An Old-Fashioned Girl

Louisa May Alcott

Do you ever feel like you are tied up in our times? Worrying too much about cell phones, fashions, and the latest whatevers? This book can set you straight. It gives you a peace of mind and fills you with simple pleasures. Polly Milton is a fourteen-year-old country girl raised on old-fashioned values and invited to Boston for an extended stay with her friend, Fanny Shaw. Quite the unlikely friendship since Fanny, despite being only two years older, is no longer just a girl, not poor, and not old-fashioned. Little does Polly know the breakers which lie ahead: flounces and frizzles and the height of fashion, girls who consider flirtation the true purpose of schooling, and one particularly beastly red-headed boy who insists on plaguing his sisters country friend. Will Polly ever learn to be like the other girls? And does she even want to? A timeless story by the author of beloved favorite Little Women.

The Sign of the Four. Illustrated Edition

Arthur Conan Doyle

Illustrated edition with original illustrations by Richard Gutschmidt, a famous German painter, book illustrator and graphic artist. The Sign of the Four is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The Sign of the Four is an incredible story of greed and revenge in which the worlds most famous detective Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson accompany a beautiful young woman Mary Morstan on a mission that leads to a terrifying, one-legged man in the dark heart of London. A thrilling experience for legions of Sherlock Holmes fans.

Sandi the Kingmaker

Edgar Wallace

Colonial adventures in a 6 volume collection set on the Dark Continent. Sanders and Co. return to Africa (following the events in Bones in London) to bring the old Kings country under the Union Jack and to try and find what has happened to a missionary and his daughter. It is written in a delightfully humorous style. Sandi, the King-maker among other novels by Edgar Wallace conveys the paternal attitude that Englands officials felt toward the native tribes of Africa. Part of his famous African novels (Sanders of the River series), this volume is highly recommended for those who have read and enjoyed others in the series, and it would make for a worthy addition to any collection.

Szary proch

Maria Rodziewiczówna

Litwin Wawer Karewis pracuje w Niemczech pod nazwiskiem Lorenz jako kapitan statku. Jest człowiekiem pracowitym ponad miarę i odważnym do szaleństwa. Pewnego dnia postanawia na kilka dni wrócić na ojcowiznę, by na dobre pożegnać się ze swoją wioską i rodziną. Po przyjeździe w rodzinne strony chełpi się swoją narzeczoną Niemką. Niektóre zachowania dawnych sąsiadów śmieszą go, inne złoszczą. Jednak z każdym dniem ów szary proch ziemia rodzinna pod jego stopami odnajduje drogę do jego duszy...

The Four Just Men

Edgar Wallace

Written in 1905, it is one of Wallaces many popular thriller novels. Four Just Men was the start of a series about a determined band of European vigilantes who decide to kill off people in the world whom the law cannot punish. Their ingenuity and ability to keep several steps ahead of those who would thwart them, including police, are the essence of the plot. When the British Foreign Secretary Sir Philip Ramon decides to push through a law which will allow the enforced return of political refugees to their countries of origin, he becomes a target of the Four Just Men. These are iconic stories of adventure, intrigue and retribution set in the time immediately following the First World War. Highly recommended for people who like to treat a mystery story as a solvable riddle.

The Thunder Dragon Gate

Talbot Mundy

The Thunder Dragon Gate is the name of a monastery in Tibet, which is considered a portal to Shambhala, and therefore is a symbol of the threshold to higher levels of spiritual consciousness. American secret agent Tom Greene and his wife, Elsa, are trying to send troopers to the Tho-Pa-gault gate, returning to Tibet to restore the sacred duty and find out what they can do on the way to Shambhala. There are only a few obstacles on their way the crazy Raja Dole, an array of Chinese and Japanese agents, the Tibetan government, the Indian government and the huge spider, called shang-shang.

Flat 2

Edgar Wallace

Emil Louba traded profitably in human souls. When he added Jane Martin to his stock-in-trade, he won the hatred of Hurley Brown-who was soon to be a Power at Scotland Yard. And for Louba, then, the sands were running out... This ones a fairly standard murder mystery by Edgar Wallace mold. The murder is that of the nasty Louba, whos made and lost a fortune. Hes also made lots of enemies over the years so, when hes bumped off with the candlestick in his swanky London apartment, theres no shortage of suspects in fact, even people who arent suspects are offering to help the folk they think might have done it, on the basis that no one deserves to swing for ridding the world of a swine like Louba.

Deutsche Herzen Deutsche Helden. Band IIV

Karl May

Die Geschichte beginnt sehr unheimlich auf einem Friedhof: Hier schwört Ibrahim Pascha Rache an der Familie von Adlerhorst, deren Oberhaupt Alban er fälschlicherweise für den Mörder seines Vaters hält. Einige Jahre später ist Alban tot und die Familie auseinandergerissen. Über zweieinhalb Jahrzehnte danach kommt es in Istanbul zu einer schicksalshaften Begegnung zwischen Lord Eagle-nest, dem Maler Paul Norman und Hermann von Adlerhorst. Zusammen mit dem schrulligen Lord Eagle-nest und dem geheimnisvollem Helden Oskar Steinbach macht sich der junge Hermann von Adlerhorst daran, die verschiedenen Mitglieder seiner Familie zu suchen, die durch eine Tragödie zwanzig Jahre zuvor in alle Welt verstreut wurden. Ihre Spuren finden sich im Orient, im Wilden Westen und in Sibirien. Während Paul Norman sich in Ibrahim Paschas Sklavin Tschita verliebt, kann Hermann von Adlerhorst dessen Lieblingssklavin Zykyma retten, als ihr Pferdegespann losgeht. Beide möchten ihre angebeteten Frauen aus dem Harem befreien, ein Unternehmen, das bei Lord Eagles-nest, einem Liebhaber von Mozarts Oper Die Entführung aus dem Serail, auf starkes Interesse stößt. Für die Freunde beginnt ein großes und gefährliches Abenteuer.