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  Trainee For Mars - Not Everyone...

  Harry Harrison

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  Trainee For Mars by Harry Harrison - The important thing was that they survive. Men were needed who’d be able to explore the surface once the ship landed. 
  Harry Harrison (1925–2012) was an American science fiction writer best known for The Stainless Steel Rat series, Make Room! Make Room! (1966), and the Bill, the Galactic Hero books. Born Henry Maxwell Dempsey in Stamford, Connecticut, he later took his stepfather’s surname. After serving in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II, he became an illustrator and editor before launching his writing career. 
  Harrison’s fiction was marked by satire, humor, and social commentary. The Stainless Steel Rat (1961) introduced Slippery Jim diGriz, a charming con man in a future where crime is nearly extinct. The series blended adventure, wit, and anti-authoritarian themes, making it a fan favorite. In contrast, Make Room! Make Room! painted a bleak vision of overpopulation and resource depletion, later inspiring the film Soylent Green (1973). 
  He was deeply interested in linguistics, pacifism, and environmentalism, often weaving these themes into his work. Bill, the Galactic Hero (1965) was a scathing satire of military life, countering the glorified war narratives common in the genre. Harrison also co-created the Deathworld series, featuring a hostile planet that reflects mankind’s own violent nature. 
  A globetrotter, Harrison lived in Mexico, England, Ireland, and Denmark, embracing a cosmopolitan lifestyle. He was a Grand Master of Science Fiction and an advocate for the genre’s literary merit. 

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  The Valkyrie Returns

  Tanya Nellestein

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  When fate beckons, the Valkyrie will rise. 
  Queen Brenna of Gyldarhagi has found peace in both her life and her kingdom. Until the gods 
  send a cryptic message warning that her enemies are gathering once more. Who are these 
  enemies and why are they set on taking from her that which she holds most dear? 
  Circumstance keeps Brenna and Vali apart, forcing each to face their battles alone. As the 
  enemy advances, Brenna must determine if this outlaw army is after the kingdom, or something 
  much more personal. 
  A storm is coming, but after the thunder and lightning has rained destruction across the land 
  and in the hearts of all who dwell there - will anyone be left alive? 
  The Valkyrie Returns is the final chapter in the Valkyrie of Birca series. A gripping Viking saga 
  full of bloodthirsty battles and heartstopping romance.

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  Songs for the Shadows

  Cheryl S. Ntumy

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  Your feelings are of no consequence. 
  Shad-Dari has escaped her past, her dreams now in reach. An excavator of the valuable old sounds of Órino-Rin, she steals tiny, unheard fragments of the sacred songs to erase the painful echo of her home planet, Ekwukwe. In one rebellion too far, she sets off a chain of events that severs her from time itself, forcing her, without another way forward, to face her past. 
  “Set in the Sauúti universe and tightly packed with rich worldbuilding, Songs for the Shadows is crafted in beautiful prose and depth, meditating on silence and sound and song as powerful cultural entities—a magic system of sound excavation and the folding and manipulation of time that blew me away!”–Tlotlo Tsamaase, Caine Prize Finalist and author of Womb City 
  “In Songs for the Shadows, Ntumy continues the work of the Sauúti Collective, in immersing the reader into an expansive and complex world in which the magic and power of the oral—prayers, wails, chants, songs, words, and therefore stories—have been elevated to the most valued cultural artifacts. I was mesmerized by this world and by the rule-breaking, self-inventing Shad-Dari who, in seeking to drown out the echoes of her past loses everything she thought she needed.” –Gothataone Moeng, 2024 Whiting Award winner for Call and Response: Stories 
  “Cheryl’s writing is magical, lyrical and breath-taking. Imagine a world created by and out of sound – and that sound is linked to our very beings. Plus the beautiful evocations on the non-linearity of time and how we deal with the voices from the past. Bravo!” –Joyce Chng, author of Fire Heart

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  Peacekeeper

  Laura Pavlov

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  Harrison 
   
   
   
  I loved Laney Landers before most people learned to read. Blonde hair, blue eyes that rivaled the ocean, and an invisible halo over her head. She stole my heart the same day she threw sand in my face. What started as a friendship grew into so much more. I thought she'd be my forever. But then life threw me a curveball and I changed course. Laney moved on and found a different happily ever after . . . While I wallowed in grief and regret. And now she's here, reminding me that I made the biggest mistake of my life. 
   
   
   
  Laney 
   
   
   
  I loved Harrison Montgomery since the first day he saved me a seat in kindergarten. He was my best friend, my own real-life prince. He taught me to ride a bike and showed me how to shoot a three-pointer in basketball. He was my first kiss. My first love. My first heartache. My first everything. I don't believe in happily ever after anymore. Harrison forced me to write a new ending to my story. But seeing him again after all these years—it makes me want things I shouldn't. Because that chapter of my life is closed forever. 
   
   
   
  Or is it? 
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  பார்வதி பிஏ

  சி.என்.அண்ணாதுரை

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  The formative years of Anna's political and public life career were decided by the social and political context in which the early Dravidian movement was taking shape in Tamilnadu. On the social side, it was not the Brahmin and Non-Brahmin conflict that was the major thread in Annathurai’s perspective. This was not unlike that of his mentor E.V.Ramasamy Naicker. Annathurai’s social perspective was more inclusive. It addressed many social evils like casteism, the rich and poor divide, the attitude of the landed gentry towards the landless and the socially oppressed communities, the succumbing to a certain belief system not necessarily perpetrated by the Brahmins alone, the wit of games between the rich in particular and the people in general on the one hand and the manipulative Brahmins on the other, institutionalized low moral standards, nepotism and mismanagement of the government machinery including the police, and a few other such. On the political front, Provincial governments and the lack of credibility on their part, what appeared to be convincing about Communism as a political panacea, self-seeking politicians who wanted to exploit any vulnerable political ideology on the one hand and the possibility of inflaming the offended tilting them to conviction in a political revolution not necessarily pacifistic, extreme caution with which Gandhi’s almost established iconoclasm was seen, parallel political and freedom fighters with Gandhi’s nonviolence on the one hand and Subash Chandra Bose’s military mission on the other, the international political situation marked by the Japanese political ambitions. Annathurai’s literature in general and novels in particular have a reference back to all these social and political issues in explicit as well as veiled discussions. Parvathy B.A., is typical of the interplay of this complexity. At the same time, the novel maintains the flavor of imaginative literature.

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  Hunchback of Notre-Dame The...

  Victor Hugo

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  Book 8: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame or Notre-Dame de Paris is a French Gothic novel by Victor Hugo, published in 1831. - The story is set in Paris in 1482 during the reign of Louis XI. The gypsy Esmeralda (born as Agnes) captures the hearts of many men, including those of Captain Phoebus and Pierre Gringoire, but especially Quasimodo and his guardian Archdeacon Claude Frollo. Frollo is torn between his obsessive lust for Esmeralda and the rules of Notre Dame Cathedral. He orders Quasimodo to kidnap her, but Quasimodo is captured by Phoebus and his guards, who save Esmeralda. Gringoire, who attempted to help Esmeralda but was knocked out by Quasimodo, is about to be hanged by beggars when Esmeralda saves him by agreeing to marry him for four years.

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