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  Young Lions Hunt

  Andrew Mackay

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  Alan, Sam, Alice and Aurora continue to attack German forces who are taking part in Operation Thor: the invasion of Scotland. The Partisans discover that the Fascist Government has begun a program to exterminate all disabled orphan children and that an SS Death Squad is coming to Britain with a secret list of targets to eliminate. The Resistance plan to sabotage Operation Sea lion anniversary celebrations. Young Lions Hunt is the third book in the Young Lions series and is a fast paced, gritty war novel set in an alternative history of the Second World War. 
  The Young Lions series: Young Lions Roar (winner of the NGP Publishing Prize 2012)

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  The Four Queens of the...

  Beth Brookhart

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  In 1950, the Buttonbush Museum is circling the financial drain, and Irene Pickett—a sassy farmer's wife from rural California—is determined to stop the flush. Tired of being typecast as the housewife queen of pickling and laundry, Irene has something to prove. Enter The Four Queens: Irene and three other firebrand women ready to take on the museum's bottomless budget issues.The biggest obstacle is fellow Queen, Odilia Delgado, who's more concerned with slapping her name on museum buildings than balancing the books. When the county threatens to bulldoze the museum, Irene hatches a plan. Then The Queens discover they're being sabotaged by outside forces. Can Irene pull off a miracle, save the museum, and finally get the credit she deserves? Or will Odilia steamroll her way into another spotlight? Buckle up—this ride's got more twists than a pig’s tail at the county fair!

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  The Great Gatsby - A tragic...

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  The Roaring Twenties shimmer with unimaginable wealth, dangerous secrets, and a love that could destroy everything it touches. 
  When young, aspiring bond salesman Nick Carraway moves to the wealthy enclave of West Egg, Long Island, he finds himself living next door to a mysterious millionaire. Jay Gatsby is a man who throws dazzling, extravagant parties but remains isolated in his own mansion, staring out at a single green light across the bay. Drawn into the intoxicating world of the ultra-rich, Nick reunites with his cousin Daisy Buchanan and her domineering husband, Tom. Soon, Nick becomes the unwitting linchpin in Gatsby's desperate, decade-long quest to reclaim his lost love, Daisy. But beneath the champagne-soaked nights, jazz-filled ballrooms, and glittering facades lies a volatile cocktail of jealousy, infidelity, and blinding ambition that threatens to shatter their gilded world forever. 
  Why you will love this: This definitive Literary Fiction audiobook is the quintessential portrait of the Jazz Age. Listeners will be captivated by its lyrical prose, timeless tropes of star-crossed lovers, and biting social commentary on the hollow pursuit of the American Dream. If you crave atmospheric settings, complex character studies, and tragic romance driven by unforgettable archetypes, this cinematic narration will transport you straight to 1922. 
  About the Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald was a defining voice of the 20th century whose works captured the glittering excess and inherent disillusionment of the Jazz Age. With his unmatched elegant prose and sharp cultural critiques, Fitzgerald cemented his legacy as one of the greatest American writers of all time.

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  The Short Stories of Jack London...

  Jack London

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  John Griffith Chaney was born on January 12th, 1876 in San Francisco.   
   
  His father, William Chaney, was living with Flora Wellman when she became pregnant.  Chaney insisted she have an abortion.  Flora's response was to turn a gun on herself.  Although her wounds were not severe the trauma made her temporarily deranged. 
   
  In late 1876 his mother married John London and the young child was brought to live with them as they moved around the Bay area, eventually settling in Oakland where now, calling himself Jack, he completed grade school. 
   
  Jack worked hard at several jobs, sometimes 12-18 hours a day, but his dream was university.  He studied hard and borrowed the money to enrol in the summer of 1896 at the University of California in Berkeley. 
   
  In 1897, at 21, Jack searched out newspaper accounts of his mother's suicide attempt and for the name of his biological father. He wrote to Chaney, then living in Chicago, who claimed he could not be Jack’s father because he was impotent and casually asserted that London's mother had relations with other men.  Jack, devastated by the response, quit Berkeley and went to the Klondike. Other accounts suggest that his dire finances presented Jack with the excuse he needed to leave. 
   
  In the Klondike Jack began to gather material for his writing but also accumulated many health problems, including scurvy, which together with hip and leg problems he would carry for the rest of his life. 
   
  During the late 1890's Jack was regularly publishing short stories and by the turn of the century full blown novels. 
   
  By 1904 Jack had married, fathered two children and was now in the process of divorcing.  A stint as a reporter on the Russo-Japanese war of 1904 was equal amounts trouble and experience. But that experience was always put to good use in a continuing and remarkable output of work. 
   
  In 1905 he married Charmian Kittredge who at last was a soul and companion who brought him some semblance of peace despite his advancing alcoholism and his incurable wanderlust. 
   
  Twelve years later Jack had amassed both wealth and a literary reputation through such classics as ‘The Call of the Wild’, ‘White Fang’ and many others. He had a reputation as a social activist and was a tireless friend of the workers.   
   
  Jack London died suffering from dysentery, late-stage alcoholism and uremia, aged only 40, on November 22nd 1916 at his property in Glen Elen in California. 
  01 - Jack London - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction 
  02 - To Build a Fire by Jack London 
  03 - A Wicked Woman by Jack London 
  04 - The Unparallelled Invasion by Jack London 
  05 - A Thousand Deaths by Jack London

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  Murder on the SS Cleopatra -...

  Sara Rosett

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  Luxury, lies, and murder on a Nile cruise 
  Join Blix Windway, an adventurous lady traveler, on a journey down the Nile in 1924. An eclectic mix of passengers boards the steamer, including a captain of industry, a former stunt-girl reporter turned lady of the manor, an archaeologist, an American teacher, a British doctor and his invalid wife, and a German photographer.  
  When a passenger is found dead, the elegant cruise turns into a floating crime scene. With everyone confined on board, tensions rise and secrets surface. Even her traveling companion, Hildy Honeyworth, is behaving as if she has something to hide. Blix must navigate the treacherous waters of the investigation and uncover the truth.  
  Set against the stunning backdrop of the Nile River and the ancient wonders of Egypt, this classic whodunit is the second book in the 1920s Lady Traveler in Egypt series from USA Today bestselling author Sara Rosett.

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  3 Stories - Dark Romanticism - A...

  Edgar Allan Poe, E T A Hoffman,...

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  There is something about the number 3.    
   
  The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.   
   
  Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois.  It seems good things usually come in threes. 
   
  Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating. 
   
  From their pens to your your ears.

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