Verlag: Alfredbooks
by Neal Chadwick The size of this book is equivalent to 108 paperback pages. Billy Dunlop kidnaps Henrietta Lamont. Town Marshal Jim Cranston tries everything to rescue her. Meanwhile, chaos breaks out in Virginia City. Behind it is none other than O'Kieran, who wants to get the Town Marshal deposed. Will he succeed?
Monsters—humans with weapons and lies. They tricked me, they've captured me, and they hurt my men. Ben was after me from the start, this entire trip was a farce. He’d been hiding, wanting, and waiting for the day he could use me for his twisted rituals, making monsters of men. Traveling the country camping was supposed to be an escape from the strange and unusual that clings to my family. Instead it’s brought me more than I ever bargained for. My family’s calling to fame—the ghosts, the hauntings, the supernatural—it's time I wield it. But we’re caged and broken. A rock star with dark secrets. A West Virginia local legend—a monster myth of cryptid fame. An abhorrence that possesses me, amorphous tentacles and all. A broken man made to be a monster that everyone fears—a beast made of greed, so hungry he can’t control himself. We’ll have to work together, we’ll have to save each other, and we’ll have to paint the mountain red before we can finally be done.Zum Buch
It was a lesson you learned in the Space-Forces, and you learned it good: Out in the lonely void, when you get in a jam, you're on your own ... it's you against everything and everybody. Anything goes.... He was transporting a desperately ill little girl from Luna to earth after an atomic explosion. But his radio was out and he could not hear anything from the landing grid on earth which meant both of them would die. Unless another solution was found in time. Listen to this story and enjoy the depths of human ingenuity.Zum Buch
“Just the novel to elevate these unforgettable voices.”—Shelf Awareness The acclaimed author of The Secret Women and Things Past Telling returns with an engrossing historical novel about a little known aspect of World War II—the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, the only Black WACs to serve overseas during the conflict. In the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Dorothy Thom, Spelman graduate, librarian and Francophile, joins the Women’s Army Corps wanting to do her part for the war effort. Longing for adventure, she has one question for the recruiter: “Do you think I’ll get to go abroad?” As Dorothy and her sister WACs discover, life in the Army is an adventure filled with unexpected deprivations and culture shock. Women from all levels of society, secretaries, teachers, and sharecroppers, work together to navigate a military segregated by race and gender. At boot camp, the “colored girls” are separated for processing. At Ft. Riley, the women’s barracks are rustic and heated by coal-burning pot-bellied stoves while German POWs spend their incarceration in buildings with central heat and hot water. In early 1945, Dorothy and eight hundred African American WACs cross the turbulent North Atlantic to their post in England. Their orders are to process the mail sent to GIs from their loved ones back home, an estimated 17 million pieces. The women arrive to find mail stockpiled for over two years in warehouses and airplane hangars, many pieces in poor condition, the names illegible. In England and France, the WACs traverse a landscape of unimagined possibilities. With their outlooks changed forever, they return to the United States as the catalysts for change in America and build lives that transcend anything their ancestors ever dreamed of. No Better Time illuminates a love of country and duty that has been overlooked until now.Zum Buch
What is the Ghost in the Box? An urban legend states that if you watch television alone late at night, you might come across the “Ghost in the Box.” It appears in the white noise when programming has ended for the night, but this is most certainly no regular program. And if you happen to see it, then you’ll only have three more days until “she” comes for you. Who is this ghost? Why is she killing people who happen across her late at night? And is there any way to escape once you’ve seen her on screen…? Click the buy now button to uncover the secrets behind this terrifying urban legend right now. Reiwa Tanpen is a series of stand-alone Japanese horror, mystery, and thriller novellas and short stories for the new era. Featuring Japanese ghosts, curses, killers, yokai, urban legends, and much more, each story can be read independently of the rest.Zum Buch
Carlos the Curious Cat loves exploring and learning about the world around him. One day, he ventures into the garden behind his home, where he learns about teamwork from a family of ants, music from singing birds, and the stars from a wise old frog. Each encounter fills Carlos with joy and new knowledge. As he falls asleep, he dreams of the many adventures and mysteries yet to be discovered.Zum Buch
Five people fall to their deaths when a bridge collapses over a river in Peru. Can Brother Juniper discover the reason that these five individuals had to die? Exploring themes of love, goodness, and predestination, Wilder exposes the nature of his characters by examining their relationships. The bonds of parents and children, siblings, and surrogate parents are all examined with elegant skill, leading us to ask the hard questions that point to the inevitable river below. The Bridge of San Luis Rey won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1928.Zum Buch
