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The Collected Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

The Collected Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

Fiction & Literature

This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works or all the significant works - the Œuvre - of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei. • The Condition of the Working-Class in England in • The Communist Manifesto• Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei. • The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State• Revolution and Counter-Revolution • Socialism: Utopian and Scientific• Feuerbach: The roots of the socialist philosophy• Landmarks of Scientific Socialism: "Anti-Duehring"• The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte• A Contribution to The Critique Of The Political Economy• Secret Diplomatic History of The Eighteenth Century• The life and teaching of Max Beer• Historical materialism and the economics of Benedetto Croce

Fiction River: Moonscapes

Fiction River: Moonscapes

Fiction & Literature

We all look up at the moon and wonder. And maybe dream.For centuries, the moon filled our imaginations. Eleven professional writers took those dreams and set original stories on moons scattered all over the galaxy. Yet, as the dreams of centuries, every story holds a human touch.From a mythical man fulfilling a childhood wish to a fantastic addition to Kristine Kathryn Rusch's bestselling Retrieval Artist series, this volume of Fiction River allows you to travel to eleven different moons without leaving the comfort of home."[Fiction River] is one of the best and most exciting publications in the field today. Check out an issue and see why I say that."—Keith West, Adventures FantasticIncludes:"Hot Jupiters" by Steven Mohan, Jr."The Old Guy" by Annie Reed"The Toy That Ran Away" by Scott William Carter"The Payment" by Maggie Jaimeson"Caressing Charon" by Ryan M. Williams"Moon Shine" by Matthew Lieber Buchman"Dreams of a Moon" by Dean Wesley Smith"The Moon Was Bitter and Hungry" by JC Andrijeski"The Verdant Gene" by Marcelle Dubé"Moonfall" by Lisa Silverthorne"A Murder of Clones" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Lone Star Nights

Lone Star Nights

Fiction & Literature

No strings attached is pretty much Lucky McCord’s calling card in this reader favorite from USA TODAY bestselling author Delores FossenEvery family needs its black sheep, and Austin “Lucky” McCord is happy to oblige. The bad-boy bull rider lives fast and loose, until his business partner leaves him an unexpected bequest. Suddenly Lucky is sharing custody of two children with Cassie Weatherall, one of the few homegrown women he hasn’t bedded. And not from lack of trying… Cassie fled her messy past to become a celebrity therapist in LA. So why does it feel so right to come back and share parenting duties—and chrome-melting kisses—with a man she’s striven to avoid? Loving Lucky always seemed like a sure bet for heartache. But for this perfectly imperfect family, Cassie might just gamble with everything she’s got.Originally published in 2016

My bondage and my freedom

My bondage and my freedom

Fiction & Literature

Autobiographical slave narrative written by F. Douglass. It discusses in greater detail his transition from bondage to liberty. Douglass, a former slave, following his liberation went on to become a prominent abolitionist, speaker, author, and publisher.

The Jodi Picoult Collection #3

The Jodi Picoult Collection #3

Fiction & Literature

Three of bestselling author Jodi Picoult's compelling novels together in this ebook collection!Vanishing Acts Delia Hopkins has led a charmed life. Raised in rural New Hampshire by her widowed father, Andrew, she now has a young daughter, a handsome fiancé, and her own search-and-rescue bloodhound, which she uses to find missing persons. But as Delia plans her wedding, she is plagued by flashbacks of a life she can't recall. And then a policeman knocks on her door, revealing a secret that changes the world as she knows it.The Tenth CircleFourteen-year-old Trixie Stone is in love for the first time. She's also the light of her father, Daniel's life—a straight-A student; a pretty, popular freshman in high school; a girl who's always seen her father as a hero. That is, until her world is turned upside down with a single act of violence. Suddenly everything Trixie has believed about her family—and herself—seems to be a lie. Could the boyfriend who once made Trixie wild with happiness have been the one to end her childhood forever? She says that he is, and that is all it takes to make Daniel, a seemingly mild-mannered comic book artist with a secret tumultuous past he has hidden even from his family, venture to hell and back to protect his daughter.Nineteen MinutesSterling is an ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens—until the day its complacency is shattered by an act of violence. Josie Cormier, the teenage daughter of the judge sitting on the case, should be the state’s best witness, but she can’t remember what happened before her very own eyes—or can she? As the trial progresses, fault lines between the high school and the adult community begin to show— destroying the closest of friendships and families.

ΟΙ ΚΟΡΕΣ

ΟΙ ΚΟΡΕΣ

Fiction & Literature

Ο Έντουαρντ Φόσκα είναι δολοφόνος.  Η Μαριάννα είναι βέβαιη γι’ αυτό. Όμως, δεν μπορεί να τον αγγίξει κανείς. Όμορφος και χαρισματικός, ο Φόσκα διδάσκει αρχαία τραγωδία στο Πανεπιστήμιο του Κέμπριτζ και λατρεύεται τόσο από το προσωπικό όσο και από τους φοιτητές του – ειδικά από τα μέλη μιας κλειστής ομάδας ευνοούμενων φοιτητριών, που είναι γνωστές ως Κόρες. Η Μαριάννα είναι μια λαμπρή αλλά και θλιμμένη ψυχολόγος η οποία αποκτά εμμονή με τις Κόρες, όταν ένα από τα μέλη τους –φίλη της ανιψιάς της, της Ζόι– βρίσκεται δολοφονημένο στο Κέμπριτζ. Έχοντας υπάρξει και η ίδια φοιτήτρια του πανεπιστημίου αυτού στο παρελθόν, δεν θα αργήσει να υποπτευθεί πως πίσω από την ειδυλλιακή ομορφιά των μεσαιωνικών κτιρίων και τις αρχαίες παραδόσεις κρύβεται κάτι απειλητικό. Και είναι πεπεισμένη πως, παρά το άλλοθί του, ο Έντουαρντ Φόσκα είναι ένοχος για τον φόνο.  Γιατί όμως να βάλει στόχο μια φοιτήτριά του; Και πώς δικαιολογείται η εμμονή του με τα Ελευσίνια Μυστήρια και το ταξίδι της Περσεφόνης –της Κόρης– στον Άδη;  Όταν ανακαλύπτεται άλλο ένα πτώμα, η εμμονή της Μαριάννας να αποδείξει την ενοχή του Φόσκα βγαίνει εκτός ελέγχου, απειλώντας να καταστρέψει τόσο την αξιοπιστία της όσο και τις πιο στενές της σχέσεις. Όμως, είναι αποφασισμένη να σταματήσει αυτόν τον δολοφόνο, έστω κι αν της κοστίσει τα πάντα. Ακόμα και τη ζωή της…

Immortality Una storia d'amore

Immortality Una storia d'amore

Fiction & Literature

L'attesissimo seguito del bestseller gotico anatomy: una storia d'amore.Hazel Sinnett è sola e si sta convincendo che quanto accaduto nell'ultimo anno - l'immortalità, la fiala del dottor Beecham - sia solo frutto della sua immaginazione. Non sa neppure se Jack sia vivo o morto. Tutto ciò che può fare ora è dedicarsi ai suoi pazienti e mantenere l'ormai decadente castello di Hawthornden.Quando viene arrestata per aver salvato una vita, sembra destinata al patibolo finché non giunge un'inaspettata richiesta: è chiamata a ricoprire l'incarico di medico personale della principessa Carlotta, la nipote dalla salute precaria di re Giorgio III. E così Hazel si trova catapultata nella mondana e fascinosa aristocrazia londinese, un ambiente in cui tutti hanno qualcosa da nascondere, e più di chiunque gli enigmatici e astuti intellettuali noti come Compagni della Morte.Più il lavoro la porta a stretto contatto con la monarchia britannica, più lei si rende conto che a essere a rischio non è solo il suo futuro di chirurgo. Forze malvagie tramano nell'ombra e Hazel potrebbe essere l'unica persona in grado di sistemare le cose.

The Pearl of Orr's Island

The Pearl of Orr's Island

Fiction & Literature

Go on a journey to the coast of Maine and immerse yourself in the picturesque community on Orr’s Island. See the raindrops glistening on the pine needles and hear the waves crashing on the rocks. This is a tale of romance, tragedy, crusty sea captains, an impetuous boy, a loving girl, complete with village gossips and twists in the plot.

Die Sex-Formel

Die Sex-Formel

Fiction & Literature

Vom ersten Augenblick an ist Chad von Kaylas erotischer Ausstrahlung gefesselt. Hals über Kopf stürzt er sich in eine wilde Sex-Affäre ... Aber so sehr sie sich ihm in Nächten der Lust auch öffnet, ahnt er doch, dass sie ein Geheimnis vor ihm hat …

The Lost Bookshop

The Lost Bookshop

Fiction & Literature

The Echo of Old Books meets The Lost Apothecary in this evocative and charming novel full of mystery and secrets.‘The thing about books,’ she said ‘is that they help you to imagine a life bigger and better than you could ever dream of.’On a quiet street in Dublin, a lost bookshop is waiting to be found…For too long, Opaline, Martha and Henry have been the side characters in their own lives.But when a vanishing bookshop casts its spell, these three unsuspecting strangers will discover that their own stories are every bit as extraordinary as the ones found in the pages of their beloved books. And by unlocking the secrets of the shelves, they find themselves transported to a world of wonder… where nothing is as it seems.Readers have fallen in love with The Lost Bookshop:‘Beautifully written and captures the wonder and awe that a story can bring to its reader…a delightful story for any book lover…an ode to storytelling and the connections that books can make!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘Wowwww!! It’s been awhile since I read something so fascinating, captivating and special all in one…It takes you on a journey like most books do, but this one, I just want to inscribe on my back and hope that it becomes a part of me so that I can carry it with me always’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘A must read for readers that love books’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘A beautiful story that begs to be read in one sitting…a magical story filled with beautiful prose and many surprises that readers will not soon forget’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘This spellbinding book hooked me from the very beginning and I couldn't put it down til the end’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘A love story, one with books and booklovers at its heart. A warm, wonderful novel that sweeps up the reader into an absorbing, magical tale’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘If you enjoy books by the Brontë sisters … then I would fully recommend you read this book’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘This novel has it all: wit, a dash of magic, and a large heart. A fantastic read’⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Reviews‘The characters are so very well developed that it makes you feel that you are there with them sharing their stories too… kept me turning the pages’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘A truly joyful, magical book…this story will capture your heart’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘Couldn’t put it down!…a magical, enthralling read’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘One book that I liked so much and would gladly pay more for… one of those books that you constantly ask yourself “how did the author come up with this great story?”’⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘Utterly magical and absorbing…the mysterious bookshop and the promise of finding a long lost manuscript haunts the pages’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘An enchanting plot, fabulous characters, and some good historical fiction… I found myself imagining it as a Netflix series’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘I absolutely adored this book! A touch of magic, a love of books, pure escapism, perfect!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Her Brooding Italian Surgeon

Her Brooding Italian Surgeon

Fiction & Literature

Eminent surgeon Leo Costa's famous Italian charm has never failed him. But Dr. Abbie McFarlane is determined not to fall for Leo's good looks—even if they could easily grace any fashion magazine cover. Abbie appreciates his skills as a doctor, but his attention to her as a woman she can do without!A month in his hometown is Leo's worst nightmare, but to pass the time he's helping out in Abbie's hospital. Secretly he hopes that a no-strings affair will help him outrun the ghosts of his past, but Abbie doesn't do flings. If she's going to open her heart to Leo, she wants it to be forever….

Jimmie Higgins

Jimmie Higgins

Fiction & Literature

Jimmie Higgins is the fellow who does the hard work in the job of waking up the workers. Jimmie hates war--all war--and fights against it with heart and soul. But war comes, and Jimmie is drawn into it, whether he will or no. He has many adventures--strikes, jails, munitions explosions, draft-boards, army-camps, submarines and battles".Jimmie Higgins Goes to War" at last, and when he does he holds back the German army and wins the battle of "Chatty Terry". But then they send him into Russia to fight the Bolsheviki, and there "Jimmie Higgins Votes for Democracy".A picture of the American working-class movement during four years of world-war; all wings of the movement, all the various tendencies and clashing impulses are portrayed.

Covert Action

Covert Action

Fiction & Literature

First there was The Mercenary Option. Now IFOR, the surgical strike team led by former Navy SEAL Garrett Walker, returns in an explosive adventure charged with authenticity and suspense. COVERT ACTION Formed by a wealthy industrialist after the terror attacks on American soil, the Intervention Force is a professional strike team called in on missions others can't -- or won't -- undertake. IFOR has already defused a seemingly impenetrable scheme for nuclear annihilation; now they are called into one of the world's hottest zones. In the Zimbabwean province of Tonga, an outbreak of hemorrhagic fever has U.S. officials on the alert for bioterrorism. Walker leads his Black Ops team into the heart of danger in the African nation to unhinge the workings of two terrorist kingpins -- the brilliant Russian Pavel Zelinkow and Al Qaeda mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi -- before a cataclysm is unleashed on an unsuspecting world. For "hard-as-nails adventure that will keep you riveted to your chair" (Stephen Coonts), delve into the IFOR novels from Dick Couch.

Anthem

Anthem

Fiction & Literature

It is a sin to write this. It is a sin to think words no others think and to put them down upon a paper no others are to see. It is base and evil. It is as if we were speaking alone to no ears but our own. And we know well that there is no transgression blacker than to do or think alone. We have broken the laws. The laws say that men may not write unless the Council of Vocations bid them so. May we be forgiven! But this is not the only sin upon us. We have committed a greater crime, and for this crime there is no name. What punishment awaits us if it be discovered we know not, for no such crime has come in the memory of men and there are no laws to provide for it. It is dark here. The flame of the candle stands still in the air. Nothing moves in this tunnel save our hand on the paper. We are alone here under the earth. It is a fearful word, alone. The laws say that none among men may be alone, ever and at any time, for this is the great transgression and the root of all evil. But we have broken many laws. And now there is nothing here save our one body, and it is strange to see only two legs stretched on the ground, and on the wall before us the shadow of our one head.

The Darkness: Accursed, Vol. 5

The Darkness: Accursed, Vol. 5

Fiction & Literature

Jackie Estacado, the current bearer of The Darkness, was blackmailed and lied to by a devil who calls himself The Sovereign. Now free from The Sovereign's grip, Jackie has assembled a motley crew of criminals with one goal - destroy every last one of The Sovereign's reliquaries! His quest will pit him against a former Russian mob boss turned art collector, a mute mystic, countless of The Sovereign's statues, and even traitors within his midst! Collecting The Darkness #85-89, this volume concludes the second year of writer Phil Hester's (Firebreather, Wonder Woman) epic run with Estacado confronting The Sovereign. Featuring art by Sheldon Mitchell (Pilot Season: Stealth) and Romano Molenaar, and a special stand-alone "Tale of The Darkness" issue set in the Wild West by Joshua Hale Fialkov (Tumor, Echoes) and Matt Timson (Impaler, Popgun).

I racconti dei Hassidim

I racconti dei Hassidim

Fiction & Literature

I racconti dei ḥassidim vogliono schiudere al lettore una realtà leggendaria. Hanno spesso un alone di fantasia, ma si radicano in un terreno storico e culturale ben preciso: nato e fiorito nell’Europa orientale, il movimento ḥassidico, il cui fondatore è riconosciuto nella figura del Baalshemtov(1700-1760), rappresenta un evento nella tradizione religiosa ebraica. Il proposito dei ḥassidim era di suscitare entusiasmo, perso nell’attesa messianica, indirizzando l’uomo a una vita di fervore. Come scrive Giorgio Montefoschi nella nuova postfazione: «Accostandosi al grande libro di Buber – un libro arricchito nel tempo fino alla sua versione definitiva – il lettore sprofonderà, a sua volta, in una dimensione dell’esistenza per lo più ignota alla moderna letteratura occidentale, nella quale natura e soprannaturale vivono in una assoluta simbiosi; nella quale le estasi, i miracoli, la presenza degli angeli non sono eventi eccezionali, bensì fenomeni talmente frequenti della realtà quotidiana che procede di pari passo, da non distaccarsene altro che per un minimo scarto, un movimento lieve, un fortuito mutamento di prospettiva... Imparerà a guardarsi dalla tristezza, peggiore del peccato. Apprezzerà la gioia, vero veicolo verso Dio, fino ad amare il peccatore gioioso.» Su questa eccezionale esperienza religiosa e culturale s’innesta il progetto di Martin Buber, che impegnò quarantacinque anni della sua esistenza di studioso e di scrittore nella rielaborazione della leggenda ḥassidica prima di approdare alla pubblicazione di quest’opera fondamentale: una delle imprese che hanno segnato la cultura europeadel Novecento e insieme un libro di inesauribile ricchezza narrativa.

Law of the Gun

Law of the Gun

Fiction & Literature

One Man. One Gun. One Law. It's an American icon: the Western shootist, living by skill, courage and a willingness to spit in death's eye. Now, the greatest names in Western literature turn this mythical character upside down, inside out and every way but loose. . . In The Trouble with Dude, award-winning author Johnny Boggs saddles a once-famous lawman with some high-paying New York dudes in search of Western thrills who get more than they bargained for; in. Uncle Jeff and the Gunfighter Western master storyteller Elmer Kelton chronicles a quarrel between a hardscrabble Texas rancher and a killer for hire--with results that stun a town. . . William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone offer Inferno: A Last Gunfighter Story featuring series hero Frank Morgan. From a pistol-packing woman to a freed slave heading into a Nebraska winter and an education in gun fighting, The Law Of The Gun is about journeys, vendettas, stand-offs, and legends that end--or sometimes just begin--with the roar of a gun. . .

90 Classics You Should Read Before You Die (Vol.1)

90 Classics You Should Read Before You Die (Vol.1)

Fiction & Literature

Invest your time in reading the true masterpieces of world literature, the greatest works by the masters of their craft, the revolutionary works, the timeless classics and the eternally moving storylines every person should experience in their lifetime: Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman) Siddhartha (Herman Hesse) Middlemarch (George Eliot) The Madman: His Parables and Poems (Kahlil Gibran) Ward No. 6 (Anton Chekhov) Moby-Dick (Herman Melville) The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde) Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky) The Overcoat (Gogol) Ulysses (James Joyce) Walden (Henry David Thoreau) Hamlet (Shakespeare) Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare) Macbeth (Shakespeare) The Waste Land (T. S. Eliot) Odes (John Keats) The Flowers of Evil (Charles Baudelaire) Ivanhoe (Sir Walter Scott) Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe) Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) Emma (Jane Austen) Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë) Lorna Doone (R.D. Blackmore) The Lady of the Camellias (Alexandre Dumas) Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy) Vanity Fair (Thackeray) Dangerous Liaisons (De Laclos) The Mill on the Floss (George Eliot) Dona Perfecta (Benito Pérez Galdós) Swann's Way (Marcel Proust) Sons and Lovers (D. H. Lawrence) David Copperfield (Charles Dickens) Great Expectations (Charles Dickens) Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy) The Wings of the Dove (Henry James) The History of a Scoundrel or Bel-Ami (Guy de Maupassant) Two Years in the Forbidden City (Princess Der Ling) Les Misérables (Victor Hugo) The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas) Pepita Jimenez (Juan Valera) The Way We Live Now (Anthony Trollope) The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane) A Room with a View (E. M. Forster) Sister Carrie (Theodore Dreiser) The Blazing World (Margaret Cavendish) The Jungle (Upton Sinclair) The Republic (Plato) The Golden Ass (Apuleius) Meditations (Marcus Aurelius) Art of War (Sun Tzu) Candide (Voltaire) Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes) Decameron (Giovanni Boccaccio) Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Frederick Douglass) Dream Psychology (Sigmund Freud) The Einstein Theory of Relativity by H. A. Lorentz The Science of Being Well (Wallace D. Wattles) As a Man Thinketh (James Allen) The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Agatha Christie) A Study in Scarlet (Arthur Conan Doyle) The Sign of Four (Arthur Conan Doyle) Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad) The Call of Cthulhu (H. P. Lovecraft) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Washington Irving) Frankenstein (Mary Shelley) The War of the Worlds (H. G. Wells) The Raven (Edgar Allan Poe) The Black Cat (Edgar Allan Poe) The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (L. Frank Baum) Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson) The Wonderful Adventures of Nils Holgersson (Selma Lagerlöf) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain) The Call of the Wild (Jack London) White Fang (Jack London) Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Jules Verne) Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll) The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett) A Little Princess (Frances Hodgson Burnett) The Jungle Book (Rudyard Kipling) Tarzan of the Apes (Edgar Rice Burroughs) The Complete Fairytales of Brothers Grimm The Complete Fairytales of Hans Christian Andersen Pygmalion (George Bernard Shaw) Botchan (Soseki Natsume) The Sorrows of Young Werther (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)