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  The Shadow of the Bell Tower -...

  Stefano Vignaroli

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  Year 2017: the young scholar Lucia Balleani, arranging and classifying the texts of the library of the Hoenstaufen Foundation, starts working in the old palace that had been the residence of the noble Baldeschi-Balleani family, of which she is a direct descendant. A series of visions linked to what happened to Lucia Baldeschi, of the same name, will lead the reader to discover with her an interesting story that took place in the same place 500 years before. During the Renaissance Jesi is rich in art and culture and where new and sumptuous palaces are built on the ruins of the ancient Roman city, lives a young countess, Lucia Baldeschi. The girl is the granddaughter of an evil Cardinal, weaver of obscure plots aimed at centralizing both temporal and ecclesiastical power in his own hands. Lucia, a person with a strong intelligence, becomes friend with a printer, Bernardino, with whom she share the passion for the rebirth of the arts, sciences and culture, which are characterizing the period throughout Italy. She will find herself caught between the duty to obey her uncle, who made her grow up and educate her in the palace in the absence of her parents, and the passionate love for Andrea Franciolini, son of the People`s Capitan and designated victim of the Cardinal`s tyranny. The story is also told through the eyes of Lucia Balleani, a young scholar descendent of the noble family. In 2017, exactly 500 years after the events, she discovered ancient documents in the family palace, and reconstructed the complex history of which traces had been lost.

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  When The Swallow Return

  Elia N. H.

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. 
  After ten years of searching for the father she never knew, Liera finally has an answer—but it is not the one she hoped to find. 
   
  Following her mother’s death, Liera leaves home once more, determined to trace the scattered records and fading memories surrounding Arden, the father who disappeared during the war. Calen, the man who has quietly become her companion and closest confidant, chooses to walk beside her as the road carries them west through ruined garrison towns, forgotten villages, and a valley where the dead have been remembered longer than their stories have been told. 
   
  Along the way, Liera discovers that finding the truth about the past is different from knowing what to do with it. The search that shaped her life begins to lose its hold, forcing her to confront a question she has never allowed herself to ask: who is she when there is nothing left to search for? 
   
  As the road eventually turns east, Liera and Calen begin the journey home carrying different things than they carried when they left. Grief remains. So do unanswered questions. But between them has grown something quieter and more enduring—a trust built through miles of silence, shared burdens, small kindnesses, and the simple choice to keep walking together. 
   
  When the Swallow Return is a reflective historical fantasy about grief, memory, belonging, and the difficult freedom that comes when a long-held search finally reaches its end.

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  The Story of Paul Jones - An...

  Alfred Henry Lewis

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  John Paul Jones from the Scottish shore to the deck of the Bonhomme Richard, told as a novel by a writer who had covered Washington politics for twenty years. The sea fight with the Serapis is the center of it. This edition is bound with 60 plates of painting, among them works by Turner and Aivazovsky, dating from 1650 to 1894.

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  The Short Stories of William...

  William Hope Hodgson

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  William Hope Hodgson was born in Essex, England on November 15th, 1877. 
   
  Over his short career he produced a large body of work which explored and covered many genres. From horror, to science fiction, to stories on the sea, where he had spent much of his early life. 
   
  In 1899, at the age of 22, he opened W. H. Hodgson's School of Physical Culture, in Blackburn offering tailored exercise regimes for personal training.  
   
  Eventually the business shut down and he immersed himself in writing.  An article in 1903 ‘Physical Culture versus Recreative Exercises’ led the way into fiction writing.  In 1904 came his first short story ‘The Goddess of Death’.  It was the beginning of an intensely creative period in his life. 
    
  He wrote novels, poetry and many, many short stories including series on the Sargasso Sea and Captain Gault. 
   
  One of his most memorable creations was his Carnacki, Supernatural Detective creation.  This fused together his passion for sleuthing and interest in the Occult.  It was a memorable success. 
   
  When war drew its shadow over Europe Hodgson received a commission as a Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery. In 1916 he was thrown from a horse and suffered a serious head injury; he received a mandatory discharge, and returned to writing. 
   
  Hodgson recovered sufficiently to re-enlist but at the Battle of Ypres in April 1918 he was killed by an artillery shell. 
  01 - William Hope Hodgson - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction 
  02 - Carnacki, The Ghost Finder - No1 - The Gateway of the Monster by William Hope Hodgson 
  03 - The Shamraken Homeward-Bounder by William Hope Hodgson 
  04 - The Voice in the Night by William Hope Hodgson

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  Orders is Orders

  L. Ron Hubbard

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  The Chinese city of Shunkien is under siege by the Japanese. In the middle sits the American consulate, packed with refugees, facing starvation and cholera. Marine Gunnery Sergeant James Mitchell is their only hope. But he'll have to negotiate 200 miles of bullets, bombs and one bombshell dancer to get there. And then his greatest enemy of all: alcohol. If he gives in to temptation, it's America that will pay the price. Gunshots, dive bombers, and seductive fan dancers are all here, as the audio version of Orders Is Orders takes you to the heart of war.

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  The Remarkable Cause - A Novel...

  Jean C. O'Connor

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  James Lovell desperately wants to help the American cause, but alone in a cold, dark cell in the Boston Stone Jail, his dreams seem a faint illusion. In icy March winds, pounded by the Americans’ cannon, General Howe evacuates British troops and Loyalists from Boston. James Lovell is forced into a ship bound for Halifax, while his father and family take passage for the British stronghold in the ship’s upper berth. In jail in Halifax, James can only write letters and pray for release, hoping General George Washington will hear his appeal. In The Remarkable Cause, experience conflict and courage in the roots of the American Revolution: 
  • protests over the Stamp Act and Townshend Acts 
  • hanging in effigy, tar and feathering 
  • tension of the Boston Massacre trials 
  • troops charging Bunker Hill 
  • dreadful conditions in British jails for James and his fellow prisoners 
  • the strength of a friend, Ethan Allen of the Green Mountain Boys 
  • James’s passion for his family, in his own words 
    
  Jean C. O’Connor, a high school English teacher for over thirty years, researched this story using letters, journals, and documents written by James Lovell and his contemporaries. Inspired by a few sentences in her grandmother’s journal, Jean discovered details of her five-times great grandfather's life during the American Revolution, that time far away—yet still relevant, .

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