Pilgrims

Rebecca Knight - No ​Rest for the Wicked
Fairy ​tale villains are real, but luckily there's one woman crazy enough to stop them: Veronica Grim, Fairy Tale Assassin. Follow her exploits in the seedy world of fairy tale crime in these two thrilling short stories. "Blood Don't Lie" is a 1000 word tale involving blue facial tattoos, a bloody key, and a whole closet full of trouble. Can Veronica take down a killer without becoming one of his victims? "Heartless" is a 2600 word action tale. Porn princess Whitney Snow is in a world of hurt with no one to trust--not even her dwarf entourage! Her Stepmom wants her dead, but that's not even the worst of her problems--Veronica Grim is the one hired to track her down. What readers are saying: "I felt like I was dropped in on an exciting scene from an action movie. It starts quick, and then gets wild as the mayhem kicks in." "There are glimpses of a much larger, darkly twisted world and I'd love to see more of this series..." "I'll definitely be keeping an eye out for more from this author."

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Sherlock ​Holmes emlékiratai / The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur ​Conan Doyle hősét sem a krimikedvelőknek, sem az igényes lektűr rajongóinak nem kell bemutatni. S bár kiadónk a közelmúltban a szerző valamennyi Sherlock Holmes-történetét tartalmazó sorozat első kötetét jelentette meg, úgy véltük, hogy az írások hangulatát, a zseniális nyomozó gondolatmenetét leghívebben az eredeti szöveg adhatja vissza. Itt az ideje tehát, hogy a méltán népszerű detektív és hű társa, dr. Watson kalandjai közül néhányat a magyar fordítással együtt angolul is közreadjuk. Így nem csak a krimi irodalom e klasszikusának kedvelői, de az angol nyelvvel már közelebbi ismeretségben álló olvasók is nagy élvezettel forgathatják a könyvet.

H. D. Timmons - The ​Time Traveler's Lament
For ​two decades Eric Montague has traveled back in time to the scene of his wife’s fatal accident. Even though he grieves for her constantly, he is willing to repeatedly relive the heartache of her death because it is the only way he can hold his wife again… if only for a moment. When a curious stranger appears Eric is soon faced with a new reality.

Naszádi Anikó - Nyiss ​ki! / Open me!
25 ​önálló történet, ami egy-egy szálon mégis összefügg azáltal, hogy aki az egyik történetben mellékszereplőként jelenik meg, az a másik történetben főhősként tér vissza. 25 írás angol interpretációja. A kötet kétnyelvűsége lehetőséget nyújt azok számára, akik eddig nem mertek idegen nyelvű kötetet a kezükbe venni nyelvi bizonytalanságuk miatt. 25 illusztráció, mely öt különböző művész keze munkáját dicséri. Vannak köztük fiatal, feltörekvő képzőművészek, és vannak olyanok, akik az iskolában tanítják, hogyan fejezzük érzelmeinket a művészeten keresztül. 25 éves a szerző. Írásainak összetevői: csipetnyi erotika, egy marék ármány, leheletnyi szenvedély, egy nagy kanál szerelem, gondolatnyi fantasy, egy ujjnyi véres valóság titkokkal megfűszerezve, cseppnyi humor-aromával meghintve, majd egy késhegynyi gyilkosság drámával felöntve, bűnnel és bűnhődéssel megszórva. Ha mindezt összeadjuk, 100% olvasmányélményt kapunk!

Ismeretlen szerző - Making ​It All Right
Ehhez a könyvhöz nincs fülszöveg, de ettől függetlenül még rukkolható/happolható.

Roald Dahl - Taste ​and Other Tales (Penguin Readers)
Some ​people's lives may seem dull and quiet, but occasionally circumstances drive them to lies, deceit, revenge or extraordinary ideas. Master of black comedy, Dahl gives us eight stories with devilish twists.

Ismeretlen szerző - The ​Penguin Book of Australian Short Stories
Ehhez a könyvhöz nincs fülszöveg, de ettől függetlenül még rukkolható/happolható.

Ismeretlen szerző - English ​short stories of the 20th century
Ehhez a könyvhöz nincs fülszöveg, de ettől függetlenül még rukkolható/happolható.

Mercedes Lackey - Michelle Sagara West - Cameron Haley - Harvest ​Moon
A ​Tangled Web by New York Times bestselling author Mercedes LackeyKidnapping Persephone should have been an easy task. But in the Five Hundred Kingdoms, nothing's ever simple—and the wrong blonde goddess is stolen by mistake, leaving Prince Leopold without his new bride. At least until he braves the realm of the dead to get her back…. Cast in Moonlight by New York Times bestselling author Michelle Sagara Barely a teenager, Kaylin Neya is a thief, a fugitive and an attempted assassin. She also has a smart mouth, sharp wits and mysterious markings on her skin. All of which make her perfect bait for a child prostitution sting in the city of Elantra—if she survives her first meeting with the Hawks! Retribution by Cameron Haley In the underworld, there are tricks to killing. Like executing rivals at crossroads so ghosts won't follow you home. But sometimes retribution is hard to avoid—and now a supernatural hit man has a contract on Domino Riley's life. Luckily she knows a thing or two about death….

Ray Bradbury - The ​Toynbee Convector
A ​superlative new collection of twenty-two stories by the author of "The Martian Chronicles" includes the continuating saga of H.G. Well's time traveller and his Toynbee Convector, a ghost on the Orient Express, and a bored man who creates his own genuine Egyptian mummy

Ismeretlen szerző - Do ​the Write Thing
Ehhez a könyvhöz nincs fülszöveg, de ettől függetlenül még rukkolható/happolható.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The ​Return of Sherlock Holmes / His Last Bow
Criminals ​beware! Sherlock Holmes is back! Ten years after his supposed death at the Reichenbach falls, the famous detective returns to Baker Street in London and is ready to commence work once more, unravelling a series of baffling cases. Arthur Conan Doyle provides a rich and fascinating set of mysteries to challenge his sleuth in the new stories. As before, Watson is the superb narrator, and the magic remains unchanged and undimmed. This fascinating volume also includes the collection _His Last Bow_. In the title story, we are told how Sherlock Holmes is brought out of retirement to help the government fight the German threat at the approach of the First World War. Here are two sparkling sets of stories featuring the greatest detective of them all.

Moira Rogers - That ​Old Black Magic
The ​job was supposed to be easy. Lifting a magic charm from the house of a reclusive wizard in the middle of a swamp is a breeze for Max, a shapeshifter who has made his reputation by putting an end to dark wizards and the evil magic they use. Getting locked into a closet with an infamous thief wasn't part of the gameplan, but Max has always improvised well...especially when a hot woman is involved. The one thing Max didn't plan for was the possibility that Polly would beat him at his own game. That Old Black Magic is a free Mystic Valley story, offered unedited and as-is. It contains strong language, graphic sex, and a battle of the sexes involving handcuffs.

J. G. Ballard - The ​Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard
“More ​than one thousand compelling pages from one of the most haunting, cogent, and individual imaginations in contemporary literature.”—William Boyd The American publication of The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard is a landmark event. Increasingly recognized as one of the greatest and most prophetic novelists, J. G. Ballard was a “writer of enormous inventive powers,” who, in the words of Malcolm Bradbury, possessed, “like Calvino, a remarkable gift for filling the empty deprived spaces of modern life with the invisible cities and the wonder worlds of imagination.” Best known for his novels, such as Empire of the Sun and Crash, Ballard rose to fame as the “ideal chronicler of disturbed modernity” (The Observer). Perhaps less known, though equally brilliant, were his devastatingly original short stories, which span nearly fifty years and reveal an unparalleled prescience so unique that a new word—Ballardian—had to be invented. Ballard, who wrote that “short stories are the loose change in the treasury of fiction, easily ignored beside the wealth of novels available,” regretted the fact that the public had increasingly lost its ability to appreciate them. With 98 pulse-quickening stories, this volume helps restore the very art form that Ballard feared was comatose. Ballard’s inimitable style was already present in his early stories, most of them published in science fiction magazines. These stories are surreal, richly atmospheric and splendidly elliptical, featuring an assortment of psychotropic houses, time-traveling assassins, and cities without clocks. Over the next fifty years, his fierce imaginative energy propelled him to explore new topics, including the dehumanization of technology, the brutality of the corporation, and nuclear Armageddon. Depicting the human soul as “being enervated and corrupted by the modern world” (New York Times), Ballard began to examine themes like overpopulation, as in “Billenium,” a claustrophobic imagining of a world of 20 billion people crammed into four-square-meter rooms, or the false realities of modern media, as in the classic “Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan,” a faux-psychological study of the sexual and violent reactions elicited by viewing Reagan’s face on television, in which Ballard predicted the unholy fusion of pop culture and sound-bite politics thirteen years before Reagan became president. Given Ballard’s heightened powers of perception, it is astonishing that the dehumanized world that he apprehended so acutely neither diminished his own febrile imagination nor his engagement with mankind, evident in every story, including two new ones for this American edition. So eerily prophetic is his vision, so commanding are his literary gifts, the import and insight of J. G. Ballard’s deeply humanistic and transcendent works can only grow in years to come.

Maxim Lieber - The ​American Century
The ​American Century is the third short story anthology edited by Maxim Lieber. Outstanding authors in America can be divided into two groups: those who are famous for the best-sellers they have written, and those who have devoted their talents to giving an honest picture of American life. It is the latter who are represented in this volume. Many of these authors will be new to the main body of the reading public. This is not because they are no longer printed in the United States except as space allows in the two American magazines which bravely carry on with honest literature despite McCarthyism. The American Century marks the first time that such a collection of stories has been bound into one volume. It is not only an anthology of fine stories, it is a document of courage in Art.

Edgar Allan Poe - Pár ​szó egy múmiával
Kétnyelvű ​kötetünkben Poe négy, 1840 táján írt novelláját Babits Mihály fordításában adjuk közre. A hosszúkás láda (The Oblong Box) egyike a kevésbé borzasztó és kevésbé misztikus novelláknak. Jellegzetes poe-i figurák tünnek fel benne: az öngyilkos szerelmes, a rejtélyt logikus okfejtéssel felderítő nyomozó. Toledó zseniális inkvizitorai, A kút és az inga (The Pit and the Pendelum) című elbeszélés hősei eszelik ki a kínok groteszk fantasztikumú csapdáit. Áldozataiknak a halál már megkönnyebülés... A Pár szó egy múmiával (Some Words With a Mommy) rémtörténet lehetne, ha az angol abszurd humor paródiává nem szelidítené. Olasz bosszútörténet, kínzó lassúsággal előadott, hátborzongató rémtett az Egy hordó amontillado (The Cask of Amontillado)

Edgar Allan Poe - Arthur ​Gordon Pym and Related Tales
The ​Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym is an archetypal American story of escape from home and family which traces a young man's rite of passage through a series of terrible brushes with death during a fateful sea voyage. But the plot also goes much deeper, as Pym encounters various interpretative dilemmas, and then leaves the reader with a broken-off ending that defies solution. Apart from its violence and mystery, the tale calls attention to the act of writing and to the problem of representing truth. Layer upon layer of elaborate hoaxes include its author's own role of posing as ghost-writer of early portions of the narrative; Pym - his only novel - has become the key text for our understanding of Poe. This edition offers eight short tales which are linked to Pym by their treatment of persistent themes - fantastic voyages, gigantic whirlpools, and premature burials - or by their ironic commentary on Poe's mystification of his readers.

Ismeretlen szerző - Fifty ​Great American Short Stories
A ​brilliant, far-reaching collection of stories from Washington Irving to John Updike. The Classic Stories Edgar Allan Poe’s _Ms. Found in a Bottle_, Bret Harte’s _The Outcasts of Poker Flat_, Sherwood Anderson’s _Death in the Woods_, Stephen Vincent Benét’s _By the Waters of Babylon_ The Great Writers Melville, James, Dreiser, Faulkner, Hemingway, Steinbeck, McCullers The Little-Known Masterpieces Edith Wharton’s _The Dilettante_, Finley Peter Dunne’s _Mr. Dooley on the Popularity of Fireman_, Charles M. Flandrau’s _A Dead Issue_, James Reid Parker’s _The Archimandrite's Niece_

Moira Rogers - Moonshine
Claire ​is tired of pretending to be polite, docile...human. She wants to unleash the animal inside her, and she wants to do it with a man who can really handle her. Then she meets Lars, a dangerous, sexy alpha, in a smoky bar. They share some moonshine, a potent shifter aphrodisiac, and have blisteringly hot sex. Their one night of intoxicated passion leaves her wanting more, but Lars isn't interested in a woman who can only let loose while under the influence. Claire must then decide whether she's ready--and willing--to truly embrace her wild side.

Moira Rogers - The ​Thirteenth Step
Everyone ​has an addiction. For Blake, it's Ella. She's smart, strong, gorgeous...and remembers the reign of Queen Elizabeth. His blood, the blood of a strong shapeshifter, gives her power. Her bite brings him pleasure. But he wants more. He wants the one thing Ella can't give to anyone: control. No matter how many times he walks away, something always drags him back. This time is different though. For the first time Blake has something he never had before: the upper hand.