This charming, little-known fantasy by the author of „The Time Machine” and „The War of the Worlds” is also a sharply satirical look at the mores and moral of Edwardian England. During a family outing at the beach a family sees a young woman struggling further out in the water. It’s only when they „rescue” her that they see that she’s a mermaid. They quickly take her into the beach house...

When her mother dies, Cinderella’s father remarries and now she lives with her new family; her father, new mother and two new wicked sisters. They are mean and unkind to Cinderella and she is treated no better than a house servant, cooking and cleaning for everyone else. One day the two sisters are invited to a great ball to be given by the king and queen. Cinderella is unfortunately excluded...

The story begins at the Central Police Department. Where led Sheldon for the fourth time. The prisoner asked to speak with the detective, saying that he has a lead on the case, which the detective is so interested in. But is he not lying? And would a detective believe this? After all, what the prisoner will say will affect many of the detective’s decisions.

The House of the Blind is Walpoles last book before his death. This is a psychological study of the village and people who come in contact with a blind person and his young bride. The letter is impeccable. If you enjoy in-depth character study and enjoy reading old novels, then you will really enjoy it.

Readers with a taste for classic Westerns will appreciate this storys spirited, well-drawn characters and its evocative descriptions of the frontiers natural beauty. Hell-Bent Wade arrives at a Colorado homestead where a young woman is being pressured into matrimony. The plot centers around this young woman, an orphan named Columbine, who is entrapped by her allegiances into considering marriage to the drunkard son of her adopted father...

Readers with a taste for classic Westerns will appreciate this story’s spirited, well-drawn characters and its evocative descriptions of the frontier’s natural beauty. Hell-Bent Wade arrives at a Colorado homestead where a young woman is being pressured into matrimony. The plot centers around this young woman, an orphan named Columbine, who is entrapped by her allegiances into considering marriage to the drunkard son of her adopted father...

After a military career that ended with a stint as a colonel in the Confederate Army, Prentiss Ingraham turned to writing, penning hundreds of books over the course of several decades. This charming novel centers on a remarkable young man named Will who has a run-in with a mysterious figure that leads to Will honing his skills as an amateur detective, investigator and go-between. „Wizard Will Wonder-Worker; or...

The peculiarity of the author’s works were his remarks, which embodied Chekhov’s plan to convey to the reader the atmosphere of his book. The Book of the Cherry Orchard also begins with a remark, which contains a very important phrase: „The room, which is still called the children’s room.” It is simply impossible to depict this replica of the writer on stage, only the reader can imagine and understand that although much time has passed...

Zagubiona wyspa na oceanie czasu. Miejsce dzikie i niegościnne, z którego nie da się uciec. Miejsce, gdzie Ulysses Moore nigdy nie chciałby postawić stopy, ale nie ma wyboru, ponieważ to tam właśnie kryje się klucz do odnalezienia Penelopy. Jeszcze nie wie, że łańcuch zdarzeń już został wprawiony w ruch i że jego najgroźniejszy nieprzyjaciel powraca z przeszłości, by dokonać zemsty...

A collection of short sketches by the prolific American author which was first published in 1913. Carolyn Wells was an early 20th century poet and author best known for mysteries like The Gold Bag and Fleming Stone Detective Stories. During the first ten years of her career, she concentrated on poetry, humor, and childrens books. After 1910, she devoted herself to the mystery genre. The book contains: At the lost-and-found desk...

W Klimore Cove świta właśnie najdłuższy dzień. W ulewnym deszczu osnuwającym miasto szarą mgłą spokój zatoki burzą wystrzały, nagłe błyski i łomot. Ale nie chodzi o sztorm - to kule armatnie miotane bez przerwy z ośmiu działobitni Mary Grey, legendarnego okrętu kapitana Spencera.

Bliźnięta Covanant same muszą stawić czoła najgroźniejszemu z nieprzyjaciół, nie mogąc liczyć na pomoc Ulyssesa Moore'a...

A collection of erotic short stories, offering a fresh focus on erotic writing for women. Whatever your pleasure, you'll love what you find between the covers of Xcite books. Hot sex and fabulous fantasies await your delectation!

Picking the Man – some people would have found the wheelchair a disadvantage when looking for love, but not her...

Captive Dove – she finally got to fulfil her erotic obsession with cages...

Dziwne rzeczy dzieją się w Kilmore Cove. Jest tam pomnik króla, który nigdy nie panował i tory, które nigdzie nie prowadzą. Nie można się połączyć z Internetem, a komórki nie mają zasięgu. Wygląda na to, że miasto zostało oczyszczone z wszelkich map, aby ochronić jakąś tajemnicę. Czy Ulysses Moore wie coś o tym?

Tym razem śledztwo Jasona, Julii i Ricka rozpocznie się w Domu Luster...

This early work by Thorne Smith was originally published in 1930. James Thorne Smith, Jr. was an American author who specialized in supernatural fantasy fiction under the byline Thorne Smith. „Did She Fall? „ (1930) is a straight murder mystery whose dialogue shows occasional traces of Smith’s wisecracking energy. America’s bawdiest, wittiest writer turns his talents to a startling novel of murder...

When George Furnace, instructor of the Baston Aero Club, is found dead in the wreck of his crashed plane, everyone assumes it was a tragic accident, even though he was a skilled airman. An Australian visitor to the Aero Club, Edwin Marriott, Bishop of Cootamundra, suspects that the true story is more complicated. Could this be a dramatic suicide or even murder? The intrepid Bishop and Inspector Bray of Scotland Yard make an appealing pair of detectives...

The battle in the meadowlands of the Euphrates was over, but not the slaughter. On that bloody field where the Caliph of Bagdad and his Turkish allies had broken the onrushing power of Doubeys ibn Sadaka of Hilla and the desert, the steel-clad bodies lay strewn like the drift of a storm. The great canal men called the Nile, which connected the Euphrates with the distant Tigris, was choked with the bodies of the tribesmen...

Kim jest naprawdę Ulysses Moore? Jason, Julia i Rick są już na tropie prawdy. Ale również Obliwia i Manfred, którzy przeżyli upadek z urwiska, szykują się do spełnienia swego marzenia: chcą dostać się do Walii Argo i przekroczyć WROTA CZASU. Żeby ich powstrzymać trójka dzieci musi odnaleźć Blacka Wulkana, dawnego przyjaciela Ulyssesa, zawiadowcę stacji w Kilmore Cove, i wejść w posiadanie Pierwszego Klucza...

A lively and amusing story, dealing with the adventures of eighteen jovial, big hearted Montana cowboys. First published in 1910, „The Happy Family” (a sequel to „Chip of the Flying U”) continues the various funny and catchy happenings of the well-known interesting beloved characters – Weary, Irish, Pink, Happy Jack, Big Medicine, and in particular Andy Green, storyteller extraordinaire...

Jason, Julia, Anita i Rick powrócili do Kilmore Cove z niepokojącą wiadomością - wśród mieszkańców miasteczka ukrywa się zdrajca. Ktoś, kto od lat po kryjomu coś knuje. I kto, przy pomocy Podpalaczy , teraz chce dokonać prywatnej zemsty. Cienka nić drobnych zdarzeń wskaże przyjaciołom miejsce, w którym przechowuje się wszelkie odpowiedzi: Agarthi, legendarne miasto, zagubione wśród lodowców...

The fascinating story about a young Swede Christine Daaé. Her father, a famous musician, dies, and she is brought up in the Paris Opera House. After a while in the opera house, she begins to hear a voice that, in the end, teaches her how to sing beautifully. The ghost is in love with the main character and is jealous of her friend, but it can only spell disaster.

Poradnik do The Walking Dead – A House Divided to kompletny zbiór decyzji z jakimi przyjdzie wam się spotkać. Każda z nich oraz ich konsekwencje zostały szczegółowo opisane. W poniższym poradniku znajdziesz rozwiązanie zagadek logicznych oraz opis dialogów. Dzięki nim będziesz mógł podjąć najważniejsze decyzje i efektywnie rozwiązywać zagadki. The Walking Dead – A House Divided jest drugim odcinkiem gry epizodycznej studia Teltale...

From Robert E. Howard’s fertile imagination sprang some of fiction’s greatest heroes, including Conan the Cimmerian, King Kull, and Solomon Kane. But of all Howard’s characters, none embodied his creator’s brooding temperament more than Bran Mak Morn. The last king of the Picts, Bran Mak Morn exists in a brutal, savage world set in the same universe as H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos. Unlike most of his race...

Frederick Schiller Faust (May 29, 1892 – May 12, 1944) was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns under the pen name Max Brand. This is one of his novels. Our adventuring hero has just partaken of a poker game where he has seen a man lose heavily. Intrigued, and possessing an adventurous nature, our hero, Loring, is compelled to follow the man. This leads him to a rich family and...

Frederick Schiller Faust (May 29, 1892 – May 12, 1944) was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns under the pen name Max Brand. This is one of his novels. Our adventuring hero has just partaken of a poker game where he has seen a man lose heavily. Intrigued, and possessing an adventurous nature, our hero, Loring, is compelled to follow the man. This leads him to a rich family and...

The second of the three Grandon of Venus novels. When the man who was Harry Thorne on Earth offered to swap bodies with a native of Venus, it was because he was bored with comfort and security, and craved excitement. And that was what he got – more than he would have bargained for – when he found that he had taken over the assassin-haunted role of a prince of a beleaguered throne in a land of ferocious beasts and inhuman foemen...

Hardys historical novel against the backdrop of the grandest Napoleonic wars tells about the love and sorrows of ordinary people who found themselves in unusual times. When the expected invasion brings several regiments to her small rural community, the young maid Anna Garland is looked after by three people in uniform: faithful trumpet major John Loveday, his sailor brother Bob, and the cowardly Festus Derriman of the cavalry of Yomanria...

Hardy’s historical novel against the backdrop of the grandest Napoleonic wars tells about the love and sorrows of ordinary people who found themselves in unusual times. When the expected invasion brings several regiments to her small rural community, the young maid Anna Garland is looked after by three people in uniform: faithful trumpet major John Loveday, his sailor brother Bob, and the cowardly Festus Derriman of the cavalry of Yomanria...

Trudne dzieciństwo, próby samobójcze matki, gwałt, trzy małżeństwa, zdrady, uzależnienia, poronienie. Brutalnie szczera autobiografia Demi Moore.

Świat ją pokochał za rolę Molly w filmie „Uwierz w ducha”. Potem zagrała m. in w „Szkarłatnej literze”, czy „Niemoralnej propozycji”, a w 1996 roku dostała rekordową gażę 12 milionów dolarów za rolę w filmie „Striptiz” i została okrzyknięta symbolem seksu...

The tongues of London high society gossips begin to wag when John Harmon --a young man whose inheritance depended on his marrying a woman he had never met-- is found dead in the River Thames. The fortune passes into the hands of the working-class Boffins, who take into their new home both Bella Wilfer (Harmon’s would-be bride), and a mysterious secretary known as Rokesmith. Meanwhile, Lizzie Hexam...

Mary of Marion Isle – the penultimate novel by Henry Rider Haggard, which he wrote before his death. The young socialist doctor faced a series of obstacles in his life, and learned what unhappy love is. Then he found himself on a desert island. What will he do in this situation? By the way, Marion Isle is a real place and one of the Prince Edward Islands.