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  Middlemarch

  George Eliot

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  "Middlemarch" is a novel by George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Ann Evans, published in 1871-72. Widely regarded as one of the greatest novels in the English language, it is an intricate portrait of a provincial town and its inhabitants. The narrative explores the lives, ambitions, and relationships of several characters, with the central story revolving around Dorothea Brooke and her marriage to the older, pedantic scholar, Mr. Casaubon. Eliot uses the microcosm of Middlemarch society to provide astute commentary on politics, women's rights, marriage, idealism, self-interest, and the constraints of societal expectations.

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  Roman Rhineland and the Crusade...

  Lucas Weber

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  Shortly after arriving in the new city of Constantinople in the fourth century AD, Tontorix and Diaecus are enticed into the Roman army for the secret purpose of converting military officers from the cult of Mithras to Christianity. Assigned to serve in present-day Cologne, Germany, they come into direct and perilous conflict with the Ripuarian Franks and Alemanni along the border of the Rhine River and must decide how far they will go to achieve their objective. 
  Hundreds of years later, from the seventh to the ninth centuries, the two ageless friends travel along trade routes east into China, where they encounter martial arts and live through Emperor Wuzong's persecution of Buddhism. 
  In the twelfth century, after returning to the west and hearing about the crusade for the Holy Land, they travel to Jerusalem to visit the most famous religious sites in the world. Their involvement in the siege of Ashkelon leads them into Egypt where the Kingdom of Jerusalem, the Zengid dynasty, and the Fatimid caliphate battle for control over the strategically important land and its people. 
  Ultimately, after centuries of observing different faiths, spiritual practices, and religious conflicts throughout the world, they come to a shared conclusion about divine existence.

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  Alamat: Book 1 Lam-ang

  Herbert De Leon

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  The war of the three realms begins here… 
  In the heart of the Samtoy Nation during the pre-colonial era of Philippine history, the world of Filipino heroes, deities, and mythological monsters collide in an ambitious re-telling of a classic Filipino epic. 
  Our story begins with Namongan, a healer and midwife from an isolated village in the Ilocos Region who discovers that she is destined to bear a child blessed by the Poon deities. This child is Lam-ang and he is the first Lakandian. Maturing at a rate unheard of amongst mere mortals, Lam-ang also possesses the strength of a hundred men and was trained to be the greatest warrior for good the mortal realm has ever seen. 
  Together with Mangmankik, an anito spirit assigned to look after him by the Poons, Lam-ang sets out on a quest to find the missing pieces of the Gayaman Amulet and rescue his father who was abducted by the insidious night creatures on the night that he was born. 
  This book covers the first half of the life of Lam-ang, derived from the Ilocano epic Biag ni Lam-ang. The story follows the adventures of our hero as he uncovers the truth about himself as well as the truth about his role in the war between the forces of good and evil that threatens not just the fate of the world of men but all the realms of the spirit world as well.

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  The Medicine Woman of Galveston

  Amanda Skenandore

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  Once a trailblazer in the field of medicine, Dr. Tucia Hatherley hasn't touched a scalpel or stethoscope since she made a fatal mistake in the operating theater. Instead, she works in a corset factory, striving to earn enough to support her disabled son. When even that livelihood is threatened, Tucia is left with one option—to join a wily, charismatic showman named Huey and become part of his traveling medicine show. 
   
   
   
  Her medical license lends the show a pretense of credibility, but the cures and tonics Tucia is forced to peddle are little more than purgatives and bathwater. Loathing the duplicity, even as she finds uneasy kinship with the other misfit performers, Tucia vows to leave as soon as her debts are paid and start a new life with her son—if Huey will ever let her go. 
   
   
   
  When the show reaches Galveston, Texas, Tucia tries to break free from Huey, only to be pulled even deeper into his schemes. But there is a far greater reckoning ahead, as a September storm becomes a devastating hurricane that will decimate the Gulf Coast—and challenge Tucia to recover her belief in medicine, in the goodness of others—and in herself.

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  The Supreme Illusion - Story...

  Arnold Bennett

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  Arnold Bennett was born in 1867 in Hanley one of the six towns that formed the Potteries that later joined together to become Stoke on Trent; the area in which most of his works are located. For a short time he worked for his solicitor father before realising that to advance his life he would need to become his own man. Moving to London at twenty-one he obtained work as a solicitor’s clerk and gradually moved into a career of journalism. At the turn of the century he turned full time to writing and shortly thereafter in 1903 he moved to Paris and in 1908 published to great acclaim The Old Wives Tale. With this his reputation was set. Clayhanger and The Old Wives Tale are perhaps his greatest and most lauded novels.

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  Media The - A Short Story...

  Henry James, E M Delafield,...

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  The Modern Age is one of information overload.  Bombarded, surrounded, and battered by facts, figures, opinions and seemingly whatever else comes out of anyone’s head from all directions at all hours of the day and night.  It’s exhausting. 
   
  However, in this volume we go back a little way to when social media was an actual chat on the street corner or a dinner party, when breaking news was tomorrow’s newspaper or something momentous when a TV or radio programme could be interrupted with the outbreak of war or the death of a leader or sovereign. 
   
  In the pens of such luminaries as Henry James, E M Delafield, C E Montague, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and many others we connect with old fashioned media from publishing and advertising to telegrams and radio and everything in between in ways that are surprising, enlightening but always entertaining. 
  1 - The Media - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction 
  2 - The Death of the Lion - Part 1 by Henry James 
  3 - The Death of the Lion - Part 2 by Henry James 
  4 - The Voice of God by Winifred Holtby 
  5 - Home Life Relayed by E M Delafield 
  6 - His Wife's Deceased Sister by Frank R Stockton 
  7 - Over the Wires by H D Everett 
  8 - The Night Wire by W F Arnold 
  9 - The Millionaire's Telegram by Barry Pain 
  10 - Mutiny by Dorothy Edwards 
  11 - The Eidoloscope by Robert Duncan Milne 
  12 - The Cloud-Men by Owen Oliver 
  13 - Why Herbert Killed His Mother by Winifred Holtby 
  14 - Looking at the Classics by E M Delafield 
  15 - Making a Living by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 
  16 - Two or Three Witnesses by C E Montague

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