When Rogues Fall Out

R. Austin Freeman

"When Rogues Fall Out incorporates some wonderful conundrums to hoodwink and hinder the cleverest of crime readers. This book contains three interconnected stories. In the first, a respectable collector of antiques falls victim to temptation. In the second a police inspector is found dead in suspicious circumstances in a railway tunnel. This section includes an interesting essay on the early use of fingerprint evidence. The third is a classic locked room mystery where someone has been making use of a sealed room in a remote country house. All three are resolved together in the last few pages. The rogues of the title include three very different men engaged in stealing and fencing high-quality jewelry. One is a working-class robber; one a refined antiques dealer turned fence; and one a mysterious middleman with the appearance of a gentleman.

When the Gangs Came to London

Edgar Wallace

Set in the late 1920s-early 1930s, When the Gangs Came to London is rated as one of Edgar Wallaces best work by fans of his genre of crime fiction. Two rival gangs from Chicago coming to London and competing to blackmail rich men into paying up to prevent being killed. When a lull ensues, Captain Jiggs Allermain of the Chicago Detective Bureau suspects the rival gangs of forming an uneasy alliance. Suddenly a shot rings through the House of Commons, unleashing an outburst of terror even more bloody. Wallace wrote this one towards the end of his life, he may even have been in Hollywood when he wrote it which could explain the very old school Hollywood gangsters!

When the Sleeper Wakes

Herbert George Wells

This book was written in 1899, and is one of the last science-fiction books Wells wrote before his turn towards social realism in his writing. In this dystopian novel, Graham falls into a coma-like sleep, a sleep that he wakes from some 203 years in the future. But times have changed. Due to the wise investments of a board of trustees, Grahams money has compounded into the greatest fortune the world has ever seen, and the trustees have used it to virtually enslave the entire planet. But when he comes out of his trance he is horrified to discover that the money accumulated in his name is being used to maintain a hierarchal society in which most are poor, and more than a third of all people are enslaved. This struggle is the main focus of the larger part of the novel. The novel proposes that whatever is done officially for the good of society, individual ambition is unlikely to address the failure of capitalist structures to create a good standard of living for those whose work supports the system.

When the World Screamed

Arthur Conan Doyle

The final, and certainly climactic, adventure of Sir Arthur Conan Doyles Professor George Edward Challenger is 1928s When the World Screamed. It is another Professor Challenger story where a new craziness pressures him to make the earth feel the existence of human being on its surface. Professor says the earth is a giant creature and it doesnt even care or know that we the human being exist on its surface. Professor believes that by drilling into the center of the earth, he will be the first person to let the planet know that there are people on its surface. He begins a very expensive experiment and one day his dreams come true. The majority of the story, like others in the story, is about the build-up to the event. Its narrated by a new character, Peerless Jones, who is an expert on drilling.

When the World Shook

H. Rider Haggard

When the World Shook is a classic story, written by H. Rider Haggard, telling about the horror of a ghost town. The plot revolves around three friends one absolutely unshakable skeptic, the other an absolutely believer, and the third and central character is a person who is looking for meaning in life. A hurricane shipwrecks them on an unknown island in the Pacific inhabited by a degenerating people who worship an ancient god called Oro. Three men experience all sorts of difficulties and find all kinds of miracles on the island.

When We Were Them

Laura T. Namey

WHEN WE WERE THEM LAURA TAYLOR NAMEY Young adult Willa, Luz i Britton były najbliższymi przyjaciółkami od dzieciństwa. Wydawało się, że nic nie może zniszczyć tej przyjaźni. A jednak wszystko zmieniła wielka miłość. I jeszcze większa tragedia. W tym tygodniu zakończą swoją przygodę ze szkołą średnią. Razem łatwiej byłoby pokonać obawę przed jutrem, odpowiedzieć sobie na pytania o przyszłość. Ale jedna samolubna decyzja sprawia, że Willa zostaje z pudełkiem wspomnień, wypełnionym symbolami ich siostrzeństwa. I myślą, że nic już nie będzie jak dawniej, bo nie da się naprawić złamanego serca, zapomnieć o naruszonej intymności i wybaczyć podłego kłamstwa. Dorośli wszystko tylko komplikują, nikt już nie może na nikogo liczyć. A gdy brzydka prawda wychodzi na jaw, Willa musi dzielnie zmierzyć się z przeszłością.

Where Highways Cross

J.S. Fletcher

Outside the city of Sycaster, they found small villages. In the villages themselves, the observant traveler often finds traces of old houses, which, no doubt, were picturesque and calculated in those times when agriculture was preferred to coal mining. In these villages, there is something secretive that will have to razgodat.

Wheres Emily

Carolyn Wells

Fleming Stone 23. On the eve of her marriage to Rodney Sayre, Emily Duane disappears. She had left her Hillside Park home to visit the hospital but never arrived there. Foul play is feared when Jim Pennington reports his wife Pauline, Emilys best friend, also missing. Pennington says he left his wife at the ravine a short distance from Emilys home. When he returned she had vanished. Pollys body is found in the ravine, but wheres Emily? A wonderful mystery abound with twists and turns on every corner. Carolyn Wells inspires and entertains with her classical mystery masterpiece, Wheres Emily, guaranteed to feed the mystery monster that craves suspense!

Which one is Malala

Renata Piątkowska

Let us pick up our books and pens. They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one pen and one book can change the entire world. Taken from Malala Yousafzais speech to the UN in 2013 When I meet with children on different occasions, I ask them which of their rights is the most important to them. Polish children say its the right to express their own opinion. The same right is also important to Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl who not only uses it with courage but also boldly speaks out for another fundamental right: the right to education. In many countries the opportunity of attending school is treated as an unpleasant necessity. For Malala and her colleagues learning was a desired and only chance for a better future. Marek Michalak The Ombudsman for Children On the 29th October 2016, on the request of Polish and Pakistani children and by the resolution of the International Chapter, Malala was made a Knight of the Order of the Smile. The author of this book, Renata Piatkowska, is also a Knight of the Order of the Smile. Smiley, eager to play and to sing hits by Justin Bieber this is the Malala we meet. The only thing that distinguishes her from her friends is that she doesnt cover her face with a scarf. Is that a good reason to shoot a teenage girl in the face? It soon becomes clear that Malala is no ordinary teenager, but a blogger who by describing the state of education for girls in Pakistan exposed herself to the Taliban. A touching story about the strength that lies dormant in each one of us and how we should fight to help those who are weaker than us. Malala has proven that just one brave person is enough to inspire multitudes.

While She Sleeps

Ethel Lina White

Mystical incidents occur in "While She Sleeps." Miss Loveapple extremely lucky woman. She was always lucky in life, so to speak, the card turned that side. However, there will always be luck on her side? Will she help when the killer will stalk her?

Whirligigs

O. Henry

Settle in for a whimsical, thoroughly enjoyable whirlwind tour through the prodigious imagination of American short-story master O. Henry. When he wrote the following, he may have discounted his own creativity. Whirligigs, comprised of 24 short stories and published in 1910, is evidence of this. O. Henry writes of love and loss, of mystery and drama, of journalism and murders and trials. He creates a tapestry of characters, young and old, wealthy and poor. It offers some of his best short stories; complete with quirky characters, witty romps with clever twists and surprise endings. If you love classic O. Henry stories like The Gift of the Magi and have been curious about the rest of this beloved authors body of work, Whirligigs is a great place to start.

Whiskey Sour

Max Brand

Doctor Kildare approached just in time to hear Meg say to the officer, "I heard a shot outside my apartment, then a crash. When I ran out, this man was lying on the landing... "Whiskey Sour" (1938) is a Doctor Kildare story that continues the depiction of a "gangster" atmosphere surrounding the young doctor as he cared for East Side streets toughs and local political bosses while defying his hospital superiors. Max Brand (1892-1944) is the best-known pen name of widely acclaimed author Frederick Faust, creator of Destry, Dr. Kildare, and other beloved fictional characters. His action-filled stories of adventure and heroism and even poetry continue to entertain readers throughout the world.

Whisky i naleśniki

Mia Ahl

Vendela samotnie wychowuje dziesięcioletnią córkę Tildę i ma skomplikowane relacje z ojcem dziewczynki. Wkrótce oznajmia krewnym, że otrzymała dobrze płatną posadę w Bostonie, lecz cała rodzina z obawą rozmyśla, jak potoczą się sprawy z dzieckiem bohaterki. W dodatku gdy pewnego dnia Vendela wraca z pracy do domu, na schodach przed drzwiami zauważa swoją matkę, która uciekła od męża Karla. Na domiar złego rodzinna księgarnia nie prosperuje zbyt dobrze i potrzebne są duże zmiany, aby familijny interes przetrwał trudny okres. Ta seria niepokojących zdarzeń sprawia, że Vendela wspomina swoje życie, podejmowane przez siebie decyzje oraz ich wpływ na otaczających ją ludzi. „Whisky i naleśniki” to opowieść o niezależnej kobiecie, która odkrywa, jak wielkim oparciem potrafi być najbliższa rodzina. Po tym pełnym zawirowań czasie życie Vendeli diametralnie się zmieni. 

Whispering Death

Aidan de Brune

Whispering Death (1931) is the third adventure in the Dr. Night trilogy by Aidan De Brune, (1874-1946). This third story is gaudy crime yarns, which steadily veers into fantasy by the end and features a very unlikely Asian villain who is as different from Fu Manchu as you can imagine: a small, colorless man of uncertain central Asian origin whose principal obsession is raising money by any means possible to recreate a long-dead central Asian kingdom of which his distant ancestors were kings. Most of the stories in the Dr. Night trilogy take place in and around Sydney, although the earliest known is set in Perth Western Australia and one of the novelettes in north Queenslan. Aidan de Brune was a big name in Australian literature but is forgotten today. He was a prolific author who wrote in a variety of genres.

White Death - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library

Vicary, Tim

A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Written for Learners of English by Tim Vicary. Sarah Harland is nineteen, and she is in prison. At the airport, they find heroin in her bag. So, now she is waiting to go to court. If the court decides that it was her heroin, then she must die. She says she did not do it. But if she did not, who did? Only two people can help Sarah: her mother, and an old boyfriend who does not love her now. Can they work together? Can they find the real criminal before it is too late?

White Death Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library

Vicary, Tim

A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Written for Learners of English by Tim Vicary Sarah Harland is nineteen, and she is in prison. At the airport, they find heroin in her bag. So, now she is waiting to go to court. If the court decides that it was her heroin, then she must die. She says she did not do it. But if she did not, who did? Only two people can help Sarah: her mother, and an old boyfriend who does not love her now. Can they work together? Can they find the real criminal before it is too late?

White Face

Edgar Wallace

A man ends up stabbed to death on a street in Londons Tidal Basin, victim of the almost mythical murderer roaming the streets of London, the Devil of Tidal Basin. But why is another bandit suddenly sighted in Tidal Basin as well? What connection had the Devil with White Face? Superintendent Mason, one of the Yards Big Five wanted to know, and what Superintendent Mason wanted to know he generally found out. Criminals knew him as Sympathetic Mason, because of his curious methods of cross-examination. This is Edgar Wallace at his best and Edgar Wallace is known the world over as the king of mystery writers. White Face involves more mystery than a number of his novels and recommended for people who like to treat a mystery story as a solvable riddle.

White Fang

Jack London

The main conflict of the story is dog-nature vs. wolf-nature, or nature vs. man. What happens to White fang, and how he goes through the many troubles that he has to. Growing up in the Yukon territory of Canada during the Klondike Gold Rush, he learned the law of the Wild at an early age: kill, or be killed, eat, or be eaten. Separated from his mother and traded from master to master, White Fang never grasped the concept of love, and violence was all that he knew. Having no teacher, he learned the rules of survival by experience. Then, a cruel man buys White Fang and turns him into a pit dog forced to fight for money. He save one day, a mixed dogwolf from the hands of a cruel man, and a brave friendship develops between the two. With beautifully realistic details of the harsh realities of life in the Yukon, White Fang is a grippingly original tale about morality and redemption that still stands as an American classic.

White Fang

Jack London

“White Fang” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.   White Fang is the name of the book's eponymous character, a wild wolfdog. The story details White Fang's journey to domestication in Yukon Territory and the Northwest Territories during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush. It is a companion novel (and a thematic mirror) to London's best-known work, The Call of the Wild, which is about a kidnapped, domesticated dog embracing his wild ancestry to survive and thrive in the wild.  

White Nights

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

White Nights - a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, a Russian novelist, philosopher and short story writer. Many literary critics rate him as one of the greatest psychological novelists in world literature.   Like many of Dostoyevsky's stories, "White Nights" is told in the first person by a nameless narrator. The narrator is a young man living in Saint Petersburg who suffers from loneliness. He gets to know and falls in love with a young woman, but the love remains unrequited.  

WHITE NOISE Strategic Decision Game

Marzena Żakowska, Lech Drab, Marek Klasa

WHITE NOISE: A strategy game for Diplomats in a new era of competition WHITE NOISE is a revolutionary strategy game designed to equip diplomats and foreign service personnel with the skills they need to succeed in today's complex and challenging 21st century world. This innovative game goes beyond traditional war games to include a critical information operations component. Players will gain knowledge of how: - Identify and combat disinformation, - Develop effective diplomatic strategies, - Navigate the "gray area" of international relations, - Use diplomatic and information tools, - Promote a consistent narrative in the international arena. WHITE NOISE is not just a game, but a comprehensive training program that includes: - Real world scenarios based on contemporary events, - Detailed educational materials on diplomatic protocol, - Practical exercises to improve key skills, - Scenarios for working dinners and official diplomatic ceremonies. WHITE NOISE is an extremely valuable source for: - Students of international relations. - Diplomats who want to improve themselves in the profession. - Diplomatic training institutions. - Anyone who wants to develop their diplomatic skills. Don't fall behind in light of 21st century challenges. Develop your interpersonal and negotiation skills. Learn how to build a team based on effective performance. Develop your strategic thinking skills and make effective decisions. (...) the game calls upon players to exercise diplomatic and informational instruments of power, both unilaterally and through intergovernmental organisations, such as the ONZ, NATO and the EU. Byron HARPER - Ph.D., Deputy, Partnership Division NATO Special Operations Headquarters The very well written Poland based Scenario can easily be adopted to the needs and political structures of other countries. SOnke MARAHRENS - Colonel (GS), Director COI Strategy and Defense The European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats Żakowska, Drab and Klasa highlight the key insight that aggressor nations around the world are employing information-centric warfare and information operations to overwhelm intelligence analysis, sub- vert national decision-making processes, and clutter international venues for dispute resolution. James G. BRECKENRIDGE - Provost U.S. Army War College Marzena ŻAKOWSKA is an Associate Professor and lecturer at the Faculty of National Security at the War Studies University. She holds a Ph.D. in Security Science from the National Defence University, Warsaw, Poland.Currently, she is Director of the Global Affairs and Diplomacy Studies and Chair of War Studies Working Group at the International Society of Military Sciences. Professional associations include the Academy for International Conflict Management and Peacebuilding, and the United States Institute of Peace in Washington D.C. She cooperate as the Research Fellow with the Royal Military College of Canada and US Army War College. As editor and author, she has published books and articles on armed conflict, hybrid threats, Balkan's security, and social security issues. Lech DRAB, Associate Professor at the Jan Długosz University in Częstochowa with practical international experience in the security and defence areas. He is graduated from the NATO Defense College in Rome (Italy), the Geneva Center for Security Policy and the Wrocław University of Technology. He completed a number of specialist courses in the Nether-lands, Belgium, Switzerland and Germany. Former Associate Professor of the National Security Department at War Studies University in Warsaw and Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce. Director of the Department of Military Foreign Affairs of the Ministry of National Defense, military advisor to the Permanent Representative of Poland to the EU and the Polish Military Representative to the NATO Military Committee in Brussels (Belgium). As a member of the Athena training team, he lectured in Brussels, Helsinki, Potsdam, Florence and Montpellier. He chaired the Athena Special Committee during the Polish Presidency of the Council of the European Union. Author and editor of monographs, book chapters and articles. He specializes in defense diplomacy, international security, NATO and EU security policy and peace operations. Marek KLASA is a senior lecturer at War Studies University in Warsaw in the Institute of State Security. He holds a Ph.D in Security Sciences. Since 2007 volunteer in pro-defence non-governmental organizations, including Związek Strzelecki "Strzelec" Organizacja Społeczno-Wychowawcza and Jednostka Strzelecka 1313, which are referring to tradition of the polish pre-war "Strzelec" [Rifleman] movement. His research interests include a wide array of subjects including defensive preparations of the territory, security infrastructure, classic military strategy and history of warfare. Co-author of a handful of decision games scenarios.

White-Jacket. Or, The World in a Man-of-War

Herman Melville

The novel The White Jacket by American writer Herman Melville is dedicated to swimming on the US military frigate. The novel, which is a chronicle only in part, describes in detail the life and life of naval sailors, their colorful figures, as well as the features of ships and naval service in that era. A number of philosophical, romantic and socio-political thoughts are presented.

Who Goes There!

Robert W. Chambers

This story is about the Crown Prince. Most of the world is against him and what he stands for. He expresses surprise at the position of the United States. This attitude is the natural result of various causes, among which are the following: Distrust of any aggressor on the part of a peace-minded nation.

Who Killed the Husband

Hulbert Footner

Mappin is a wealthy New York criminologist and author who is highly valued by the police and high society. He participates only in those crimes that really interest him. And in Who Killed the Husband he investigates solely because all the people around him beg him to take action. In this story, a detective investigates the murder of a banker. The killer who, according to the police have already found.