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  Cup of Gold

  John Steinbeck

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  The first novel from American literary great John Steinbeck (Grapes of Wrath) tells the fictionalized story of the illustrious 17th century pirate Captain Henry Morgan  
  Henry Morgan is a young boy growing up in a small town in Wales. One day, a sailor returns to regale Henry with tales of the West Indies, and the glory that awaits those adventuresome enough to go. Henry, dazzled, quickly finds a place aboard a ship heading to the islands, thus setting himself on the path to becoming the brutal and fearsome pirate Captain Morgan.  
  The portrait Steinbeck paints of Morgan (with some artistic license taken) is of a complex, lustful, and largely unhappy man, set in evocative locales that are laced with traces of magical realism. Though Morgan’s life was filled with blood and violence, Steinbeck portrays him as a thoughtful and intelligent commander of men, whose tragic flaw is an unquenchable lust for great accomplishments combined with a misunderstanding of what great accomplishments actually are.  
  Through his cunning he repeatedly attains the ever-grander victories he seeks—but he quickly discovers what so many before and after him have discovered: that achievement is not always as satisfying as the quest to achieve.  
  Publisher's Note: Originally published in 1929, Cup of Gold is a literary work that reflects the time in which it was published—both its good and its ill. The original text contains wording and terminology that represent outdated cultural beliefs regarding race and ethnicity. In the interest of preserving and documenting both the faults and highlights of literary history—an instrumental, crucial function of works entering the public domain—this text is unedited and uncensored in this audiobook recording. Please proceed with discretion.

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  Leading Lady (Tales of London...

  Lawana Blackwell

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  Book 3 of Tales of London is set in the fascinating world of the London theatre at the close of the nineteenth century. Wardrobe mistress Bethia Rayborn incites the wrath of Muriel Pearce Holt, the new leading lady at London's Royal Court Theatre. Muriel plots revenge, but in scheming to steal Bethia's true love, she may lose the truest love she has ever known.

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  Ravage & Son

  Jerome Charyn

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  A master storyteller's novel of crime, corruption, and antisemitism in early twentieth-century Manhattan 
   
   
   
  Ravage & Son reflects the lost world of Manhattan's Lower East Side—the cradle of Jewish immigration during the first years of the twentieth century—in a dark mirror. 
   
   
   
  Abraham Cahan, editor of the Jewish Daily Forward, serves as the conscience of the Jewish ghetto teeming with rogue cops and swindlers. He rescues Ben Ravage, an orphan, from a trade school and sends him off to Harvard to earn a law degree. But upon his return, Ben rejects the chance to escape his gritty origins and instead becomes a detective for the Kehilla, a quixotic gang backed by wealthy uptown patrons to help the police rid the Lower East Side of criminals. Charged with rooting out the Jewish "Mr. Hyde," a half-mad villain who attacks the prostitutes of Allen Street, Ben discovers that his fate is irrevocably tied to that of this violent, sinister man. 
   
   
   
  A lurid tale of revenge, this wildly evocative, suspenseful noir is vintage Jerome Charyn.

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  Ain’t No Grave

  Mary Glickman

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  From a National Jewish Book Award finalist: A Jewish man and a Black woman find love against all odds, in this novel set during the Leo Frank trial in the twentieth-century American South. 
   
   
   
  Nine-year-olds Max Sassaport and Ruby Johnson are best friends who can't imagine a world where they aren't together. Unfortunately, no one—not their families, nor anyone else in rural Georgia in 1906—wants to see a White middle-class Jewish boy get too close to the Black daughter of a sharecropper. It's only a matter of time before fate will separate the two. And that day comes on the eve of Ruby's womanhood, when a violent act sends her running from her home to the life of a child laborer at the National Pencil Factory in Atlanta. 
   
   
   
  Max moves to Atlanta a few years later, still longing for the girl he has never forgotten. He is soon taken under the wing of Harold Ross, star reporter for the Atlanta Journal. But when Max is assigned to a controversial murder case that pits the Black and Jewish communities against each other, he's unexpectedly reunited with Ruby. The bond between them is still strong, but with the trial igniting racial tension throughout Atlanta and across the nation, do Max and Ruby dare dream of a future together?

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  Detective Stories – The Female...

  Elizabeth Corbett, Beatrice...

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  The Detective has been a mainstay of fiction writing ever since we can remember.   
  Their deductive powers, their intuition and fleet-footed grasp of every detail can often turn the unlikeliest situation, or bunch of red herrings, into a breakthrough to capture even the most ingenious and dastardly of criminals. 
  In this series our classic authors explore not only various themes, such as Occult Detectives, Female Detectives, Curious Crimes and a whole host more, but also bring a range and depth to the whole culture of criminality as we send in the Long Arm of the Law to bring justice on behalf of the society it serves. 
  In this volume our sleuths are all Female Detectives who solve crimes in ways that are familiar and yet refreshingly new. 
   
  1 - The Detective - The Female Detective - An Introduction 
  2 - Mr Bovey's Unexpected Will by L T Meade and Robert Eustace 
  3 - A Broken Trust by Elizabeth Corbett 
  4 - The Adventures of Lady Pearl-Broker by Beatrice Heron-Maxwell 
  5 - A Twin Identity by Edith Stewart Drewery 
  6 - The Stir Outside the Cafe Royal by Clarence Rook 
  7 - A Princess's Vengeance by Catherine Louisa Pirkis 
  8 - The Haverstock Hill Murder by George R Sims 
  9 - Conscience by Richard Marsh 
  10 - How He Cut His Stick by M McDonell Bodkin Q C 
  11 - The Frewin Miniatures by Baroness Orczy

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  The Doctor's Red Lamp

  Margaret Oliphant

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  The Doctor’s Red Lamp by Margaret Oliphant is a collection of stories highlighting the lives of physicians and their profound impact on patients and communities. Opening with Abe Dodge, whose cross-eyed condition brings ridicule, the arrival of Dr. Daniel Brainard transforms his life. Blending humor, compassion, and moral reflection, the tales explore medicine, family, and social acceptance.

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