Calling Out Around the World......Are you ready for some brand new reads?Well Crimeucopia's here with a bundle of new, up-coming and emerging writers, all giving you fresh and different voices to help make this the perfect bookshelf must-have.And while crime fiction is a fairly universal genre, the interpretation, motivation, atmosphere and recounting will always change, depending on the authors.This Crimeucopia anthology contains an engaging carnival of 1...

We all love a good monster.And not just zombies, vampires, and werewolves.There is a deep and abiding love for monsters that we believe, or suspect, or even hope are out there going bump in our collective nights. Creatures that common sense, scientific research, thorough investigation, and statistical analysis suggest do not and, in many cases could not exist. We listen, we read the debunking articles, we see the clarifying memes on social media, but … we ...

Talmud is the central text of Rabbinic Judaism and the primary source of Jewish religious law (halakha) and Jewish theology. The term "Talmud" normally refers to the collection of writings named specifically the Babylonian Talmud (Talmud Bavli). It may also traditionally be called Shas, a Hebrew abbreviation of shisha sedarim, or the "six orders" of the Mishnah. The Talmud consists of tractates and contains the teachings and opinions of thousands of rabbis (dating from before the Common Er...

The Catholic Prayer Book is a perfect resource for Catholics who seek a way to personally pray but are short on time. Replete with a wide range of different Catholic prayers from the Church that cover personal, family and liturgical prayers, as well as prayers for special occasions, this book draws upon the richest traditions of the Church and from contemporary experiences. This edition of the Catholic Prayer Book is specially formatted with dozens of illustrations, including Michelangelos...

Previous to our entering upon the detail of the discoveries and adventures of the English navigators who have surrounded the globe, it may, perhaps, afford some entertainment to the curious reader, to be made acquainted with the first steps that led to so bold an undertaking, and with the characters of those happy geniuses, who not only conceived the plan, but contributed not a little by their example to facilitate the execution. We are told that the shadow seen in the moon in the time of ...

So far as the Compiler is aware, no good collection of American wit and humour exists on this side of the Atlantic; certainly, no collection worthy to be considered as the American Joe Miller. In the well-known "Percy Anecdotes," in the numerous English Joe Millers, and other jest-books, a few of brother Jonathan's good things are to be found, in company with the rich and genial wit of John Bull, the pawky humour of the Scotch, and the exuberant mirth of Paddy; but it is believed that the ...

Flodden Field, that long slope looking north-ward by the “deep and dark and sullen Till,” where on a September afternoon in 1513 the flower of Scotland fell round James the Fourth, stands darkly marked on the page of history both of the Scottish nation and of Scottish poetry. It was for the North the burial-place of one era and the birth-place of another. The English billmen who on Flodden closed round the last desperate ring of Scottish spears hewed down with their ghastly weapons not onl...

By a coincidence of singular interest in Central Asian affairs the completion of the Orenburg-Tashkent railway occurred simultaneously with the evacuation of Lhassa by the troops of the Tibetan Mission, the two events measuring in a manner the character of the policies pursued by the respective Governments of Great Britain and Russia in Mid-Asia. Moreover, if consideration be given to them and the relation of each to contemporary affairs appreciated, it becomes no longer possible to questi...

It was an evening in the first week in February, 1778. Supper was over in the house of Cornelius De Vries, which stood on Green Street, Philadelphia, and in that part of the town known as the Northern Liberties. Agatha De Vries, the elderly and maiden sister of Cornelius, had washed and put away the dishes and had gone around the corner to gossip with a neighbor. The light shed from two copper candlesticks and from the fire made the sitting-room look very snug and cozy. In one corner stood...

Of course travelling in Russia is no longer what it was. During the last half century a vast network of railways has been constructed, and one can now travel in a comfortable first-class carriage from Berlin to St. Petersburg or Moscow, and thence to Odessa, Sebastopol, the Lower Volga, the Caucasus, Central Asia, or Eastern Siberia. Until the outbreak of the war there was a train twice a week, with through carriages, from Moscow to Port Arthur. And it must be admitted that on the main lin...

The world is full of mysteries, some of which defy explanation. From the inexplicable to the eerie, the paranormal and supernatural have fascinated humanity for centuries, inspiring stories of ghosts, hauntings, and otherworldly encounters.Immortal Tales is an anthology of stories about the supernatural and paranormal.In this collection, you will find a mix of wonderful tales. From hauntings to unexplained human conditions, these stories explore the superna...

Each year, according to European statistics, five percent of the population suffers from back pain. In Britain, back pain costs more in lost work hours than strikes and requires fewer doctor visits than respiratory infections. Eighty percent of adults in Italy are forced by back pain to seek medical attention at least once in their lives. Strange fact: back pain has become much more common in recent years. It seems to appear more frequently in advanced technology societies, where the organ...