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  The Forger's Requiem

  Bradford Morrow

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  Literary forger Henry Slader, assaulted and presumed dead by his longtime nemesis, Will, awakens in a shallow grave, suffocating in dirt. Concussed and disoriented, Slader exhumes himself and sets out to exact revenge on his rival, orchestrate Will's downfall, and make a fortune along the way—armed with a devastating secret about Will's past. 
   
   
   
  Slader quickly draws in Will's daughter, Nicole, wielding his threats against her father to blackmail her into forging inscriptions by such authors as Poe, Hemingway, James Joyce, and Gertrude Stein. As Nicole's skill grows, so does her devotion to—and doubts about—her father's integrity, until she commits the ultimate betrayal for the sake of his freedom. With breathtakingly precise background knowledge and virtuoso execution, Nicole forges a suite of brilliantly convincing and surpassingly valuable letters by Frankenstein author Mary Shelley—planting within them the seeds of Slader's doom. 
   
   
   
  Moving between upstate New York, a village in Ireland, London, and ending in a shocking standoff at the site of Mary Shelley's grave in a coastal town in Southern England, The Forger's Requiem is both a compelling standalone novel and the crescendo ending to the trilogy Joyce Carol Oates has called "lethally enthralling to read."

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  Covenant of the Ashen Wolf Vol 1

  P. A. Pena

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  Embark on an epic quest beyond imagination. A mystical wonderland teeming with perilous creatures, arcane anomalies, and souls tainted by degeneracy awaits those daring enough to seek the ultimate prize. For those who find the Heart of Mithrandir shall find what their heart truly desires...or at least that’s how the legend goes. 
  Driven by a longing to reunite with the only father she has ever known, Ksara Sepheron travels the outer realm in search of fearless bandits crazy enough to join her cause. When her journey takes a turn for the worse, she finds herself caught amidst a family’s desperate struggle to pry themselves free from a fiery tyrant. Enter Gerrin Ruu—a man with a deep hatred for bandits condemned to a hellish life to protect what little family he has left. 
  Can Ksara and Gerrin find common ground and survive the tyranny of the Flame Bandits?

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  200 Anniversary Collection

  Charles Dickens

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  The Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection comprises short works, fiction, essays, poetry, letters, magazine articles and speeches. Here is a wonderful potpourri of all genres and periods of his writing. This first volume was released on Dickens' 200th birthday, February 7th 2012. 
   
   This precious audio work includes short stories including, amongst others, The Holly Tree, the first part of Holiday Romance and three pieces from Mugby Junction. Some items requiring a little further explanation are Prince Bull, written as a fairy tale, but in reality a scathing attack on the Government's handling of supplies to the troops in the Crimean War; Old Lamps for New Ones in which Dickens makes clear his low opinion of the ethos of the Pre-Raphaelite school of painting; and Frauds on the Fairies, a polemic against George Cruikshank's bowdlerization of fairy tales for moralistic purposes, and the interesting revelation that 'product placement' is by no means a new phenomenon. 
   
  With narration by Emmy Award-nominated actor Geoffrey Giuliano.

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  The Cowboy's Bride

  Christine Sterling

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  ★★★ The much anticipated fourth story in the Flat River Matchmaker Series, which began in The Farmer's Wife. ★★★ 
  A woman desiring a husband and a family; a man that vows to never marry any woman, and a marriage of convenience that changes them both forever. 
  June Clark's reputation was in tatters. Her marriage was a fraud. She lost everything, including her pride, in a fire started by her reprobate husband. And to make matters worse, she'd never be a mother. Desperate for a second chance, June reaches out to the local matchmaker, never dreaming that she'd be matched to a cowboy with a reputation for womanizing, drinking, and gambling! 
  Percival “Ranger” Hardin loved no woman. He’d seen too many cowboy’s hearts broken by the swish of a skirt. All that changed when he meets shy June at a summer picnic. One kiss and he was lost. When he finds out she wants to adopt the baby of a local criminal, he rebuffs the interfering local matchmaker trying to push them together. 
  When Ranger finally agrees to a temporary marriage of convenience until the child is one year old, he promises that it will be in name only. What happens when Ranger starts to fall for his new wife and child, but June wants to keep to the original agreement? Can he overcome her resistance and convince her to become The Cowboy’s Bride? 
  Find out in this small-town, historical romance with a touch of faith. 
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  The Flat River Matchmaker series features characters you know from Christine's popular series The Chapmans. Each book in this series is stand-alone and can be read in any order. 
  Want to read more romance set in Flat River, Nebraska? Check out Christine's page at www.flatrivernebraska.com

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  The Short Stories of Henry W...

  Henry W Nevinson

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  Henry Woodd Nevinson was born on October 11th, 1856. 
  Nevinson was schooled at Shrewsbury School and at Christ Church, Oxford. John Ruskin influenced his time at Oxford. Fascinated by German Culture he spent some time at Jena before publishing, in 1884, Herder & His times, a study on Johnann Gottfried Herder. 
  In 1897 he became the Daily Chronicle's reporter for the Greco-Turkish War. He was also noted for his reporting on the Second Boer War. 
  During the 1880s Nevinson had attached his politics to Socialism and by 1889 had joined the Social Democratic Federation. 
  In 1904, he was hired by Harper's Monthly Magazine to report on a supposed trade in slaves from Angola to the cocoa plantations of São Tomé. He produced evidence of people being trafficked to settle debts or seized by Portuguese agents and taken in shackles to the coastal towns. Once there he wrote that Portuguese officials "freed" them and continued the charade by declaring they were now voluntary workers who agreed to go to São Tomé for five years. Despite severe ill health he continued to follow the slaves to São Tomé. He found plantation conditions so appalling that one in five workers died each year. His account was serialised from August 1905 and then published as ‘A Modern Slavery’ in 1906. 
  He was also a suffragist, being one of the founders in 1907 of the Men's League for Women's Suffrage. 
  In 1914 he co-founded the Friends' Ambulance Unit and later in World War I, as a war correspondent, was wounded during the infamous Gallipoli campaign. 
  E. M. Forster described Nevinson's book, ‘More Changes, More Chances’ in 1925 as "exciting", and that "He has brought to the soil of his adoption something that transcends party-generosity, recklessness, a belief in conscience joined to a mistrust of principles". 
  A committed Socialist Nevinson could see, during the 20s and 30s, the foundations of a titanic struggle began to gather its forces. He would later state "I detest the cruel systems of persecution and suppression now existing under Hitler in Germany, Mussolini in Italy and Stalin in Russia". 
  Nevinson married Margaret Wynne Jones and, after her death in 1933, he married his long-time lover, and fellow suffragist, Evelyn Sharp. 
  Henry W. Nevinson died on November 9th, 1941. 
   
  01 - Henry W. Nevinson. A Short Story Volume - An Introduction 
  02 - St George of Rochester by Henry W. Nevinson 
  03 - The Aristocrat of Labour by Henry W. Nevinson

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  The Judge's House

  Bram Stoker

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  "The Judge's House" is a gothic short story by Bram Stoker, first published in 1887. It follows a young man named Malcolm Ross, who seeks solitude and peace in a remote village while preparing for an important exam. He rents a mysterious, decaying house once owned by a judge with a dark reputation. As Ross settles in, he experiences eerie, supernatural occurrences that reveal the house's sinister past. The story explores themes of isolation, terror, and the haunting consequences of unresolved guilt.

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