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In this spirited and romantic saga, a young heir named David Balfour meets his miserly uncle Ebenezer, who has illegally taken control of the Balfour estate. Ebenezer kidnaps David and plots to have him seized and sold into slavery on a ship to the Carolinas. A couple of days into the voyage, a shipwreck throws David together with David Break, a Scotsman returning from political exile in France, and the two of them journey together.

Dr. Mortimer looked strangely at us for an instant and his voice sank almost to a whisper as he answered, “Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound.”

Perhaps more than any other book The Thirty-Nine Steps has set the pattern for the story of the chase for a wanted man. And, of the many writers who have attempted this kind of thing since Buchan, only a very few, like Graham Greene, have managed to sustain the tension in the same way. The story's extended chase scene inspired Alfred Hitchcock's movie of the same name.

For plain and pure imaginative delight, Treasure Island is unsurpassed. From the moment narrator Jim Hawkins meets the blind pirate Pew at the Admiral Benbow Inn until the spirited battle for hidden treasure on a tropic island, the novel spawns unforgettable scenes and characters that have thrilled readers young and old since its original publication in 1883.

The year 1866 was marked by a unique incident, a mysterious and inexplicable phenomenon, and rumors agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind, especially seafaring men. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the governments of several states on the two continents, were deeply interested in the matter.

The Civilization of the Middle Ages incorporates current research, recent trends in interpretation, and novel perspectives, especially on the foundations of the Middle Ages and the Later Middle Ages of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. A sharper focus on social history, Jewish history, women’s roles in society, and popular religion and heresy distinguish the book.

Over the centuries, two important beliefs arose in Europe: a faith that man could order his own destiny and that progress was normal. By 1900, doubts arose concerning traditional Western values. The continuing problems of the world's poor, environmental deterioration, the inequality of women, and continued warfare pose real questions about the advancement of the human race.

A Room with a View portrays the love of a British woman for an expatriate living in Italy, a country which to Forster represents the forces of true passion. Caught up in a world of social snobbery, Forster's heroine, Lucy Honeychurch, finds herself constrained by the claustrophobic influence of her British guardians, who encourage her to take up with a well-connected boor.

This short novel follows the fate of Sissy Jupe, a warm-hearted circus child, and the family that adopts her. Deserted by her ailing father, Sissy is taken into the cold household of the Gradgrind family, which operates a school. The "eminently practical" Thomas Gradgrind believes only in facts and figures and has raised his children accordingly, thoroughly suppressing the imaginative side of their nature, and the consequences are devastating.

In this largely autobiographical coming-of-age story, James Joyce describes the awakening young mind of a middle-class Irish Catholic boy named Stephen Dedalus. The story follows Stephen’s development from his early troubled boyhood through an adolescent crisis of faith—partially inspired by the famous “hellfire sermon” preached by Father Arnall, and partly by the guilt of his own precocious sexual adventures—to his discovery of his ultimate destiny as a poet.

During the reign of Richard I, Wilfred of Ivanhoe earns his father's disapproval by falling in love with Rowena, his father's ward. His father had planned to wed her himself, and reestablish the Saxon line.

"For many days we had been tempest-tossed...the raging storm increased in fury until on the seventh day all hope was lost." So begins this delightful adventure story. The Robinson family, a Swiss pastor, his wife, and four sons, will emerge alive from this terrible storm, bringing to land two dogs and a shipload of livestock: hens, pigeons, and geese.

Phileas Fogg, a distinguished member of London's Reform Club, takes up a wager to circle the globe in just 80 days. Together with manservant Passepartout and a detective named Fix, Fogg makes a fantastic world tour utilizing every means of transportation available in the 1870s. This is a marvelous travelogue mixed with dazzling suspense, delightful fantasy, and lively comedy.

Den 25 augusti 1944 intar franska och amerikanska divisioner Paris. De svettiga och uttröttade soldaterna möts av kyssar, blommor, vin och framsträckta spädbarn. Hitlers kommendör har kapitulerat, och den svartröda hakkorsflaggan byts ut mot trikoloren på alla officiella byggnader, efter hand som befriarna rensar ut de tyska soldater som förskansat sig runt om i staden. Resten av landet är dock långtifrån befriat, och i det övriga Europa rasar kriget på. Tidigt på morgonen den 16 december bryter helvetet lös i Ardennerna i Belgien.

År 1943 har läget på östfronten vänt. I början av fälttåget krossade tyska stridsvagnar allt motstånd på sin väg över de ryska stäpperna. Nu har de slaviska "undermänniskorna" dock fått övertaget och gjort det vidsträckta landet till ett helvete för Hitlers invasionsstyrka. Nästan 100.000 soldater blir krigsfångar efter slaget vid Stalingrad i början av året. I mitten av juli tillfogar sedan Röda armén den tyska krigsmakten ett avgörande nederlag efter ett taktiskt genidrag i historiens största pansarslag.

Karl-Erik Forss lever ett anspråkslöst liv som taxichaufför. Men när han en dag träffar en ung vacker kvinna vänder hans tillvaro i en handvändning. Tillsammans tar de en kärleksfull kryssning till Estland, och framtiden ser ljus ut. Elias Beckman är en ung estländsk KGB-underordnad. När han av en okänd anledning blir beordrad att hoppa av till Väst, verkar det som om livet slutligen har tagit en godartad vändning.

"Ambulansen tvärnitar, precis som mitt liv. Och tiden niger till i några frusna ögonblick som stannar alltet, och med ögonen fortfarande slutna inser jag att mitt liv, som jag kände det, aldrig skulle bli sig likt igen. Så, tystnad. Ligg blickstilla. Inte röra sig. Och morsans jävla kungsord 'Man ska vara hel och ren inunder, för man vet aldrig var man hamnar.' Han tänker på nybytta kallingar." Det är brustet hjärta, menar författaren när han sätter diagnos på sig själv.

"I varje våldtagen kvinna ser jag min hustru, i varje våldtagen mor ser jag min egen mor, i varje våldtaget barn ser jag mina egna." Så säger Denis Mukwege, mottagare av Nobels fredspris 2018. Mukwege började som en vanlig läkare i östra Kongo, men har i hela sitt liv engagerat sig för att motverka sexuellt våld mot kvinnor. Landets mångåriga och utdragna konflikter har lett till ett tillstånd som är svårt att leva i för kvinnor. Detta engagemang ledde till ett mordförsök mot honom 2012. Läs den dramatiska historian om en verklig hjältes liv.

Dotterns död hänger fortfarande över Franco Vaccaros tillvaro. Det är som en våt filt som täcker över allt. Men jobbet är ett bra sätt att uppta tankarna, även om han en gång drömt om en lugn och tillbakalutad tillvaro... Ett nytt fall öppnar upp det förflutnas dammluckor och Vaccaros tillvaro ställs ännu en gång på huvudet. Den här gången leder spåren till Sverige, och Vaccaro måste nyste i en härva som kommer att innebära stora risker för han själv och alla hans käraste... Rolf Callmeryd har en bakgrund som marknads- och affärsman.

The ability of businesses to survive and thrive often requires unconventional thinking and calculated risk taking. The key is to make the right decisions - even under the most risky, uncertain, and turbulent conditions. In the new book, Surviving and Thriving in Uncertainty: Creating the Risk Intelligent Enterprise, authors Rick Funston and Steve Wagner suggest that effective risk taking is needed in order to innovate, stay competitive, and drive value creation.