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The People That Time Forgot is a direct sequel to The Land That Time Forgot and continues the lost world saga begun in the earlier story. After discovering Bowen Tyler's manuscript in a thermos flask off the coast of Greenland, his family immediately fund and mount a rescue operation to succour...

John Carter returns in this, his most thrilling adventure yet! Continuing where The Gods of Mars left off, we see John Carter, desperately seeking to rescue his lost wife; Dejah Thoris, Princess of Helium. To this end, he pursues his two adversaries: Matai Shang, father of Therns, and Thurid the...

John Carter is back! In this second book in Edgar Rice Burroughs Barsoom saga, John Carter returns to Mars after he was flung back to Earth at the end of the previous title. Ten long years have passed, and when he returns, John Carter finds himself once more flung into danger and high adventure!...

The first in Edgar Rice Burrough's Science Fantasy Barsoom series. A Princess of Mars introduces former Civil War captain John Carter, who through mysterious means finds himself on Mars amongst strange and savage alien beings. Gifted with great strength and agility because of his Earthborn...

The year is 1916, Europe is ablaze with war, and Bowen Tyler is crossing the Atlantic to join the Lafayette Escadrille when the course of his life is forever altered by a torpedo, shot from a German U-Boat. What follows is a course of events that leads him into a land unknown to man, filled with...

The year is 2137. For two centuries, the Western Hemisphere has lived in complete isolation—protected by a law forbidding anyone from crossing the thirtieth meridian. Lieutenant Jefferson Turck, an officer in the navy of the Pan-American Federation, has spent his life believing that Europe no...

The wildest Tarzan adventure yet, brought to life in a whole new way. They took his wife. They took his son. And they left Tarzan stranded on an island with nothing but the jungle and his instincts. That was their first mistake. The Beasts of Tarzan is the most primal and relentless entry in the...

The ultimate jungle adventure, brought to life in a whole new way. Tarzan of the Apes begins with a shipwreck on the coast of Africa and ends with one of the most bittersweet conclusions in adventure fiction. In between is everything - a boy who grows up learning the laws of the jungle instead...

The king of the jungle returns, brought to life in a whole new way. Tarzan left the jungle once. He tried civilization, tried society, tried living by rules that never quite fit a man raised by apes in the African wilderness. And then the woman he loved chose someone else, and the world he'd...

In the late twentieth century, Admiral Julian 3rd can get no rest, for he knows his future. He will be reborn as his grandson in the next century to journey through space and make an ominous discovery inside the moon; he will live again in the dark years of the twenty-second century as Julian...

Um dos grandes nomes da geração beat, William S. Burroughs retrata a crise de abstinência das drogas e a paixão obsessiva homossexual do seu alter ego William Lee. O livro que deu origem ao filme dirigido por Luca Guadagnino, de Me chame pelo seu nome. Embora tenha sido escrito em 1952...

The Classic Prayer Mega Collection gathers sixteen Christian classics on prayer, devotion, guidance, Bible study, and the inner life.

Transported to the mysterious red planet of Barsoom, Confederate veteran John Carter finds himself thrust into a world of savage tribes, deadly creatures, and crumbling empires. On Mars, where gravity grants him extraordinary strength and agility, Carter must navigate a brutal landscape where honor is prized—and betrayal lurks in every shadow. Amid the chaos, he encounters a princess whose fate is bound to the destiny of a dying world… and whose courage may rival his own.

Il piccolo Lord Greystoke nasce nel luogo meno appropriato e nel momento più drammatico della vita dei suoi genitori. Il suo destino sembra segnato, ma Kala, una femmina di gorilla che ha perso da poco il suo cucciolo, lo adotta e lo alleva teneramente. Per lei e per tutta la tribù dei crudeli gorilla, quello strano essere senza peli è Tarzan.

Davanti ai nostri occhi una galleria di personaggi esilaranti: Augusten, prima di tutto, con le sue giacche blu, il sogno glamour di diventare parrucchiere per dive o medico in una soap opera e la naturalezza con cui simula il suicidio per non andare a scuola; il dottor Finch, lo psichiatra che ne ottiene l’affidamento e che vive in una casa tutta rosa con la moglie che sgranocchia croccantini per cani; i loro sette figli e i pazienti che frequentano la «pink house» e che forse sono più sani dei suoi abitanti, o forse sono solo diversamente pazzi.

Thuvia, Princess of Ptarth, is betrothed to Kulan Tith, Jeddak of Kaol, in an arranged marriage. She spurns the advances of a suitor, Astok of Dusar, who then plots to abduct Thuvia and frame Carthoris, son of John Carter, for the crime, igniting a war between Kaol, Ptarth, and Helium.

Tara of Helium, daughter of John Carter, becomes lost in an unknown area of Mars when her single-seat flier is caught in a rare Martian hurricane. She is first captured by the bizarre and hideous Kaldanes, and then the brutal Manatorians, for whom she is the prize in a tournament of Martian chess, jetan, that is played by live game pieces, and to the death!

At the conclusion of The Gods of Mars, John Carter's wife and two other women were locked in a slowly rotating prison attached to the Temple of the Sun, each of whose hundreds of cells are only open to the outside world once every year. John Carter must discover the secret of the Temple of the Sun to rescue the Holy Thern's daughter Phaidor, who has been imprisoned with Dejah Thoris and another Barsoomian princess, Thuvia of Ptarth.

After a 10-year absence, John Carter returns to Barsoom. He finds himself among the Therns, a white-skinned race of self-proclaimed gods, who have for eons deceived the Barsoomians elsewhere that the pilgrimage to the Valley Dor is a journey to paradise when it is in fact a valley of death. This is book two of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoom series.

While fleeing from a band of Apache warriors, Civil War veteran John Carter hides in a sacred cave, where he is mysteriously transported to Mars. Now endowed with superhuman abilities due to the low Martian gravity, he becomes embroiled in a conflict between the six-limbed Green Martians and humanoid Red Martians and meets the beautiful Dejah Thoris. This is book one of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoom series.