11 hard-boiled crimes featuring a cast of memorable anthropomorphic animals.New Growl has always had too much crime. From the 20s until its inevitable collapse, eleven authors are exposing the city's seedy underbelly.The upper echelon, the lower class, and all of the animals in between have their share of problems. Some hire the private detectives or jet to a private island to escape, while others are the ones on-call and in the trenches.It's famili...

At the end, when the last star dies and the cold begins to seep in, what will be the totality of our accomplishments? What will have been the point? And will anyone notice that we're gone? If the true terror at the center of cosmic horror is the vast indifference the universe has for us, does that mean the closest thing we have to any sort of compassionate connection is . . . our cats? Ah, we may be doomed.But, in the interim, perhaps there may still be some spark that can illumina...

Set in classical Greece, this is the riveting sequel to Mary Renault' s The King Must Die.Slaying the minotaur was only the beginning. Theseus's legendary exploits continue in this magnificent tale of mythological adventure in classical Greece. Picking up where The King Must Die left off, this stirring sequel recounts Theseus's triumphant return from Crete to become King of Athens.Become enthralled by the thrilling adventures of this mythi...

With his masculinity under attack by his wife and her single girlfriends, John agrees to take on big, black Omar in a bullfight. The rules are simple; no holds barred and the winner gets the three women for the weekend.John doesn't realize he's being set-up and that Omar has a special technique called the ball-breaker.Win or lose, John's about to get some stiff medicine.

Mr. Patissot , fifty-two years old boy, without great future employee in a department where all laugh at him , is worried. His doctor prescribed exercise and he decided to practice walking every Sunday. He meticulously prepared his first outing to the park of Versailles . But he gets lost on the way, breaking a bottle of wine in her bag and gets plucked by a young woman . The following Sunday, he was invited to the country with a colleague. The house turns a dump, the hostes...

Sous prétexte de découvrir les loisirs d’un modeste fonctionnaire, l’auteur aborde les sujets d’actualité du Paris de 1880. M. Patissot, cinquante-deux ans, vieux garçon, employé sans grand avenir dans un ministère où tous se moquent de lui, est inquiet. Son docteur lui a prescrit de l’exercice et il décide de pratiquer la marche chaque dimanche. Il prépare méticuleusement sa premi...

And many a hunting song they sung, And song of game and glee; Then tuned to plaintive strains their tongue, "Of Scotland's luve and lee." To wilder measures next they turn "The Black, Black Bull of Norroway!" Sudden the tapers cease to burn, The minstrels cease to play. "The Cout of Keeldar," by J. Leyden.