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  Overthrow - The War with China...

  David Poyer

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  Admiral Lenson leads Operation Rupture, the invasion of South China, in a bid to finally end the war and restore peace. Meanwhile, Captain Cheryl Staurulakis fights to take a radical new “super ship” to sea, even though its power and capability may introduce more risk than reward. In Washington, Dan’s wife Blair conducts secret negotiations with a rebellious faction in Beijing, hoping to bring an end to the war, but her plans may be foiled by those who want outright revenge on China, not peace with them. In western China, Teddy Oberg’s guerrilla band grows into a major insurgency, and the former SEAL master chief embraces his new role as an Islamic resistance leader. Sergeant Hector Ramos raises the flag of freedom in Taiwan while fighting his own personal demons, and in Seattle, Dan’s daughter, Nan Lenson, fights to save the world from a dangerous new epidemic. But as the Allies plot an endgame to the war, the complicated dance of global warfare, on land and at sea, will finally trigger the nuclear Armageddon the entire world has feared for nearly a century.

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  The New Negro - Voices of the...

  Alain Locke

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  A portrait of the vibrant world of 1920s Harlem, with writings by Langston Hughes, W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay, Walter White, and more. The Harlem Renaissance was a landmark period in African American history—a time when black poets, musicians, intellectuals, civil rights activists, and others changed the social and cultural landscape in enduring ways. Its influence went far beyond the confines of uptown New York City, as it incorporated voices from the Great Migration, in which African Americans moved north in vast numbers; and elevated artists and thinkers who would become iconic figures in not only Black history, but also American history. Now considered the definitive work of the Harlem Renaissance, The New Negro features fiction, poetry, and essays that shaped the era.   “A book of unusual interest and value.” —The New York Times   “[Locke was] the godfather of the Harlem Renaissance.” —Publishers Weekly   “Alain Locke is a critical—and complex—figure in any discussion of African-American intellectual history.” —Kirkus Reviews

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  Night Moves - Stories

  Richard Van Camp

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  As a window into the magic and potential of the Northwest Territories, Richard Van Camp's fourth short story collection is hilarious and heartbreaking. A teenaged boy confesses to a vicious assault on a cross-dressing classmate; Lance tells the sensual story of becoming much closer to his wife's dear friend Juanita; while a reluctant giant catches up with gangsters Torchy and Sfen in a story with shades of supernatural and earthly menace.  Night Moves  continues to explore the incredible lives of Indigenous characters introduced in  The Lesser Blessed ,  Angel Wing Splash Pattern ,  The Moon Of Letting Go, and  Godless but Loyal to Heaven . If this is your first time to Fort Simmer and Fort Smith, welcome. If it's another visit, come on in: we've left the lights on for you.

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  The Birthmark

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

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  Aylmer has a great career as a scientist and a beautiful new wife, Georgiana. There’s only one problem—Georgiana has a small red birthmark on her cheek. Aylmer grows increasingly disgusted with the birthmark and becomes obsessed with removing the one thing barring his wife from perfection. With “The Birthmark,” Hawthorne crafted a tale of tragic irony and dangerous obsession to rival Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart.”

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  Psalms of David

  Isaac Watts

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  Isaac Watts was a poet, hymn-writer and musician. He wrote many of what we regard as "classical hymns" such as "Joy to the World" and "When I survey the wondrous cross". His translations of the Psalms are therefore poetical and musical, as they were designed to be sung. He captures in elegant English the feel of the original Psalms as they would have been heard by the Israelites thousands of years ago. - Summary by Beth Thomas

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  The Great Slave

  Zane Grey

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  Pearl Zane Grey was born on 31st January 1872, in Zanesville, Ohio. From an early age, he was intrigued by history, fishing, baseball, and writing. Grey was an avid reader of adventure stories, consuming dime store novels by the dozen.  By age fifteen he had written his first story; ‘Jim of the Cave’.  His father, a difficult man, tore it to shreds and then beat him. 
   
  A keen fisherman and with dreams of playing in the major leagues Grey was spotted by a baseball scout and received offers from colleges. 
   
  He enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania to study dentistry. Naturally arriving on a scholarship really meant you had to be able to play.  And he could, though in the end as a practical career move he resolved that dentistry was the way forward.  
   
  Grey set up his dental practice in New York as Dr. Zane Grey in 1896. But with ambitions to be a writer in a city with so many publishers evenings were set aside for writing. 
   
  His first magazine article, about one of his fishing expeditions was published in 1902. It was not until 1910 that he wrote his first Western, ‘The Heritage of the Desert’. It was a breakthrough title and quickly became a bestseller. His themes of Manifest Destiny, the conquest of the Old West, and men wrestling with elemental conditions were the hallmarks of his career.  
   
  Two years later Grey produced his all-time best-seller ‘The Riders of the Purple Sage’, with its publication he became a household name.   
   
  During the crash and subsequent depression of the 1930s, the publishing industry was hard. Sales fell.  But Grey was astute. He had avoided the Stock Market, he was still writing and popular and continued to earn royalty income.  In all he wrote over 90 books including some on fishing and baseball. He was also selling stories to film companies as Hollywood was eager to exploit popular culture. 
   
  On 23rd October 1939 Zane Grey died of heart failure at his home in Altadena, California. He was 67.

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