Land of Terror Edgar Rice Burroughs - Land of Terror is a 1944 fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the sixth in his series about the fictional "hollow earth" land of Pellucidar. It is the penultimate novel in the series and the last to be published during Burrough's lifetime.Years ago David Innes and Abner Perry bored straight down through five hundred miles of the earth's crust and landed in Pellucidar, the savage, primeval world that lies at the center of the earth. This is the story of their continuing adventures in the timeless land of perpetual noon and their encounters with the hideous creatures and savage men who pursue them. Although they encounter enemies at every turn, David and Abner find a few loyal friends as they embark on exhilarating adventures.
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From the creator of My Vampire System comes the action-packed story of a young man struggling to survive—until he learns to unleash the animal within . . . Gary doesn't have all that much going for him. He's a teenage boy who lives in a Tier-3 town that's barely hanging on, and his family's just a rung above dirt poor. Which is why he's taken the very dangerous step of becoming an errand boy for the savage Underdogs gang. He doesn't like what they do, but if he tries to get out, he's pretty sure he'll get very dead. Then, a delivery goes wrong when he's ambushed and injured. Even worse, his "package" somehow gets loose—and into Gary. To his shock, he finds himself the wielder of a Werewolf System. It allows him incredible power, strength, and healing. Unfortunately, when the full moon strikes, he might not be able to control his bloodlust and could wind up hurting somebody he cares about. Now, Gary must somehow explain his sudden "improvement" to his friends while trying to survive a pack of vicious hunters out to eliminate him. Because if he can figure out how to harness his new abilities, he just might make a difference in this town—and the first thing on his to-do list is put the Underdogs underground . . . The first volume of the hit progression-fantasy series—with almost five million views on WebNovel—now available on Audible and wherever ebooks are sold!
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<p>Calvin Dog Bard wybrał klub ponad rodzinę i dopiął swego – został Prezydentem młodszej gwardii Dogs of Hell. Cienka linia pokoju, jaką zawarli z Savage Croupiers, się zacierała, a stary szef Krupierów, Thanaka Doyle, zapadł się pod ziemię. Dziedzictwo Doyle’a – hotel Paradise, królestwo hazardu, mafii i wielkich pieniędzy, zasilające Krupierów – miało zostać przejęte.<br />Do miasta wróciła Rose Anne Elliot. Cal nie pamiętał córki Lucky’ego, jednego z mechaników w Hell Ride. Kiedy dziewczyna domagała się ochrony klubu nad synem krwi, Calvin zgodził się bez wahania. Nie wiedział, że ta decyzja wszystko zmieni, że kobieta, która urodziła mu syna, sprawi, że jego marzenia znajdą się w zasięgu jego ręki. Rose Anne okaże się jego aniołem, niepotrafiącym pogodzić się z zasadami klubu, a namiętność nadal będzie się między nimi utrzymywała.</p>
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Jon Savage, periodista experto en subculturas juveniles y autor del galardonado England's Dreaming: Sex Pistols y el Punk Rock, explora en Teenage. La invención de la juventud 1875-1945 la prehistoria oculta del fenómeno que transformó la sociedad contemporánea, la emergencia de la juventud como una etapa diferenciada entre la niñez y el mundo adulto. Es este un libro monumental, un trabajo titánico de investigación que arranca en 1875 y termina en 1945, en el momento en que el término teenage –o sus traducciones– se convierte en parte integral de la cultura popular, y en el que Savage ha sumado información de múltiples y muy variadas fuentes: literatura científica y popular, periódicos, publicidad, música, cine, moda, política, arte... Teenage. La invención de la juventud 1875-1945escruta durante siete décadas el devenir de la juventud y sus muchas y divergentes direcciones, y por sus páginas deambulan bandas de gamberros juveniles, boy scouts y románticos que buscaban la vuelta a la naturaleza, carne de cañón en la Gran Guerra, las flappers de los locos años veinte y su pasión por el jazz, los rebeldes del swing alemanes o la visión militarista de las Juventudes Hitlerianas. Savage hace un retrato que cruza generaciones y clases sociales, analizando sus contextos y sus experiencias, sus expectativas y sus sueños, sus éxitos y sus fracasos. Pero, además de los intensos vectores de creatividad y vitalidad, pero también de destrucción y alienación, que tensan a esta juventud, Savage no pierde de vista las presiones del mundo adulto para moldear y orientar estos vectores, sea hacia un consumismo rampante sea como soldados para nuevas guerras. Las páginas deTeenage. La invención de la juventud 1875-1945 están llenas de música, de jazz y ragtime y swing, y sus historias se suceden rápidas y llenas de pasión, cómicas o dolorosas, pero siempre conmovedoras. Las experiencias personales se anudan con el análisis global de un tiempo cuajado de conflictos, tejiendo un fresco caleidoscópico de cultura popular e historia social. Una exuberante crónica del nacimiento de la juventud.
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The Scarlet Plague is a post-apocalyptic fiction novel written by Jack London and originally published in London Magazine in 1912. The story takes place in 2073, sixty years after an uncontrollable epidemic, the Red Death, has depopulated the planet. James Howard Smith is one of the few survivors of the pre-plague era left alive in the San Francisco area, and he travels with his grandsons Edwin, Hoo-Hoo, and Hare-Lip. His grandsons are "savage" and live as primeval hunter-gatherers in a heavily depopulated world. Their intellect is limited, as are their language abilities. Edwin asks Smith, whom they call "Granser", to tell them of the disease alternately referred to as scarlet plague, scarlet death, or red death. Smith recounts the story of his life before the plague, when he was an English professor. In 2013, the year after "Morgan the Fifth was appointed President of the United States by the Board of Magnates", the disease came about and spread rapidly. Sufferers would turn scarlet, particularly on the face, and become numb in their lower extremities. Victims usually died within 30 minutes of first seeing symptoms. Despite the public's trust in doctors and scientists, no cure is found, and those who attempted to do so were also killed by the disease. The grandsons question Smith's belief in "germs" causing the illness because they cannot be seen. Smith witnesses his first victim of the scarlet plague while teaching when a young woman's face turns scarlet. She dies quickly, and a panic soon overtakes the campus. He returns home but his family refuses to join him because they fear he is infected. Soon, an epidemic overtakes the area and residents begin rioting and killing one another. Smith meets with colleagues at his college's chemistry building, where they hope to wait out the problem. They soon realize they must move elsewhere for safety and begin trekking northward.
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The century spanning the wars of the roses and the reigns of the Tudor kings was a volatile time of battle and bloodshed, execution and unexpected illness. Life could be nasty, brutish and short. Some met their end in battle, others were dragged to the block, losing everything for daring to aspire to the throne. Some were lost in mysterious circumstances, like Edward V, the elder of the Princes in the Tower. But the majority of these young men died in their teens, on the brink of manhood. They represent the lost paths of history, the fascinating "what-ifs" of the houses of York and Tudor. They also diverted the route of dynastic inheritance, with all the complicated implications that could bring, passing power into some unlikely hands. This book examines ten such figures in detail, using their lives to build a narrative of this savage century.
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Das große Finale von Autor Nick Spencers Spidey-Saga auf 400 Seiten! Gemeinsam müssen es Spider-Man Peter Parker und seine Schwester, die Superspionin Teresa Parker, nicht nur mit dem durchtriebenen Chameleon aufnehmen, sondern auch mit dem Mörder ihrer Eltern! Und während Spidey zwischen die Sinister Six und die Savage Six gerät, kommen im Endspiel alle Geheimnisse von und über Kindred ans Licht!
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The second collection of plays from the multi-award-winning Irish playwright, Enda Walsh. This volume of remarkable plays charts the development of one of the most strikingly original playwrights in contemporary theatre. It collects together four full-length plays – three of which were produced by Galway's Druid Theatre Company, three of which were performed at the Edinburgh Fringe, and two of which transferred to London's National Theatre – along with two fascinating short plays and a Foreword by the author. - The Walworth Farce (2006) is a madcap yet tender play about what can happen when we become stuck in the stories we tell about our lives. - The New Electric Ballroom (2008) is a dark, glitter-dusted fable of the emotionally stultifying effects of small-town life. - In a savage and riveting take on the classic Greek myth of Odysseus's wife, Penelope(2010) sees four ridiculous men facing their inevitable deaths, and playing for an unwinnable love. - Ballyturk (2014) saw Walsh reuniting with actor Cillian Murphy after Disco Pigs and Misterman for a jaw-droppingly physical play in which the lives of two men unravel over the course of ninety minutes.Also included in this volume are two short plays, My Friend Duplicity (2010), which went on to inspire Ballyturk, and Room 303 (2011). 'One of the most fiercely individual voices in the theatre today'New York Times 'Enda Walsh makes his own distinctive stage music in the fury of his writing talent and the irresistible surge of his blatant theatricality'Independent
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