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The Complete Long Stories of Sherlock Holmes
Present in this omnibus edition, are four unabridged novels of Baker Streets most famous resident – Sherlock Holmes and his confidant and aide, Dr. Watson. The saga of their adventures begin right from the time they are first introduced to each other by a certain “young stamford” to share rooms in Baker Street, where Watson chronicled their first adventure ‘A Study in Scarlet’. ‘The Hound of Baskervilles’ is perhaps the most popular of his long stories, followed by ‘The Sign of the Four’ and ‘The Valley of Fear’.
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Light from Many Lamps
Light From Many Lamps is a book written by Lillian Watson. This book is considered a classic under the inspirational books genre. It contains a few of the world’s most enthusiastic stories and the ideas behind them; how these stories were formed, and the impact they have had on the lives of other people. Light From Many Lamps contains inspirational stories for aspiring readers. The book showcases quotes and brief chapters about happiness, faith, valour, love, the importance of family, and how to be content. Each page present in the book has a moral and lesson to it, which helps the readers to learn from their mistakes and become better people. The book contains experiences synced with reality other than fictional experiences, which makes it hard for the reader to connect with the book. It contains quotations from authors like Saint Paul, Henry David, Alfred Tennyson, and Robert Browning. Lillian Watson is an author known for her motivational writings, especially meant to help people overcome their various difficulties by giving them a series of practical examples. Books authored by her include Book of Etiquette and Bantam Book of Correct Letter Writing. Watson is a very learned and a highly read author in the social section of the literary world. She has motivated and helped millions of readers with her inspirational books, highlighting short incidents and quotations.
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The Long Tail
What happens when there is almost unlimited choice? When everything becomes available to everyone? And when the combined value of the millions of items that only sell in small quantities equals or even exceeds the value of a handful of best-sellers? In this ground-breaking book, Chris Anderson shows that the future of business does not lie in hits – the high-volume end of a traditional demand curve – but in what used to be regarded as misses – the endlessly long tail of that same curve. As our world is transformed by the Internet and the near infinite choice it offers consumers, so traditional business models are being overturned and new truths revealed about what consumers want and how they want to get it. Chris Anderson first explored the Long Tail in an article in Wired magazine that has become one of the most influential business essays of our time. Now, in this eagerly anticipated book, he takes a closer look at the new economics of the Internet age, showing where business is going and exploring the huge opportunities that exist: for new producers, new e-tailers, and new tastemakers. He demonstrates how long tail economics apply to industries ranging from the toy business to advertising to kitchen appliances. He sets down the rules for operating in a long tail economy. And he provides a glimpse of a future that’s already here.
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The Lucifer Code
A secret scroll remains hidden deep in an ancient sanctuary. It is guarded by a sacred order who await to unleash its true powers and bring doomsday upon mankind. Only one man - Dr. Thomas Lourds, the world's foremost scholar of ancient languages, who we first met in the bestselling novel The Atlantis Code - can safely bring this secret scroll to its rightful place in history. Lourds soon becomes the focus of a deadly manhunt, taking him from Istanbul through Eastern Europe, right to the heart of the Vatican, where the forces of good and evil will collide…
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The Complete True Crime Diaries
This volume contains 360 real-life murder stories, arranged in diary form for the fascination of all true crime addicts. From notorious killers like Crippen, Nilsen, the Kray twins, Florence Maybrick and Charles Manson to less infamous crimes of the 20th century and before, it is a catalogue of tragic, quirky, gory, ingenious, bungled and horrifying murders.
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Zoya
Against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution and World War I Europe, Zoya, young cousin to the Tsar, flees St. Petersburg to Paris to find safety. Her entire world forever changed, she faces hard times and joins the Ballet Russe in Paris. And then, when life is kind to her, Zoya moves on to a new and glittering life in New York. The days of ease are all too brief as the Depression strikes, and she loses everything yet again. It is her career, and the man she meets in the course of it, which ultimately save her, as she rebuilds her life through the war years and beyond. And it is her family that comes to mean everything to her. From the roaring twenties to the 1980's, Zoya remains a rare and spirited woman whose legacy will live on.
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Amistad
Based on the true story of the 1839 mutiny on board the Spanish slave ship, Amistad, here is the frightening sequence of events that led fifty-three young men and women - and one young nation - to seek freedom and justice for all people. Amistad is the story of Cinque, the illegally enslaved son of a Mende chief who led an uprising full of fury and courage. It is also the story of John Quincy Adams, the former American president, who reluctantly heeded the call to justice and defended Cinque in a Supreme Court trial that would alter the nation's history. And it is the story of men and women searching to find truth and to uphold the basic tenets of the American Constitution. Brilliantly narrated by award-winning novelist Alexs Pate, Amistad celebrates the human spirit's profound determination to fight, hope, and to be free. Visit the Amistad book site! A junior novelization is also available for young adults.
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