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Assassination at Christmas – ebook
Henry Bedford-Jones
Steel clashed and bugles blared in the Antioch of December 362... and the strange Sphinx Emerald flashed again to potent life. Meet seventh installment of the amazing cycle of tales from a prolific author who is largely forgotten today outside of pulp fandom is Henry James O’Brien Bedford-Jones (1887–1949), better known as just H. Bedford-Jones.Data dostępności:
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The Mysterious Island – ebook
Jules Verne
A storm, an eruption of a volcano, pirate attacks, a mysterious captain Nemo and, of course, a story of survival on a piece of land in the ocean are interwoven into the adventurous plot of the novel „The Mysterious Island” offered to the reader: resourceful heroes thrown by a hurricane onto a desert island themselves make sugar and melt steel. They make bricks, wool, sulfuric and nitric acid, nitroglycerin...Data dostępności:
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The Scarlet Citadel – ebook
Robert E. Howard
The roar of battle had died away; the shout of victory mingled with the cries of the dying. Like gay-hued leaves after an autumn storm, the fallen littered the plain; the sinking sun shimmered on burnished helmets, gilt-worked mail, silver breastplates, broken swords and the heavy regal folds of silken standards, overthrown in pools of curdling crimson. In silent heaps lay war- horses and their steel-clad...Data dostępności:
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The Tower of the Elephant – ebook
Robert E. Howard
Torches flared murkily on the revels in the Maul, where the thieves of the east held carnival by night. In the Maul they could carouse and roar as they liked, for honest people shunned the quarters, and watchmen, well paid with stained coins, did not interfere with their sport. Along the crooked, unpaved streets with their heaps of refuse and sloppy puddles, drunken roisterers staggered, roaring. Steel...Data dostępności:
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The Winds of the World – ebook
Talbot Mundy
It has always been a mystery to her how she knows everything that is happening in Delhi, India and in the great outer world, although they themselves give her information that no government could have landed on the quiet hills. They know where she keeps her cobra – where a lot of jewelry knows some of her old stories. There were many maids in Yasmin, but no one, even her favorite, most proud ones,...Data dostępności:
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Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie – ebook
Andrew Carnegie
Delve into the captivating life of one of history's most influential figures with "The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie." Through the pages of this timeless ebook, Andrew Carnegie, the visionary industrialist and philanthropist, unveils the remarkable journey from his humble beginnings in Scotland to becoming one of the wealthiest individuals of his era. Carnegie's candid narrative offers invaluable...Data dostępności:
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Liar – ebook
Grzegorz Glinka
Do you like reading about love? Are you looking for something stronger than usual? Or maybe you want to know what is going on behind the scenes of the Church? After reading this book, you will reevaluate your life. The girl comes from a pathological family and has been raped many times. Whose son will she give birth to in prison? What will be her fate after her release? Inspired by life, strong and...Data dostępności:
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The Lord of the Sea – ebook
M.P. Shiel
The story is of Richard Hogarth, a man of lofty spirit who on discovering a cache of giant diamonds inside a fallen meteor undertakes a bold project to re-shape the human condition on a global scale. He builds huge steel forts with his wealth, places diamonds at the cross-roads of the earth’s oceans to control all sea-traffic for tribute to benefit the citizens of his mammoth iron islands. „The Lord...Data dostępności:
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Room Number 3 and Other Detective Stories – ebook
Anna Katharine Green
A beautiful young woman is interviewed by Coroner Golden and new Deputy sheriff Mr. Hammersmith. Her mother has been found dead in the nearby forest but the woman alleges they both rented rooms in Three Forks Tavern. The landlord Mr. Quimby deny her story. She describes the room her mother was in but a search reveals no room that matches it. But the sheriff believes her and he insists on staying in...Data dostępności:
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The Lion of Tiberias – ebook
Robert E. Howard
The battle in the meadowlands of the Euphrates was over, but not the slaughter. On that bloody field where the Caliph of Bagdad and his Turkish allies had broken the onrushing power of Doubeys ibn Sadaka of Hilla and the desert, the steel-clad bodies lay strewn like the drift of a storm. The great canal men called the Nile, which connected the Euphrates with the distant Tigris, was choked with the...Data dostępności:
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