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My New Year's Eve Among the Mummies
J. Arbuthnot Wilson (pseudonym of the real author, Grant Allen) tells this short story of his strange night spent inside "the great unopened Pyramid of Abu Yilla" in Egypt. On New Year's Eve, on the night before his group was to take a guided tour and climb the still sealed pyramid, he set out on his own to walk around the pyramid to relieve his boredom. He happened to find the secret entrance stone, which he pushed open. What he experienced deep inside the pyramid was a once-in-a-thousand-years event."Never as long as I live shall I forget the ecstasy of terror, astonishment, and blank dismay which seized upon me when I stepped into that seemingly enchanted chamber. ... I gazed fixedly at the strange picture before me, taking in all its details in a confused way, yet quite incapable of understanding or realizing any part of its true import."
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Cup Final (EN)
Long-term couples can spice up their sex life with this hot little number whether bored at home or on a weekend away from work, home, and the kids. This is an erotic short story collection from Cupido. The collection includes the following short stories: "The doctor had a helper with him when he came to disinfect her graze.
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The Magic City
An extremely unhappy ten-year-old magically escapes into a city he has built out of books, chessmen, candlesticks, and other household items.
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0,88 €
Sweet Suprise (EN)
Long-term couples can spice up their sex life with this hot little number, whether they are bored at home or enjoying a weekend away from work, home, and the kids. This is a collection of erotic short stories from Cupido. The collection contains following short stories:t "She had decided to wash him well when he came back home after jogging.
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5,99 €
Elektrické ryby
Elektrické ryby nie sú obyčajné ryby; nenájdeš ich len tak ľahko u niekoho v akváriu a veru ani na svojom tanieri. Sú to pozoruhodné ryby, žijúce v rôznych zákutiach sveta, a preto sa vedci neúnavne venujú ich výskumu. Prečo sú také fascinujúce?
Viac:
Elektrické ryby fascinovali civilizácie počas celých dejín ľudstva! Vedci túto skupinu rýb študujú nepretržite od ich oficiálneho objavu v 18. storočí. Snažia sa pochopiť, ako fungujú, a rozlúštiť ich mnohé tajomstvá. Výskum najskôr ukázal, že vyrobená elektrina je rovnaká ako tá, ktorú obsahuje blesk. O niečo neskôr sa vedci začali zaujímať o receptory a elektrické orgány, ale aj o to, ako elektrické ryby využívajú elektrinu...
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (EN)
Have you been caught in a long and meaningless conversation of which you want to sneak out but somehow find it difficult to do so? Simon Wheeler was sitting quietly in a tavern in a small mining town when an unknown man approached him. The man was actually sent there with a mission: he had to ask Wheeler if he knew another man called Leonidas Smiley.
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Flower Crowns and Fearsome Things
in her new standalone poetry collection, flower crowns & fearsome things, bestselling & award-winning poetess amanda lovelace explores the complexity of femininity through alternating wildflower & wildfire poems.
within these pages, you will find that each of us has the ability to be both soft & fierce at the same time. there is no need to choose one or the other.
London and the Seventeenth Century
The first comprehensive history of seventeenth-century London, told through the lives of those who experienced it
The Gunpowder Plot, the Civil Wars, Charles I's execution, the Plague, the Great Fire, the Restoration, and then the Glorious Revolution: the seventeenth century was one of the most momentous times in the history of Britain, and Londoners took center stage.
In this fascinating account, Margarette Lincoln charts the impact of national events on an ever-growing citizenry with its love of pageantry, spectacle, and enterprise. Lincoln looks at how religious, political, and financial tensions were fomented by commercial ambition, expansion, and hardship. In addition to events at court and parliament, she evokes the remarkable figures of the period, including Shakespeare, Bacon, Pepys, and Newton, and draws on diaries, letters, and wills to trace the untold stories of ordinary Londoners. Through their eyes, we see how the nation emerged from a turbulent century poised to become a great maritime power with London at its heart-the greatest city of its time.
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The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
"Jehan de Mandeville", translated as "Sir John Mandeville", is the name claimed by the compiler of a singular book of supposed travels, written in Anglo-Norman French, and published between 1357 and 1371.By aid of translations into many other languages it acquired extraordinary popularity. Despite the extremely unreliable and often fantastical nature of the travels it describes, it was used as a work of reference — Christopher Columbus, for example, was heavily influenced by both this work and Marco Polo's earlier Il Milione (Adams 53).
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Talent : How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World
The art and science of talent search: how to spot, assess, woo, and retain highly talented people.
How do you find talent with a creative spark? To what extent can you predict human creativity, or is human creativity something irreducible before our eyes, perhaps to be spotted or glimpsed by intuition, but unique each time it appears?
Obsessed with these questions, renowned economist Tyler Cowen and venture capitalist and entrepreneur Daniel Gross set out to study the art and science of finding talent at the highest level: the people with the creativity, drive, and insight to transform an organization and make everyone around them better.
Cowen and Gross guide the reader through the major scientific research areas relevant for talent search, including how to conduct an interview, how much to weight intelligence, how to judge personality and match personality traits to jobs, how to evaluate talent in online interactions such as Zoom calls, why talented women are still undervalued and how to spot them, how to understand the special talents in people who have disabilities or supposed disabilities, and how to use delegated scouts to find talent. Talent appreciation is an art, but it is an art you can improve through study and experience.
Identifying underrated, brilliant individuals is one of the simplest ways to give yourself an organizational edge, and this is the book that will show you how to do that. Talent is both for people searching for talent and for those who wish to be searched for, found, and discovered.
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The Case of Jennie Brice
The Case of Jennie Brice is a crime novel by the American writer Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876 - 1956) set in 1904 in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania (which since 1907 has been a part of the city of Pittsburgh).It tells the story of a blood-stained rope and towel, and a missing tenant, Jenny Brice—all of which convince Mrs. Pittman that a murder has been committed in her boarding house. But without a body, the police say there is no case. Pittman tries to ferret out the killer by using the key to Jennie's apartment to investigate.
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The Science Of Getting Rich (EN)
The Science of Getting Rich was written by Wallace D. Wattles and published in 1910 by the Elizabeth Towne Company. The book is still in print after 100 years. It was a major inspiration for Rhonda Byrne's bestselling book and film ‘The Secret’.
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The Abandoned Room
Bobby Blackburn can remember the first part of the evening when his grandfather was murdered. The problem is, he cannot remember what happened the rest of the night, or how he ended up in the neighborhood of his grandfather's house the next morning.
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The Donnington Affair
In the October 1914 issue of the British magazine The Premier, Sir Max Pemberton published the first part of this story, inviting a number of writers, including Chesterton, to use their talents to solve the mystery of the murder described. Chesterton's solution followed in the form of a Father Brown story in the November issue.
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My Life as Eva: The Struggle is Real
From the popular YouTube tastemaker Eva Gutowski comes her nationally bestselling lifestyle and advice book on the ups and downs of life, told in her hilarious, charming, and genuine voice. What's up guys? It's me, Eva! You may know me from my YouTube channel, MyLifeAsEva. If that's the case, then you might also know that I have a munchkin cat named Paris, a weird obsession with patterned sock collecting, and the tendency to say "HOLY SCHNITZEL!" at all the wrong moments.
Like...embarrassing moments. I'm so lucky to have my fans-over eight million besties and counting! It has been amazing to meet so many of you since I started making videos. Growing up, books are what got me through life-a lot of the good times, and the really bad times.
And no matter how challenging life got, I promised myself that I would get through it, in hopes that someday I'd have the chances to help people who need that one piece of great advice at just the right time. So here's a book by me, totally for you. I'll tell you a ton of my secrets, a lot of fail stories, and how I made it through-and how you can, too! Think of my book like a best friend you can turn to at any time.
Xo Eva
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The Way Of Peace (EN)
The Way of Peace is a New Thought book written by James Allen. Although Allen is more widely known for his As a Man Thinketh, it is the lesser known The Way of Peace (1907) which reflects more accurately his New Thought Movement affiliations, referencing as it does Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism.
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The Wallet of Kai Lung
The Wallet of Kai Lung is a collection of fantasy stories by Ernest Bramah, all but the last of which feature Kai Lung, an itinerant story-teller of ancient China. It was first published in hardcover in London by Grant Richards in 1900, and there have been numerous editions since. Its initial tale, The Transmutation of Ling, was also issued by the same publisher as a separate chapbook in 1911. The collection's importance in the history of fantasy literature was recognized by the anthologization of two of its tales in the celebrated Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series, edited by Lin Carter and published by Ballantine Books; "The Vision of Yin" in Discoveries in Fantasy (March, 1972), and "The Transmutation of Ling" in Great Short Novels of Adult Fantasy Volume II (March, 1973).Although the collection is presented in the fashion of a novel, with each of its component stories designated chapters, there is no overall plot aside from each of the first eight tales being presented as narratives told by Kai Lung at various points in his itinerant career. The final tale is represented as being from a manuscript left by its own separate first-person narrator, Kin Yen.
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Lacná kniha Nevěsta z Texasu (-70%)
Na stopy Čechů, kteří v letech 1861–1865 bojovali v americké občanské válce, narazil Josef Škvorecký víceméně náhodou, když v archivu Chicagské univerzity hledal podklady k románu o Antonínu Dvořákovi Scherzo capriccioso. Příběhy krajanů, kteří se dobrovolně zapojili do války o budoucí podobu Nového světa, na něj silně zapůsobily a inspirovaly ho k úvahám o příštím románu. Sedm let věnoval studiu archivních pramenů: vedle politicko-historických i vojenských okolností a peripetií války Severu proti Jihu se však snažil porozumět především denní rutině a běžným radostem a strastem tehdejších vojáků i civilistů, zkrátka najít otisky jejich skutečného života, které se z odborných pojednání zpravidla vytrácejí. Tak vznikla Nevěsta z Texasu, román nejen válečný, ale také milostný, dobrodružný, politický, společenský, místy dokonce humoristický – a samozřejmě také historický. Román o desítkách lidských osudů, který nelze jen číst, ale do něhož je třeba se ponořit a nechat se jím unést. Román, ve kterém nenajdeme jen jeden z mnoha příběhů o americké občanské válce, ale především – jako ve všech knihách Josefa Škvoreckého – hlubokou lidskou zkušenost.
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The Cross of Love (Barbara Cartland’s Pink Collection 1) (EN)
When Rena's father dies she is alone in the world, forced out of the vicarage that has been her home, with nowhere to go and no money. She seeks help at the large wooden cross standing in the nearby grounds of The Grange. And there in the earth she finds three golden coins, which she hands over to the new young Earl of Lansdale.
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