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Before thirty-five girls were chosen to compete in the Selection...
Before Aspen broke America's heart...
There was another girl in Prince Maxon's life...
Don't miss this thrilling 64-page original novella set in the world of the New York Times bestselling novel The Selection. Also features a teaser to The Elite, Kiera Cass's hotly anticipated sequel to The Selection.
Thirty-five girls came to the palace to compete in the Selection. All but six have been sent home. And only one will get to marry Prince Maxon and be crowned princess of Illea.
America still isn’t sure where her heart lies. When she’s with Maxon, she’s swept up in their new and breathless romance, and can’t dream of being with anyone else. But whenever she sees Aspen standing guard around the palace, and is overcome with memories of the life they planned to share. With the group narrowed down to the Elite, the other girls are even more determined to win Maxon over—and time is running out for America to decide.
Just when America is sure she’s made her choice, a devastating loss makes her question everything again. And while she’s struggling to imagine her future, the violent rebels that are determined to overthrow the monarchy are growing stronger and their plans could destroy her chance at any kind of happy ending.
First published in 1956, this much sought-after autobiographical recollection of Truman Capote’s rural Alabama boyhood has become a modern-day classic. We are proud to be reprinting this warm and delicately illustrated edition of —“a tiny gem of a holiday story” (, starred review).
Seven-year-old Buddy inaugurates the Christmas season by crying out to his cousin, Miss Sook Falk: “It’s fruitcake weather!” Thus begins an unforgettable portrait of an odd but enduring friendship between two innocent souls—one young and one old—and the memories they share of beloved holiday rituals.
Discover how the Amadis began in this fascinating prequel to the award-winning Soul Savers Series!
While the land of Ancient Greece is plagued with mortals' wars, twins Cassandra and Jordan have lived more than a lifetime as outcasts. When their dying father divulges a secret that's been buried in his soul, his children come to opposite conclusions, launching them down two very different paths.
Jordan descends down a road of darkness and discovers the Daemoni, servants to Satan. His passion to gain their inhuman abilities, especially that of immortality, nearly consumes him, but when he thinks he's achieved his ultimate goal, he yearns for his sister to share in his power.
Cassandra, however, follows the path of healing and light. She cares for the wounded and dying on the battlefields, while praying for the end to such atrocities. But her brother is determined to bring her into the war of all ages - the one for human souls.
Whether you've already immersed yourself in the world of the Amadis through the main Soul Savers Series, or this is your initial foray into Cook's world, you'll find yourself addicted and wanting more until long past the last word.
Alexis Ames has a life full of promise...but not all promises can be kept.
When Alexis Ames is attacked by creatures that can't be real, she decides it's time she learns who she really is, with or without the help of her mother, who guards their family's secrets closely. After meeting the inhumanly attractive, multi-talented Tristan Knight, however, Alexis retreats behind her façade of normalcy...until she discovers he's not exactly normal either. Then their secrets begin to unravel.
Their union brings hope and promise to her family's secret society, the Angels' army, and to the future of mankind. But it also incites a dangerous pursuit by the enemy - Satan's minions and Tristan's creators. After all, Alexis and Tristan are a match made in Heaven and in Hell.
Defending souls is her purpose...but can she save her own?
Lost in despair, Alexis teeters on the edge of an abyss, her lifeline of hope fraying into a thin thread. If it snaps, she'll plunge into complete darkness. With the help of her son and her writing, she's been able to hold on. Until now. Erratic impulses, disturbing delusions and her own demonic blood threaten her sanity. When she's forced to choose between hanging onto hope or letting go to serve her Amadis purposes, she faces a decision with inconceivable sacrifices.
Alexis runs to the one place she thinks will provide answers, only to find herself at the center of another battle of good versus evil, not only with the Daemoni, not only within herself...but also against the worst opponent imaginable. But even if she wins, what will she lose?
When secrets and betrayals abound, where will her devotion lie?
With powerful abilities gained from the Ang'dora and Tristan back by her side, Alexis thinks she's ready for the next challenge-- protecting her son from what appears to be the inevitable. But she has so much to learn about her powers, her new world and the people in it. Nothing is what it seems to be on the surface, including the Amadis.
Power-hungry politicians comprise the council and make impossible demands. A traitor lurks among them all, inciting trouble that could destroy the Amadis and, ultimately, humanity. The Daemoni wreak havoc in the human world, with the ultimatum that they'll continue attacking innocents until Alexis and Tristan are expelled from the Amadis' protection. The couple's own society begins to shut them out. But that's not all.
Someone's keeping a secret. A big one. Faith and hope in Alexis and Tristan will be restored if she can uncover the truth in time.
But the search for answers leads only to the discovery of more betrayals by those closest to Alexis. Her devotion is put to the test--devotion to her husband, to her family, to her people and to her beliefs--leaving her to question whom she's fighting for and why she should even bother. But if she won't fight . . . who will?
There’s a new strong man in Russia but his rise to power is based on a dark secret hidden decades in the past. The solution to that mystery lies with a most unexpected source, President Jack Ryan.
What "Wiz" Zumalt could do with computers was magic on Earth. Then, one day the
master computer hacker is called to a different world to help fight an evil
known as the "Black League". Suddenly, the "Wiz" finds himself in a place
governed by magic — and in league with a red-headed witch who despises him.
It all began when the wizards of the White League were under attack by their
opponents of the Black League and one of their most powerful members cast a
spell to bring forth a mighty wizard to aid their cause. What the spell
delivered was master hacker Walter Wiz Zumwalt. The wizard who cast the spell
was dead and nobody— not the elves, not the dwarves, not even the dragons—could
figure out what the shanghaied computer nerd was good for.
But spells are a lot like computer programs, and, in spite of the Wiz’s
unprepossessing appearance, he was going to defeat the all-powerful Black
League, win the love of a beautiful red-haired witch, and prove that when it
comes to spells and sorcery, nobody but nobody can beat a Silicon Valley
computer geek!
Once upon a time, Major Mick Gilligan, USAF, didn’t believe in Magic. Nor, had
he been told of it, would he have believed in the elf Lisella, or cared that
she had cursed master programmer Wiz Zumwalt, later of Cupertino and now of an
alternate world where magic works like a computer program.
But that was before he took his F-15 out over the Bering Sea on a top-priority
intercept, came out on the losing end of a dogfight with a dragon, and found
himself caught in a climactic battle that pitted Wiz and his fellow Silicon
Valley hackers against a couple of computer criminals in alliance with the
forces of primal chaos.
Before he was done, Major Mick Gilligan would join with an ulikely gang of
programmers, wizards, elves, dragon cavalry, gremlins, demons and a stolen
Russian super-computer in a desperate effort to save both the world of magic
and his own.
After rescuing the world from the creatures of darkness and chaos by applying a
few computer logistics, Programmer and Systems Analyst Extraordinaire Wiz
Zumwalt finds himself in another fix when he is kidnapped by dragons.
Preparing to protect a twenty-foot dragon from the wrath of his own wife, Wiz
joins forces with his eccentric companions in an adventure filled with Soviet
ex-spies, a band of dwarves, zombie dragon riders, and a fluffy pink mechanical
rabbit.
Fuir son Soleil qui va exploser en nova n’est pas « tout naturel » pour notre mère, la Terre. Et même si ses enfants, les hommes, l’en persuadent, que va-t-elle, et que vont-ils, rencontrer de radicalement imprévisible — comme choses, comme créatures — dans leur course cosmique ? Sur cette Terre en fuite, savants, politiques et mystiques parviendront-ils enfin à s’entendre sur la nécessité, sur la signification, sur la direction même de la « machine ronde » ? Et que vont penser les Hommes d’Ailleurs de cette soudaine irruption d’Hommes … pour eux d’Ailleurs ?
La Terre se meurt et les derniers représentants de l'espèce humaine prennent place à bord du Magellan pour un voyage de plusieurs centaines d'années. Au cours d'une escale sur une planète-océan colonisée longtemps auparavant par des vaisseaux-semeurs, l'équipage du Magellan rencontre des humains pour qui la Terre n'est déjà plus qu'un lointain souvenir, une légende.
Bei seinen Forschungen stößt der 58jährige Nicholas Fenton, Geschichtsprofessor in Cambridge, auf die seltsame Geschichte eines Mordfalls - im Jahre 1675 wurde Lady Lydia Fenton, die Gattin des jungen Baronets Sir Nicholas Fenton, vergiftet, ohne daß der Täter je überführt wurde. Besessen vom Rätsel dieses Geheimnisses, erklärt sich Fenton sogar bereit, seine Seele dem Teufel zu verpfänden, wenn dieser ihn als Sir Nick ins alte London versetzt. Der Teufel geht auf den Handel ein, warnt ihn aber vor Sir Nicks gelegentlichen Wutanfällen, in denen dieser jede Beherrschung verliert und auch sein Gedächtnis aussetzt. Professor Fenton glaubt damit fertig zu werden. Der Mord geschah am 10. Juni 1675. Fenton hat sich den 10. Mai desselben Jahres als Tag seiner Verwandlung ausgesucht, er glaubt, daß vier Wochen zur Klärung des Rätsels genügen werden. Als junger, wohlhabender, gutmütiger, aber auch jähzorniger Adliger findet Fenton sich wieder. Da er sich ausbedungen hat, seine Erinnerung und das Wissen seiner eigenen Zeit nicht zu verlieren, findet er sich schnell in der ungewohnten Umgebung zurecht. In seinem Haus leben seine Gattin, die schöne Lady Lydia, deren Cousine Meg, seine Geliebte, und unter den Dienstboten die rothaarige und bösartige Köchin Kitty, mit der Sir Nick offenbar auch ein Techtelmechtel gehabt hat.
»Der Teufel in Samt« ist die Geschichte eines faustischen Pakts mit dem Teufel, den der alternde Professor jedoch nicht aus Gier nach Geld, Macht oder Lust abschließt, sondern aus reinem Wissensdurst. Auch wenn am Ende letztlich doch der Teufel gewinnt und Professor Fenton selbst der ahnungslose Mörder ist, dem die Hinrichtung droht, hat Fenton doch Jugend, Liebe und Abenteuer gegen sein verstaubtes Gelehrtendasein eingetauscht und den Handel nicht bereut. Carr schildert mit vielen fesselnden Einzelheiten das Leben im London der Restauration, als König Charles der Zweite schon ein älterer und desillusionierter Monarch ist. Sein Sir Nick, der »bold bad baronet« so vieler englischer Historien, ist alles andere als ein Engel, aber doch weit mehr als der »Teufel in Samt«, für den seine Zeitgenossen ihn halten. Als Kavalier zwischen drei Frauen, Gattin, Mätresse und Magd, als Degenfechter, Raufbold und Königstreuer ist er eine ebenso faszinierende wie schillernde Gestalt, deren Gegensatz zu dem in Sir Nicks Körper versetzten Professor Fenton von Carr auf das spannendste dargestellt wird.
John Dickson Carr, der auch unter den Pseudonym Carter Dickson und Roger Fairbairn schrieb, wurde 1906 in Amerika geboren. Nach einer unsteten Jugend heiratete er 1931 eine Engländerin, wurde Vater dreier Kinder und etablierte sich als freier Schriftsteller. Er verfaßte rund fünfzig Romane, einige Kurzgeschichten und eine Vielzahl von Hörspielen. So wie er selbst abwechselnd in England und den USA lebte, spielen auch seine Bücher überwiegend an diesen Schauplätzen, teilweise auch in Frankreich, wo er in seiner Jugend einige Zeit lebte. Er starb 1977.
Carr ist berühmt durch seine Kriminalromane im klassischen Stil, in denen vielfach übernatürliche Elemente eine Rolle spielen, wobei das Magische manchmal natürliche Ursachen hat, oft aber auch ein Hauch des Unheimlichen zurückbleibt und nicht alles eine greifbare Erklärung findet.
Die englische Originalausgabe erschien 1951 unter dem Titel >The Devil in Velvet< bei Hamish Hamilton, London
Tel un joyau resplendissant, la cité reposait au sein du désert. Elle avait autrefois connu le changement et la modification, mais le temps, maintenant, ne passait plus pour elle : jours et nuits voltigeaient sur la face du désert, mais dans les rues de Diaspar, c’était toujours l’après-midi, et le soir ne tombait jamais. Les longues nuits d’hiver pouvaient poudrer le désert de gelée blanche où se figeait le vestige d’humidité de l’air ténu de la terre : la cité ne connaissait ni chaleur ni froid. Elle n’avait aucun contact avec le monde extérieur ; elle était elle-même un univers.
Auparavant, les hommes avaient construit des villes, mais jamais aucune comme celle-là. Certaines avaient duré des siècles, d’autres des millénaires, avant que le temps ne balayât jusqu’à leurs noms. Diaspar seule avait défié l’éternité, se défendant, ainsi que tout ce qu’elle abritait, contre la lente érosion des siècles, les ravages de la vieillesse et la corrosion de la rouille.
Depuis que la cité avait été construite, les océans de la terre avaient fait leur temps, le désert recouvert le globe tout entier. Les dernières montagnes avaient été réduites en poussière par les vents et les pluies, et le monde était trop las pour en enfanter d’autres. La cité n’en avait cure. Même la Terre pouvait s’effriter, Diaspar continuerait de protéger les rejetons de ses bâtisseurs et de les transporter, eux et leurs trésors, sains et saufs sur les flots du temps.
Ils avaient beaucoup oublié, mais ils ne le savaient pas…
Dans un univers d'infiniment petits, un microbe a commis un crime et pour échapper aux foudres de la justice se sauve vers la terre. Un microbe détective se lance à la poursuite du criminel, mais comment le retrouver ? Les microbes ne peuvent pas vivre seuls sur la terre, ils doivent se glisser dans un corps humain pour y subsister comme des parasites. Parmi les jeunes graçons courant sur cette île du Pacifique, qui donne asile sans le savoir au microbe assassin ? Bâtie comme un roman policier, cette histoire extraordinaire ne s'oublie pas de sitôt. On pense longtemps après l'avoir lus au microbe se glissant derrière la rétine de Bob pour surveiller les alentours. On revoit la poursuite des deux microbes dans l'eau alors qu'ils viennent de quitter les corps respectifs qui les abritaient. Quel comportement étrange de la part de Bob, qui parle sans s'en apercevoir, dont les blessures se cicatrisent seules et qui court dans le noir sans même trébucher. Heureusement, le microbe chasseur parvient à entrer en contact avec son « abri » et a finalement le dessus, mais de peu…
Después de triunfar en los cabarets de media Europa, el bailarín flamenco Juan Martínez y su compañera, Sole, fueron sorprendidos en Rusia por los acontecimientos revolucionarios de febrero de 1917. Sin poder salir del país, en San Petersburgo, Moscú y Kiev sufrieron los rigores provocados por la revolución de octubre y la sangrienta guerra civil que le siguió. El gran periodista sevillano Manuel Chaves Nogales conoció a Martínez en París y asombrado por las peripecias que éste le contó, decidió recogerlas en un libro. conserva la intensidad, riqueza y humanidad que debía tener el relato que tanto fascinó a Chaves. Se trata, en realidad, de una novela que relata los avatares a los que se ven sometidos sus protagonistas y cómo se las ingeniaron para sobrevivir. Por sus páginas desfilan artistas de la farándula, pródigos duques rusos, espías alemanes, chequistas asesinos y especuladores de distinta calaña.
Compañero de generación de Camba, Ruano o Pla, Chaves perteneció a una brillante estirpe de periodistas que, en los años 30, viajaron por todo el mundo, ofreciendo algunas de las mejores páginas del periodismo español de todos los tiempos.
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