independently published nov 2013 (8 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Ye Olde Book Shoppe and a bonus story too! A reader's favorite story of the master storyteller, Mr. Paul John Hausleben, returns to print in a new version! Ye Olde Book Shoppe is an enchanting romantic novelette within a Christmastime setting. Set in the old neighborhood of Harry and Paul's adventures, this story will touch and warm your heart, and fill you with Christmas spirit, while it transports you once more to simpler times. Mr. Chadwick Ripplewood Jr. is a lonely bookshop owner who clings to his failing business of an old-fashioned bookstore set on a busy city street where it has been for close to fifty years. Struggling to get by amidst meager book sales and vast changes in the old city's environment, Chadwick holds his love of his precious books close to his heart and soul. When Chadwick meets the women of his dreams and falls deeply in love, his life seems to be finally taking a turn for the better, until despair hits when his livelihood is threatened by a wealthy businessman looking to gobble up all that is near and dear to Chadwick. To make matters even worse, the love of his life suddenly and rather mysteriously leaves him. Ye Olde Book Shoppe will return the reader back once more to that special neighborhood in New Jersey, where the reader will be lost in a wave of holiday emotion, and meet more unforgettable characters. This is one of Mr. Hausleben's finest moments, as he tells us this memorable story of romance and simple human emotions set within holiday enchantment. Bonus Story! The Last Roll on the Old Number Ninety-Five is the classic Christmas train story that tells the touching and emotional story of the Head Conductor of a passenger train and what happens to him on his final train ride before he retires after forty-six years of riding the rails. It just happens that the last ride is on a snowy Christmas Eve where a few special passengers, some glorious fate, and a touch of holiday magic return the conductor to a life and a spirit that he thought long since lost forever.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Christmas Tree and Other Christmas Stories, Tales for a Christmas Evening, is a compilation of stories of Christmas magic from the master storyteller, Paul John Hausleben. Following on the heels of his famous Christmas story, 'The Time Bomb in The Cupboard,' Mr. Hausleben drops off a collection of some of his best Christmas short stories, novellas, and novelettes, as a present for underneath your Christmas tree this year. Once more, some of your favorite characters have returned along with some new ones, and they all come alive within the pages of this book. Pages of a very special book, containing the author's unique humor, special language and nostalgic glimpse at life. A glimpse at life, when life was simple and sincere, and the author mixes those glimpses with heart-warming touches and with finishes to stories that only Paul John Hausleben can deliver to you. The anchor and title story for this collection, 'The Christmas Tree,' is culled from an original manuscript, written when the author was only sixteen years of age. The story has minimal edits and reworking to preserve the original manner in which the author wrote the story many years earlier. Through the eyes of the narrator of The Adventures of Harry and Paul, Paul John Henson, it tells the story of the beloved character of the 'old man' and his amazing pitfall-filled quest for the perfect 'fresh' Christmas tree to replace his 'fake Christmas tree.' The story is a hilarious romp of Christmas fun, but in the end, it is full of emotions as the old man not only finds his perfect tree, but he finds true Christmas spirit and a part of himself along the way. This story contains one of the author's most famous minor characters, with the 'giant guy who sells Christmas trees' becoming one of the favorite characters in the author's vast collection of Dickens-like-characters. The rest of the stories in this collection, including the classic story, 'The Collector,' about an elderly man's awakening and his revival of his spirit and the remarkable results of his efforts, are all true classics that are sure to provide the perfect reading adventure for the Christmas season. This is the perfect book for those special Christmas evenings, curled up underneath your own Christmas tree, in front of a crackling fire, as you allow Mr. Hausleben once more to transport you into a world of holiday fun and sentiment. Ride along in a Christmas sleigh with the old man, Mum, Paul John Henson, Walter P. Thrump, and a cast of other unforgettable characters, back in time to when Christmas was so much more than money, holiday sales, or endless television commercials to convince you to purchase things that you really don't need. To a time when Christmas was really about families, simple times, peace, joy, and hope.

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Before there was a single man in possession of a good fortune at Netherfield, there was a single man in want of a wife in London. His name was Wickham and he was bent on marrying himself into as much wealth as he might contrive, preferably to the detriment of the man who had destroyed all his prospects in life - the man known as Darcy of Pemberley. Follow young Georgiana to London, to Ramsgate and to the brink of a perilous elopement, for all the wit, the drama and the delights that the world of Pride and Prejudice has to offer.Taking as its foundation Darcy and Wickham's own backstory, set out by Austen herself over 200 years ago in a letter from Darcy to Elizabeth, and bringing it to life with beloved familiar faces, and some entirely new, this is the book Austen fans have been waiting for!

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A plague is spreading across the land. Crops are rotting. People are dying in the streets. Sora, with the help of her magical Cat's Eye necklace, is the only one who can stop it. She must travel overseas to the Lost Isles, a place of legend and mystery. Only there can she destroy the bloodmage, Volcrian, putting an end to the curse. She is accompanied by Crash, a lethal assassin who once threatened-and saved-her life. But Sora is beginning to question her dark companion. He seems to be carrying a secret; a hidden past that could endanger them all. Meanwhile, they are hunted by an underground society known as the Shade. For centuries, the Shade has waited for the perfect opportunity to step into the light. Now they are perilously close to resurrecting a Dark God and unleashing a wave of unimaginable destruction. They only need to collect the three sacred weapons, and Sora has already found two.

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