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  Hunting Buffalo with Bent Nails

  Lawrence Block

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  While he is probably best known as a novelist and short-story writer, Lawrence Block has produced a rich trove of nonfiction over the course of a sixty-year career. 
   
   
   
  Over the years, Block has written extensively for magazines and periodicals. Generally Speaking collects his philatelic columns from Linn's Stamp News, while his extensive observations of crime fiction, along with personal glimpses of some of its foremost practitioners, have won wide acclaim in book form as The Crime of Our Lives. Hunting Buffalo With Bent Nails is what he's got left over. 
   
   
   
  The title piece, originally published in American Heritage, recounts the ongoing adventure Block and his wife undertook, crisscrossing the United States and parts of Canada in their quixotic and exotic quest to find every "village, hamlet, and wide place in the road named Buffalo." Other travel tales share space with a remembrance of his mother, odes to New York, a disquisition on pen names and book tours, and, well, no end of bent nails not worth straightening. Where else will you find "Raymond Chandler and the Brasher Doubloon," an assessment of that compelling writer from a numismatic standpoint? Where else can you hear about Block's collection of old subway cars? Highly recommended.

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  Most Dangerous Serial Killers...

  Anonimo

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  Return to the darkest corners of human behavior in Most Dangerous Serial Killers: Volume 2, where the descent into violence grows deeper, colder, and more disturbing. In this second installment, author Evan Russell examines another roster of history’s most ruthless predators—killers whose intelligence, obsession, and emotional void allowed them to evade capture while leaving devastation in their wake. 
  Spanning new eras, locations, and methods, Volume 2 explores cases marked by escalating brutality, psychological manipulation, and chilling adaptability. From calculated hunters who blended seamlessly into society to figures whose crimes exposed fatal flaws in law enforcement and forensic science, these stories reveal how evil evolves over time. 
  Each chapter dissects the evidence left behind, the investigative missteps and breakthroughs that followed, and the psychological forces that fueled repeated acts of murder. Unflinching and meticulously researched, this volume pushes further into the anatomy of serial violence—challenging readers to confront not just what these killers did, but how they were able to do it for so long.

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  Albert Einstein – The Genius Who...

  Jake Rose

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  Albert Einstein was not just a scientist—he was a revolutionary thinker who changed the way we understand the universe. From his groundbreaking theory of relativity to his contributions in quantum mechanics, Einstein’s genius reshaped modern physics and left a lasting impact on science and humanity. 
  This audiobook takes you through his early struggles, scientific breakthroughs, and personal life, revealing the man behind the equations. How did Einstein’s ideas influence everything from atomic energy to space exploration? What made him one of history’s most recognizable and influential figures? 
  Albert Einstein – The Genius Who Redefined Physics is a must-listen for science lovers, history enthusiasts, and those fascinated by brilliant minds that changed the world.

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  Story of Vikram and Betal: Who...

  Saurabh Kumar

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  This time too, King Vikramaditya brought down the betel tree hanging from a big tree and started moving forward with it. To save himself, Betal again told a story to the king. Betal says… 
  Once upon a time, there was a city named Kanakpur, whose king's name was Yashodhan. That king took great care of his subjects. There was also a Seth in the same city, whose daughter's name was Unmadini. She was very beautiful and talented, whoever saw her kept looking at her.

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  Hide And Seek - From their pens...

  Fyodor Sologub

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  Fyodor Kuzmich Teternikov was born on 1st March 1863 in St. Petersburg into the family of a poor tailor.  When his father died of tuberculosis in 1867, his illiterate mother was forced to become a servant in the home of an aristocrat, where Sologub and his younger sister grew up.  
  Seeing how difficult his mother's life was, Sologub was determined to rescue her from it, and after graduating from the St. Petersburg Teachers' Institute in 1882 he took his mother and sister with him to his first teaching post in Kresttsy.  It was here he began his literary career in 1884 with his poem ‘The Fox and the Hedgehog’ under the name Te-rnikov. 
  It would be another decade before he could escape his various jobs to move to Moscow and begin his literary career on what would be his most famous novel, ‘The Petty Demon’.  It was now suggested that he use a pseudonym and so Sologub became his new identity. 
  In 1896 he published a book of poems, a collection of short stories, and his first novel, ‘Bad Dreams’, which is considered one of the first decadent Russian novels. 
  In 1905 ‘The Petty Demon’, was published, initially in serial form. But life was still difficult unrewarding jobs, little time to write and a small, cramped apartment lightened only by gatherings of friends, poets and writers. 
  By the October Revolution his work was becoming popular and with the novel of ‘The Petty Demon’, finally published as a book, he now had a growing income. 
  His sister's tuberculosis could now be more easily treated with treatments in proper sanitoria, even as far away as Finland, but in June 1907 she passed. 
  He returned to St. Petersburg and retired.  The following year he married the translator Anastasia Chebotarevskaya who reordered his life.  A big new apartment was rented, small gilt chairs were bought, and the walls of the large cold office were decorated with paintings. 
  Sologub continued to write and publish poems, plays, and translations and in 1914 he started a magazine, Writers' Journals, but the outbreak of World War I put an end to it.  
  The October Revolution, with publishing under Bolshevik control, ensured he now had no outlets for his writing and could only lecture. 
  His wife’s suicide in September 1921, mainly due to deprivation and uncertainty, as they prepared for a new life abroad, grieved him for the rest of his life. 
  In May 1927 Sologub became seriously ill, and by summer he could leave his bed only rarely.  
  After a long struggle, Fyodor Sologub died on 5th December 1927 in Leningrad.  He was 64.

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  The First Anzacs

  Jimmy Thomson, George Hulse

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  This is the unknown story of the combat engineers who kept World War I running. Although it has been repeatedly denied by the army, they were the first Australians to land at Anzac Cove: in any combat, even today, sappers are always the first in and last out. 
   
   
  They were airbrushed out of history. Official historian Charles Bean claimed the first Australian ashore at the Gallipoli landing on 25 April 1915 was an infantry officer. But Bean wasn't there, and a bunch of Australian and New Zealand army engineers were. Even today, the army is reluctant to accept that sappers were among the very first Australian soldiers ashore. 
   
  This is the untold story of the Australian and New Zealand sappers - combat engineers - who fought in World War I. They were always in the vanguard, clearing defences, and building bridges, roads and walkways for the troops who followed, usually under fire. At Gallipoli, strafed by machine guns and targeted by snipers, they dug trenches and tunnels to advance on the Turkish defences. On the Western Front, they burrowed under the German lines to plant massive explosives, whose eruption could be heard in England. In Egypt they demolished a Turkish railway in a day. 
   
  From Gallipoli to the sands of the Middle East, to the blood-soaked battlefields of France and Belgium, engineers put down their tools to also fight as combat soldiers at every major battle and campaign, often with heroic feats of astonishing courage. Three sappers stole a giant field gun from under German noses at Amiens. Sappers were classic Aussie larrikins, indefatigably practical men who don't take kindly to bureaucracy. Typically under-appreciated, two were cheated of their well-earned VCs by a British general after they, working alone, tricked a German platoon into surrendering. 
   
   
  'Sappers are the unsung heroes of the First World War and this book helps bring them back into the limelight where they belong.' WILL DAVIES, Beneath Hill 60 
   
   
  'It has taken 111 years for true stories to appear in a book adequately honouring Australian sappers in WW1 - you will remember these heroes forever'. COLONEL SANDY MACGREGOR MC (rtd) 
   
   
  'An excellent insight into the role of the Field Engineers as part of the combined arms team in World War One' BRIGADIER MICK SAY DSC, Head of Corps, Royal Australian Engineers

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