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Londra, metà Ottocento. L'organizzazione segreta Oversight ha il compito sia di proteggere gli esseri umani privi di poteri magici dalle scorribande degli esseri fatati di ogni genere, sia di difendere il mondo magico dalle ingiustizie perpetrate - più o meno involontariamente - dall'umanità che avanza a grandi passi verso la modernizzazione.

"L'Oversight è più pericolosa quando è in difficoltà. Ci sono molti morti o dispersi che non ricordano..." I membri dell'Oversight di Londra hanno fatto giuramento per millenni di impedire al mondo naturale e quello soprannaturale di darsi la caccia a vicenda. Ora che sta attraversando il suo momento più difficile, con la sede distrutta e gli ultimi membri sparsi chissà dove, questa società segreta dovrà combattere per la sopravvivenza e affrontare il nemico più insidioso che abbia mai incontrato: sé stessa.

L'attesissimo sequel di "Oversight", imperdibile per i fan di Neil Gaiman e Philip Pullman. Coloro che appartengono alla società segreta Oversight conoscono molte cose. Sanno per esempio che il ferro freddo è in grado di ricacciare le bestie della notte nell'oscurità, o che ritrovarsi tra due specchi non sempre è una buona idea... E sanno anche che il loro compito è proteggere l'umanità dalle forze soprannaturali, nonostante il loro numero stia drasticamente diminuendo e i nemici siano ormai alle porte.

Peter Lorre is typecast as The Maestro, a prizefight manager planning revenge on his star fighter by scalding him to death in the steamroom!

"The Beast Must Die" is a powerful story of vengeance and retribution. Herbert Marshall plays the part of Felix Laine, a writer by profession of detective novels, who was planning to kill a man. He didn’t know his name, where he lived, or what he looked like, but he knew that he was going to find him and kill him. He recorded all of the details in a diary, which was either the best murder novel he had ever written, or an incriminating document.

Dr. Ferrari knew what kind of woman Nora was the moment he laid eyes on her. She was very beautiful and equally utterly heartless. She was the kind of a woman who wants everything, gives nothing, and still thinks she’s a passionate bargain for any man completely unconscious of the fact that her only motivation in life is to humiliate, dominate, and finally destroy any man she can get her hands on. But that didn’t matter because she had three million dollars, and Dr. Ferrari had already made up his mind if his plans worked out that he was going to kill her....

A man and his strangely silent son are on the run from the police.

The Blackout Killer is hiding somewhere aboard a ship. Olivia De Havilland stars as Judith Webster, who found herself embarked upon a journey into darkness. It is 1939, shortly before England and Germany were at war. Judith was in London serving as travelling companion to wealthy American Mrs. Prescott. When Mrs. Prescott died, Judith had promised to arrange her a burial at sea. It was on this journey that she learned of the “Blackout Killer” and feared that he was the man she had befriended and fallen in love with.

This recording presents a series of patriotic selections of unquestioned literary merit. The purpose is to teach patriotism. This is accomplished through stories chosen with special regard to their effectiveness as avenues through which young people may experience the patriotic sentiments and emotions upon which love of native land depends.

http://www.adfreebooks.com - 500+ audiobooks, all ad freeDavy Crockett is one of the legendary heroes of the North American frontier, celebrated in song and story. This is a very accessible account of his life from boyhood through his time as a scout and of high popularity to his tragic death at the battle of the Alamo. (Summary by Larry Wilson)

Deep in the City something had been woken, so old that people had been walking past it for centuries without giving it a second look.... When George breaks the dragon's head outside the Natural History Museum he awakes an ancient power. This prehistoric beast, sentry-still for centuries, hunts him down with a terrifying wrath. And this is just the beginning....

"Edie," said George, "we're going to do this together. I'll be right there with you. Anything, anyone trying to get you is going to have to come past me first." But when George makes his promise he is not aware that high on the rooftops an unseen gargoyle is watching them hungrily, quivering with anticipation for the moment when it will unfold its stone wings and pounce. The thing on the roof knows that nothing is over; nothing is finished.

Those who belong to the secret society called The Oversight know many things. They know cold iron will hold back the beasts in the darkness. They know it is dangerous to stand between two mirrors. And they know that despite their dwindling numbers, it remains their duty to protect humanity from the predations of the supernatural. And vice versa. But two of the society's strongest members, Mr. Sharp and Sara Falk, are trapped in the world between the mirrors, looking for each other, searching for a way back home.