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  Chess Story

  Stefan Zweig, Peter Gay

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  Chess Story, also known as The Royal Game, is the Austrian master Stefan Zweig's final achievement, completed in Brazilian exile and sent off to his American publisher only days before his suicide in 1942. It is the only story in which Zweig looks at Nazism, and he does so with characteristic emphasis on the psychological.Travelers by ship from New York to Buenos Aires find that on board with them is the world champion of chess, an arrogant and unfriendly man. They come together to try their skills against him and are soundly defeated. Then a mysterious passenger steps forward to advise them and their fortunes change. How he came to possess his extraordinary grasp of the game of chess and at what cost lie at the heart of Zweig's story.This new translation of Chess Story brings out the work's unusual mixture of high suspense and poignant reflection.

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  A Professor of Egyptology -...

  Guy Boothby

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  The bookshelves of World literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors.  From their countries and continents their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure.  Among them is the talented and prolific Australian writer Guy Boothby

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  Forgotten Authors The - Volume 3...

  Louis Couperus, Hugo...

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  Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society. 
  In literature the ambition is much narrower.  In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published.  And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading.  Obviously for most of humanity’s time people couldn’t read and texts couldn’t be published in any great number. 
  In the 15th Century Gutenberg’s printing press began the revolution to address the second and by the 19th century had gathered pace with startling speed and mass distribution.  Education for the many was brought in to help people understand more of their world and, with new skills, how to have a better place within it.  Now, if the powers that owned the presses and means of distribution agreed an audience would now be able to avail themselves of your ideas, your printed words.  
  Sadly, in the thirst for the new, the recent and the past fell from sight, relegated to dark corners and dusty shelves.   
  But the printed word is rarely without someone, somewhere busying themselves through piles of papers and books rediscovering what a good story is, whatever its age. 
  Sadly, in the thirst for the new, the recent and the past fell from sight, relegated to dark corners and dusty shelves.    
  But the printed word is rarely without someone, somewhere busying themselves through piles of papers and books rediscovering what a good story is, whatever its age. 
  In this volume we offer up a small selection of those talents whose time has now come again.

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  All Quiet on the Western Front

  Erich Maria Remarque

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  “All Quiet on the Western Front” is one of the most powerful anti-war novels ever written—a timeless classic that strips away the myths of glory and honor to reveal the brutal, dehumanizing truth of warfare. 
  Told through the eyes of Paul Bäumer, a young German soldier on the front lines of World War I, this harrowing narrative plunges listeners into the mud-soaked trenches, the constant threat of death, and the emotional numbness born of unspeakable loss. Paul and his comrades entered the war filled with patriotic zeal, only to find themselves disillusioned and emotionally shattered by the relentless cruelty of battle. 
  Through moments of fleeting camaraderie and raw introspection, Remarque crafts a haunting tribute to the lost youth of an entire generation. George Griffin’s evocative narration brings the quiet suffering and small mercies of these soldiers vividly to life in this unforgettable portrayal of the human cost of war.

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  Where The Bluestem Stands -...

  Jeffrey Rittenhouse

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Kansas is blowing away. 
  In the spring of 1934, Birdie Marsh drives back to her grandmother's farm outside Willow Creek with everything she owns in the truck bed, two daughters beside her on the seat, and a bank note coming due in six months she has no clear way to pay. The Townsend Farm has been sitting empty, the chicken coop home to fourteen hens and not much else. Birdie has the deed, the ground, and the conviction that her grandmother's farm will not be lost on her watch. 
  What she builds from that beginning surprises even her. 
  Starting with a dinner order she cannot fill alone, Birdie begins buying eggs from neighboring farm women and selling them under the Townsend Farm name. Then preserves. Then a standing account with a store on Second Street in Dodge City and a line on the Cattlemen's Hotel menu. One by one, three farm families join the network: Clara Eberly, raising her son alone on a widowed farm. Helen Calloway, whose husband's failing health has put everything at risk. Lydia Unruh, a Mennonite matriarch who has kept her community to itself for fifty years, decides, after careful consideration, that this arrangement is correct arithmetic. 
  The note gets paid. The name goes on a shelf in Dodge. And then the real work begins. 
  Through the winter and into a spring that turns darker than anyone expects, Birdie tends the operation and the women in it, reckoning with a daughter who is teaching herself algebra and another who negotiated sunflowers into the garden plan on the grounds that they don't have to be a preserve; they can just be there. The Townsend Farm becomes something beyond one farm's story. 
  Then the sky turns black. 
  April 14, 1935. Black Sunday. The worst storm of the Dust Bowl decade rolls across the Kansas plain and tests everything Birdie has put into the ground: the crops, the flock, the network, the name. What holds and what blows away comes down to the same thing it has always come down to on this prairie: roots. How deep they go.

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  The House in the Orchard

  Elizabeth Brooks

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  When a World War II widow inherits a dilapidated English estate, she uncovers a diary written by an adolescent girl named Maude Gower. Looking for answers, she begins reading, only to unravel more questions about the mysterious past and many secrets hidden deep within the walls of Orchard House. 
   
   
   
  In 1876, orphaned Maude is forced to leave London, and her adored brother, Frank, to live with a stranger. Everyone—especially Frank—tells her not to trust Miss Greenaway, the enigmatic owner of Orchard House, but Maude can't help warming to her new guardian. Encouraged by Miss Greenaway, Maude finds herself discovering who she is for the first time, and learning to love her new home. But when Frank comes for an unexpected visit, the delicate balance of Maude's life is thrown into disarray. Complicating matters more, Maude witnesses an adult world full of interactions she cannot quite understand. Her efforts to regain control result in a violent tragedy, the repercussions of which will haunt Orchard House for the rest of Maude's life—and beyond. 
   
   
   
  With each psychologically gripping turn, Elizabeth Brooks masterfully explores the blurred lines between truth and manipulation, asking us who we can trust, how to tell guilt from forgiveness, and whether we can ever really separate true love from destruction.

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