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Ein Stern fiel vom Himmel – ebook
Hans Dominik
Professor Eggerths Stratosphärenpiloten beobachten, wie ein riesiger Meteor auf die Erde stürzt und in den Eiswüsten der Antarktis niedergeht. Sie fliegen hin und wollen den Himmelskörper untersuchen, der sich als unverhoffte Rohstoffquelle entpuppt. Das ist ein Bolide von rund einem Kilometer Durchmesser, der Millionen Tonnen Silber und Platin auch Goldadern im Wert von sagenhaften 20 Milliarden Reichsmark...Data dostępności:
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Gelimer – ebook
Felix Dahn
Gelimer – historischer Roman aus der Völkerwanderung (a. 534 n. Chr.). Rom erzittert vor den wilden kriegen der Vandalen, König Gelimer steht auf dem Höhepunkt seiner Macht. Währenddessen rüstet im Osten Byzanz zum großen Angriff. Glanz und Triumph am kaiserlichen Hof zu Aachen, der Ruhm Karls des Großen strahlt über ganz Europa. Blutige Schlachten mit germanischen Stammesfürsten und den heidnischen...Data dostępności:
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The River Riders – ebook
T.C. Bridges
Winter closed early over the great desert of the Northwest, and the first dense snow lay on the banks and covered dark trees with a white mantle. Ice formed under the river banks, and its huge layers crumbled under the sound of a choking stern wheel and rattled like broken glass on a track. In the snowy forest thickets, neither human dwellings nor living creatures were visible. The still air was bitter...Data dostępności:
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Fritz to the Front – ebook
Edward Lytton Wheeler
Another amusing tale from American author Edward Lytton Wheeler (1854-1885), this time from the east coast of America, with another hero and another damsel in need of help. A group of European and American tourists is enjoying its trip in Egypt in the year 1895. They are sailing up the River Nile in a „a turtle-bottomed, round-bowed stern-wheeler”, the Korosko. They intend to travel to Abousir at the...Data dostępności:
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Jane of Lantern Hill – ebook
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Jane Stewart lives with her unhappy mother and stern grandmother in a dreary old mansion in Toronto. It is a world of rules and unhappiness. Her mother is weak and unable to stand up to Jane’s grandmother and Jane stoically suffers daily from her grandmother’s verbal bullying. One day she discovers that the father she had long believed dead is alive and wants her to visit him. What follows is a blissful...Data dostępności:
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Emily of New Moon – ebook
Lucy Maud Montgomery
„Emily of New Moon” by L.M. Montgomery, published in 1923, is the start of a trilogy of novels about Emily Byrd Starr that invites comparison with the beloved Anne of Green Gables series. The Emily novels depicted life through the eyes of a young orphan girl, Emily Starr, who is raised by her relatives after her father dies of tuberculosis. Emily deals with stiff, stern Aunt Elizabeth and her malicious...Data dostępności:
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The Survivor – ebook
E. Phillips Oppenheim
A striking romantic novel of 1913 of a young Englishman’s uphill fight. Douglas Guest is an orphan, raised by a stern, religious, and uncompromising uncle, Gideon Strong, in the North of England. His uncle orders him to marry his cousin and take up the post of cleric in their small town but he confronts his uncle, takes money which was intended for his education, and escapes to London. On the train,...Data dostępności:
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Beatrix – ebook
Honoré de Balzac
This novel opens in the old town of Guerande which still enclosed by mighty walls and possesses moats still full of water. The houses have not changed and the streets are as they were one hundred years in the past. It is the family seat of the de Guenics. The old society of the town gather here to play cards and gossip, often about the younger generations. The son of the house, Calyste, is going to...Data dostępności:
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To Win the Love He Sought – ebook
E. Phillips Oppenheim
This third novel by Oppenheim was published in 1895. It was originally published under the title „A Daughter of the Marionis” and was reprinted several times. The story of a vendetta, makes a capital plot for the novelist who takes characters from Southern life for his story, and in Margharita, „a daughter of the Marionis,” we have a not impossible character. She does not appear till late in the story,...Data dostępności:
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