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  Devereux's Last Smoke - From...

  Izola Forrester

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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 Izola Forrester.

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  The Story of B24 - From their...

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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  Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on 22nd May 1859.  His childhood was blighted by his father’s heavy drinking which for some years broke up the family. Fortunately, wealthy uncles were willing to support them by paying for education and clothing.  
  He was accepted at the University of Edinburgh to study medicine and also began to write short stories the first, ‘The Haunted Grange of Goresthorpe’, was published in Blackwood’s Magazine.  Despite several other stories and some articles in the British Medical Journal his medical studies took priority. 
  When these finished he was appointed as Doctor on the Greenland whaler ‘Hope of Peterhead’ in 1880 and then, after graduation, as ship’s surgeon on the SS Mayumba on its voyage to West Africa. 
  1882 saw a move to Plymouth and his own independent practice. With few patients he resumed writing and completed his first novel, ‘The Mystery of Cloomber’, although most of his output was short stories based on his experiences at sea.  
  He married Louisa Hawkins in 1885. However, two years later he met and fell in love with Jean Elizabeth Leckie, though they remained platonic out of respect for, and loyalty to, his wife. 
  His literary career suddenly burst into life in November 1886 with ‘A Study In Scarlet’, the first of the fabulously successful Sherlock Holmes stories.  
  With two children to support he now revisited his haphazard commercial arrangements and curtailed everything save for commissions from the Strand Magazine.  
  As a sportsman he was remarkably proficient. He was goalkeeper for Portsmouth Association Football Club and played ten first-class cricket matches for the Marylebone Cricket Club as well as captain of the Crowborough Beacon Golf Club in East Sussex.  
  In 1891 tired of writing Holmes stories, he began a series of historical novels and even went so far as to apparently kill off Holmes in a lethal brawl with his arch-nemesis Moriarty. 
  Despite heavy and sustained criticism he continued to write in support of the Boer War, a fact he thought contributed to his knighthood in 1902.  The following year to great relief and acclaim he brought Sherlock Holmes back from the dead in his first outing for a decade. 
  Sadly, his wife Louisa died from TB in 1906 and, a year later, he at last married Jean.  
  During the War and for several years after family deaths had left him depressed. In a search for solace and answers he alighted upon spiritualism and, such was his interest, that he wrote several books on the subject. 
  On 7th July 1930 Conan Doyle was discovered in the hall of Windlesham Manor, his house in East Sussex, clutching his chest dying of a heart attack.  He was 71.

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  The Secret of the Scaffold -...

  Auguste Villiers

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  The bookshelves of European 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 Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam.

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  Fox’s Fire The: And Other...

  Danielle Ackley-McPhail

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  Dance Among the Embers, But Don’t Get Burned… 
  From a kitsune slinking through the mists … to an elven champion tied to every crossroad in the moment of Midnight … to the heir of Underhill ruling the road on a Harley, the mystical and magical intersect nearly unrealized with the world of man.  
  Do you dare to walk among them with open eyes? Do you seek a glimpse of their power? Take care and proceed with soft steps among the folk of magic and moonlight. Fickle is the least of what is said of them. But well worth the risk, for those looking for something more… 
  Includes the Stories: 
  “The Fox’s Fire” 
  “The Promise of Death”  
  “The Devil in the Details”  
  “A Moment Out of Time” 
  “Forever and a Day” 
  “Crossroads and Curses” 
  “Mise En Place” 
  “Mama Bear”

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  A Christmas Tree and a Wedding

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

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  At a glittering New Year's children's party in St. Petersburg, an unnamed observer watches power and money at play. When the influential Yulian Mastakovitch learns that a delicate eleven-year-old girl is an heiress, his flattery turns to calculation, and a poor governess's son becomes the target of his petty cruelty. Five years later, the narrator passes a church and witnesses the inevitable result: the same girl, now sixteen and pale with tears, is being married to the man who once counted her fortune like interest on a ledger. With biting irony and moral clarity, Dostoevsky exposes a world where affection is investment and childhood becomes collateral—a compact, devastating portrait of social ambition and hypocrisy behind holiday glitter. Performed by Richard Michael Stibbard, this classic short story comes alive in a nuanced, period-true narration that captures both the festive sparkle and the chill beneath. A perfect single-sitting listen for fans of Russian classics, sharp social satire, and literary short fiction.

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  The Life and Adventures of...

  Daniel Defoe

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  Shipwrecked, isolated, and fighting for his life—one man's fateful choice changes his destiny forever. 
  Driven by a restless spirit and an insatiable desire for the sea, Robinson Crusoe rejects his father's comfortable life to seek his fortune on the brutal ocean. After enduring enslavement by pirates and surviving terrifying offshore storms, Crusoe embarks on a doomed voyage that ends in sheer disaster. The sole survivor of a catastrophic shipwreck, he washes ashore on an uninhabited, savage island. Armed with nothing but salvaged tools, his wits, and an unyielding will to live, Crusoe must carve an existence out of the unforgiving wilderness while battling starvation, wild elements, and the creeping terror of isolation. 
  Fans of epic Adventure Fiction will be utterly gripped by this quintessential tale of man versus nature. Packed with intense maritime peril, iconic survival tropes, primitive engineering, and the profound psychological battles of extreme isolation, it remains the ultimate blueprint for the wilderness survival thriller. Crusoe’s legendary ingenuity will keep you on the edge of your seat. 
  About the Author: Daniel Defoe (c. 1660–1731) was a pioneering English novelist, journalist, and pamphleteer, widely credited as a founder of the English novel. His groundbreaking realist fiction and vivid, immersive narratives continue to define global storytelling centuries later.

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