In this representative volume, "The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories" the reader will find twenty-four of Mark Twain's best shorter works. Classic and unforgettable tales that span the author's career are included, such as "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", which is Twain's most famous short story and was his first great success as an author. It is the unforgettable tale of Jim Smiley, the gambler who will bet on anything including...

"From New York Times best-seller and science fiction and fantasy mistress of adventure Mercedes Lackey, Book #3 in a new pulse-pounding saga of modern-day humans with superpowers. The metaheroes deal with supervillain Verdegris, who seeks to destroy them from within, before turning their attention back to the Thulian conspiracy. It's go time once again for the meta-heroes including fire-bender John Murdock, hacker-witch Vikki Nagy, healer Belladona...

A truth we all know... but agree not to talk about... was how the Clapping Lady from the secretive Consilience Foundation described it to a teenage Methuen Pryce in 2012 as they discussed his Segmented World model. But, it was also a 'truth' that Nick O'Grady, ambitious young CEO of the high-tech Allied Answers, had not 'talked about' that was, until he invited Methuen to his plush New York office in the summer of '23. Against expectations, the bearded...

A raíz del colapso económico de Indonesia, las mujeres chinas son el objetivo de las Fuerzas Espciales imprudentes y brutales del yerno del Presidente. En un ambiente islámico en evolución, el sentimiento anti-chino lleva al país al borde del colapso, a medida que el interés internacional se ve reforzado por los relatos de periodistas protagonistas, sobre historias reales de supervivencia.

Professional actors Veit Harlan and his wife Kristi are happy citizens of the prosperous, triumphant Reich. It's been over a century since the War of Retribution cleaned up Europe, long enough that now curious tourists flock to the painstakingly recreated "village" of Wawolnice, where--along with dozens of colleagues--Veit and Kristi re-enact the daily life of the long-exterminated but still frightening "Jews." Veit and Kristi are true professionals,...

Harry Turtledove's The House That George Built is an astonishing short story set in an alternative world, a Tor.com Original. One February morning, the famous newspaperman H.L. Mencken walks into a Baltimore restaurant to have a bite and talk baseball with the owner, a has-been player named George...

There's what we know...and what we assume. Running of the Bulls, a Tor. Com Original from fantasy and science fiction master Harry Turtledove. You are all a lost generation, she said back then. And anyone who looked at them as they spun their dizzy way through life would have had a hard time telling her she was wrong. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

In the summer of 1963, most people in West Chester, Pennsylvania, are celebrating with Hula-Hoops, Dairy Queen treats, and fireworks. Kofi Roundtree and his cousins are chasing after fireflies in the dark, hoping to gain a magic wish. Kofi and his family are very poor, so wishes are the refuge that leads to dreams. Unusual events begin to suggest that Kofi, a boy of deep faith and imagination, may have some of his wishes granted. Some of the granted...

Flandes, teatro de guerra durante más de 80 años para la monarquía de España, por fin en 1660 vería una paz seria, vería definidos después de muchas victorias y derrotas los contornos que conservarán de aquí en adelante. La guerra en Francia contra Mazarino, Gravelingas y Dunquerque, las defensas de Valencianas y Cambray, las pérdidas finales de Dunquerque y Gravelingas, y finalmente el tratado de paz. Con estos volúmenes vemos como Francia...

It is 1988. Judit Klemmer is a filmmaker who is assembling a fortieth-anniversary official documentary about the birth of Judenstaat, the Jewish homeland surrendered by defeated Germany in 1948. Her work is complicated by Cold War tensions between the competing U.S. and Soviet empires and by internal conflicts among the "black-hat" Orthodox Jews, the far more worldly Bundists, and reactionary Saxon nationalists, who are still bent on destroying the...