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  Napsha the Breath of Life

  J. J.Bristol

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  570 BCE. The world is cruel to many within the Babylonian Empire. Napsha, an impoverished sixteen-year-old teenager, yearns to prove that he is able to earn the respect as an adult. 
  In his quest, he finds love but one moment of mercy alters his life forever. Unbeknownst to Napsha, tragedy will summon supernatural forces to chart his destiny beyond all human understanding. 
  Immortality.

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  Media The - A Short Story...

  Henry James, E M Delafield,...

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  The Modern Age is one of information overload.  Bombarded, surrounded, and battered by facts, figures, opinions and seemingly whatever else comes out of anyone’s head from all directions at all hours of the day and night.  It’s exhausting. 
   
  However, in this volume we go back a little way to when social media was an actual chat on the street corner or a dinner party, when breaking news was tomorrow’s newspaper or something momentous when a TV or radio programme could be interrupted with the outbreak of war or the death of a leader or sovereign. 
   
  In the pens of such luminaries as Henry James, E M Delafield, C E Montague, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and many others we connect with old fashioned media from publishing and advertising to telegrams and radio and everything in between in ways that are surprising, enlightening but always entertaining. 
  1 - The Media - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction 
  2 - The Death of the Lion - Part 1 by Henry James 
  3 - The Death of the Lion - Part 2 by Henry James 
  4 - The Voice of God by Winifred Holtby 
  5 - Home Life Relayed by E M Delafield 
  6 - His Wife's Deceased Sister by Frank R Stockton 
  7 - Over the Wires by H D Everett 
  8 - The Night Wire by W F Arnold 
  9 - The Millionaire's Telegram by Barry Pain 
  10 - Mutiny by Dorothy Edwards 
  11 - The Eidoloscope by Robert Duncan Milne 
  12 - The Cloud-Men by Owen Oliver 
  13 - Why Herbert Killed His Mother by Winifred Holtby 
  14 - Looking at the Classics by E M Delafield 
  15 - Making a Living by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 
  16 - Two or Three Witnesses by C E Montague

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  The Help of Angels

  H.J. Zeger

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  The Help of Angels is a historical novel spanning from 1933 to the end of World War Two in 1945. The protagonist, Benjamin Weiss, grows up happy and healthy in a large, traditional Hungarian Jewish family, in a small city in Europe called Beregszasz, located by the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains. When Benjamin becomes a man, the German and Hungarian armies aggressively occupy his home town and the rest of Hungary, and they begin their deportation process, transporting Jews and Gentiles to various concentration camps throughout Europe. Ben finds himself in a camp called Mauthausen, which was once located in Austria. He works hard to stay alive, and retains hope in spite of the atrocities he witnesses and experiences. When three high-ranking nazi officers visit Mauthausen, Ben's fate is thrown into question. The novel is loosely based on the author's family, their story of tragedy and survival during the Second World War, with the addition of some fantastical elements. The story follows the fate of one family, one man, and his friends, but tells how millions suffered at the hands of the ruthless Hungarian and Nazi war criminals. The Help of Angels invites audio book listeners to better understand life in Europe before and during the Holocaust, from a personal and highly unique perspective. The author's mother and father had been born in Hungary, and were survivors of concentration camps during the war. Their parents, some sisters and brothers, aunts and uncles, neighbors and acquaintances did not survive. This audio book is a tribute to all who suffer and have suffered in war.

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  Ghost Coach - A Classic Western

  Robert Vaughn

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  In the highly anticipated return of Robert Vaughan's iconic protagonist, Lucas Cain, the notorious rambling man finds himself embroiled in Old West justice. 
   
   
   
  Haunted by the memory of the SULTANA riverboat disaster, where he witnessed countless lives perish, Deputy U.S. Marshal Lucas Cain reunites with his old friend, Jim Barnes, now living as a small rancher. When Jim's livelihood is shattered by the ruthless theft of two hundred cows, Lucas pledges to recover the stolen herd. 
   
   
   
  As Lucas navigates treacherous Texas landscapes, he encounters the alluring Carolina McVey. Their growing connection, however, becomes a battleground for Lucas as he grapples with the lingering love for his late wife. 
   
   
   
  When a stagecoach arrives in town with all its passengers dead on arrival, known as the Ghost Coach, whispers of Rufus Marley, a remorseless outlaw leader, spread fear throughout the community. Forced to confront his own demons, Lucas stands against a nemesis who stops at nothing—and no one. 
   
   
   
  With a showdown looming on the horizon, the courage of this rambling man is about to be tested once again.

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  The Supreme Illusion - Story...

  Arnold Bennett

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  Arnold Bennett was born in 1867 in Hanley one of the six towns that formed the Potteries that later joined together to become Stoke on Trent; the area in which most of his works are located. For a short time he worked for his solicitor father before realising that to advance his life he would need to become his own man. Moving to London at twenty-one he obtained work as a solicitor’s clerk and gradually moved into a career of journalism. At the turn of the century he turned full time to writing and shortly thereafter in 1903 he moved to Paris and in 1908 published to great acclaim The Old Wives Tale. With this his reputation was set. Clayhanger and The Old Wives Tale are perhaps his greatest and most lauded novels.

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  Clarissa Harlowe Volume 7

  Samuel Richardson

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  "Clarissa Harlowe" by Samuel Richardson is an epic epistolary novel exploring themes of virtue, autonomy, and oppression. The story follows Clarissa, a young woman of immense moral strength, as she resists her family’s attempts to force her into a loveless marriage. Her defiance leads her into the clutches of the manipulative and predatory Lovelace, whose schemes result in her physical and emotional ruin. Through a series of letters, Clarissa’s resilience, dignity, and inner conflict are vividly portrayed, contrasting with the moral corruption surrounding her. Richardson crafts a poignant critique of patriarchal control and societal expectations, while delving into questions of morality, redemption, and justice. A tragic yet timeless tale of integrity and human suffering.

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