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  George Washington's Long Island...

  Bill Bleyer

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  In 1778, two years after the British forced the Continental Army out of New York City, George Washington and his subordinates organized a secret spy network to gather intelligence in Manhattan and Long Island. Known today as the "Culper Spy Ring," Patriots like Abraham Woodhull and Robert Townsend risked their lives to report on British military operations in the region. Vital reports clandestinely traveled from New York City across the East River to Setauket and were rowed on whaleboats across the Long Island Sound to the Connecticut shore. Using ciphers, codes and invisible ink, the spy ring exposed British plans to attack French forces at Newport and a plot to counterfeit American currency. Author Bill Bleyer corrects the record, examines the impact of George Washington's Long Island spy ring and identifies Revolutionary War sites that remain today.

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  A Kind of Madness - Stories

  Uche Okonkwo

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  A searing, unflinching collection of stories set in Nigeria that explores themes of community expectations, familial strife, and the struggle for survival.A teenage girl from a poor family is dazzled by her rich, vivacious friend, but as the friend's behavior grows unstable and dangerous, she must decide whether to cover for her or risk telling the truth to get her the help she needs. A young woman and her mother bask in the envy of their neighbors when the woman receives an offer of marriage from the family of a doctor living in Belgium—though when the offer fails to materialize, that envy threatens to turn vicious, pitting them both against their community. And a lonely daughter finds herself wandering a village in eastern Nigeria in an ill-fated quest, struggling to come to terms with her mother's mental illness.In ten vivid, evocative stories set in contemporary Nigeria, Uche Okonkwo's A Kind of Madness unravels the tensions between mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, best friends, siblings, and more, marking the arrival of an extraordinary new talent in fiction and inviting us all to consider the question: why is it that the people and places we hold closest are so often the ones that drive us to madness?

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  Edge of Armageddon - The...

  Robert Enochs

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  Edge of Armageddon: The Imminent Nuclear Consequence is a gripping nonfiction political thriller exploring the intricate dance of dominance and diplomacy surrounding nuclear war on the global stage. Delve into the heart of US hegemony, tracing the history from World War II to the present, revealing the evolution of nuclear diplomacy and the challenges to American supremacy.  
  Through insightful analysis, it explores the decline of the US Dollar and the rise of multipolar currency dynamics. Timely and sobering, it challenges readers to ponder the consequences of America's decline and offers hope for humanity amidst the foreboding, urging action to steer away from a nuclear war precipice. 
  This book is a must-read (a call to action) for anyone who dares to understand the fragility of our current geopolitical landscape and the ray of light needed to steer us away from a nuclear war precipice. Step to the Edge of Armageddon, and arm yourself with knowledge to envision a future of cooperation over annihilation.

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  Listen to HSK1

  Letitia Wu

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  Are you looking to take your Chinese language skills to the next level? Listen to HSK1 is here to help! This audiobook was designed with the needs of serious Chinese learners in mind.With fifteen audio files, you’ll learn all the words from the HSK 1 vocabulary and their English translation. To make sure that you can really understand and perfect your pronunciation, each audio file also includes example sentences with an accompanying English translation. For better learning, the teacher reads these example sentences twice: the first time slowly, so learners can get used to the sound of Chinese and match it with its English translation; the second time quickly, so learners can challenge themselves with faster-paced conversation. Plus, this one-time investment will serve its purpose for a long time – once learned, these words won’t go out of style any time soon! Invest in Listen to HSK1 now and experience rapid progress in your listening and speaking skills.

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  Lost Lines: Conwy Valley Line

  Paul Lawton

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  While the Conwy Valley railway is very much still with us, this survey aims to capture many ‘lost’ aspects of the line’s remarkable history. Its personality has changed dramatically over the years. Built in sections and lured up into the mountains of Snowdonia by the chimera of huge profits from slate, it became instead a firm favourite of tourists and walkers and is enjoyed to this day by well over 100,000 passengers a year.

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  Isaac's Army - A Story of...

  Matthew Brzezinski

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  Starting as early as 1939, disparate Jewish underground movements coalesced around the shared goal of liberating Poland from Nazi occupation. For the next six years, separately and in concert, they waged a heroic war of resistance against Hitler's war machine that culminated in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. In Isaac's Army, Matthew Brzezinski delivers the first-ever comprehensive narrative account of that struggle, following a group of dedicated young Jews—some barely out of their teens—whose individual acts of defiance helped rewrite the ending of World War II. 
  Based on first-person accounts from diaries, interviews, and surviving relatives, Isaac's Army chronicles the extraordinary triumphs and devastating setbacks that befell the Jewish underground from its earliest acts of defiance in 1939 to the exodus to Palestine in 1946. This is the remarkable true story of the Jewish resistance from the perspective of those who led it: Isaac Zuckerman, the confident and charismatic twenty-four-year-old founder of the Jewish Fighting Organization; Simha Ratheiser, Isaac's fifteen-year-old bodyguard, whose boyish good looks and seeming immunity to danger made him an ideal courier; and Zivia Lubetkin, the warrior queen of the underground who, upon hearing the first intimations of the Holocaust, declared: "We are going to defend ourselves." Joined by allies on the left and right, they survived Gestapo torture chambers, smuggled arms, ran covert printing presses, opened illegal schools, robbed banks, executed collaborators, and fought in the two largest rebellions of the war. 
  Hunted by the Germans and bedeviled by the "Greasers"—roving bands of blackmailers who routinely turned in resistance fighters for profit—the movement was chronically short on firepower but long on ingenuity. Its members hatched plots in dank basements, never more than a door knock away from summary execution, and slogged through fetid sewers to escape the burning Ghetto to the forests surrounding the city. And after the initial uprising was ruthlessly put down by the SS, they gambled everything on a bold plan for a citywide revolt—of both Jews and Gentiles—that could end only in victory or total destruction. The money they raised helped thousands hide when the Ghetto was liquidated. The documents they forged offered lifelines to families desperate to escape the horror of the Holocaust. And when the war was over, they helped found the state of Israel. 
  A story of secret alliances, internal rivalries, and undying commitment to a cause, Isaac's Army is history at its most heart-wrenching. Driven by an unforgettable cast of characters, it's a true-life tale with the pulse of a great novel, and a celebration of the indomitable spirit of resistance.

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