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Rome, 73 BC. Kleon, a Greek slave, wakes early, cuts his masters throat, and flees south by a back road, clutching a copy of Platos Republic. His destination is Capua, where he hopes to join the burgeoning rebel army of Spartacus, an escaped gladiator. So begins the definitive telling of one of the most famous stories in history. Spartacus and his companions, having burst out of the ludus where they were held, defeated every Roman force sent against them, are plundering the countryside and gathering to their ranks thousands of fugitives, brigands and itinerants. They seek to create a new world, one where men are not owner and owned. But they must first escape Italy, and the vengeful Roman legions already marshalling against them. Brutal and uncompromising in its depiction of the ancient world, Spartacus masterfully evokes the violence, hope and despair of the war that shook Rome to its very foundations.

I would rather give a healthy boy or a healthy girl a phial of prussic acid than this novel The Sunday Express Born into an aristocratic family at the end of the Victorian age, Stephen Gordon is so named by parents who had longed for a boy. So begins a life of contradiction and isolation. Attracted to girls and women from an early age, Stephens masculine appearance is accentuated by her preference for mens clothing and unfeminine mannerisms. When her first, burgeoning affair is cut short by social scandal, she moves to London and becomes a writer. When war breaks out she volunteers as an ambulance driver on the Western Front, and falls hopelessly in love with a comrade. The subject of considerable media attention and legal action since its first publication in 1928, The Well of Loneliness can be considered a semi-autobiographical treatment of the personal and familial struggles of the author set against the epoch-defining events of the Edwardian era and the First World War. It remains startlingly affecting today and its treatment of sexuality and gender issues continues to inspire study and debate.

Journey to Oz with new heroes Capn Bill and Trot, who, with the help of the Scarecrow, overthrow the cruel King Krewl of Jinxland. Capn Bill, a sailor with a wooden peg-leg, and his friend, a little girl named Trot, set out in California on a calm day for a short trip in their rowing boat. Rapidly, however, the weather takes a turn for the worse and an enormous storm develops, washing them overboard. Miraculously rescued by mermaids, they are taken them to a nearby cave. Thereafter follows an amazing story, Capn Bill and Trot encounter a variety of characters: the strangely shaped, ostrich-like Ork; the Bumpy Man, who deals in sugar and molasses; Button Bright, a young boy in a sailors outfit who constantly gets lost. With the aid of some friendly birds and magical berries, the group are eventually carried safely across the deadly desert to Oz. However, things rapidly take a turn for the worse as the motley group find themselves in Jinxland, a country riven by political intrigue and instability, and currently ruled by the infamous Krewl. Princess Gloria, amidst the breakdown of her country, has defied her would be-suitors, and is punished by having her heart turned to stone by a witch - who also takes the opportunity to turn Capn Bill into a grasshopper. With misfortune on every side, things look dicey for Trot and her companions, until the Scarecrow catches wind of the events from the Great Book of Records. Will Glinda be able to help depose the despot Krewl and save the lives of Capn Bill and the Princess?

Readers of all ages will welcome the chance to be reunited with Dorothy Gale and other beloved characters in the third Oz book by L. Frank Baum. Dorothy and her trusty hen, Billina, are washed ashore in the Land of Ev after a shipwreck. At first Dorothy is delighted to find lunch grows on trees in lunchboxes. But soon she realises there is a darker side to the Land of Ev. On the seashore, Dorothy encounters the Wheelers, terrifying creatures with wheels instead of hands and feet, but luckily manages to escape to a nearby cave. Here she befriends Tik-Tok, a loyal, robot-like creature who needs to be wound up like a toy to function. He warns her to stay away from the Wheelers and tells her the story of the Land of Ev. The royal family of Ev have been dethroned by the evil Nome King of the neighbouring kingdom. Tik-Tok explains to Dorothy that her friend Princess Ozma of Oz is travelling to Ev by magic carpet to help save the royal family. But before Dorothy can begin to help Ozma and the royal family, she is seized by Princess Langwidere and imprisoned in a tall tower. Poor Dorothy is terrified by the strange heads that Princess Langwidere keeps in her palace and is desperate for Ozma to come and rescue her. But will Princess Ozma of Ozma make it to the Land of Ev, and if she does, what will she be able to free Dorothy?

The Road to Oz takes Dorothy and her friends on an adventure in Oz to a grand party in honour of Ozmas birthday in this spellbinding and classic tale. Dorothy and her faithful Toto are back home in Kansas when they encounter the homeless and hapless Shaggy Man and decide to accompany him on his journey. Soon they encounter a bevy of new friends, including Button-Bright and Polychrome the Rainbows Daughter, and are back on their way to the magical land of Oz. Hoping to arrive in time to attend the Ozmas birthday party, the company is soon pitched headlong into a series of unlikely adventures, tackling talking foxes with magical powers and crossing the Deadly Desert. Arriving at the palace, they make the acquaintance of a host of guests from all over Fairyland. Will Dorothy and Toto remain in Oz with their old friend the Wizard, or will she once again return to her native land?

Joe Rizzo, a veteran of the NYPD, passes on the knowledge of his years of experience to his ambitious new partner, Mike McQueen, over a year of riding together as detectives in the Sixty-second Precinct in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. His refrain: There is no right. There is no wrong. There just is.Whatever case theyre facing, whether a street robbery or a murderous assault, Rizzos saying always seems to bear out.When the two detectives are given the delicate task of tracking down the runaway daughter of a city councilman, who may or may not be more interested in something his daughter has taken with her than in her safety, the situation is much more complex, and potentially much more dangerous, than it first appears.

A guide to understanding the English that gets beyond the stiff upper lip and reveals their true spirit and character.

A heart-warming and atmospheric Christmas novella set in the heart of wartime London, from the Queen of East End sagas Jean FullertonIts December 1940 and East London is expecting snow. But after months of nightly visits from the Luftwaffe, it will take more than a white Christmas to turn the bombed streets of Stepney festive. Young Eleanor Jolly, newly widowed after her husband stopped a German bullet on Dunkirk beach, is trying to pull through for the sake of her baby James. Her mother-in-law - the deceptively-named Ruby Jolly - isnt helping. Klaus Wagner is the loneliest German in London. Having narrowly escaped imprisonment by the Gestapo for his work on an anti-fascist newspaper, he signs up for the British armed forces, hoping to save his beloved country from Nazi rule. But the holiday season is making him homesick for the family and friends he left behind.However, Prue and Fliss Carmichael have a plan to boost morale: a surprise Christmas pantomime. When Ella comes on board, she wasnt expecting to find a German dissenter roped into the cast. Especially not an undeniably handsome German dissenter, with cornflower eyes and a mischievous smile.Will the Stepney girls rally in time for Christmas and put on a show to rival the air raid sirens? And will Klaus and Ella manage to find a way to each others hearts before the New Year? PRAISE FOR JEAN FULLERTON AND A STEPNEY GIRLS SECRET:Enthralling DILLY COURTHeart-warming ROSIE GOODWINA page-turning read ELAINE EVEREST

Travel to the land of Oz with Dorothy and find out what inspired the forthcoming film blockbuster Oz: The Great and Powerful

Le confessioni dun italiano e un romanzo di Ippolito Nievo di carattere storico, la cui vicenda si svolge nei cinquantanni che vanno dalla campagna napoleonica in Italia alle rivoluzioni del 1848.Nel romanzo viene narrata, sotto forma di unautobiografia fittizia, la vicenda di Carlino Altoviti, personaggio che narra in prima persona la propria vita trascorsa come patriota ma soprattutto come uomo che ha vissuto la trasformazione della propria identita da veneziano ad italiano.

When the White family comes into the possession of a monkeys paw that magically grant wishes, they do what many people would dothey wish for money. But every wish has a consequence, and the White family finds they are completely unprepared for what comes next. This new 2017 edition of The Monkeys Paw includes W. W. Jacobs chilling short story In the Library.

Oscar Wildes story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is one of his most popular works. Written in Wildes characteristically dazzling manner, full of stinging epigrams and shrewd observations, the tale of Dorian Grays moral disintegration caused something of a scandal when it first appeared in 1890. Wilde was attacked for his decadence and corrupting influence, and a few years later the book and the aesthetic/moral dilemma it presented became issues in the trials occasioned by Wildes homosexual liaisons, trials that resulted in his imprisonment. Of the books value as autobiography, Wilde noted in a letter, "Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be--in other ages, perhaps."

Sheila Willis, senior homicide investigator has a triple murder to solve. But her new inexperienced yet eager new partner presents a problem. He knows too much for his own good.Before this case ends Sheila will clean up any loose ends. And hopefully this time there will be no witnesses.Includes the bonus story, The Apprentice.

The novel begins in 1994 with the decision of Dr. Han Thieu, who is terminally ill with cancer, to secretly take her own life. She does this in the belief that it will spare her family the impact of her drawn-out death. The chapter alludes to the main characters in the novel and to the traumas that her family has already undergone. Her daughter Minh Chau is one of the three protagonists in the novel.The novel then goes back to April 1975 when the communist forces in Cambodia and South Vietnam take power. The lives of the eight-year-old Vietnamese-Chinese boy, Quan Phoc, in Phnom Penh and of Han Thieus three-year-old daughter Minh Chau in Saigon change radically when the two cities fall to the Communists. The Khmer Rouge send Quans family to a collective farm in the distant countryside. Quans father is worked and starved to death and his mother is brutally raped to death. Quan and his sister, Hue, survive the farm thanks to Quans ability to endear himself to the Khmer Rouge guards. Minh Chaus family attempts unsuccessfully to flee Saigon. Her father, a South Vietnamese army officer is sent to a re-education camp and the rest of the family is imprisoned. Quan and sister are liberated from the farm when the Vietnamese army invades Cambodia in 1978. Traveling down the Mekong River, they try to escape Indochina by sea. Near death, they are rescued by a boat of Vietnamese refugees heading to Malaysia.After Dr. Han Thieu saves the life of a senior Communist official, the Thieu family are also given a chance to escape by sea. During the voyage, five-year-old Minh Chau is faced with the moral dilemma of saving her sister, An, from death, at the expense of the life of a neighbour and friend. This leaves her emotionally scarred. In Pulau Bidong camp in Malaysia, the Thieu family adopts Quan and Hue, and Quan is assigned the role to protect the girls in the family. When Quan is forced to kill Dahan, a drunken Malaysian camp guard, in order to save Minh Chau and his sister Hue, his chances for re-settlement in Canada with the Thieu family are dashed. The Thieu family go to Quebec City with the hope that the Canadian authorities will later accept Quan despite the killing of the guard. The Pulau Bidong chapters are marked by touching anecdotes of interaction between the camps children, the mystery of Chinese traditional medicine and swift action scenes as Quan defends the young girls from Dahan.In Canada, Mathieu Hibou, a soft-spoken university student from New Carlisle, Quebec is asked by his cousin, Marie-Christine, who was a friend of Han Thieu in Saigon, to help the Thieu family integrate into Canadian society. Mathieu devotes himself to the family and helps Han re-certify as a doctor in Canada. The Quebec chapters are a series of humourous anecdotes about the discovery by Minh Chau and An of their new country. It is also a touching expose about the hardships and success of Boat People in Canada.

In these five stories, you will meet people significant to the life of Maldito and the fictional village of Agua Rocosa. Eufemia and José, each of whom is the 13th child of a 13th child, she of a line of mothers, he of a line of fathers, are Malditos unwilling parents. Jose comes from a long line of fishermen and is witty, intelligent and above all, tough. Eufemia is obsessed with the ancients and can hold her own with anyone. Her sheer power of will is indomitable. Will their union break the curse and produce the child that will fulfill the prophecy of ancient Mayans? Of course you will meet the unfortunate Maldito himself. How will he survive a loveless home, bereft of care and any but the most basic interactions? Like all of us, he is susceptible at the spirit level to the barbs and kindnesses of others. Perhaps you will care. Perhaps you can help him as he tries to make his way. In the third story in this sequence, you will see young Maldito on the streets of Agua Rocosa, sketching the buildings and tourists there. But watch carefully! He also sketches things others are simply not able to capture on paper: the wind worrying and lost among rocks on a hillside, the sheer joy in the bright smile of the sun, the sorrow weeping from a heavily laden rain cloud. You will come to know the Storyteller himself of the Stories from the Cantina, Juan-Carlos Salazar, who witnessed the beginning of a prophecy at the age of seven and has never forgotten it. To keep his customers entertained, he relates stories of the magic that lives all around but that many forget once they don the cloak of adulthood. And finally you will be sitting at the bar when Juan-Carlos tells the story of The Man of Mud, whose unnatural birth he personally witnessed when he was only seven years old. Some forty years later, he understands what the man of mud meant when he uttered the words "one wrongly called accursed will come." Come along and witness the fulfillment of ancient prophecy. If youve enjoyed the works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Isabel Allende, you will enjoy these Stories from the Cantina.

Desert Heat,Darryl MacArthur (Mac) Lester and Raymond Vincent (Raven) Watkins help people while running Macs laundry and dry cleaning business. You have a child in trouble? You have a problem with crime in your neighborhood? If you have a loved one go missing? They will help you. Mac, a college graduate with a degree in cultural Anthropology, never able to ply his trade as a vocation due to inheriting the laundry from his ailing father, now uses what he learned in college as an avocation in the real world. Ray quit college his freshman year due to the murders of his pregnant wife, his cop brother and his brothers wife along with Ray, himself, taking two bullets to the chest. He went into the military after he recovered physically and remained there until the rage ebbed. Still troubled, he returned and went to work for Mac. In the years since, he has built a reputation as a crime fighting urban legend.Julia Olson, an award winning investigative reporter who, three years ago, lost her beautiful younger cousin forever as she tried to come from Mexico across the desert to live the American dream, specializes in writing about Americas immigration issues. Julia is a strong voice for immigrants rights within a sane American immigration policy. She digs deep, leaving no stone unturned, practices fair reporting but remains thorough and tough when she has to be.Somewhere in the desert south of Tucson, Arizona, a truckload of recent arrivals to America are gunned down. Julia comes down from Phoenix for the story. Mac and Ray come down because they believe the daughter of one of their employees might be among the dead. Together, the three of them investigate the incident that takes them back to Phoenix and a human and drug smuggling operation run by evil and greedy men who slough off human life for the almighty buck.As Ray fights his own demons and Julia and Mac find each other, they come up against ruthless drug and human smugglers and a Mexican drug cartel that will stop at nothing to protect their operation and themselves.The action spans the valley of the sun ending up all the way down to Mexico as the passion of love, the bittersweet taste of revenge and the challenge to stay alive against unbeatable odds reverberates from every page until the final fiery confrontation.

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.

"Middlemarch" es una novela clásica escrita por George Eliot, seudónimo de la autora británica Mary Ann Evans. Publicada entre 1871 y 1872, la historia retrata la vida de personajes en una ciudad ficticia, abordando temas como el matrimonio, la politica y el estatus social. George Eliot es conocida por su estilo de escritura realista y su profunda exploracion psicologica, desafiando las normas sociales al utilizar un seudonimo masculino. "Middlemarch" se considera una de las grandes obras de la literatura inglesa. y forma parte de la famosa coleccion "1001 libros que que hay que leer antes de morir"

The Time Machine is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, published in 1895. The work is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel by using a vehicle or device to travel purposely and selectively forward or backward through time. The term "time machine", coined by Wells, is now almost universally used to refer to such a vehicle or device.

"A Popular History of Ireland" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents:Volume 1:The First InhabitantsThe First AgesChristianity Preached at TaraReign of Hugh IIKings of the Seventh CenturyKings of the Eighth CenturyThe Danish InvasionKings of the Ninth CenturyKings of the Tenth CenturyThe Contest between the North and SouthState of Religion and Learning among the Irish previous to the Anglo-Norman InvasionThe First Expedition of the Normans into IrelandThe First Campaign of Earl RichardSiege of DublinHenry II in IrelandEvents of the Thirteenth CenturyThe Rise of "the Red Earl"Relations of Ireland and ScotlandCivil War in EnglandChange of Dynasty in EnglandState of Religion and Learning during the Fourteenth and Fifteenth CenturiesIrish Policy of Henry the Eighth during the Lifetime of Cardinal WolseyFirst Attempts to Introduce the Protestant ReformationParliament of 1541The Crowns UnitedVolume 2:Parliament of 1569The Second "Geraldine League"Parliament of 1585The Ulster ConfederacyEssexs Campaign of 1599The Conquest of MunsterState of Religion and Learning during the Reign of ElizabethJames IThe Insurrection of 1641The Catholic ConfederationThe Confederate WarThe Cessation and its ConsequencesCromwells Campaign (1649-1650)Ireland under the ProtectorateReign of Charles IIThe State of Religion and Learning in Ireland during the Seventeenth CenturyAccession of James IIIrish Parliament of 1689The Revolutionary WarCapitulation of LimerickReign of King WilliamReign of Queen AnneReign of George IIAccession of George IIIFloods LeadershipGrattans LeadershipThe Era of IndependenceThe United IrishmenThe Insurrection of 1798Last Session of the Irish ParliamentThe Legislative Union of Great Britain and IrelandOConnells LeadershipThe Catholic AssociationEmancipation of the Catholics