For twenty thousand years, Dune has had its power monopoly. With the House Harkonnen's bid for the spice trade, House Corrion’s thirst for a lost throne and the Bene Gesserit's genetic meddling, the Atreides Empire seems more like a house of cards. Can one man keep history from repeating itself?
Department X and Malcolm Sage have to look after prominent Canadian industrialist and inventor, irreverent John Dene of Toronto. .
In this installment of the Smoke Bellew series, Smoke and Shorty endeavor to buy a town site, but the situation is complicated.
This short story chronicles tales of Oz’s Scarecrow and the Tin Man, often referred to as the Tin Woodman.
Top SIS China-watcher David Nairn mounts an investigation - and uncovers an ugly trail of deception and violence.
A nineteenth-century boy from a Mississippi River town recounts his adventures as he travels down the river with a runaway slave, encountering a family involved in a feud, two scoundrels pretending to be royalty, and Tom Sawyer's aunt who mistakes him for Tom.
One of the funniest Mark Twain's short story.
American life comes under the scrutiny of Mark Twain's wit in this delightful collection of short stories. Here, he comments on politics, education, the media, religion, and literature. The true subject of Twain's satire and burlesque is that strangest of all animals, the human being.
the miscreant suddenly turned away his face, and seemed to strike his mouth with his open hand. At the same instant, the room filled with a new and powerful odour
One of the greatest satires in American literature, Mark Twain's 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' begins when Hank Morgan, a skilled mechanic in a nineteenth-century New England arms factory, is struck on the head during a quarrel and awakens to find himself among the knights and...