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  Black Jack Justice Season 6

  Gregg Taylor

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  All-new, full-cast hard boiled mysteries in the radio detective tradition! Like your private eyes hard-boiled as they come? Looking for a gumshoe who can chew broken glass and spit out a champagne flute? How about two for the price of one?Tough-as-nails private eye Jack Justice and his long-suffering partner Trixie Dixon, girl detective do their part for law, order and thirty-five dollars a day. Adventure, mystery and comedy from the award-winning Decoder Ring Theatre Podcast.Includes 12 self-contained radio adventures including "The Rat Trap", "Strange Bedfellows", "My Heart Belongs to Mummy", "The Road to Hell", "The One That Got Away", "Full Fathom Five", "The Dead Duck", "The Born Loser", "As The Northern Star", "Chess Pains", "The Policy", "Date Night".

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  Irish Impressions

  G. K. G.K.Chesterton

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  Written at the defining moment when Ireland was heading toward complete national independence, Chesterton's study of the Irish question demonstrates that if both the English and the Irish had modified their attitudes slightly, subsequent Anglo-Irish relations could have been radically improved. Unlike most historians, he tackles the question from an ideological, philosophical, and religious standpoint. As a Roman Catholic and a lover of English nationalism, Chesterton shared many sentiments with the Irish. Written objectively and frankly, this is an important work for any student of English/Irish history as well as an excellent study of the effects of ideology and religion on society.

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  A Dark Brown Dog

  Stephen Crane

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  Stephen Crane writes a tragic story depicting the cycle of abuse, and the impact it has on those involved. A young boy finds a homeless dog, desperate for love, and brings him into his home. What is frightening about Crane’s take on this typical relationship, a boy and his dog, are the parallels between the young boy’s treatment of the dog and his abusive, alcoholic father’s treatment of those around him.The amount of symbolism used throughout this essay is staggering, and is the main literary element used in this piece of work.  Written in 1890, this story reflects the period of time that came shortly before known as Jim Crow.

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  The Man Upstairs - Classic Tales...

  P. G. Wodehouse

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  P.G. Wodehouse gives us a delightful romantic comedy of two struggling artists who fantastically misunderstand each other.

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  The Cunning Apprentice

  Maurice Baring

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  Maurice Baring (1874-1945) was an English writer who retold traditional fairy tales from many countries. 
  The Cunning Apprentice is a fairy tale set in Russia. It tells the story of a young lad who is apprenticed to a wicked sorcerer who intends to use his magic to trick the boy's parents into giving up their son to him forever. Only the cunning of the lad enables him to turn the magician's magic against him.

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  The Ice-Cold Heaven - A Novel

  Mirko Bonné

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  A “compelling adventure novel” of a young stowaway on the 1914 Antarctic expedition that “draws the reader deep into Shackleton’s frigid world . . . gripping” (Kirkus Reviews).   With Ernest Shackleton on his ship Endurance are twenty-eight crew members, sixty-nine sled dogs, a gramophone, a bicycle—and Merce Blackboro, a seventeen-year-old stowaway hidden amidst oilskins and sea boots. Their journey into the ice is by way of the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia. But the Antarctic summer is short, and their passage remains resolutely closed to them. In the Weddell Sea the Endurance is trapped for months in pack ice and finds itself delivered up to an uncertain fate. Richly imagined and gripping right up the very last page, The Ice-Cold Heaven traces Shackleton’s legendary and heroic adventure through the ice and explores the relationships between these men who were lost to the world for 635 days.   “A compulsively readable adventure yarn, all the more so for being based on real events.” —Kirkus Reviews   “A realistic picture of one of history's most famous explorations . . . YA readers, adventure lovers, history buffs, and fans of polar fiction (e.g., Tanis Rideout's Above All Things; Dan Simmons’s The Terror) will enjoy.” —Library Journal   “Succeeds in placing the reader firmly alongside the stricken explorers.” —Publishers Weekly   “Even those not normally drawn to adventure novels will find the depth of characterization in Bonné’s thrilling novel absorbing.” —Historical Novels Review

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