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Dazzling secrets are meant to be discovered…Maya BlakeThe Fixer has been hustling to keep the Marshall family’s scandals at a simmer, but nothing turns up the heat like the very public opening of a new nightclub. And when Vegas nights turn to Vegas fights, things look ready to boil over. They don’t call it Sin City for nothing. But between vicious jealousies and staggering betrayals, is anyone ready to confess their sins? Remember, dear Marshalls, social climbing has no safety net…Dani...
| Автор | Dani Collins |
The first four episodes in this explosive family drama!The wealthy Marshall family are untouchable. Or so they thought. But when a car accident puts patriarch Harrison in a coma, cracks appear in the family facade. It seems Harrison had an awful lot of secrets, and he’s not the only one. His wife, Mariella, and children, Luc, Rafe and Elana, not to mention nephew Gabe, all have things they’d rather keep hidden.Enter a mysterious figure called the Fixer… Who is this person and what is their...
| Автор | Joss Wood |
Discover their red-hot secrets!Helen LaceySex, scandal and yet more secrets! Whether it's pre-wedding shopping in Paris for Elana and Rafe, or the arrival of backstabbing drama queen, Aunt Ana – tensions are running high all round. The rehearsal dinner should be a night to celebrate romance. Instead, Mariella is missing in action, a surprise guest is slipping through the crowd, Luc is fending off blatant requests for a ring from Rachel . . . and the Fixer is scrambling to keep all Marshalls...
| Автор | Cat Schield |
The suffragette and the rake!Lady Helen never thought sneaking out of her family’s London abode to attend an after-dark suffragette meeting would be easy. But, although her ill-fitting trousers are almost as uncomfortable as wearing her corset, so far she’s masterfully avoided every creaking floorboard completely unnoticed. Except, that is, by her neighbour, the devilishly handsome, Arthur Crawley.It seems that Helena is the only London’s heiress not to have accompanied Arthur to this season’s...
| Автор | Lorelai Ryan |
CSI in the land of elves, but they aren’t cute and christmassy, they’re sometimes sinister, and definitely deceased…Private eye Nicely Strongoak is your average detective-for-hire, if your average detective is a dwarf with a Napoleon complex. In a city filled with drug-taking gnomes, goblins packing heat and a serious case of missing-persons, Strongoak might just be what’s needed.But things are about to turn sour. When on the trail of the vanished surfer, Perry Goodfellow, Nicely receives a...
| Автор | Терри Ньюман |
After her world is shaken by a series of unexplained events, young widow Sarah Grey soon comes to realise that she is the victim of a terrifying haunting by her 19th century namesake … A classic ghost story with a modern twist by a talented new writer in the genre.Relocated to a coastal town, widowed teacher Sarah Grey is slowly rebuilding her life, along with her young son Alfie. But after an inadvertent séance one drunken night, her world is shaken when she starts to experience frightening...
| Автор | Syd Moore |
Thomas Bulfinch's «The Age of Fable; or Stories of Gods and Heroes» is a classic collection of ancient mythology. Is this collection are the following tales: Prometheus and Pandora, Apollo and Daphne—Pyramus and Thisbe—Cephalus and Procris, Juno and her Rivals, Io and Callisto—Diana and Actæon—Latona and the Rustics, Phaëton, Midas—Baucis and Philemon, Proserpine—Glaucus and Scylla, Pygmalion—Dryope—Venus and Adonis—Apollo and Hyacinthus, Ceyx and Halcyone, Vertumnus and Pomona—Iphis and...
| Автор | Bulfinch Thomas |
Chretien de Troyes was a French poet in the late 12th century whose work represents some of the best examples of Arthurian legend from medieval times. Contained in this volume are the four complete Arthurian romances that have survived. The first of these stories is that of «Erec and Enide», which recounts the story of Erec, one of King Arthur's knights, and the conflict between love and knighthood he experiences in his marriage to Enide. The second romance is the tale of the knight...
| Автор | de Troyes Chretien |
Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall achieved some notoriety in the early part of the 20th century for her historical works aimed at younger readers. Notable amongst these include «Our Island Story» which is a history of England from the time of the Roman Empire's invasion of England until the death of Queen Victoria. In this work «Stories of Beowulf Told to Children» the author turns her attention to a retelling of England's most famous work written in Old English, the heroic epic poem...
| Автор | H. E. Marshall |
The Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen having delighted readers young and old for decades. Collected here are some of his most love tales. This collection includes the following tales: The Emperor's New Clothes, The Swineherd, The Real Princess, The Shoes of Fortune, The Fir Tree, The Snow Queen, The Leap-Frog, The Elderbush, The Bell, The Old House, The Happy Family, The Story of a Mother, The False Collar, The Shadow, The Little Match Girl, The Dream of Little Tuk, The Naughty Boy,...
| Автор | Ганс Андерсен |
Thomas Bulfinch's «Legends of Charlemagne, or Romance of the Middle Ages» is a classic collection of legends from the middle ages. Within this volume are the following tales: The Peers or Paladins, The Tournament, The Siege of Albracca, Adventures of Rinaldo and Orlando, The Invasion of France, Bradamante and Rogero, Astolpho and the Enchantress, The Orc, Astolpho's Adventures continued and Isabella's begun, Medoro, Orlando Mad, Zerbino and Isabella, Astolpho in Abyssinia, The War...
| Автор | Bulfinch Thomas |
This classic of medieval literature is a definitive romance of Arthurian legend. In this edition are two versions of the tale. One by German born Gottfried von Strassburg (12th century) and another modern version by the Frenchman Joseph Bedier; first published in 1900. Both are landmark versions contributing to the story's rich history. «Tristan and Iseult» tells the tale of the young knight Tristan, nephew of King Mark of Cornwall, and his unexpected love affair with Princess Iseult. A...
| Автор | Joseph Bedier |
H. A. Geuerber’s «The Myths of the Norsemen» is a classic collection of stories retold from Norse mythology. Beginning with the Norse myth of creation and following through the sagas of more than twenty gods, heroes and villains, «The Myths of the Norsemen» recounts the rich mythological tradition of the Norse people. Of the more familiar characters in this collection one might immediately recognize the stories of Odin and Thor. These stories are brought together with less familiar Norse myths...
| Автор | Guerber Guerber |
Written in Old Norse by the Icelandic poet and historian Snorri Sturluson sometime around 1230 AD, the «Heimskringla» is one of the best known of all sagas. It is in actuality a collection of sagas concerning the various rulers of Norway, from about A.D. 850 to the year A.D. 1177. While scholars and historians continue to debate the historical accuracy of Sturluson's work, the «Heimskringla» is still considered an important original source for information on the Viking Age, a period which...
| Автор | Snorri Sturluson |
"The Aeneid" is considered by some to be one of the most important epic poems of all time. The story is as much one of the great epic hero, Aeneas, as it is of the foundation of the great Roman Empire. Aeneas, a Trojan Prince, who escapes after the fall of troy, travels with others to Italy to lay the foundations for what would become the great Roman Empire. Virgil's «Aeneid» is a story of great adventure, of war, of love, and of the exploits of a great epic hero. In this work Virgil...
| Автор | Virgil |
Considered to be one of the finest of the Icelandic sagas, «Njal's Saga» (or «The Story of Burnt Njal») was written sometime in the thirteenth century by an unknown author and is the longest and most developed of the sagas. The source material for the saga was historical but probably drawn largely from oral tradition. The story relates events that took place between 960 and 1020, involving blood feuds in the Icelandic Commonwealth. It features memorable characters like the noble warrior...
| Автор | Anonymous |
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe, friends since childhood, collaboratively published a series of Norwegian legends and folktales. In order to overcome language and dialect difficulties, the two modeled their style after the Brothers Grimm. The stories were originally published in pamphlets, but by 1870 the current collection was published, and the entire work was translated by Sir George Webbe Dasent, a professor of English literature and modern history at Kings College London....
| Автор | Sir George Webbe Dasent |
Thomas Bulfinch's «The Age of Chivalry, or Legends of King Arthur» is a classic collection of the medieval legends of King Arthur. Contained in this volume are the following tales: The Mythical History of England, Arthur, Caradoc Briefbras, Sir Gawain, Launcelot of the Lake, The Story of Launcelot-The Adventure of the Cart, The Story of Launcelot-The Lady of Shalott, The Story of Launcelot-Queen Guenever's Peril, The Story of Tristram and Isoude, Tristram and Isoude, The Story of...
| Автор | Bulfinch Thomas |
Arthurian legends have long been the source of countless popular tales. «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight» is one of the best known and most widely read. During King Arthur's New Year's celebration, a mysterious knight, with green clothes and horse, arrives with a challenge to the knights of the round table—any one of them may swing at the Green Knight with an axe if he too is willing to take a blow one year and one day after. Gawain, one of Arthur's most noble knights, steps up...
| Автор | Jessie L. Weston |
Here is the tale of the search for the Holy Grail, the vessel that received the blood of Christ upon the day of his Crucifixion. This anonymous story is thought to be a continuation of the French trouvère Chrétien de Troyes' unfinished «Perceval, The Story of the Grail.» Written sometime in the early 13th century, this Arthurian Romance remains unique for its high amount of allegorical mysticism and use of Celtic lore. Our hero Perceval here goes through various toils and trials in his...
| Автор | Anonymous |
Thomas William Hazen Rolleston (1857-1920) was an Irish writer, literary figure and translator known for works that spanned a wide range of literary and political topics. He wrote «Myths and Legends of the Celtic Race» in 1911 in an attempt to revitalize what he felt was a waning appreciation for the heritage of all Celtic peoples. Perhaps the best representation and description of all the legends, myths and spiritual histories of Ireland, Britain and Wales, this collection includes the stories...
| Автор | Rolleston Rolleston |
First passed down orally through innumerable generations of minstrels before the presence of Christianity in Scandinavia, and written down eventually by unknown poets, «The Poetic Edda» is a collection of mythological and heroic Old Norse poems. It was preserved for hundreds of years in the medieval Codex Regius of Iceland. This body of poetry contains narratives on creation, the Doom of the Gods, the adventures of Thor and hostile giants, and many tales of love, family, heroes, and tragedy....
| Автор | Anonymous |
As in the case with many other Icelanders' sagas, the author of Laxdaela is unknown, but believed to have been composed in the middle of the thirteenth century. The tale has often been regarded as curiously feminine and speculated to have been written by a woman. The Laxdaela Saga, a story of the men and women of the Salmon River valley, is of an Icelandic family that relates the history of some five or six generations of prominent individuals descended from emigrant Norwegian chieftains,...
| Автор | Anonymous |
Продолжение приключений московского мальчика Саши и его подруги Ламии в волшебном мире славянской магии. Юные колдуны и их наставники приступают к расследованию гибели Земляного кота. На их пути встают новые препятствия, мифические существа и животные, ребята столкнутся с могущественной чёрной магией и ещё кое-чем странным, непонятным, но ужасно интересным!
| Автор | Павел Корчагин |