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The daughters of the merchants are dying. Panic has spread, and they are more than content to let their children be taken by this investigator from the mountains, for, they think it to be a hemorrhagic fever from the south. They are afraid of what might be brought into their doily parlors if "vigil for the dead" should be held in their homes. It is not a fever as I am given to understand, though he burns them anyway as is the mountain custom which we can all agree is a more poetic end.

To save the universe Johnny Mayhem risked his life - over and over and over. He could travel anywhere mentally and enter the body of anyone on any planet. But if he stayed longer than 30 days, Mayhem died. An encounter with aliens had given him an extra-human power. But it had also put him beyond the pale of love and friendship forever.

Udvalgte H.C. Andersen "Jule Eventyr", indlæst af Kasper Holten. En lille perle til de lange vinteraftener med stemningsfulde eventyr, fyldt med glæde og eftertænksomhed: Grantræet, Nissen hos spækhøkeren, Tolv med posten, Det gamle egetræs sidste drøm, Den lille pige og svovlstikkerne, Nissen og madammen, Snemanden og sangen Barn Jesus i en krybbe lå.

Udvalgte H.C. Andersen-eventyr, indlæst af Kasper Holten.

Things are looking up for Emma. She is setting up a new business and found a family. Unfortunately, when your family are vampires, nothing goes quite to plan.

"Kev was right!" she hissed. "Right about what?" "Right about the vampires!" Life for Emma isn't easy, surviving from moment to moment, the streets are dangerous. When her life is threatened by a drug dealer Emma discovers a lineage she never knew she had.

A Patch on the Quilt is a short story about an actor who is pursued by a strange woman at the theatre with a very odd request. She has attended every performance of his play since it started, skipping meals to afford the tickets. She now wants him to come with her to a house in Kensington after his performance...which she says is part of her 'plan'. But who is this person and what could she possibly want from him?

I samarbejde med Forlaget Alinea, har vi fornøjelsen af at kunne udgive 10 af H.C. Andersens mest kendte eventyr - genfortalt af Jørn Jensen - som læsetræningsmateriale. Hvert eventyr er indlæst først i langsom hastighed, dernæst i moderat hastighed.

Eventyret om den frejdige soldat, der ved hjælp af den gamle heks og hendes fyrtøj til sidst vinder prinsessen og gifter sig med hende. Jørn Jensen, født 1946, børnebogsforfatter, uddannet guldsmed og lærer. Som ny lærer for de små klasser fandt han, at der var mangel på egnet læsemateriale til begynderlæsning, og det fik ham til selv at gå i gang med at skrive. Inspirationen henter han i sin egen barndom i 1950'erne, men også fra oplevelser med hans tre drenge danner grundlag for historierne.

Eventyret om Klods-Hans der ligesom sine brødre vil fri til prinsessen, men han må ikke få en hest som dem. Derfor rider han på sin ged og på vejen finder han en død krage og andre ting han vil forære prinsessen.

Jørn Jensen, født 1946, børnebogsforfatter, uddannet guldsmed og lærer. Som ny lærer for de små klasser fandt han, at der var mangel på egnet læsemateriale til begynderlæsning, og det fik ham til selv at gå i gang med at skrive.

I samarbejde med Forlaget Alinea, har vi fornøjelsen af at kunne udgive 6 af H.C. Andersens mest kendte eventyr - genfortalt af Jørn Jensen - som læsetræningsmateriale. Hvert eventyr er indlæst først i langsom hastighed, dernæst i moderat hastighed. "Den grimme ælling"; "Den lille havfrue"; "Fyrtøjet"; "Hyrdinden og skorstensfejeren"; "Nissen hos spækhøkeren"; "Stoppenålen".

"Eine Weihnachtsgeschichte: Die Schneekönigin" erzählt von der Schneekönigin, die einen kleinen Jungen Karl entführt und das Mädchen Gretchen, die viele spannende Abenteuer auf der Suche nach ihm erlebt. Es ist eine weihnachtliche Geschichte über das Gute und Böse. Für Kinder, wie auch Erwachsene durchaus hörenswert.

"Unsere besten Weihnachtsgeschichten für Kinder" sind eine ausgewählte Sammlung aus unseren schon veröffentlichten Weihnachtsgeschichten. Sie erzählen Geschichten von Weihnachten, Winter und die Adventszeit.

A world scarred by terrorist attacks and global pandemics fights for survival. Unbound by invasion, a millennia old enchantment ends. A daughter of Earth must learn to wield the very power she fears. Dr. Katarina O'Brian, a molecular biologist, fights from her lab in Memphis, Tennessee to find a cure for Reaper, a deadly virus plaguing humanity. During another late night at work, a mental voice touches hers, chiseling a crack in her mental fortress and tempting her to explore the powers she suppresses.

Henry Kellogg was a simple man who enjoyed hiking in his Shawnee Forest and working on web projects for his clients. Then one day, while out hiking the top of Limestone Gap, he found Keyawa, a Wauami Indian, and Keyawa was injured and in need of help. But the help Keyawa needed was not to be rescued from the ledge he had fallen to, as Henry had thought upon finding him there. Keyawa needed help dying, and in order to do so, he needed a successor to the Gift of the Egg.

A gripping collection of outstanding American classic short stories by some of America's greatest writers: 'A Ghost Story' by Mark Twain; 'Pomegranate Seed' by Edith Wharton; 'Pigeons from Hell' by Robert E. Howard; 'Pickman's Model' by H. P. Lovecraft; 'The Adventure of the German Student' by Nathaniel Hawthorne; 'Absolute Zero' by Morgan Robertson; and many more.

On Friday, June 21, Detective Simon Farge, chief investigator with the Plainsland Police Department's Missing Persons Division, opened an envelope, addressed in pencil and bearing no return address. The content of the envelope was a short letter, also written in pencil, on three-hole notebook paper. The handwriting appeared to be that of a child, still learning the art of cursive, and of course, unsigned. The note was short and to the point. "Dear Mr. Farge, Look for Sally Morgan in Overland Park in a trailer by the lake."

In the beginning Charlie McVee wanted nothing more from life than to raise a family in his suburban Cincinnati home, write his novels, and find time to go hiking with his wife, Annie. Two hundred miles of the Appalachian Trail awaited them down in Tennessee, beckoning them come and see it firsthand. What they found in a remote area of the mountains, off the beaten track, was a small town virtually unknown to the outside world....

With life comes happiness, friendship, heartache, unforgettable moments, and sometimes unimaginable pain. In this incredible and moving story, Isabelle Scott allows us to see life through her eyes. Her life was hindered at a tender age when her stepfather started becoming too friendly. After years of abuse, she finally finds the strength and courage needed to put an end to it.

Have you ever wondered if the Bermuda Triangle is for real or just a place of unlikely mishaps? The citizens of Fordyce, New Mexico, have often wondered that about their Sonoma Quadrant. No airplanes have ever disappeared in the quadrant. No ships have ever disappeared there either, for the quadrant, as close as anyone has been able to determine, is a 36 square mile area in the middle of a desolate desert area known as the Sonoma.