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  Into the Suffering City - A...

  Bill LeFurgy

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  A Baltimore Novel of Suspense 
  Baltimore, 1909. Sarah Kennecott is a brilliant young doctor who cares deeply about justice for murder victims. She also has a habit of displeasing powerful men and getting into trouble. After getting fired for looking too closely into the killing of a showgirl, she refuses to back down from the investigation. 
  Sarah forms a promising partnership with Jack Harden, a street-smart private detective struggling with terrible memories. They have much in common: Both defiant. Both independent. Both regarded as a bit unusual. Sarah gathers evidence in gilded mansions and fancy ballrooms. Jack follows leads into Baltimore's seedy underworld, a vitally corrupt realm of saloons, brothels, and burlesque theaters. When Sarah and Jack pull the pieces together, they discover a stunning pair of secrets worth killing to keep.

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  Lawrence of Arabia His Life and...

  Rachel Lawson

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  A Poem on the life and death and aftermath of Lawrence of Arabia

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  Top 10 Short Stories The - The...

  Rudyard Kipling, D H Lawrence,...

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  Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart.  A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. 
   
  In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?  
   
  The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme.  Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. 
   
  Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made.  If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. 
   
  The zenith of Empire is bookended by two catastrophic wars that slaughter vast swathes of humanity.  And yet authors manage to record and create fragile libraries of humanity, its talents, its dreams and increasingly its nightmares. 
   
  01 - The 20th Century - The English Men - An Introduction 
  02 - They by Rudyard Kipling 
  03 - The Rocking Horse Winner by D H Lawrence 
  04 - The Interlopers by Saki the pseudonym for H H Munro 
  05 - The Diary of a God by Barry Pain 
  06 - The Juryman by John Galsworthy 
  07 - The Kit Bag by Algernon Blackwood 
  08 - The Haunted Orchard by Richard Le Gallienne 
  09 - Carnacki, The Ghost Finder - No 1 - The Gateway of the Monster by William Hope Hodgson 
  10 - Oh Whistle and I'll Come to You My Lad by M R James 
  11 - August Heat by W F Harvey 
  12 - The Matador of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett

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  The Magic Quirt

  L. Ron Hubbard

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  Old Laramie's a good cook, but not good for much more than that. But his luck — and his life — are about to take an amazing turn. Getting his hands on The Magic Quirt, suddenly Laramie starts performing feats of courage that would make even the Lone Ranger proud. But magic is a funny thing — and as Laramie's about to discover, sometimes it's all an illusion. Crack the whip, jingle the spurs and pull the trigger as the audio version of The Magic Quirt works its Wild West magic on you.

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  Orders is Orders

  L. Ron Hubbard

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  The Chinese city of Shunkien is under siege by the Japanese. In the middle sits the American consulate, packed with refugees, facing starvation and cholera. Marine Gunnery Sergeant James Mitchell is their only hope. But he'll have to negotiate 200 miles of bullets, bombs and one bombshell dancer to get there. And then his greatest enemy of all: alcohol. If he gives in to temptation, it's America that will pay the price. Gunshots, dive bombers, and seductive fan dancers are all here, as the audio version of Orders Is Orders takes you to the heart of war.

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  Witching Pool The: A Justice...

  John Pilkington

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  England, 1617 
   
   
  Susanna Cobbett, teenage daughter of a powerful Worcester landowner, is found dead in a gloomy woodland pond which has an evil reputation as the Witching Pool. The girl is said to have drowned herself, driven to madness by a local widow named Agnes Mason, who is arrested on a charge of witchcraft. If found guilty, she will hang at the next Assizes. 
   
   
  But Justice Belstrang, shrewd ex-magistrate and sceptic, does not believe a word of it. And when Agnes’s family beg him to help, he finds himself caught up in an ever-darkening mystery. 
   
   
  Another death follows: that of Susanna’s lover, a young shepherd. He too is reported to have drowned himself at the Witching Pool, unable to face life without his beloved. But from local woodsman Ned Berritt, Belstrang learns there’s more to it – and when Berritt too is found dead soon after, he becomes even more determined to uncover the truth. 
   
   
  The mystery grows murkier, however, as Belstrang is pitted against his old rival Justice Standish. 
   
   
  But Belstrang’s stubbornness and passion for justice drives him on. With the help of his friend and fellow-sceptic Doctor Boyd, he unravels the terrible crimes that have lain hidden behind the doors of the great manor of Ebbfield. 
   
   
  Belstrang must confront and apprehend his suspect - and risk his own life in the attempt. 
   
   
  Recommended for fans of Andrew Taylor, CJ Sansom and SJ Parris.

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