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Richard Adams

Watership Down. Unten am Fluß

<p>Die weltbekannte Saga vom Exodus der Kaninchen enthält in ungewöhnlicher Frische alles, was die Abenteuer eines wandernden Volkes ausmacht: Bedrohung der alten Heimat, Prophezeiung des Untergangs, Auszug unter einem jungen Heißsporn, Abenteuer ohne Zahl im feindlichen wie im gelobten Land, Meuterei, Treuebruch und Heldenmut, Schlachten mit hohem Blutzoll - und schließlich Einzug ins Land der Freiheit, des Friedens und allgemeinen Glücks. »Richard Adams erzählt glänzend«, schrieb Sybil Gräfin Schönfeldt in der »Es ist ein Vergnügen, diese Geschichte zu lesen.« Die nannte diesen Weltbestseller »lecker wie frische Salatblätter« und empfahl ihn den Liebhabern behaglicher Erzählkunst und trockenen englischen Humors.</p><p>Auch der Zeichentrickfilm von Martin Rosen mit dem Titelsong von Art Garfunkel wurde ein weltweiter Erfolg.</p><p>Richard Adams, 1920 in Berkshire geboren, studierte in Oxford Literatur und Geschichte. Auf den häufigen Fahrten zwischen seiner Londoner Wohnung, seinem kleinen Landhaus in den Downs südwestlich von London und Stratford-on-Avon unterhielt er seine Töchter Juliet und Rosamond mit Geschichten über Kaninchen und begann schließlich, sie aufzuschreiben. Nach dem Welterfolg von hat Richard Adams seine Tätigkeit beim englischen Amt für Umweltschutz aufgegeben, um sich ganz dem Schreiben zu widmen. Er lebt mit seiner Familie auf der Insel Man.</p><p>Aus dem Englischen von Egon Strohm.</p><

Richard Adams

Neues vom Watership Down

<p>Hunderttausende von Lesern, die »Unten am Fluß - Watership Down« begeistert aufgenommen haben, werden mit Vergnügen noch einmal in diese einzigartige und verzauberte Welt eintauchen, um zu erfahren, was es mit König Berser-Kerl auf sich hat oder dem Fuchs im Wasser oder wie die Sache mit dem Kaninchengespenst ausgeht. Und erst die Geschichten von den Abenteuern El-ahrairahs, dem Heldenkaninchen, und von Rabscuttle, seinem Getreuen, die sie während der Heimreise nach dem schrecklichen Zusammentreffen mit dem Schwarzen Kaninchen von Inle zu bestehen hatten! Aber auch Hazel, Fiver, Bigwig und ihre Gefährten kommen zu Wort und berichten vom geheimen Fluß, vom Marsch über den großen Sumpf, vom Treiben im Gehege des Weibchens Flyairth und über die Berufung Hyzenthlays zum ersten weiblichen Kaninchenführer.</p><p>DER AUTOR</p><p>Richard Adams, 1920 geboren, studierte in Oxford Literatur und Geschichte. Seit seinem Welterfolg »Unten am Fluß -Watership Down« hat er weitere Bücher veröffentlicht, darunter »Shardik« und »Die Hunde des Schwarzen Todes«. Er lebt mit seiner Frau Elizabeth im Süden Englands.</p><p>Titel der englischen Originalausgabe bei Hutchinson, London:</p><p>Aus dem Englischen von Fred Schmitz</p><

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Danielle and Uncle Armand

Classic erotica

Robert Alley

Le dernier tango à Paris

À Paris en visitant un appartement, Jeanne (Maria Schneider), vingt ans, rencontre Paul (Marlon Brando), un Américain séduisant et triste de vingt-cinq ans son aîné. Attirés irrésistiblement l'un vers l'autre, ils vont entretenir une liaison passionnée et exclusivement charnelle, chacun ignorant tout du passé et de l'identité de l'autre...<

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Maudie , a lady of the night

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The Romances Of Blanche La Mare

Sherry Argov

Why Men Love Bitches

<p>With saucy detail on every page, this no-nonsense guide reveals why a strong woman is much more desirable than a “yes woman” who routinely sacrifices herself. Contending that some women are “too nice,” comedian and radio show host Sherry Argov has written .</p><p>“I’m not recommending that a woman have an abrasive disposition,” Argov writes, “The woman I’m describing is kind yet strong. She doesn’t give up her life, and she won't chase a man.”</p><p>Her sassy book is filled with scenarios and advice aimed at making women subtly stronger and self-empowered. Argov’s principles, which range from the farfetched to the downright absurd, include “If you give him a feeling of power, he'll want to protect you and he'll want to give you the world” and “A little distance combined with the appearance of self-control makes him nervous that he may be losing you.” The book, which has already been featured on and , should make waves with its controversial view of relationships.</p><

Ric Arnold

Cinderella of Love

Classic erotica

Tigran Aivazian

The British Study Edition of the Urantia Papers

<p>1. The Standard Reference Text (SRT) has been used as a base of this work.</p><p>2. All significant changes to the text (present also in SRT) are documented in the critical apparatus, together with a brief explanation of the reason for the change.</p><p>3. Study notes have been added.</p><p>4. The symbol ¶ marks the first paragraph in the group as in the 1955 first printing, where such groups were delimited by blank lines.</p><p>5. All distance and temperature measures have been converted to metric units, except where there was even the slightest potential for error, such as in the use of “Jerusem miles”, which was left intact. The idiomatic expressions like “carry his pack for a mile” were also left intact, obviously.</p><p>6. Long and hard to memorise phrases like “three hundred and forty-five thousand” have been converted to a more compact form “345,000”. Likewise, for phrases like “seventy-five per cent”, a more compact form of “75%” was chosen. Likewise, the time designations like “fifteen minutes past four o’clock” now read “16:15”.</p><p>7. The designation of the author of each paper (and Foreword) is printed in on a line by itself just before the text.</p><p>8. SRT paragraph numbering is used both in the superscript and in the paragraph ranges printed in the header of every page.</p><p>9. Possible textual corruptions are indicated in the footnotes.</p><p>For deriving etymology of the words coined by the revelators, I acknowledge the use of the notes by Dr Chris Halvorson. Many thanks to my friend Mitch Austin for helpful suggestions and comments, some of which have been incorporated into the study notes of the present edition.</p><p>Tigran Aivazian, London.</p><

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Caroline

Victorian erotica

Anonymous

Experiences of a Country Girl

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Lustful Memoirs

Victorian erotica

Anonymous

Muriel

Victorian erotica

Anonymous

The Club, v3-4

Edwardian erotica

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The Club, Vol 1 and 2

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Venus in the Country

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A summer amour

Vintage erotica

Anonymous

The simple tale of Susan Aked

Victorian erotica

Attanasio- Aa

In Other Worlds

Attanasio- Aa

Solis

Thomas Amo

An Apple for Zoë: Book One ~ The Forsaken

The City of San Francisco is locked in a grip of fear. A series of occult murders has lead, Inspector Thomas James to a crime scene similar to a murder committed 90 years ago in the once grand Aleris Hotel. A place where power barons of the early 20th Century engaged in witchcraft. And silent film stars indulged in the most wicked of sins. A place where no one questions the black smoke that rises from the hotel's incinerators in the middle of the night.<

Saxon Andrew

Death of an Empire

Ashes of the Realm

Tom Avitabile

The Hammer of God

Daniel Abraham

The King's Blood

The Dagger and the Coin

<p>War casts its shadow over the lands that the dragons once ruled. Only the courage of a young woman with the mind of a gambler and loyalty to no one stands between hope and universal darkness. </p><p>The high and powerful will fall, the despised and broken shall rise up and everything will be remade. </p><p>And an old, broken-hearted warrior and an apostate priest will begin a terrible journey with an impossible goal: destroy a Goddess before she eats the world.</p><

Cassie Alexander

Nightshifted

Edie Spence

<p>Nursing school prepared Edie Spence for a lot of things. Burn victims? No problem. Severed limbs? Piece of cake. Vampires? No way in hell. But as the newest nurse on Y4, the secret ward hidden in the bowels of County Hospital, Edie has her hands full with every paranormal patient you can imagine—from vamps and were-things to zombies and beyond… </p><p>Edie’s just trying to learn the ropes so she can get through her latest shift unscathed.  But when a vampire servant turns to dust under her watch, all hell breaks loose. Now she’s haunted by the man’s dying words——and before she knows it, she’s on a mission to rescue some poor girl from the undead. Which involves crashing a vampire den, falling for a zombie, and fighting for her soul. was never like this…</p><

Mathias Malzieu-Sarah Ardizzone

The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart

Jussi Adler-Olsen

Mercy aka The keeper of lost causes

<p>Jussi Adler-Olsen is Denmark's premier crime writer. His books routinely top the bestseller lists in northern Europe, and he's won just about every Nordic crime-writing award, including the prestigious Glass Key Award-also won by Henning Mankell, Stieg Larsson, and Jo Nesbo. Now, Dutton is thrilled to introduce him to America.</p><p>The Keeper of Lost Causes, the first installment of Adler- Olsen's Department Q series, features the deeply flawed chief detective Carl Morck, who used to be a good homicide detective-one of Copenhagen's best. Then a bullet almost took his life. Two of his colleagues weren't so lucky, and Carl, who didn't draw his weapon, blames himself.</p><p>So a promotion is the last thing Carl expects.</p><p>But it all becomes clear when he sees his new office in the basement. Carl's been selected to run Department Q, a new special investigations division that turns out to be a department of one. With a stack of Copenhagen's coldest cases to keep him company, Carl's been put out to pasture. So he's as surprised as anyone when a case actually captures his interest. A missing politician vanished without a trace five years earlier. The world assumes she's dead. His colleagues snicker about the time he's wasting. But Carl may have the last laugh, and redeem himself in the process.</p><p>Because she isn't dead… yet.</p><

Jussi Adler-Olsen

El mensaje que llegó en una botella

¿Puede un terrible hecho del pasado seguir teniendo consecuencias devastadoras? Cuando una botella que contiene un mensaje escrito con sangre humana llega al Departamento Q, el subcomisario Carl Mørck y sus asistentes Assad y Rose logran descifrar algunas palabras de lo que fue la última señal de vida de dos chicos desaparecidos en los años noventa. Pero ¿por qué su familia nunca denunció su desaparición? Carl Mørck intuye que no se trata de un caso aislado y que el criminal podría seguir actuando con total impunidad.<

Jussi Adler-Olsen

Los Chicos Que Cayeron En La Trampa

A finales de los años noventa, la policía encuentra, en una casa de veraneo en el norte de Dinamarca, a dos hermanos adolescentes brutalmente asesinados. Han sido golpeados, torturados y violados sin compasión. La investigación policial apunta a que los culpables pueden hallarse entre un grupo de jóvenes de buena familia, hijos de padres exitosos, ricos, cultos. Sin embargo, el caso se cierra muy pronto por falta de pruebas concluyentes hasta que, pocos años más tarde, uno de los sospechosos se entrega sin razón aparente y confiesa el crimen. Supuestamente, el misterio se ha resuelto. Pero entonces ¿por qué los archivos del caso aparecen veinte años después en el despacho del inspector Carl Mørck, jefe del Departamento Q? Al principio Mørck piensa que el caso está ahí por error, pero pronto se da cuenta de que en la investigación original se cometieron muchas irregularidades…<

Jussi Adler-Olsen

La mujer que arañaba las paredes

<p>En Copenhague, el policía Carl Mørck está atravesando una de las épocas más negras de su vida. Tras ser sorprendido por el ataque de un asesino, un compañero suyo resulta muerto y otro gravemente herido. Su sentimiento de culpabilidad aumenta cuando su jefe y la prensa dudan de su actuación. Relegado a un nuevo departamento dedicado a casos no resueltos, Carl Mørck ve una oportunidad de demostrar su valía al descubrir las numerosas irregularidades cometidas en el caso de Merete Lynggaard.</p><p>Cuando en 2002 esta mujer, una joven promesa de la política danesa, desapareció mientras realizaba un viaje en ferry, la policía decidió cerrar el caso por falta de pruebas. Sin embargo, Merete Lynggaard sigue viva aunque sometida a un terrible cautiverio. Encerrada y expuesta a los caprichos de sus secuestradores, sabe que morirá el 15 de mayo de 2007. Carl Mørck ha de utilizar todo su ingenio e intuición.</p><

Jussi Adler-Olsen

La Casa del Alfabeto

<p>Alemania, segunda guerra mundial. El avión de los pilotos ingleses James Teasdale y Bryan Young es derribado en territorio enemigo durante una misión fotográfica. Consiguen sobrevivir, pero no llevan los uniformes, por lo que, si son capturados, serán acusados de espionaje y, probablemente, ejecutados.</p><p>Finalmente logran subir a un tren que parte del frente oriental con soldados enfermos. En uno de los vagones encuentran a varios oficiales de alto rango muertos sobre unas camas. Sin vacilar, James y Bryan tiran a dos de ellos del tren y ocupan su lugar, con la esperanza de poder escapar en cuanto tengan una oportunidad. Así, llegan hasta la Casa del Alfabeto, un hospital psiquiátrico situado en el corazón de Alemania, Mientras, la guerra sigue haciendo estragos, su única oportunidad de sobrevivir es simular que son enfermos mentales, pero ¿serán capaces de hacerlo durante meses sin convertirse en auténticos perturbados? ¿Son los únicos del pabellón que están fingiendo?</p><

Poul Anderson

Dominic Flandry – Spion im All

Dominic Flandry

<p>Dominic Flandry, ein Fähnrich im Dienst der terranischen Flotte, wird zur Schlüsselfigur im Ringen der beiden kosmischen Großmächte Terra und Merseia.</p><p>Der junge Flandry erhält eine Information aus dem Geheimarchiv Merseias zugespielt. Er enträtselt die Botschaft und erfährt, daß ein Planet, auf dem zwei verschiedenartige Völker beheimatet sind, von der Vernichtung bedroht ist — und daß die terranische Flotte in eine Falle gelockt werden soll. Während Freund und Feind Flandry durch das All hetzen, handelt der Fähnrich auf eigene Faust, um das Unheil abzuwenden.</p><p>Poul Anderson hat bereits mehrere Flandry-Romane geschrieben — sie erschienen in TERRA oder in der Reihe der TERRA-Sonderbände — hier legt der bekannte SF-Autor aus den USA sein neuestes Werk vor, das den Beginn der Karriere des „Spions im All“ zum Inhalt hat.</p><

Anonymous

The Oyster Volume V

Victorian erotica

Anonymous

The Oyster Volume VI

Victorian erotica

Ann Aguirre

Blue Diablo

Corine Solomon

Corine Solomon is a handler—when she touches an object she instantly knows its history and its future. Using her ability, she can find the missing—which is why people never stop trying to find her. Like her ex-boyfriend Chance, who needs Corine's gift to find someone dear to them both. But the search proves dangerous as it leads them into a strange world of demons and sorcerers, ghosts and witchcraft, zombies—and black magic...<

Louise Allen

Moonlight And Mistletoe

<p>Guy Westrope, Earl of Buckland, was not a gentleman used to encountering opposition to his will.</p><p>But the quick-witted, stubborn and delectable Miss Hester Lattimer was proving to be more than a match for him…</p><p>Local ghost stories would not scare Hester from her new house-especially not at Christmas! Though her heart told her to trust the mysterious earl, she knew she had to be wary. Even if Guy was not behind the strange events, letting him get too close would inevitably reveal her scandalous past!</p><

Ann Aguirre

Hell Fire

Corine Solomon

<p>As a handler, Corine Solomon can touch any object and know its history. It's too bad she can't seem to forget her own. With her ex-boyfriend Chance in tow—lending his own supernatural brand of luck—Corine journeys back home to Kilmer, Georgia, in order to discover the truth behind her mother's death and the origins of "gift". </p><p> But while trying to uncover the secrets in her past, Corine and Chance find that something is rotten in the state of Georgia. Inside Kilmer's borders there are signs of a dark curse affecting the town and all its residents—and it can only be satisfied with death...</p><

Ann Aguirre

Shady Lady

Corine Solomon

<p> Whenever Corine Solomon touches an object, she immediately knows its history. But her own future concerns her more and more. Now back in Mexico, she's running her pawnshop and trying to get a handle on her strange new powers, for she might need them. And soon.</p><p>Then former ally Kel Ferguson walks through her door. Heavily muscled and tattooed, Kel looks like a convict but calls himself a holy warrior. This time, he carries a warning for Corine: the Montoya cartel is coming for her—but they don't just pack automatic weapons. The Montoyas use warlocks, shamans, voodoo priests—anything to terminate trouble. And Corine has become enemy number one...</p><

Ann Aguirre

Devil's Punch

Corine Solomon

<p> As a handler, Corine Solomon can touch any object and learn its history. Her power is a gift, but one that's thrown her life off track. The magical inheritance she received from her mother is dangerously powerful, and Corine has managed to mark herself as a black witch by dealing with demons to solve her problems.</p><p>Back home, Corine is trying to rebuild her pawnshop and her life with her ex Chance, despite the target on her back. But when the demons she provoked kidnap her best friend in retaliation, Corine puts everything on hold to save her. It's undoubtedly a trap, but Corine would do anything to save those she loves, even if it means sacrificing herself...</p><

Demi Alex

Ribbons Not Included

<p>A Red Garters, Snow and Mistletoe tale…</p><p>Just when I thought I had it all together, just when I thought my life was perfect, Christian comes out and accuses me of only wanting him as a stud horse!</p><p>Not true. I love him. I do.</p><p>It's Christmas, and I'm searching for the perfect present to convince him that he's my number one priority. I'm trying everything to spice up our love life-from sexy lingerie, to new positions, to different locations. But then he pushes me too far. I'm not sure I can do it.</p><

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