You picked up this book because Scandinavia's promise of safety makes its unsolved murders feel like a law broken. You expect children to walk to school in dark mornings in Tromso and prime ministers to walk home without guards, and when a killing in a quiet town stays unsolved for decades, the disorientation lingers. Perhaps you followed the Palme case on Sveavagen or the Isdal Woman in Ice Valley. Whatever case brought you here, you share a question families have carried for generations,...

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle was written by monks living in early written history. They documented what happened as it happened. This is not fantasy or fiction, nor is it great literature. This version transliterates the archaic language making it easier to understand.Originally compiled on the orders of King Alfred the Great, approximately A.D. 890, and subsequently maintained and added to by generations of anonymous scribes until the middle of the 12th Century. The original language...

The former treatise I made, O Theophilus, concerning all that Jesus began both to do and to teach

Here you will find the Jungle Book of Australia with 31 stories like the galah and oolah the lizard, bahloo the moon and the daens, the origin of the narran lake, weedah the mocking bird, the gwineeboos the redbreasts, meamei the seven sisters, the cookooburrahs and the goolahgool, the mayamah and many, many more.This first book by K. Langloh Parker is still one of the best available collections of Australian Aboriginal folklore. It was compiled for a popular audience and ...

ABOUTTHE KOLBRIN BIBLEA 3600 Year Old Text That Can Rewrite HistoryThe Kolbrin Bible, among many things, narrates the story of human creation and even mentions the existence of ancient cultures (Civilizations) that lived on Earth before the arrival of Adam and Eve. It is perhaps one of the most debated ancient texts that mention the existence of highly advanced ancient civilizations on Earth before ‘written history.’“In those days, men will have the Great Boo...

If a picture speaks a thousand words, a love letter or a poem speaks a thousand more... Even in this age of e-mail, faxes, and instant messaging, nothing has ever replaced the power of a love letter or that of a poem. LIST OF POEMS: 1. Lord Byron - She Walks in Beauty 2. Christina Rossetti - I Loved You First: But Afterwards Your Love 3. Walt Whitman - A Glimpse 4. W.Shakespeare - Let Me Not To The Marriage Of True Minds 5. John Donne - The Good-Morrow 6. K.Gibran - Love One Another 7. Rob...

CONTENTS: 01 - The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn / Disney Film: The Adventures Of Huck Finn (1993) 02 - The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer / Disney Film: Tom And Huck (1995) 03 - Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp / Disney Film: Aladdin (1992) 04 - Alice's Adventures In Wonderland / Disney Film: Alice In Wonderland (1951) and Alice In Wonderland (2010) 05 - Through the Looking Glass (And What Alice Found There) / Disney Film: Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016) 06 - Around The World in Eighty Da...

The 40 legends, fairy tales and folklore stories in this book belong to the Yoruba. They relate the adventures of men and animals, and try to explain the mysteries of Nature—Why Women have Long Hair, How the Leopard got his Spots, the Three Magicians, the Boa-Constrictor, How the Elephant got his Trunk and more. These stories grew from the imagination of the people. We read these folk-tales for their quaintness and humour, for their sympathy with Nature, and because we find in them the ide...

Myths and Folklore of Irelandis the first of many works published by the renowned American translator Jeremiah Curtin. The volume is comprised of 23 Irish myths, in which the legends of Fin MacCumhail feature prominently.While the collection includes tales of Kings, Queens, princes, and princesses, it also tells stories of tailors’ sons, fishermen, and many other normal folks who make good in the most surprising circumstances. More given to...

Josh is a jock,which means he's straight, of course, he has to be.Nathan is noteither of those things.Unlikely though it seems they become best friendsbut can they be more?One date is a complete college romance with low heat and a Happy Ending. Wrapped up in a small package for your indulgence.For readers with limited time.A one hour short read for 13,000 words.

IN THE MID - 1920's, roughly two blocks from where the Warlock Shop once stood, in Brooklyn Heights, lived a quiet, reclusive man, an author of short stories, who eventually divorced his wife of two years and returned to his boyhood home in Rhode Island, where he lived with his two aunts. Born on August 20, 1890, Howard Phillips Lovecraft would come to exert an impact on the literary world that dwarfs his initial successes with Weird Tales magazine in 1923. He died, tragically, at the age ...

Beowulf is often referred to as the first important work of literature in English, even though it was written in Old English, an ancient form of the language that slowly evolved into the English now spoken. Though it is often viewed both as the archetypal Anglo-Saxon literary work and as a cornerstone of modern literature, Beowulf has a peculiar history that complicates both its historical and its canonical position in English literature. By the time the story of Beowulf was composed by an...