Fiction & Literature Books

Mustang Man

Mustang Man

Fiction & Literature

In Mustang Man, Louis L’Amour takes Nolan Sackett on a dangerous journey into family betrayal, greed, and murder. When Nolan Sackett met Penelope Hume in a cantina at Borregos Plaza, the girl immediately captured his attention. That she was heir to a lost cache of gold didn’t make her any less desirable. But Penelope isn’t the only one after her grandfather’s treasure; Sylvie, Ralph, and Andrew Karnes, distant relatives with no legal claim to the gold, are obsessed with claiming the Hume fortune for themselves. Their all-consuming sense of entitlement recklessly drives them to ambush and murder. Even if Sackett and Penelope are fortunate enough to escape this deadly trio and find the canyon where the gold is hidden, Indian legend has it that nothing will live there—no birds or insects. They say it is filled with the bones of men.

The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs (Read to Me)

The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs (Read to Me)

Fiction & Literature

This eBook has a new enhanced version of eBook with special audio, video and illustrations. This story has originated by Aesop.  Especially it has included narrative audio, background sound which based on Air On the G String by Sebastian Bach, and Video for whole this story. Have fun with Read To Me! Read To Me is Trademark of OrangeDigit Inc.

Voices from the Trenches: 40 First World War Novels

Voices from the Trenches: 40 First World War Novels

Fiction & Literature

Voices from the Trenches: 40 First World War Novels is dedicated to the sacrifice and courage of the veterans and fallen heroes of World War I. The goal of this anthology is to capture the profound experiences and diverse perspectives of the First World War through a rich array of literary styles. The collection spans gripping narratives of front-line bravery, poignant tales of life on the home front, and deeply reflective pieces that explore the psychological impacts of war. Standout works within this anthology powerfully convey the complex emotions and harrowing realities of wartime, providing an essential tapestry of human resilience, loss, and the overarching quest for peace. Through these varied narratives, the collection underscores the monumental significance of World War I in shaping modern literature and thought. The esteemed authors included in this anthology bring together a wealth of experience and influence, their collective contributions weaving a rich narrative landscape that is both educational and evocative. These authors emerge from diverse backgrounds and literary milieus, many influenced by the stark realities of the war itself. This kaleidoscope of voices enriches the reader's understanding of the era, shedding light on the vast and varied impacts of global conflict and the human condition amidst the chaos of war.

My Not So Perfect Life

My Not So Perfect Life

Fiction & Literature

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Part love story, part workplace drama, this sharply observed novel is a witty critique of the false judgments we make in a social-media-obsessed world, from the author of The Party Crasher and Love Your Life.“Sophie Kinsella keeps her finger on the cultural pulse, while leaving me giddy with laughter.”—Jojo Moyes, author of The Giver of Stars and The Last Letter from Your Lover Everywhere Katie Brenner looks, someone else is living the life she longs for, particularly her boss, Demeter Farlowe. Demeter is brilliant and creative, lives with her perfect family in a posh townhouse, and wears the coolest clothes. Katie’s life, meanwhile, is a daily struggle—from her dismal rental to her oddball flatmates to the tense office politics she’s trying to negotiate. No wonder Katie takes refuge in not-quite-true Instagram posts, especially as she's desperate to make her dad proud. Then, just as she’s finding her feet—not to mention a possible new romance—the worst happens. Demeter fires Katie. Shattered but determined to stay positive, Katie retreats to her family’s farm in Somerset to help them set up a vacation business. London has never seemed so far away—until Demeter unexpectedly turns up as a guest. Secrets are spilled and relationships rejiggered, and as the stakes for Katie’s future get higher, she must question her own assumptions about what makes for a truly meaningful life. Sophie Kinsella is celebrated for her vibrant, relatable characters and her great storytelling gifts. Now she returns with all of the wit, warmth, and wisdom that are the hallmarks of her bestsellers to spin this fresh, modern story about presenting the perfect life when the reality is far from the truth.

Arsène Lupin: The Collection (Arsène Lupin Gentleman Burglar, Arsène Lupin vs Herlock Sholmes, The Hollow Needle, 813, The Crystal Stopper and many more)

Arsène Lupin: The Collection (Arsène Lupin Gentleman Burglar, Arsène Lupin vs Herlock Sholmes, The Hollow Needle, 813, The Crystal Stopper and many more)

Fiction & Literature

The series that inspired the Netflix show. This collection contains 38 Arsène Lupin stories (the biggest and greatest Arsène Lupin collection in the eBook world), including: - Arsène Lupin, Gentleman Burglar - Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes - The Hollow Needle - 813 - The Crystal Stopper - The Confessions of Arsène Lupin - The Teeth of The Tiger - The Shell Shard - The Golden Triangle: The Return of Arsène Lupin - The Secret of Sarek - The Eight Strokes of The Clock - The Secret Tomb - Memoirs of Arsène Lupin - The Mysterious Mansion

Tales of lonely trails

Tales of lonely trails

Fiction & Literature

John Wetherill one of the famous Wetherill brothers and trader at Kayenta Arizona is the man who discovered Nonnezoshe which is probably the most beautiful and wonderful natural phenomenon in the world. Wetherill owes the credit to his wife who through her influence with the Indians finally after years succeeded in getting the secret of the great bridge.

Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights

Fiction & Literature

Considered lurid and shocking by mid-19th-century standards, Wuthering Heights was initially thought to be such a publishing risk that its author, Emily Brontë, was asked to pay some of the publication costs. Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine’s father. After Mr Earnshaw’s death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine’s brother Hindley and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated, leaves Wuthering Heights, only to return years later as a wealthy and polished man. He proceeds to exact a terrible revenge for his former miseries. The action of the story is chaotic and unremittingly violent, but the accomplished handling of a complex structure, the evocative descriptions of the lonely moorland setting and the poetic grandeur of vision combine to make this unique novel a masterpiece of English literature. A fiend of a book — an incredible monster... The action is laid in hell, — only it seems places and people have English names there. —Dante Gabriel Rossetti A monument of the most striking genius that nineteenth-century womanhood has given us. —Clement Shorter The greatest work of fiction by any man or woman Europe has produced to date. —Anthony Ludovici There is no “I” in ‘Wuthering Heights’. There are no governesses. There are no employers. There is love, but it is not the love of men and women. Emily was inspired by some more general conception. The impulse which urged her to create was not her own suffering or her own injuries. She looked out upon a world cleft into gigantic disorder and felt within her the power to unite it in a book. —Virginia Woolf

Draga Edward

Draga Edward

Fiction & Literature

CINE ÎL CONTROLEAZĂPE CEL MAI PUTERNIC OM AL LUMII?Numele ei de cod este Kingfisher. Misiunea ei: să-l seducă și să se căsătorească cu un bărbat bogat și cu influență în lumea politică. Acum, ea trebuie să apere un secret terifiant. Octombrie 2016. În America, alegerile sunt la câteva săptămâni distanță. Jurnalista Grace Elliott a pus mâna pe un subiect de senzație, cu care crede că va face carieră. O vedetă porno este dispusă să discute despre legătura ei cu omul care, speră unii, în vreme ce mulți se tem, va ajunge următorul președinte al Statelor Unite. Dar nimeni nu vrea să difuzeze o asemenea știre. Nici măcar șeful lui Grace, editorul cu vederi de dreapta al celui mai important tabloid american. În schimb, Grace este trimisă în Europa unde descoperă un subiect atât de important și de exploziv, încât ar putea decide soarta alegerilor americane și declanșa un nou Război Rece. Asta dacă Grace reușește să rămână în viață suficient de mult pentru a-l împărtăși lumii. Spioni, crime și una dintre cele mai mari conspirații din epoca noastră – toate într-un thriller cu adevărat fascinant.„Într-o epocă în care credulitatea ne este zilnic pusă la încercare de tot felul de povești politice… ideea că fosta soție a unui președinte american a fost antrenată de KGB ca să prindă în capcană un bărbat cu aspirații politice ar putea să nu fie chiar atât de greu de crezut.“Toronto Star„Un thriller provocator… cu multe răsturnări de situație, diversiuni și personaje de urmărit… de multe ori realitatea bate ficțiunea, însă această lucrare de ficțiune întrece orice așteptări.“Kirkus Reviews

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La "gastronomie" de Berchoux et la région lyonnaise

Fiction & Literature

"Naturel et simplicité, ce sont les talents que j’implore... Je demande aussi la gaîté, don plus recommandable encore." Berchoux, "Ode à l’amitié" François Casati-Brochier, à travers la vie et l’œuvre du père de la “gastronomie”, Joseph de Berchoux (Lay 1760 - Marcigny 1838), retrace l’histoire de Lyon et du Brionnais, avant, pendant et après la Révolution. Nous voyons naître un art de la table, si vivace aujourd’hui, nouveau mode de vie en société, après la disparition des salons parisiens du XVIIIe siècle, qui va se définir par ce vocable de “gastronomie”, repris avec autorité par Brillat-Savarin, 25 ans plus tard. Nous suivons comment chaque œuvre majeure de Berchoux : “Ma profession de foi en cuisine” en 1790 ; “Épître politique et galante à Euphrosine de V***” en 1793 ; “Élégie” en 1797 ; “La gastronomie” en 1801 ; “Vers sur la mélancolie” en 1804 ; “La danse” en 1806 ; “Voltaire et le triomphe de la philosophie moderne” en 1814 ; “L’art politique” en 1819 ; s’inspire des événements et des mœurs de l’époque pour les analyser : travail de réflexion caustique, qui lui permet d’en appréhender les conséquences futures. Poète, historien, sociologue, pédagogue, humoriste, en un mot, bon publiciste, Berchoux mérite que l’on passe un moment en sa compagnie et en celle de ses nombreux amis. Il nous apprend l’amour de la nature, le plaisir de vivre, l’importance des valeurs fondamentales, le sens commun, la quête de la lumière, enfin comment l’art sert de refuge à l’individu, pour préserver son identité dans un monde plein de changement : question toujours actuelle. François Casati-Brochier, ingénieur-chimiste, est l’auteur du “Thermomètre de Lyon”.

Last Orders (The War That Came Early, Book Six)

Last Orders (The War That Came Early, Book Six)

Fiction & Literature

History is changed by one small act.In an extraordinary saga of nations locked in war, master storyteller Harry Turtledove examines a very different World War II—one which erupts eleven months earlier, and over Czechoslovakia rather than Poland. Now comes the final installment in this landmark series.   Hitler’s Plan A was to win in a hurry, striking hard and deep into France. There was no Plan B. Now the war grinds on. Countries have been forced into strange alliances. The Nazis fortify thin lines with Hungarian and Romanian troops. England, finding its footing after the suspicious death of Winston Churchill and a coup d’état, fights back in Europe and on the seas of the North Atlantic. Jews fight on both sides of the war—in secret in German uniform, openly in Spain, France, and Russia. Into the standoff come new killing tools, from tanks to bazookas. In the Pacific, Japan prepares bombs filled with macabre biological concoctions to be dropped on Hawaii.   For the U.S., the only enemy is Japan, as there has been no casus belli for America in Europe. Then Hitler becomes desperate and declares war on the United States. But is it too late? His own people are rising up in revolt. The German military may have to put down the violence, even perhaps bomb its own cities.   In this epic drama, real men and women are shaped by the carnage, and their individual acts in turn shape history. Drawing on the gritty, personal reality of war and on a cast of unforgettable characters, Harry Turtledove has written an alternate history that intrigues, fascinates, and astounds.Praise for Last Orders   “From our perspective seventy years later, we’re accustomed to thinking of WWII’s outcome as being inevitable. Not so, says [Harry] Turtledove. . . . Disdaining broad brush strokes, Turtledove’s focus on the characters serves to fill out the big picture with patient, nitty-gritty detail. It’s all quite plausible. . . . Armchair warriors will have much to ponder.”—Kirkus Reviews   Praise for Harry Turtledove   “If you like alternate histories, you’re going to like this series a lot.”—The San Diego Union-Tribune   “Turtledove is the standard-bearer for alternate history.”—USA Today   Coup d’Etat   “This is what alternative history is all about.”—Historical Novel Society   The Big Switch   “The Hugo Award winner continues to delight in exploring the world of ‘what if?’”—Library Journal   West and East   “There’s plenty to satisfy fans of military strategy, tactics, and armaments.”—Publishers WeeklyHitler’s War   “Turtledove is always good, but this return to World War II . . . is genuinely brilliant. . . . The characterizations in particular bring the book to extraordinary life.”—Booklist

The Sunset Limited

The Sunset Limited

Fiction & Literature

From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road • A startling encounter on a New York subway platform leads two strangers to a run-down tenement where a life or death decision must be made.In that small apartment, “Black” and “White,” as the two men are known, begin a conversation that leads each back through his own history, mining the origins of two fundamentally opposing world views. White is a professor whose seemingly enviable existence of relative ease has left him nonetheless in despair. Black, an ex-con and ex-addict, is the more hopeful of the men–though he is just as desperate to convince White of the power of faith as White is desperate to deny it.Their aim is no less than this: to discover the meaning of life.Deft, spare, and full of artful tension, The Sunset Limited is a beautifully crafted, consistently thought-provoking, and deceptively intimate work by one of the most insightful writers of our time.Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.

Da necessidade de relâmpagos: antologia do I festival Relampeio

Da necessidade de relâmpagos: antologia do I festival Relampeio

Fiction & Literature

Cerca de oito milhões de relâmpagos ocorrem diariamente no mundo e poucas vezes reparamos no poder disso tudo. Contudo, a existência de energias negativas e positivas na natureza pode, quase sempre, gerar algo de grandioso que impacta diretamente a nós, seres humanos terrenos.Em 2020, pudemos sentir uma amostra. O Relampeio, como o resultado da junção de diferentes forças, produziu, neste ano, algo totalmente inesperado e poderoso. Com a proposta de cultivar um diálogo entre diferentes nomes internacionais da fantasia, do horror e da ficção científica, escritores e pesquisadores nacionais desse meio, o festival Relampeio reuniu, em um breve intervalo, diferentes perspectivas que buscam transgredir a ótica angustiante que estamos vivendo.

A Match Made at Christmas

A Match Made at Christmas

Fiction & Literature

“Patricia Davids writes with heart, integrity and hope. Her stories both entertain and edify—the perfect combination.” —Kim Vogel Sawyer, award-winning and bestselling authorChristmas comes to a small Amish community—and brings new beginnings with it. Karl Graber is too busy struggling with his hardware store and two young daughters to indulge local matchmaker Rose Yoder’s schemes. After his wife’s death, the thought of loving and perhaps losing another woman holds no appeal. So while he’s relieved to learn he’s not on Rose’s list of potential husbands for new schoolteacher Sophie Eicher, he’s also surprised. Despite himself, Karl can’t help wondering what Rose thinks he lacks—and why outspoken, attractive Sophie has so little interest in marriage. After surviving breast cancer, Sophie is hoping to make a fresh start in Harts Haven. Perhaps the handsome widower next door would make a good match for her sister, but Sophie won’t burden any man with her uncertain future. But when Karl offers to help her to create a “living nativity” Christmas program for the schoolchildren, she gratefully agrees. It’ll take a bold plan and help from Karl’s children to make this chaotic Christmas play a success. And as friendships deepen, hearts open and hopes are rekindled, two unlikely people may discover the healing gift of love.The Matchmakers of Harts HavenBook 1: The Inn at Harts HavenBook 2: A Match Made at Christmas

Anthology of Russian Literature

Anthology of Russian Literature

Fiction & Literature

A huge anthology of Russian writers containing over 100 beloved novels, essays, plays and stories (such as War and Peace, and Crime and Punishment). An active table of contents makes it easy to navigate to each work.Authors include:Anton CheckovFyodor DostoevskyNikolai GogolIvan GoncharovAlexander OstrovskyAlexander PushkinLeo Tolstoy Ivan Turgenev

Second Chance

Second Chance

Fiction & Literature

When tragedy strikes, four friends reunite in this life-affirming tale from the New York Times bestselling author of Falling and Sister Stardust. In school, Tom, Holly, Saffron, Paul, and Olivia were the best of friends. Twenty years later, they’re barely more than strangers. But when Tom dies in a heartbreaking instance of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, the four that remain are thrust back into each other’s lives.   Quickly falling back into the intimacy of their youth, Holly, Saffron, Paul, and Olivia are forced to reexamine the choices they’ve made. As their secrets rise to the surface, Tom’s death becomes the catalyst that changes them all, giving four estranged friends the chance to find a new beginning...

A Personal Anthology

A Personal Anthology

Fiction & Literature

Handpicked works from the greatest Argentinian writer of the twentieth century. “Without Borges the modern Latin American novel simply would not exist” (Carlos Fuentes, author and diplomat).   After almost a half a century of scrupulous devotion to his art, Jorge Luis Borges personally compiled this anthology of his work—short stories, essays, poems, and brief mordant “sketches,” which, in Borges’s hands, take on the dimensions of a genre unique in modern letters.   In this anthology, the author has put together those pieces on which he would like his reputation to rest; they are not arranged chronologically, but with an eye to their “sympathies and differences.” A Personal Anthology, therefore, is not merely a collection, but a new composition.   “An important work, by far the best yet available to the reader . . . who seeks a representative sampling of the great Argentine writer . . . the standard introduction to Borges in England and the United States.” —Saturday Review

The Beach House

The Beach House

Fiction & Literature

From the author of Falling and Sister Stardust comes the New York Times bestseller about finding your place in the place you call home.Ever since her life took an unexpected turn, Nan Powell has enjoyed living alone on the sun-drenched shores of Nantucket. At sixty-five, she’s just as likely to be found at Windermere, her beach front home, as she is skinny dipping in her neighbor’s pool.  But when the money she thought would last forever starts to dwindle, Nan decides to do something drastic to keep hold of her free-spirited life: open up Windermere to strangers. After placing an ad for summer rentals touting water views, direct access to the beach, and a sexagenarian roommate, Nan’s once quiet house is soon full of noise, laughter, and the occasional bout of tears. Between her eclectic new tenants and the sudden return of her son, Nan gets a taste of what life is like when you have someone to care for besides yourself. But just as she starts to happily settle in to her new existence, the arrival of a visitor from her past threatens to turn everyone’s lives upside down...