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Bandits & Rebels is an anthology of some of Jules Verne’s earliest work, including the first appearance of a submarine in his fiction. As well as his interest in science, it illustrates his geographical and historical range, with San Carlos, a story about smugglers in Spain; a story about the...

Descend into one of Edgar Allan Poe’s most gripping sea tales, where terror, survival, and the overwhelming power of nature collide in a haunting classic of suspense and imagination.

1710 - Nassau burns with ambition and deceit. Aboard The Sable Wraith, Elias Grey serves a captain who mistakes cruelty for strength. When an act of mercy brands him a mutineer, Grey's choice sparks a reckoning that will forge legend from ruin. From the taverns of Nassau to the decks of ships set a flame, The Devil's Share follows a man who learns that conscience is the costliest treasure of all - and that mercy always demands its due.

Everything is bigger in Texas — including the horror! A Piney woods meth dealer clones Adolph Hitler. A nightmare exorcist meets an inexorable fiend. An eyeball collector gets collected. The apparition of a lynching victim tracks down his executioners. A Texas lawman is undone by shades of his past. A Baphomet recruits converts as a local summer camp. The tales of the baker's dozen who appear in this anthology demonstrate why everything is scarier in Texas…

Trent and Louise have carved out a quiet paradise deep in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, living off the land, off the grid, and far from the chaos of the modern world. For years, their days have been measured in seasons, not headlines, their lives defined by self-reliance and hard-earned peace. But beyond the tree line, the world has shifted, fractured into something unrecognizable. And now, that world is moving closer, drawn by desperation and greed… and by the resources Trent and Louise have fought a lifetime to protect.

Die Salzkinder vom Haff Haff. Herz. Neustart. Und keine Ausreden mehr. Sie hauen aus der Großstadt ab und landen am Haff. Mehr Himmel, weniger Lärm. Ein Alltag, der sich endlich wiederrichtig anfühlt. Ein Leben, das endlichwieder passt. Klar: wer geht, lässt etwas zurück. Kinder, die bleiben, Freunde, die fehlen. Mut, der erst wachsen muss.

Port Royal, 1699. Orphaned and adrift, Elias Grey finds his way aboard Equilibre under the command of Captain Thaddeus Locke—a man whose law is his own and whose code is carved from salt and consequence. What begins as a simple voyage soon becomes a crucible of loyalty, survival, and faith upon waters where mercy carries a price.

Sie erzählen von Schuld und Schicksal, von Liebe und Verzicht, von Menschen zwischen Pflichtgefühl und innerer Sehnsucht. Theodor Storm gehört zu den bedeutendsten Erzählern und Lyrikern des 19. Jahrhunderts. In seinen Novellen und Gedichten verbindet sich feine Sprache mit psychologischer Tiefe, atmosphärischer Dichte und norddeutscher Melancholie.

Hughie Erskine is in love and wants to marry, but the girl's father will not allow it, since Erskine has no money. Erskine's friend Alan Trevor is a painter, and he visits him at his studio one day to find him with a pitiable beggar—the model for his painting. Erskine only has one coin, on which he depends for transportation, but he decides he can walk for a couple of weeks and gives the beggar the coin.

Bloomsbury presents I Could Be Famous by Sydney Rende, read by Rachel Angco Named a Best Book of the Year by Vogue and Debutiful. "A terrific debut: fresh, original, and surprising." --George Saunders, Booker-Prize winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo From a magnetic new voice in fiction "made...

Bicky and Miles want to learn to box but they always end up fighting. Maybe the red boxing gloves will make a difference.

The Bell-Tower appeared in 1855 in Putnam's Monthly Magazine no. 32 (August). In the south of Europe, nigh a once frescoed capital, now with dank mould cankering its bloom, central in a plain, stands what, at distance, seems the black mossed stump of some immeasurable pine, fallen, in forgotten days, with Anak and the Titan.

"The Lightning-Rod Man" appeared in 1854, in Putnam's Monthly Magazine no. 20 (August). What grand irregular thunder, thought I, standing on my hearthstone among the Acroceraunian hills, as the scattered bolts boomed overhead and crashed down among the valleys, every bolt followed by zigzag irradiations, and swift slants of sharp rain, which audibly rang, like a charge of spear-points, on my low shingled roof. I suppose, though, that the mountains hereabouts break and churn up the thunder, so that it is far more glorious here than on the plain. Hark! - some one at the door.

"The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles" is a novella by American author Herman Melville. First published in Putnam's Magazine in 1854, it consists of ten philosophical "Sketches" on the Encantadas, or Galápagos Islands. An anonymous narrator unites the ten disparate "Sketches", each of which begin with a few lines of poetry, mostly taken from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene. All of the stories are replete with symbolism reinforcing the cruelty of life on the Encantadas.

John and Lucy are meant to join the family up the mountain, to spend a relaxing weekend in a cabin, only the weather takes a bad turn and the pair find themselves fighting for survival. This action-packed survival horror will take you on a gripping journey, pull at your heartstrings, and even reach for that pillow to hide behind.

This is a spin-off story to Bloodlines and Black Flags. This is a collection of stories and perspectives from more minor characters in Diego's crew from Bloodlines and Black Flags.

تتكون المجموعة من أربع وعشرين قصة قصيرة. تدور أحداث معظم القصص حول الفعل والحركة وعدم الاستسلام. قد تهم المجموعة من يحب أن يفعل الأشياء بشكل مختلف، أو من يحب أن يراها من زوايا مختلفة. المهم أن تفعل شيئًا .. أن تكون شيئًا.. أن تكون الفعل لا رد الفعل.

After a breakthrough experiment, a doctor arrives in a bizarre city and searches for evidence to prove its existence to his peers.

Ding! Ding! Ding! Mama and daughter, Emery and Cricket Scott, are getting ready to celebrate. They've just finished painting sixty houses in the same number of days and they know it's time for a break. But before they can get their equipment loaded and drive away from the last job site, they're approached by Miss Wilma Parker--a member of the night watch and the owner of the Parker Cemetery on the outskirts of town. It's Halloween and the grave bells have been ringing for days, a phenomenon that has never occurred before. Terrified, Wilma asks the Scotts to help her.

From summer vacations soaked in blood to cursed castles buried deep in Europe, Allen DeShawn’s life has been anything but ordinary. This pulse-pounding omnibus collects all five terrifying, action-packed books in the I Kill Cursed Creatures series—a coming-of-age saga drenched in horror, heartbreak, and tooth-and-claw survival.