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  As Little As Nothing - A Novel

  Pamela Mulloy

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  “A buoyant and affecting portrait of four disparate souls striving to become their true selves on the cusp of major social change.” — Kathleen Winter, author of Undersong
  		 
  “With intimacy, acuity, and grace, Pamela Mulloy captures the complex inner lives of her characters, who yearn to become themselves as England lurches into war.” — Jack Wang, author of We Two Alone
  		 
  It is 1938 and rumours of a coming war are everywhere. On a quiet morning in September outside a small town in England, a plane crashes and four people are brought together in the aftermath. Miriam, a young woman devastated by multiple miscarriages, rises from her bed and hurries to the scene. There she meets Frank and together they pull the wounded pilot, Peter, from the wreckage. Miriam soon meets Frank’s aunt Audrey, the family rebel, who has refused to marry and travels the country as a reproductive-rights activist.
  		 
  It is Frank who teaches Miriam to fly. As Miriam prepares to co-pilot with Frank in a prestigious air race from London to Manchester, she uses flight to escape from confronting her inability to bear children. Miriam is also drawn into Audrey’s activism, and the women dig in even as the looming war threatens to set back their cause.
  		 
  Rich with historical detail, As Little As Nothing beautifully explores themes of resistance, the strength of new bonds, and the various ways we reinvent ourselves.

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  Kingmaker

  Griff Hosker

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  When the Earl of Gloucester suddenly dies and the Empress Matilda is forced to return to Normandy it seems that the civil war is about to end and Stephen of Blois will have succeeded in winning his crown. The Warlord of the North takes the fledgling Prince Henry under his wing and begins to train him to become king. When others try to take advantage of the Warlord's position he and his warriors have to dig deep to defeat their enemies. Gradually Henry becomes a man and shows that he has the potential to become a king.

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  Fiction Favours the Facts – Book...

  Mark Morgan, Cathy Morgan, Laura...

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  Fiction Favours the Facts - Book 3 
  Yet another collection of 22 Bible-based micro-tales. Some tell of little-known Bible characters, while others concentrate on an incident in the life of one of the more famous Bible characters. 
  This new collection of short stories visits the lives of Moses, David, Elijah, Jonah, Daniel, Jesus, Paul, Peter and others, often through the eyes of people who knew them. Eleven stories from the Old Testament matched with eleven from the New Testament, using contributions from three authors who love the Bible. 
  Written by Mark Morgan, Cathy Morgan and Laura Morgan (Bible Tales Online). 
  Stories included (written by Mark Morgan unless otherwise noted)... 
  Old Testament stories: 
  Mother-to-be 
  On dry ground 
  I was just thinking… 
  My son – given to God 
  Obed-edom 
  The God of Big Things (by Cathy Morgan) 
  What I have vowed, I will pay (by Cathy Morgan) 
  The Prophetess and the Book 
  Passover Preparations 
  Habakkuk’s Complaints 
  Fingers of fear 
  New Testament stories: 
  Anna 
  Preparing the way 
  A Samaritan Wedding 
  Drink my blood 
  A thankful Samaritan 
  Why won’t she help? 
  The plot that failed 
  Guarding the dying 
  The Tale of Tabitha (by Laura Morgan) 
  Outrage! 
  One wet night 
   

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  Redburn His First Voyage

  Herman Melville

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  Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. Among his bestknown works are MobyDick (1851); Typee (1846), a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia; and Billy Budd, Sailor, a posthumously published novella. Although his reputation was not high at the time of his death, the 1919 centennial of his birth was the starting point of a Melville revival, and MobyDick grew to be considered one of the great American novels. 
   
  Melville's growing literary ambition showed in MobyDick (1851), which took nearly a year and a half to write, but it did not find an audience, and critics scorned his psychological novel Pierre: or, The Ambiguities (1852). From 1853 to 1856, Melville published short fiction in magazines, including "Benito Cereno" and "Bartleby, the Scrivener". In 1857, he traveled to England, toured the Near East, and published his last work of prose, The ConfidenceMan (1857). He moved to New York in 1863, eventually taking a position as United States customs inspector. 
   
  From that point, Melville focused his creative powers on poetry. BattlePieces and Aspects of the War (1866) was his poetic reflection on the moral questions of the American Civil War. In 1867, his eldest child Malcolm died at home from a selfinflicted gunshot. Melville's metaphysical epic Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land was published in 1876. In 1886, his other son Stanwix died of apparent tuberculosis, and Melville retired. During his last years, he privately published two volumes of poetry, and left one volume unpublished. The novella Billy Budd was left unfinished at his death, but was published posthumously in 1924. Melville died from cardiovascular disease in 1891.

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  Widow of Ballarat The: A...

  Darry Fraser

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  A compulsively readable story of passion, adventure and a woman's quest for independence set against the colourful backdrop of 19th century Bendigo and the goldfields of Ballarat. 
   1854, Ballarat, Victoria When Nell Amberton's husband is shot dead by a bushranger, there are few who grieve his passing, and Nell least of all. How could she miss the monster who had abused her from the day they wed – the man who had already killed his innocent first wife? But his death triggers a chain of events that seem to revolve around the handsome bushranger who murdered him – a man to whom Nell, against her better judgement, is drawn. But Nell has far more than a mysterious stranger to worry about. With a mess of complications around her late husband's will, a vicious scoundrel of a father trying to sell her off in matrimony, and angry relatives pursuing her for her husband's gold, she is more concerned with trying to ensure her safety and that of her friend, goldfields laundry woman Flora, than dealing with the kind of feelings that led her astray so catastrophically before.After the violence on the goldfields, Nell's fate also hangs in the balance. It seems that, after all, she might need to do the one thing she has avoided at all costs … ask for the help of a man.

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  Cascades of Time: Book summary &...

  Margot Langley

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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. 
  Cascades of Time is a mesmerizing journey through memory, fate, and the hidden threads that bind past and future. When a brilliant but reclusive historian stumbles upon a forgotten artifact capable of bending time, she is swept into a cascade of shifting realities—each revealing a different version of her life, her choices, and the world around her. As timelines collide and echoes of ancient civilizations resurface, she must navigate a labyrinth of secrets, sacrifice, and truth to preserve what truly matters. Poetic, thought-provoking, and emotionally resonant, Cascades of Time is a spellbinding tale for listeners who crave science-tinged fantasy, introspective adventure, and stories where time itself becomes the greatest mystery of all.

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