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  The Story of a Nodding Donkey

  Laura Lee Hope

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  A charming children's story filled with imagination, kindness, and gentle adventure.
  
  Centered around a beloved toy donkey, the story follows delightful moments of play, friendship, and childhood wonder. Through cheerful adventures and simple lessons, the tale captures the innocence and joy of growing up.
  
  Warm and engaging, this classic remains a comforting and entertaining read for young children.
  
  Written by Laura Lee Hope.
  
  Enjoy a heartwarming story full of childhood charm—download your copy today.

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  Mosses from an Old Manse and...

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

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  "Mosses from an Old Manse and Other Stories" by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a collection of short stories that showcase the author's mastery of American Romantic literature. The title story, "Mosses from an Old Manse," is a nostalgic reflection on Hawthorne's time spent in the Old Manse, a historic home in Concord, Massachusetts. Through vivid imagery and dream-like symbolism, Hawthorne explores themes of solitude, sin, and the supernatural. In "Mosses from an Old Manse and Other Stories," readers will discover the beauty, mystery, and darkness of Hawthorne's vision, and gain a deeper appreciation for his place as one of America's greatest writers.

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  Rienzi the Last of the Roman...

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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  Rome, 1347: a notary's son raises the mob, drives out the barons, restores the Republic, is crowned tribune — and rules for seven months. Bulwer-Lytton gave English the pen mightier than the sword and the dark and stormy night; here he wrote the best of his historical novels, and Wagner made an opera of it. The tribune's fall is not the barons' doing; it is his own, and Bulwer sees it exactly.

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  Lady Audley's Secret - An...

  James Harvey

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  A golden-haired angel. A grieving husband. A mansion full of dark secrets. 
  When the youthful and penniless governess Lucy Graham captures the heart of the wealthy Sir Michael Audley, she seems to be the very picture of innocence and devotion. Blessed with enchanting beauty and a sunshiny disposition, Lady Audley quickly becomes the beloved darling of Essex county. But behind her delicate, fairy-like façade lies a cold, calculating mind and a past completely shrouded in mystery. 
  Meanwhile, half a world away, a desperate young husband strikes gold in the Australian outback. George Talboys returns to England with a fortune, desperate to reunite with the beloved wife he abandoned years prior to seek a better life. Instead, his arrival is met with a devastating newspaper notice and a freshly dug grave in Ventnor. 
  As George's loyal friend, the apathetic but sharp-minded barrister Robert Audley, is reluctantly drawn into the grieving man's tragic affairs, an eerie convergence of events begins to unfold. What ties a wealthy baronet's new bride to a dead woman's empty past? And what is hidden in the secret drawer of my lady's jewel-box? 
  In this classic tale of sensation and suspense, James Harvey crafts a masterclass in psychological tension. Lady Audley's Secret peels back the opulent velvet curtains of Victorian high society to reveal a chilling labyrinth of bigamy, betrayal, and buried sins. Will the truth come to light, or will the darkness of Audley Court consume them all?

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  The Devil Light - Former soldier...

  Edgar Wallace

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  Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was born on the 1st April 1875 in Greenwich, London.  Leaving school at 12 because of truancy, by the age of fifteen he had experience; selling newspapers, as a worker in a rubber factory, as a shoe shop assistant, as a milk delivery boy and as a ship’s cook.  
   
  By 1894 he was engaged but broke it off to join the Infantry being posted to South Africa. He also changed his name to Edgar Wallace which he took from Lew Wallace, the author of Ben-Hur.  
   
  In Cape Town in 1898 he met Rudyard Kipling and was inspired to begin writing. His first collection of ballads, The Mission that Failed! was enough of a success that in 1899 he paid his way out of the armed forces in order to turn to writing full time.  
   
  By 1904 he had completed his first thriller, The Four Just Men. Since nobody would publish it he resorted to setting up his own publishing company which he called Tallis Press. 
    
  In 1911 his Congolese stories were published in a collection called Sanders of the River, which became a bestseller. He also started his own racing papers, Bibury’s and R. E. Walton’s Weekly, eventually buying his own racehorses and losing thousands gambling.  A life of exceptionally high income was also mirrored with exceptionally large spending and debts.  
   
  Wallace now began to take his career as a fiction writer more seriously, signing with Hodder and Stoughton in 1921. He was marketed as the ‘King of Thrillers’ and they gave him the trademark image of a trilby, a cigarette holder and a yellow Rolls Royce. He was truly prolific, capable not only of producing a 70,000 word novel in three days but of doing three novels in a row in such a manner. It was estimated that by 1928 one in four books being read was written by Wallace, for alongside his famous thrillers he wrote variously in other genres, including science fiction, non-fiction accounts of WWI which amounted to ten volumes and screen plays. Eventually he would reach the remarkable total of 170 novels, 18 stage plays and 957 short stories. 
   
  Wallace became chairman of the Press Club which to this day holds an annual Edgar Wallace Award, rewarding ‘excellence in writing’.  
   
  Diagnosed with diabetes his health deteriorated and he soon entered a coma and died of his condition and double pneumonia on the 7th of February 1932 in North Maple Drive, Beverly Hills. He was buried near his home in England at Chalklands, Bourne End, in Buckinghamshire.

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  To-Morrow?

  Victoria Cross

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  A woman must decide whether to give herself to the man she loves before he goes — and the book is the argument, conducted in the open, about what she owes to convention and what to herself. Victoria Cross was Annie Sophie Cory, born in Rawalpindi to an army family and determined to write what respectable women were not supposed to know; the reviewers called her indecent, which was the point.

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