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White Fang is a novel by American author Jack London (18761916) and the name of the books eponymous character, a wild wolfdog. First serialized in Outing magazine, it was published in 1906. The story takes place in Yukon Territory and the Northwest Territories, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush and details White Fangs journey to domestication. It is a companion novel (and a thematic mirror) to Londons best-known work, The Call of the Wild, which is about a kidnapped, domesticated dog embracing his wild ancestry to survive and thrive in the wild. Much of White Fang is written from the viewpoint of the titular canine character, enabling London to explore how animals view their world and how they view humans. White Fang examines the violent world of wild animals and the equally violent world of humans. The book also explores complex themes including morality and redemption. White Fang has been adapted for the screen numerous times, including a 1991 film starring Ethan Hawke.

Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway. The trees had been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and they seemed to lean towards each other, black and ominous, in the fading light. A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the spirit of it was not even that of sadness. There was a hint in it of laughter, but of a laughter more terrible than any sadnessa laughter that was mirthless as the smile of the sphinx, a laughter cold as the frost and partaking of the grimness of infallibility. It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the Wild, the savage, frozen-hearted Northland Wild.

Witty, inventive, and profound, Where the Wild Ladies Are is a contemporary feminist retelling of traditional ghost stories by one of Japans most exciting writers.In a company run by the mysterious Mr Tei, strange things are afoot incense sticks lead to a surprise encounter; a young man reflects on his mothers death; a foxlike woman finally finds her true calling. As female ghosts appear in unexpected guises, their gently humorous encounters with unsuspecting humans lead to deeper questions about emancipation and recent changes in Japanese womens lives.

From the million-copy bestselling author, perfect for fans of Stieg Larsson, Anne Holt, and The Killing.__________"Michael Ridpath is on the war path, trouncing the Scandinavians on their home turf. This is international thriller writing at its best, fine characters, page turning suspense and a great, fresh location." PETER JAMES__________One thousand years ago: An Icelandic warrior returns from battle, bearing a ring cut from the right hand of his foe.Seventy years ago: An Oxford professor, working from a secret source, creates the twentieth centurys most pervasive legend. The professors name? John Ronald Reuel Tolkein.Six hours ago: An expert on Old Iceland literature, Agnar Haraldsson, is murdered.Everything is connected, but to discover how, Detective Magnus Jonson must venture where the shadows lie...__________Praise for the A Magnus Iceland Mystery series: International thriller writing at its best, fine characters, page turning suspense and a great, fresh location. -- Peter JamesIngenious and thrilling. Fascinating stuff. -- SpectatorA clever blend of murder mystery, myth and up-to-the-minute mayhem... --The TimesEntertaining stuff. -- Daily TelegraphTerrific! Great plot and splendid pacing... -- Simon BrettA first class mystery. -- Booklist

Vivien Leigh was one of the greatest film and theatrical stars of the twentieth century. Her Oscar-winning performances in Gone with the Wind and A Streetcar Named Desire have cemented her status as an icon of classic Hollywood.Her meteoric rise to fame launched her into the gaze of fellow rising star Laurence Olivier. A tempestuous relationship ensued that would last for twenty years and captured the imagination of people around the world.Behind the scenes, however, Leighs personal life was marred by bipolar disorder, which remained undiagnosed until 1953. Largely misunderstood and subjected to barbaric mistreatment at the hands of her doctors, she also suffered the heartbreak of Oliviers infidelity. Contributing to her image as a tragic heroine, she died at the age of 53.Where Madness Lies begins in 1953, when Leigh suffered a nervous breakdown and was institutionalised. The woeful story unfolds as she tries to rebuild her life, salvage her career and save her marriage.Featuring a wealth of unpublished material, including private correspondence, bestselling author Lyndsy Spence reveals the woman behind the legendary image: a woman who remained strong in the face of adversity

This carefully crafted ebook: "When The Sleeper Wakes (A Dystopian Science Fiction Classic)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.The Sleeper Awakes is a dystopian science fiction novel about a man who sleeps for two hundred and three years, waking up in a completely transformed London, where, because of compound interest on his bank accounts, he has become the richest man in the world. The main character awakes to see his dreams realized, and the future revealed to him in all its horrors and malformities.Herbert George Wells (1866-1946), known as H. G. Wells, was a prolific English writer in many genres, including the novel, history, politics, and social commentary, and textbooks and rules for war games.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMENS PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018LONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2018SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2018Guardians Best Books of 2017 Daily Telegraphs Best Books of 2017 Observer Best Books of 2017 Financial Times Best Books of 2017 "Meena Kandasamys vivid, sharp and precise writing makes a triumph of When I Hit You"- GuardianSeduced by politics, poetry and an enduring dream of building a better world together, the unnamed narrator falls in love with a university professor. Moving with him to a rain-washed coastal town, she swiftly learns that what for her is a bond of love is for him a contract of ownership. As he sets about reducing her to his idealised version of an obedient wife, bullying her and devouring her ambition of being a writer in the process, she attempts to push back - a resistance he resolves to break with violence and rape.

In every life there is a turning point. A moment so tremendous, so sharp and breathtaking, that one knows ones life will never be the same. For Michael Stirling, Londons most infamous rake, that moment came the first time he laid eyes on Francesca Bridgerton. After a lifetime of chasing women, of smiling slyly as they chased him, of allowing himself to be caught but never permitting his heart to become engaged, he took one look at Francesca Bridgerton and fell so fast and hard into love it was a wonder he managed to remain standing. Unfortunately for Michael, however, Francescas surname was to remain Bridgerton for only a mere thirty-six hours longerthe occasion of their meeting was, lamentably, a supper celebrating her imminent wedding to his cousin. But that was then... Now Michael is the earl and Francesca is free, but still she thinks of him as nothing other than her dear friend and confidant. Michael dares not speak to her of his love... until one dangerous night, when she steps innocently into his arms, and passion proves stronger than even the most wicked of secrets.. From the same series: #2 The Viscount who loved me #3 An offer from a Gentleman #4 Romancing Mister Bridgerton #5 To Sir Phillip, with love #6 When he was wicked

Asher Baum is quietly losing his mind. Can you blame him?Maybe what I really want is to make sense of all peoples lives. Of everything, the whole shebangA middle-aged Jewish journalist turned novelist and playwright, consumed with anxiety about everything under the sun, Baums turgid philosophical books receive tepid reviews and his prestigious New York publisher has dropped him. His third marriage is on the rocks and he suspects his handsome and successful younger brother may have seduced his Harvard-educated wife. He is uneasy with her close relationship with her son, a more successful author than he, and suspicious of her closeness with their neighbour in Connecticut. And in a moment of irrationality, he has impulsively tried to kiss a pretty young journalist during an interview that she is about to go public with.Is it any wonder Baum has started talking to himself? Strangers shake their heads and walk around him on the street. Meanwhile he learns a startling secret that could cause havoc should he expose it. Should he keep it to himself or reveal it and blow up his marriage?Whats with Baum? is Woody Allens first novel and it is everything you would expect of him--and more. A portrait of an intellectual crippled by neurotic concerns about the futility and emptiness of life; an amusing glimpse into the New York publishing establishment; above all, a highly entertaining, tightly plotted, beautifully wrought piece of fiction from one of Americas greatest and most versatile cinematic and literary talents.

LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER, 2014Peckham, south London. A nine-year-old boy crawls from a burning car and is left fighting for his life. As DCI David Rosen and his team scour the scene of the crime, a graffiti image of a sinister eye is discovered above the site of the wreckage - and with it, a series of mysterious markings etched onto the wall. Could this be a code to catch the monster behind this dreadful act?When a teenager is burned alive, evidence on his body confirms Rosens suspicion that something sinister is at work on the estate. Young children go missing in the dead of night. Each second counts as Rosen battles to find the killers and save the missing souls...

The stunning conclusion to Anne Holts phenomenal series featuring Johanne Vik and Adam Stubo.On a summers day, Johanne Vik arrives at the home of her friends Jon and Ellen Mohr and was greeted by a scene of devastation: their young son, left unattended, has tragically fallen to his death.Meanwhile, Oslo is under attack. An explosion has torn the city apart and newly qualified police officer Henrik Holme is the only one available to attend the Mohr household. As Holme investigates, he casts doubt on the claim that the death was a tragic accident and calls upon Johannes profiling expertise to understand what really happened. But neither realise that those involved are determined to hide the truth - no matter what. Before the summer is over, more shocking deaths will occur...

In 1937, F. Scott Fitzgerald was a troubled, uncertain man whose literary success was long behind him. In poor health, with his wife consigned to a mental asylum and his finances in ruin, he struggled to make a new start as a screenwriter in Hollywood.With flashbacks to key moments from Fitzgeralds past, the story follows him as he arrives on the MGM lot, falls in love with brassy gossip columnist Sheilah Graham, begins work on The Last Tycoon, and tries to maintain a semblance of family life with the absent Zelda and their daughter, Scottie.Written with striking grace and subtlety, this wise and intimate portrait of a man trying his best to hold together a world thats flying apart, if not gone already, is an American masterpiece.

Wendy is a good Welsh dragon, living on Pendragon hill in Llandraig. She has friends and lovers, past and present, in many parts of the world - under the water in Loch Ness, on an island in Polynesia (an emigrant from Cader Idris in Wales), in Edinburgh (once on Dragon Hill at Uffington, where he took umbrage at the inaccuracy of his portrait carved in chalk on the hill), under the Drachenfels on the Rhine in Germany (where he took refuge from a Wanderer and a young Hero with a sword), in Cambridge, in Turkey, in castles in Romania and Hungary, in Qumran overlooking the Dead Sea in Israel, in Bolivia with an ex-Welsh community (who had quarrelled with Merlin in Arthurian times), and in Armenia. Wendy is now making and selling magic carpets (with full anti-missile properties), and others.She also has six children to get settled in good jobs and with nice partners or even a husband or wife (and who knows how to organize a dragon marriage?). One, a true Welsh red dragon, first becomes a member of the Welsh Parliamentary Assembly and then an ambassador for the Prince of Wales. The second agrees to settle on the Drachenfels, which despite its name has had no dragon since Fafner hid himself deep below. The third has a job, shared with her Chinese husband, as the cuckoos of a giant dragon clock in a Swiss valley. The fourth becomes an attraction in Days-of-Oldeland at Lake Havasu in Arizona, where he meets other survivors from older times. The fifth becomes the charge of a Chinese dynasty who traditionally looked after the Imperial five-clawed dragons, and who settles with her in Scotland - where she falls in love with the son of Wendys old friend in Loch Ness. And the last, after finding that kangaroos are indigestible, falls for the son of the magic carpet maker.

This short-story collection Welcome to the Monkey House (1968) incorporates almost completely Vonneguts 1961 Canary in a Cathouse, which appeared within a few months of Slaughterhouse-Five and capitalized upon that breakthrough novel and the enormous attention it suddenly brought.Drawn from both specialized science fiction magazines and the big-circulation general magazines (Saturday Evening Post, Colliers, etc.) which Vonnegut had been one of the few science writers to sell, the collection includes some of his most accomplished work. The title story may be his most famous--a diabolical government asserts control through compulsory technology removing orgasm from sex--but Vonneguts bitterness and wit, not in his earlier work as poisonous or unshielded as it later became, is well demonstrated.Two early stories from Galaxy science fiction magazine and one from Fantasy & Science Fiction(the famous Harrison Bergeron) show Vonneguts careful command of a genre about which he was always ambivalent, stories like More Stately Mansions or The Foster Portfolio the confines and formula of a popular fiction of which he was always suspicious. Vonneguts affection for humanity and bewilderment as its corruption are manifest in these early works.Several of these stories (those which appeared in Colliers) were commissioned by Vonneguts Cornell classmate and great supporter Knox Burger, also born in 1922.

Jackies waited months for her husbands deployment to end. Now that hes back, shes ready to welcome him home. This short, erotic romance contains explicit, sexual content between a husband and wife.

Respected horror anthologist Stephen Jones edits this collection of 17 stories inspired by the 20th centurys master of horror, H.P. Lovecrafts "The Shadow Over Innsmouth," in which a young man goes to an isolated, desolate fishing village in Massachusetts, and finds that the entire village has interbred with strange creatures that live beneath the sea, and worship ancient gods.

London, December 2019. Two young boys, Habib and Loz, are trying their luck at selling knock-off pain remedies to pensioners. But they are troubled by an encounter with a potential elderly customer and a young man with a blood-smeared face.Mumtaz Hakim wants to help if she and her partner Lee Arnold can, even though theres no way their detective agency could reasonably charge the boys. While they set about uncovering the truth behind the odd situation in the shadow of St Pauls Cathedral, they find themselves drawn into a gruesome investigation involving an old man and a newborn baby.

NOW A MAJOR DISNEY+ TV SERIES 1939. Three generations of the Kurc family strive to live normal lives despite the growing hardships they face as Jews. But as the realities of war rush to meet them, they are cast to the wind and must do everything they can to find their way through a devastated continent to freedom. Based on an incredible true story that ranges from pre-war Parisian jazz clubs to the desolation of the Siberian gulag, and follows the Kurc family as refugees, prisoners and fighters, We Were the Lucky Ones is a testament to the notion that even in the darkest of times, the human spirit can find a way to survive, and even triumph.A truly tremendous accomplishment Paula McLain

Diez ensayos publicados con anterioridad que, en conjunto, tienen la finalidad de proporcionar un debate coherente de la filosofía antisistemática del trascendentalismo americano y la forma en que se refleja en diversos escritores y pintores de los siglos XIX y XX en los Estados Unidos. Reflexiona sobre las implicaciones de la revolucion romantica en el pensamiento occidental y demostrar la importancia del romanticismo para el desarrollo de la cultura americana.

Under the tutelage of his father and the memory of his grandfather, both having fought against tyranny and injustice their entire lives, Drew Keller became an assassin for the Israeli Mossad. After many years on the job, disillusioned by the growing political nature of his assignments and near death injuries sustained on the job, Drew took a break only to become a contract killer for the CIA under the guidance of Fred Jones, who saved his live. Drews exploits and unrivaled accomplishments gained him infamy, eventually earning him a reputation as the most dangerous man alive in certain circles, first as The Leopard when he was Mossad, later as Trudy with the CIA.Lisimba Badawi was a happy child growing up in Egypt until his father was killed while on a business trip to Libya as an American cruise missile on a retaliatory strike aimed at Tripoli veered off course. Lisimbas course changed that day, sending him on a path of death and destruction and revenge.Local militia leader Leroy Jefferson Davis spent nearly six years in a federal prison after his attempt to blow up government buildings in Phoenix was foiled by an informant. Once out, he is at it again, but this time, he has help. In an uneasy alliance, Leroy and Lisimba plot to carry out Leroys original plans, but Lisimba has a different target in mind, an even more heinous target.After a decade together, Drew and Fred finally had enough of their thankless and perilous lives and go their separate ways into the serenity and relative safety of the public sector. As a small business owner, Drew finds it increasingly difficult to escape conflict, this time instead of fighting terrorists in far away countries, he faces local gangs in his own neighborhood, first in Chicago, then in Milwaukee. Despite that, he is content, until word reaches him that his friend and mentor, Freddie Jones, has been killed in an apparent robbery gone wrong.Drew Keller travels to Phoenix to look into Freds unsolved murder. While there, he reunites with Trudy Wilson, a special agent with the FBI. They met briefly years before in Afghanistan. Neither forgot the encounter, each fantasizing about the other ever since. Together, as their unexpected reunion blossoms from unrequited dreams into overwhelming reality, they battle home grown and foreign terrorists across the valley of the sun, uncovering a plot to kill tens of thousands of innocent Americans. Eventually, they learn of Lisimbas ultimate target and the pressure to succeed intensifies with a likely conclusion of a massive death toll and an explosive conflagration, bringing America to her knees and striking a devastating blow for terrorism around the world.