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From its launch in 1920 until its demise in 1951, the magazine Black Mask published pulp crime fiction. The first hard-boiled detective stories appeared on its pages. Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner and John D. MacDonald got their start in Black Mask. The urban crime stories that appeared in Black Mask helped to shape American culture. Modern computer games, films, and television are rooted in the fiction popularized by “the seminal and venerated mystery pulp magazine” ( Booklist).

>From its launch in 1920 until its demise in 1951, the magazine Black Mask published pulp crime fiction. The first hard-boiled detective stories appeared on its pages. Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner and John D. MacDonald got their start in Black Mask.

The urban crime stories that appeared in Black Mask helped to shape American culture. Modern computer games, films, and television are rooted in the fiction popularized by “the seminal and venerated mystery pulp magazine” (Booklist).

In the sequel to the "The Jesus-Video", the video has caused for some changes and it is a blessing and a curse for Stephen Foxx and Judith Menez. Meanwhile, a man named Samuel Barron is trying something else entirely. He wants to recreate the time travel and sends back his son and three companions. They are to bring back Jesus Christ to the present time. If they can bring back the Son of God, will that fulfil the prophesized return of Jesus and more importantly, will it cause the Apocalypse?

From its launch in 1920 until its demise in 1951, the magazine Black Mask published pulp crime fiction. The first hard-boiled detective stories appeared on its pages. Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner, and John D. MacDonald all got their start in Black Mask. The urban crime stories that appeared in Black Mask helped to shape American culture. Modern computer games, films, and television are rooted in the fiction popularized by the magazine.

Why do bookshops matter? How do they filter our ideas and literature? In this inventive and highly entertaining extended essay, Jorge Carrion takes his listeners on a journey around the world via its bookshops. His travels take him to Shakespeare & Co in Paris, Wells in Winchester, Green Apple Books in San Francisco, Librairie des Colonnes in Tangier and the Strand Book Store in New York and provoke encounters with thinkers, poets, dreamers, revolutionaries and readers.

"The Nutkracker" - a full cast audio play featuring famous melodies and beautiful music. On Christmas Eve, Clara receives a nutcracker from her godfather Drosselmeyer. During the night she has a strange dream: the nutcracker is fighting with his toy soldiers against the army of the Mouse King. Clara helps him, whereupon the nutcracker turns into a prince. Together they travel to the realm of sweets, where they get caught in a snowstorm and eventually land in Zuckerburg Castle. There the Sugar Plum Fairy celebrates a fantastical festival of sweets. It's a shame that this was all just a dream - or was it?

The Blue Moon is full, the Darkwood has overtaken the land and demons are being fought off at the very gates of Forest Castle. The return of the exiled High Warlock reveals long-hidden secrets about the past. As the Warlock battles the wild magic of the Demon Prince, his hopes of assistance from the enchanted Sword of Compulsion known as the Curtana are crushed by the sword’s disappearance, but there may be other, more powerful weapons hidden in the Royal Armory.

This book contains the following works: 1. Edgar Allan Poe: The Pit and the Pendulum 2. William Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream 3. Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Secret Garden 4. Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Dream of a Ridiculous Man 5. Robert Louis Stevenson: Treasure Island 6. H. P. Lovecraft: At the Mountains of Madness 7. Jack London: The Call of the Wild 8. Mary W. Shelley: Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus 9. Osamu Dazai: No Longer Human (Confessions of a Faulty Man) 10. Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter

From the author of Copenhagen and Noises Off. A comedy-drama about a door manufacturing company and a fateful convention in Frankfurt. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Rosalind Ayres, Allan Corduner, David Ellenstein, Julian Holloway, Peter A. Jacobs, Martin Jarvis, Robin Goodrin Nordli, James Warwick and Michael York.

Idina Moorfield and Hellion Squadron are going on their first mission. Months and months of training is finally paying off. No amount of training could have prepared them for this. A monster unlike anything they have seen before. Idina and her team are going to have to come up with new tactics to capture or kill this monster... if they can. The world is changing. Magic is changing. Can Idina, Richard and Hellion Squadron adapt to the changes and stay on top of the monster threat they're facing?

Frank Morgan, a gunfighter known to many simply as “the Drifter”, finds himself adopted by man’s best friend and by a wide-eyed young fortune-seeker who seems to have more talent for finding trouble than gold. Two vicious outlaw gangs have kidnapped Frank's own son to lure him into a trap, providing the Last Gunfighter with his latest deadly challenge.

Contents: Napoleon Hill. Think and Grow Rich (The text is reproduced from the original publications of 1937), George Samuel Clason. The Richest Man In Babylon (The text is reproduced from the original publications of 1920-1924), James Allen. As A Man Thinketh, James Allen. Out from the Heart, Kahlil Gibran. The Prophet, Sun Tzu. The Art of War, Lao Tzu. The Tao Te Ching, Confucius. Analects, Benjamin Franklin. The Way to Wealth, Benjamin Franklin. The Autobiography, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. The Meditations Of The Emperor, Russell H. Conwell Every Man His Own University, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Self-reliance.

Inspektor Hopkins von Scotland Yard bittet Sherlock Holmes um Mithilfe in einem ganz besonderen Fall. Captain Peter Carey wurde tot aufgefunden, aufgespießt mit einer Harpune und an die Wand genagelt. Die Spur führt zuerst zu dem jungen John Hopeley Neligan, dessen Vater der Captain auf dem gewissen zu haben scheint, doch Sherlock Holmes befindet, dass dies nicht die endgültige Lösung sein kann.

Higbee, Colorado, population 147, is about to become a boomtown. The visionary General Wade Garrison is building a railroad to connect Higbee to the renowned Santa Fe Rail. But a rancher named Ike Clinton has his own selfish reasons for making sure these bands of steel go nowhere - and he’ll go to any lengths to derail Garrison’s plans. Falcon MacCallister owes a war-time debt to the General and answers the call to aid the man in his fight with the Clinton brood. 

Der österreichische Adlige Baron Gruner wird verdächtigt, aus Geldgier seine Frau getötet zu haben. Kurz nach ihrem Tod verlobt er sich in England mit der jungen, ebenfalls sehr reichen Lady Violet de Merville. Ein Klient, der unter allen Umständen geheim bleiben möchte, beauftragt Sherlock Holmes durch einen Mittelsmann, diese Hochzeit zu verhindern. Holmes übernimmt den Fall und bezahlt diese Entscheidung fast mit seinem Leben.

Sherlock Holmes erhält von der ehemaligen Gouvernante der Lady Frances Carfax Nachricht, dass ihre frühere Herrin spurlos verschwunden ist. Holmes schickt Watson an den Genfer See, um der Sache nachzugehen. Dieser findet heraus, dass sich Lady Carfax mit dem dubiosen Dr. Schlesinger und dessen Frau angefreundet hat und mit ihnen zusammen weitergereist ist. Offensichtlich hat es das zwielichtige Paar vor allem auf den Schmuck von Lady Carfax abgesehen.

Der zwangsverordnete Urlaub im tristen Cornwall nimmt für Sherlock Holmes und seinen Freund Dr. Watson eine unerwartete Wendung - Mr. Tregennis bittet den Meisterdetektiv, die entsetzlichen Dinge aufzuklären, die sich ihm an jenem Morgen im Hause seiner Geschwister boten: Die beiden Brüder hatten über Nacht den Verstand und seine Schwester ihr Leben verloren. Holmes nimmt die Herausforderung dieses neuen Falles an - ohne zu wissen, dass sie ihn sehr nah an den Rand des Todes bringen wird.

Henry Trevor bittet den jungen Meisterdetektiv aus Spaß um eine Kostprobe seines Könnens. Holmes gibt sie ihm und enthüllt einige Geheimnisse aus dem Leben Trevors, die dieser lieber weiterhin verborgen hätte. Kurze Zeit später ist Trevor tot. Was ist geschehen?

Bei der Wohnungssuche lernen sich Holmes und Watson kennen und beziehen gemeinsam das berühmte Apartment in der Baker Street 221B. Holmes scheint zunächst ein ruhiger Hausgenosse zu sein, aber als Scotland Yard ihn in einem äußerst rätselhaften Mordfall um Hilfe bittet, entdeckt Watson, dass sein neuer Freund einige ungewöhnliche Fähigkeiten besitzt. Und schon befindet er sich mitten im ersten der vielen Abenteuer, die er gemeinsam mit Sherlock Holmes noch erleben wird.

After Henry V's death and while Henry VI is young, nobles rule England and fight the French, including Joan of Arc. As Henry VI becomes king, the noble houses begin to divide and take sides between York and Lancaster. The war with France winds down, and the nobles try to find Henry a wife and disagree about who Henry chooses.