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Epic adventure from #1 bestselling Kindle author, J.R. Rain! Agent Alan Putnam has one last job to do before he retires from the INS. He must personally escort a heroic dog named War Daddy back to its country of origin... returning the creature all the way back home halfway across the world. The journey will be anything but easy. Luckily, War Daddy is 125 pounds of pure muscle, teeth, and slobber—and possesses a will to survive unlike anything Agent Putnam has ever seen before. The adventure of a lifetime is about to begin... Click BUY NOW or READ FOR FREE!

Cash Cassidy goes against her husband’s wishes and departs Wales for South America to seek El Dorado, the famed lost city of gold. When she’s pursued by authorities, robbed of a critical item, and abandoned by the smugglers who were her guides, it’s up to Cash to find her way to safety to El Dorado. Meanwhile, Cash’s husband is desperate to find her—he’ll do anything to save her from a terrible fate. Cash travels undercover on the odyssey of a lifetime through jungles, across mountains, and even across borders. After she meets a man who reveals more clues about the whereabouts ...

This short story revolves around a cat who may or may not have seen a bat in the middle of the night, as narrated by a man who probably thought he dreamed it all.

In the unforgiving expanse of Antarctica, where life clings desperately to the edges of an icy wilderness, two rival teams converge with a singular goal: the summit of the newly unveiled Pinnacle Australis. This towering peak, a monument to nature’s relentless beauty and brutality, symbolises not just a challenge but the very essence of competition. As climbers battle their own limits and each other in the race to glory, they become ensnared in a perilous game where ambition can quickly turn into deception, rivalry, and sabotage. However, amidst the mounting tension and fierce competition...

Some secrets don’t stay buried. They fight back. Sixteen-year-old Leah Cutter is a sarcastic tech prodigy living off the grid with her retired special-ops father and tribal-descended mother in the Philippine jungle. When she uncovers her grandmother’s encrypted wartime journal—filled with buried truths about espionage, trafficking networks, and erased history—she becomes the key to igniting a long-dormant failsafe designed to expose a global shadow operation. But someone’s watching. Red Hand, a black-ops unit erased from official records, is dispatched to erase Leah and everything...

A collection of fireside stories of short stories and tall tales! Open these pages and read to others, or snuggle into a blanket by the fireside and pick a story that fits your mood!Short stories and tall tales! This is of the fireside collection. A dozen awesome stories you are bound to find a story you really like! Some of the stories are great to tell around a campfire or at any get together! This book includes, Cabin Fever, A Star is Born, Promises Made, Promises Kept, Claire and The Journalist, The Time Traveler, Love Never Dies, This Rugged Land, We Call Home, Queen Dar’keina And ...

Jeopardy lurks around every corner in these three intricately plotted Noir Shot entries. From Kentucky to New York, to the French Riviera, love collides with treachery and madness in a collection of old-fashioned noir stories no reader will ever forget.

The Last Whale Watch and Other Stories includes 13 short stories. An artist and an actress venture to New York seeking their fortunes. A wandering sailor seeks revenge against a gangster. A gifted engineer, fired for insubordination within the factory system of an interstellar corporation, choses to rebel. An aging stunt performer, after years of recovering from crippling injuries, attempts a comeback. Plus much more.

In "The Boscombe Valley Mystery", Inspector Lestrade summons Sherlock Holmes to a community in Herefordshire, where a local landowner has been murdered outdoors. The deceased's estranged son is strongly implicated. Holmes, employing his trusty magnifying glass quickly determines that a mysterious third man may be responsible for the crime, unraveling a thread involving a secret criminal past, thwarted love, and blackmail.

"The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" is one of the most famous novella of Stevenson. The story is about a London lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson, who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr. Henry Jekyll and the evil Edward Hyde. The work is commonly associated with the rare mental condition often called "split personality", where, within the same body, there exists more than one distinct personality.

Twelve-year-old Carl Hunter has been snatched at gunpoint from his home on Jersey. He and his kidnapper have vanished without a trace. Enter Ben Hope, now working freelance to rescue kidnapped children. But as Ben begins his search for Carl, he soon discovers that nothing about this case is as it seems. Behind the mystery of the boy's disappearance lies a sinister secret that threatens to destroy anyone who comes into contact with it...

Here are two fictional short stories of life in the Alaskan Bush. "Frozen" deals with a day in the life of a fur trapper when nothing goes right. He is alone, and far from civilization in extremely cold weather. "The Battle for the Gold" is about three close friends who decide to form a partnership in a gold mine and the dreaded gold fever sets in motion the destruction of all three.

Questo racconto, pubblicato nel 1922 , fu ispirato da un’osservazione di Mark Twain: che era un peccato che la parte migliore della nostra vita venisse all’inizio e la peggiore alla fine. Dice Francis Scott Fitzgerald: “Io ho cercato di dimostrare la sua tesi, facendo un esperimento con un uomo inserito in un ambiente perfettamente normale.”. Dal racconto, surreale ma niente affatto superficiale, è stato tratto un film nel 2008.

John Griffith London nació en San Francisco el 12 de enero de 1876. Hijo de un astrólogo ambulante, al que no conoció. Su madre era espiritista; se casó con John London unos meses después del nacimiento del niño, de quien el escritor tomó el apellido. Realizó estudios secundarios mientras trabajaba. London fue una gran autodidacta. Se formó leyendo incansablemente libros en la biblioteca pública de la ciudad. Realizó multitud de oficios que le resultaron muy útiles para sus novelas.

Dos hombres Mason y Malemute Kid, en compañía de la esposa india de Mason, atraviesan en trineo las tierras de Klondike a temperaturas de más de cincuenta grados bajo cero y con tanta escasez de comida que los perros están desfalleciendo y en algunos casos volviéndose peligrosos para los propios viajeros.

The Call of the Wild, considered by many London's greatest novel, is a gripping tale of a heroic dog that, thrust into the brutal life of the Alaska Gold Rush, ultimately faces a choice between living in man's world and returning to nature. Adventure and dog-story enthusiasts, as well as students and devotees of American literature, will find this classic work a thrilling, memorable reading experience.

Eight terrifying, cold sweat producing tales in several genres, beginning with the occult and a wicked black magic practicing witch and the monster she created...Man on the Run. Or a grandmother, a straitlaced, law-abiding citizen, who turns into a cold-blooded drug stick-up artist, in search of…Gran Maw Maw.

Get ready to immerse yourself in a realm of energy. Stories that ignite the human spirit and touch the soul.

This novella is based on the following principle: the same paragraph introduces three short stories each with a different ending. The business class cabin in a plane, a violent and windy rainstorm, a man in his seat with the adjoining seat unoccupied. Who is going to come and sit next to him and what will be the chain of events from then on? All that remains is to kindly ask you to turn off your mobile phones, turn down the main lights in your room and to wish you a pleasant moment of relaxation in our company. The Contract. Fear of Flying Snow in New York The author: Jacques Vandroux, who ...

The Seed of McCoy written by Jack London: The Pyrenees, her iron sides pressed low in the water by her cargo of wheat, rolled sluggishly, and made it easy for the man who was climbing aboard from out a tiny outrigger canoe. As his eyes came level with the rail, so that he could see inboard, it seemed to him that he saw a dim, almost indiscernible haze. It was more like an illusion, like a blurring film that had spread abruptly over his eyes.