Herman: 1212 books

Dopo aver comprato una vecchia fattoria nel Massachusetts, un uomo desidera contemplare il paesaggio, ma la casa è sprovvista di una veranda. Scendendo a compromessi con se stesso, si accontenta di farne costruire solo una parte, sul lato nord. Una volta terminata, vi si accomoda ad ammirare la montagna...

Moby Dick (1851) segna un punto d'arrivo nella produzione di Melville: romanzo in cui l'indagine gnoseologica tocca profondità insondate, e la narrazione, nella sua varietà, raggiunge una fusione di stili quasi perfetta. A dare il titolo all'opera è la grande balena bianca, simbolo e somma di tutti i mostri che l'immaginazione ha posto agli inesplorati limiti della terra.

In 1943 German U-boat activity off Argentina got to a point it was seriously affecting Allied shipping. The United States Navy sends in two intelligence offi cers to eliminate their fueling sources. It was a bloody dangerous situation with the civil unrest burning across the country and rumors of...

When two tombs are discovered above Egypts Valley of Queens, it takes only a few days before one tomb, dated six hundred thousand years old, becomes the core of deception and bloody treachery. Multiple nations try to decipher its strange hieroglyphs. Agents are murdered and political treaties are...

When naval commander Victor Cushman was assigned to assist the Peruvian intelligence, he never knew they would be searching for seventy-thousand-year-old oblong skulls. But what he did learn was that people were dying along the way. He soon discovered their search for oblong skulls was more than a routine matter. Its conclusion would affect the future of mankind.

War is cruel and bloody, achieving the most important objective. When ordered to neutralize the Nazi Red Dragon Tails mysterious chemical weapon, Bobby Ray, Peggy Jean Madison, Thomas Clinton, and Richard Davenport quickly recognized Red Dragon Tails terrifying evils. The year is 1941. Hitler is devastating...

Kimberly shook her head. We're moving the investigation to Cambridge. You're to come with us. IP is sending your orders. Look, I don't know what's going on. But I have never heard Howard so panic stricken. Was Freeman sighted in Cambridge? Swami wanted to know. Howard didn't say. And did he confirm...

Twenty thousand years ago distant star travelers came to Earth to colonize and teach. Eight thousand years later they departed for their own stars. While here they built a highly technical time passage. But when they departed the passage was on electronic control. Somewhere down through the centuries...

This is the second is a series of stories about the people Jesus ministered to based on the Gospel of Matthew. Each story looks into the life of the characters in Matthew's account of Jesus' life. Each story looks deep into the life of each person Jesus met, considering the trials and events that...

A teenaged boy takes it upon himself to restore the luster in his parents’ futile marriage. In pursuit of what he believes is the key to recapturing happiness in his family, Trey Wilcox, the son of Homicide Sergeant Terrell Wilcox, launches his own investigation and takes a long, winding journey,...

Um advogado experiente estabelecido em Wall Street, na Nova York de meados do século XIX, contrata o jovem Bartleby para juntar-se a seus dois escreventes, Nippers e Turkey, que se alternam em humores matinais e vespertinos. Se no começo Bartleby realiza bem suas tarefas, a partir de...

Every Halloween, Hubknuckles pays a visit to Lee and her younger sisters and baby brother. The children watch the ghostly figure from the safety of their warm kitchen, experiencing delicious little tickles of fear. But this year, Lee has decided that Hubknuckles isn’t real. “Hubknuckles is just...

This charming story presents a new way for young children to understand how to creatively embrace who they are, no matter what others think. Carla's lunch box is filled with odd delights like the Olive, Pickle and Green Bean Sandwich, the Banana-Cottage-Cheese Delight, and the unforgettable Chopped...

Level 2. Pal the Pony is the smallest pony at the rodeo! He's upset because he can't do what the big horses can do. But he discovers there is one thing he's better at than anyone else on the ranch.