Novità: le ultime uscite

»Wenn du betest,« sagte Jesus, »so geh in dein Kämmerlein, schließe die Tür zu und bete zu deinem Vater, der im Verborgenen ist«. Was ist dieser verborgene Ort, von welchem Jesus sprach? Er ist nichts anderes, als ein Bewusstseinszustand. Wenn der Schüler Stille und Frieden in seinem Inneren herstellen kann, wenn er das Bedürfnis hat, dem Herrn seine Liebe kundzutun, so ist er bereits in diesem verborgenen Raum. Ihr fragt euch, wo dieser Raum ist. Es kann im Herzen sein und auch im Intellekt oder in der Seele… In Wirklichkeit ist es ein höherer Bewusstseinszustand, in welchen ihr euch emporschwingen konntet.

Nella città dove si pensa bene ma si sogna male, c'è chi è disposto a scalare il cielo per schiodare le nuvole e vivere libero. Questa è la straordinaria storia del piccolo Guido Arte: una fiaba per tutte le età sull'importanza dei sogni e della creatività. Jason R. Forbus è autore di romanzi, fiabe, poesia e saggi. Laureato in Sociologia presso l'Università di Aberdeen, divide il suo lavoro tra consulenze per le Nazioni Unite e una passione per la letteratura in tutte le sue forme. I suoi libri sono stati tradotti in oltre 12 lingue.

A banker asks Holmes to investigate after a "Beryl Coronet" entrusted to him is damaged at his home. Awakened by noise, he had found his son, Arthur, holding the damaged coronet. Arthur refuses to speak, neither admitting guilt nor explaining himself. Footprints in the snow outside the house tell Holmes that the banker's niece had conspired with a blackguard to steal the coronet; Arthur had discovered the crime in progress and the coronet had been damaged during his struggle to prevent it being stolen. He had refused to tell his father the truth of the crime because of his love for his cousin.

Neville St. Clair, a respectable businessman, has disappeared and his wife claims she saw him at the upper window of an opium den. Rushing upstairs to the room she found only a beggar who denied any knowledge of St. Clair – whose clothes are later found in the room, and his coat, laden with coins, in the River Thames outside the window.

Violet Hunter consults Holmes after being offered a governess job subject to a number of unusual conditions, including cutting her hair short. The wage is extremely high, £120, and she decides to accept the job, though Holmes tells her to contact him if she needs to. After a number of strange occurrences, including the discovery of a sealed-off wing of the house, she does so. Holmes discovers that someone had been kept prisoner in the wing, but when Holmes, Watson and Hunter enter, it is empty.

A "Blue Carbuncle" is stolen from a hotel suite, and a former felon is soon arrested. However, an acquaintance of Holmes discovers the carbuncle in the throat of a Christmas goose. Holmes traces the owner of the goose, but soon determines that he was not the thief by offering him a replacement goose. The detective continues his search, first to an inn and then a dealer in Covent Garden. The dealer refuses to provide Holmes with information about the source of the goose, but Holmes observes another man trying to find the same information, and confronts him.

An engineer, Victor Hatherley, attends Dr Watson's surgery after his thumb is chopped off, and recounts his tale to Watson and Holmes. Hatherley had been hired for 50 guineas to repair a machine he was told compressed Fuller's earth into bricks. Hatherley was told to keep the job confidential, and was transported to the job in a carriage with frosted glass, to keep the location secret. He was shown the press, but on closer inspection discovered a "crust of metallic deposit" on the press, and he suspected it was not being used for compressing earth.

Helen Stoner worries her stepfather may be trying to kill her after he contrives to move her to the bedroom where her sister had died two years earlier, shortly before her wedding. Stoner is herself now engaged, and Holmes learns that her stepfather's annuity (from the estate of his wife — Stoner's mother) would be greatly reduced if either sister married. During a late-night investigation of the bedroom, Holmes and Watson discover a dummy bell-pull near a ventilator. As they lie in wait a whistle sounds, then a snake appears through the ventilator.

Lord Robert St. Simon's new American bride, Hatty Doran, has disappeared almost immediately after the wedding. The servants had prevented an old love interest of his from forcing her way into the wedding breakfast, Hatty had been seen in whispered conversation with her maid, and Inspector Lestrade arrives with the news that Hatty's wedding dress and ring have been found floating in the Serpentine. Holmes quickly solves the mystery, locating Hatty at a hotel with a mysterious, "common-looking" man who had picked up her dropped bouquet after the ceremony.

The tenth story in The Innocence of Father Brown is entitled The Eye of Apollo. At the beginning of this short story, Flambeau has just opened his detective agency in a new building located near Westminster Abbey. The other tenants in the building are a religious charlatan named Kalon, who claims to be "the New Priest of Apollo," and two sisters, who are typists. Flambeau and Father Brown instinctively distrust Kalon, who has installed a huge eye of Apollo outside his office.

The Reverend Wilfred Bohun could no longer stand the scandalous behavior of his alcoholic brother Norman, who blasphemed God and humiliated the Reverend Bohun in the eyes of his parishioners. Chesterton states that Wilfred and Norman Bohun belong to an old noble family whose descendants are now mostly "drunkards and dandy degenerates." Rumor has it that there has been "a whisper of insanity" in the Bohun family.

Both by calling and conviction Father Brown knew better than most of us, that every man is dignified when he is dead. But even he felt a pang of incongruity when he was knocked up at daybreak and told that Sir Aaron Armstrong had been murdered. There was something absurd and unseemly about secret violence in connection with so entirely entertaining and popular a figure. For Sir Aaron Armstrong was entertaining to the point of being comic; and popular in such a manner as to be almost legendary.

The Sign of the Broken Sword is a short story by G. K. Chesterton featuring his famous characters Father Brown and former criminal Flambeau. At the centre of the story is the mysterious death of General Sir Arthur St. Clare, who was hanged on a tree with his broken sword hung round his neck. It is a detective story and throughout it Father Brown reveals the mystery of General St. Clare.

Certain of the great roads going north out of London continue far into the country a sort of attenuated and interrupted spectre of a street, with great gaps in the building, but preserving the line. Here will be a group of shops, followed by a fenced field or paddock, and then a famous public-house, and then perhaps a market garden or a nursery garden, and then one large private house, and then another field and another inn, and so on.

"The Invisible Man" is a detective story written by G. K. Chesterton which concerns the nature of the crimes committed by one James Welkin, who had been harassing Laura Hope and menacing his romantic rival, Isidore Smythe (whom he would later murder), all without ever being seen.

A stormy evening of olive and silver was closing in, as Father Brown, wrapped in a grey Scotch plaid, came to the end of a grey Scotch valley and beheld the strange castle of Glengyle. It stopped one end of the glen or hollow like a blind alley; and it looked like the end of the world. Rising in steep roofs and spires of seagreen slate in the manner of the old French-Scotch chateaux, it reminded an Englishman of the sinister steeple-hats of witches in fairy tales; and the pine woods that rocked round the green turrets looked, by comparison, as black as numberless flocks of ravens.

Father Brown (Chesterton's sharp-witted detective priest) and Flambeau (the reformed master-thief and Brown's constant companion) are on a little vacation in Norfolk, invited to visit the mysterious Prince Saradine. It doesn't go well. Sure, Flambeau gets some good fishing in, but there's also a duel with rapiers, a couple murders, a hanging, a case of mistaken identity, an awkward family reunion, and a gang of surly Sicilians.

Als die kleine Maja erwachte, war es schon hell geworden. Sie fror ein wenig unter ihrem großen grünen Blatt, und die ersten Bewegungen, die sie machte, gelangen ihr nur schwerfällig und langsam. Sie hielt sich an einem Äderchen des Blattes fest und ließ ihre Flügel zittern und flimmern, damit sie geschmeidig und frei von Staub werden möchten.

Die Biene Maja ist eine bezaubernde Kindergeschichte von Waldemar Bonsels. Folge 3: Der Waldsee und seine Leute mit Viola Gabor und Viktoria Gabor. Ach, dachte die kleine Maja im Dahinfliegen, nun habe ich vergessen, Peppi nach den Menschen zu fragen. Ein so erfahrener Mann, wie er, hätte mir sicherlich die beste Auskunft geben können. Aber vielleicht würde sie heute noch selbst einem Menschen begegnen. Voll Unternehmungslust und Frohsinn ließ sie ihre blanken Augen über das weite bunte Land schweifen, das sich unter ihr in seiner sommerlichen Pracht ausbreitete.

Die ältere Bienendame, die der kleinen Biene Maja behilflich war, als sie zum Leben erwachte und aus ihrer Zelle schlüpfte, hieß Kassandra und hatte großes Ansehen im Stock. Es waren damals sehr aufgeregte Tage, weil im Volk der Bienen eine Empörung ausgebrochen war, die die Königin nicht unterdrücken konnte.