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Benedict Cumberbatch reads these four new Sherlock Holmes stories by John Taylor: 'An Inscrutable Masquerade', 'The Conundrum of Coach 13', 'The Trinity Vicarage Larceny' and 'The 10.59 Assassin'. Inspired by Arthur Conan Doyle's original Sherlock Holmes stories, John Taylor has written four more mysteries featuring the world's greatest detective. Read by acclaimed actor Benedict Cumberbatch, these new adventures share all the suspense of the original tales.

Oscar Wilde created his final and most lasting play, one of the comic masterpieces of all time, The Importance of Being Earnest, in 1895. It is a farce playing with love, religion, and truth as it tells the tale of two men, Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff, who bend the truth in order to add excitement to their lives. Jack invents an imaginary brother, Ernest, whom he uses as an excuse to escape from his dull country home and gallivant in town.

Jack Reacher, ex-military drifter of no fixed abode, is stalked and tracked down by an FBI agent. She tells him that in a house raid in Sydney, Australian law enforcement found a list. There were four people on it, including him. The other three are dead. Hours later, Reacher is in the air, on his way to Sydney. What was the evil buried 25 years ago that has now resurfaced? Will Reacher be able to find the killers before they find him?

Typhoon is the story of a steamship and her crew beset by a tempest and of the captain whose dogged courage is tested to the limit. Captain MacWhirr was an ordinary man. However, when his steamer Nan-Shan blunders into a hurricane, he and his crew must pull together to survive. The steadfast courage of an undemonstrative captain and the imaginative readiness of his young first mate becomes a partnership vital to human survival as they are challenged from without by the elements, and from within by human doubts and fears.

The first of Maurice Leblanc's collections about his devilish, debonair rogue, Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar presents eight dazzling short stories that display some of Lupin's greatest thefts and escapes. Lupin robs from within prison, leaves its walls with ease, steals priceless diamonds from the rich and outwits the greatest detective of all: Sherlock Holmes. Witty, cunning, and taunting, Lupin is a genius on the wrong side of the law, although his noble code of ethics and Robin-Hood-like ways often see him use his talents for good.

All the delightful and bizarre inhabitants of Wonderland are here: the White Rabbit and the Cheshire Cat, the hooka-smoking Caterpillar and the Mad Hatter, the March Hare and the Ugly Duchess... and, of course, Alice herself - growing alternately taller and smaller, attending demented tea parties and eccentric croquet games, and observing everything with clarity and rational amazement.

Lee Child once again demonstrates his mastery of the thriller genre with an unbeatable collection of three Jack Reacher novellas and six short stories, together for the first time in one pulse-pounding collection from the New York Times best-selling author.

Dashing young Edmond Dantès has everything: a fine reputation, an appointment as captain of a ship, and the heart of a beautiful woman. But his perfect life is shattered when three jealous friends conspire to destroy him. Falsely accused of a political crime, Dantès is locked away for life in the infamous Chateau d'If prison. But it is there that Dantès learns of a vast hidden treasure.

In "The Boscombe Valley Mystery", Inspector Lestrade summons Sherlock Holmes to a community in Herefordshire, where a local landowner has been murdered outdoors. The deceased's estranged son is strongly implicated. Holmes, employing his trusty magnifying glass quickly determines that a mysterious third man may be responsible for the crime, unraveling a thread involving a secret criminal past, thwarted love, and blackmail.

Short story written by Jack London The Son of the Wolf consists of a single man who is known as Mckenzie or "Scruff". The story tells of the hardships of what single men had to endure on the frontier. Often men would venture on journeys that may consist of months or even years just in order to find the right suitor. Scruff had been the toughest of the tough and had lasted the longest on the frontier without the company of a woman. This story connects with naturalism by showing that nature can be just as cruel as it can be forgiving if someone is alone on the frontier.

The Legends of King Arthur & His Knights is an enthralling audio book read in an easily digestible format. Bringing together the many tales of the legend of King Arthur into one audio book, Sir James Knowles' descriptive narrative will transport you to times gone by.

The Idaho Territory gold mines and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom come together for a wilderness-dwelling drifter in this tale of the Weird West.

Большинство его книг посвящено морякам и полярникам, о жизни которых автор знал не понаслышке. Такова вошедшая в сборник повесть «Одержимый» о гибели корабля во время экспериментов по обледенению или роман о пожарных, давший название всему сборнику. Взяв за основу реальные события — пожар в гостинице «Россия», случившийся в 1977 году, — Санин впервые в художественной литературе рассказывает об этой сложной профессии.

Rafi is an 8 year old child living on a volcanic island who becomes trapped in a cave when a volcano unexpectedly erupts and covers the child's home and village with lava. On the 77th day, Rafi awakened to tears again, waking up every day crying. Rafi was sad and disillusioned and was beginning to give up hope. One day, Ifar appeared and rescued Rafi. They lived together for a while, fought vultures, constructed a glider based upon the great thinker Leonid's drawings and prepared to fly to a new life in the green land.

A young, naïve but ultimately courageous hedge knight, Ser Duncan the Tall towers above his rivals—in stature if not experience. Tagging along is his diminutive squire, a boy called Egg—whose true name is hidden from all he and Dunk encounter. Though more improbable heroes may not be found in all of Westeros, great destinies lay ahead for these two . . . as do powerful foes, royal intrigue, and outrageous exploits. Featuring more than 160 all-new illustrations by Gary Gianni, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is a must-have collection that proves chivalry isn’t dead—yet.

Absolution is a haunting and psychologically rich short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, first published in 1924. In this deeply introspective tale of guilt, imagination, and spiritual crisis, young Rudolph Miller—a devout eleven-year-old boy—finds himself entangled in a web of religious expectations, private transgressions, and the fragile dance between truth and illusion. When he tells a lie during confession, a crisis of faith erupts, leading him down a path of inner turmoil that starkly mirrors the disillusionments of adulthood.

Nilus the Marine Centurion and his young wife Viatrix sink their life savings into a part share in the Merchant ship Belisama and set out toward the Mare Nostrum to begin a new life and establish a trading business in an Empire falling apart at the seams. This is a short story based on characters first introduced in the dark age novel Evening of Empire and seeks to explain to the listeners of the original novel what happened to them when they left Britannia.

Don Juan de Alfranje, un noble caído en desgracia, busca venganza contra aquellos que lo han traicionado y arruinado su familia. A lo largo de su viaje, enfrenta duelos, intrigas políticas y conspiraciones en la corte española. Con la ayuda de leales amigos y su astucia, Don Juan desenmascara a sus enemigos y lucha por restaurar su honor y herencia.

The Marbles follows two lifelong friends as they plan a reckless heist and build a crew of misfits to pull it off. But they’re all in—until everything starts to fall apart. A trail’s been left, and now the cops are circling. The real question isn’t if they’ll get the score....

यावर्षीच्या दिवाळी अंकाचा विषय 'संवाद' आहे, कारण हेच बघा ना, तुम्ही-आम्ही एकमेकांशी संवाद साधतो? उत्तर सोपे आहे. बोलूनच संवाद साधतो, बरोबर आहे. म्हणजेच काय, आपलं बोलणं, वागणं, व्हर्बल आणि नॉन व्हर्बल कम्युनिकेशन हे आपोआप सतत होत असतं. उदाहरण बघायचं झालं तर जेव्हा संध्याकाळ होते आणि दिवस मावळायला लागतो, तेव्हा आपल्याला कोणी सांगत नाही, पण एकंदरित वातावरण कळत-नकळत आपल्याला सांगतं की, आता संध्याकाळ होत चालली, तुम्ही तुमच्या घरी परत जा. म्हणजेच काय झालं? तर हे नॉन व्हर्बल कम्युनिकेशन झालं.