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  Fighter Pilot - The First...

  William R. Dunn

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  This WWII fighter pilot memoir recounts the author’s many exploits as a flying ace during WWII in the Normandy invasions, the Battle for France and beyond.   Born in Minneapolis in 1916, William R. Dunn decided to become a fighter pilot at the age of twelve. In 1939 he joined the Canadian Army and was soon transferred to the Royal Air Force. As part of the RAF’s famous Eagle Squadron, Dunn was sent to Europe to fight in the Second World War. Flying Hawker Hurricanes and Supermarine Spitfires, he was the first Eagle Squadron pilot to shoot down an enemy aircraft. When he later transferred to the US Army Air Forces, he became the first American ace of the war.   Lieutenant Colonel Dunn saw action in the Normandy invasion and in Patton's sweep across France. Twenty years later he fought again in Vietnam. In this lively memoir, Dunn keenly conveys the fighter pilot's experience of war—the tension of combat, the love of aircraft, the elation of victory, the boisterous comradeship and competition of the pilot brotherhood.

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  Wrath of the Dragon - The Real...

  John Little

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  NO RULES. NO PROBLEM.
  		 
  Bruce Lee remains the gold standard that all martial artists are compared to. But could he actually fight? World Champions in karate competition have gone on record to point out that he never once competed in tournaments. Were his martial abilities merely a trick of the camera?
  		 
  For the first time ever, Bruce Lee authority and bestselling author John Little takes a hard look at Bruce Lee’s real-life fights to definitively answer these questions with over 30 years of research that took him thousands of miles. Little has tracked down over 30 witnesses to the real fights of Bruce Lee as well as those who were present at his many sparring sessions (in which he was never defeated) against the very best martial artists in the world.
  		 
  From the mean streets of Hong Kong, to challenge matches in Seattle and Oakland, to the sets of his iconic films where he was challenged repeatedly, this is the incredible real-life fighting record of the man known as the “Little Dragon,” who may well have been the greatest fighter of the 20th century.

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  The Life of Christopher Columbus...

  Edward Everett Hale, Christopher...

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  To these days, the best authorities agree that the children and the grown people of the world have never been mistaken when they have said: "America was discovered in 1492 by Christopher Columbus, a native of Genoa". But what do we really know about the man behind this name, the life behind the myth? Discover the man that experienced incredible adventures, the man with ferocious drive, but still a man of flesh and blood whose life story, spirit and destiny will move you in a way you didn't expect.
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  Early Life of Columbus:
  Birth and Birth Place 
  Early Education
  Experience at Sea
  Marriage and Residence in Lisbon 
  Plans for the Discovery of a Westward Passage to the Indies 
  Columbus Leaves Lisbon, and Visits Genoa
  Visits Great Spanish Dukes
  Six Years at the Court of Ferdinand and Isabella
  The Council of Salamanca
  Petition at Last Granted—squadron
  The Great Voyage: 
  The Squadron Sails
  Refits at Canary Islands
  Hopes and Fears of the Voyage
  The Doubts of the Crew 
  Land Discovered   
  The Landing on the Twelfth of October
  The Natives and Their Neighbors
  Search for Gold
  Cuba Discovered 
  Columbus Coasts Along Its Shores 
  Landing on Cuba
  The Cigar and Tobacco
  Cipango and the Great Khan
  Cuba to Haiti
  Shores and Harbors 
  Discovery of Haiti or Hispaniola
  Hospitality and Intelligence of the Natives
  A Shipwreck
  Colony to Be Founded
  Columbus Sails East and Meets Martin Pinzon
  The Two Vessels Return to Europe
  The Azores and Portugal 
  Columbus Is Called to Meet the King and Queen
  His Magnificent Reception
  Negotiations With the Pope and With the King of Portugal
  The Second Expedition Sails From Cadiz
  Touches at Canary Islands
  Discovery of Dominica and Guadeloupe 
  Skirmishes With the Caribs
  Porto Rico Discovered 
  Hispaniola
  The Fate of the Colony at La Navidad
  The New Colony Guacanagari
  Mutiny in the Colony
  Collection of Gold
  Fortress of St. Thomas
  A New Voyage of Discovery
  Jamaica Visited
  The South Shore of Cuba Explored
  Letter to the King and Queen
  Discovery of Trinidad ...

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  Top 10 Short Stories The - The...

  Edgar Allan Poe

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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. 
   
  Some of our earliest thrills – and fears – dwell within us because of a ghost story heard in childhood.  Whether fearful or giggling in delight it carries through with us till adult times.  These dark, foreboding works may raise many a goosebump, an unexpected laugh, or, a tinge or two of real fear but then, in these authors hands that may be just the beginning. 
   
  01 - The Top 10 - The Ghost Story 
  2 - The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe 
  3 - The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  4 - The Signalman by Charles Dickens 
  5 - The Phantom Rickshaw by Rudyard Kipling 
  6 - The Horla by Guy de Maupassant 
  7 - Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter by Sheridan Le Fanu 
  8 - The Empty House by Algernon Blackwood 
  9 - Oh Whistle and I'll Come to You My Lad by M R James 
  10 - The Eyes by Edith Wharton 
  11 - The Case of Vincent Pyrwhit by Barry Pain

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  The Humorous Short Stories of...

  Mark Twain

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  This delightful collection of gems by Mark Twain begins with the story of a town called Hadleyburg, which prides itself on the honesty of its citizens. One day a citizen of Hadleyburg offends a stranger passing through, who vows to take his revenge by revealing just how corruptible the sanctimonious town really is. Twain is at his best here, poking fun at common hypocrisy as the self-satisfied pillars of the community are done in by their own greed. 
  Other stories in the collection include: 1. The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg2. The Double Barrelled Detective Story3. The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County4. The Million Dollar Bank Note5. Benton and Mills6. A Tale7. Cannibalism in the Cars8. The Stolen White Elephant9. The Man Who Put Up at Gadsby's10. The Good Little Boy11. The Bad Little Boy12. Baker's Blue Jay Yarn

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  Straight Out of Brooklyn - A...

  R. J. Cardullo

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  This book details the author’s Italian-American beginnings in the New York of the 1950s and the profound effect that his extended, working-class family has had on his life. So great has this effect been that, as the author ages, he finds he thinks less of the momentous history through which he has lived, or of the intellectual life he has enjoyed, than of some things far more permanent, profound, and primordial: the people and places he knew as a youth, and that knew him; the baseball he played, the movies he loved (and the movie stars he spotted), the teachers he revered; the English his family learned as well as the Italian he unlearned, or lost in translation; the Mafiosi he met and marked; and the religion of his youth that he abandoned, yet that did not abandon him. Cardullo knows that he can’t go home again: all he can really do is think about it, which he does so eloquently in Straight Out of Brooklyn.

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