The second installment in Donachies sweeping Roads to War series set in the pre-WWII European powder keg1936: Soldier of fortune Cal Jardine travels to Barcelona to help with the athletic games rivalling the Berlin Olympics.
In den eisigen Weiten einer fantastischen Welt erhebt sich die uneinnehmbare Gletscherfestung des Frostkonigs - eine Zitadelle aus Eis und Asche, die sich gegen jeden Angreifer behauptet hat.
Professor John Novak und sein Team stehen kurz vor dem groten wissenschaftlichen Durchbruch der Menschheitsgeschichte: der ersten kontrollierten Zeitreise.
Cuentos crueles reune una cuidada seleccion de los relatos mas brillantes e inquietantes de Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, maestro del simbolismo y uno de los grandes renovadores del cuento fantastico.
Taking his title from the great symbol of German Romanticism, Henry van Dyke - Princeton professor, clergyman, and wartime minister to the Netherlands - gathers tales of the one thing a life is spent seeking: a knight who follows a legend, a Persian magus who follows a star, a man who at last finds the blue flower and fails to know it.
Am einen Anfang, noch wahrend Rauchschwaden uber den chilenischen Prasidentenpalast ziehen und die Nachricht vom Tod Salvador Allendes die Runde macht, ertont der erste Schrei eines Kindes.
Nathaniel Hawthorne spent seven disillusioning months at the Brook Farm commune shoveling manure and losing his investment, and then insisted this novel was not about it - convincing no one.
Maurice Leblanc was an unnoticed jobbing writer until a magazine asked him for a crime story in 1905 - and France promptly took the gentleman burglar Arsene Lupin to its heart, preferring him cheerfully to Sherlock Holmes.
James Oliver Curwood, paid by the Canadian government to roam the far north and later a convert who gave up hunting altogether, wrote this tender wilderness tale out of love for the country and its creatures.
By eleven in the morning on her twenty-first birthday, Sashara Jones has eaten cake for breakfast, hugged everyone she loves, and decided this is the best day of her life.
