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Deathworld centers on Jason dinAlt, a professional gambler who uses his erratic psionic abilities to tip the odds in his favor. While visiting the planet Cassylia, he is challenged by a man named Kerk Pyrrus (an ambassador of the planet Pyrrus) to turn a large amount of money into an immense sum by gambling at a government-run casino. He succeeds and survives the planetary government's desperate efforts to take back the money. Bothered that he may finally have met someone superior to him,...
| Автор | Harry Harrison |
An innocent masked-ball party in the touristy town of Cluny turns into a puzzling scene of crime with two of the guests being found dead in a locked room! Excerpt: "Anthony!" Vivian Young made a laughing surprised clutch at a tall figure stalking ahead of her down the station platform. The man turned sharply. At the sight of his fiancée he smiled pleasantly, though a sharp observer would have said that there was something in his eyes that suggested a man about to make the best of a...
| Автор | Dorothy Fielding |
This carefully edited western collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Table of Contents: Novels: A Daughter of Raasay Wyoming Ridgway of Montana A Texas Ranger Bucky O'Connor Mavericks Brand Blotters Crooked Trails and Straight The Vision Splendid The Pirate of Panama A Daughter of the Dons The Highgrader Steve Yeager Yukon Trail The Sheriff's Son A Man Four-Square The Big-Town Round-Up ...
| Автор | William MacLeod Raine |
"The fireside sphinx" by Agnes Repplier. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to...
| Автор | Agnes Repplier |
Musaicum Books presents to you this unique collection with adventure novels of the Old American West. This meticulously edited book is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Wyoming Ridgway of Montana A Texas Ranger Bucky O'Connor Mavericks Brand Blotters Crooked Trails and Straight The Vision Splendid A Daughter of the Dons The Highgrader Steve Yeager Yukon Trail The Sheriff's Son A Man Four-Square The Big-Town Round-Up Oh, You...
| Автор | William MacLeod Raine |
"On Electric Touch and the Molecular Changes produced in Matter by Electric Waves" by Jagadish Chandra Bose. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our...
| Автор | Jagadish Chandra Bose |
Musaicum Books presents to you this meticulously edited W.B. Yeat collection. Content: Volume 1: The Wind Among the Reeds The Old Age of Queen Maeve Baile and Aillinn In the Seven Woods Ballads and Lyrics The Rose The Wanderings of Oisin Volume 2: The King's Threshold On Baile's Strand Deirdre The Shadowy Waters Volume 3: The Countess Cathleen The Land of Heart's Desire The Unicorn from the Stars Volume 4: The Hour-Glass Cathleen ni Houlihan The Golden Helmet...
| Автор | William Butler Yeats |
When George Randolph first caught sight of Orena, he was astounded by its gleaming perfection. Here were hills and valleys, lakes and streams, glowing with the light of the most precious of metals. And, more astonishing than that, it was a world of miniature perfection—an infinitely tiny universe within a golden atom! But for Randolph it was also a world aglow with danger. Somewhere in its tiny vastness were the friends he had to rescue. Captives of a madman, they had been reduced to native...
| Автор | Ray Cummings |
"Life and works of the sisters Brontë" by Mary A. Ward. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and...
| Автор | Mary A. Ward |
This eBook edition of «The Poetry of Frank O'Hara» has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Table of contents: Meditations in an Emergency: To the Harbormaster The eager note on my door… To the Film industry in Crisis Poem: «At night Chinamen jump» Blocks Les Etiquette jaunes Aus einem April River Poem: «There I could never be a boy» On Rachmaninoff's Birthday The Hunter For Grace, After a Party On Looking at «La...
| Автор | Frank O'Hara |
Ray Cummings was an American author of science fiction literature and comic books. Cummings is identified as one of the «founding fathers» of the science fiction genre. His most highly regarded fictional work was the novel The Girl in the Golden Atom, which was a consolidation of a short story by the same name. For this novel Cummings combined the idea of Fitz James O'Brien's The Diamond Lens with H. G. Wells's The Time Machine. During the 1940s, Cummings anonymously scripted...
| Автор | Ray Cummings |
Beyond the Point of Unknown is Ray Cummings' collection of space travel and alien contact novels. It brings some of the author's best works placed within our Solar System and distant worlds. You will meet different kinds of alien races from all over the universe and discover their interaction with humans. Brigands of the Moon The Fire People The White Invaders The World Beyond Wandl the Invader
| Автор | Ray Cummings |
"The Tenth Man" by W. Somerset Maugham. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to...
| Автор | W. Somerset Maugham |
"How Two Boys Made Their Own Electrical Apparatus" by Thomas M. St. John. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are...
| Автор | Thomas M. St. John |
"Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker" by Marcus Tullius Cicero (translated by E. Jones). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability...
| Автор | Марк Цицерон |
"Bright Ideas for Entertaining" by Mrs. Herbert B. Linscott. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly...
| Автор | Mrs. Herbert B. Linscott |