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Badge of Infamy: In the future powerful unions called lobbies control much of society on Earth. One of the most powerful lobbies is the medical lobby, which following a pandemic that spread across earth, has required all medicine from being practiced only by authorized lobby members and only in approved lobby facilities. Daniel Feldman once a doctor has now become a pariah due to his breach of these rules. He leaves the Earth and travels to Mars, where he discovers the truth, a disaster...
| Автор | Lester Del Rey |
"Under the Fleur-de-Lis" by H. C. Bailey. 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 | H. C. Bailey |
This edition represents a collection of short stories written by J. P. Jacobsen, Danish author and naturalist. Tales are wistful, dreamy and melancholic but also naturalistic. Table of Contents: "Mogens" is the tale of a young dreamer and his maturing during love, sorrow and new hope of love. "The Plague of Bergamo" shows people clinging to religion even when tempted to be «free men». "There Should Have Been Roses" is a tale of two roses, the blue one and the yellow one; one...
| Автор | J. P. Jacobsen |
Miss Helen Messiter is a young woman from Michigen who inherits a ranch on the West called Lazy D. She heads off to visit the ranch by car and unexpectedly arrives in an awfully dangerous situation, finding one fugitive trapped by a number of cowboys who wants his scalp. Unaware of her actions, Helen daringly drives among them to pull off an incredible rescue. As they drive off, Helen learns that she has saved the notorious Ned Bannister, the most powerfull and the most feared man in Wyoming.
| Автор | William MacLeod Raine |
The Enormous Room is an autobiographical novel by E. E. Cummings about his temporary imprisonment in France during World War I. Cummings served as an ambulance driver during the war. In late August 1917 his friend and colleague, William Slater Brown (known in the book only as B.), was arrested by French authorities as a result of anti-war sentiments B. had expressed in some letters. When questioned, Cummings stood by his friend and was also arrested. Cummings spent over four months in the...
| Автор | E. E. Cummings |
This book is one of Mencken's essays and journalism originally published between 1919 and 1927 in a series of books called «Prejudices». Henry Louis Mencken was an American journalist, essayist, satirist and cultural critic. He commented widely on the social scene, literature, music, prominent politicians and contemporary movements. In his career Henry Louis Mencken was not only editing and writing for The American Mercury magazine and the Baltimore Sun newspaper, but also for the Chicago...
| Автор | H. L. Mencken |
Gunsight Pass, or How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West is the tale of Dave Sanders, a young and brave cowboy from Arizona who tries to save a victim of a robbery and gets wrongly accused of a murder. After serving his sentence Dave returns to the cattle country finding that the oil boom has brought all kinds of crooks and troublemakers to the Old West. Determined to shake off his past and clear his reputation Dave stands up against outlaws to protect himself, his friends,...
| Автор | William MacLeod Raine |
Musaicum Books presents to you the best Josephine Tey murder mysteries and detective books in one ebook edition. Inspector Alan Grant is a Scotland Yard detective who relies on his instincts and often goes against the evidence if his gut feeling says so. He is thorough and systematic in his investigations and always pulls through. Contents: "The Man in the Queue" (or Killer in the Crowd) – Inspector Grant investigates a murder of a man who was stabbed in the ticket line in front of...
| Автор | Josephine Tey |
This collection includes the carefully selected masterpieces of German literature. The most representative German writers of each period are brought together and represented by their best and finest works from the great epoch of Classicism and Romanticism to early modern literature of twentieth century: Vol. I & II: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Vol. III: Friedrich von Schiller Vol. IV: Jean Paul; Wilhelm von Humboldt; August Wilhelm Schlegel; Friedrich Schlegel; Novalis; Friedrich...
| Автор | Various |
