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Enjoy strange and wondrous stories inspired by folklore from various corners of the world, carefully assembled and adapted by a Russian writer and political journalist Nikolai Teleshov.

Christmas carols, the devil, fresh-baked bread, unrequited love, a witch's broomstick, Catherine the Great, cossacks, paintings, vodka, stolen moon, an unexpected blizzard, sausage, and one very fancy pair of shoes - all is mayhem and merriment in Nikolai Gogol's delightful Christmas tale.

Set in 1918, Dear Frank offers the listener a glimpse of life in the Boston area during the waning days of World War I. Young Andrew, writing to his older brother Frank, a serviceman fighting overseas, is intent on keeping his brother abreast of all that is going on around him, especially the Boston Red Sox, led by the young, hard-hitting, left-handed pitcher Babe Ruth.

In The Most Interesting Man in the World, Gray Barker carefully explains several of Nikola Tesla’s inventions in language the average listener can understand. He also includes articles by Tesla experts Tom Bearden, William R. Lyne, and Fred Bobb, as well as several chapters written by Tesla himself which presage the advent of radio, television, the Internet, satellites, cellphones, and lasers, proving just how far ahead of everyone else Tesla really was.

There plenty of spooky action in this volume of tales. Ghosts, apparitions, entire armies of fairies and fairy queens. The volume opens with Shakespeare's timeless classic A Midsummer Night's Dream and continues to get more frightening with haunted castles in Leskov's The Ghost of the Engineers' Castle.

To those who believed that all the great electric discoveries had already been made, Tesla says, “What has been so far done by electricity is nothing as compared with what the future has in store.” In this fascinating article, he discusses the possibilities yet to be enacted using electricity. He successfully predicted current inventions, including common smartphone technologies of sending photos and using voice-to-text tools. Others are yet to be accomplished to his full vision....

Inventor and scientist Nikola Tesla believed in life on other planets. One night in his laboratory in the Colorado mountains, he began noting electronic signals that he deduced came from an intelligent life form on another planet. While over 100 years later we have still failed to prove the existence of alien life, Tesla’s short article provides a fascinating look at the possibility of interplanetary communication. To the visionary who invented wireless communication, sending a message to Mars was merely the logical next step.

Where does human energy come from, and where is it going? In this fascinating text, notable inventor Nikola Tesla examines these fundamental questions as he theorizes ways of maximizing human energy. While he thinks like a scientist, Tesla writes like a philosopher, making the text accessible for a wider audience. The Problem of Increasing Human Energy functions as both a valuable contribution to scientific thought and a self-help book for humanity.

Ausgerechnet dem berühmten und äußerst attraktiven Fernsehkoch Raphael Franz bricht die junge Anästhesistin Jo während der Narkose einen Schneidezahn ab. Zu dumm, dass sie mit ihren Versuchen, sich zu entschuldigen, alles nur noch schlimmer macht. Jo ist davon überzeugt, dass Raphael ihr den ganzen Ärger heimzahlen wird. Doch was sie nicht ahnt: Raphael kocht nicht nur exzellent, sondern auch vor Leidenschaft.

Es ist ein goldener Sommer im England der späten 50er Jahre: Die 16jährige Elizabeth ist begeistert von den jungen Leuten, die sie auf dem Anwesen der Freunde ihrer Eltern in Sussex kennenlernt. Sie erlebt unbeschwerte Tage mit Ausflügen, Picknicks und Partys. Und sie verliebt sich... London, 40 Jahre später. Nach dem Unfalltod ihrer Mutter erhält Adele Harington einen mysteriösen Anruf: Ein Mann spricht von "neuen Spuren" und nennt immer wieder ein Datum. Und dann steht plötzlich eine Fremde vor der Tür und behauptet, Teil der Familie zu sein.

Leonie ist eine Powerfrau: Sie liebt ihren Job und hat Erfolg. Dann wird ihr vorgeworfen, die Geschäftsidee der charmanten Brüder Emil und Benjamin geklaut zu haben. Und zwei Stunden später hat sie Freizeit pur - eine Horrorvorstellung für Leonie. Sie muss unbedingt denjenigen finden, der ihr das eingebrockt hat. Der Einzige, der ihr helfen kann: Emil. Doch der hat sich aufs Land verkrochen. Und plötzlich steht Leonie offline zwischen Erdbeerfeldern und Kuhfladen und spürt: Ihr Herz klopft für Emil.

Written in 1900 by Nikola Tesla, this book gives great ideas on automation, agriculture, energy, and increasing human output to improve the human condition.

It is 1958. Elizabeth has been sent away from her London home to the beautiful Hartland House in Sussex. Over an idyllic summer by the coast, she grows close to the confident young Shaws, who treat her like one of their own. A lovely but innocent girl, Elizabeth is ready to fall in love - but her dreams are dangerously naïve. Decades later Elizabeth's daughter, Addie, is stunned when a stranger appears on her doorstep, claiming that they are sisters. Addie doesn't believe it until her beloved father admits that everything she's been told about her early life is a lie.

Gogol's great Russian classic is the Pickwick Papers of Russian literature. It takes a sharp but humorous look at life in all its strata but especially the devious complexities in Russia, with its landowners and serfs. We are introduced to Chichikov, a businessman who, in order to trick the tax authorities, buys up dead 'souls', or serfs, whose names still appear on the government census. Despite being a dealer in phantom crimes and paper ghosts, he is the most beguiling of Gogol's characters.

The Mantle follows the life of a civil servant, Akaki Akakievitch who just loves his work! Born in St Petersburg, he is a copy writer, meaning he copies text from one place to another. In his spare time and after work hours, he also copies. When given more responsibility, he begs to return to...copying. One particular winter, he notices that, between home and office, he is cold, his mantle is threadbare, and he can no longer repair it himself. Our conflict begins here, as Akaki seeks a solution to his threadbare mantle.

Gogol's phantasmagorical tale about a man whose nose decides to abscond and begin living a life of its own is one of the earliest and most celebrated examples of absurdist literature. Apart from its recondite humor, it is remarkable for Gogol's skill in characterization and his ability to paint a picture of contemporary life in Russia in a few verbal brushstrokes.

W. Nikola-Lisa explores new terrain - his childhood experiences growing up in south Texas during the early 1960s. Unlike his previous books, this is not a book for young children as the author explores the darker elements growing up in a harsh environment. Although the work feels like a memoir, it sounds like a novel with the author's spare, unrelenting narrative a perfect accompaniment to the time, place, and underlying familial issues.

After his divorce, Pete has nothing left to live for. Having lost his home and money, he finds himself in a hotel where he spends a night with a man he does not know. And when the next day that man is found dead, Pete is the main suspect. During his investigation to find the murderer he finds more about himself and his roots. He meets people that change his life forever.

Isa und Alexej sind dem Jäger entkommen, aber ihr Glück währt nur kurz: Auf einem ihrer Streifzüge durch den Wald findet Isa einen Raben, dem das Herz herausgeschnitten wurde. Ihre dunkle Vorahnung wird zur Gewissheit, als sie erfährt, dass der tote Vogel tatsächlich ein Rabe aus Alexejs Schwarm ist. Dann wird Alexej entführt, und jeder Tag, der vergeht, hält für ihn neue Qualen bereit.

Die streitbaren Helden der Geschichte, Iwan Iwanowitsch und Iwan Nikiphorowitsch, sind zunächst friedliche Nachbarn und scheinbar unzertrennliche Freunde, bis ein geringfügiger Anlass ihre Eintracht zerstört. Die beiden geraten in einen Streit, der immer kuriosere Formen annimmt und der - vor den Kadi gebracht - sicher erst mit dem Ableben eines der beiden Kampfhähne enden wird. Gogol nimmt diesen Streit zum Anlass, den russischen Alltag zu karikieren und sich über die Spezies Mensch, die sich hier nicht von ihrer vorteilhaftesten Seite zeigt, lustig zu machen.