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  Murdering Mr Edwards - Tales...

  Shawn L. Bird

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  One obnoxious English teacher. 12 tales of his death. 
  Norton Edwards, English department head, is the reigning despot in Canterbury High.  
  This year, his colleagues have had enough.  
  This year, they're getting rid of Mr. Edwards. 
  In this collection of darkly tongue-in-cheek stories, Mr. Edwards dies, tale after tale. 
  “A clever, funny and totally engaging noir-vella! Loved it!” ~Diana Gabaldon, author of Outlander 
  “If you have never, ever considered murdering someone, then you have never worked in a high school.” ~Scott Anderson, school principal 
  “If you’ve ever taught in a high school, attended a high school, or even driven past a high school, you will enjoy Murdering Mr. Edwards.” ~Chris McMahen, teacher-librarian, author of Box of Shocks, Tabloidology, & Klutzhood 
  Nominated for a 2019 Arthur Ellis Crime Writing Award: The Lou Allin Memorial Best Crime Novella prize.  

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  Percy Bysshe Shelley Renaissance...

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

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  Percy Bysshe Shelley was able to distill big themes into brilliant poems.   
   
  In this collection ‘The Masque of Anarchy’ captures the appalling terror of British troops killing and injuring their own people as they peacefully protest for the reform of Parliamentary representation at Peterloo in Manchester on 16th August, 1819.   
   
  ‘Adonais’ majestically captures his admiration and the deep tragic loss he felt for his friend and fellow Romantic poet John Keats.  
   
  In ‘Ode To Liberty’ Shelley makes a bold plea for the support of revolutionary causes and for the expression of individual freedom. 
   
  In these three pieces Shelley confirms that he did not limit himself in being part of the Romantic movement and was able to actively comment with conviction and passion on the social and political issues of his day.

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  To You Mr Chips - More Stories...

  James Hilton

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  More stories of Mr. Chips, the world’s most beloved schoolmaster, as he helps shape young lives through the first half of a tumultuous centuryWhen author James Hilton penned his beloved short novel, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, he drew on his own formative experiences at a boarding school in Cambridge. As World War I approached, the camaraderie among students and the faculty’s courage helped Hilton and his classmates face the fear and deprivations of those troubled times. In this collection, Hilton adds to the legend of Mr. Chipping through exquisite short stories, while also providing a warm autobiographical account of his own experience with the English public school system.

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  The New Machiavelli

  H. G. Wells

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  A successful author and Liberal MP with a loving and benevolent wife, Richard Remington appears to be a man to envy. But underneath his superficial contentment, he is far from happy with either his marriage or the politics of his party. The New Machiavelli describes the disarray into which his life is thrown, when he meets the young and beautiful Isabel Rivers and becomes tormented by desire. At first, he struggles to resist and remain focused upon his familiar political, personal and social life. But as he soon learns, it is harder than he could have imagined to turn his back on love.

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  Grace Harlowe Overseas

  Jessie Graham Flower

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  In 'Grace Harlowe Overseas', we see Grace and her friends travel to Europe in order to serve in World War I  (Summary by ashleighjane)

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  Mac Travis Adventures Volume...

  Steven Becker

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  The best selling Mac Travis Adventures are centered around South Florida and the Florida Keys, featuring plenty of Keys counter-culture along with SCUBA diving, boating and fishing. 
  Wood's Betrayal 
  Policy changes can have unintended consequences—and they can be deadly 
  It’s easy to stay invisible in the Florida Keys. and Mac Travis is doing his best when a simple fishing trip to the Marquesa Keys lands him in the middle of a deadly plot. 
  When a ruthless shipping magnate returns to his roots and exploits the new Cuban immigration policy, Mac and Trufante are pulled into a life and death struggle, not only for themselves, but those they love. 
  Wood's Tempest 
  Mac Travis thought it was easy to disappear in the Florida Keys. 
  Living on an island; fishing, diving, and some salvage work kept him busy—until his past catches up to him. When a famous treasure hunter is murdered, Mac is handed his research of a hundred lost wrecks, but to save a friends family from a crazed competitor he must find the right one—and find it first, before people dear to him start to die. 
  Wood's Fury 
  Sometimes when you try and do the right thing—it turns into disaster 
  Living on an island, miles from the mainland, Mac Travis thought he could disappear. It was a simple life with no worries and fewer bills. Mac was content working his trap lines, fishing the seasons, and diving. That all ended when he and his mate found a turtle laden down with fifty kilos of pure cocaine floating in the Gulf Stream. 
  What seemed at the time to be a simple rescue, entangles him in a web of deceit and lies. From Marathon to Key West and on to the Dry Tortugas, Mac has no choice but to find a treasure that is better left alone.

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