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  Unti9780063566286

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  Blue Screens of Death - A System...

  Tao Wong

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  Morning in Whitehorse, and everything is the normal. All too normal. A girlfriend who loves him, an evening at the farmer’s market in Shipyard’s Park. Idyllic, relaxing, peaceful. What more could a man want?  
     
  John Lee isn’t sure, but stray thoughts intrude, and memories of a different time, a different place, a different world keep intruding. Angst-ridden, exhausting memories of a world of pain and struggle. Nothing like the paradise he lives in.  
     
  Now, if only John wasn’t so attracted to them.  
     
  This short story is set between Books 9 and 10. Minor spoilers included within.

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  Bibliomysteries Volume 4

  Christopher Fowler, Michael...

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  A must-listen collection of four bibliomysteries by bestselling and award-winning authors 
   
   
   
  Bibliomysteries Volume 4 includes: 
   
   
   
  ● "Reconciliation Day" by Christopher Fowler 
   
   
   
  ● "Hoodoo Harry" by Joe R. Lansdale 
   
   
   
  ● "The Traitor" by Martin Edwards 
   
   
   
  ● "The Last Honest Horse Thief" by Michael Koryta

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  Stephen Leacock - A Short Story...

  Anonyme

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  Stephen P H Butler Leacock FRSC was born on 30th December 1869 in Swanmore, near Southampton, England, the third of eleven children. 
  The family emigrated to Canada in 1876, settling on a 100-acre farm in Sutton, Ontario.  There he was home-schooled until, funded by his grandfather, he was enrolled into the elite Upper Canada College in Toronto.  Academically he was very strong and thence proceeded on to the University of Toronto to study languages and literature.  After completing two years of study in only one, he was obliged to leave because his alcoholic father had abandoned the family and finances could not stretch to cover his education.  Leacock now enrolled in a 3 month course to become a qualified high school teacher and thereby gain a regular income.  For the next decade he worked at Upper Canada College.  
  His passion was economics and political theory and in 1899 he became a postgraduate student at the University of Chicago and earned his PhD.  In 1906, he wrote ‘Elements of Political Science’, quickly adopted as a standard academic textbook for the next two decades and his most profitable book.   
  Although he had already published several humorous pieces it was only in 1910 that these works were collected and published and turned him into a commercially successful writer.  Volume after volume now appeared almost annually and it was often said that more people had heard of him than of Canada. 
  Politically he was a social conservative.  He opposed women’s right to vote and was a champion of Empire but also an advocate of social welfare legislation and wealth redistribution, but often caused friction with his racist views. 
  Stephen Leacock died on 28th March 1944 of throat cancer in Toronto, Canada.  He was 74.

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  Men Without Women

  Ernest Hemingway

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  Experience the poignant brilliance of Ernest Hemingway's Men Without Women, a masterful collection of short stories exploring the complexities of masculinity, isolation, and emotional resilience. These narratives capture lives defined by longing, courage, and the aching void of love lost or unattained. 
  This collection includes some of Hemingway’s finest work, each story a gem of his minimalist style and sharp emotional insight:The UndefeatedIn Another CountryHills Like White ElephantsThe KillersChe Ti Dice La Patria?Fifty GrandA Simple EnquiryTen IndiansA Canary for OneAn Alpine IdyllA Pursuit RaceToday Is FridayBanal StoryNow I Lay Me 
  Each story invites listeners into a world of raw emotion, deep introspection, and Hemingway's timeless prose. From the tension of bullfighting arenas to the quiet pain of human disconnection, Men Without Women resonates with themes of love, loss, and the indomitable spirit. 
  This audiobook brings these classic tales to life, making it an essential addition to any literary enthusiast’s collection.

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  God Sees the Truth But Waits -...

  Leo Tolstoy

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  Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828 in the Russian province of Tula to a wealthy noble family. As a child, he had private tutors but he showed little interest in any formal education. When he went to the University of Kazan in 1843 to study oriental languages and law, he left without completing his courses.  Life now was relaxed and idle but with some writing also taking place.  Gambling debts forced an abrupt change of path and he joined the army to fight in the Crimean War.  He was commended for his bravery and promoted but was appalled at the brutality and loss of life.  He recorded these and other earlier experiences in his diaries which formed the basis of several of his works. 
  In 1852 ‘Childhood’ was published to immediate success and was followed by ‘Boyhood’ and ‘Youth’. 
  His experience in the army and the horrors he witnessed resulted in ‘The Cossacks’ in 1862 and the trilogy ‘Sevastopol Tales’. After the war he travelled around Europe, visiting London and Paris and meeting such luminaries as Victor Hugo and Charles Darwin.  
  It was now that Tolstoy began his masterpiece, ‘War and Peace’. Published in 1869 it was an epic work that changed literature. He quickly followed this with ‘Anna Karenina’.  
  These successes made Tolstoy rich and helped him accomplish many of his dreams but also brought problems as he grappled with his faith and the lot of the oppressed poor. These revolutionary views became so popular that the authorities now kept him under surveillance.  
  He led a life of asceticism and vegetarianism and put his socialist ideals into practice by establishing numerous schools for the poor and food programmes. He also believed in giving away his wealth, which caused much discord with his wife.  
  His writing continued to bring forth classics such as ‘The Death of Ivan Ilyich’ and many brilliant and incisive short stories such as ‘How Much Land Does A Man Need’.  
  In 1901 Tolstoy was excommunicated from the Church and controversially deselected for the Nobel Prize for Literature. 
  Whilst undertaking a pilgrimage by train in October 1910 with his daughter Aleksandra he caught pneumonia in the nearby town of Astapovo.  Leo Tolstoy died on November 9th, 1910, he was 82.

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