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I shook his shoulder. ‘All right? You all right, Dave? Dave?’He leaned his head back and closed his eyes hard, as he clenched his fists and started beating them against the wall. ‘We need to get you to a hospital,’ I said. ‘Nah, fuck that. Let’s just get away from here.’We walked on through the rain. He still limped but seemed a lot less injured than I had feared. He said nothing, and I was silent too.At four o’clock in the morning I dragged him up the staircase and into my hotel room.In December 1979, Thomas returns to suburban Copenhagen after a year in London, where he has been playing organ in a New Wave band. Before long he meets an old school mate, Henrik, and they decide to form a band to bring the partly modern, partly retro-orientated style of Mod music to Denmark. There are long flashbacks to Thomas’ experiences in London during the now legendary 1979 Mod Revival, including the making of the film Quadrophenia. But that era is now over and gone, and Thomas decides to remain in Denmark, although he sees the country as hopelessly stuck in the Hippie era. Meanwhile, he strikes up a relationship with Mia and begins studying at university. However, things get muddled up, the band is drowning in bad gigs, and in the midst of it all Thomas gradually becomes aware of a dark family secret.
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The catchphrase "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas" is supposed to be the code, but what happens when it doesn’t remain in Vegas? Phoebe Alexis Courtland had a plan. As a paralegal studying for the bar, she decided while in Vegas for a conference she would let off some steam with her friends. When Phoebe wakes the last day of her weekend trip to Vegas, she finds one of the biggest princess cut wedding rings on her ring finger while lying on top of a naked chiseled chest god. Phoebe remembers nothing of her drunken night of love and is determined to have the marriage annulled immediately. After Vegas, Phoebe is forced to go to her now husband Xavier’s Ranch to get him to sign the divorce papers. But Xavier won’t sign them without a fight. Xavier has a few tricks up his sleeve for his new bride. Will Phoebe be able to get her divorce?
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The brewing of beer is regarded by many as a more or less mechanical operation, yet there is much more to it. Great is its debt of gratitude to the labours of scientific men. The aim of this work is therefore to show the number of scientific investigations of the first order of importance, which have given rise to the brewing industry.
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The beautiful Lady Diana Dinsdale’s father has died and shortly afterwards her mother dies as well and she is heartbroken at the loss of both her beloved parents. After the Earl of Dinsdale’s death, her mother had married again to William Walker, a rich businessman who is cynically seeking to improve his standing socially to help his financial interests to make him even richer. And now Diana is all alone except for her grasping stepfather. When she learns that he is arranging for her to marry an American millionaire friend of his, whom she has never seen, merely because she has a title, she is absolutely horrified. She has always dreamt of marrying a man she deeply loves as he loves her. Although she feels obligated to her stepfather because he helped her parents when they were almost bankrupt, she cannot go ahead with this marriage. So she plans to escape the appalling prospect by running away and hiding from her dreadful stepfather. With the help of her father’s old butler, Simpson, she becomes the Governess to Eric, the young brother of Lord Anthony Clayton. Eric has had a succession of Governesses who leave as soon as they arrive because the boy is almost uncontrollable and refuses to learn anything from anybody. How Diana teaches the boy to become a young gentleman. How she helps Lord Clayton with his domestic and financial problems. And how she unexpectedly finds the love of her life is all told in this romantic novel by BARBARA CARTLAND.
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Once there was a pastor who always gave terrifying sermons. He promised that sinners would burn in hell and, in his eyes, everyone had committed sufficient wrongs to deserve this punishment. Despite his impressive speeches, the pastor’s wife did not believe that everyone could be as bad as all that. When she died, the pastor was very sad. But one night, the dead woman’s ghost appeared and took him on an adventure that led him to question everything he had previously believed.
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In Gudenau, in the forest of Silkeborg, lived a farmer, Jeppe Jans, and his son, Ib. In winter, when there was nothing to do in the fields, Jeppe Jans made clogs and Ib tried to do the same. Not far away, lived the boatman and his daughter, Christina. She would often accompany her father on his travels by boat, but when the journey was too long and he did not want to take her, she stayed with Ib. It was then, during their early childhood, that their friendship began.
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Once upon a time, a young man dreamed of becoming a writer and making a living from his pen. But there was a problem. The writers of the previous centuries had already exhausted all the subjects and he no longer knew what to write about! This is why he went to see a fortune teller, hoping that she could help him...
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Once upon a time there was a prince without pity: he wanted to be the strongest and sent armies of soldiers to destroy villages and stop other kings, he even got it into his head to prove that he was worth more than God...Little did he know where this arrogance would lead him!
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Once upon a time there was an honest piece of silver who passed from hand to hand and happily discovered his country. One day, his current owner travelled abroad, taking the piece of silver by accident – he only intended to take money from the country he was going to. And this is when the real adventures of the piece of silver began...
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"...Why, it would really be being unselfish to go away and be happy for a little, because we would come back so much nicer."Lottie and Rose belong to the same London women's club, but they don't know each other very well. They both see the same advertisement for a castle in Italy, which is available for rent for a month. For different reasons, these women want to get away from their husbands for a while and they put out an ad and find two more women in need of vacation. And so, the four vastly different women head to Italy. But when they invite their husbands, the trouble begins...Light-hearted and witty, 'The Enchanted April' is the ultimate comfort read. It has been adapted to stage and film several times, notably in 1991 with the Oscar nominated movie starring Joan Plowright.
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The beautiful Belinda Lanwick has not attended the dinner party given by her cousin as she is still in mourning following the death of her beloved father. However, when the guests were leaving, she saw Lord Ian Cheddington and thought him exceedingly handsome. She knew that he was one of the most sought after young men in London and was considered the most eligible bachelor in the Social world. It is then that she overhears an indiscreet conversation between her cousin and a Countess. The Countess speaks of a Russian Princess in London who is doing everything she can to attract Lord Ian and what is more Princess Natasha is suspected of being a Russian spy. When she receives a letter from her sister asking her to stay with her in London and they can go shopping together to buy a new wardrobe for when she comes out of mourning, Belinda decides to go. However, when she arrives she finds that she is on her own most of the time because her sister is so busy. One morning she sees an advertisement in The Times for a lady’s maid to Princess Natasha. She feels strongly that she must defend her country and so applies for the position and begins work immediately. Once inside the Princess’s house, Belinda cleverly finds a way of overhearing what is said when the Princess entertains a suspicious visitor. Hearing that Lord Ian is in grave danger, she has to find a way to warn him. How Lord Ian is almost given a new and powerful drug that would make him unknowingly reveal vital State secrets. How he and Belinda travel to Marseilles to find where this evil drug is made. And how Belinda is frightened and upset by what then happens, but finds the true love she has always been seeking is all told in this romantic and exciting novel by BARBARA CARTLAND.
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Dvojitá porcia temnej imaginácie Jozefa Kariku vychádza ako dvoj-audiokniha Hlad/Smäd.Každá z audiokníh ponúka samostatný zážitok, no pri čítaní oboch nadobúda príbeh nové významové vrstvy.Neprirodzene vysoký muž s kufrom, v ktorom sa ukrývajú tie najhoršie nočné mory, brutálny vrah v žltej vetrovke, strašidelná maska zo starej vrecoviny...Mrazivé rozprávanie zachytáva storočie prízračnej histórie vrchu Čebrať a blízkeho Ružomberka. Autor ho podáva cez majstrovsky vyskladanú mozaiku príbehov, ktoré sa preplietajú v priestore aj v čase.„Táto dvoj-audiokniha vznikla inak než moje predchádzajúce romány. Chcel som zostaviť zbierku svojich starších aj nových mysterióznych noviel. Pri práci som si všimol, že vytvárajú súvislé rozprávanie. Podvedomie mi ho dávkovalo dvadsať rokov. Tento objav ma prekvapil, s údivom som odkryl najdesivejší príbeh, s akým som sa doteraz stretol.“ - Jozef Karika
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Snow Drop and the Seven Dwarfs also known as "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves"is a German fairy tale, written by Brothers Grimm, known across much of Europe and is today one of the most famous fairy tales worldwide. A queen gives birth to a baby daughter, a girl with skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood, and hair as black as ebony. She is named 'Snow White'. Sadly, the Good Queen, Snow White's mother, dies during childbirth. After a year has passed, Snow White's father, the King, takes a new and second wife, who is very beautiful, but a wicked and vain woman. The new queen, Snow White's evil stepmother, possesses a magic mirror, which she asks every morning, "Mirror mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?" The mirror always replies: "My Queen, you are the fairest one of all." The Queen is always pleased with that, because the magic mirror never lies. But as Snow White grows up, she becomes more beautiful each day and even more beautiful than the Queen, and when the Queen asks her mirror, it tells her that Snow White is the fairest. This gives the queen a great shock. She becomes yellow and green with envy and from that hour on, her heart turns against Snow White, and she hates her more and more each day. Envy and pride, like ill weeds, grow in her heart taller every day, until she has no peace day or night. Eventually, the Queen orders a huntsman to take Snow White into the deepest woods to be taken...--
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The Adventures of a Jackal is a classic children's short story : " In a country which is full of wild beasts of all sorts there once lived a jackal and a hedgehog, and, unlike though they were, the two animals made great friends, and were often seen in each other's company. One afternoon they were walking along a road together, when the jackal, who was the taller of the two, exclaimed: 'Oh! there is a barn full of corn; let us go and eat some.' 'Yes, do let us!' answered the hedgehog. So they went to the barn, and ate till they could eat no more. Then the jackal put on his shoes, which he had taken off so as to make no noise, and they returned to the high road. After they had gone some way they met a panther, who stopped, and bowing politely, said: 'Excuse my speaking to you, but I cannot help admiring those shoes of yours. Do you mind telling me who made them?' 'Yes, I think they are rather nice,' answered the jackal; 'I made them myself, though.' 'Could you make me a pair like them?' asked the panther eagerly...--
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The Gods of Mars is the second of the famous Barsoom series. It was first published in All Story as a five part serial in the issues for January May 1913. It was later published as a complete novel by A. C. McClurg in September, 1918. At the end of the first book, A Princess of Mars, John Carter is unwillingly transported back to Earth. The Gods of Mars begins with his arrival back on Barsoom (Mars) after a ten year separation from his wife Dejah Thoris, his unborn child, and the Red Martian people of the nation of Helium, whom he has adopted as his own. Unfortunately, Carter materializes in the one place on Barsoom from which nobody is allowed to depart: the Valley Dor, which is the Barsoomian afterlife.
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Rupert of Hentzau is a sequel by Anthony Hope to The Prisoner of Zenda, written in 1895, but not published until 1898. This story commences three years after the conclusion of Zenda, and deals with the same fictional country somewhere in Germanic Middle Europe, the kingdom of Ruritania.
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Manalive (1912) is a book by G. K. Chesterton detailing a popular theme both in his own philosophy, and in Christianity, of the 'holy fool', such as in Dostoevsky's The Idiot and Cervantes' Don Quixote.
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Father Brown is a fictional character created by English novelist G. K. Chesterton, who stars in 52 short stories, later compiled in five books. Chesterton based the character on Father John O'Connor (1870-1952), a parish priest in Bradford who was involved in Chesterton's conversion to Catholicism in 1922. The Innocence of Father Brown is the first compilation.
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Allan Quatermain is the protagonist of H. Rider Haggard's 1885 novel King Solomon's Mines and its various prequels and sequels. Allan Quatermain was also the title of a book in this sequence. H. Rider Haggard's Quatermain, adventure hero of King Solomon's Mines and sequel Allan Quatermain, was a template for the American film character Indiana Jones,
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Anna, a German mill-owner‘s daughter, marries a French aristocrat and moves to France. She discovers that her husband killed his previous wife and that he is trying to kill her as well. Quick, intriguing, and with an extremely interesting plot, `The Grey Woman‘ (1861) is a short story by Elizabeth Gaskell for anyone who enjoys a good gothic shudder. Incredibly progressive for its time, it is about the survival of the ill-treated woman who has decided that enough is enough.
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Tiny lands on the tailgate of the tank. It is suicide. He empties the machine gun into the tank. Quickly, he jumps down and powerfully throws a hand grenade through the open hatch. The heavy tank rotates wildly, crushes some Brits under its crawler tracks before it crashes over the hillside. There, it explodes into an inferno of fire. The German panzer soldiers attack with flame-throwers and phosphorus grenades. They take no prisoners. The survivors are mercilessly liquidated."EXCEEDS ITS PREDECESSORS ‘ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT’ AND ‘A FAREWELL TO ARMS" VIGIE MAROCAINE, MOROCCO
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"This hotel has something unique, which no other hotel has, as far as I know, and which is exclusively for the very wealthiest of the patrons. It's called PLAYROOM. It's a place where you can pay to be the voyeur of a couple having sex. The guests at the hotel can also have sex with one another there. The exciting and unique aspect is that there is a pair of eyes on the opposite wall as well, which look through a hatch that closes as soon as the sex is over."This short story is published in collaboration with the Swedish filmproducer Erika Lust. Her intention is to depict human nature and diversity through stories of passion, intimacy, lust and love in a fusion of powerful stories and erotica.
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After trailing spouse Marah Lenaerts suffers her third miscarriage in as many years, her husband Eden surprises her with a vacation to Malaysia, hoping it will lift her spirits. And it does, as they enjoy trading the bustle of their Shanghai life behind for the idyllic tropical paradise. But while on a diving excursion, they’re taken hostage by a group of terrorists, who take them to a remote island and hold them there for ransom. The longer that time drags on, though, the more doubts Marah begins to have about their captors’ true motivations.
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In the past, Anya was the adventurous type who was always seeking fun and trouble. But since the breakup with Jonas, she has found herself in a dark place and she spends most of the time in bed. In order to put an end to her misery, Anya’s friend Maria persuades her to go on a ski-trip in the mountains outside of Barcelona. Maria hires the sexy ski instructor Tyler to help them get started, and to Anya's great surprise she also invites him home for dinner at night. And who knows... perhaps Maria's attempt to cheer Anya up is just what she needs?This short story is published in collaboration with the Swedish filmproducer Erika Lust. Her intention is to depict human nature and diversity through stories of passion, intimacy, lust and love in a fusion of powerful stories and erotica.
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Hadn't Kazimiera heard that it was dangerous to give away your name to unfamiliar and undressed women? On her way through the forest, Kazimiera comes upon a clearing. A beautiful woman, wearing nothing other than the flaming waves of her hair, brushing against her naked skin, is floating in a stream. Kazimiera is drawn to her, but her village’s many stories about strange, dangerous beings enticing lonely wanderers with their wet hair and moist lips, keep nagging at her. Who is the woman, and what is she going to do to Kazimiera?
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Woman on woman. Man on man. Some have never questioned whether they’re gay. Others are in a straight marriage with kids when suddenly the their best friend makes their nipples erect, or a touch from their best mate makes their cock hard.CUPIDO –the magazine for intimate, horny pleasure – has been publishing erotic fiction based on readers’ everyday fantasies and sexual experiences since 1984."He was the only one of his friends who was still a virgin. Moreover, he was broke and needed to hitchhike to get to the cottage." The Hitchhike by Marianne, Drøbak"We didn’t dare speak of it, and instead did the strangest things when we were together." – My Mate by Someone Who Misses Paradise"He was a burly fellow, about six and a half feet tall, with a jet-black beard and massive hands." – Me and the Boss by A.B., Oslo"He ordered pizza with olives and feta cheese, but probably hadn’t expected to end up on the baker’s table with his butt in the air." – Hunger by Manu Seppënen
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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. She had prepared herself well." - ‘After the Workout’ by Elliot Watson"He felt his lust grow when he looked at his sexy wife. She was nearly 40 years, had a beautiful face with long blonde hair and big blue eyes that sparkled with joy."" - ‘A Hot Summer's Day’ in Northern Norway by Anine"He was tired when he got home. She fancied something new and had the jam ready." - ‘Sweet Suprise’ by Svein, 39"Would he punish her for disturbing him while he was reading the newspaper? She didn't care." - ‘Above the City Roof’ by Mette Marie, Assens
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A young couple. Their very first time. Some naughty flirting. A secret, forbidden meeting. The young student and his teacher. The older gentleman and the innocent virgin. You, me and a friend."A mother and father are utterly bored with family life so they go out into the garden to make love in the playground – just like when they were young." - Back in the Playground by Meta, Ullensaker"The vicar gets a new trainee cantor. She’s about 40, red-haired and up for anything. She seduces him after morning service." - Whitsun by Henriette, Copenhagen"The boss invites his secretary to a day in the country. They quickly get to know each other, excited and inspired by something that comes out of nowhere." - The Generation Gap by Roy Rebo
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There’s nothing like the fresh air in the mountains, waves lapping against the shore, the wind caressing your breast, the water touching your sex...This is a collection of erotic short stories from Cupido. The collection contains following short stories:"Before the holiday, he found a magazine with details of how to have no-strings sex on Corsica. Was it his wife’s magazine?" - The Beach Beyond by Odin S. Gade"Their sex life needed a bit of inspiration, so they went on a singles holiday - together." - Singles Holiday by Niels, Copenhagen
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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:"She got onto all fours and turned her lovely bum towards him." - Renewal by Jonas, Ålborg."He loved her, desired her, and carefully embraced her. But he did not come any closer. He knew he could not be a hungry man today." - Wet Cat by Jon Fallet"He came up with a joke he thought would be funny. Seeing others wanting her, turned him on." - Brief Encounter by Lulu M."He knew he was done for if he showed signs of arousal. His wife was a no-person." - The Bulb by Jon Fallet
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