The Trial

The Trial

The Trial (original German title: Der Process, [1] later Der Prozess, Der Proceß and Der Prozeß) is a novel written by Franz Kafka in 1914 and 1915 but not published until 1925. One of Kafka's best-known works, it tells the story of a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed neither to him nor the reader.

Acest taram al blandetii

Acest taram al blandetii

„Un roman picaresc plasat în timpul Marii Crize. Amintind de Fructele mâniei și de Huckleberry Finn, Acest tărâm al blândeții este o călătorie atât înăuntrul ființei, cât și în afara ei, o călătorie la capătul căreia descoperi sensul vieții și libertatea." - Minneapolis Star Tribune1932, Minnesota — Școala Lincoln e un loc ostil unde sute de copii amerindieni, orfani sau separați abuziv de familiile lor, sunt trimiși să fie educați. Printre ei se află Odie O’Banion, un băiat orfan, cu mintea ageră, ale cărui isprăvi atrag mânia directoarei.În urma unui incident, Odie și fratele său, Albert, singurii copii albi din școală, sunt siliți să fugă, luându-i cu ei și pe Mose, un băiat mut din tribul Sioux, precum și pe Emmy, o fetiță rămasă fără mamă. Împreună, pornesc cu canoea pe râul Gilead, în căutarea unui cămin, întâlnind în drumul lor alți oameni în derivă, de la truditori ai pământului și tămăduitori prin rugăciuni la familii dezrădăcinate și suflete pierdute.„Amplu, profund și nespus de captivant — cititorii vor savura fiecare pagină." - New York Journal of Books„Dacă vrei să citești o saga americană de amplă respirație, cu o atmosferă nostalgică, atunci romanul lui Krueger e alegerea perfectă." - Entertainment Weekly„O odisee impresionantă, o căutare a identității și a unui cămin." – Booklist„Minunat scris și dând viață unor personaje memorabile, Acest tărâm al blândeții va învinge timpul." - Denver PostWilliam Kent Krueger este un faimos scriitor american, cunoscut mai ales pentru seria de romane polițiste plasate în Minnesota și avându-l drept protagonist pe Cork O’Connor. Și-a dorit să devină scriitor încă din copilărie, când a scris prima sa povestire. A primit nenumărate distincții, printre care Anthony Award, Minnesota Book Award, Loft-McKnight Fiction Award. Primul său roman de sine stătător, Ordinary Grace (2013), a fost recompensat cu Edgar Award.

Wind Drinkers

Wind Drinkers

A thrilling mix of French noir and American Western that charts a family’s struggle for freedom and justice in a hostile mountain community.In the godforsaken valley of the Black Rimstone, four siblings meet by the viaduct, a place of their own away from home and daily life, which hold so little for them: Mark, who reads in secret against his father’s orders; Matthew, who understands the forest, the river, and all their creatures; Mabel, who wields her stunning beauty in pursuit of pleasure and independence; and Luke, so often pitied and dismissed as simpleminded, but whose fantastic dreams reveal an uncommon wisdom. Together they live as one, bound by an unshakable bond.    Hanging over them, and the rest of the valley, is the bleak prospect of work in the power plant, constructed and controlled by the fearsome Joyce. Having arrived a stranger, he owned the entire town within ten years, and now keeps a stranglehold on it through money and violence. But after generations are used and spit out in service of one man’s greed, there comes a breaking point.    Winner of the Prix Jean Giono, this masterful, parable-like novel bears witness to the power of nature and the promise of rebellion.

Peter and Wendy

Peter and Wendy

Their magical flight to Neverland is followed by many adventures. The children are blown out of the air by a cannon and Wendy is nearly killed by the Lost Boy Tootles. Peter and the Lost Boys build a little house for Wendy to live in while she recuperates (a structure that, to this day, is called a Wendy House.) Soon John and Michael adopt the ways of the Lost Boys. Peter welcomes Wendy to his underground home, and she immediately assumes the role of mother figure. Peter takes the Darlings on several adventures, the first truly dangerous one occurring at Mermaids' Lagoon. At Mermaids' Lagoon, Peter and the Lost Boys save the princess Tiger Lily and become involved in a battle with the pirates, including the evil Captain Hook. Peter is wounded when Hook claws him. He believes he will die, stranded on a rock when the tide is rising, but he views death as "an awfully big adventure". Luckily, a bird allows him to use her nest as a boat, and Peter sails home.

Del av din värld

Del av din värld

Efter ett motorstopp mitt ute i ingenstans, en vild vadslagning och mys med en killing har Alexis Montgomerys värld vänts uppochned. Orsaken är Daniel Grant, en ofattbart snygg snickare som är tio år yngre och sorglös som få – raka motsatsen till den sofistikerade storstadstjejen Alexis alltså. Attraktionen mellan dem är ögonblicklig. Alexis står på tröskeln till en lovande karriär som överläkare, en framtid där det inte finns plats för något idylliskt lantliv. Samtidigt kastar det förflutna skuggor över henne, och Daniel tvingas inse att Alexis varken är beredd att släppa in honom i sitt liv eller att bli en del av hans. I en härva av passion och plikter ställs de inför ett ultimatum: kan de förena sina radikalt olika liv – eller måste de välja mellan sina hjärtan och den värld de känner till?

The Horse Dancer

The Horse Dancer

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of Stars and the forthcoming Someone Else's Shoes, a novel about a lost girl and her horse, the enduring strength of friendship, and how even the smallest choices can change everything   When Sarah’s grandfather gives her a beautiful horse named Boo—hoping that one day she’ll follow in his footsteps to join an elite French riding school, away from their gritty London neighborhood—she quietly trains in city’s parks and alleys. But then her grandfather falls ill, and Sarah must juggle horsemanship with school and hospital visits.   Natasha, a young lawyer, is reeling after her failed marriage: her professional judgment is being questioned, her new boyfriend is a let-down, and she’s forced to share her house with her charismatic ex-husband. Yet when the willful fourteen-year-old Sarah lands in her path, Natasha decides to take the girl under her wing.   But Sarah is keeping a secret—a secret that will change the lives of everyone involved forever.

Simplemente perfecto

Simplemente perfecto

«Esta novela es un viaje desde el fondo oceánico hasta los confines del universo. Y en cuanto termina, sentimos el deseo de enviar un mensaje a nuestros seres queridos para recordarles cuánto significan para nosotros». UniversitasEl primer día de universidad, Albert conoce a Eirin. No se habían visto antes pero ya nunca volverán a separarse. Después de treinta y siete años juntos, mientras Eirin se encuentra en un congreso en Melbourne, Albert sale de la consulta del médico con una noticia demoledora. ¿Cómo enfrentarse a algo así? Para buscar una respuesta, decide refugiarse en la Casa de Cuento, la cabaña que tienen a orillas de la laguna Glitretjern. Allí, completamente aislado, se dará veinticuatro horas para repasar su vida, para escribirlo todo, incluso lo que ha mantenido en secreto hasta ese 23 de abril de 2009... Y justamente cuando está seguro de que ante él solo se abren las tinieblas —como en esas noches en las que remaba hasta el centro del lago para escudriñar el abismo—, Albert comprenderá que en toda oscuridad, hasta en la más profunda, hay siempre un lugar para la luz.En esta nueva novela —honesta y bellísima suma vital—, un Jostein Gaarder en estado de gracia consigue, al mismo tiempo, conmovernos y hacernos reflexionar. Todo con un único propósito: reconciliarnos con nosotros mismos y con el mundo que nos rodea.

Christmas at Pebble Creek

Christmas at Pebble Creek

This free short story e-romance is an exclusive bonus from The Pebble Creek Amish Series by Vannetta Chapman. Fans of the series will enjoy this chance to briefly revisit Pebble Creek, and new readers will be introduced to an Amish community that is more deeply explored in the three full novels, A Promise for Miriam, A Home for Lydia, and A Wedding for Julia. As a bonus, this free eBook also includes Amish homestyle recipes for chicken and dumplings, green beans, and fresh bread. Heavy snow blankets the southwestern Wisconsin Amish community as nineteen-year-old Grace Miller closes the schoolhouse for Christmas break. She's looking forward to having extra time to help the family prepare for the holiday, and she is hoping to get a few more drawings in of the beautiful, snowy Pebble Creek landscape. Her courtship with Adam Lapp is going on six months, and Grace can't wait to give him his present: a blue-and-brown buggy blanket she crocheted for him. Yes, this Christmas is going to be especially joyful.Yet, amid the cheer of snowshoe outings, church potlucks, and holiday festivities, Grace is given a bittersweet reminder of the Christmas story. Grief is present with celebration, and though the future is rarely certain, she is given a heartwarming glimpse that God knows our needs before we do and will provide.

An Interpretation Of Moles

An Interpretation Of Moles

Moles. Seriously? Yes. Mostly seriously. Chemists, Zoologists, Dermatologists, Government Agencies, and Mexican Food. Over a dozen modern authors offer their take on an Interpretation of Moles. Every kind, every definition. From silly to sublime, this anthology takes you on a wild ride, where the only rule was that it had to include moles. And to be entertaining. Come revel with us.

Dark Waters

Dark Waters

Water doesn't need to be deep to be dark.A remote mountain lake where the locals wear iron anklets for protection, a ghost ship, a goddess, a pearl diver who finds much more than she's looking for, the true story about a familiar fairy tale and more all lurk within these pages.Featuring dark fantasy and horror by Chris Black, Rob E. Boley, Rose Chisnall, Megan M. Davies-Ostrom, Sharmon Gazaway, Rowena McGowan, Derek Newman-Stille, Thomas Vaughn and Lex Vranick, Dark Waters explores the darker side of water and the creatures that inhabit it. The horrors both above and below.Proceed with caution.

The Book of Extraordinary Impossible Crimes and Puzzling Deaths

The Book of Extraordinary Impossible Crimes and Puzzling Deaths

This anthology draws together some of the best new stories of mystery and murder—compiled by the Anthony Award–winning crime fiction editor. This anthology collects the most original stories of murder by some of mystery fiction's most inventive talents from the United States and United Kingdom. With innovative new takes on locked-room mysteries and impossible crimes, these short stories are full of vexing conundrums and reality-defying puzzles. A murder has been committed—but how could it have happened? Curated by Maxim Jakubowski, one of the crime genre’s most renowned editors, this volume features never-before-seen stories by acclaimed authors—including British Science Fiction Award–winner Eric Brown, Derringer Award–winner O'Neil de Noux, and multiple CWA Dagger Award–winners and nominees.

The Life and Works of Robert Burns. Edited by Robert Chambers. VOLUME II

The Life and Works of Robert Burns. Edited by Robert Chambers. VOLUME II

The FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from some of the 18th and 19th century’s most talented writers. Written for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages past. Beyond the main body of works the collection also includes song-books, comedy, and works of satire.

Fantastic Christmas

Fantastic Christmas

Venture forth into the delightful adventures of ghosts and elves and imps and more found in the magical worlds of Fantastic Christmas.Enjoy sweets for the sweet romantics, charming ghosts and imps to capture the imagination, and stories both heartwarming and heartbreaking at the same time.From Nordic sprites who long for the porridge and butter and sugar from the hands of their human neighbors to a man desperate to be with his dying wife on their own special holiday, the stories in this volume add a bit of warmth to your holiday season.Includes:"The Last Hour of Hogswatch" by Michael Warren Lucas"The Best Christmas" by Dory Crowe"Spirit of the Season" by Anthea Lawson"The Magic of Sharing" by R.W. Wallace"The Way the Cookie Crumbles" by Angela Penrose"An Embarrassment of Id'imps" by Ezekiel James Boston"The Case of the Disappearing Decorations" by Annie Reed"The Inn, the Black Cat, and Two Halves of the Same Heart" by Kari Kilgore"Motorcoach Miracles" by Juliet Nordeen"Magic For a New Year" by Lisa Silverthorne

The Everlasting Masterpieces of World Literature in One Edition

The Everlasting Masterpieces of World Literature in One Edition

Musaicum Books presents to you this unique collection of the greatest classics of all time: Hamlet (Shakespeare) Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare) Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe) Pride & Prejudice (Jane Austen) Frankenstein (Mary Shelley) Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë) Great Expectations (Charles Dickens) Ulysses (James Joyce) Pygmalion (George Bernard Shaw) Ivanhoe (Sir Walter Scott) Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson) Peter and Wendy (J. M. Barrie) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain) The Call of the Wild (Jack London) Moby-Dick (Herman Melville) Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) Walden (Henry David Thoreau) Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman) The Raven (Edgar Allan Poe) Anne of Green Gables (L. M. Montgomery) Iliad & Odyssey (Homer) The Republic (Plato) Faust, a Tragedy (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) Siddhartha (Herman Hesse) Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Friedrich Nietzsche) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Jules Verne) Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Jules Verne) Les Misérables (Victor Hugo) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Victor Hugo) The Flowers of Evil (Charles Baudelaire) The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas) A Doll's House (Henrik Ibsen) Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy) War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy) Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky) The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol) Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes) Dona Perfecta (Benito Pérez Galdós) The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes (Anonymous) Life is a Dream (Pedro Calderon de la Barca) The Divine Comedy (Dante) Decameron (Giovanni Boccaccio) The Prince (Machiavelli) Arabian Nights Gitanjali (Rabindranath Tagore) The Poison Tree (Bankim Chandra Chatterjee) Shakuntala (Kalidasa) Rámáyan of Válmíki (Válmíki) Tao Te Ching (Laozi) Art of War (Sun Tzu) The Analects of Confucius (Confucius) Hung Lou Meng or, The Dream of the Red Chamber (Cao Xueqin) Two Years in the Forbidden City (Princess Der Ling) Bushido, the Soul of Japan (Inazo Nitobé) The Book of Tea (Kakuzo Okakura) Botchan (Soseki Natsume)…

Anhelo (Serie Crave 1)

Anhelo (Serie Crave 1)

Descubre la Serie Crave. Ya forma parte de ti.«Mi mundo cambió en el instante en el que pisé el instituto Katmere. Aquí todo resulta extraño: la escuela, los alumnos, las asignaturas; y yo no soy más que una simple mortal entre ellos, dioses... o monstruos. Todavía no sé a qué bando pertenezco, si es que pertenezco a alguno, sólo sé que lo que parece unirlos a todos es su odio hacia mí.Pero entre ellos está Jaxon Vega, un vampiro que esconde oscuros secretos y que no ha sentido nada durante un siglo. Algo en él me atrae, apenas lo conozco, pero sé que hay algo roto en su interior que de alguna manera encaja con lo que hay roto en mí. Acercarme a él puede significar el fin del mundo, pero empiezo a sospechar que alguien me ha traído a este lugar a propósito, y tengo que descubrir por qué.»

A Father for Poppy

A Father for Poppy

It might have been a brief fling, but Tessa Gilroy fell hard for gorgeous surgeon Drake Melford and was devastated when he left to pursue his hotshot career abroad.Now he's back—and even more irresistible than ever! But Tessa's life has changed drastically in the past four years. She's a mother now, to her adorable adopted daughter Poppy, and she needs more than a fleeting affair—she needs someone who can be a father…Dare she dream that Drake's the one for her and for Poppy?

The Village Nurse's Happy-Ever-After

The Village Nurse's Happy-Ever-After

A fairy tale for the single momFor nurse Phoebe Howard, the fresh sea breeze of Bluebell Cove is exactly what the doctor ordered—she's finally found a place that she and adorable baby Marcus can call home. But she can't ignore the disturbing effect Harry Balfour, her gorgeous new boss, has on her!Enigmatic Harry soon realizes that Phoebe is a woman in a million, and that he wants the Howards in his life for good! If this village nurse can find the courage to say "I do" then all her dreams might just come true....

Euthyphro

Euthyphro

Euthyphro is one of Plato's early dialogues, dated to after 399 BC. Taking place during the weeks leading up to Socrates' trial, the dialogue features Socrates and Euthyphro, [1] a religious expert also mentioned at Cratylus 396a and 396d, attempting to define piety or holiness.

Soviet Six Pack

Soviet Six Pack

“But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the goal itself.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground. Soviet Six Pack presents six of the finest examples of classic Russian literature, an essay on Dostoyevsky by Isabel Hapgood and image galleries showcasing author portraits, first edition covers and original illustrations. Soviet Six Pack Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.     Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy.   The Lady with the Dog by Anton Chekhov. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.   Notes from Underground By Fyodor Dostoyevsky.     Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev.   Dostoyevsky by Isabel Hapgood. Image galleries.