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Sherlock Holmes rettet den Kommunismus. London, 19. Jahrhundert: Sherlock Holmes, von Opium berauscht, meditiert über die Philosophie Schopenhauers, als es an der Tür klopft. Ein Mann meldet die Entführung seines "Sprösslings". Wie sich bald herausstellt, handelt es sich dabei aber um keinen Menschen, sondern um das 700 Seiten starke Manuskript des Kapitals von Karl Marx. An politischen Dingen nicht sonderlich interessiert, ermittelt Holmes zunächst halbherzig.

This audiobook is an account of Zane Grey's ancestors' harrowing struggle to settle the West. As the Revolutionary War draws to a close, the violence on the frontier escalates. The infamous Girty brothers incite Indians to a number of massacres; but when the Village of Peace, a Christian utopian settlement is threatened, two young brothers struggle, in their own way, to save the Mission, and promote Christianity to the Natives, all the while establishing new lives on the treacherous Border of the frontier.

Raised together in the wild country of the Tonto basin, Jake and Verde grew up closer than brothers. But when they both fell in love with the same fickle woman, their friendship turned to raging hate. The only force that could mend that shattered trust was the raging fury of nature itself.

The Yellow Mine Saloon was like every gambling dive Panhandle Smith had seen from Montana to Mexico. Piles of gold and greenbacks littered the roulette and faro tables. Drunken miners stamped to and from the long mahogany bar. An odor of whiskey mingled with the thick tobacco haze. Suddenly, one of the gamblers turned, and Smith recognized Dick Hardman, the man he had followed a thousand miles - to kill.

Don’t ever think that a dog is a lost cause. Always remember that with some effort a dog can surely be trained t the owner’s desire. There is a reason why dogs are man’s best friend and have been for many years. They are very loyal companions that would love nothing more than to please their master, in most cases, until the owner breaks the trust of the dog for some reason. You can surely do it, just listen to this book and apply some of the training techniques.

The Best Life Stories by Reader's Digest are 150 of the best hand-picked real-life tales of resilience, joy, and hope - all in 150 words or less! I'm like you. I wake up each day and find the courage to live.

This classic Western is based on the historic character Cattle Kate, whose notorious beauty persuaded cowboys to steal cattle for her. Here is the Maverick Queen, and the cowboy in her power is Linc Bradway, who comes to town looking for the killer of his partner.

The Grand Canyon is wild and sublime, a thing of mystery and wonder, a place to grip the heart of a man and unleash his wild spirit. Follow Zane Grey as he recounts his true adventure pursuing lions in the canyon, roping them, dragging them from trees, and engaging their snarling ferocity in an encounter with the wilderness not even Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett ever attempted.

In 30 years of prospecting, old Jim had never discovered Amber's Mirage--a shining cliff above a spring that ran heavy with gold. But his young sidekick took up the search to find the gold--a search that would cost him two years away from wild Ruby, the woman he loved.

From the master of the western comes a tale of love tested by the rugged life of the American Southwest. Glenn Kilbourne returned from World War I a changed man. Suffering from shell shock and disillusioned by what he witnessed, he can no longer stomach his high-flying former life in New York City. In the canyons of Arizona he finds a kind of peace with himself, and has no desire to go back to his old life. Where does this leave his glamorous fiancé Carley?

Columbine Bellounds is a young girl who is becoming a woman in her beloved Colorado. Adopted as a child by rancher Bill Bellounds, Columbine is torn between loyalty to her foster father's wishes and her own emerging desires. Should she please her foster dad by marrying his son, Buster Jack, who has always been a lad of weak character, or should she acknowledge her own feelings for a young cowboy, Wilson Moore?

It would seem that the end of every war has been followed inthe United States by social and moral changes, mostly for the worse. Zane Greycertainly felt that way about the effects of the Great War, and to show thesechanges and how to cope with them became the impulse behind what he called TheWater Hole. However, before magazine publication, changes were made in histext, including the names of all the characters. Fortunately Grey's originalhandwritten manuscript has survived, so now this story can be told with hischaracters named and presented as he intended them to be.

In 1925 widowed businessman Elijah Winters brings hisdaughter, Cherry, from Long Island to stay at a trading post in a remote areasome distance from Flagstaff, Arizona. Removed from the country clubs andspeakeasies, Cherry is at first bored with simple ranch life, and to entertainherself she flirts with several of the cowboys, not realizing they are verydifferent from the young men she knew back east. Also very different is StephenHeftral, a young archaeologist who is searching for an ancient and lost kiva ofa primitive Indian tribe that disappeared centuries before in what became theland of the Navajos.

Heftral believes that this lost kiva is most probablyin a desert fastness called Beckyshibeta, the Navajo word for waterhole. Elijah colludes with Heftral to awaken Cherry to a new and healthier wayof life by taking her, by force if necessary, to the site. Cherry resents being kidnapped but comes to forget theluxury of her past in the beauty and dangers of the canyons - and in the thrillof making an important archaeological discovery.

Deep in the Arizona wilds, a shell-shocked war veteran realizes he can never return to his former life in New York, even if giving it up also means leaving the love of his life behind.

Ken Ward encounters mustangs he must ride, a pack of hounds the likes of which he had never seen before, Native Americans who he comes to appreciate with a new awareness, and landscape so wild and primitive, it takes the breath away in the Grand Canyon.

Moskau in den 1970er-Jahren: Marlov, selbsternannter Privatdetektiv, ist inzwischen notgedrungen zum Taxifahrer geworden, die Geschäfte laufen schlecht. Darum lässt er sich nach anfänglichem Zögern auf den Auftrag von Zofia Danilova ein. Sie bietet 10 000 Rubel für die Suche nach ihrer Tochter Vladilena. Die arbeitete zuletzt in einer Brigade der Komsomol-Jugendorganisation beim Eisenbahnbau, genauer bei der BAM, der Baikal-Amur-Eisenbahn. Bei diesem Prestigeobjekt, der größten Baustelle seit den Pyramiden, sollen 3.500 Kilometer Bahnstrecke quer durch Sibirien verlegt werden.

Buffalo Jones was the last of the famous plainsmen who rode the trails of the old West. The driving force of his life was to capture wild animals alive, including buffalo and cougars. When he saw that the buffalo were in danger of extinction, he worked for ten years to capture enough buffalo young to set up his own preserve for them, which is how he earned his name. This is the thrilling firsthand account of a hunting trip that Grey took with Jones.

She's wild, beautiful, and he's got to have her, so Arizona college boy John Brecken cooks up one hairy plan. It might work - but dangerous outsiders are watching now, ready to step in. Things are getting far too serious.

"He looked along the brown barrels of a shotgun, into eyes that blazed murderous hate." Bullet holes and a bloody handprint mark the walls of a lonely cabin - where gambling turned ugly, men hid from the law, and a terrible ambush sparked years of cruel revenge.

Jack Hare is a young New Englander who has decided to travel to the West. He is rescued from sure death in the Utah desert by an old settler named August Naab, a Mormon patriarch. Jack is taken to Nabb's ranch and learns that it can be a dangerous place, since it is challenged by cattle thieves and a corrupt rancher who is after Naab's water rights. The greatest danger Hare faces, though, is over Mescal, a half-Navajo shepherdess with whom he falls in love.

In man's constant struggle with nature, this story takes us to the mountains of New Mexico in the pursuit of a huge, fearsome wolf.