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50 Classic Christmas Stories Vol. 4 (Golden Deer Classics)

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CONTENTS: A.A. MILNE 1. A Hint for Next Christmas ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER 2. The Ghost in the Picture Room ALGERNON BLACKWOOD 3. The Kit-Bag ALICE HALE BURNETT 4. Christmas Holidays at Merryvale ANDY ADAMS 5. A Winter Round-Up ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 6. The Adventures of the Blue Carbuncle CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER 7. Christmas CHARLES DICKENS 8. Christmas at Fezziwig's Warehouse CHARLES DICKENS 9. The Battle of Life CHARLES DICKENS 10. The Christmas Golbin CHARLES DICKENS 11. The Ghost in the Corner Room CHARLES DICKENS 12. The Mortals in the House CHARLES DICKENS 13. The Poor Traveler CHARLES EDWARD CARRYL 14. The Admiral's Caravan DON MARQUIS 15. A Christmas Gift DYLAN THOMAS 16. A Child's Christmas in Wales EDWARD PAYSON ROE 17. A Christmas-Eve Suit EDWARD PAYSON ROE 18. Christmas Eve in War Times EDWARD PAYSON ROE 19. Susie Rolliffe's Christmas ELEANOR HALLOWELL ABBOTT 20. Peace on Earth, Good-will to Dogs ELIA W. PEATTIE 21. How Christmas Came to the Santa Maria Flats ELIZABETH ANDERSON 22. The Goblins' Christmas ELIZABETH MARGARET CHANDLER 23. Christmas ELLA WHEELER WILCOX 24. The Old Man's Christmas ELLIS PARKER BUTLER 25. The Thin Santa Claus ERNEST VINCENT WRIGHT 26. Santa Claus' Assistants EUGENE FIELD 27. Christmas Eve EUGENE FIELD 28. Christmas Treasures EUGENE FIELD 29. Jest 'fore Christmas EUGENE FIELD 30. The First Christmas Tree EUGENE FIELD 31. The Peace of Christmas-Time G.K. CHESTERTON 32. Christmas GEORGE A. BAKER 33. On Santa Claus GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA 34. The Ghost in the Double Room GEORGE ROBERT SIMS 35. Christmas Day in the Workhouse H.P. LOVECRAFT 36. Christmastide H.P. LOVECRAFT 37. The Festival HENRY VAN DYKE 38. A Dream-Story HENRY VAN DYKE 39. Keeping Christmas HENRY VAN DYKE 40. The First Christmas Tree HENRY VAN DYKE 41. The Other Wise Man JOHN KENDRICK BANGS 42. A Holiday Wish

The Undomestic Goddess

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Workaholic attorney Samantha Sweeting has just done the unthinkable. She’s made a mistake so huge, it’ll wreck any chance of a partnership. Going into utter meltdown, she walks out of her London office, gets on a train, and ends up in the middle of nowhere. Asking for directions at a big, beautiful house, she’s mistaken for an interviewee and finds herself being offered a job as housekeeper. Her employers have no idea they’ve hired a lawyer–and Samantha has no idea how to work the oven. She can’t sew on a button, bake a potato, or get the #@%# ironing board to open. How she takes a deep breath and begins to cope–and finds love–is a story as delicious as the bread she learns to bake. But will her old life ever catch up with her? And if it does…will she want it back?

Hammer and Bolter: Issue 6

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Hammer & Bolter is Black Library’s monthly fiction magazine. Each issue is packed with all-new short stories, serialised novels, interviews, previews and more. In this issue Phalanx: Chapter Seven by Ben Counter Grail Knight by Anthony Reynolds Tower of Blood by Tony Ballantyne The First Duty by Josh Reynolds

7 mejores cuentos de León Tolstoi

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La serie de libros "7 mejores cuentos" presenta los grandes nombres de la literatura en lengua española. En este volumen traemos a Léon Tolstói, fue un novelista ruso, considerado uno de los escritores más importantes de la literatura mundial. Sus dos obras más famosas, Guerra y paz y Ana Karénina, están consideradas como la cúspide del realismo ruso, junto a obras de Fiódor Dostoyevski. Sus ideas sobre la "no violencia activa", expresadas en libros como El reino de Dios está en vosotros, tuvieron un profundo impacto en grandes personajes como Gandhi y Martin Luther King. Este libro contiene los siguientes cuentos: - ¿Cuánta tierra necesita un hombre? - Dios ve la verdad pero no la dice cuando quiere - La muerte de Iván Ilich - Las tres preguntas - El origen del mal - Demasiado caro - El perro muerto

Aesop's Fables - Volume 12

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Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Though almost nothing is known of Aesop himself, and some scholars question whether he existed at all, these stories stand as timeless classics known in almost every culture in the world. This is volume 12 of 12.

Pequeñas grandes cosas

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• Una novela que desafía a los lectores a reflexionar sobre sus propias creencias y prejuicios racistas. • Según la crítica, esta es la novela más importante de una de las autoras best seller más comprometida del momento. • Jodi Picoult es única moviendo conciencias y haciendo reflexionar al lector sobre temas polémicos, como el racismo en Estados Unidos. Ruth Jefferson es enfermera en la sala de partos de un hospital de Connecticut, una profesional con más de veinte años de experiencia. Ruth empieza su turno con el reconocimiento rutinario de un recién nacido, pero unos minutos después le comunican que el niño tiene otra enfermera. Los padres son supremacistas blancos y no quieren que Ruth, que es de origen africano, toque a su pequeño. El hospital satisface sus deseos, pero al día siguiente el niño sufre una crisis cardíaca y Ruth es la única enfermera de servicio. ¿Obedecerá las órdenes de la dirección o intervendrá a pesar de todo? Con un extraordinario despliegue de inteligencia y sinceridad, y una gran empatía, Jodi Picoult aborda los problemas de la raza, los privilegios, los prejuicios, la justicia y la compasión y no da soluciones cómodas. “Pequeñas grandes cosas” es una obra excelente de una escritora en el momento más brillante de su carrera. AUTORJodi Picoult, Licenciada en Escritura Creativa por la Universidad de Princeton y también realizó un máster en Educación en la Universidad de Harvard. Ha publicado veintitrés novelas. Ha recibido el galardón New England Book en la categoría de ficción por toda su carrera. También el premio Alex de la Young Adult Library Services Association, el Book Browse Diamond y el Lifetime Achievement de la Romance Writers of America. Según The New York Times, que la tiene en la lista de sus autores de más éxito, «Jodi Picoult es una escritora sólida y apasionada». Vive en New Hampshire con su marido y sus tres hijos.

The Woman In White

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Walter Hartright, a young art teacher, meets a mysterious and distressed woman dressed in white. He helps her on her way, but later learns that she has escaped from an asylum. Next day, he travels to Limmeridge House in Cumberland, having been hired as a drawing master on the recommendation of his friend, Pesca, an Italian language master. The Limmeridge household comprises the invalid Frederick Fairlie, and Walter's students: Laura Fairlie, Mr Fairlie's niece, and Marian Halcombe, her devoted half-sister. Walter realises that Laura bears an astonishing resemblance to the woman in white, who is known to the household and whose name is Anne Catherick. The mentally disabled Anne had lived near Limmeridge as a child and was devoted to Laura's mother, who first dressed her in white.

The Golden Raven

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I do not care what they think of me. I can't. It only matters that I play.Jeremy Knox is no stranger to damage control, but his last season on an Exy court is off to a disastrous start. The relentless crusade against his newest teammate threatens the haven he and his friends have worked so hard to build. He promised Jean a fun senior year, but tragedy and ugly truths make every step forward an uphill fight.Jean Moreau promised the USC Trojans a championship trophy, and he intends to deliver. Granted, it would be significantly easier if they'd slide off their high horses and throw a few elbows on the court. Their steadfast refusal to do things his way is nearly as aggravating as their unwanted affection, but maybe they're not the ones that need to change.With so many ready to drag him down, how can he learn to fly?

L'uomo che andò in fumo

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Una misteriosa scomparsa spinge il commissario Beck nelle trame di un intrigo internazionale: un giornalista di successo di Stoccolma sparisce nel nulla durante un viaggio di lavoro a Budapest. Sullo sfondo di una città imponente e misteriosa sulle rive del Danubio uno dei gialli più avvincenti della coppia svedese.

Argylle

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The globe-trotting spy thriller that inspired the upcoming action blockbuster Argylle (February 2024), featuring a star-studded cast including Henry Cavill, Bryce Dallas Howard, Samuel L. Jackson, and John Cena, and directed by Matthew Vaughn of Kingsman trilogy fameA luxury train speeding towards Moscow and a date with destiny.A CIA plane downed in the jungles of the Golden Triangle.A Nazi hoard entombed in the remote mountains of South-West Poland.A missing treasure, the eighth wonder of the world, lost for seven decades.One Russian magnate's dream of restoring a nation to greatness has set in motion a chain of events which will take the world to the brink of chaos.Only Frances Coffey, the CIA's most legendary spymaster, can prevent it. But to do so, she needs someone special.Enter Argylle, a troubled agent with a tarnished past who may just have the skills to take on one of the most powerful men in the world. If only he can save himself first...

Kontrovers-Predigt über H. Clauren und den Mann im Mond

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Die Apostel, besonders der heilige Paulus, als er zu Rom predigte, verschmäheten es nicht, auch häusliche, bürgerliche Angelegenheiten der Gemeinde zu Gegenständen ihrer Betrachtungen zu machen. Es läßt sich zwar mit vieler Wahrscheinlichkeit annehmen, daß sie belletristische Gegenstände nicht berührt haben, daß sie literarische Streitigkeiten nicht, wie man zu sagen pflegt, auf die Kanzel brachten; denn sie hatten Wichtigeres zu tun; nichtsdestoweniger aber geschah dies einige Jahrhunderte später, und man trifft in den Kirchenvätern nicht undeutliche Spuren, daß sie über allerhand literarische Subtilitäten, sogar über die Tendenz und den Stil ihrer Gegner auf dem kirchlichen Rednerstuhl gesprochen haben.

What the Lady Wants

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Read the most captivating historical novel of the year!'If you're girding your loins for Bridgerton, you may want to indulge in this Regency romp' - THE TIMESAutumn, 1816...Lady Ashby is grieving the death of her beloved husband, just two years earlier. Although still young and beautiful, Isabella is resolved never to marry again, and plans to leave London, return to her parents’ Yorkshire house, and resign from society before the year is over. But first, she wants one more taste of life…Isabella has written a list, the contents of which, if discovered, would create a scandal that neither she nor her family would recover from. A list of things she would like to experience, just once more, before she surrenders herself to the life of a widow. And she knows just the man to help her: her friend, handsome and honourable Captain Leo Winterton.But Captain Winterton has a secret of his own. He is in love with Isabella – and when she makes her most improper proposal to him, he is powerless to resist her, even if she is resolved never to love again. Can he persuade her they are destined to be together? Or will their impropriety be discovered, to the ruin of both?Readers can't get enough of Emma Orchard's books:'If you're girding your loins for Bridgerton, you may want to indulge in this Regency romp' - THE TIMES'An exciting new talent' - KATIE FFORDE'Hot stuff. I loved it!' - FERN BRITTON'Absolutely glorious' - SOPHIE IRWIN'A delicious Regency romp' - ALAN TITCHMARSH'Sensual and exciting' - HEIDI SWAIN'Heyer with spice!' - LIZ FENWICK'Witty, heartfelt, deeply emotionally authentic and incredibly sexy' - KATY MORAN'Sexy, seductive and swoon worthy' - SARAH BENNETT'Witty, spicy, seductive' - HANNAH DOLBY'Perfect for fans of Bridgerton' - DARCIE BOLEYN'Fans of Heyer and Bridgerton rejoice!' - CHARLOTTE BUTTERFIELD'A delicious slice of escapism' - LAURA WOOD'Heart-thumping romance' - JENNI KEER

The Doctor : a Tale of the Rockies

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This early 20th century novel is largely a tale of complex family and love relationships. It is the story of two brothers who vie for the love of the same woman, a competition that nearly destroys the men's friendship but that also leads the narrative into adventures on the frontiers of the Canadian Rockies during the building of the transcontinental railroad. One of the brothers is inspired by a country surgeon to enter medicine and the middle third of the book deals with the physician training system of the time. The reader is introduced to representatives of both the finest and the most immoral of practitioners and practices. Running from his broken love relationship, the newly minted physician travels to the frontier where he assumes a pseudonym and practices medicine in the railroad camps. His work is inspired and he becomes a folk hero. In a parallel narrative, the second brother, now a minister, also goes west, while grieving the fracture in his relationship with his younger sibling. Neither knows that the other has relocated to the Rockies. The remainder of the story details the doctor's work and eventual reunion with his estranged brother.

The Red Badge of Courage + FREE Audiobook Included

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FEATURES: • Includes beautiful artworks and illustrations • INCLUDES AN EMBEDDED AUDIOBOOK • Active Table of Contents for an easy navigation within the book • Manually coded and crafted by professionals for highest formatting quality and standards Check out ngims Publishing's other illustrated literary classics. The vast majority of our books have original illustrations, embedded audiobook, navigable Table of Contents, and are fully formatted. Browse our library collection by typing in ngims plus the title you're looking for, e.g. ngims Gulliver's Travels. Ebooks on the web are not organized for easy reading, littered with text errors and often have missing contents. You will not find another beautifully formatted classic literature ebook that is well-designed with amazing artworks and illustrations and an embedded audiobook like this one. Our ebooks are hand-coded by professional formatters and programmers. Ebook development and design are the core of what our engineers do. Our ebooks are not the cheap flat text kind, but are built from the ground up with emphasis on proper text formatting and integrity. The Red Badge of Courage is a war novel by American author Stephen Crane (1871–1900). Taking place during the American Civil War, the story is about a young private of the Union Army, Henry Fleming, who flees from the field of battle. Overcome with shame, he longs for a wound—a "red badge of courage"—to counteract his cowardice. When his regiment once again faces the enemy, Henry acts as standard-bearer. The novel is known for its distinctive style, which includes realistic battle sequences as well as the repeated use of color imagery, and ironic tone. Several of the themes that the story explores are maturation, heroism, cowardice, and the indifference of nature. (Wikipedia)

Letters of Jane Austen

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The letters are mostly addressed to Austen's sister Cassandra, with whom she was very close. There are also some letters written to two of her nieces, Anna Austen Lefroy and Fanny Knight. They include some references to her published work, including Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park and Emma. They are also replete with details about her family life, including the extended families and careers of her brothers, James, Edward, Frank, Henry, and Charles. This collection of letters provides an invaluable glimpse into the author's life, which was spent primarily within a close-knit family circle making perceptive observations of human behavior and relationships. These letters, pervaded by charming wit, will be a joy to read.

Irish Wit and Humor

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Excerpted anecdotes from the biographies of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell, relating humorous snippets of politics in 18th and 19th century Ireland. For some these may be poignant in addition to being humorous and for others they may be humorous in addition to being poignant.

Aesop's Fables - Volume 06

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Who Do You Love

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#1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner delivers "a tale of love against the odds" (People).Rachel Blum and Andy Landis are just eight years old when they meet one night in an ER waiting room. Born with a congenial heart defect, Rachel is a veteran of hospitals, and she's intrigued by the boy who shows up alone with a broken arm. He tells her his name. She tells him a story. After Andy's taken back to a doctor and Rachel's sent back to her bed, they think they'll never see each other again. Yet, over the next three decades, Andy and Rachel will meet again and again—linked by chance, history, and the memory of the first time they met, a night that changed both of their lives. A sweeping, warmhearted, and intimate tale, Who Do You Love is an extraordinary novel about the passage of time, the way people change and change each other, and how the measure of a life is who you love.

The Summer Place

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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of That Summer comes another “fun, feisty” (The Washington Post) novel of family, secrets, and the ties that bind.When her twenty-two-year-old stepdaughter announces her engagement to her pandemic boyfriend, Sarah Danhauser is shocked. But the wheels are in motion. Headstrong Ruby has already set a date (just three months away!) and spoken to her beloved safta, Sarah’s mother Veronica, about having the wedding at the family’s beach house in Cape Cod. Sarah might be worried, but Veronica is thrilled to be bringing the family together one last time before putting the big house on the market.But the road to a wedding day usually comes with a few bumps. Ruby has always known exactly what she wants, but as the wedding date approaches, she finds herself grappling with the wounds left by the mother who walked out when she was a baby. Veronica ends up facing unexpected news, thanks to her meddling sister, and must revisit the choices she made long ago, when she was a bestselling novelist with a different life. Sarah’s twin brother, Sam, is recovering from a terrible loss, and confronting big questions about who he is—questions he hopes to resolve during his stay on the Cape. Sarah’s husband, Eli, who’s been inexplicably distant during the pandemic, confronts the consequences of a long ago lapse from his typical good-guy behavior. And Sarah, frustrated by her husband, concerned about her stepdaughter, and worn out by the challenges of the quarantine, faces the alluring reappearance of someone from her past and a life that could have been.When the wedding day arrives, lovers are revealed as their true selves, misunderstandings take on a life of their own, and secrets come to light. There are confrontations and revelations that will touch each member of the extended family, ensuring that nothing will ever be the same.From “the undisputed boss of the beach read” (The New York Times), The Summer Place is a testament to family in all its messy glory; a story about what we sacrifice and how we forgive. Enthralling, witty, big-hearted, and sharply observed, “this first-rate page-turner” (Publishers Weekly) is Jennifer Weiner’s love letter to the Outer Cape and the power of home, the way our lives are enriched by the people we call family, and the endless ways love can surprise us.

Fly Away Home

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Sometimes all you can do is fly away home . . . When Sylvie Serfer met Richard Woodruff in law school, she had wild curls, wide hips, and lots of opinions. Decades later, Sylvie has remade herself as the ideal politician’s wife—her hair dyed and straightened, her hippie-chick wardrobe replaced by tailored knit suits. At fifty-seven, she ruefully acknowledges that her job is staying twenty pounds thinner than she was in her twenties and tending to her husband, the senator. Lizzie, the Woodruffs’ younger daughter, is at twenty-four a recovering addict, whose mantra HALT (Hungry? Angry? Lonely? Tired?) helps her keep her life under control. Still, trouble always seems to find her. Her older sister, Diana, an emergency room physician, has everything Lizzie failed to achieve—a husband, a young son, the perfect home—and yet she’s trapped in a loveless marriage. With temptation waiting in one of the ER’s exam rooms, she finds herself craving more. After Richard’s extramarital affair makes headlines, the three women are drawn into the painful glare of the national spotlight. Once the press conference is over, each is forced to reconsider her life, who she is and who she is meant to be. Written with an irresistible blend of heartbreak and hilarity, Fly Away Home is an unforgettable story of a mother and two daughters who after a lifetime of distance finally learn to find refuge in one another.

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