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  On Secret Service - Thrilling...

  Edward Richardson

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  Step into the treacherous shadows of the World War I era, where the fate of a nation hangs on a deciphered code and a split-second decision. 
  In On Secret Service, author Edward Richardson masterfully unveils the classified exploits of America's most brilliant covert operatives. Through the vivid reminiscences of veteran agent Bill Quinn, you are plunged into an invisible battlefield. From the buzzing lobbies of Washington D.C. to the neon-lit rooftops of Norfolk, and from the sun-drenched cafes of Mexico City to the hushed reading rooms of the New York Public Library, enemy agents are actively plotting the downfall of the United States. 
  Thrill as you follow government agents who intercept deadly U-boat coordinates hidden in blinking electric signs. Unravel the baffling mystery behind 700 pounds of missing gold from the Philadelphia Mint. Trail cunning high-society smugglers across the Atlantic, and hold your breath as a desperate scramble in a Mexican alleyway triggers the very first sparks of global war. 
  On Secret Service is a riveting collection of cat-and-mouse detective work, blending historical tension, deductive brilliance, and pulse-pounding action. Perfect for fans of classic espionage and intricate mysteries, these stories shine a spotlight on the unsung heroes who fought our wars in the shadows.

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  Top 10 Short Stories The - The...

  Fyodor Dostevesky, Mark Twain,...

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  Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart.  A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. 
   
  In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?  
   
  The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme.  Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. 
   
  Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made.  If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. 
   
  The Century moves on decade by decade. War once again scars Europe, in America wagons roll west.  Social unrest continues even as conditions improve markedly for the few and only a little for the many.  The list of problems and of challenges described by our authors is long and their stories once again full of valuable and telling insights. 
   
  01 - The Top 10 - The 1870's - The Men - An Introduction 
  02 - Bobok by Fyodor Dostevesky 
  03 - A Ghost Story by Mark Twain 
  04 - God Sees The Truth But Waits by Leo Tolstoy 
  05 - Dickon the Devil by Sheridan Le Fanu 
  06 - The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller by Gustave Flaubert 
  07 - A Strange Story by Ivan Turgenev 
  08 - A Lonely Ride by Bret Harte 
  09 - Coward by Vsevolod Garshin 
  10 - The Man Without a Body by Edward Page Mitchell 
  11 - The Vampire by Jan Neruda

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  Tales From An Ironic Mind Four

  Paul A. Hernandez

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  These 19 tales take you from an assassination in a foreign country, to problems on a solar sailing ship having problems after taking a short cut, a solar flare that has seemed to have effected everyone in the city except two people, a man who miss-uses the city emergency drone equipment for private use. There's the ship crashing on a foreign world, a very odd painter, a fix it man who saves the day, some people who catch the lightning for good money, a strange blue table that may be cursed, a walking partner who may have a wicket temper, a side shoe museum with a very special amusement, and a man with a great fear of grocery stores. 
  These are the type of adventures you will find between the covers of Tales From An Ironic Mind Four and I hope you enjoy each and every one of them.  

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  Suite as Sugar and Other Stories

  Camille Hernández-Ramdwar

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  Suite as Sugar is a testimony to the unseen forces, always vigilant, ever ready, imbuing the characters in this collection with both resilience and trauma. From Winnipeg winterscapes to Toronto’s condo culture, from Havana’s haunted streets to Trinidad’s calamitous environs, the stories in Suite as Sugar are permeated with the violence of colonial histories, personal and intimate, reflecting legacies of abandonment and loss. The veil between the living and the dead is obscured, chaos becomes panacea, and characters take drastic measures into their own hands. Survivors of all kinds seek strategy and solace: a group of homeless people organize an occupation of vacant condos, a new resident to a disturbing neighbourhood tries to make sense of madness, a dog investigates the sudden disappearance of his owner. The five intertwined vignettes in the title story are set in a Caribbean country where the spectre of the sugar plantation haunts everyone. Tying this collection together is the casual brutality of our everyday lives, whether seen through the eyes of animal, spirit, or human being.

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  Black Voices on Britain

  Hakim Adi

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  A compelling anthology of Black voices from England, America, Africa and the Caribbean, from people who lived, worked, campaigned and travelled in Britain from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library.Professor Hakim Adi, shortlisted for the Wolfson history prize, draws on a variety of published works in Black Voices on Britain, all of which describe powerful experiences: James Gronniosaw and his family endure poverty, illness and unemployment; Mary Prince is driven out by her cruel owners and turns to London charities for help; Frederick Douglass, on a lecture tour around Britain, reveals how the Christian clergy built churches with slave-owners’ money; and William Wells Brown gives his impressions of England as he travels around a country which welcomes him more readily than America. These and other voices offer a fascinating and thought-provoking portrayal of Black experiences in Britain.

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  Safe Enough - And Other Stories

  Lee Child

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  Twenty crime stories by the creator of Jack Reacher, never before collected 
   
   
   
  For the past twenty years, Lee Child has been one of the bestselling authors in the world, thanks to the popularity of his iconic and instantly recognizable hero Jack Reacher. But even at the height of Reacher's fame, Child's short story writing was not confined to the series; throughout the course of his career, he published tales about a range of characters on both sides of the law, including assassins, a body guard, CIA and FBI agents, gangsters, and more. Meticulously plotted and packed with Child's trademark action and suspense, this collection shows the author's mastery of the short form. 
   
   
   
  In "Ten Keys," a drug-dealing hit man feels that he must unburden his fears and guilt to a stranger. A rookie cop in "Normal in Every Way" is assigned to the department's file room, where he makes connections to historic dates that could lead to solving crimes. A methodical bodyguard quits his job when he's outsmarted. A military mission is planned to perfection. A potential worker for the Manhattan Project is carefully surveilled by an FBI agent. A killer preys on other killers. Taken together, these stories are a riotous calamity of criminals and crime fighters; individually, they are expertly crafted, piercing tales that hit hard enough to leave a mark.

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