la hija mayor de Dorff. Este es un excepcional relato que aspira, como nos dice la autora en su novela, “a proyectar un rayo de luz en las lobregueces históricas por medio de la lámpara caprichosa de la fantasía”.

During the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran, Zahra, a young Afghan refugee has to make a terrible choice. Stay with her lover or leave to save her anarchist cousin's life.

No es una novela. Es una "nivola", según su autor. Nuevo género creado por Unamuno, no tuvo mucho arraigo, pero aún así Niebla es una de las obras de ficción más importantes del escritor vasco. El libro aborda la inseguridad del hombre moderno que se preocupa por su destino y su mortalidad. El título está cargado de significado, dado que el libro difumina la línea entre la ficción y la realidad. También son nebulosas las descripciones físicas de los personajes y lugares, y hasta pone en duda la naturaleza de la existencia humana.

La tía Tula, es, según su autor, ?la historia de una joven que, rechazando novios, se queda soltera para cuidar a unos sobrinos, hijos de una hermana que se le muere. Vive con el cu?ado, a quien rechaza para marido, pues no quiere manchar con el débito conyugal el recinto en que respiran aire de castidad sus hijos. Satisfecho el instinto de maternidad, ?para qué perder su virginidad? Es virgen madre?. Pero sobre este ca?amazo argumental teje Unamuno una obra cargada de sentidos plurales: Tula, la protagonista, que encarna la concepción tradicional de la familia y de la mujer y que es, a al vez, víctima de ella, ejemplifica la figura del agonista unamuniano dividido en mil contradicciones.

When a young, unidentified woman is pulled alive and well from Sydney Harbour in 2013, the connections to another woman - found in similar circumstances forty years earlier - present psychiatrist Kathryn Brookley with a terrible decision as the events of the present and past begin to mirror each other and the gap between truth and illusion shrinks. When the young woman goes further and declares that she has lived continuously since coming to 'understanding' in the 14th century, her vivid accounts of life, love, childbirth, and loss in the Middle Ages seem so authentic that they test Kathryn's scientific objectivity to the limit. As Kathryn delves she discovers that she is not the only one whose habitual assumptions about life have been torn asunder by an apparent experience of the miraculous in connection with the mystery woman.

Al igual que la mayor parte de las novelas de Unamuno, y a diferencia de las novelas realistas al uso en la época, Abel Sánchez carece de indicaciones cronológicas y geográficas concretas se sitúa así en un "tiempo sin tiempo". Por otro lado, en esta novela Unamuno refleja una lucha interior del protagonista, acosado por sus miedos, por sus celos y por sus concepciones encontradas, su religiosidad sin dogmas y la eterna historia bíblica que se repite, en los caínes y abeles.

Aurora Award Finalist Think of human emotion as a geography, with peaks of pleasure and valleys of pain. Imagine a drug that flips the valleys and makes them peaks, too. You react now to an event based not on the pleasure or pain it brings, but solely on the intensity of the emotion created. Pain brings pleasure, grief gives joy, horror renders ecstasy. Now give this drug to a soldier. Tell them to kill. Not in the historically acceptable murder of war, but in a systematic corporate strategy--of xenocide. They will kill. And they will revel in it. Welcome to the world of Scream. Jarrod is a Scream-addicted soldier forced to take part in the destruction of entire races. But when his unit encounters the Be’nan, aliens who hold the secret to true enlightenment, no one is prepared for the result. "…reaches far past the muddled mediocrity of swashbuckling tales forgotten before the page is turned to the next story. I enjoyed the alien anthropology and the details are tremendous…in this tale of tremendous sacrifice" —Tangent Online "My favourite of the selection was 'Enlightenment' by Douglas Smith. A strange story indeed about Earth people engaged in strip-mining planets and relocating indigenous populations. ... The end is horrific in many respects but it's also thought-provoking." —SF Crowsnest Reviews "…[tells of] a spiritual undertaking by a member of a brutal planetary occupation force who "goes native" in which Douglas Smith provides a riff on Ray Bradbury's famous rationale of space travel: for Man to find God in the cosmos. A science fictional depiction of the mistreatment of "aliens" to subvertly criticize the atrocities of imperialist colonization." —SF Site "... unexpected twists and a superb ending; the story is as powerful as any in the [Chimerascope] collection (A++)" —Fantasy Book Critic "Douglas Smith…succeeds in evoking an alien society with mythic/religious overtones in his moving tale ‘Enlightenment’." —New Hope International Review Online "Another strong story, looking at humanity's treatment of indigenous people." —Best SF "...oppressed inhabitants of distant worlds making the ultimate sacrifice in order to bring mankind back to the realisation of what right and wrong truly mean." —Whispers of Wickedness reviews "Nicely judged depictions of alien customs…" —SF Site "...was my favourite of the issue. ‘Enlightenment’ went exactly where I expected it to, but that was where I wanted it to go--I was there for the ride" "Stories [were] great, particularly ‘Enlightenment.’ [I] was just engrossed in the whole thing...and applaud it thoroughly!" "…just blew me away…I was taken away by the lovely prose." "...provoked some really interesting ideas…" "…mind-blowing…" —InterZone readers forum

Aurora Award WINNER. The Walker is a child of the two Realms of the Continuum, a prince of Order and of Chaos—and a rebel against both. When he falls in love with an ephemeral, a mortal woman who is the key to the balance between the Realms, he triggers a struggle for her life—and the fate of her universe. "A very different sort of tale. ... A cosmic story of gods which seems to be inspired by the works of Michael Moorcock, and I think he would not be ashamed of it." —SF Crowsnest Reviews "A tale of epic love when a mortal gets caught between a battle of the gods. Smith reminds us that we have the potential to change the world around us and that self-sacrifice can be a means of making the world around us better." —Speculating Canada "The descriptions here have cosmic sweep…" —Locus Online

Sydney Waters stares out over the brittle, seared land three hundred feet below. How to cross four hundred miles of desert with a blind man and a dog? Before Sydney can change course, the cliff edge breaks away and Jordan tumbles down into the desert. The only way out a cave that leads deep beneath the state of Nebraska. No turning back now. Book Two of The Upheaval Series, Edge of Reality takes the reader on an extraordinary and unexpected adventure in a world turned upside down.

U ovoj anti?vejkovskoj anabazi jedan od prepoznatljivih srdi?evskih likova, dru?tvenom i intimnom istorijomo?te?en ?ovek koji u dana?njici gubi tlo pod nogama, polazi na paradoksalni put samoosloba?anja, na kojem autor ocrtava duhovit i gorak portret savremene Srbije.

A lone traveler seeks shelter from an approaching storm in an apparently abandoned house, only to find that it is occupied by a "loathsome old, white-bearded, and ragged man."

USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Bernard returns to the town readers are falling in love with… In one fiery moment, Finn Abrams went from cocksure firefighter to scarred survivor. Now all he wants is to put his life together again, get back on a hotshot crew, and figure out exactly what happened to him during the Big Canyon burnover. He never expected to be knocked off his feet by a gorgeous, no-nonsense stranger to Jupiter Point—the one woman who seems completely immune to his famous charm. Coolly practical, Lisa Peretti knows she won’t be in Jupiter Point for long. As an ER nurse in Houston, she helped a friend escape a dangerous situation. Now she’s hiding out in the little town, determined to keep a low profile. The last thing she needs is attention, especially in the form of the tabloid-starring, actress-dating, too-sexy-for-his-own-good Finn Abrams. Still, Lisa can’t resist someone who needs her help. As long as she can keep her distance, working with the local hero as he recovers from his burns should be no problem, right? Wrong. When danger follows Lisa to Jupiter Point, she's startled to find Finn ready, willing, and more than able to come to her rescue. Add to that a meddling movie crew, some kindhearted locals, and her own unruly heart, and Lisa quickly loses any shot at keeping her feelings under cover. Fire season in Jupiter Point is always smokin' hot...but this time it’s going to be Setting Off Sparks.

Dave and his mum are all set to take a train when there is an announcement that the next train heads to a strange destination, Wonderland.? Mum goes to make an enquiry?and Dave takes the train by himself. On the train he find a magic shoes that?takes him on an adventure which he was not fully prepared for.

"The Statement of Randolph Carter" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft. Written December 1919, it was first published in The Vagrant, May 1920. It tells of a traumatic event in the life of Randolph Carter, a student of the occult loosely representing Lovecraft himself. It is the first story in which Carter appears and is part of Lovecraft's Dream Cycle.

Many ages ago in North America there was no spring or summer or autumn, but only winter all the time; there were no forests or fields or flowers, but only ice and snow, which stretched from the Arctic Ocean to Maryland. Sometimes the climate would grow a little warmer, and then the great glaciers would shrink toward the north, and then again it would grow cold, while the ice crept southward; but finally it became warmer and warmer until all the southern part of the country was quite free from the ice and snow, which could then only be seen, as it is now, in the Polar regions.??Ages and ages after this, grass and trees began to ap-pear, and at last great forests covered the land, and over the fields and through the woods gigantic animals roved—strange and terrible-looking beasts, larger than any animal now living, and very fierce and strong. Among these were the mammoth and mastodon, which were so strong and ferocious that it would take hundreds of men to hunt and kill them. These great animals would go trampling through the forests, breaking down the trees and crushing the grass and flowers under their feet, or rush over the fields in pursuit of their prey, making such dreadful, threatening noises that all the other animals would flee before them, just as now the more timid animals flee from the lion or rhinoceros. ??Sometimes they would rush or be driven by men into swamps and marshes, where their great weight would sink them down so deep into the mud that they could not lift themselves out again, and then, they would die of starvation or be killed by the arrows of the men who were hunting them.??Besides these mammoths and mastodons there were other animals living in North America at that time, very different from those that are found here now. ?

So long a time had passed that Dorothy C. had grown to be what father John called "a baker's dozen of years old"; and upon another spring morning, as fair as that when she first came to them, the girl was out upon the marble steps, scrubbing away most vigorously. The task was known locally as "doing her front," and if one wishes to be considerable respectable, in Baltimore, one's "front" must be done every day. On Saturdays the entire marble facing of the basement must also be polished; but "pernickity" Mrs. Chester was known to her neighbors as such a forehanded housekeeper that she had her Saturday's work done on Friday, if this were possible.??Now this was Friday and chanced to be a school holiday; so Dorothy had been set to the week-end task, which she hated; and therefore she put all the more energy into it, the sooner to have done with it, meanwhile singing at the top of her voice. Then, when the postman came round the corner of the block, she paused in her singing to stare at him for one brief instant. The next she had pitched her voice a few notes higher still, and it was her song that greeted her father's ears and set him smiling in his old familiar fashion. ??Unfortunately, he had not been smiling when she first perceived him and there had been a little catch in her tones as she resumed her song. Each was trying to deceive the other and each pretending that nothing of the sort was happening.??"Heigho, my child! At it again, giving the steps a more tombstone effect? Well, since it's the fashion—go ahead!"??"I wish the man, or men, who first thought of putting scrubby-steps before people's houses had them all to clean himself! Hateful old thing!"

Roman Tursko ogledalo vodi nas na uzbudljivo putovanje u daleki XVI vek, kada je Ma?arska tek postala vazalna dr?ava turskog sultana Sulejmana Veli?anstvenog, nestabilna grani?na oblast izme?u dva velika carstva, ?ivopisna me?avina kalendara, poreskih sistema, jezika, knjiga i svetih spisa, mesto gde ?emo sresti mo?ne sultane, ma?arsko plemstvo i otomanske begove, trgovce, gradske bogata?e, seoske slu?benike – a ponekad ?ak i an?ele, d?ine i neverovatne lete?e ma?ine. Radnja se de?ava od Istanbula, preko Jedrena, Ni?a, Beograda i Petrovaradina, pa sve do Pe?uja, i sva ta mesta vi?e li?e na ona iz 1001 no?i gde kamile ?etaju gradskim ulicama, kajsije i urme obilato?krase drve?e, lopovi tumaraju ?umama, dok polako ni?u prve d?amije i turska kupatila. I zaista, ?arm Turskog ogledala le?i u neobuzdanom nagonu da se ispri?a pri?a, a njegova originalnost u prikazu Ma?arske kroz?vizuru otomanskih Turaka, zbog ?ega ?e sve do sada poznato ?itaocu?odjednom postati novo, strano i zanimljivo. Prevod s ma?arskog: Marija Cindori ?inkovi?

Poetry and the Gods is a short story by horror writer and poet H.P. Lovecraft in collaboration with writer Anna Helen Crofts. The story is very different from the vast majority of Lovecraft's other work and collaborations. It does, however, bear similar themes regarding dreams as a doorway to magic realms, and slumbering gods. The narrative follows the dream-voyage of Marcia, a young woman filled with weariness of the mundane world and all its woes. She resolves to ease her troubled soul by reading a magazine of poetry. As she does, a dream-state unfolds in which the Greek god Hermes appears and bears Marcia to the court of Zeus and the Olympians.