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  H Beam Piper & John J McGuire:...

  H. Beam Piper, John J. McGuire

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  An entire planet colonized by Texans. Can this cause problems? You becha pardner. Texas sized ones.

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  War Dogs - Pit Bull

  Michael Duda

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  Tiberius Novak lost everything in the war against the Celestrion Drift—his family, his honor, his future. Now he’s a War Dog, a mercenary in a powered combat suit, taking contracts he can’t refuse to service debts he’ll never escape. His only true companion is Spark, a small bronze drone that’s been with him longer than anyone and carries more of his past than he’ll ever admit.  
  When a mysterious client hires him to extract Dr. Zephyr Myrack, a bioengineer working on humanity’s most dangerous technology, Tiberius expects a high-risk job with a high-reward payout. What he doesn’t expect are the horrors waiting inside Aegis Solutions: adaptive androids grown from human tissue, corporate conspiracies that reach into the highest levels of power, and a betrayal that will force him to confront the man who destroyed his life.  
  Armed with his Pit Bull combat suit, a pack of semi-autonomous military drones, and an engineer named Maya Reeves who knows more about keeping him alive than she should, Tiberius must navigate a web of alien technology, corporate warfare, and enemies who wear familiar faces. With the Celestrion Summit approaching, a gathering that will reshape civilization’s future, he faces an impossible choice: walk away and survive, or risk everything to stop the forces that already took everything from him once.  
  In this world, loyalty is a death sentence. Trust gets you killed. And some debts can only be paid in blood.

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  The District Nurses of Victory Walk

  Annie Groves

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  The compelling new bestseller from the author of The Mersey Daughter and Winter on the Mersey. 
  Alice Lake has arrived in London from Liverpool to start her training as a District Nurse, but her journey has been far from easy. Her parents think that she should settle down and get married, but she has already had her heart broken once and isn’t about to make the same mistake again. 
  Alice and her best friend Edith are based in the East End but before they’ve even got their smart new uniforms on, war breaks out and Hitler’s bombs are raining down on London. 
  Alice must learn to keep calm and carry on as she tends to London’s sick and injured, all the time facing her own heartache and misfortune while keeping up the Spirit of the Blitz… 
  Annie Groves, the bestselling author, brings to life a story of love, family sagas, and the spirit of resilience in the face of adversity. Set in the 20th century, this historical fiction is a testament to the strength and determination of its protagonist, Alice. 
  For fans of Rosie Clarke (Changing Times at Harpers), Lizzie Lane (Tough Times on Coronation Close), Donna Douglas (Nightingales Under the Mistletoe), Fenella J Miller (Wartime Arrivals at Harbour House), and Susanna Bavin (Christmas for the Home Front Girls).

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  When Amir Ali Spoke S1E2

  Vikrant Pande

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  Even a Thug falls in love. And here is Amir Ali besotted by the Nawab's concubine. Is he able to kidnap her?

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  The Thirty-Nine Steps

  John Buchan

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  The Thirty-Nine Steps begins John Buchan’s series of spy novels featuring adventurer Richard Hannay. Having just returned from South Africa, he finds life dull until a mysterious American tells him about an assassination plot before being murdered in Hannay’s London flat. The obvious suspect, Hannay flees to his native Scotland pursued by the police and his ruthless enemies. His life and the security of Britain are seriously threatened, and it is vital to uncover the mystery behind ‘the thirty-nine steps’. Filled with suspense, unexpected twists, and fast-paced action, Buchan’s classic novel of 1915 has captivated readers for generations, laying the groundwork for the modern spy thriller genre and inspiring numerous film, TV, stage and radio versions. It is read by Rupert Degas, whose ‘quick-change brilliance’ in Patrick Barlow’s long-running stage adaptation was so highly praised.

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  When the Bayou Overflows - A man...

  Alice Dunbar Nelson

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  Alice Ruth Moore was born on 19th July 1875 in New Orleans where she was part of the multi-racial Creole community.  She was the first generation seemingly born free after the Civil War and unusually for the times, obtained a university education which led to her becoming a teacher at a public school in New Orleans.   
  In 1895, when she was 20, she published her first collection of short stories and poems, ‘Violets and Other Tales’, and moved to New York City where she co-founded and taught at the White Rose Mission, a Home for Girls.   
  Alice was always politically active and sought to advance the position of black women.  She began work as a journalist at the Woman’s Era newspaper where her work was seen by the established poet and journalist Paul Laurence Dunbar.  After corresponding for two years she joined him in Washington DC and they married in 1898.   
  It was a difficult relationship, due mainly to Dunbar’s fragile health, alcoholism and depression.  After a severe beating she left him and moved to Delaware to teach for a decade though took time out to enroll at Cornell University. 
  A short-lived marriage to Henry A. Callis, a physician and professor at Howard University ended in divorce and she became co-editor and writer for an influential publication of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.  A third marriage to civil rights activist Robert J. Nelson came about, as did affairs with several women, notably the activist Fay Jackie Robinson.   
  In Wilmington Delaware she and her husband devoted their time and writings to working for equality for African Americans and women’s suffrage.   
  Alice Dunbar Nelson was a natural and gifted writer across many genres, from novels, essays, plays to diaries, criticism, poetry and of course short stories, of which ‘Stones in the Village’ is a fine example.  The protagonist, like herself, is light skinned from New Orleans, which allows for a social mobility and a unique position in American society that Dunbar Nelson captures with an imagination and insight to explores another divisive perspective on race.  It is unsurprising that Alice was a prominent part of the early Harlem Renaissance and influenced many others including Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen. 
  Alice and her husband moved to Philadelphia in 1932 and it was here that she died on 18th September 1935, at the age of 60, from a heart ailment.

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