Mary and her teenage son, Jase, survive by their own wits in a post-plague Earth. On the run from a vicious gang, they are saved by Bishop, a man with mysterious powers who just may be the Dead Man, the legendary hero of the Fall of Earth. But Bishop’s dark past catches up with them all, forcing Bishop to choose between his love for Mary and Jase, or revenge against the men who killed his family. "All that you want in a sf short story is here from powerful characters, to action, mysterious happenings, and a dark, violent, but excellent tale. … A bittersweet ending adds to the power of the story. (A++)" —Fantasy Book Critic "…again shows off Smith's flair for the cinematic. … In his preface to the story, Smith announces his plan to write a novel about the Dead Man…I do look forward to reading it." —Strange Horizons "…has echoes of Stephen King wandering about its post-apocalyptic narrative." —Quill and Quire "…a wonderful example of the places this author is unafraid to go." —SF Crowsnest Reviews "…would make a great movie…a unique, post-apocalyptic blend of The Road Warrior and X-Men. … It was very well done." —Tangent Online "I liked the style and subtleties of the storytelling that kept me firmly on the edge of my seat. … The characters were what really impressed me, though—by a few lines into meeting each one you had a clear and definable presence in your mind." —SF Crowsnest Reviews

One of the great novelist’s most popular works, Oliver Twist is also the purest distillation of Dickens’s genius. Like most of Dickens’ work, the book is used to call the public’s attention to various contemporary social evils, including the workhouse, child labour and the recruitment of children as criminals. The novel is full of sarcasm and dark humour, even as it treats its serious subject, revealing the hypocrisies of the time. This tale of the orphan who is reared in a workhouse and runs away to London is a novel of social protest, a morality tale, and a detective story. Oliver Twist presents some of the most sinister characters in Dickens: the master thief, Fagin; the leering Artful Dodger; the murderer, Bill Sikes…along with some of his most sentimental and comical characters. Only Dickens can give us nightmare and daydream together. According to George Orwell, “in Oliver Twist…Dickens attacked English institutions with a ferocity that has never since been approached. Yet he managed to do it without making himself hated, and, more than this, the very people he attacked have welcomed him so completely that he has become a national institution himself.” The novel has been the subject of numerous film and television adaptations, and the basis for a highly successful British musical, Oliver!

Tanara Oriana moare intr-un accident, chiar in ziua nuntii ei. Pentru oricine, acesta ar parea sfar?itul. Nu si pentru ea. Se intoarce ca recuperator de suflete, insa nu la vechea viata ?i familie, pentru care trebuie sa ramana moarta, ci la una cu totul noua. Rasfatul si confortul, considerate garantate mai inainte, se duc acum pe Apa Sambetei. Va trebui sa lupte pentru a-i salva pe ceilalti, dar si pe sine. Apar noi prieteni, noi dusmani si… prima iubire? Exista viata dupa moarte? Unii vor spune ca da, altii ca nu. Dar exista un raspuns la care cu siguranta nu v-ati gandit. Exista recuperatorii de suflete. Smulsi din existentele lor, sunt aruncati in altele, neintrebati de nimeni, fara sa li se ceara acceptul. Trebuie doar sa se supuna legilor celor de Dincolo. Iar unii aleg razvratirea… In acest al patrulea volum al seriei Am murit, din fericire, o gasim pe Oriana in Purgatorio, dupa o goana nebuna in urma careia si ea, dar si cei ce o insotesc cad victimele unor noi incercari. Cu Abel ranit de moarte si Marc pierdut in Chaos, incertitudinile devin mai zdrobitoare ca oricand. Acest volum, la fel ca precedentele, te va tine cu sufletul la gura si nu-l vei lasa din mana pana cand nu vei intoarce si ultima pagina

Karina Baldin, o tanara balerina ce promite sa lumineze cele mai cunoscute scene ale lumii cu talentul sau, se indragosteste de noul fotograf al Academiei de balet. Pentru inima ei neincercata pana atunci de astfel de sentimente, emotiile acestei iubiri se dovedesc covarsitoare, mai ales ca legatura dintre cei doi nu este dintre acelea pe care societatea sa le vada cu ochi buni. Scriitoarea Raluca Andreea Chiper, un talent indiscutabil al literaturii contemporane, ne poarta cu a sa maiestrie magica in manuirea cuvantului scris, in lumi care ne captiveaza in totalitate. Intre pamant si apa este o lectura la care cititorul se va gandi multa vreme dupa ce a intors si ultima pagina.

Atunci cand afli ca viata pe care ai trait-o nu iti apartine, ce ai de gand sa faci? Intr-o lume in care oamenii se ghideaza dupa 5 coduri, sunt condusi de 5 Supremi, iar visele sunt interzise, Cehel Ynue, o tanara ce porneste in viata ca fiind un copil prodigy, se zbate sa descopere adevarul, incalcand regulile. Pe parcursul calatoriei sale, Cehel se intalneste de mai multe ori cu termenul necunoscut?I.R.En., care ii obsedeaza subconstientul si care o impinge spre aflarea adevarului. O singura lume, fenomene bizare greu de explicat, un Healer si un Mediator care refuza sa accepte realitatea oferita de catre sistem. I.R.En., romanul care impinge cititorul sa se indoiasca de propria realitate in care traieste, facandu-l sa intoarca pagina dupa pagina pentru a afla raspunsul la toate intrebarile pe care este constrans sa si le puna.

Ez Fabius Petronius Secundus római legionárius és centurió – valamint hadvezére, Scipio Aemilianus – felemelkedésének t?rténete: a makedónok elleni els? csatájától, amely megpecsételi Nagy Sándor birodalmának sorsát, az ?szak-Afrikában vívott, mindenre kiterjed? háborúig és Karthágó ostromáig. Scipio sikerei csodálatot és tiszteletet váltanak ki, de egyben kapzsiságot és féltékenységet is fialnak – legszorosabb sz?vetségeseit?l legelkeseredettebb ellenségeiig. ?s ott van még Julia is, a Caesar családból – a kiszámíthatatlan lány, aki Scipiót szereti, de annak vetélytársával, Paulusszal jegyzeték el –, aki csúf viszály kiváltója lesz. Végül Scipiónak egyetlen kérdésre kell csak válaszolnia: mi mindent képes feláldozni a látomásért, amit Rómáról alkotott?

R?MA ELESTE CSAK A KEZDET VOLT. EGY ?J BIRODALOM BONTOGATJA SZ?RNYAIT. AD 439: A Római Birodalom az ?sszeomlás szélére sodródik. Hispánia és ?szak-Afrika római provinciáin egy vandál sereg zúdul át megd?bbent? gyorsasággal, leigázza Karthágót, és Rómának a F?ldk?zi-tenger feletti uralmát fenyegeti. ?m ennél is nagyobb veszély k?zeledik keletr?l, egy barbár hader? ?zsia zord sztyeppéir?l, páratlanul vérszomjas harcosok, akik mindenkit els?p?rnek, aki hódítás utáni vágyuk útjában áll – Attila, a hun serege.Római katonák és egy titokzatos brit szerzetes alkotta kicsiny csapat az egyetlen, amely a római császárok züll?ttsége és gyengesége f?lé emelkedik, és a római sereg évszázadokkal korábbi dics? napjaiba nyúl vissza, hogy a t?rténelemb?l merítsen er?t. Hogy végül olyan megd?bbent?en pimasz tervvel rukkoljon el?, ami magába a s?tétség szívébe repíti ?ket, a legrettegettebb harcos-király er?djébe, akit a világ valaha is ismert. Az elk?vetkez? leszámolásban, a legnagyobb ütk?zetben, amelyet Róma valaha is vívott, a gy?zelem azoké lesz, akik a háború leghatalmasabb jelképét, amelyet valaha is kovácsoltak, a magasba tudják emelni – Attila szent kardját.

This collection of Japanese fairy tales is the outcome of a suggestion made to me indirectly through a friend by Mr. Andrew Lang. They have been translated from the modern version written by Sadanami Sanjin. These stories are not literal translations, and though the Japanese story and all quaint Japanese expressions have been faithfully preserved, they have been told more with the view to interest young readers of the West than the technical student of folk-lore. Grateful acknowledgment is due to Mr. Y. Yasuoka, Miss Fusa Okamoto, my brother Nobumori Ozaki, Dr. Yoshihiro Takaki, and Miss Kameko Yamao, who have helped me with translations. The story which I have named "The Story of the Man who did not Wish to Die" is taken from a little book written a hundred years ago by one Shinsui Tamenaga. It is named Chosei Furo, or "Longevity." "The Bamboo-cutter and the Moon-child" is taken from the classic "Taketari Monogatari," and is NOT classed by the Japanese among their fairy tales, though it really belongs to this class of literature. ? In telling these stories in English I have followed my fancy in adding such touches of local color or description as they seemed to need or as pleased me, and in one or two instances I have gathered in an incident from another version. At all times, among my friends, both young and old, English or American, I have always found eager listeners to the beautiful legends and fairy tales of Japan, and in telling them I have also found that they were still unknown to the vast majority, and this has encouraged me to write them for the children of the West. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Y. T. O. ? MY LORD BAG OF RICE ? "Long, long ago there lived, in Japan a brave warrior known to all as Tawara Toda, or "My Lord Bag of Rice." His true name was Fujiwara Hidesato, and there is a very interesting story of how he came to change his name. One day he sallied forth in search of adventures, for he had the nature of a warrior and could not bear to be idle. So he buckled on his two swords, took his huge bow, much taller than himself, in his hand, and slinging his quiver on his back started out. He had not gone far when he came to the bridge of Seta-no-Karashi spanning one end of the beautiful Lake Biwa. No sooner had he set foot on the bridge than he saw lying right across his path a huge serpent-dragon. Its body was so big that it looked like the trunk of a large pine tree and it took up the whole width of the bridge. One of its huge claws rested on the parapet of one side of the bridge, while its tail lay right against the other. The monster seemed to be asleep, and as it breathed, fire and smoke came out of its nostrils. ? At first Hidesato could not help feeling alarmed at the sight of this horrible reptile lying in his path, for he must either turn back or walk right over its body. He was a brave man, however, and putting aside all fear went forward dauntlessly. Crunch, crunch! he stepped now on the dragon's body, now between its coils, and without even one glance backward he went on his way. .."

Thousands of years have passed since the Earth was invaded by gods, demons, and foreign species with capabilities far beyond that of most humans. Reality collapsed, disaster having become so widespread that hope was ultimately forgotten. Humankind was backed into a corner and forced to either evolve or submit; the world erupted into a never-ending war that resulted in new cultures, superior technology, and great division among living beings. This is the tale of the assassin, Tavon, whose ambition drove him to explore past his simple upbringing in the slums of the Citadel in order to become one of the most notorious killers in the universe.

Mai has everything. Friends, a job, and a loving man in her life. But just when she thinks she has it all, Jake pops the question. Suddenly, everything changes.? The minute Jake declares his undying love, their journey begins. Swept up in a sea of adventure, Mai will travel to Norway to meet the most dreaded of all creatures- The Inlaws. Along the way, Mai and Jake will battle all manner of supernatural creatures to get to the altar, only to find?out that this is just the beginning. Life as they know?it will never be the same.

A szerz? r?vid, haikuszer? verseinek, verskezdeményeinek gy?jteménye.

***Only 99 cents for a limited time to celebrate the launch of book 3, TRICKSTER***As the High Prince of the demon-fighting thrax, Lincoln knows he must marry for political gain. Not that he minds. For all of his eighteen years, Lincoln’s been bound to his duty. Then the prince glimpses Myla, a part-demon girl, and everything changes. What happens when a woman you’ve never met upends your life completely? Lincoln’s about to find out."Lincoln is so dreamy!'?- Smada's Book Smack"Fantastic read from Lincoln's POV!”?- BooksAPlenty"A great novella! Amazing!"?- Nose in YA BooksAngelbound Lincoln SeriesStories from the perspective of Mister the Prince1. Duty Bound,?a 20,000+ word novella that takes place before Lincoln meets Myla face-to-face2. Lincoln3. Trickster4. Baculum5. Angelfire

Western short story. According to Wikipedia: "Bret Harte (August 25, 1836[2] – May 6, 1902) was an American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California. He was born in Albany, New York. ... He moved to California in 1853, later working there in a number of capacities, including miner, teacher, messenger, and journalist. He spent part of his life in the northern California coast town now known as Arcata, then just a mining camp on Humboldt Bay. His first literary efforts, including poetry and prose, appeared in The Californian, an early literary journal edited by Charles Henry Webb. In 1868 he became editor of The Overland Monthly, another new literary magazine, but this one more in tune with the pioneering spirit of excitement in California. His story, "The Luck of Roaring Camp," appeared in the magazine's second edition, propelling Harte to nationwide fame... Determined to pursue his literary career, in 1871 he and his family traveled back East, to New York and eventually to Boston, where he contracted with the publisher of The Atlantic Monthly for an annual salary of $10,000, "an unprecedented sum at the time." His popularity waned, however, and by the end of 1872 he was without a publishing contract and increasingly desperate. He spent the next few years struggling to publish new work (or republish old), delivering lectures about the gold rush, and even selling an advertising jingle to a soap company. In 1878 Harte was appointed to the position of United States Consul in the town of Krefeld, Germany and then to Glasgow in 1880. In 1885 he settled in London. During the thirty years he spent in Europe, he never abandoned writing, and maintained a prodigious output of stories that retained the freshness of his earlier work. He died in England in 1902 of throat cancer and is buried at Frimley."

Diese Datei enth?lt drei Bücher: Jenseits des Lustprinzips, ?ber Psychoanalyse, und Zur Psychopathologie des Alltagslebens (?ber Vergessen, Vernehmen, Verreifen, Verglauche und Irrtum). Au?erdem enth?lt es sieben Artikel: "Der Dichter und das Phantasieren", "Eine Kindheitserinnerung" aus "Dichtung und Wahrheit", "Der Moses des Michelangelo", "Das Motiv der K?stchenwahl", "Verg?nglichkeit" und "Zeitgem?? über Krieg und Tod". All diese Werke sind im deutschen Original. Nach Wikipedia: "Sigmund Freud (6. Mai 1856 - 23. September 1939), war ein ?sterreichischer Neurologe, der die psychoanalytische Schule der Psychologie gründete. Freud ist am besten bekannt für seine Theorien des Unbewussten und der Abwehrmechanismen der Repression und für Er schuf die klinische Praxis der Psychoanalyse zur Behandlung der Psychopathologie durch den Dialog zwischen einem Patienten und einem Psychoanalytiker.Freud ist auch bekannt für seine Neudefinition des sexuellen Verlangens als prim?re Motivationsenergie des menschlichen Lebens sowie für seine therapeutischen Techniken, einschlie?lich der Verwendung freier Assoziation , seine Theorie der ?bertragung in der therapeutischen Beziehung, und die Interpretation von Tr?umen als Quellen der Einsicht in unbewusste Wünsche.Er war auch ein früher neurologischer Forscher in Zerebralparese.W?hrend viele von Freuds Ideen gefallen sind oder von Neo modifiziert wurden Die Freudianer und die modernen Fortschritte auf dem Gebiet der Psychologie haben Fehler in vielen seiner Theorien gezeigt, Freuds Arbeit bleibt wichtig in der Geschichte der klinischen psychodynamischen Ans?tze. In der Wissenschaft beeinflussen seine Ideen weiterhin die Geisteswissenschaften und einige Sozialwissenschaften. "

Classic humorous short story. According to Wikipedia: "Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 ? April 21, 1910), better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was a humorist, satirist, lecturer and writer from the United States of America. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He is also known for his quotations.[3][4] During his lifetime, Twain became a friend to presidents, artists, leading industrialists and European royalty. Twain enjoyed immense public popularity, and his keen wit and incisive satire earned him praise from both critics and peers. American author William Faulkner called Twain 'the father of American literature.'"

Classic Jack London stories, including IN THE FORESTS OF THE NORTH, THE LAW OF LIFE, NAM-BOK THE UNVERACIOUS, THE MASTER OF MYSTERY, THE SUNLANDERS, THE SICKNESS OF LONE CHIEF, KEESH, THE SON OF KEESH, THE DEATH OF LIGOUN, LI WAN, THE FAIR, and THE LEAGUE OF THE OLD MEN. According to Wikipedia: "Jack London (1876 – 1916) was an American author who wrote The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Sea Wolf along with many other popular books. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first Americans to make a lucrative career exclusively from writing."

Classic Kipling short stories, including THE CAPTIVE, THE BONDS OF DISCIPLINE, A SAHIBS' WAR, "THEIR LAWFUL OCCASIONS"--PARTs I and II, THE COMPREHENSION OF PRIVATE COOPER, STEAM TACTICS, "WIRELESS", THE ARMY OF A DREAM--PARTs I and II, "THEY", MRS. BATHURST, and BELOW THE MILL DAM. According to Wikipedia: "Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865 – 1936) was an English author and poet. Born in Bombay, British India (now Mumbai), he is best known for his works The Jungle Book (1894) and Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (1902), his novel, Kim (1901); his poems, including Mandalay (1890), Gunga Din (1890), If— (1910); and his many short stories, including The Man Who Would Be King (1888). He is regarded as a major "innovator in the art of the short story"; his children's books are enduring classics of children's literature; and his best works speak to a versatile and luminous narrative gift. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in English, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.[2] The author Henry James said of him: "Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius (as distinct from fine intelligence) that I have ever known." In 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English language writer to receive the prize, and to date he remains its youngest recipient. Among other honours, he was sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and on several occasions for a knighthood, all of which he declined."

Classic Kipling stories, including As Easy as ABC, Friendly Brook, In the Same Boat, The Honours of War, The Dog Hervey, The Village that Voted the Earth was Flat, In the Presence, Regulus, The Edge of the Evening, The Horse Marines, 'My Son's Wife', The Vortex, 'Swept and Garnished', and Mary Postgate. According to Wikipedia: "Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865 – 1936) was an English author and poet. Born in Bombay, British India (now Mumbai), he is best known for his works The Jungle Book (1894) and Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (1902), his novel, Kim (1901); his poems, including Mandalay (1890), Gunga Din (1890), If— (1910); and his many short stories, including The Man Who Would Be King (1888). He is regarded as a major "innovator in the art of the short story"; his children's books are enduring classics of children's literature; and his best works speak to a versatile and luminous narrative gift. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in English, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.[2] The author Henry James said of him: "Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius (as distinct from fine intelligence) that I have ever known." In 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English language writer to receive the prize, and to date he remains its youngest recipient. Among other honours, he was sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and on several occasions for a knighthood, all of which he declined.

Classic long story, first published under the pen name Michael Angelo Titmarsh. According to Wikipedia: "Thackeray is most often compared to one other great novelist of Victorian literature, Charles Dickens. During the Victorian era, he was ranked second only to Dickens, but he is now much less read and is known almost exclusively for Vanity Fair. In that novel he was able to satirize whole swaths of humanity while retaining a light touch. It also features his most memorable character, the engagingly roguish Becky Sharp. As a result, unlike Thackeray's other novels, it remains popular with the general reading public; it is a standard fixture in university courses and has been repeatedly adapted for movies and television. In Thackeray's own day, some commentators, such as Anthony Trollope, ranked his History of Henry Esmond as his greatest work, perhaps because it expressed Victorian values of duty and earnestness, as did some of his other later novels. It is perhaps for this reason that they have not survived as well as Vanity Fair, which satirizes those values."

Classic mystery/detective novel. According to Wikipedia: "Ernest William Hornung (June 7, 1866 – March 22, 1921)... was an English author, most famous for writing the Raffles series of novels about a gentleman thief in late Victorian London. Hornung was the third son of John Peter Hornung, a Hungarian, and was born in Middlesbrough, England. He was educated at Uppingham School during some of the later years of its great headmaster, Edward Thring. He spent most of his life in England and France, but in 1884 left for Australia and stayed for two years where he working as a tutor at Mossgiel station. Although his Australian experience had been so short, it coloured most of his literary work from A Bride from the Bush published in 1899, to Old Offenders and a few Old Scores, which appeared after his death. He returned from Australia in 1886, and married Constance ("Connie") Doyle (1868-1924), the sister of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1893. Hornung published the poems Bond and Free and Wooden Crosses in The Times. The character of A. J. Raffles, a "gentleman thief", first appeared in Cassell's Magazine in 1898 and the stories were later collected as The Amateur Cracksman (1899). Other titles in the series include The Black Mask (1901), A Thief in the Night (1905), and the full-length novel Mr. Justice Raffles (1909). He also co-wrote the play Raffles, The Amateur Cracksman with Eugene Presbrey in 1903."

Classic mystery/detective novel. According to Wikipedia: "Ernest William Hornung (June 7, 1866 – March 22, 1921)... was an English author, most famous for writing the Raffles series of novels about a gentleman thief in late Victorian London. Hornung was the third son of John Peter Hornung, a Hungarian, and was born in Middlesbrough, England. He was educated at Uppingham School during some of the later years of its great headmaster, Edward Thring. He spent most of his life in England and France, but in 1884 left for Australia and stayed for two years where he working as a tutor at Mossgiel station. Although his Australian experience had been so short, it coloured most of his literary work from A Bride from the Bush published in 1899, to Old Offenders and a few Old Scores, which appeared after his death. He returned from Australia in 1886, and married Constance ("Connie") Doyle (1868-1924), the sister of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1893. Hornung published the poems Bond and Free and Wooden Crosses in The Times. The character of A. J. Raffles, a "gentleman thief", first appeared in Cassell's Magazine in 1898 and the stories were later collected as The Amateur Cracksman (1899). Other titles in the series include The Black Mask (1901), A Thief in the Night (1905), and the full-length novel Mr. Justice Raffles (1909). He also co-wrote the play Raffles, The Amateur Cracksman with Eugene Presbrey in 1903."