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  Ӕthelflӕd - The Lady of the...

  Tim Clarkson

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  This Dark Ages biography chronicles the life of one of the period's most famous women: the ruler of Mercia who took England back from the Vikings. 
   
   
   
  At the end of the ninth century, a large part of what is now England was controlled by the Vikings—warlike Scandinavians who had been attacking the British Isles for more than a hundred years. Alfred the Great, king of Wessex, was determined to regain the conquered lands. But when he died in 899 A.D., the task passed to his son Edward. In the early 900s, Edward led a great fight against the Viking armies, assisted by the English rulers of Mercia: Lord Æthelred and his wife Æthelflæd, who was also Edward's sister. 
   
   
   
  After her husband's death, Æthelflæd ruled Mercia on her own, leading the army to war and working with her brother to achieve their father's aims. Known to history as the Lady of the Mercians, she earned a reputation as a capable general who was feared by her enemies. In this authoritative biography, Tim Clarkson tells her remarkable life story from childhood to her vital role in saving England from the Vikings.

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  The Double - A Haunting Tale of...

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

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  What if your greatest enemy was yourself? 
  In The Double, Fyodor Dostoevsky delivers a haunting psychological drama about paranoia, identity, and the unraveling of the human mind. The story follows Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin, a lonely, anxious government clerk who suddenly encounters his exact double—an uncanny twin who mirrors his appearance but possesses all the charm, confidence, and success that he lacks. 
  At first, Golyadkin is fascinated by his doppelgänger. But as the double begins to infiltrate his life, taking his place at work, charming his colleagues, and manipulating those around him, Golyadkin spirals into madness, unable to determine whether his nightmare is real or the result of his own fractured psyche. 
  What You’ll Discover in This Modern Translation:A Gripping Psychological Thriller – Experience one of Dostoevsky’s earliest and most unsettling explorations of paranoia and self-destruction.A Profound Study of Identity and Madness – Witness how the battle between self-doubt and self-confidence can drive a man to the edge of insanity.A Masterpiece in a Fresh, Readable Style – This modern adaptation preserves the intensity of Dostoevsky’s prose while making it accessible to contemporary readers.A Chilling Tale of Existential Horror – Delve into the dark depths of the human psyche in a novel that prefigures the themes of Kafka, Orwell, and modern psychological fiction. 
  More than just a psychological thriller, The Double is a deep, unsettling meditation on self-perception, isolation, and the terror of losing one's own identity. 
  Is Golyadkin truly being replaced, or is he simply losing his mind? 
  Get your copy today and step into one of Dostoevsky’s most haunting and fascinating novels.

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  The Story of One Girl

  Magdalena Sizova

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  The story of the childhood, school years, and early career of the great Russian ballerina Galina Ulanova, her struggles, her victories, and her search for her own unique artistic identity.

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  Desert Oracle - Volume 1:...

  Ken Layne

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  This program is read by the author, Ken Layne, host of the Desert Oracle radio show. It includes an exclusive first listen to a story from Desert Oracle: Volume 2.The cult-y field guide to the strange and intriguing secrets of the Mojave—its myths and legends, outcasts and oddballs, flora, fauna, and UFOs—becomes the definitive, oracular book of the desert.For the past five years, Desert Oracle has existed as a quasi-mythical, quarterly periodical available to the very determined only by subscription or at the odd desert-town gas station or the occasional hipster boutique, its canary-yellow-covered, forty-four-page issues handed from one curious desert zealot to the next, word spreading faster than the printers could keep up with. It became a radio show, a podcast, a live performance. Now, for the first time—and including both classic and new, never-before-seen revelations—Desert Oracle is available as an audiobook.Straight out of Joshua Tree, California, Desert Oracle is “The Voice of the Desert”: a field guide to the strange tales, singing sand dunes, sagebrush trails, artists and aliens, authors and oddballs, ghost towns and modern legends, musicians and mystics, scorpions and saguaros, out there in the sand. Desert Oracle is your companion at a roadside diner, around a campfire, in your tent or cabin (or high-rise apartment or suburban living room) as the wind and the coyotes howl outside at night.From journal entries of long-deceased adventurers to stray railroad ad copy, and musings on everything from desert flora, rumored cryptid sightings, and other paranormal phenomena, Ken Layne's Desert Oracle collects the weird and the wonderful of the American Southwest into a single, essential volume.A Macmillan Audio production from MCD Books.

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  Summary of Adharanand Finns’s...

  Falcon Press

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  Buy now to get the main key ideas from Adharanand Finns’s Running with the Kenyans 
    
  Kenyans have been dominating the world running scene for decades. In Running with the Kenyans (2010), Adharanand Finn tells how he and his family left England for an adventure in Kenya, the land of running. Finn was always a natural runner, and he was fascinated by the superiority of Kenyan runners. In Kenya, he met many talented runners and formed a team with them. Ultimately, they decided to run the challenging Lewa Marathon together. Finn didn’t uncover all the secrets to the Kenyans’ success, but he shares what he did learn to help other runners improve too.

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  A Rare Recording of Sir Arthur...

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (May 22, 1859 – July 7, 1930) was a Scottish physician and author, best-known for his stories about Sherlock Holmes, considered milestones in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger. 
  He was a prolific writer whose other works included science fiction stories and fantasy novels, most notably, The Lost World, as well as, plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction and historical novels. The following 1930 recording is from a talk on creating Sherlock Holmes, and spiritualism. 
  (P)2013 Rick Sheridan

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