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Another action-packed mystery by Maurice LeBlanc! This story has to do with the final Will of a man named Mornington, who, in the year 1900, left behind the sum of $400 million francs. Of that, three-fourths went to his adopted country - which left $100 million francs to be distributed to his heirs. The executor of the estate was Mornington's friend, Don Luis Perenna (AKA Arsene Lupin). The problem, however, was that no one knew where (or even who) some of the heirs were. If no heirs were to be found within 3 months, the entire $100 million francs would go to Perenna.

Amy Stiles is a young woman who encounters Pastor Janus, a manipulative man doing things she knows he shouldn’t do. A devoted, conservative Christian, Amy is in her early 20s when she finds a career away from home. She meets the married pastor and discovers he is massaging people, including young ladies, touching them on their legs, backs and shoulders, and taking them out to dinner and other places alone. Twice she confronts him, twice he gets upset, twice he falsely accuses her, and twice she is coerced to apologize.

Um velho homem escreve suas memórias de infância, vivida num bairro proletário do RJ, na virada dos anos 1950/1960. Naturalmente, e logo nas primeiras páginas, uma criança, um menino pequeno, apodera-se da narrativa, pois é na sua visão que iremos conhecer as histórias de um tempo, cronologicamente recente, mas cujo resultado de passagem, porém, foi comparável a de todo um milênio, tamanhas as mudanças ocorridas em tão breve espaço de tempo.  

When Charlie Fightmaster gets the call-up to the Major Leagues, all of his dreams are about to come true. But word that his little sister, Pippin, is struggling changes everything. Charlie returns to his childhood home, joins the amateur baseball team his father coaches, and begins helping Pippin with her dream of making the best baseball bat ever made. Charlie meets Bud Crawford, a reclusive local legend, who reluctantly teaches him the three secrets to finding perfect harmony at the plate.

L'histoire du plus célèbre des parfums. Hiver 1919-1920 : Après la perte brutale et tragique du grand amour de sa vie, Gabrielle Chanel, appelée Coco, traverse une terrible crise existentielle. Ni son entourage ni son travail ne réussissent à la sortir d'une tristesse profonde. Jusqu'au jour où elle se rappelle leur dernier projet commun : créer sa propre eau de toilette. Bien que Coco ne connaisse rien au métier des grands parfumeurs, elle va se lancer corps et âme dans cette folle aventure afin de rendre un hommage éternel à l'homme perdu.

Charly ist Anfang vierzig, als sie an Brustkrebs erkrankt. Es ist der 21. August 2015, der Tag, der ihr Leben für immer verändern wird. Ihre Welt bricht zusammen und sie steht vor den Trümmern ihres Lebens. Nach dem Absturz in bedrohliche Tiefen erhebt sie sich und kämpft den wohl härtesten Kampf ihres Lebens. Narbenmeer ist die Geschichte einer Heilung, ein Auseinandersetzen mit dem Leben und dem Tod und einer Welt aus Fragen, denen sich Charly stellen muss. War sie glücklich in ihrem Leben? Hat sie das Leben gelebt, das sie sich erträumt hat? Wie viel Zeit bleibt ihr noch?

In a high-energy, adventure-filled romp across four countries and two continents, Four Borders to Freedom follows the adventures of a teenage boy as he escapes the confining political and social system of Iran to freedom. 

Oscar Frosell, wealthy Swedish businessman, philanthropist, and family man, survived the Nazi occupation of Paris and, like many of his countrymen, was looking forward to being a part of France’s postwar future. But in the rapacious, score-settling chaos of the new French State, Frosell’s fortune - rare art, priceless jewels, antique furniture, gold, platinum, a valuable stamp collection, and especially his opulent Paris apartment - worth over $40 billion today, was an irresistible temptation for some thieves. 

Jane Parker never dreamed that her marriage into the Boleyn family would raise her star to such dizzying heights. Before long, she finds herself as trusted servant and confidante to her sister-in-law, Anne Boleyn, King Henry VIII’s second queen. On a gorgeous spring day, that golden era is cut short by the swing of a sword. Jane is unmoored by the tragic death of her husband, George, and her loss sets her on a reckless path that leads to her own imprisonment in the Tower of London.

Deeply moving and illuminating, Trouble the Water reveals the little-known real-life story of Robert Smalls. Born enslaved before the Civil War, Smalls witnesses great privilege and immense suffering alongside his owner's daughter. When the war erupts and his cotton steamer becomes a confederate warship, Robert attempts a harrowing escape to freedom for himself and the people he loves. Robert Smalls is one of America's great unsung heroes, and Trouble the Water finally brings his story into the light.

"Into The Light" erzählt den Transformationsprozess von Hass in Frieden zwischen zwei Menschen, die sich als Opfer und Täter in diesem Leben trafen und gemeinsam die Grenzen des Menschlichen und Erträglichen erlebten. Dieser Weg und Prozess schienen Ursula unmöglich - dennoch passierte ein höherer Ausgleich und zeigte sich ein tieferes Verständnis auf unerwartete und magische Weise. Die Vorbereitung dieser tiefen spirituellen Erfahrung verlief über zwei Jahrzehnte, genauso lange, wie der Weg durch die Dunkelheit der sexuellen Gewalterfahrung in ihrer Familie gegangen war.

A tale of mystery and suspense. Enter the journalistic narrative of a traumatic childhood, told in the form of short stories. 

Enter the journalistic narrative of a traumatic childhood, told in the form of short stories. Listen to Memoirs of My Little Girl: A Collection of Short Stories: Part Two and experience the compelling world of part two in the series. 

Two guys from England go to Arizona to make their fortune at the end of the 19th century. A strange outcome ensues! 

Mandy Rose finds herself in the most horrendous position. A middle-class housewife, with three children, a husband, and a beautiful house, she finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time. What happens to Mandy not only changes her life it changes her personality. Mandy does things she would never have thought about before that fateful night. This story will change how you see things. It is easy for us all to judge a person, but if that person needs to survive, then judgment can be harsh. This book will take you to the very last minute to judge your thoughts. 

"Il Grande Gatsby" ("The Great Gatsby") è un romanzo di Francis Scott Fitzgerald pubblicato per la prima volta a New York il 10 aprile 1925 e definito da T.S. Eliot "il primo passo in avanti fatto dalla narrativa americana dopo Henry James". Ambientato a New York e a Long Island durante l'estate del 1922, "Il Grande Gatsby" è il più acuto ritratto dell'anima dell'età del jazz, con le sue contraddizioni, il suo vittimismo e la sua tragicità. La storia, che seguendo la tecnica di Henry James viene raccontata da uno dei personaggi, narra la tragedia del mito americano.

Hace cien años, hubo dos infantas que despertaban la curiosidad del público y la prensa, tal y como hoy lo hacen la princesa Leonor y su hermana Sofía. Se trataba de Beatriz y María Cristina de Borbón y Battenberg, las hijas de Alfonso XIII y Victoria Eugenia. Baby y Crista, como las llamaban, nacieron rodeadas de los privilegios y ritos de una monarquía decadente, pero con el estigma de la hemofilia, una terrible enfermedad heredada de su madre y de su bisabuela inglesa, la reina Victoria.

Jerome. K. Jerome allows us to laugh, with and at, both himself and ourselves, in his writing. As we peruse his “Idle Thoughts” on subjects ranging from babies to ambition, from dogs to poverty, we find that the dust of over a hundred years have not dimmed the mirror in which we look. Jerome, as in his other comic works, presents a seeming stream of consciousness that can shift in a moment from the ridiculous to the sublime, from self-deprecation to intense longing.

When Robert Baratheon died suddenly after a boar hunt, all hell broke loose. When Edward IV, King of England, died suddenly after a fishing trip in April 1483, another phase of the Wars of the Roses ensued, the Yorks (Starks) battling the Lancasters (Lannisters). Thwarted Queen is told mainly in the voice of Lady Cecylee Neville (1415-1495), the thwarted queen, but other voices are important to this tale, not least those of the Londoners, who forged their own political destiny by engaging in public debate with the powerful aristocrats of the time

In Under a Bloody Flag and Under a Black Flag, it was all about the Confederate Army. For Want of a Ship focuses on the navy. The fall of New Orleans was the beginning of the end for the Confederacy. John Roy, a Scottish immigrant to New Orleans, fights an unwinnable battle to save his adopted state.