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  Silas Marner

  George Eliot

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  Reputed as Eliot's favourite novel Silas Marner is set in the early years of the 19th century. Marner, a weaver, is a member of a small congregation in Lantern Yard. Falsely accused of a crime he didn't commit, he leaves his home and lives a solitary life near the village of Raveloe. Dedicating his life to weaving and hoarding gold for the next fifteen years, circumstances beyond his control shape his destiny and help to restore his faith in humanity.

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  Old Norse Spell Book The: The...

  Alda Dagny

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  How much do you know about the enthralling and unique Viking culture? 
  Perhaps you have watched one of the many remarkable fiction or non-fiction films that depict Vikings (Last Kingdom, anyone?), and it has piqued your interest, making you want to learn more. 
  Or maybe you're just a big history buff who is keen to learn more about how the Vikings lived, innovated, and helped shape society as we know it today. 
  If this sounds like you, you're in the right place! 
  Introducing The Old Norse Spell Book: The Saga of Viking Warriors, a perfect read for anyone looking to learn all about Viking longships, explorations, and the legacy of the shield maidens. 
  Norse culture was exceptionally unique in many ways, allowing the Vikings to capitalize on their advanced exploration tools, superior fighting techniques, and aggressive nature and, eventually, sweep through parts of Europe, most notably England, Scotland, and Wales. 
  Learn all about their expeditions, famous fighting techniques, unique gender roles, and much much more in this all-encompassing book on Viking culture. 
  Inside The Old Norse Spell Book: The Saga of Viking Warriors, you will:  
  ●     Dive deep into the world of Viking longships and life on sea. 
  ●     Gain insights into Viking explorations, raids, and settlements. 
  ●     Understand the role of female Vikings as shield maidens. 
  ●     Discover everything you need to know about Norse mythology and Viking lore, folk tales, and heroic legends. 
  If you're a true fan of Norse history and the era of the Vikings, you don't want to miss out on this book! 
  Grab a copy of The Old Norse Spell Book: The Saga of Viking Warriors today!

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  What's These Worlds Coming To?

  Jean-Luc Nancy, Aurélien Barrau

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  The eminent philosopher and an emerging astrophysicist return to the ancient art of cosmology in a study of plural worlds and their rebuilding. 
   
  Our contemporary challenge, according to Jean-Luc Nancy and Aurelien Barrau, is that a new world has stolen up on us. We no longer live in a world, but in worlds. We do not live in a universe anymore, but rather in a multiverse. We no longer create; we appropriate and montage. And we no longer build sovereign, hierarchical political institutions; we form local assemblies and networks of cross-national assemblages—and we do this at the same time as we form multinational corporations that no longer pay taxes to the state. 
   
  Nancy and Barrau invite us on an uncharted walk into barely known worlds when an everyday French idiom, “What’s this world coming to?” is used to question our conventional thinking about the world. We soon find ourselves living among heaps of odd bits and pieces that are amassing without any unifying force or center, living not only in a time of ruin and fragmentation but in one of rebuilding. Astrophysicist Aurelien Barrau articulates a major shift in the paradigm of contemporary physics from a universe to a multiverse. Meanwhile, Jean-Luc Nancy’s essay “Of Struction” is a contemporary comment on the project of deconstruction and French poststructuralist thought. Together Barrau and Nancy argue that contemporary thought has shifted from deconstruction to what they carefully call the struction of dis-order.

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  SOE in France 1941–1945 - An...

  Robert Bourne-Patterson

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  In the archives of the Special Operations Executive lay a report compiled by a staff officer and former member of SOE's French Section, Major Robert Bourne-Patterson, that until recently could not be published. Because of the highly sensitive nature of the work undertaken by the SOE, the paper was treated as confidential and its circulation was strictly limited to selected personnel. Now, at last, it can be made available to the general public.Limited, also, was the time available to Bourne-Patterson in compiling his report in 1946 as the SOE was being wound up and many documents were being weeded from the files. Nevertheless, the paper he wrote gives a good picture of the work of the SOE in France, the country where its operations were most extensive. It contains an overview of operations in France by the Special Operations Executive during the Second World War with detailed records of individual circuits from their inception onwards, containing much information concerning individual agents and their contacts, calendars of subversive activity against the Germans and the names and addresses of personnel connected with the circuits who had survived the war. In writing his account, Bourne-Patterson drew heavily on personal interviews and wartime debriefings by agents.

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  A Clear Premonition - The...

  Raleigh Trevelyan

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  An insightful collection of WWII correspondence between a British lieutenant & his mother, with commentary by his best friend and fellow soldier. Tim Lloyd was aged twenty-two, a lieutenant in the Rifle Brigade, when he was killed in action near Florence in July, 1944. His personality made a vivid impression on his companions, and after all these years he is remembered still for his extraordinary zest for life, his indomitable cheerfulness, and his appreciation of beautiful things. If he had lived, he might well have joined the famous publishing firm of his brother-in-law, Sir William Collins, but more likely he would have been a theatre designer, possibly a great one. He was also brave, though his period at the front line was brief. Raleigh Trevelyan, a year younger, regarded him as his best friend. It was a shock when Tim's nephew Samson Lloyd showed Raleigh Tim’s letters to his mother when they were together in North Africa and Italy. For the first time, Raleigh reread extracts from his own diary and found himself plunged into memories he hoped he had put to rest. Tim had been ill in Italy, so missed being sent to Anzio Beachhead, the subject of Raleigh’s much praised and harrowing battle memoir The Fortress, and also part of his later book Rome ‘44. Meanwhile Tim continued his letters to his mother, outstanding not only in their descriptions of landscape and people, but as an example of a son's deep devotion. Sue Ryder, who had first met Tim on the boat to South Africa, was convinced that he had a clear premonition of what lay in store. Based on his letters to Mrs. Lloyd, the book traces his childhood at Repton, his passion for the theatre and his marionette shows in ENSA, also life in the ranks and wild times in London after being commissioned.

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  Publish with Purpose - A...

  Tara R. Alemany

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  Writing a book isn’t easy. Marketing one isn’t any better. Successful authors understand how the two support each other. 
  The case studies and exercises in this book provide you with a valuable roadmap to effortlessly engage the right readers and achieve the results you want for your reader, your book and yourself. 
  Follow this easily repeatable, goal-oriented framework to:identify your ideal reader and what they want most from you.decide which elements your book needs to build the business you want.reveal the purpose beyond the purpose of your book. 
  After all the effort you’ve put into your book, don’t stop short of your goal! Learn what it takes to make your book a success. 
  “Publish with Purpose is unlike any other book you’ve read before. Yes, it’s a book on writing. Sort of… And it’s also a book on marketing. Sort of… But what it really is, is a cross-over book that looks at how writing and marketing (and everything else you do related to your book) are interconnected. And that’s what makes this book different.” 
  —Taken from the Foreword by Penny Sansevieri, CEO of Author Marketing Experts 
  For fans of:Rob KosbergStephanie ChandlerGundi GabrielleHonoree CorderBryan CollinsChandler Bolt

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