Wildside press mai 2026 (36 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - When a precious opal heirloom slips from a young widow's throat into the Venetian lagoon, no one imagines what the loss will set in motion. Months later, the necklace washes up on a forgotten marsh island -- and into the hands of two travelers whose meeting will alter every life it touches.One is a generous Sicilian aristocrat, warm-hearted and barely twenty-four. The other is a brilliant English surgeon who has long since traded conscience for the cold pursuit of physiological knowledge, a man who regards human beings as little more than specimens for his blade.Returning the necklace to its owner draws all three into a fatal triangle. The young nobleman courts the widow with sincere devotion; the surgeon, unable to win her by warmth, sets out to possess her by other means. As one will steadily bends another, a quiet poisoning of body and spirit unfolds beneath the songs of the gondolier.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Twain's sequel to his classic novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Thirty essays gathered from London magazines and a Yorkshire newspaper showcase a fresh literary voice finding wonder in the ordinary. A forgotten provincial actor is rescued from the footnotes of theatrical history. A mouth-organ becomes the occasion for a meditation on humble music. The terror of empty railway carriages, the etiquette of refusing to meet one's favorite authors, the strange comfort of a country road at dusk-each subject is approached with the same wry curiosity and quiet delight. Written in the great tradition of English belles-lettres, somewhere between Lamb and Beerbohm, these pieces capture the cadences of early twentieth-century life: its provincial players and country shepherds, its bad pianists and paragon hosts, its small dignities and larger embarrassments.The voice is companionable, unhurried, opinionated yet never strident, and shot through with the gentle humor of an Englishman who has read widely and observed his countrymen with affection.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - When a middle-school science rivalry leads a boy to tamper with his mentor's experimental microwave projector, an accidental discovery launches an adventure far beyond anything he imagined. The device produces a seemingly indestructible force field bubble-and soon, that invention is the only thing standing between a small group of young scientists and the molten heart of an active Costa Rican volcano.Invited to join a volcanologist's research expedition, the three friends find themselves deep inside a volcanic caldera, protected from thousand-degree lava by a bubble of projected energy running on a finite battery charge. With rising magma, blocked escape routes, and an impending eruption, they must use every ounce of scientific knowledge and raw courage they possess-or be swallowed by the mountain forever.Packed with real volcanology, warm characters, and laugh-out- loud moments, this is a story about curiosity, responsibility, and what happens when science goes spectacularly, wonderfully wrong.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Around a fireside in a Roman presbytery, seven priests and a layman agree on an unusual project: each will tell, in turn, a true tale of the uncanny drawn from his own ministry. What follows is a chain of strange and chilling reports - a man who suffers a sudden and terrible loss of faith after offering himself for another's soul; a missionary who confronts something hideous in an Indian forest; a parish priest summoned to a deathbed where the laughter of unseen things drowns out his prayers.Each storyteller insists on the literal truth of his account, and each leaves more questions than answers. Are these manifestations the work of departed souls Of demons Of Providence itself, briefly drawing back the curtain The priests debate, dispute, and pray, but the spiritual world refuses to be fully seen - only mirrored, darkly and in pieces, through whatever cracks it can find.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A writer with a publisher's deadline and a friend's strange invitation in his pocket goes hunting for a quiet country retreat where he can finish his long-overdue novel. What he finds instead is a sun-bleached nudist colony tucked into the woods, full of bronzed strangers who have left their clothes, and most of their inhibitions, at the gate.At first the experience feels harmless, even pure: square dances under the stars, lazy mornings at the mess hall, a beautiful blonde who smiles at him over the breakfast tables. But the longer he stays, the more he senses something restless humming beneath all that wholesome sunlight. A drunkard with hungry eyes is watching the women too closely, and the colony's rules of decency are thinner than the cabin walls.When civilization finally splits open at the seams, the writer learns that a man stripped to the skin still carries every primitive urge he was born with, and a fight without clothes is the oldest kind of all.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Fresh from an exclusive finishing school, an heiress turns her back on society balls and country clubs to pursue the demanding life of a hospital nurse. She wants meaning, purpose, and the chance to be valued for who she is-not for the fortune she stands to inherit.But the gleaming wards of a Southern California hospital prove far less welcoming than she imagined. The brilliant young surgeon she comes to love dismisses her career as a wealthy girl's whim and patronizes her at every turn. Her formidable supervisor watches her every move, ready to humiliate. Jealous colleagues plot against her. And when a brutal attack threatens her life, she discovers just how dangerous the corridors of medicine can be.To win the trust of the man she loves-and the respect of the profession she has chosen-she must prove that her commitment runs deeper than wealth, deeper than privilege, deeper even than her own pride.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Emma Lou Morgan is cursed with a complexion too black for acceptance. In her hometown of Boise, Idaho, the local 'blue vein' society-light-skinned African Americans who prize near-whiteness-shuns her at every turn. Desperate to escape the small-mindedness, she heads to Los Angeles for college, certain that a larger, more cosmopolitan city will offer her the belonging she craves.But colorism follows her. Even among fellow Black students, she finds herself judged by the shade of her skin, caught between disgust for those she deems too vulgar and the cold shoulder of those who deem her too dark. As she navigates friendships, romance, and the quest for identity, Emma Lou confronts the devastating reality that prejudice lives within her own community as deeply as outside it.A searing novel of the Harlem Renaissance, The Blacker the Berry lays bare the internalized racism that fractures souls and families, revealing how the pursuit of acceptance can become its own prison.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - When a Modoc rancher's cattle vanish overnight, the note he owes the local gambler comes due. Within days he is accused of train robbery, with the sheriff in the gambler's pocket and the noose tightening fast.Out of the night ride two saddle-tramps with a knack for trouble - a long, lean Texan whose hunches always run true and his short, square-jawed sidekick. They drift into Modoc looking for nothing more than a hot meal and a soft bed, and ride straight into a frame-up that reaches from the saloon roulette wheel to the express car of the eastbound train.Before the dust settles there will be a holdup, a posse hunt across broken hills, a stolen letter that says more than its writer intended, and one quiet showdown in a town that thought it had bought every gun on its side.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The year 1924 nearly killed the most legendary horror magazine in American fiction. Drowning in debt, hampered by amateurish covers and an editor unequipped to recognize the genre forming under his nose, the publication staggered through its second year-and somehow printed a clutch of stories that would help define cosmic horror, occult mystery, and pulp-era weird fiction for the next century.The fourteen pieces gathered here trace that strange, transformative year. A quiet supernatural reverie. A notorious shocker that triggered a real-life censorship campaign against its publisher. An underground masterpiece of ancestral dread, now considered one of the most influential horror stories ever written. These stories and many more celebrate this transformative year in weird fiction, documented here for the very first time.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Amid the vast, untamed forests of northern Ontario, a man on the run seeks refuge from a world that has branded him a criminal. A chemist, once seduced by the promise of a brilliant career, fled Montreal after a corporate fraud scandal left him facing a prison sentence. Now, with only a canoe, a shotgun, and an easel, he drifts through the wilderness, haunted by the music of a passing camping party and the fleeting image of a girl dancing by firelight.When a chance encounter leads him to a remote apiary run by a solitary beekeeper, he sees an escape far sweeter than he ever imagined. The hives buzz with the promise of raspberry honey and a simple life, but the past is never far behind. As he begins to tend the bees and nurture a fragile hope, he must decide whether this hidden haven can truly protect him-or whether danger has followed him into the honeyed heart of the wild.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Jack and Laura Mann have built a marriage that works - against all odds. She is a lesbian, he is gay, yet together they have forged a life of quiet love and mutual respect in 1960s Chicago. When a mysterious stranger named Winkler contacts them with news of their dear friends Page and Sunny Pringle, they are drawn back into the drama of a union far more shocking than their own.Page and Sunny were the golden couple - handsome, brilliant, and deeply in love. Their courtship was a whirlwind of stolen glances and moonlit confessions. But barely seven months after the wedding, something tore them apart. Now, as Winkler gently probes, the Manns must revisit the story of a marriage so passionate it defied convention, yet so fragile it threatened to destroy everyone touched by it. What secret could turn a perfect love into an illegal and horrifying mistake.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - An ambitious biographer is asked to shape the public memory of a celebrated novelist, but the story he wants is not the whole truth. A fellow writer remembers the novelist's early years, the woman who helped inspire his best work, and the uneasy gap between private life and literary fame.This sharp, humane satire of English literary society looks at reputation, snobbery, desire, and the stories people tell after a writer is gone. First published in 1930, it remains one of the author's most admired novels.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - On a December night three days before Christmas, a small-town California attorney takes a call that drags him into the affairs of the richest, strangest estate on the coast. His new client has just stepped off a train under a name that may not be his own, accused of a murder he cannot explain, watched by enemies who know far too much about him. What the lawyer slowly learns is that a stone house brooding above the sea has stood for a thousand years and more - and that the men and women drawn to it do not age, do not die, and do not forgive interference. Some among them are weary of the long centuries. Others mean to use the secret for purposes that will reshape the world. Caught between a beautiful woman with a wound that should have killed her, a soft-spoken stranger with an Aztec name, and a midnight tribunal older than the United States, an ordinary man must decide which side of immortality he wants to die on. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - London after dark in the late 1920s-gambling clubs, fog-bound streets, and one chance encounter that will undo a young Member of Parliament-in-waiting. When a chivalrous intervention on behalf of a stranger ends with her companion lying dead at his feet, a promising life collapses in a single minute.Convinced no jury will believe his account, the young man flees, swapping his evening dress for a lorry-driver's cap and vanishing into a dingy lodging-house in working-class Camberwell. There he tries to pass as a journalist, all the while watching the papers and ducking the policemen on the beat.But the boarding-house holds a secret of its own. Behind a neighbor's shuttered door, a band of hardened jewel-thieves with international reach is dividing its spoils-and the new lodger has just become a witness they cannot afford. To clear his name, he must navigate two underworlds at once, never certain which woman is friend and which is fatal.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In the dead of winter on the Yukon, a solitary trapper finds the unthinkable in a remote river cabin: a husband shot dead, a wife missing, and a child still alive in the frigid silence. Among the wreckage glints a diamond ring no woodsman's wife could ever have owned. The trapper hides the ring, takes the child, and carries the news to the nearest detachment of the Mounted Police.What follows is a relentless trail across the frozen North - over wind-scoured passes, through forests of stark fire-killed timber, by dog-team and snow-shoe - in pursuit of a brutal fugitive who has vanished into the wilderness. The young sergeant assigned to the case finds himself bound to a courageous young woman whose journey will be tested by the cruel country and by a missionary's tragic journal kept at a lonely outpost known as The Gap.Murder, romance, and the long cold patrol of duty converge where the wild river runs, and where the Mounted Police never give up the trail.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In the summer of 1707, two adventurers on the roads of Normandy come upon a brutal ambush. Saving a desperate man from the king's guards, they accept a dying stranger's final plea: to deliver a secret letter to a nameless prisoner held in the fortress abbey of Mont St Michel.With gold and a ring as payment, the pair sets off-only to find themselves hunted by royal agents and entangled in a conspiracy that reaches into the highest echelons of power. A chance encounter with a dissolute nobleman, who is their near double in looks, opens an unexpected path, and they swap identities to carry out a dangerous mission.Now, one must ride toward the towering island monastery, bearing letters that could mean life or death. With spies lurking in every village and the tides of the sea cutting off escape, failure is not an option. But what secret does the prisoner keep-and what price will the rescuers pay to uncover it.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In 1905, Father Bellarma discovers ancient manuscripts hidden in a remote desert cave-dark texts that the early Church fought to destroy. But unleashing these forbidden writings draws him into the orbit of a mysterious cult that has taken root in New York City.As ritual murders begin to plague the streets, Lieutenant Peter Doolan must confront an evil that defies rational explanation. With an enigmatic African monk as his ally, Doolan races to stop a charismatic priest who claims to be the reincarnation of an ancient mystic. At stake is not just the soul of a city, but the very nature of good and evil itself.A masterful blend of historical thriller and supernatural horror, ABYSSOS plunges readers into a shadowy world where faith and madness intertwine.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - W.C. Tuttle was one of the great pulp Western storytellers, known for mixing frontier action, mystery, dry humor, and colorful cowboy speech. In 'Sticky Ropes,' newly elected sheriff Dusty Corbett faces a secret gang whose strange calling card spreads fear across Big Bear County. 'The Loom of Lies' brings more tangled motives, sharp talk, and trouble on the range. In 'Peace Medicine,' Tuttle adds another lively Western tale of danger, bluff, and hard choices. First published in Adventure in 1923 and 1924, these three novellas show Tuttle at home in the fast-moving world of the pulp magazines.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Around a fireside in a Roman presbytery, seven priests and a layman agree on an unusual project: each will tell, in turn, a true tale of the uncanny drawn from his own ministry. What follows is a chain of strange and chilling reports - a man who suffers a sudden and terrible loss of faith after offering himself for another's soul; a missionary who confronts something hideous in an Indian forest; a parish priest summoned to a deathbed where the laughter of unseen things drowns out his prayers.Each storyteller insists on the literal truth of his account, and each leaves more questions than answers. Are these manifestations the work of departed souls Of demons Of Providence itself, briefly drawing back the curtain The priests debate, dispute, and pray, but the spiritual world refuses to be fully seen - only mirrored, darkly and in pieces, through whatever cracks it can find.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A writer with a publisher's deadline and a friend's strange invitation in his pocket goes hunting for a quiet country retreat where he can finish his long-overdue novel. What he finds instead is a sun-bleached nudist colony tucked into the woods, full of bronzed strangers who have left their clothes, and most of their inhibitions, at the gate.At first the experience feels harmless, even pure: square dances under the stars, lazy mornings at the mess hall, a beautiful blonde who smiles at him over the breakfast tables. But the longer he stays, the more he senses something restless humming beneath all that wholesome sunlight. A drunkard with hungry eyes is watching the women too closely, and the colony's rules of decency are thinner than the cabin walls.When civilization finally splits open at the seams, the writer learns that a man stripped to the skin still carries every primitive urge he was born with, and a fight without clothes is the oldest kind of all.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - When a Modoc rancher's cattle vanish overnight, the note he owes the local gambler comes due. Within days he is accused of train robbery, with the sheriff in the gambler's pocket and the noose tightening fast.Out of the night ride two saddle-tramps with a knack for trouble - a long, lean Texan whose hunches always run true and his short, square-jawed sidekick. They drift into Modoc looking for nothing more than a hot meal and a soft bed, and ride straight into a frame-up that reaches from the saloon roulette wheel to the express car of the eastbound train.Before the dust settles there will be a holdup, a posse hunt across broken hills, a stolen letter that says more than its writer intended, and one quiet showdown in a town that thought it had bought every gun on its side.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - When a middle-school science rivalry leads a boy to tamper with his mentor's experimental microwave projector, an accidental discovery launches an adventure far beyond anything he imagined. The device produces a seemingly indestructible force field bubble-and soon, that invention is the only thing standing between a small group of young scientists and the molten heart of an active Costa Rican volcano.Invited to join a volcanologist's research expedition, the three friends find themselves deep inside a volcanic caldera, protected from thousand-degree lava by a bubble of projected energy running on a finite battery charge. With rising magma, blocked escape routes, and an impending eruption, they must use every ounce of scientific knowledge and raw courage they possess-or be swallowed by the mountain forever.Packed with real volcanology, warm characters, and laugh-out- loud moments, this is a story about curiosity, responsibility, and what happens when science goes spectacularly, wonderfully wrong. …

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Thirty essays gathered from London magazines and a Yorkshire newspaper showcase a fresh literary voice finding wonder in the ordinary. A forgotten provincial actor is rescued from the footnotes of theatrical history. A mouth-organ becomes the occasion for a meditation on humble music. The terror of empty railway carriages, the etiquette of refusing to meet one's favorite authors, the strange comfort of a country road at dusk-each subject is approached with the same wry curiosity and quiet delight. Written in the great tradition of English belles-lettres, somewhere between Lamb and Beerbohm, these pieces capture the cadences of early twentieth-century life: its provincial players and country shepherds, its bad pianists and paragon hosts, its small dignities and larger embarrassments.The voice is companionable, unhurried, opinionated yet never strident, and shot through with the gentle humor of an Englishman who has read widely and observed his countrymen with affection.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Twain's sequel to the classic The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - When old cowboy Goober Glendon and his young partner Johnny Wells ride into Silver Bar, they only plan to find work at the Keno range. But a late-night poker game turns deadly when a drunken young man is accused of shooting a fellow ranch hand. Goober's instincts tell him the boy was framed, and he secretly pockets the murder weapon to protect the son of his old friend, wealthy rancher Frank Austin.As Goober and Johnny arrive at the Star A ranch, they find the Austin family reeling from a stagecoach holdup and the disappearance of valuable horses. Young Hal Austin is tangled in a forbidden romance with Juana Diaz, while the dark-clad foreman Cal Sands harbors secrets.With rustlers, a missing stage, and a suspicious sheriff, the partners must unravel a web of deceit before more blood is spilled.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Emma Lou Morgan is cursed with a complexion too black for acceptance. In her hometown of Boise, Idaho, the local 'blue vein' society-light-skinned African Americans who prize near-whiteness-shuns her at every turn. Desperate to escape the small-mindedness, she heads to Los Angeles for college, certain that a larger, more cosmopolitan city will offer her the belonging she craves.But colorism follows her. Even among fellow Black students, she finds herself judged by the shade of her skin, caught between disgust for those she deems too vulgar and the cold shoulder of those who deem her too dark. As she navigates friendships, romance, and the quest for identity, Emma Lou confronts the devastating reality that prejudice lives within her own community as deeply as outside it.A searing novel of the Harlem Renaissance, The Blacker the Berry lays bare the internalized racism that fractures souls and families, revealing how the pursuit of acceptance can become its own prison.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - An ambitious biographer is asked to shape the public memory of a celebrated novelist, but the story he wants is not the whole truth. A fellow writer remembers the novelist's early years, the woman who helped inspire his best work, and the uneasy gap between private life and literary fame.This sharp, humane satire of English literary society looks at reputation, snobbery, desire, and the stories people tell after a writer is gone. First published in 1930, it remains one of the author's most admired novels.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The year 1924 nearly killed the most legendary horror magazine in American fiction. Drowning in debt, hampered by amateurish covers and an editor unequipped to recognize the genre forming under his nose, the publication staggered through its second year-and somehow printed a clutch of stories that would help define cosmic horror, occult mystery, and pulp-era weird fiction for the next century.The fourteen pieces gathered here trace that strange, transformative year. A quiet supernatural reverie. A notorious shocker that triggered a real-life censorship campaign against its publisher. An underground masterpiece of ancestral dread, now considered one of the most influential horror stories ever written. These stories and many more celebrate this transformative year in weird fiction, documented here for the very first time.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Jack and Laura Mann have built a marriage that works - against all odds. She is a lesbian, he is gay, yet together they have forged a life of quiet love and mutual respect in 1960s Chicago. When a mysterious stranger named Winkler contacts them with news of their dear friends Page and Sunny Pringle, they are drawn back into the drama of a union far more shocking than their own.Page and Sunny were the golden couple - handsome, brilliant, and deeply in love. Their courtship was a whirlwind of stolen glances and moonlit confessions. But barely seven months after the wedding, something tore them apart. Now, as Winkler gently probes, the Manns must revisit the story of a marriage so passionate it defied convention, yet so fragile it threatened to destroy everyone touched by it. What secret could turn a perfect love into an illegal and horrifying mistake.…