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  Behind the Curtain - From their...

  Francis Stevens

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  The bookshelves of American literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors.  From this continent their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure.  Among them is Gertrude Barrows Bennett who was also known as Francis Stevens.

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  Guy de Maupassant - Six of the...

  Guy de Maupassant

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  Six has always been a number we group things around – Six of the best, six of one half a dozen of another, six feet under, six pack, six degrees of separation and a sixth sense are but a few of the ways we use this number. 
   
  Such is its popularity that we thought it is also a very good way of challenging and investigating an author’s work to give width, brevity, humour and depth across six of their very best. 
   
  In this series we gather together authors whose short stories both rivet the attention and inspire the imagination to visit their gems in a series of six, to roam across an author’s legacy in a few short hours and gain a greater understanding of their writing and, of course, to be lavishly entertained by their ideas, their narrative and their way with words. 
   
  These stories can be surprising and sometimes at a tangent to what we expected, but each is fully formed and a marvellous adventure into the world and words of a literary master.

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  Come Sit Awhile

  Alice Taylor

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  Alice celebrates the special moments and the everyday blessings of life.
  Come sit awhile with Alice Taylor. Take a little time out – to rest, to think, or just to be.
  Life can race along at a fast pace, sometimes almost stampeding us along with it. What a pity not to slow down and take the time to enjoy little things, or simply doing nothing or chatting with a good friend. Sometimes Alice finds a comfortable place to sit, maybe a low wall, a garden seat or a grassy bank. A place to let the mind calm
  
  down and let thoughts drift. With this book she invites you to share the special moments of life.

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  Fit The Crime The Identity Lie

  Corinne Arrowood

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  It was his responsibility to fight for those who could not fight, punish those who needed punishing, and righting the world of all the wrongs—to Captain Vicarelli, that was his mission even out of the Corps. Once separated from the Marines, he took his mission to his home, New Orleans, rife with murder, rape, and crime. The Corps had trained him and trained him well. He was a skillful killing machine of unusual propensity. 
  There was nothing average about the man; he stood six-five and was a wall of powerful, rippling muscle. Honorably discharged, with unwritten speculation of PTSD from the psych community, the Marine pursued the life of a civilian. It wasn’t his fault that there was crime around every corner, but he took his mission to heart, protecting, punishing, and eliminating the threats. 
  Trinity was his one weakness. His entire essence craved her tight little body full of sexy energy. Her caramel-colored skin, waist-length black hair, and cat-like ebony eyes lit an unquenchable fire in his body and soul. If fate were a friend, she would be his woman one day. Night after night, he sat at the end of Louie’s Tap mahogany bar, sipping on his two-finger pour of Glenlivet and watching as she swayed to the background music while mixing libations for the clientele.

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  Oleg Gordievsky: The Spy Who...

  Waleed Saleh

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.   
  In 1983, humanity stood on the precipice of nuclear annihilation. Two superpowers—the United States and Soviet Union—held their fingers over the nuclear button, ready to unleash destruction that could end civilization forever. In this moment of unprecedented danger, one man held the fate of the world in his hands. 
  Oleg Gordievsky: The Spy Who Stopped Armageddon tells the extraordinary true story of the Soviet KGB agent who became history's most crucial double agent. Born into a distinguished intelligence family, Oleg was raised to serve the Soviet state without question. But when he witnessed the brutal suppression of Czechoslovakia in 1968, his worldview shattered forever. 
  Working as a double agent for British MI6 while maintaining his cover as a high-ranking KGB officer, Oleg provided intelligence that prevented nuclear war during the most dangerous moments of the Cold War. When NATO's "Able Archer 83" military exercise pushed the Soviets to the brink of launching a preemptive nuclear strike, it was Oleg's critical intelligence that averted global catastrophe. 
  This gripping narrative reveals the human cost of heroism—the family destroyed, the life sacrificed, and the moral complexity of betraying one's homeland to save humanity. From the shadowy world of Cold War espionage to a daring escape operation that reads like a thriller, this audiobook exposes how close the world came to ending and celebrates the courage of one man who chose conscience over country. 
  A story of sacrifice, redemption, and the thin line between heroism and treason.

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  Radical Equations - Civil Rights...

  Robert P. Moses, Jr. Charles E....

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  At a time when popular solutions to the educational plight of poor children of color are imposed from the outside, the acclaimed Algebra Project and its founder, Robert Moses, offer a vision of school reform based in the power of communities. Founded on the belief that math-science literacy is a prerequisite for full citizenship in society, the Project works with entire communities—parents, teachers, and especially students—to create a culture of literacy around algebra, a crucial stepping-stone to college math and opportunity. 
   
   
   
  Telling the story of this remarkable program, Robert Moses draws on lessons from the 1960s Southern voter registration he famously helped organize: "Everyone said sharecroppers didn't want to vote. It wasn't until we got them demanding to vote that we got attention. Today, when kids are falling wholesale through the cracks, people say they don't want to learn. We have to get the kids themselves to demand what everyone says they don't want." 
   
   
   
  We see the Algebra Project organizing community by community. Older kids serve as coaches for younger students and build a self-sustained tradition of leadership. And we see the remarkable success stories of schools like the predominately poor Hart School in Bessemer, Alabama, which outscored the city's middle-class flagship school in just three years.

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