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Join the Librarian as he does his best to make the post-apocalyptic world a better place by protecting the weak, fighting injustice, squaring off against a group of former renaissance fair workers who have established a kingdom in the Rocky Mountains, and so on. Can one man make a difference in the face of such murderous cannibals and super smart bears? Probably not.

Bobby is elated to meet his adolescent crush by pure happenstance. But as he slowly gets to know the iconic Hollywood siren, he begins to suspect that the glamorous world of celebrities might not be as glamorous as he’d once thought....

A collection of 24 short stories from the prolific British writer Edgar Wallace, exploring the adventures of the astute and phlegmatic Police Constable Lee of the Metropolitan Police, as he performs his duties among the varied and colourful criminal characters inhabiting the Notting Dale Division.

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was born on the 1st April 1875 in Greenwich, London. Leaving school at 12 because of truancy, by the age of 15 he had experience selling newspapers, as a worker in a rubber factory, as a shoe shop assistant, as a milk delivery boy and as a ship’s cook. By 1894 he was engaged but broke it off to join the infantry; he was posted to South Africa. He also changed his name to Edgar Wallace, which he took from Lew Wallace, the author of Ben-Hur. In Cape Town in 1898 he met Rudyard Kipling and was inspired to begin writing.

This Audiobook contains the following works: "The Builder" [Frank L. Packard], "The Man Who Didn't Count" [Frank L. Packard], "Red Petals" [Frederick Merrick White], "The Other Man's Story" [Frederick Merrick White], "The Shebeeners" [Frederick Merrick White], "The Waterwitch" [Frederick Merrick White], "The Brand of the Wild" [G.B Lancaster], "A Fair Smuggler" [George Newnes], "A Castaway of the South" [Gilbert Parker], "As Deep As the Sea" [Gilbert Parker], "The Gift of the Simple King" [Gilbert Parker], "The Treasure of Sacramento" [Nick Guy Boothby].

Esilaranti e sulfurei, questi nove racconti aprono uno squarcio sulla vita americana, mettendone a nudo il sentimento di un'epoca. Con narrazione incendiaria, David Foster Wallace evoca personaggi storici come Lyndon Johnson, presentatori televisivi, yuppies, punk e proletari della provincia più depressa, indagando il drammatico gioco tra verità e finzione, "la materia di cui sono fatti i sogni collettivi." Uscita nel 1989, questa raccolta è considerata un classico della letteratura americana.

A superb collection of captivating short stories by leading classic writers, including 'The Cone' by H. G. Wells, 'The Dream Woman' by Wilkie Collins, 'Fortunes Adrift' by Charles John Cutcliffe Hyne, 'The Kidnapping of Phil Altamore' by Ella Hepworth Dixon, 'The Table Under the Tree' by E. Phillips Oppenheim, 'In Yeddo Bay' by Jack London and many more gripping short stories by famous writers.

Satirical stories exploring modern themes of technology and relationships. Internet lawlessness, smartphone love triangles, zombie video gamers, gender role ambivalence and the demise of television - these changes infuse our existence. Borrowing from science fiction, fantasy and magic realism, the collected stories of Not from Concentrate take these contemporary quandaries head-on!

"Das Gesetz der Vier": Kriminalerzählungen von Edgar Wallace, gelesen von Ingolf Kloss. "Das Gesetz der Vier" enthält eine Sammlung äußerst spannender Kriminalkurzgeschichten. "Die vier Gerechten" nennt sich eine geheime Gruppierung, die sich zum Ziel gesetzt hat, Gewaltverbrecher ihrer gerechten Strafe zuzuführen. In allen 10 Short Stories machen sie Jagd auf nicht überführte Verbrecher in der Londoner Unterwelt. Ganz gleich, ob es sich um Entführer, Erpresser, Mörder oder korrupte Politiker handelt.

A wonderful collection of 50 phenomenal stories by the world’s great short story writers.

Eloias has waited nearly seven centuries to find his wife. Now that he has found her, will she refuse his advances and fight his offer of becoming the immortal queen of all the world? Will she save mankind or damn it for eternity?

Earl is in deep mourning over the passing of his terrier, Jack-Jack…until a hurricane comes to town with winds so violent that they blow aside even reality itself.

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was born on the 1st April 1875 in Greenwich, London. Leaving school at 12 because of truancy, by the age of fifteen he had experience; selling newspapers, as a worker in a rubber factory, as a shoe shop assistant, as a milk delivery boy and as a ship’s cook. By 1904 he had completed his first thriller, The Four Just Men. Since nobody would publish it he resorted to setting up his own publishing company which he called Tallis Press.

Der gerissene Mr. Burnstid veranstaltet mit zwei Kumpanen eine Rennlotterie, an der Menschen aus ganz England, Schottland und Irland teilnehmen. Der ausgelobte Gewinn für den ersten Preis: Stattliche 20.000 Pfund! Doch in Wahrheit haben die drei niemals vor, diesen Gewinn auszuzahlen. Stattdessen soll Burnstids Sohn als Hauptgewinner gezogen werden, der extra für den Betrug von seinem Vater in einem englischen Landhaus einquartiert wird. Doch bei aller Gerissenheit des Plans haben die drei Betrüger ihre Rechnung ohne den Preller gemacht.

Son todos los abogados honrados? En principio queremos creer que si, pero... El Criminal Perfecto Troy Goldbeater es un abogado de reconocido prestigio en la sociedad londinense, especializado en Derecho Civil y más concretamente en Derecho de Familia, en especial: herencias. Una ciente suya de antiguo, la Sra Pallin, acaba de emprender un viaje sin retorno, y uno de sus familiares visita al Sr. Goldbeater, poniendo en duda no solo su profesionalidad, sino algo más....

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was born on the 1st April 1875 in Greenwich, London. Leaving school at 12 because of truancy, by the age of fifteen he had experience; selling newspapers, as a worker in a rubber factory, as a shoe shop assistant, as a milk delivery boy and as a ship’s cook. Wallace now began to take his career as a fiction writer more seriously, signing with Hodder and Stoughton in 1921. He was marketed as the ‘King of Thrillers’ and they gave him the trademark image of a trilby, a cigarette holder and a yellow Rolls Royce.