Brought to you by Penguin.Termight, a world at the heart of a cruel galactic empire. A world devastated by nuclear warfare. Deep below ground its inhabitants try to eke out a mere existence, continually threatened by the Terminators, led by the diabolically evil Torquemada.Torquemada, a twisted human despot intent on purging all alien life from the galaxy and punishing the deviants. His motto: Be pure! Be vigilant! Behave! There is a resistance though, and ...

It is the year 1627, and young d’Artagnan comes to Paris with a dream – to become a King’s Musketeer. Three of these brave soldiers – Porthos, Athos and Aramis – soon become his friends. After a short time d’Artagnan has fallen in love – and into great danger. Can the three musketeers and d’Artagnan fight against the evil plans of the beautiful Milady and the cruel Cardinal Richelieu?

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadA popular bestseller since its publication in 1844, The Count of Monte Cristo is one of the great page-turning thrillers of all time. Set against the tumultuous years of the post-Napoleonic era, Alexandre Dumas’s grand historical romance recounts the swashbuckling adventures of Edmond Dantès, a dashing young sailor falsely accused of treason. The story of his long impr...

Alexandre Dumas' thrilling tale of bravery, brotherhood and the triumph of good over evil, The Three Musketeers is translated with an introduction by Richard Pevear in Penguin Classics.'All for one, one for all - that is our motto!'Young d'Artagnan arrives in Paris to join King's Louis XIII's elite guards, but almost immediately finds he is duelling with some of the very men he has come to swear allegiance to - Porthos, Athos and Aramis, inseparable friends: the Th...

Enjoy this Small-Town Murder Mystery Featuring A Unique Sleuthing CoupleThe Myerton High School Mules football team are coming off their first winning season in years and looking forward to an even better one. The team is in great shape, and under their second year coach they’re really coming together as a team.But all is not well with some of the players. Several of them were involved in incidents where the police were called. A couple of players ...

From cocktail party chitchat, to bumper stickers, to personal ads--everything you'll ever need to say in perfect Latin! A backlistius bestsellerus.

A genius with language, but convinced of his own ugliness, Cyrano secretly loves the radiant Roxane. While Roxane is in love with the beautiful but inarticulate Christian.Cyrano's generous offer to act as go-between sets in motion a poignant and often hilarious love-triangle, in which each character is torn between the lure of physical attraction and the seductive power of words.Martin Crimp's adaptation of Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac premiered at the Playh...

Enjoy this Small-Town Murder Mystery Featuring A Unique Sleuthing CoupleIt’s an eventful October for Father Tom and Helen. It begins with the wedding of Father Tom’s mother Nola to her fiance, former strip club owner Stu Landry. The two septuagenarian newlyweds have no sooner embarked on their honeymoon than Saint Clare’s Parish plays host to the Cardinal Archbishop of Baltimore Walter Knowland, making his periodic visit.It should be a welcome home...

Sammy Jo Spade didn’t become a detective—because with a name like that, who would take her seriously?She settled for being a damn good 911 operator, vintage fashion connoisseur, and low-key chaos magnet. But life gets weird the day she finds a dead man in the back of her car.The corpse? Antoine Dufour, disgraced banker, accused wife-murderer… and possible mob money man. He also happened to stash a certain thumb drive full of secrets in the pocket of Sammy Jo’s thrifted Chan...

(The play opens with a great assembly of instruments, and in the middle of the stage is a pupil of the Music Master seated at a table composing a melody which Monsieur Jourdain has ordered for a serenade.)

From the Introduction:For over 30 years I have studied the hidden world of the Occult. Through all this time I have come to realize one important thing in particular . . .Latin is the language of magic.It was the language most commonly used by magicians of ages past, and the advantage to you reciting incantations in a foreign tongue is that it creates a sense of disassociation with the everyday world which equates to a greater chance of success in the magical manipu...

All for one, one for all... With their famous call to action, young DArtagnan and the three musketeers, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, blaze a riotous trail for good against evil. The four Frenchmen will fight anyone who crosses their path, whether its the Cardinal de Richelieus brutal guards, the dangerous Count de Rochefort, the venomous spy Milady or even the invading English army. Alexandre Dumas classic tale of seventeenth century political intrigue, espionage, romance and spectacular act...