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  The Understudy - Twists abound...

  Mary Cholmondeley

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  Mary Cholmondeley was born in Hodnet near Market Drayton in Shropshire on June 8th 1859, the 
  third of eight children. Her father was appointed rector in 1874 in succession to his father. Much of 
  the first 30 years of her life was taken up with helping her sickly mother run the household and her 
  father with parish work, and she herself suffered with asthma. 
   
  Mary began writing with in her teens. She wrote in her journal in 1877, "What a pleasure and 
  interest it would be to me in life to write books. I must strike out a line of some kind, and if I do not 
  marry (for at best that is hardly likely, as I possess neither beauty nor charms) I should want some 
  definite occupation, besides the home duties." 
   
  Mary began by publishing some stories in The Graphic and her first novel ‘The Danvers Jewels’ a 
  detective story followed in 1887. It was followed by Sir Charles Danvers (1889), Diana Tempest 
  (1893). 
   
  After her father retired in 1896, she moved with him and her sister Diana to Condover Hall before 
  selling it to move to Albert Gate Mansions in Knightsbridge, London. 
   
  Mary wrote the best seller ‘Red Pottage’ in 1899. It satirised religious hypocrisy and the conceit of 
  country life. It was denounced as immoral. It also explored female sexuality. 
   
  During the war she did clerical work in the Carlton House Terrace Hospital. The sisters moved in 
  1919 to 4 Argyll Road, Kensington, where Mary died, unmarried, on 15th July 1925.

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  E E "Doc" Smith: The Vortex...

  E.E. "Doc" Smith

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  This is the third and final volume in The Vortex Blaster series featuring "Storm" Cloud, computing genius who blows out those nasty Atomic Vortices that can eventually eat up an entire world if left undestroyed. Doc Smith's hero has already saved the world from many atomic vortices with his prodigious computing mind, but here is thrust into taking on more hero like behavior by saving a newly discovered civilization from attack by evil forces. What more needs be said? A thrilling tale well told. This pulp SF thriller was first published in 1942 in Astounding Stories.

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  There Are No Guilty People - The...

  Leo Tolstoy, Tim Zengerink

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  What if the people we punish most severely are the ones we understand least? 
  There Are No Guilty People is Leo Tolstoy’s impassioned outcry against the death penalty, delivered through a mix of storytelling and moral argument. Based on real events and driven by a deep sense of compassion, this work asks the reader to look beyond judgment—and into the heart of what it means to be human. 
  This modern audiobook adaptation preserves the intensity and clarity of Tolstoy’s original message while updating the language for today’s listener. 
  What You’ll Hear in This Modern Translation: 
  •	A moving fictional narrative of a condemned man 
  •	A passionate and persuasive critique of the justice system 
  •	A call to compassion that challenges common ideas of guilt and punishment 
  Included in This Edition: 
  This edition brings new urgency to Tolstoy’s moral message, offering a powerful listening experience that speaks directly to the conscience. 
  Listen now—and reconsider what justice really means.

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  The Night Birds

  Christopher Golden

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  The next gripping, atmospheric horror novel from NYT bestselling author Christopher Golden, set in a deteriorated, half-sunken freighter ship off the coast of Galveston, TX.Charlie Book and Ruby Cahill have history. After their love ended in heartbreak, they never expected to see each other again, but when terror enters Ruby’s life, Charlie Book is the only safe harbor she can believe in.In his work for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, Book has been living aboard and studying the Christabel, a 19th century freighter that lies half-sunken in Gulf waters, just off the shore of Galveston. Over many years, a massive forest of mangrove trees has grown up through the deck of the ship, creating a startlingly beautiful enigma Book calls the Floating Forest, full of birds, crabs, and snakes. Though a powerful storm churns through the Gulf, Book intends to sleep on board as usual.But when he arrives at the dock, preparing to motor out to the Christabel, he’s stunned to find Ruby there waiting for him. And Ruby’s not alone. With her are a mysterious, terrified woman named Johanna and an infant child. They need Book to hide them safely aboard the Christabel while they're on the run, only it isn’t the police who are after them. It’s the coven of witches Johanna has fled, stealing away the helpless infant for whom they had hideous plans…or so Johanna claims.It’s lunacy. Book wants nothing to do with it. But after the way he and Ruby ended things, and the unspoken pain between them, he can’t refuse. Yet even as he brings them out to the ruined ship and its floating forest, back in Galveston there are shadowed figures out in the storm, sniffing the air like bloodhounds. And despite the worsening wind and rain, the night birds are flying, scouring the coastline as if searching for their prey.

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  Parker's Forbidden Mate - MM...

  Blake R. Wolfe

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  Falling for the cute handyman renovating my kitchen probably isn't a good idea. He's human and I'm a werewolf. Not to mention, my parents have already picked out a new boyfriend for me. But those green eyes and strong arms are impossible to resist. 
  AIDEN 
  Just when I thought things were looking up, my entire life falls apart, thanks to some guy. Now I've sworn off men forever since I can't trust myself to pick the right one. And that's the moment I met him, the tall, dark, and handsome man with golden eyes. But I can't have him.My life is crumbling around my ears, and the last thing I need is to complicate it with a man in the picture. 
  Now if I could just get him to leave me alone... 
  PARKER 
  Begrudgingly I came home for the summer to blow off some steam after another failed relationship, intent on spending the summer alone to recover. But when a storm threatens a man out on the lighthouse pier, I run to save him. The moment my hand touches his skin, I hear a single word. Mate. But he's human, and I'm a werewolf. If I pursue him I'll be kicked out of the pack. And if I don't I'll be miserable for the rest of my life. 
  All I know is that I can't resist him. But can a werewolf and a human really find happiness together? I'm willing to sacrifice my place in the pack for him. 
  Maybe I'll just create my own pack so we can be together. 
  TROPES: standalone, hurt/comfort, class difference, human x werewolf, forbidden love, forced proximity, found family, strict roles, and hea.

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  Mrs Dalloway

  Virginia Woolf

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  First published in 1925, set 'one Wednesday in mid-June', Mrs Dalloway charts the lives of several characters across a day in London. While Clarissa Dalloway goes about preparing for a high-society party she is to host that evening, pondering on her childhood and marriage, nearby Septimus Warren Smith, a First World War veteran, is plagued with memories of the war and of his friend who never returned.
  Weaving a multitude of voices and eras into one, dressed in the most beautiful of language, Mrs Dalloway has earned its reputation as one of the most iconic novels of the twentieth century and great successes of Modernist fiction.
  This edition also contains 'Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street', the short story upon which the novel is modelled.

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