Libro A Man Like None

Lord Tyger

Autor: Philip José Farmer

Número de Páginas: 351

A South African tycoon attempts to engineer his own Tarzan in a novel that deconstructs the original legend with unparalleled imagination. In a remote African valley, Ras Tyger is the Lord of the Jungle. He lives each day fulfilling his appetites for deadly prey and sexual conquest. But something sinister lurks behind his unspoiled life. He will soon discover the devastating truth: his entire existence has been engineered by a madman. Obsessed with the Tarzan novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs, a white South African uses his fortune to turn an English nobleman into the heroically untamed figure. Everything in Ras Tyger's world—from his jungle home to the "apes" who raised him—is an elaborate lie. But the Tarzan books weren't very plausible. And the experiment is about to get dangerously out of control . . . Drawing on true stories of feral children, Lord Tyger explores the real-life implications of the Tarzan legend. With ingenious meta-fiction, Philip José Farmer delivers a wildly entertaining sci-fi adventure that critiques popular colonial mythmaking.

Cinderella in the Boss's Palazzo

Autor: Julia James

Número de Páginas: 185

This Cinderella is about to realize exactly where she belongs in this enchanting workplace romance from USA TODAY bestselling author Julia James, inspired by the classic Jane Eyre. Stepping into his luxurious world… …as his forbidden Cinderella! Haunted by a toxic divorce, wealthy Italian Evandro has sworn off romance—but he can’t ignore his simmering chemistry with Jenna, his young daughter’s fiery new tutor. After yet another clash, their attraction boils over one fateful evening… Jenna blossoms with each stolen kiss, their clandestine affair transforming her from plain Jane to passionate lover. But if cynical Evandro won’t let go of his past, Jenna will have to walk away from him and the glittering palazzo she’s come to call home… From Harlequin Presents: Escape to exotic locations where passion knows no bounds.

Irish Eyes

Autor: Zoë Grider

Número de Páginas: 298

Stained River

Autor: David Faxon

Número de Páginas: 359

An elaborate scheme to take over his company leads Terrence Connery on a fool's mission to Brazil. There he is stranded in the most remote part of the Amazon when his plane crashes. Against incalculable odds, he fights not only to survive in a treacherous environment, but to payback the injustices done to him. His thrilling journey results in extraordinary changes.

Le Morte Darthur

Autor: Sir Thomas Malory , William Caxton

Número de Páginas: 496

Thomas Carlyle

Autor: James Anthony Froude

Número de Páginas: 512

What You Don't Know About Men

Autor: Michael Burke

Número de Páginas: 149

What You Dont Know About Men tells the funny, heartbreaking stories of 20 sometimes shy, sometimes sexy, often sentimental men who march through life as punch-drunk fathers, sons, brothers, uncles, friends and lovers. Michael Burkes debut collection opens with the story of Matthew Connors, a suburban Chicago teen struggling to protect his sister and brother while their parents vacation in the Petrified Forest. The book closes with Brendan and Richard, two grooms in a seemingly uneventful gay wedding on a breezy Lake Michigan shore. In between, we meet: Father Daniel, a cranky Southside priest seeking forgiveness for a long-ago affair; Roy, an ex-Marine battling hallucinations while sprawled on the Belmont Harbor rocks; Patrick Kincaid, a roofer whose boyfriend rides the Red Line subway acting like a young Lauren Bacall; Eddie Doyle, a haunted widower wrestling with his shattered Catholicism while his daughter hides a secret; Bug OConnor, who tries to pass off a brash chorus girl as Patsy Cline; and four buddies who shoot skeet, bet at the dog races and fail to understand the women around them. These provocative, page-turning stories are crisply written with an epic minimalism to...

No Season but the Summer

Autor: Matilda Leyser

Número de Páginas: 317

Spring and summer are my mother’s time, autumn and winter are my husband’s. What is left for me? Persephone spends six months of the year under the ground with her husband, king of the dead, and six months on earth with her mother, goddess of the harvest. It has been this way for nine thousand years, since the deal was struck. But when she resurfaces this spring, something is different. Rains lash the land, crops grow out of season or not at all, there are people trying to build a road through the woods, and her mother does not seem able to stop them. The natural world is changing rapidly and even the gods have lost control. While Demeter tries to regain her powers and fend off her daughter’s husband, who wants to drag his queen back underground for good, Persephone finally gets a taste of freedom, joining a group of protestors. Used to blinking up at the world from below, as she looks down on the earth for the very first time from the treetops with activist Snow, Persephone realises that there are choices she can make for herself. But what will these choices mean for her mother, her husband, and for the new shoots of life inside her? No Season but the Summer takes a classic ...

The Popular Radical Press in Britain, 1811-1821 Vol 2

Autor: Paul Keen , Kevin Gilmartin

Número de Páginas: 416

The radical weekly newspaper or pamphlet was the leading print organ of popular radical expression during what has been called the "heroic age of popular Radicalism"; the public agitation for parlimentary reform between 1815 and 1820. This work reprints the original runs of the rarest periodicals.