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  Tarnhelm - A young boy is told a...

  Hugh Walpole

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  Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, CBE was born in Auckland, New Zealand, on March 13th, 1884.  
   
  His father was an Anglican clergyman which involved postings abroad.  Walpole’s early educated was by a Governess until, in 1893, his parents decided he needed a better education and the young boy was sent to England. 
   
  He first attended a preparatory school in Truro followed by Sir William Borlase's Grammar School in Marlow in 1895, where he was bullied, frightened and miserable.  
   
  The following year, 1897, the Walpole’s returned to England and Walpole became a day boy at Durham School. His refuge was the local library and its books.   
   
  From 1903 to 1906 Walpole studied history at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and there, in 1905, had his first work published, the critical essay "Two Meredithian Heroes".  
   
  Walpole was also attempting to cope with and come to terms with his homosexual feelings and to find “that perfect friend”.  
   
  After a short spell tutoring in Germany and then teaching French at Epsom in 1908 he immersed himself in the literary world. In London he became a book reviewer for The Standard and wrote fiction in his spare time. In 1909, he published his first novel, ‘The Wooden Horse’ followed, in 1911, by ‘Mr Perrin and Mr Traill’.  In early 1914 Henry James, in an article for The Times Literary Supplement, ranked Walpole among the finest of the younger British novelists. 
   
  As war approached, Walpole’s poor eyesight disqualified him from service and so he worked, based in Moscow, reporting for The Saturday Review and The Daily Mail. Although he visited the front in Poland, his dispatches failed to stop comments that he was not ‘doing his bit’ for the war effort.  
   
  Walpole was ready with a counter; an appointment as a Russian officer, in the Sanitar. He explained they were “part of the Red Cross that does the rough work at the front, carrying men out of the trenches, helping at the base hospitals in every sort of way, doing every kind of rough job”. 
   
  During a skirmish in June 1915 Walpole rescued a wounded soldier; his Russian comrades refused to help and this meant Walpole had to carry one end of a stretcher, dragging the man to safety. He was awarded the Cross of Saint George.  For his wartime work he was later awarded the CBE in 1918. 
   
  After hostilities ended Walpole continued to write and publish and began a career on the highly lucrative lecture tour in the United States. 
   
  In 1924 Walpole met Harold Cheevers, who soon became his constant companion and remained for the rest of his life; “that perfect friend”.  
   
  Hollywoods MGM studios, invited him in 1934 to write the script for a film of David Copperfield. Walpole also had a small acting role in the film.  
   
  In 1937 Walpole was offered a knighthood and accepted although Kipling, Hardy, Galsworthy had all refused. “I'm not of their class... Besides I shall like being a knight," he said. 
   
  His health was plagued by diabetes, made worse by the frenetic pace of his life.  
   
  Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, CBE, died of a heart attack at his home at Brackenburn, on June 1st, 1941. He was 57.

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  Day Not Promised

  Pat Simmons

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  A new Christian fiction series that reminds readers that the bad guys don't always win, especially when the Lord fights our battles. 
   
  Omega Addams thought it was a typical work day until a detour on the way home changes everything. She's almost killed, but an innocent bystander, Mitchell Franklin, takes a bullet for Omega during a gas station robbery. 
   
  In the aftermath, Omega has no idea that God expects her to “pray it forward” until a spiritual battle unfolds before her eyes. Another innocent bystander is in trouble; unless Omega gets her prayer life together, others will die without Christ.  
   
  It's a chain reaction that highlights the responsibility of a Christian—hot, cold, or lukewarm. It’s time to get our acts together. We are our brother’s keeper.

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  Scars of Redemption - A...

  DS Quinton, D.S. Quinton

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  A deadly gift. A terrible choice. Sometimes the price is too high… 
  After Del Larouche defeats the Gris-gris man, she struggles to find her place in the adult world. She just wants a normal life. But her horrible ‘gift’ means her life will never be normal. 
  When six-year-old Clara goes missing from the St. Augustine Orphanage—the third child in two weeks—a frantic search begins and Del agrees to use her gift to help find the girl. 
  As the dark layers of New Orleans are peeled back, a terrible truth is exposed. What she finds lurking in the shadows of the old city is unimaginable. But it’s what the lurking shadows find… that is truly deadly. 
  Scars of Redemption is the chilling second book in The Spirit Hunter supernatural thriller series. If you like atmospheric writing, dangerous adventures, and horrifying twists, then you’ll love this heart-pounding tale.

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  Youth - Classic Tales Edition

  Joseph Conrad

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  Marlowe tells a tale of his youth, before he ventured into the Heart of Darkness. After several false starts, he signs as second officer on a trading ship to Bangkok. Before their final disembarkation, he discovers that all the rats are abandoning ship before they had even left the dockyard. It isn't until Marlowe and his crew is halfway to Singapore until they discover the horror the rats have left behind.

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  Restitution

  John A. Daly

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  Few things are more dangerous than an unpaid debt."John Daly has a magical writing style, and his books keep you up late at night turning pages." - Dana Perino, former White House Press Secretary"Restitution offers hard-hitting action spearheaded by a badass protagonist who talks the talk and walks the walk in a brutal story of surviving an unforgiving territory… Written in the vein of old-school stories of revenge, familial bonds, and relentless action, Restitution is a definite must-read." - Kashif Hussain, Best Thriller Books"I think what impresses me the most about John Daly as a writer is his range. Restitution brings Sean Coleman fans the series’ traditional strong sense of setting and mood, and clipped, realistic dialogue, and adds a refreshing, subtle sense of heart and hope amidst all the Vegas grit and Western landscapes of the Nevada desert." - Jim Geraghty, senior political correspondent of National Review and author of the Dangerous Clique thriller seriesLife's gotten better for hard-edged security guard, Sean Coleman. With personal affairs in order and relationships rekindled, he travels to Las Vegas to help celebrate his buddy's last days as a bachelor. Soon after he arrives, however, a twist of fate spawns a reunion with an old flame.Curiosity and a desire to make amends unexpectedly lead Sean down a dark path into the Vegas underground, where another face from the past emerges---a federal fugitive whose family, years earlier, altered the course of Sean's life.A harrowing escape drops Sean in the barren wasteland of a Nevada desert, miles away from the glitz and glamor of Sin City. There, he must fight to stay alive against a well-armed group of men whose bloodlust and greed won't stop them from getting what they're after.

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  The Story of the Bad Little Boy...

  Mark Twain

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  This is a story that provides you with a moral message, humor, sadness and a few other emotions, all packed in just a few pages by the great American writer  Mark Twain.
  The irony of Twain is evident from the very start and refers to the name of the little bad boy from the title. His name is Jim, not like in the other tales with bad boys...

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