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Liv Keen, Kathrin Lichters
Millionaires Club
Sammelband
- Romance
- German
- 108877 Words
- Ages 16 and up
- 49
Drei heiße Millionäre von Liv Keen, vereint in einem Sammelband in einer Sonderausgabe! Adam, Dante, Lee: Sie alle haben eines gemeinsam: Sie sind schwerreich und atemberaubend attraktiv. Ihr Leben ist Luxus pur. Es besteht aus schnellen Autos, schönen Frauen und einem privilegierten Lebensstil. Manche empfinden ihren Reichtum als Last, andere wissen mit ihrer Zeit nichts anzufangen und wieder andere leben nur für die Arbeit und suchen Zerstreuung in belanglosen Affären. Doch sie sind mehr als bloß Freunde. Sie sind eine verschworene Gemeinschaft. Sie halten zusammen – egal, was auch passiert – und stehen immer füreinander ein. Adam: Millionär. Bad Boy. Stiefbruder und unglaublich sexy. Adam Hadley ist Millionär, großspurig, höllisch gut aussehend und zu Lians Leidwesen auch noch bald ihr Stiefbruder. Eine Woche vor der Hochzeit ihres Vaters und seiner Mutter kehrt er nach New York zurück, nicht nur um die bevorstehende Trauung zu torpedieren, sondern um auch noch ihr Herz zu stehlen. Doch während ihrer heftigen Schlagabtausche wächst die Leidenschaft für den britischen Bad Boy nur noch mehr, was ihrem Vater nicht verborgen bleibt, sodass die Kluft ihrer Familien immer größer wird. Kann Lian den Frauenhelden für sich gewinnen und wird es am Ende sogar eine Hochzeit geben? Dante: Millionär. Teuflisch gut aussehend. Hauptverdächtiger in einem Mordfall. Der attraktive Clubbesitzer Dante Sánchez ist schwerreich und der Mann, der Haleys Leben und das ihrer Schwester zerstört hat. Nachdem hinter seinem Club eine Leiche gefunden wird, ist ausgerechnet Haley der leitende Detective und Dante rückt in den Fokus ihrer Ermittlungen. Obwohl Detective Haley Chenova sich nichts sehnlicher wünscht, als den verhassten Bad Boy zu überführen und für den Rest seines Lebens in die Hölle zu schicken, erkennt sie schnell, dass etwas an der ganzen Geschichte faul ist. Zudem scheint weit mehr hinter seiner dunklen unergründlichen Fassade zu stecken, und Dante weckt gegen ihren Willen widersprüchliche Gefühle in ihr. Doch auch die Dämonen der Vergangenheit lauern schon darauf, Dante alles zu nehmen, was ihm lieb ist, wodurch Haley ins Fadenkreuz gerät. Kann Dante die tödliche Gefahr abwenden und Haley retten? Lee: Millionär. Smart. Scharf auf die Schwester des besten Freundes. Nachdem der Hotelmagnat Lee Campbell in seine Heimatstadt Las Vegas zurückkehrt, weiß er, dass er sich bedingt durch seine dunkle Vergangenheit in die Höhle des Löwen begibt. Als er jedoch in der Stripperin Faye Reesa, die kleine Schwester seines ehemals besten Freundes, wiedererkennt, ist er zwischen Entsetzen und ihrer unglaublichen Anziehungskraft hin- und hergerissen. Der Wunsch, Reesa zu helfen, zwingt Lee, sich erneut mit den Dämonen seiner Vergangenheit anzulegen. Dabei stellt er vor allem eins fest: Die Bosse der Unterwelt vergeben nie … Dieses Buch enthält drei prickelnde Novellen, die unter die Haut gehen. Ca. 450 Normseiten. Bei dieser Ausgabe handelt es sich um bereits einzeln veröffentliche Novellen und keine Neuausgabe! [more]
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Robert E. Howard
3 Kull Stories of Robert E. Howard (Illustrated)
- Science Fiction
- English
- 27997 Words
- Ages 14 and up
- 327
3 Kull Stories
The Shadow Kingdom
The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune
Kings of the Night
3 short adventure tales from the creator of Conan the Barbarian
Robert E. Howard is one of the most famous and influential pulp authors of the twentieth century. Though largely known as the man who invented the sword-and-sorcery genre–and for his iconic hero Conan the Cimmerian–Howard also wrote horror tales, desert adventures, detective yarns, epic poetry, and more. This spectacular volume, gorgeously illustrated by Jim and Ruth Keegan, includes some of his best and most popular works.
Inside, readers will discover (or rediscover) such gems as “The Shadow Kingdom,” featuring Kull of Atlantis and considered by many to be the first sword-and-sorcery story; “The Fightin’est Pair,” part of one of Howard’s most successful series, chronicling the travails of Steve Costigan, a merchant seaman with fists of steel and a head of wood; “The Grey God Passes,” a haunting tale about the passing of an age, told against the backdrop of Irish history and legend; “Worms of the Earth,” a brooding narrative featuring Bran Mak Morn, about which H. P. Lovecraft said, “Few readers will ever forget the hideous and compelling power of [this] macabre masterpiece”; a historical poem relating a momentous battle between Cimbri and the legions of Rome; and “Sharp’s Gun Serenade,” one of the last and funniest of the Breckinridge Elkins tales.
These thrilling, eerie, compelling, swashbuckling stories and poems have been restored to their original form, presented just as the author intended. There is little doubt that after more than seven decades the voice of Robert E. Howard continues to resonate with readers around the world. [more]
Keywords: conan
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Edgar Allan Poe
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe Volume 3 (Illustrated)
- Horror
- English
- 99558 Words
- Ages 8 and up
- 141
- 1
NARRATIVE OF A. GORDON PYM
LIGEIA
MORELLA
A TALE OF THE RAGGED MOUNTAINS
THE SPECTACLES
KING PEST
THREE SUNDAYS IN A WEEK
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe Volume 3 (Illustrated)
Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American author, poet, editor, and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story, and is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.
Born in Boston, he was the second child of two actors. His father abandoned the family in 1810, and his mother died the following year. Thus orphaned, the child was taken in by John and Frances Allan, of Richmond, Virginia. Although they never formally adopted him, Poe was with them well into young adulthood. Tension developed later as John Allan and Edgar repeatedly clashed over debts, including those incurred by gambling, and the cost of secondary education for the young man. Poe attended the University of Virginia for one semester but left due to lack of money. Poe quarreled with Allan over the funds for his education and enlisted in the Army in 1827 under an assumed name. It was at this time his publishing career began, albeit humbly, with an anonymous collection of poems, Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827), credited only to "a Bostonian". With the death of Frances Allan in 1829, Poe and Allan reached a temporary rapprochement. Later failing as an officer's cadet at West Point and declaring a firm wish to be a poet and writer, Poe parted ways with John Allan. [more]
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Vincent Starrett
Arthur Machen
A Novelist of Ecstasy and Sin
- Fiction
- English
- 5232 Words
- Ages 18 and up
- 2
Charles Vincent Emerson Starrett (/ˈstɛərˌət/;[1][2] October 26, 1886 – January 5, 1974), known as Vincent Starrett, was an American writer and newspaperman. Charles Vincent Emerson Starrett was born above his grandfather's bookshop in Toronto. His father moved the family to Chicago in 1889 where Starrett attended John Marshall High School. Starrett landed a job as a cub reporter with the Chicago Inter-Ocean in 1905. When that paper folded, two years later, he began working for the Chicago Daily News as a crime reporter, a feature writer and finally a war correspondent in Mexico from 1914 to 1915. Starrett turned to writing mystery and supernatural fiction for the pulp magazines during the 1920s and 1930s. In 1920, he wrote a Sherlock Holmes pastiche entitled The Adventure of the Unique 'Hamlet'; Starrett on at least one occasion said that the press-run was 100 copies, but on others he said that it was 200 copies. The plan was to have half the press-run with the imprint of bookseller Walter M. Hill, and half with Starrett's imprint; the printer misunderstood the instructions and only 10 have Starrett's imprint. Randall Stock has done a census of surviving copies.[3] He located 9 bound and one unbound copies with the Starrett imprint, and 39 copies (with a possible addition of 4 whose location is unknown) with the Hill imprint. Stock believes that the press run was 100 plus 10, and the number of surviving copies seems to confirm that number. This story involved the detective with a missing 1604 edition of Shakespeare's play, which included an inscription by the playwright.[4] Starrett's most famous work, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, was published in 1933. He retired from The Chicago Tribune in 1967 where he had written a book column, "Books Alive," for 25 years. Starrett was one of the founders of The Hounds of the Baskerville (sic), a Chicago chapter of the Baker Street Irregulars. [more]
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Leonard Merrick
A Chair on The Boulevard
- Fiction
- English
- 79777 Words
- Ages 18 and up
- 2
Leonard Merrick (21 February 1864[1] – 7 August 1939) was an English novelist.[2] Although largely forgotten today, he was widely admired by his peers, J. M. Barrie called Merrick the "novelist's novelist."He was born as Leonard Miller in Belsize Park, London of Jewish parentage.[3] After schooling at Brighton College, he studied to be a solicitor in Brighton and studied law at Heidelberg, but he was forced to travel to South Africa at the age of eighteen after his father suffered a serious financial loss.[3] There he worked as an overseer in the Kimberley diamond mine[3] and in a solicitors office.[4] After surviving a near-fatal case of "camp fever,"[5][6] he returned to London in the late 1880s and worked as an actor and actor-manager[4] under the stage name of Leonard Merrick.[5] He legally changed his name to Leonard Merrick in 1892.[3] He later worked his experiences in South Africa and in the theatre into numerous works of fiction.[7][8] Merrick's novels include Mr Bazalgette's Agent (1888), a detective story; Violet Moses (1891), about a Jewish financier and his troubled wife; The Worldlings (1900), a psychological investigation of a crime; Conrad in Quest of His Youth (1903), the tale of a disillusioned man who, at thirty- seven, sets out to pick up the romantic threads of his younger life, it is "judged his most successful work"[3] according to John Sutherland. George Orwell thought that this is because it is one of the few of his books which is not set against a background of poverty. [more]
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Leonard Merrick
The Quaint Companions With an Introduction by H. G. Wells
- Fiction
- English
- 62694 Words
- Ages 18 and up
- 3
Leonard Merrick (21 February 1864[1] – 7 August 1939) was an English novelist.[2] Although largely forgotten today, he was widely admired by his peers, J. M. Barrie called Merrick the "novelist's novelist."He was born as Leonard Miller in Belsize Park, London of Jewish parentage.[3] After schooling at Brighton College, he studied to be a solicitor in Brighton and studied law at Heidelberg, but he was forced to travel to South Africa at the age of eighteen after his father suffered a serious financial loss.[3] There he worked as an overseer in the Kimberley diamond mine[3] and in a solicitors office.[4] After surviving a near-fatal case of "camp fever,"[5][6] he returned to London in the late 1880s and worked as an actor and actor-manager[4] under the stage name of Leonard Merrick.[5] He legally changed his name to Leonard Merrick in 1892.[3] He later worked his experiences in South Africa and in the theatre into numerous works of fiction.[7][8] Merrick's novels include Mr Bazalgette's Agent (1888), a detective story; Violet Moses (1891), about a Jewish financier and his troubled wife; The Worldlings (1900), a psychological investigation of a crime; Conrad in Quest of His Youth (1903), the tale of a disillusioned man who, at thirty- seven, sets out to pick up the romantic threads of his younger life, it is "judged his most successful work"[3] according to John Sutherland. George Orwell thought that this is because it is one of the few of his books which is not set against a background of poverty. [more]
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Leonard Merrick
The Man Who Was Good With an Introduction by J.K. Prothero
- Fiction
- English
- 63352 Words
- Ages 18 and up
- 2
Leonard Merrick (21 February 1864[1] – 7 August 1939) was an English novelist.[2] Although largely forgotten today, he was widely admired by his peers, J. M. Barrie called Merrick the "novelist's novelist."He was born as Leonard Miller in Belsize Park, London of Jewish parentage.[3] After schooling at Brighton College, he studied to be a solicitor in Brighton and studied law at Heidelberg, but he was forced to travel to South Africa at the age of eighteen after his father suffered a serious financial loss.[3] There he worked as an overseer in the Kimberley diamond mine[3] and in a solicitors office.[4] After surviving a near-fatal case of "camp fever,"[5][6] he returned to London in the late 1880s and worked as an actor and actor-manager[4] under the stage name of Leonard Merrick.[5] He legally changed his name to Leonard Merrick in 1892.[3] He later worked his experiences in South Africa and in the theatre into numerous works of fiction.[7][8] Merrick's novels include Mr Bazalgette's Agent (1888), a detective story; Violet Moses (1891), about a Jewish financier and his troubled wife; The Worldlings (1900), a psychological investigation of a crime; Conrad in Quest of His Youth (1903), the tale of a disillusioned man who, at thirty- seven, sets out to pick up the romantic threads of his younger life, it is "judged his most successful work"[3] according to John Sutherland. George Orwell thought that this is because it is one of the few of his books which is not set against a background of poverty. [more]
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Leonard Merrick
To Tell You the Truth
- Fiction
- English
- 64721 Words
- Ages 18 and up
- 2
Leonard Merrick (21 February 1864[1] – 7 August 1939) was an English novelist.[2] Although largely forgotten today, he was widely admired by his peers, J. M. Barrie called Merrick the "novelist's novelist."He was born as Leonard Miller in Belsize Park, London of Jewish parentage.[3] After schooling at Brighton College, he studied to be a solicitor in Brighton and studied law at Heidelberg, but he was forced to travel to South Africa at the age of eighteen after his father suffered a serious financial loss.[3] There he worked as an overseer in the Kimberley diamond mine[3] and in a solicitors office.[4] After surviving a near-fatal case of "camp fever,"[5][6] he returned to London in the late 1880s and worked as an actor and actor-manager[4] under the stage name of Leonard Merrick.[5] He legally changed his name to Leonard Merrick in 1892.[3] He later worked his experiences in South Africa and in the theatre into numerous works of fiction.[7][8] Merrick's novels include Mr Bazalgette's Agent (1888), a detective story; Violet Moses (1891), about a Jewish financier and his troubled wife; The Worldlings (1900), a psychological investigation of a crime; Conrad in Quest of His Youth (1903), the tale of a disillusioned man who, at thirty- seven, sets out to pick up the romantic threads of his younger life, it is "judged his most successful work"[3] according to John Sutherland. George Orwell thought that this is because it is one of the few of his books which is not set against a background of poverty. [more]
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G. K. Chesterton
Manalive
- Fiction
- English
- 57734 Words
- Ages 18 and up
- 2
Gilbert Keith Chesterton, KC*SG (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) better known as G. K. Chesterton, was an English writer,[1] lay theologian, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, literary and art critic, biographer, and Christian apologist. Chesterton is often referred to as the "prince of paradox."[2] Time magazine, in a review of a biography of Chesterton, observed of his writing style: "Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories—first carefully turning them inside out."[3]
Chesterton is well known for his fictional priest-detective Father Brown,[4] and for his reasoned apologetics. Even some of those who disagree with him have recognized the wide appeal of such works as Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man.[3][5] Chesterton, as a political thinker, cast aspersions on both Progressivism and Conservatism, saying, "The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected."[6] Chesterton routinely referred to himself as an "orthodox" Christian, and came to identify this position more and more with Catholicism, eventually converting to Roman Catholicism from High Church Anglicanism. George Bernard Shaw, Chesterton's "friendly enemy" according to Time, said of him, "He was a man of colossal genius."[3] Biographers have identified him as a successor to such Victorian authors as Matthew Arnold, Thomas Carlyle, Cardinal John Henry Newman, and John Ruskin.[7] [more]
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Leonard Merrick
Cynthia With an Introduction by Maurice Hewlett
- Fiction
- English
- 71325 Words
- Ages 18 and up
- 2
Leonard Merrick (21 February 1864[1] – 7 August 1939) was an English novelist.[2] Although largely forgotten today, he was widely admired by his peers, J. M. Barrie called Merrick the "novelist's novelist."He was born as Leonard Miller in Belsize Park, London of Jewish parentage.[3] After schooling at Brighton College, he studied to be a solicitor in Brighton and studied law at Heidelberg, but he was forced to travel to South Africa at the age of eighteen after his father suffered a serious financial loss.[3] There he worked as an overseer in the Kimberley diamond mine[3] and in a solicitors office.[4] After surviving a near-fatal case of "camp fever,"[5][6] he returned to London in the late 1880s and worked as an actor and actor-manager[4] under the stage name of Leonard Merrick.[5] He legally changed his name to Leonard Merrick in 1892.[3] He later worked his experiences in South Africa and in the theatre into numerous works of fiction.[7][8] Merrick's novels include Mr Bazalgette's Agent (1888), a detective story; Violet Moses (1891), about a Jewish financier and his troubled wife; The Worldlings (1900), a psychological investigation of a crime; Conrad in Quest of His Youth (1903), the tale of a disillusioned man who, at thirty- seven, sets out to pick up the romantic threads of his younger life, it is "judged his most successful work"[3] according to John Sutherland. George Orwell thought that this is because it is one of the few of his books which is not set against a background of poverty. [more]
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