"Hypnos" is a short story by H.P. Lovecraft, penned in March 1922 and first published in the May 1923 issue of National Amateur. The narrator, a sculptor, recounts meeting a mysterious man in a railway station. The moment the man opened his "immense, sunken and widely luminous eyes", the narrator knew that the stranger would become his friend-–"the only friend of one who had never possessed a friend before". In the eyes of the stranger he saw the knowledge of the mysteries he always sought to learn

Fist published in 1935, "The Disinterment" is a short horror story by H.P. Lovecraft.

Great modern American supernaturalist brilliantly surveys history of genre to 1930s, summarizing, evaluating scores of books, including works by Poe, Bierce, M.R. James, "Monk" Lewis, many others. Praised by critics as diverse as Edmund Wilson and Vincent Starrett.

When Willow Farrington first meets Isaac Silberstein she doesn't know what to expect. He's a gnome-like old man who survived a World War II concentration camp, and she's an almost-14-year-old who is just back at school after a four-month stay in hospital with an eating disorder. He has written a recipe and gardening book, and she has to do a talk on it for school. Birthdays, custard, book reports, gardens, families, friendship and fun all combine in this contemporary, witty and moving book. A fresh and uplifting novel based on a true story.

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

The dragon flying over Tiadun bay is the only thing that Darna loves in the provinces, and she’s also the only person she knows of who can see it. There’s nothing else she likes about life at Tiadun keep. When she learns that she might be the daughter of the prince, she’s afraid she’ll be trapped there forever so she flees to the city of Anamat. In the city, there will be others who can see the dragons, or so the minstrels say. Along the way, she meets Myril, an older girl with frequent premonitions and an eerie sense of hearing. At the walls, they find Iola, so dragon-struck that she wants to be a priestess, and Thorat, her devoted champion. Despite these newfound friends, life in the city isn’t easy. Darna scavenges for scraps and just about gets by, but when she's offered a sack of gold beads for a small bit of thieving, she takes her chances... and ends up angering the city’s patron dragon.

A Heroka story.? Lilith Hoyl is a Heroka of the bird totem—a shapeshifter who hates the humans who killed her mate and hunt her kind. But when she meets a young girl awaiting a critical operation, their mutual love for birds brings joy back into both their lives. “One expects magic with this set-up, and magic does, indeed, follow, but pain cannot be forever vanquished, for either the girl or the Hoyl. The story charms as well as pains. In other hands, it would be mawkish, but Smith avoids all the pitfalls and gives us something bittersweet instead.” —Fantasy Literature

Nicole is desperate to leave Silverlake, the small town she's spent her whole life in, and her plans for escape and her future career are all falling into place. But when the local heartthrob Aiden points out the one thing holding her back, Nicole's response sets off a chain of bad decisions that leaves her second guessing everything she ever knew about herself.? Aiden may be devilishly handsome with a scent that gives Nic heart palpitations, but deep down she knows he is trouble. Before long, she finds herself sitting in a stolen Porsche with her hand on his knee and blood on her shoes. Does Nic have what it takes to survive in this unknown world, or is she letting her desires ruin her life?

Warlords, assassins, samurai... and a girl who likes to climb Though Japan has been devastated by a century of civil war, Risuko just wants to climb trees. Growing up far from the battlefields and court intrigues, the fatherless girl finds herself pulled into a plot that may reunite Japan — or may destroy it. She is torn from her home and what is left of her family, but finds new friends at a school that may not be what it seems. Magical but historical, Risuko follows her along the first dangerous steps to discovering who she truly is. Seasons of the Sword #1: Can one girl win a war? Kano Murasaki, called Risuko (Squirrel) is a young, fatherless girl, more comfortable climbing trees than down on the ground. Yet she finds herself enmeshed in a game where the board is the whole nation of Japan, where the pieces are armies, moved by scheming lords, and a single girl couldn’t possible have the power to change the outcome. Or could she? YOUNG ADULT HISTORICAL ADVENTURE

Newton Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869 – May 19, 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. He is one of only three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, along with William Faulkner and John Updike.

Ангелски военновъздушни сили, полковник Михаил Маннуки‘или се събужда смъртоносно ранен в разбития си кораб. Жената, която спасява живота му, има невероятната способност да лекува. Но кой е стрелял и e свалил кораба на Михаил? И защо? . Нинсианна винаги е имала специални отношения с богинята. Тя идва от голям род на шамани и лечители. Когато изчезва в пустинята, за да избяга от насилствен брак с арогантния син на вожда, последното нещо, което очаква, е от небето да падне крилат човек! . Междувременно на небето министър-председателят Луцифер, осиновеният син на Вечния император, разкрива план за погазване на желанията на безсмъртния си баща. . Това е животът или смъртта в първата част от епичния научно-фантастичен разказ за мита за падналите ангели – Меч на боговете. . Тази книга НЕ е религиозна измислица! . Български език, български книги -Bulgarian language

When pianist Ginny Smith moves back to her mother's house in Sassafras after her breakup with the degenerate Garth, synaesthetic and eccentric artist Harriet Brassington-Smythe contrives a creative collaboration to lift her daughter's spirits: an exhibition of paintings and songs. Mother and daughter struggle to agree on the elements of the collaborative effort, and as Ginny tries to prise the truth of her father’s disappearance from a tight-lipped Harriet, both are launched into their own inner worlds of dreams, speculations and remembering. Meanwhile, another mother and artist, Judith, alone in a house on the moors, reflects on her own troubled past and that of her wayward daughter, Madeleine. Set amid the fern glades and towering forests of the Dandenong ranges east of Melbourne, and on England's Devon moors, A Perfect Square is a work of remarkable depth and insight.

"The Silver Key" is a short story written by H.P. Lovecraft in 1926, considered part of his Dreamlands series. Randolph Carter discovers, at the age of 30, that he has gradually "lost the key to the gate of dreams." As he ages, he finds that his daily waking exposure to the more "practical", scientific ideas of man, has eventually eroded his ability to dream as he once did, and has made him regretfully subscribe more and more to the mundane beliefs of everyday, waking "real life". But still not certain which is truer, he sets out to determine whether the waking ideas of man are superior to his dreams.

"In the Walls of Eryx" is a short story by H.P. Lovecraft, written in January 1936 and first published in Weird Tales magazine in October 1939. It is unusual among Lovecraft's work as a standard science fiction story involving space exploration in the near future. The story, written in first-person narrative, depicts the life and death of a prospector on the planet Venus who, while working for a mining company, becomes trapped in an invisible maze.

"The Unnamable" is a horror short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft. It was written in September 1923, first published in the July 1925 issue of Weird Tales, and first collected in Beyond the Wall of Sleep. Carter, a weird fiction writer, who is likely the Randolph Carter who features in some of Lovecraft's other tales such as The Statement of Randolph Carter, meets with his close friend, Joel Manton, in a cemetery near an old, dilapidated house on Meadow Hill in the town of Arkham, Massachusetts. As the two sit upon a weathered tomb, Carter tells Manton the tale of an indescribable entity that allegedly haunts the house and surrounding area. He contends that because such an entity cannot be perceived by the five senses, it becomes impossible to quantify and accurately describe, thus earning itself the term unnamable.

My ?ntonia (first published 1918) is considered the greatest novel by American writer Willa Cather. My ?ntonia — pronounced with the accent on the first syllable of "?ntonia" — is the final book of the "prairie trilogy" of novels by Cather, a list that also includes O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark.My ?ntonia tells the stories of several immigrant families who move out to rural Nebraska to start new lives in America, with a particular focus on a Bohemian family, the Shimerdas, whose eldest daughter is named ?ntonia.

The school needed a pig and they needed one badly. Finally, someone told them about Queen Shinobi and they called to arrange a visit. Queen Shinobi was asked to participate in a kiss-the-pig contest with the principal. This is her story. The story of how Shinobi went to school. ?

Excessive mining, human pollution and war have left the earth devastated and all but inhabitable to humans. A Dome built over the city of Sydney and controlled by the tyrant Silmac protects what is possibly the last bastion of civilisation. When Silver is abandoned out in the badlands by her salvage crew, she must fight for survival to make it back to safety. But she soon finds that the Dome no longer offers the protection it once did, as she faces betrayal, makes new alliances and uncovers secrets that will bring her into conflict with Silmac himself.

In a thirsty, drought-stricken Australia, the country is well and truly sunburnt. As the Eastern states are evacuated to more appealing climates, a stubborn few resist the forced removal. They hide out in small country towns – somewhere no one would ever bother looking. Bill Cook and Tobe Cousins are united in their disregard of the law. Aussie larrikins, they pass their hot, monotonous existence drinking at the barely standing pub. When strange lights appear across the Western sky, it seems that those embittered by the drought are seeking revenge. And Bill and Tobe are in their path. In the heat of the moment secrets will be revealed, and survival can’t be guaranteed.

Alexander's Bridge is the first novel by American author Willa Cather. First published in 1912, it was re-released with an author's preface in 1922. It also ran as a serial in McClure's, giving Cather some free time from her work for that magazine.

Youth and the Bright Medusa is a collection of short stories by Willa Cather, published in 1920. Several were published in an earlier collection, The Troll Garden. This collection contains the following stories: "Coming, Aphrodite!" a.k.a. "Coming, Eden Bower!" "The Diamond Mine" "A Gold Slipper" "Scandal" "Paul's Case" "A Wagner Matinee" "The Sculptor's Funeral" "A Death in the Desert"