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  The Trail of the Red Diamonds

  L. Ron Hubbard

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  An obscure manuscript... A tantalizing clue to a fabled burial site... A chance to unearth a long-lost treasure. Indiana Jones would jump at the chance. But Lieutenant Jonathan Daly is way ahead of him. Criminals, secret agents and the entire Chinese army are all in the game, but the stakes are too high to let any of them stand in Daly's way. He's hot on The Trail of the Red Diamonds, but only God knows if Daly will dig up the stones... or end up buried with them. Catch the whispers of conspiracy and shouts of warning and danger as the audio version of The Trail of the Red Diamonds delivers a gem of an adventure.

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  Empire of Glass

  Kaitlin Solimine

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  In the mid-1990s, an American teenager, named Lao K in Chinese, stands on Coal Hill, a park in Beijing, a loop of rope in her hand. Will she assist her Chinese homestay mother, Li-Ming, who is dying of cancer, in ending her life, or will she choose another path? Twenty years later, Lao K receives a book written by Li-Ming called “Empire of Glass,” a narrative that chronicles the lives of Li-Ming and her husband, Wang, in pre and post-revolutionary China over the last half of the twentieth century. Lao K begins translating the story, which becomes the novel we are reading. But, as translator, how can Lao K separate fact from fiction, and what will her role be in the book’s final chapter?  A grand, experimental epic—Lao K’s story is told in footnotes that run throughout the book—that chronicles the seismic changes in China over the last half century through the lens of one family’s experiences, Empire of Glass is an investigation into the workings of human memory and the veracity of oral history that pushes the boundaries of language and form in stunning and unforgettable ways.

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  The Prizefighter's Hart

  Emily Royal

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  A spinster. A prizefighter. A marriage of convenience. This bout can't end well. 
   
   
   
  Plain, prim, and beyond marriageable age, Dorothea Hart is resigned to the life of a spinster aunt. But she yearns for a family of her own, and is hopelessly attracted to the 'Mighty Oak'—a prizefighter renowned for his prowess—who stirs previously unknown passions in her. 
   
   
   
  Widower Griffin Oake made his fortune in the ring—but he can't buy respectability, or a footing in society for his daughter. After a disastrous first marriage, he has no wish to wed again, but is looking to employ a genteel woman to chaperone the rebellious teenager—preferably the plainest, dullest woman in London. 
   
   
   
  When Dorothea is publicly compromised, she's pushed into a marriage of convenience with the object of her infatuation. Exiled to the country, with a husband who avoids her, and a stepdaughter determined to defy her, Dorothea's dream of a loving family seems further away than ever . . . and she begins to suspect that Griffin's first wife's death was not an accident. 
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  England Home and…

  Andrew Wareham

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  England, Home and . . .  
   
   
   
  Nick Turnhouse is captain of his own sloop, and increasingly aware of how rapidly he has been promoted and how much he does not know. He is reliant on the professional skill and goodwill of Master and Boatswain, both of whom are long experienced and old, coming close to the end of their seagoing days. 
   
   
   
  Returning from a convoy north to Halifax, Nick discovers a new admiral in command at English Harbor. His patron has returned to England and he is left as a junior captain in a station in which the new man has his own favorites. 
   
   
   
  Nick is sent as escort to a small out-of-season convoy, taking valuable ships to England . . . with a certainty that French intelligencers are in the know.

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  Letter The - A Short Story...

  Edgar Allan Poe, Honoré de...

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  In modern society writing a letter, on paper, is almost unheard of.  We all scribble notes and reminders but very rarely compose our thoughts in lengthy prose for another person to read. 
     
  In bygone days the letter was the fastest and most accurate means of communication.  Letters were sent and delivered at incredible speeds, summoning this and requesting that.  
   
  Within its lines and paragraphs all manner of pleadings and heartfelt wordings were made—from romance to business—the world of infinite colour was all there in simple black and white. 
   
  In this volume our talented authors bring us a plethora of narratives that centre themselves on how vital a few lines on a page are to characters navigating through the twists and turns of a story. 
   
  Genius in every page.

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  The Unravelling of Mary Reddish

  David Whitfield

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  Nottingham, 1827. 
  Mary Reddish, a young housemaid unjustly committed after defying her employer’s advances, must navigate the brutal treatments of the county asylum while trying to prove her sanity. Meanwhile, Ann and Thomas Morris, the asylum’s matron and director, struggle to uphold humane practices against outdated medical methods that haunt the institution. 
   
  As Mary forms an unlikely alliance with a fellow patient, she finds herself at the centre of a battle between compassion and cruelty that will determine the course of her life – and the future of the asylum itself.

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