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Испания, 17 век. Юная Маринелла Д'Алесси рано лишилась родителей и воспитывается суровой теткой. Единственный близкий человек – Хосе, внебрачный сын графа Эль-Рико, владельца этих земель. Между ними вспыхивает настоящая любовь, но после смерти отца Хосе получает от него карту города сокровищ в Новом свете. Маринелла решает следовать за любимым. Путь девушки лежит через сотни опасностей, через бальные залы дворцов и страшные тюремные подземелья. Но самое трудное испытание – ее красота, не оставляющая равнодушным ни одного мужчину. Какую роль сыграют в ее жизни пираты и орден рыцарей Солнца, веками охраняющий свои тайны?

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Just home from Vietnam, Hank's love for the Big Bend of Texas and the ranch family that raised him was renewed. That affection was tempered, however, by the deep-seated hatred he harbored for Manny Espinoza, the vicious Ojinaga drug lord who had brutally murdered his family. The cruelty of war was behind him, but his long-awaited revenge now lay squarely in front of him.

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Peillon is a small town in southern France bordering the Mediterranean, the secret of its treasure hidden away deep inside its caves by the sea. It is up to the grandchildren of the general and each of the twins to uncover this secret. Though they grow up on different continents without any knowledge of each other, their destinies are undeniably intertwined, and fate brings them together to search for the lost Nazi gold. The further they delve into the past however, the more skeletons they dig up. Will the untold wealth of gold they find outweigh the burdens of the past? Will they be content with the truth once they find out they’re all connected by something that’s more than just fate?

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After falling overboard from a yacht, Sanger Rainsford swims to a nearby island. There General Zaroff, a big-game hunter who knows of Rainsford from published accounts of his hunting snow leopards in Tibet, invites him to dinner. Zaroff is bored of hunting because it no longer challenges him; he has moved to Ship-Trap Island in order to capture shipwrecked sailors. Any captives who can elude Zaroff, his manservant Ivan, and a pack of hunting dogs for three days is set free. No one has yet lasted that long, although a couple of sailors had come close. Zaroff offers sailors a choice—should they decline to be hunted, they will be handed over to Ivan, who had once been official knouter for The Great White Czar. Rainsford denounces this as barbarism, but has no way out. He reluctantly agrees to be hunted…

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British Commissioner Sanders rules the West African territories in the manner of a strict father, watching over his subjects with a combination of force and indulgence. When Sanders takes a period of leave, his kingdom falls into disarray, until order is restored with the help of the loyal chief Bosambo.

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E. Hoffmann Price’s Exotic Adventures MEGAPACK® contains 11 stories and short novels set in a wide range of locales: Europe, Polynesia, Asia, the Middle East, etc. Their settings also range chronologically, from historical adventures to contemporary thrillers and were all published between 1935 and 1945 (with an outlier from 1971 as the finale). These are full-blooded, two-fisted tales of warriors throughout the ages, seeking glory and triumph. We hope you enjoy these rip-roaring tales of adventure and daring-do. Included:<P> WORSE THAN DEATH<BR> GAMBLE WITH THE GODS<BR> KISS OF DEATH<BR> TWO AGAINST THE GODS<BR> WOLVES OF KERAK<BR> SCORCHED EARTH<BR> VENGEANCE IN SAMARR<BR> ISLAND TRAMP<BR> YOU CAN'T EAT GLORY<BR> BONES FOR CHINA<BR> DRAGON’S DAUGHTER<P> If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for «Wildside Press Megapack» to see more of the 300+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction – and much, much more!

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To Baree, for many days after he was born, the world was a vast gloomy cavern.<P> During these first days of his life his home was in the heart of a great windfall where Gray Wolf, his blind mother, had found a safe nest for his babyhood, and to which Kazan, her mate, came only now and then, his eyes gleaming like strange balls of greenish fire in the darkness. It was Kazan’s eyes that gave to Baree his first impression of something existing away from his mother’s side, and they brought to him also his discovery of vision. He could feel, he could smell, he could hear—but in that black pit under the fallen timber he had never seen until the eyes came. At first they frightened him; then they puzzled him, and his fear changed to an immense curiosity. He would be looking straight at them, when all at once they would disappear. This was when Kazan turned his head. And then they would flash back at him again out of the darkness with such startling suddenness that Baree would involuntarily shrink closer to his mother, who always trembled and shivered in a strange sort of way when Kazan came in.<P> Baree, of course, would never know their story. He would never know that Gray Wolf, his mother, was a full-blooded wolf, and that Kazan, his father, was a dog. In him nature was already beginning its wonderful work, but it would never go beyond certain limitations. It would tell him, in time, that his beautiful wolf-mother was blind, but he would never know of that terrible battle between Gray Wolf and the lynx in which his mother’s sight had been destroyed. Nature could tell him nothing of Kazan’s merciless vengeance, of the wonderful years of their matehood, of their loyalty, their strange adventures in the great Canadian wilderness—it could make him only a son of Kazan.<P> But at first, and for many days, it was all mother. Even after his eyes had opened wide and he had found his legs so that he could stumble about a little in the darkness, nothing existed for Baree but his mother. When he was old enough to be playing with sticks and moss out in the sunlight, he still did not know what she looked like. But to him she was big and soft and warm, and she licked his face with her tongue, and talked to him in a gentle, whimpering way that at last made him find his own voice in a faint, squeaky yap.

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Edgar Hoffman Price (1898-1988) was a prolific pulp writer who got his start writing for Weird Tales and became a peripheral member of the Lovecraft Circle of weird fiction writers. This collection contains every story he published featuring a Kurdish holy man named Ismeddin. Price labels him as a «darvish,» an alternate spelling of the Sufi Muslim «dervish,» a man who chooses to become a beggar and an ascetic to become closer to God. The term «whirling dervish» comes from the spiraling dances the holy men use to place themselves in a trance state. Of course Price's darvish is half-crazed, a master swordsman, and particularly good at stirring up trouble. However, the stories he appears in are notable for their themes of religious truths, justice and wisdom, and explorations of the nature of reality. Included are <P> INTRODUCTION, by Alexander Kreitner<BR> THE DREAMER OF ATLANAAT<BR> THE INFIDEL'S DAUGHTER<BR> THIRSTY BLADES<BR> THE SLAVE OF JUSTICE<BR> SHAYKH AHMAD AND THE PIOUS COMPANIONS<BR> ISMEDDIN AND THE HOLY CARPET<BR> THE FORGOTTEN OF ALLAH<BR> ONE ARABIAN NIGHT<BR> A JEST AND A VENGEANCE<BR> THE SULTAN'S JEST<BR> THE STRANGER FROM KURDISTAN<BR> APRICOTS FROM ISPAHAN<BR> THE HAND OF WRATH<BR> THE RAJAH'S GIFT<BR> SATAN'S DAUGHTER<BR> WELL OF THE ANGELS<BR> THE GIRL FROM SAMARCAND<BR> EVERY MAN A KING<BR> LADY OF THE MOONLIGHT<P> If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for «Wildside Press Megapack» to see more of the 300+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction – and much, much more!

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With The Adventure Novella MEGAPACK®, we launch a new line of anthologies consisting of longer stories that don’t quite make it to novel length. Novellas and novelets are often considered superior to the short story format by authors because there is more room to develop plot and character. The 8 adventures in this volume span continents as well as time and space, offering a selection of great stories by top pulp authors. Included are:<P> SECRET OF THE GOLDEN JAGUAR, by Robert Moore Williams<BR> SANDED IN SAN DIEGO, by Johnston McCulley<BR> GRIST, by Murray Leinster<BR> BOMBS FOR THE GENERAL, by Horace McCoy<BR> THE EARTHQUAKE GIRL, by Joseph J. Millard<BR> THE GREAT CIRCLE, by Henry S. Whitehead<BR> HOK VISITS THE LAND OF LEGENDS, by Manly Wade Wellman<BR> THE PIRATE OF SHELL CASTLE<P> If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for «Wildside Press Megapack» to see more of the 300+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction – and much, much more!

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"Now order the ranks, and fling wide the banners, for our souls are God's and our bodies the king's, and our swords for Saint George and for England!" With that rousing proclamation, twelve hundred knights ride into battle, accompanied by the stalwart archers known as the White Company.Fueled by their appetite for glory, this motley crew of freebooters stands united in their unswerving devotion to the company commander, Sir Nigel Loring. Short, bald, and extremely nearsighted, Sir Nigel's unprepossessing appearance belies his warrior's heart and his chivalrous nature. The rollicking adventures of his company during the Hundred Years War center around Sir Nigel's loyal squire, Alleyne Edricson. Raised in the sheltered confines of a monastery, young Alleyne comes of age amid the rough-and-tumble of armed conflict and the bewildering ways of courtly love.Best known as the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was also a passionate historian. The White Company was his favorite among his own works; here, he offers flavorful, realistic depictions of life during the 14th century &#8212; from its weapons and apparel to its religious practice, and the close connection between the cycles of human existence, and the rhythm of the seasons. Readers of all ages will thrill to this spirited tale and its evocative portrait of the Middle Ages.

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