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  A Class Coveted - A sweeping...

  Susie Murphy

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  Their choices have shackled her dreams… 
  It’s 1836, and Bridget and Cormac have arrived, full of hope, to the city of Boston with their growing family. However, as they adjust to domestic life together for the first time, they face anti-Irish sentiment from the local Americans, as well as a threat to their happiness from a much closer source. 
  Cormac undertakes the challenging search for his missing sister, Bronagh. He is determined to do all he can to put the broken pieces of his family back together, but the appalling truth he uncovers will shake him to his core. 
  Meanwhile, as Emily grows up in this new country, she realises how her parents’ past actions will affect her entire future and she begins to covet that which is no longer within her reach. When she receives an unexpected proposition, will she be able to resist its temptation, despite the untrustworthy nature of the person behind it? 
  A Class Coveted is the fourth book in Susie Murphy's historical fiction series A Matter of Class. The story continues in the fifth book, A Class Reunited. 
  Find out more at www.susiemurphywrites.com.

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  Eighteen Minutes to Freedom

  Gaurav Garg

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.   
  In the heart of 1830s Texas, a land of sprawling prairies and simmering discontent, the seeds of revolution are sown. The iron rule of Mexican General Santa Anna pushes Anglo settlers and proud Tejanos to the brink, igniting a desperate struggle for liberty that will forever scar the land and its people. "Forged in Fire and Blood" plunges into this maelstrom through the intertwined destinies of three unforgettable characters. 
  Declan Brody, a veteran haunted by past wars, sought only a quiet life on his Texas homestead. But as tyranny tightens its grip, from the defiant stand at Gonzales to the legendary siege of the Alamo, he is forced to take up arms once more. His journey through the revolution’s most brutal battles, including the Goliad Massacre and the pivotal charge at San Jacinto, becomes a testament to human resilience and a harrowing exploration of the true cost of conflict. 
  Catalina "Lina" de la Garza, an educated Tejano woman from a respected San Antonio family, initially places her faith in the Mexican Constitution of 1824. But as Santa Anna’s centralist regime crushes federalist hopes and incites brutal conflict, she witnesses the siege of her beloved Bexar and endures the terrifying hardships of the Runaway Scrape. Torn between cultures and loyalties, Lina’s spirit awakens, transforming her into a courageous advocate for her people in the turbulent aftermath of war, fighting for their place in a newly forged, uncertain republic. 
  "Eighteen Minutes to Freedom" is a sweeping, action-packed e

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  Villette Volume 1

  Charlotte Brontë

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  "Villette" by Charlotte Bronte follows the journey of Lucy Snowe, a young Englishwoman who, after a series of personal tragedies, travels to the fictional town of Villette in Belgium. There, she becomes a teacher at a girls' school, facing loneliness and challenges in a foreign land. As Lucy navigates the complexities of human relationships and societal expectations, she finds herself drawn to an enigmatic professor, M. Paul Emanuel. Amidst emotional turmoil and conflicting feelings, Lucy must confront her past and make difficult choices about love and independence. Brontë's exquisite prose weaves themes of self-discovery, feminism, and the human spirit, leaving readers captivated by Lucy's transformation and the novel's exploration of the complexities of life and the pursuit of happiness.

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  Invasion of the Sea

  Jules Verne, Edward Baxter,...

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  Jules Verne, celebrated French author of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in 80 Days, wrote over 60 novels collected in the popular series "Voyages Extraordinaires." A handful of these have never been translated into English, including Invasion of the Sea, written in 1904 when large-scale canal digging was very much a part of the political, economic, and military strategy of the world's imperial powers. 
  Instead of linking two seas, as existing canals (the Suez and the Panama) did, Verne proposed a canal that would create a sea in the heart of the Sahara Desert. The story raises a host of concerns — environmental, cultural, and political. The proposed sea threatens the nomadic way of life of those Islamic tribes living on the site, and they declare war. The ensuing struggle is finally resolved only by a cataclysmic natural event. This Wesleyan edition features notes, appendices and an introduction by Verne scholar Arthur B. Evans.

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  Black History Collection -...

  Frederick Douglass, Harriet Ann...

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  America's black intellectuals - writers, historians, educators, and community activists - have made major contributions to the struggle for equality and human rights throughout American public life.
  The key streams of thought that gave rise to the intellectual traditions associated with African Americans emerged in the 18th and 19th centuries. These same traditions continue to develop and influence social and political processes today.
  This tome presents the collected writings of those titans of thought who laid the intellectual, cultural, and even emotional foundations for the modern African American movement.
  
  Frederick Douglass; Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
  Harriet Ann Jacobs; Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
  Booker T. Washington; Up from Slavery
  W.E.B. Du Bois; The Gift of Black Folk

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  Top 10 Short Stories The - The...

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edgar...

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  Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart.  A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. 
   
  In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?  
   
  The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme.  Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. 
   
  Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made.  If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. 
   
  In this small corner of the United States there is to be found a part of America that is both recognizable and yet distinct and of itself.  Whilst others pushed Westward these authors found much amongst their experiences that detailed and charted the world around them.  These are their stories. 
   
  1 - The Top 10 - US Authors of New England - An Introduction 
  2 - The Yellow Wall Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 
  3 - The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe 
  4 - The Color Out of Space by H P Lovecraft 
  5 - Conversation on Conversation by Harriet Beecher Stowe 
  6 - Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne 
  7 - The Tachypomp by Edward Page Mitchell 
  8 - A White Heron by Sarah Orne Jewett 
  9 - The Man Without a Country by Edward Everett Hale 
  10 - A Responsibility by Henry Harland 
  11 - A New England Nun by Mary E Wilkins Freeman

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