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  To Marie Louise (Shew) II

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  To Marie Louise (Shew) II: Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories.
  
  In the mad pride of intellectuality,
  Maintained “the power of words”—denied that ever
  A thought arose within the human brain
  Beyond the utterance of the human tongue:
  And now, as if in mockery of that boast,
  Two words—two foreign soft dissyllables—

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  Enlargement - From their pens to...

  John Davys Beresford

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  John Davys Beresford was born on 17th March 1873.  His life was blighted by infantile paralysis which left him partially disabled. 
  After an education at Oundle school he trained to be an architect.  However, he quickly decided that his life was to be centred on a literary career.  His first offerings were in drama and as a journalist. 
  As well as being a book reviewer for the Manchester Guardian he contributed to New Statesman, The Spectator, Westminster Gazette, and the Theosophist magazine The Aryan Path.   
  His spiritual journey in early adulthood had claimed him as an agnostic, in defiance of his clergyman father.  This view he later abandoned in preference to describing himself as a Theosophist and a pacifist. 
  As well as many novels, many themed with spiritual and philosophical elements.  Beresford was also a gifted short story writer particularly across the science-fiction, horror and ghost genres. 
  All of these elements helped him to obtain a prominent place in Edwardian Literary London. 
  John Davys Beresford died on the 2nd February 1947. He was 73.

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  Going Home to Myself - A...

  Edi Winkle

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  A profoundly entertaining story that grips you instantly. 'Going Home to Myself' is the perfect companion for anyone seeking an immersive, high-quality audio adventure. Every minute is packed with excellence, making it impossible to stop listening.

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  Extraordinary Powers

  Joseph Finder

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  A top-secret project empowers an ex-CIA operative to find who killed the Agency’s director in this thriller by a New York Times–bestselling author. 
   
  The news is shattering: The director of the CIA, Harrison Sinclair, has been killed in a car accident. Sinclair may have been a traitor—or the Agency’s last honest man. Even his son-in-law, Ben Ellison, an attorney and ex-agent, has heard rumors of sinister forces within the Agency that could have ordered Sinclair’s assassination. Soon he is thrust into a web of intrigue and violence beyond his control back into the CIA, and lured into a top-secret espionage project in telepathic ability funded by American intelligence. 
   
  As the project’s first success, Ben uses his “extraordinary powers” in the perilous search for Vladimir Orlov, the exiled former chairman of the KGB—and the only man who might unlock the secret of Sinclair’s death and the whereabouts of a multibillion-dollar fortune in gold spirited out of Russia in the last days of the Soviet Union. The hunt for the truth will bring Ben face to face with his past and culminate in a crowded Washington hearing room where, behind high security barriers, a Senate investigating committee is about to call its secret witness . . . as an assassin prepares to strike . . . in Joseph Finder’s Extraordinary Powers. 
   
  “Spectacular . . . The action is unrelenting . . . Electrifying.” —Boston Sunday Herald 
   
  “Gripping drama in which nothing is quite what it seems.” —Seattle Times 
   
  “An extraordinary, powerful book . . . ingeniously plotted, fast-paced, and frighteningly credible.” —Nelson DeMille

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  Mad Barbara - Restoration London...

  Warwick Deeping

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  Restoration London, a girl brought up wild by a soldier father, and a court where nothing is safe. Deeping wrote historical romance before the domestic novels that made his fortune, and this is the most vivid of the early ones. This edition is bound with 57 plates of seventeenth-century painting, among them works by Frans van Mieris the Elder, Thomas Wijck and Judith Leyster, and includes one restored and coloured in-text illustration.

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  Doña Perfecta - Audiobook

  Benito Pérez Galdós, Classic...

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  Written by Spanish novelist Benito Pérez Galdós, Doña Perfecta tells the story of Pepe Rey, a young engineer who travels to the small town of Orbajosa to marry his cousin Rosario. He expects a warm welcome, but soon discovers that his modern ideas and independent nature are deeply unwelcome in a community ruled by tradition, religion, and suspicion.As tension grows between Pepe and Rosario's powerful mother, Doña Perfecta, their planned marriage becomes part of a much larger conflict. Sharp, dramatic, and full of hidden hostility, Doña Perfecta is a powerful story about love, family control, prejudice, and the dangerous consequences of intolerance.

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