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I believe each one of us will, at some point, meet someone who will play a decisive role in our lives, since they will affect, not only future time and its uncertainty, but also the certainty of the past. It usually comes unexpectedly, sneaks into your life and unsettles it, it shakes all stereotypes and deeply ingrained convictions, it gives you quite a jolt, it changes, deforms and transforms you - either rapidly or slowly. It makes you take a different perspective on your life. Not from a different angle - one way or another, you achieve that if you just move -, but from the same point where you always stood. Then, you wonder in puzzlement how on earth things look like you've never seen them before.Paul is a divorced man who has gone bankrupt. Every afternoon, he withdraws from a painful past as, seated on a park bench, he listens attentively to a weird story narrated by an enigmatic lonely writer. One day, the writer disappears in a mysterious way before he even finishes his story, leaving his dog with Paul. For the following ten months, Paul visits the same spot every single day to meet the strange man, to give his dog back and listen to the end of the story. A story that will play a decisive role in his future as well as his past.

Raphaella Adamidou returns to Larnaca, Cyprus, from New York to run the, "Black Diamond" her Uncle Dimitris' oil.company. Sheikh Al-Raya gave it to him in token of his gratitude for saving his only son, Kalem-Halid Al Raya, from an attempt on his life.Before the murderer dies, he mumbles some incomprehensible words, such as "the myrrh, the gold, the frankincense...the Red Mantle...the Golden Phoenix..."What is the Sheikh's great secret and what is really going on with the mysterious Blue Rose?

As you look at meThe morals of the world arefighting to the deathMy therapist once told me that what I was going through at the time was called Cinderella Syndrome. This made me sad.Was I the only one that wanted to wear the glass slippers? Was I the only one waiting for the prince to arrive on the golden chariot, Romeo and Erotokritos to serenade me below my balcony, the seven dwarves to take care of me, the moster to magically transform into a prince, the big bad wolf to drown, and Odysseus to come home?I've been trying to figue out through years of self-reflection why I had been looking for fairy-tale endings in real-life situations.Why did I fall for all this stories?I'll let you know if I come across the answer.

"You were right about mo, Roxanne, you were right from the start! Pm a monster, a filthy, despicable, wretched monster! You're right about hating me... I'm cursed, and so arc the other miserable creatures T dragged along with me..."No one dares go near the derelict old castle perched on Timber Hill. Everyone believes that it's haunted.Sixteen-year-old Roxanne doesn't believe in ghosts, and entering the castle is simply a challenge for her. What she discovers inside, though, shakes her mindset; the truth scares and enchants her at the same time; it puts her life on the line, while leaving her bewitched and piquing her curiosity. She is gripped by such a tyrannical burning curiosity that she cannot stop going back there again and againuntil she discovers all its secrets.Upon crossing the threshold of the old mansion, the greatest adventure of her life begins. She falls in love, gets hurt and makes some otherworldly friends...She pushes her own soul to the limit, realises the power of forgiveness and, above all, discovers that her life is bound up with the castle, its mysterious owner and its ghosts.In the end, when she unwittingly risks giving its secrets away, the consequences for the others and herself are devastating...Timber's Castle is the first book of the trilogy Hemiphos. A tour dc force ballad that wasn't set to music and verse, but was cloaked in the mantle of prose.

Away from the battlefields, countless tragedies took place in the wake of the Second World War, compounding and subverting the lives of millions of people throughout Europe. What could possibly connect Anne, a beautiful university student, with charming Adolf other than family life and love that brought them together? The Great War's ineffable horror makes its marks on human souls decades after it ended. The novel 'So near, so far' is a contemporary tragedy that seems to have sprung out of events like the ones that inspired the Ancient Greek Tragic Poets. In its pages come alive the heroes who seek their own catharsis and, through an ordeal, head for what seems to be a pre-ordained ending. Or maybe not.

Mr. Alzheimer went silent for a few seconds."Just to love him," he said."But we do love him, very much. He is our Grandpa.""Yes, I know that. What I meant before, is that the only thing you can do to help him is to keep telling him that you love him, especially when he is sad or upset. It will help him a lot to feel your presence and your love. Do you know what I really believe? That the heart remembers what the mind forgets. The hugs and attention of his loved ones, even when he can not recognize them, will make him feel better.""This is the easiest we can do! But is love just enough or there are more things we can do for him?"

At the end of the nineteenth century, the rich have great interest in the occult; tables dance everywhere, and ghosts speak in many a darkened room.Willem Wolf, a wealthy young man, has a passion for exploring psychic phenomena and exposing the charlatans. He believes many are fraudulent and he becomes a one-man inquisition hunting for the truth, first giving the psychics the benefit of the doubt until he sees through their trickery.Then he decides to find out what happens when more than a dozen mediums concentrate on the same thing at the same time. He finds himself in a mesmerizing world where the intriguing story of the long-lost Nibelung Gold seems to be a fact.Wolf begins a journey he never expected, dealing with dishonest and evil people while searching for the truth of the legendary Nibelung treasure or Rhine Gold that has been lost since the 5th century along Germany's Rhine River."...A very interesting story. I really liked Wolf and the story being set late in the 19th century. The magic, spiritism, ghosts and of course finding out the story behind the legend, along with the suspense, mystery and adventure made for a delightful read. I highly recommend The Nibelung Gold to those who love a great mystery/adventure/suspense story." - Amazon review by Sheri A. Wilkinson

A Study in Scarlet is an 1887 detective novel written by Arthur Conan Doyle. The story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would become the most famous detective duo in literature. The book's title derives from a speech given by Holmes, a consulting detective, to his friend and chronicler Watson on the nature of his work, in which he describes the story's murder investigation as his ""study in scarlet"": ""There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.""The story, and its main characters, attracted little public interest when it first appeared. Only 11 complete copies of the magazine in which the story first appeared, Beeton's Christmas Annual for 1887, are known to exist now and they have considerable value. Although Conan Doyle wrote 56 short stories featuring Holmes, A Study in Scarlet is one of only four full-length novels in the original canon. The novel was followed by The Sign of the Four, published in 1890. A Study in Scarlet was the first work of detective fiction to incorporate the magnifying glass as an investigative tool.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English poet, actor and one of the greatest writers to ever use the English language. He was also the world's greatest playwright of all times, with his plays being translated in over 50 languages and performed across the globe for audiences of all ages. Known as ""The Bard"" or the ""Bard of Avon," Shakespeare created his own theatre on the River Thames in 1599 and named it the Globe Theatre, a historical theatre, that is visited by thousands of tourists every year.Shakespeare produced most of his known works between 1589 -1613. His early plays were primarily comedies and histories and are regarded as some of the best work produced in these genres. His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 37 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.And even after 400 long years, his plays are still read, loved and relevant in today's society. Shakespeare wrote about timeless themes such as life and death, youth and old age, love and hate, fate and freedom, to name but a few. Shakespeare's plays are studied in academia all across the world, the most famous are: Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Julius Caesar and Macbeth. Apart from the rich language, these plays contain a great deal of valuable advice.

Saki is perhaps the most graceful spokesman for England's 'Golden Afternoon' - the slow and peaceful years before the First World War. Although, like so many of his generation, he died tragically young, in action on the Western Front, his reputation as a writer continued to grow long after his death. The stories are humorous, satiric, supernatural, and macabre, highly individual, full of eccentric wit and unconventional situations. With his great gift as a social satirist of his contemporaryupper-class Edwardian world, Saki is one of the few undisputed English masters of the short story.

The Poison Belt is a science fiction novel by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle, the second book about Professor Challenger. Written in 1913, much of it takes place in a single room in Challenger's house in Sussex. Must Professor George Challenger and friends, barricaded in a room, see Earth die? As globe passes through a belt of poisonous ether, terror sweeps mankind; cities riot; communications cease.

Wilkie Collins' fourth published novel, The Dead Secret, is the story of Rosamond Treverton and the revelation of a secret that changes her life forever. Rosamond, the daughter of a wealthy actress is married to a blind man Leonard Frankland. During childbirth, her acting nurse Sarah gives Rosamund a cryptic warning to avoid the room in which the Secret is hidden.What is hidden in the room? What does she find out?A haunting past is coming for her that could prove disastrous for her and the entire estate.Wilkie Collins's brilliant characters, suspenseful plots, and piercing look into Victorian-era society are on full display in this brilliant novel.

It is an 1899 novel by Maxim Gorky. His hero an atypical figure in the context of Russian merchant community. "It is supposed to present the broad and true picture of the contemporary life, while featuring the figure of an energetic, healthy man, craving for space to realize his power's potential. He feels restricted. Life smothers him. He realizes that there is no place for heroes in it, they apt to being defeated by small things, like Hercules, the conqueror of hydras, crashed by hordes of mosquitoes," he wrote in a February 1898 letter to the publisher S. Dorovatsky.

A collection of short fiction by one of the most eminent Russian author, Maxim Gorky. Born as Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, this great man was a Russian writer and political activist. He was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Gorky's most famous works are his early short stories, written in the 1890s; plays The Philistines (1901), The Lower Depths (1902) and Children of the Sun (1905); a poem, "The Song of the Stormy Petrel" (1901); his autobiographical trilogy, My Childhood, In the World, My Universities (1913-1923); and a novel, Mother (1906); and post-revolutionary works such as the novels The Artamonov Business (1925) and The Life of Klim Samgin (1925-1936), the latter is considered Gorky's masterpiece and has sometimes been viewed by critics as a modernist work. He had associations with fellow Russian writers Leo Tolstoy and Anton Chekhov, both mentioned by Gorky in his memoirs.

BlurbFor them, he was the bruiser, the assassin, the last thing you see before the bullet hits your head. He was the Albanian Monster.For me, he's Hugo, my brother's best friend, and my annoying bodyguard. For me, he is Famiglia.I knew I needed protection. I didn't grow up as a mafia princess in the most powerful crime family in New York without learning that there's always a gun barrel lurking in the shadows ready to aim for my head, but why did it have to be him?Temptation, desire, and danger were pushing us together, but if my brother would find out that I was having an affair with his most trusted general, blood would be spilled and it wouldn't be mine.We were walking a fine line, but I was in too deep. I was the girl who fell in love with a Monster.

In Silver and the Ghost Horse, Book 3 of Saladin series, Angie and her wonder horse Silver plunge into another dangerous adventure when a sly counselor and a giant soldier decide to destroy the camp of Robin Hood.The giant soldier, Buck Bains, and the counselor work with the evil Prince John to create a super army to find Angie, force her to bring them to the camp to arrest Robin Hood, and bring Angie and the two wonder horses, Saladin and Silver to the Prince.

"Management is doing things right, leadership is doing the right things." This book is here to help you with all the important aspects of new management requirements for the firm to run smoothly and effectively for the attainment of the desired goals of a particular firm in the competitive market. Adarsh Kumar Pandey is adept in the field of marketing and management. He completed his BBA(H) from Institute of Leadership and Entrepreneurship Development and is currently pursuing MBA from Amity University. He has also received accreditation from Harvard University, University of Maryland and Delft University of Technology.

A Clergyman's Daughter is a 1935 novel by English author George Orwell. It tells the story of Dorothy Hare, the clergyman's daughter of the title, whose life is turned upside down when she suffers an attack of amnesia. It is Orwell's most formally experimental novel, featuring a chapter written entirely in dramatic form, but he was never satisfied with it and he left instructions that after his death it was not to be reprinted. Despite these instructions, Orwell did consent to the printing of cheap editions "of any book which may bring in a few pounds for my heirs" following his death.

"First published in 1934, Burmese Days is a novel by George Orwell. Set in British Burma during the waning days of the Empire, it is ""a portrait of the dark side of the British Raj."" The story is based on Orwell's own experiences as a police officer in Burma. The main character of the novel is John Flory and he represents what is known as the ""pukka sahib"" who upholds British values and the British way of life. Flory is deliberately contrasted with other British residents of the area, however, he has real respect for the local culture and is not bigoted as the others. The others stand for the more normal course of British imperialism, with the British exercising power over people for whom they have contempt. The strong pessimism of Orwell is seen in the way Flory is marginalized by the British community precisely because he is not the bigot others are and so, Flory cannot survive in this atmosphere and commits suicide."

Tales of Terror and Mystery is a collection of twelve short stories by Arthur Canon Doyle. Each begins in a quietly factual way, making all the more dramatic the crescendo of fear and puzzlement that ensues as each new circumstance is revealed. Even without his supremely logical detective Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle shows that his tales are unbeatable for thrills and excitement.

Prince John reigns over England now that his brother Richard Lionheart is not there. He exploits the people and wears Richard's crown. Everyone fears this mean prince except for men like Robin Hood and girls like Angie!Angie roams the country on the back of her wonder horse Silver and comes across the most odd persons. She runs into knight Rush and his little son Arthur; she meets a merry rat catcher and finally returns to the camp of Robin Hood.Prince John then organizes an election. The man who becomes the Jester of Nottingham is allowed to reign the country for one week.The Prince does not know that King Richard has set foot on English ground again! Angie knows where she can find the king and the king uses her help and her wonder horses to retake control of the kingdom.

It is the English translation of the Sahitya Akademi winner ""Do Panktiyon Ke Beech"" by Rajesh Joshi. It is a remarkable collection of poems touching upon the big and small things one comes across in life.About the authorRajesh JoshiBorn on July 18, 1946, Narsinghgarh, Madhya Pradesh.Publications:Long Poem: Samargatha (published in the Pahal series.)Poetry Collections: Ek Din Bolange Pad, Mitti Ka Chehra, Nepathya Main Hansi, Do Paktiyon ke Beech, Chand Ki Vartani, Zidd, Ullanghan Stories Collection: Somvar aur anya Kahaniyan, Kapil Ka Pad Plays: Jadu Jungle, Ache Admi, Tankara ka Gana, Panse, Tukke par Tukka, Turn Saadat Hasan Manto Ho, Sapna Mera Yahi SakhiArticles, Reviews and Notebooks: Ek Kavi Ki Notebook, Ek Kavi Ki Doosri Notebook Translations:Poems of Mayakovsky: Patloon, Pahina, Badal,Transcreations of the poems of Bhartrihari: Bhoomi ka Kalptaruyh YehBhi.Tukke par Tukka staged in a number of cities of India and abroad, Fiji and Columbia.Included in Barah Hindustani Shair (Twelve Indian Poets) edited by Azmal Kamal, Pakistan.Poems, stories and dramas translated in a number of languages of India and in English, Russian and German.Edited the renowned magazine 'Isliye', Vartman Sahitya(a special issue on poetry) and Naya Path.Distinctions and Honours:Muktibodh Puraskar 1978, Makhanlal Chaturvedi Puraskar 1985, Shrikant Verma Samman 1986, Shamsher Samman 1996, Pahal Samman 1998, Shikhar Samman 2000, Sahitya Academy Award2002. Retired from Banking services Freelance writingContact:11, Niralal Nagar, Dushyant Kumar Tyaji Marg, Bhopal-462 003 Email: rajesh.isliye@gmail.com Mob.: 7828711741

Mother is a novel written by Maxim Gorky in 1906 about revolutionary factory workers. Gorky portrays the life of a woman who works in a Russian factory doing hard manual labour and combating poverty and hunger, among other hardships. Pelageya Nilovna Vlasova is the real protagonist; her husband, a heavy drunkard, physically assaults her and leaves all the responsibility for raising their son, Pavel Vlasov, to her, but unexpectedly dies. Pavel noticeably begins to emulate his father in his drunkenness and stammer, but suddenly becomes involved in revolutionary activities. Abandoning drinking, Pavel starts to bring books to his home. Being illiterate and having no political interest, Nilovna is at first cautious about Pavel's new activities. However, she wants to help him. Pavel is shown as the main revolutionary character. Nevertheless Nilovna, moved by her maternal feelings and, though uneducated, overcoming her political ignorance to become involved in revolution, is considered the true protagonist of the novel.Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, popularly known as Maxim Gorky, was a Russian writer and political activist. He was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Gorky's most famous works are his early short stories, written in the 1890s; plays The Philistines (1901), The Lower Depths (1902) and Children of the Sun (1905); a poem, ""The Song of the Stormy Petrel"" (1901); his autobiographical trilogy, My Childhood, In the World, My Universities (1913-1923); and a novel, Mother (1906); and post-revolutionary works such as the novels The Artamonov Business (1925) and The Life of Klim Samgin (1925-1936), the latter is considered Gorky's masterpiece and has sometimes been viewed by critics as a modernist work. He had associations with fellow Russian writers Leo Tolstoy and Anton Chekhov, both mentioned by Gorky in his memoirs.

The Oakdale Affair is a short contemporary mystery novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs.The house on the hill showed lights only upon the first floor-in the spacious reception hall, the dining room, and those more or less mysterious purlieus thereof from which emanate disagreeable odors and agreeable foods. From behind a low bush across the wide lawn a pair of eyes transferred to an alert brain these simple perceptions from which the brain deduced that the family of the president of The First National Bank of-Oh, let's call it Oakdale-was at dinner, that the servants were below stairs and the second floor deserted. The owner of the eyes had but recently descended from the quarters of the chauffeur above the garage which he had entered as a thief in the night and quitted apparelled in a perfectly good suit of clothes belonging to the gentlemanly chauffeur and a soft, checked cap which was now pulled well down over a pair of large brown eyes in which a rather strained expression might have suggested to an alienist a certain neophytism which even the stern set of well shaped lips could not effectually belie. Apparently this was a youth steeling himself against a natural repugnance to the dangerous profession he had espoused; and when, a moment later, he stepped out into the moonlight and crossed the lawn toward the house, the slender, graceful lines which the ill-fitting clothes could not entirely conceal carried the conviction of youth if not of innocence.

Kate Chopin is known to exhibit feminine resistance to patriarchal society through her short stories. Critics claim that Chopin's resistance can be traced through the timeline of her work, with Chopin becoming more and more understanding of how women can fight back suppression as time progresses. To demonstrate this, Martha Cutter argues that Chopin's earlier stories, such as "At the 'Cadian Ball," "Wiser than a God," and "Mrs. Mobry's Reason" present women who are outright resisting and are therefore not taken seriously, are either erased or called insane. However, in Chopin's later stories, the female characters take on a different voice of resistance, one that is more "covert" and works to undermine patriarchal discourse from within. According to Cutter, Chopin wanted to "disrupt patriarchal discourse, without being censored by it." And to do this, Chopin tried different strategies in her writings: silent women, overly resistant women, women with a "voice covert," and women who mimic patriarchal discourse. The female characters in her most renowned work, The Awakening, went beyond the standards of social norms of the time. The protagonist has sexual desires and questions the sanctity of motherhood. The novel explores the theme of marital infidelity from the perspective of a wife. The book was widely banned and fell out of print for several decades before being republished in the 1970s. Today, The Awakening is said to be one of the five top favorite novels in literature courses all over America.

The Land That Time Forgot is a fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first of his Caspak trilogy.The novel is set in World War I and opens with a framing story in which a manuscript relating the main story is recovered from a thermos off the coast of Greenland. It purports to be the narrative of Bowen J. Tyler, an American passenger sunk in the English Channel by a German U-boat, U-33, in 1916. He and a woman named Lys La Rue are rescued by a British tugboat. The tug is also sunk, but its crew manages to capture the submarine when it surfaces. Unfortunately, all other British craft continue to regard the sub as an enemy, and they are unable to bring it to port. Sabotage to the navigation equipment sends the U-33 astray into the South Pacific. The imprisoned German crew retakes the sub and begins a raiding cruise, only to be overcome again by the British. A saboteur continues to guide the sub off course, and by the time he is found out it is in Antarctic waters.The U-33 is now low on fuel, with its provisions poisoned by the saboteur Benson. A large island ringed by cliffs is encountered, and identified as Caprona, a land mass first reported by the fictitious Italian explorer Caproni in 1721 whose location was subsequently lost. A freshwater current guides the sub to a stream issuing from a subterranean passage, which is entered on the hope of replenishing the water supply. The U-boat surfaces into a tropical river teeming with primitive creatures extinct elsewhere; attacked, it submerges again and travels upstream in search of a safe harbor. It enters a thermal inland sea, essentially a huge crater lake, whose heat sustains Caprona's tropical climate. As the sub travels north along the island's waterways the climate moderates and wildlife undergoes an apparent evolutionary progression.On the shore of the lake the crew builds a palisaded base, dubbed Fort Dinosaur for the area's prehistoric fauna. The British and Germans agree to work together under Tyler, with Bradley, the mate from the tug, as second in command and Von Schoenvorts, the original sub commander, in control of the Germans. The castaways are attacked by a horde of beast men and take prisoner Ahm, a Neanderthal Man. They learn that the native name for the island is Caspak. Oil is discovered, which they hope to refine into fuel for the U-33. As they set up operations, Bradley undertakes various explorations. During his absence Lys disappears and the Germans abscond with the submarine.Tyler leaves the other survivors to seek and rescue Lys. A series of adventures ensues among various bands of near-human primitives, each representing a different stage of human advancement, as represented by their weaponry. Tyler rescues Lys from a group of Sto-lu (""hatchet men""), and later aids the escape of a woman of the Band-lu (spearmen) to the Kro-lu (bowmen). Lys is lost again, and chance discoveries of the graves of two men associated with Bradley's expedition leaves Tyler in despair of that party's fate. Unable to find his way back to Fort Dinosaur, he retreats to the barrier cliffs ringing Caspak in a vain hope of attracting rescue from some passing ship. Improbably reunited with Lys, he sets up house with her, completes the account of his adventures which he has been writing, and casts it out to sea in his thermos.