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  He Is Legend - An Anthology...

  Stephen King, Joe Hill, F. Paul...

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  “An impressive collection” of original short stories by Stephen King, Joe Hill, Nancy A. Collins and others—honoring the renowned author of I Am Legend (Locus). 
   
  Richard Matheson has inspired a generation of storytellers with his ingeniously weird yet frighteningly realistic tales. Now an outstanding cast of top writers pays tribute to his legacy with an all-new collection of stories set in Matheson’s own fictional universes, including sequels, prequels, and companion stories to I Am Legend, Hell House, The Incredible Shrinking Man, Somewhere in Time, “Duel,” and “Button, Button.” 
   
  Among the highlights of this one-of-a-kind anthology is the first ever collaboration between Stephen King and his son, bestselling horror writer Joe Hill. Other notable contributors include Nancy A. Collins, Joe R. Lansdale, William F. Nolan, Whitley Strieber, F. Paul Wilson, and Matheson’s son, Richard Christian Matheson. Previously published as a limited edition by Gauntlet Press in 2009, He Is Legend is now available to Matheson’s many fans, as well as all lovers of gripping horror and suspense.

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  The Raven

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  The Raven" is a narrative poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. First published in January 1845, the poem is often noted for its musicality, stylized language, and supernatural atmosphere. It tells of a talking raven's mysterious visit to a distraught lover, tracing the man's slow fall into madness. The lover, often identified as being a student, is lamenting the loss of his love, Lenore. Sitting on a bust of Pallas, the raven seems to further instigate his distress with its constant repetition of the word "Nevermore". The poem makes use of folk, mythological, religious, and classical references.Poe claimed to have written the poem logically and methodically, intending to create a poem that would appeal to both critical and popular tastes, as he explained in his 1846 follow-up essay, "The Philosophy of Composition". The poem was inspired in part by a talking raven in the novel Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty by Charles Dickens. Poe borrows the complex rhythm and meter of Elizabeth Barrett's poem "Lady Geraldine's Courtship", and makes use of internal rhyme as well as alliteration throughout."The Raven" was first attributed to Poe in print in the New York Evening Mirror on January 29, 1845. Its publication made Poe popular in his lifetime, although it did not bring him much financial success. The poem was soon reprinted, parodied, and illustrated. Critical opinion is divided as to the poem's literary status, but it nevertheless remains one of the most famous poems ever written.

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  Unshakeable Will

  Yahye Siyad

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  Born as the third blind child to an impoverished family in Somalia, Yahye Siyad's story is full of triumphs and tribulations that allowed him to embrace his life to the fullest.The story begins before he was even born, travels abroad alone at the age of seven, and endures over twenty years of family separation due to war.In this fascinating story, Yahye reveals in his own words, mesmerising incidents of resilience, exclusions and inclusions, identity crisis, divine-connection and an unparalleled zest for a purposeful life, all through a captivating, humorous and candid style. Yahye ends his story with his own ten valuable learnings on an individual and organizational level.20% of proceeds will be donated to initiatives to honor his mother who was the catalyst of his life's achievements.

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  The Book of Lost Books - An...

  Stuart Kelly

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  A “clever and highly entertaining” look at books through history that were stolen, went missing, or just never got written (The New York Times).   In an age when deleted scenes from Adam Sandler movies are saved, it’s sobering to realize that some of the world’s great prose and poetry has gone missing. This witty and unique new book rectifies that wrong. Part detective story, part history, part exposé, The Book of Lost Books is the first guide to literature’s what-ifs and never-weres.   In compulsively readable fashion, this book reveals details about tantalizing vanished works by the famous, acclaimed, and influential, from the time of cave drawings to the late twentieth century. Here are true stories behind stories, poems, and plays that now exist only in imagination:   ·Aristophanes’ Heracles, the Stage Manager was one of the playwright’s several spoofs that disappeared. ·Love’s Labours Won may have been a sequel to Shakespeare’s Love’s Labours Lost—or was it just an alternative title for The Taming of the Shrew? ·Jane Austen’s incomplete novel Sanditon was a critique of hypochondriacs and cures started when the author was fatally ill. ·Nikolai Gogol burned the second half of Dead Souls after a religious conversion convinced him that literature was paganism. ·Some of the thousand pages of William Burroughs’s original Naked Lunch were stolen and sold on the street by Algerian street boys. ·Sylvia Plath’s widower, Ted Hughes, claimed that the 130 pages of her second novel, perhaps based on their marriage, were lost after her death.   Whether destroyed (Socrates’ versions of Aesop’s Fables), misplaced (Malcolm Lowry’s Ultramarine, pinched from his publisher’s car), interrupted by the author’s death (Robert Louis Stevenson’s Weir of Hermiston), or simply never begun (Vladimir Nabokov’s Speak, America, a second volume of his memoirs), these missing links create a history of literature for a parallel world. Civilized, satirical, erudite yet accessible, The Book of Lost Books is a real find.

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  Summary of Ron Chernow's Titan

  Falcon Press

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  Buy now to get the key takeaways from Ron Chernow's Titan. 
    
  Sample Key Takeaways: 
  1) The most extensive quest for John D. Rockefeller’s ancestors leads to a ninth-century French family known as the Roquefeuilles, who supposedly lived in a castle. 
  2) The German lineage of the Rockefellers, on the other hand, can be traced back to the early 1600s in the Rhine valley. 
   

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  Diary of a Young Girl The: Book...

  Claire Jensen

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  This content is an independent and unofficial summary created for informational and educational purposes only. It is not affiliated with, authorized, approved, licensed, or endorsed by the original author or publisher. All rights to the original work belong to its respective copyright holders. This summary is not intended to substitute the original book, but to offer a concise overview and interpretation of its main ideas.
   
  A poignant and deeply personal account of a young girl’s experiences during one of history’s darkest times, this diary captures the thoughts, fears, and hopes of a Jewish teenager hiding from Nazi persecution in World War II. Written with honesty, insight, and remarkable literary talent, it offers a timeless reflection on resilience, the loss of innocence, and the enduring power of the human spirit.

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