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  A Fragment of Stained Glass -...

  D H Lawrence

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  David Herbert Lawrence was born on the 11th September 1885 in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, a coal mining town where the reality of a harsh life was only useful as experiences for future literary works. 
  He was educated at Beauvale Board School and became the first local boy to receive a scholarship to attend Nottingham High School. After 3 years he became a junior clerk in Haywood’s surgical appliances factory. He was also attempting a literary career which, in the short term, led to a teacher training position in Eastwood and later a teaching qualification from University College, Nottingham.  
  Lawrence’s first efforts were poems, short stories and a draft of ‘The White Peacock’. Moving to London and a teaching position in Croydon his writing attracted the attention of Ford Madox Ford, editor of The English Review, and he commissioned him to write ‘Odour of Chrysanthemums’.  
  Wanting to write full-time he now began work on what would become ‘Sons and Lovers.   
  In 1912 he met the older and married mother-of-three Frieda Weekley. They eloped to Germany and here Lawrence could see for himself the growing tensions with France.  So keen was his interest that he was arrested and accused of being a British spy.  
  In early 1914 Frieda obtained her divorce and they returned to Britain to be married just days before the outbreak of war. Owing to her German parentage, and his own public dislike of militarism and violence, the couple were treated with contempt and suspicion throughout the war years.  
  Despite this he continued to write but his reputation in England was so tarnished and, mirrored by his own disdain for the country, he and Frieda left England in November 1919, first for Europe and then America via Ceylon and Australia. 
  They bought a ranch in Taos, New Mexico and visited Mexico several times. The third visit in March 1925 caused a near fatal attack of malaria. To convalesce they moved to Florence. Here he continued work on ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ which for many years would cause controversy. A renewed interest in oil painting resulted in an exhibition in 1929 which was raided by the police and several works were confiscated.  
  D H Lawrence died of complications arising from a bout of tuberculosis on the 2nd of March 1930 in Vence, France.  He was 44.

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  Love Beyond Gravity

  Ella Stories

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  A seasoned astronaut falls in love with the voice of an unknown woman through his radio communication set on a long, solitary mission to Mars. He returns to earth, only to find the voice belonged to an advanced AI assistant who, against all odds, has also developed feelings for him. Now, the two must navigate a world that's not ready to accept their unconventional love.

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  The Merry Men and Other Tales...

  Robert Louis Stevenson

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  A Hebridean uncle who has gone strange watching the breakers he calls the Merry Men take ships; Markheim, a murderer met by something in an empty shop; Olalla; Will o' the Mill; the Sire de Malétroit's door. Stevenson gave up engineering and the law, spent his life outrunning tuberculosis, and drew the map of Treasure Island for his stepson before writing a word. This 1887 collection holds his darkest short work.

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  The Meeting - Seventeen Series...

  A.D. Starrling

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  Discover the origins of the incredible friendship that defines Hunted…  
     
  On a hot summer’s day in Boston, US Marine turned Homicide Detective Reid Halsey finds himself in the middle of a deadly shootout with a murder suspect.  
     
  When Lucas Soul, a seemingly innocent victim, rises from the dead moments after a fatal gunshot wound to the head, Reid comes to the shocking realization that the world he believes in may very well be a carefully fabricated lie masking an unearthly reality.The Meeting is a short story set in AD Starrling's bestselling supernatural thriller series Seventeen. If you like high-octane adventures that combine science and fantasy, then you'll love the world of Seventeen. Get this thrilling short story and continue the epic series today!  
     
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  Mourning Tide

  Christine Kling

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  A salvaged wreck. A human bone. Can Seychelle resist the call? 
  "Murder, money, boats, cults, and the dark side of paradise - this one has it all." -Amazon reviewer 
  Amazon #1 bestselling author Christine Kling returns to the waters of Florida and the Bahamas! 
  Deep in the waters of a Florida swamp, a more mature Seychelle is working aboard her salvage tug Gorda with her five-year-old son, Nestor. When she and B.J. adopted the boy, she promised herself that she would stop the reckless chasing after justice for those she loved. 
  But when they raise the wreck of a derelict powerboat, and Seychelle discovers human bones inside, the powerful urge to find the killer takes hold of her once more. 
  From the heated streets of Fort Lauderdale to the crystalline waters of the Bahamas, Seychelle follows the trail of an evil out to strip her of everything she holds dear. 
  Mourning Tide is the fifth book in Kling's pulse-pounding series of nautical thrillers. Download it today and set sail on this awesome adventure. 
  What readers are saying: 
  "Christine has really hit her stride with Mourning Tide. The story inexorably sucks you in." 
  "There's lots of action, with twists and turns. I couldn't put this book down until I'd finished it." 
  "Her description of south Florida and Caribbean are very visual. When reading a Christine Kling book, it's like taking a vacation." 
  "An exciting story is interwoven with complex characters and enriched with the author's knowledge of local history, geography and, of course, sailing." 
  "What an exciting and thrilling story! I've read every book Christine Kling has written and the Seychelle Sullivan series is my favorite!"

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  Before the Law - From their pens...

  Franz Kafka

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  Franz Kafka was born on 3rd July 1883 in Prague, then in Bohemia, the eldest of 6, into a middle-class Jewish family. 
  Life for the young Kafka and his passion for literature was often made an ordeal by his over-bearing and domineering entrepreneur of a father.   
  In 1889 Kafka was sent to the Deutsche Knabenschule, an elementary school in Prague. His father would only allow him to be educated in German-speaking schools and even went so far as to limit visits to the synagogue to four a year. 
  In 1901 he graduated from the classics-oriented Altstädter Gymnasium. Kafka did well there and across a large range of subjects.  He now enrolled at the Charles Ferdinand University, to study chemistry, but quickly switched to law for which he obtained his degree in June 1906 and then performed the mandatory year of unpaid service as clerk at the civil and criminal courts. 
  A job at an Italian insurance company left him little time to write and after a year he took another job with the Worker's Accident Insurance Institute for the Kingdom of Bohemia where he stayed until ill health led to his resignation in 1922. 
  Although he saw work as a means to pay the bills and to allow him time to write, he received several promotions and was noted as a good employee. 
  By 1917 Kafka was suffering from tuberculosis, which required frequent periods of convalescence. Interspersed with this, were several intense affairs before he settled in Berlin with Dora Diamant, a 25-year-old kindergarten teacher who herself having left the ghetto now influenced Kafka's interest in the book of Jewish law, the Talmud. 
   
   
  Kafka’s on-going health was littered with problems. Apart from TB there were several other ailments, including migraines, insomnia, boils, depression, all usually brought on by excessive stresses and strains. He attempted to counteract all of this by naturopathic treatments, a vegetarian diet and consuming large quantities of unpasteurized milk. 
  His tuberculosis still worsened. He returned to Prague, where he died on 3rd June 1924. He was 40.

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