Croker: 30 books
by B.M. Croker
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
A prolific contributor to the popular periodicals of her day, Bithia Mary Croker was an Irish novelist whose work memorably portrays everyday life in colonial India. Today, she is perhaps best remembered for her ghost stories, twenty of which are presented in this comprehensive collection of Croker's...
by Thomas Crofton Croker
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Thomas Crofton Croker (15 January 1798 8 August 1854) came from an English family who had lived in the south of Ireland since the reign of Elizabeth I, but while apprenticed to a merchant in Cork, he spent many hours wandering on foot out in the countryside, collecting legends and songs from the native...
Christmas After Dark - 36 Holiday Ghost Stories & Supernatural Thrillers
Between the Lights, Told After Supper, The Box with the Iron Clamps , Wolverden Tower The Ghost's Touch, The Christmas Banquet, The Dead Sexton and much more
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2017
Who would ever say no to the master story tellers when they have to offer their darkest tingling Christmas mysteries and horror tales as a holiday present: The Silver Hatchet (Arthur Conan Doyle) What the Shepherd Saw: A Tale of Four Moonlight Nights (Thomas Hardy) Markheim (Robert Louis Stevenson)...
by Alastair Gunn, Miles Gerald Keon, James Hain Friswell
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Twenty Christmas ghost stories from the supernatural masters of the Victorian age. Wimbourne Books presents the seventh in a series of rare or out-of-print ghost stories from Victorian authors. With an introduction by author Alastair Gunn, Volume 7 in the series spans the years 1857 to 1901, contains...
Taming the Pooka, Celtic Tales of the Trickster Fairy
Magical Creatures, A Weiser Books Collection
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2001
Varla Ventura, fan favorite on Huffington Posts Weird News, frequent guest on Coast to Coast, and bestselling author of The Book of the Bizarre and Beyond Bizarre, introduces a new Weiser Books Collection of forgotten crypto-classics. Magical Creatures is a hair-raising herd of affordable digital...
The Mermaid's Prophecy and Other Stories
Magical Creatures, A Weiser Books Collection
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
Varla Ventura, fan favorite on Huffington Posts Weird News, frequent guest on Coast to Coast, and bestselling author of The Book of the Bizarre and Beyond Bizarre, introduces a new Weiser Books Collection of forgotten crypto-classics. Magical Creatures is a hair-raising herd of affordable digital...
Among the Mermaids
Magical Creatures, A Weiser Books Collection
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Varla Ventura, fan favorite on Huffington Post’s Weird News, frequent guest on Coast to Coast, and bestselling author of The Book of the Bizarre and Beyond Bizarre, introduces a new Weiser Books Collection of forgotten crypto-classics. Magical Creatures is a hair-raising herd of affordable digital...
by T. Crofton Croker
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
Come sit by the fire — a world of enchantment awaits you in this treasury of classic Irish stories by folklorist T. Crofton Croker. From 1812 to 1816, he roamed southern Ireland, listening to his countrymen's stories of pixies, leprechauns, and other supernatural creatures. The result is one of...
Still Lost in Translation
More misadventures in English abroad
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2008
Have you ever arrived in a hotel room and been baffled by the information provided?
Beware of your luggage.
In your room you will find a minibar which is filled with alcoholics.
Do not throw urine around.
Have you ever been to a restaurant and wondered what on earth to...
Utterly Lost in Translation
Even More Misadventures in English Abroad
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Watch as the English language gets abused around the world with these weird, hilarious, and strange misspellings and mistranslations
The search for the globe’s funniest language howler continues apace. As with his two previous volumes, Charlie Croker has trawled hotel foyers in Kazakhstan,...
by Andrew Croker
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Sam Plummer is the undisputed tabloid king. But someone is trying to dethrone him.
As news editor of one of the biggest red top Sunday papers, Sam Plummer is no stranger to sex and scandal. When he breaks a sensationally juicy, full-blown political scoop—a Tory peer exposed in a Black Sea...
by Robert Croker
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
"But, the first step to enlightenment is humility Neborr, and it will also prove to be the last. Learn it well. Accept its reproof, for as humility weakens our old nature so does it, in commensurate proportion, strengthen our resolve. In this realm meekness is courage and humility is viewed as strength...."
Irische Elfenmärchen
Grimms Märchen: 27 Sagen
Language: German
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Dieses eBook: "Grimms Märchen: Irische Elfenmärchen - Vollständige Ausgabe mit 27 Sagen + Vorreden und Bemerkungen" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Die Gebrüder Grimm, Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, sind als Sprachwissenschaftler...
Terms of Employment
The secret lingo of the workplace
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Has your doctor ever prescribed you some bug-juice? Or sent you to the rheumaholiday department?
Have you ever read an article full of anecdata or reviewphemisms?
Do you think you work in an adhocracy, for a seagull manager?
Every workplace has its own words and phrases, from...