Carefully, cautiously, with his full force of his underworld spies did Tao the Chinese fence keep an eye on the newest recruit among his clients, and right up to the final act he could not be sure whether or not this O'Brien was of the Police.

Madly the three raced for their lives up the shaft of the radium mine for behind them poured a stream of hideous monstersgiants of the ray!

Professor Lambert deliberately ventures into a Vibrational Dimension to join his fiancée in its magnetic torture-fields.

A giant amber block at last gives up its living ravenous prey.

An experiment in to swap the souls of humans.

Navigating the marketplace of ideas can be difficult when there is so much bullshit to wade through. This book helps connect the underlying arguments used by charlatans and gives readers a skeptic's toolkit to identify the logical traps and pitfalls of different types of nonsense, and to discard each of them using critical thinking practices. From paranormal and medical quackery, to conspiracy theories and religion, the authors unpack the Grand Unified Theory of Bullshit, pulling out the c...

The best dads are like the best coaches: they motivate, support, mentor, encourage, and guide. In this ebook, parenting expert and author of Dad's Playbook Tom Limbert gathers inspiration from some of the biggest names in sports about the lessons they learned from their dads in order to triumph and thrive. Reflections from the likes of Stephen Curry, Natalie Coughlin, Tom Brady, and others are gathered into chapters about values that are powerful on and off the field, such as disc...

Five exciting novelisations featuring adventures for the Doctor and his companions on weird and wonderful planets.In The Rescue, the First Doctor meets the sole survivors of a crashed spaceliner on Dido.In Doctor Who and the Creature from the Pit, the ruthless Lady Adrasta is keeping an unusual visitor prisoner on the planet Chloris.In The Twin Dilemma, a newly regenerated Doctor tries to become a hermit on the planet Titan 3.In Paradise Towers, the Doctor a...

Set in the eponymous botanic garden in London on a hot July day, the narrative gives brief glimpses of four groups of people as they pass by a flowerbed. The story begins with a description of the oval-shaped flowerbed. Woolf mixes the colors of the petals of the flowers, floating to the ground, with the seemingly random movements of the visitors, which she likens to the apparently irregular movements of butterflies.

Professor Wroxton had disappearedbut in the bottom of the mysterious crystal cage lay the diamond from his ring.

The Tale by Joseph Conrad is a haunting and psychologically intense short story set against the shadowy backdrop of the First World War. Framed as a story told by a naval officer to a woman in a quiet room, the narrative gradually unfolds into a tense account of suspicion, duty, and moral uncertainty at sea.When a British naval commander encounters a seemingly innocent vessel in restricted waters, he is forced to decide whether its crew can be trus...

The Elixir of Youth has been sought after by many! But what happens when you find it? What happens when it exceeds the wildest expectations of the scientists?