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Being a typewriter is not as easy as it looks. Surrounded by books (notorious attention hogs) and recently replaced by a computer, Olivetti has been forgotten by the Brindles—the family he’s lived with for years. The Brindles are busy humans, apart from twelve-year-old Ernest, who would rather be left alone with his collection of Oxford English Dictionaries. Once a collector of words, now Olivetti only collects dust. He gets a rare glimpse of action from Ernest’s mom, Beatrice—his used-to-be frequent visitor—only for her to drop him off at Heartland Pawn Shop and leave him behind.

Red Shewhart ist ein Stalker, ein Glücksritter, der illegal in die Zone eindringt – in ein Gebiet, in dem vor vielen Jahren Außerirdische gelandet sind und rätselhafte Artefakte hinterlassen haben. Die Stalker bergen diese Artefakte, um sie auf dem Schwarzmarkt zu verkaufen. Aber die Zone ist voller Gefahren und gibt ihre Geheimnisse nicht ohne Weiteres preis. Der legendäre Science Fiction Klassiker "Picknick am Wegesrand" - die Inspiration für das Tarkowski-Filmmeisterwerk Stalker und die berühmte Videospielreihe S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – erstmals als deutschsprachiges Hörbuch.

Frankies beste Freundin heiratet - und sie ist die Brautjungfer. Der Bräutigam wird entführt und die versnobten Hochzeitsgäste benehmen sich unmöglich. Aiden ist Geschäftsmann und ist es gewohnt, dass er mit Geld und Macht alles bekommen kann, was er will - vor allem in puncto Frauen. Als Frankie nichts von ihm wissen will, ist sein Ehrgeiz geweckt.

Frankenstein—or, The Modern Prometheus—is considered to be one of the earliest examples of science fiction. Written by Mary Shelley, it tells the story of scientist Victor Frankenstein and the catastrophic consequences of his attempts to create a perfect new being by activating a group of body parts with an electrical charge. The hideous monster that is born of Frankenstein's experiment wreaks havoc when it realises that it will never know the happiness that mere mortals can enjoy.

À trois heures du matin, le jeune Théodore rentre chez lui après une fête, complètement ivre. Dans les escaliers de son immeuble, il dérange tous les voisins. Puis, cherchant des allumettes dans son appartement, il réveille son père qui est furieux de sa conduite.

Edgar Wallace was a bestselling author, journalist, playwright and film director, and the creator of King Kong. A prolific writer and celebrity superstar, he was thought to be responsible for a quarter of all new books read in Britain by the late 1920s. Presented here are full-cast adaptations of four of his classic crime novels, readings of four short detective stories, and vintage recording of Wallace reading one of his own stories. Tying them all together is linking commentary from Edgar Wallace: The Man Who Wrote Too Much?, a documentary celebration of his life.

May 1565. Suleiman the Magnificent, emperor of the Ottomans, has declared a jihad against the Knights of Saint John the Baptist. The largest armada of all time approaches the Knights' Christian stronghold on the island of Malta. The Turks know the Knights as the "The Hounds of Hell." The Knights call themselves "The Religion." In Messina, Sicily, a French countess, Carla la Penautier, seeks a passage to Malta in a quest to find the son taken from her at his birth twelve years ago. T

From one of Poland's most acclaimed poets comes a new collection of poems and plays spanning almost five decades and translated for the first time. Encapsulating the prolific work of the poet and playwright Zbigniew Herbert, Reconstruction of the Poet is both a celebration of a profound life of...

London, 1898. A vibrant young heiress has gone missing, and it’s up to Sherlock and Lucy to find her. Meanwhile, threatening letters from Egyptian revolutionaries begin turning up at newspaper offices, captivating Sherlock’s interest and sparking public fear and outrage. Then, the missing young woman is found dead in front of London’s most famous Egyptian monument.

With Star Over Bethlehem, the beloved Queen of Mystery Agatha Christie shines in a totally unexpected way, offering readers a wondrous collection of poems and holiday short stories. A retelling of the Christmas Story in a way you’ve never heard it before. . . . The fable of a donkey who...

When a postwar search for London lodgings introduces ailing doctor John H. Watson to quirky chemist Sherlock Holmes, their collaboration in the art of observation and deduction begins. Congenial flatmates and even better colleagues, the pair is quickly drawn into a case of murder and revenge that has Scotland Yard at their wits’ end.

Mole, Rat, and Badger are Toad's dearest friends even as the aristocratic amphibian's wastrel ways get him into trouble. After being arrested and sentenced to jail, he returns to his ancestral home of Toad Hall to find it overrun with stoats and weasels from the Wild Wood. But his friends haven't abandoned him yet. In fact, they've conspired to help drive the villainous vermin from his home.

A time-space chiller-thriller in the Lovecraft Tradition. This is the second novel in Brian Lumley's Cthulhu Mythos series.

For millennia men have strutted their pride over the fragile surface of the Earth, arrogantly proclaiming themselves masters of creation. But now their feeble investigations have disturbed the planet's original rulers far beneath the globe's crust.

To many thousands of listeners world-wide, Titus Crow is the psychic sleuth - the cosmic voyager and investigator - of Brian Lumley's Cthulhu Mythos novels, from The Burrowers Beneath to Elysia. But before The Burrowers and Crow's transition, his exploits were chronicled in a series of short stories and novellas uncollected in the USA, except in limited editions.

RITA Award-winning, New York Times best-selling author Mary Jo Putney is justly celebrated as a master of the Regency romance. Here Alexander Randall is the last heir to the Earl of Daventry and he must find himself a bride. His prayers are answered in the form of distressed midwife Julia Bancroft. But though their union would benefit both parties, Julia is reluctant to surrender her heart.

This is the very first Poirot/Hastings story. Set in 1916, we meet Captain Hastings as he is invalided out of the Great War and goes to convalesce at Styles Court, the family home of his great friend, John Cavendish. By an extraordinary coincidence, billeted in the village is a brilliant little retired detective with an egg-shaped head, who made a considerable impression on the Captain when he was in Belgium. Styles is not a happy household and in the blistering summer heat, tensions mount.

Primo Libro del Pentateuco: Genesi. "La Bibbia" è tra i libri più letti al mondo, continua a ispirare e credenti e non. Tutti la conoscono, molti non la conoscono nella versione completa. Per la prima volta, con questa edizione hai la possibilità di ascoltare la versione integrale della Bibbia. Puoi portare sempre con te la Parola e farti guidare da essa. Puoi navigare tra i contenuti e scegliere quali ascoltare, quando e dove vuoi, in autonomia e con la massima libertà.

L'autoipnosi è un metodo gentile e delicato per entrare in contatto con la parte più profonda di noi stessi, la nostra parte subconscia (o inconscia, i due termini vanno intesi come sinonimi), e comunicare direttamente con questa nostra parte profonda. Con l'autoipnosi parli direttamente all'inconscio, con il linguaggio dell'inconscio. Con questa tecnica parlerai gentilmente con il tuo subconscio e lui gentilmente si farà guidare da te per imparare a rimanere focalizzato sui tuoi obiettivi grazie al potere della concentrazione.

Having landed a small part in a new West End play, The Habit of Faith, Charles Paris is dismayed to discover that his good fortune has been orchestrated by his bête noire, the now-famous screen actor Justin Grover. But why has Grover become involved in this relatively obscure production - and why has he roped in Charles to star? From the outset the production is fraught with difficulties - and matters become even more complicated when a body is discovered at the foot of the dressing room stairs.