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They came west to stay, risking their blood to dig the gold, ride the range, conquer the greedy, and carve out a legacy of freedom. Men honed by desert fires and edged by combat with fist and gun. Women tested to the limit of endurance by an unrelenting land. Now, in a long-awaited collection of his stories, Louis L'Amour tells of the real heroes of the frontier, the survivors for whom hanging tough was as natural as drawing breath.

Clark’s investigation begins with cocaine and leads to cold-blooded murder - the discovery of one, and then another, headless corpse. Who is behind the slaughter? Are the killings tied to the drug traffic? Or is a deeper, darker, and even more sinister conspiracy unfolding in the carnival?

From the moment Alexei Miles sets eyes on the kickboxing instructor at his new gym, he's enthralled. She's strong and sexy, and he senses something in her that speaks to his deepest desires. Bored of meaningless one-night stands, Alexei vows to find out more about the beautiful badass. He hopes his senses are correct - that her desires will match his own, and that his period of unsatisfying sexual encounters is over.

These stories are vintage L'Amour: A hard-bitten cattle driver is pitted against a man trying to steal his woman, the disappearance of a thousand head of cattle, and a plot to frame him for murder....A private eye visits a remote mining town on a case involving a sexy widow, an uneasy lawman, and a fortune in gold buried in an abandoned mine shaft....A country boy with a good right hand must fight not only his vicious opponent in the ring but the ruthless gangsters who'll do anything for profit-even commit cold-blooded murder....and more.

On the surface, Amelia Vernet appears to be the great detective's quiet sixteen-year-old cousin. But her innocent exterior conceals an important fact: Amelia is a member of the Fangborn, a secret family of werewolves, vampires, and oracles sworn to protect Ordinary humans, and she uses her Fangborn werewolf gifts to help Holmes solve the curious cases that cross the doorstep of 221B Baker Street.

A best-selling author finds his creativity caged by writer’s block. A mysterious table by a window in a coffee shop will set him free, but there’s a catch: it is now the only place on Earth where he can write. In this stylized psychological thriller from Paul Leon, uncover the mystery and power of The Table by the Window as one man attempts to triumph over torment.

When the villagers of Godestone report a series of bizarre and troubling events, Sir Hugo, his heavily pregnant wife, Lady Alice, and her distant kinsman Father Gilbert are honor bound to investigate, for they are “born to the Fang,” shape-shifters dedicated to fighting evil in secret. And the events are worrying indeed - stolen farm implements, a mutilated goat, and now a missing child. Their investigation is further complicated by the arrival of Robert Fynch, who was drawn to the scene by the tales of mysterious happenings in the village.

Culling the vastness of experience--from its bizarre fringes and breathtaking pinnacles to the mediocre and desperately below average--like an expert curator, Jim Shepard populates this collection with characters at once wildly diverse and wholly fascinating. A "black world" operative can't tell his wife a word about his daily activities, but doesn't resist sharing her confidences. A young Alpine researcher is smitten by the girlfriend of his dead brother, killed in an avalanche he believes he caused.

Diese etwas anderen Weihnachtsgeschichten zeigen auf erstaunliche Weise, was die aktuellste KI bereits zu leisten im Stande ist. Die Kurzgeschichten nicht nur den Stand der aktuellen Leistungsfähigkeit künstlicher Intelligenzen abbilden, sondern gleichzeitig auch noch lustig und leicht verständlich geschrieben sind. Auch für die Erstellung des Hörbuchs nutzte der Verlag eine künstliche Intelligenz. Die sogenannte TTS-Produktion dieses Titels zeigt die atemberaubende Entwicklung der letzten Jahre im Bereich der Audioproduktion mit Hilfe von künstlicher Intelligenz.

L'essenza dell'Abruzzo è declinata in questa novella nei suoi peculiari aspetti culturali. Lo sguardo attento e compiaciuto di Valerio Di Stefano ci accompagna attraverso le viuzze di un paesino dove la vita scorre ancora lenta, tra i profumi e i sapori di una terra "forte e gentile" come i suoi abitanti. "Lo schiaffatone" si differenzia completamente dalle precedenti narrazioni, mantenendo però il solito marchio di fabbrica: un'ironia inconfondibile e sottile che, in queste pagine, diventa bonaria ed empatica.

This book is a diverse collection of short stories based on both fantasy and embellished facts. Although they are short stories, the plots and happenings will stick in your mind and the memories will not be short, although some will cause laughter and others wonder. I am very sure that you will read some of these stories more than once. In fact, I bet you!

Ein Betrunkener wird vom Nebel verschluckt. Ein Jüngling, der den Ansprüchen des Vaters nicht genügt, sucht umsonst Trost auf einer wilden Party. Ein 50-Jähriger wird durch den Tod seines ehemaligen Lehrers aus der Bahn geworfen. Ein gelangweilter Sohn aus reichem Hause meldet sich zum Kriegsdienst. Zwei Brüder haben nur noch sich und ihre Fracks, in denen sie von einer Feier zur nächsten geraten. Und ein Künstler muss in seinem Atelier erst intensiv gesucht und dann samt seiner absonderlichen Theorien ertragen werden.

Get ready to immerse yourself in a realm of energy. Stories that ignite the human spirit and touch the soul.

The Seed of McCoy written by Jack London: The Pyrenees, her iron sides pressed low in the water by her cargo of wheat, rolled sluggishly, and made it easy for the man who was climbing aboard from out a tiny outrigger canoe. As his eyes came level with the rail, so that he could see inboard, it seemed to him that he saw a dim, almost indiscernible haze. It was more like an illusion, like a blurring film that had spread abruptly over his eyes.

A pilot of a airmail flight battles a horrific snow storm in order to keep himself and a passenger alive.

The storm arrives, unbidden yet unstoppable, sculpting the world in reckless white. The north wind, a faceless mason, works without plan or patience—bastions rise, wreaths drape, roads vanish. No symmetry, no restraint, only the wild hand of winter shaping chaos into fleeting grandeur. By dawn, the architect is gone. What remains is a frozen wonder, a masterpiece of whim and force, too perfect to last, too wild to be remade.

Cosa succede a mescolare i film Speed e Mission Impossible in un thriller adrenalinico? Edward Muffen, dopo lo sfortunato esito di una missione pericolosa, viene dimesso dall'ospedale. Potrebbe tornare a lavorare nell'MI6, ma per lasciarsi alle spalle le ferite del corpo e anche quelle del cuore, decide di fare un viaggio. E quale modo migliore se non un viaggio in mongolfiera? Purtroppo però, una volta a bordo, lo attenderà una brutta sorpresa.

"'Who are you? The new number three. Who is number one? You are prisoner 69."

Skyler is a powerful opponent in the women’s boxing ring, but her skill and experience may not be enough to keep her alive after she’s kidnapped and dropped off on a Hennian hunting planet. Completely out of her element and desperate to survive, Skyler warily agrees to accept the assistance of Kyux, a Krocosian who claims to be her mate.

Este libro tiene las obras completas de Emilia Pardo Bazán.