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An Engineer finds himself in an Alternate reality, Cornwall, in the year 715 A.D. He awakens in the body of a young Baron.A retired Lieutenant General, former head of the Army Corp of Engineers, lies dying at the age of ninety-two. Leading a full life, he is a decorated veteran of World War II, Korea, and Viet Nam.After a long illness, he lies dying. His last thought is, "What a waste of such wonderful knowledge."As he fades to black, the fun begins. He is to build a modern civilization without being burned as a witch!The series continues with the Barony of Owen-nap being attacked from all sides.

Die Jahre 2015 - 2019 sind geprägt durch den Brexit und die Wahl Donald Trumps zum Präsidenten der Vereinigten Staaten Americas. Beides hat den 'Westen', wie wir ihn seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg kannten, nachhaltig verändert. Die Aufzeichnungen V spiegeln die Sorge des Autors wieder, wie stark sich diese Veränderung auf unser Demokratie-Verständnis und vor allem die Zukunft Europas auswirken. Damit verbunden ist das wachsende Bewusstsein, dass wir, die Menschheit, an der Schwelle dramatischer Veränderungen stehen, die das Ende des fossilen Zeitalters einläuten. Und die nicht mehr zu verleugnenden Klimaveränderungen uns vor ungeahnte neue Herausforderungen stellen werden.

Traducción de la novela en alemán "Der Code der Zikaden" de Thomas H. Huber. También en este libro el lector experimenta TENSION, MISTICA, AMOR Y AVENTURA. La lectura ideal para los veraneantes en Creta.Samuel y Sarah Kramer en realidad sólo quieren pasar unas relajantes vacaciones de playa en Creta. Pero poco después de su llegada se ven atrapados en una pesadilla que les lleva al límite de su cordura. El desencadenante es un breve vídeo de vacaciones que Sam envía a su amigo Jack Stern por Whatsapp. En él se ve a Sarah contemplando la costa sur desde el punto más alto de la carretera de montaña. De fondo, sólo se oye el viento y el gorjeo de miles de cigarras. Stern, un experto en cifrado del ejército estadounidense, cree haber descubierto un código en el canto de las cigarras. Esto llama la atención del misterioso William Sutherford, que ve una conexión entre el código de las cigarras y el destino de la humanidad. Sam, su esposa Sarah y otras diez personas se unen a él en una extraña aventura.

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Rome unlocks a continent.Eighty years have passed since General Gnaeus Pompey and the Optimates of the Senate took refuge on the shores of Nova Roma. In that time, the new Roman Republic has grown steadily and is now ready to explore the great expanse past the Mesizibi.But their goal is not going unnoticed.To the north, the Remans of the Five Seas Nation have not found life easy. The nation of soldiers and ironworkers rely on the Romans much more than they like and are not content to let the Romans claim the entire continent.The Myans to the south are at the pinnacle of their civilization and looking at the resource potential of the uncharted lands.Add to the tumultuous situation, fierce natives who will fight to protect their lands from intruders.Who will prevail in conquering this vast, wild land? If you enjoyed the thrilling adventure of Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, then you are sure to be captivated by the Nova Roma Series written by Ward Clark as Anderson Gentry!

Lyrical Ballads is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and his friend and contemporary Samuel Taylor Coleridge. A hugely influential work, Lyrical Ballads is generally acknowledged to have started the Romantic movement in English literature¿a period marked by a departure from the stiff and unapproachable poetry of earlier times, and by a focus on readable, relatable verse written in everyday language. Many of Wordsworth¿s poems focus on the natural world and the down-to-earth people of the country, another far departure from the rational and dry literature of old. Romanticism was one of the largest sea changes in modern English literature, and Lyrical Ballads was its catalyst.This ebook edition is based on the 1805 edition of Lyrical Ballads, and features the famous poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, ¿Tintern Abbey,¿ ¿Expostulation and Reply,¿ ¿Lucy Gray,¿ and many others.

From the writer/director of the cult science fiction feature film SONS OF STEEL. DARK ENERGY is the 3rd book in the epic series of the reluctant time traveller BLACK ALICE.

"... a riveting tale of adventure, magic, and the long process of grieving. Cassie Andrews, a mild-mannered bookseller in New York City, inherits the mysterious eponymous volume from a deceased customer. Discovering its magical ability to transport her to any place she envisions, Cassie, accompanied by her spirited roommate, Izzy, embarks on an adventure. However, as they realize the perilous potential of the book, they find themselves entangled with an enigmatic man known as the Librarian, who protects a collection of similarly magical books, and pursued by malevolent forces seeking the power of the Book of Doors and all the other volumes like it."--Provided by publisher.

"Camilo Cienfuegos fue un carismâatico revolucionario que se hizo amigo de Fidel Castro cuando empezaron las protestas para derrocar la dictadura de Fulgencio Batista. Siempre fiel a los ideales de la Revoluciâon, Cienfuegos luchâo al lado de Fidel, Raâul y el Che Guevara, y llegâo a ganarse la simpatâia del pueblo cubano gracias a su humildad y franqueza. Tras ganar varias batallas, la rivalidad entre Camilo y Fidel se fue acentuando y sus ideales se separaron. Las ideas pacifistas de Camilo le ganaron el afecto de la gente, pero la ambiciâon de Castro por el poder absoluto y una secreta envidia de su fiel amigo lo borrarâian de la historia. Cuando, temeroso de los designios de los Castro, Camilo decidiâo irse al exilio, un trâagico accidente lo hizo desaparecer del mapa. Algunos creen que el aviâon en el que viajaba de regreso a la Habana, despuâes de atender los âultimos encargos de Fidel, fue derribado por un misil. Lo cierto es que no quedaron rastros de âel ni de los supuestos testigos del accidente. ÅAlgâun dâia se sabrâa la verdad?"--

Originally published in October 1919, Night and Day is Virginia Woolf's second novel. It contrasts the daily lives of four major characters while examining the relationships between love, marriage, happiness, and success.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is Joyce¿s first novel, published after the previous success of his short story collection Dubliners. The novel is written in a modernist style, with dialog and narration blending together in a kind of stream-of-consciousness meant to invoke the blurriness of memory.Joyce originally planned writing a realist autobiographical novel of 63 chapters titled Stephen Hero. He abandoned the attempt halfway through, and refocused his efforts on Portrait, a shorter, sharper work in the modernist style. His alter-ego remained Stephen Dedalus, named after Daedalus, the mythological Greek craftsman and father of Icarus. Portrait was written while he was waiting for Dubliners to be published, a process that took eight years and so frustrated Joyce that he once threw the manuscript of Portrait into a fire, causing his family to run to save it.The novel closely traces Joyce¿s early years. Like his alter-ego Stephen, Joyce was born into a middle-class family and lived in Dublin as they descended into poverty; he rebelled against his Irish Catholic upbringing to become a star student at Dublin University, and put aside thoughts of priesthood or medicine, the other careers offered him, to become a writer. Joyce doesn¿t shy away from sensitive topics, presenting the discoveries of youth in all of their physical detail, including Stephen¿s teenage visits to prostitutes (which also mirror Joyce¿s youth, and were how he probably contracted the suspected syphilis that plagued his vision and tortured his health for the rest of his life), and the homosexual explorations of children at a Jesuit school.The writing is in the free indirect style, allowing the narrator to both focus on Stephen and present characters and events through his eyes, until the last chapter, where Stephen¿s first-person diary entries suggest he¿s finally found his voice. As the novel progresses, the syntax and vocabulary also grow in complexity, reflecting Stephen¿s own development.Of Joyce¿s three novels, Portrait is the most straightforward and accessible. But it remains just as rich and complex as any masterpiece, with critics across generations hailing it as work of unique beauty and perception.

First published in 1920, the story is written in first person as a journal. Our narrator is a tired English woman who, after WWI, escapes ambiguous personal troubles in London and seeks refuge at her chalet among the Swiss Alps. As she starts to gain strength, two English women, also of ambiguous personal circumstances, show up literally on her doorstep. The hostess takes them in, and they embark on a strange and endearing path to helping each other.

Elmer Gantry isn¿t suited to be a lawyer, so he becomes a preacher instead. Although he experiences a variety of failures, and even more successes, Gantry ultimately finds this new career path suits him very well indeed¿despite his drinking and womanizing. Throughout his time as a preacher Gantry progresses through the hierarchies of the Baptist and Methodist churches, dabbles in revivalism and ¿New Thought,¿ and even experiments with politics, all the while emerging from scandals relatively unscathed and ready to move onward and upward once again.Sinclair Lewis published the satirical Elmer Gantry in 1927 much to the dismay of the religious community. It was denounced from the pulpit, banned by many, and even engendered threats of violence. Despite this¿or perhaps because of it¿it went on to become a massive success and the best selling novel of that year.One of the most savage satirical assaults against institutionalized religion and its hypocrisy in American literature, Elmer Gantry continues to be a window into a particularly important aspect of American history.

Der erste Band "Das Jahr als das Klopapier ausging" hat viele Menschen berührt. Geschichten vor und während der Plandemiezeit von über 50 Hobby-Autoren. Dem Verstecken, dem Kampf, der Angst.Nun sind wir wieder ein Jahr weiter und haben festgestellt, dass wir ZWISCHEN den WELTEN leben. Für die einen ist es das "neue Normal". Sie haben die Welt so akzeptiert wie sie ist. Sie nehmen alles hin, sie vergessen was war, oder verdrängen es einfach gekonnt. Genug Ablenkung ist ja da in Form von Brot & Spielen, neuen Angstpornos und neuen Katastrophen und Kriegsszenarios.Doch dann gibt es Menschen wie uns. Wir haben das Leben nie als Wahrheit akzeptiert oder begannen es seit 2020 zu hinterfragen. Wir wachten auf. Und wir vergessen nichts.Dieser zweite Band erzählt von uns - den Menschen, über 30 Hobby-Autoren, die ZWISCHEN den WELTEN leben. Wir agieren in der Matrix, wie alle anderen auch. Scheinbar. Doch in Wirklichkeit führen wir ein Doppelleben. Ob wir die runde Erde anzweifeln oder die Gesetze. Ob wir spüren, dass die Sonne uns bald mit einem Solarflash von der Erde pustet oder uns eine Fake-Alieninvasion bevor steht. Wir hinterfragen alles. Und wir rechnen mit allem.Denn nichts kann aufhalten, was kommt.Es ist nur die Frage wann.Kate Bono