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  The Last Victorians - A Daring...

  W. Sydney Robinson

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  Ever since the publication of Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians in 1918 it has been fashionable to ridicule the great figures of the nineteenth century. From the longreigning monarch herself to the celebrated writers, philanthropists and politicians of the day, the Victorians have been dismissed as hypocrites and frauds - or worse. Yet not everyone in the twentieth century agreed with Strachey and his followers. To a handful of eccentrics born during Victoria's reign, the nineteenth century remained the greatest era in human history: a time of high culture for the wealthy, 'improvement' for the poor, and enlightened imperial rule for the 400 million inhabitants of the British Empire. They were, to friend and foe alike, 'the last Victorians' - relics of a bygone civilisation. In this daring group biography, W. Sydney Robinson explores the extraordinary lives of four of these Victorian survivors: the 'Puritan Home Secretary', William Joynson-Hicks (1865-1932); the 'Gloomy Dean' of St Paul's Cathedral, W. R. Inge (1860-1954); the belligerent founder of the BBC, John Reith (1889-1971), and the ultra-patriotic popular historian and journalist Arthur Bryant (1899- 1985). While revealing their manifold foibles and eccentricities, Robinson argues that these figures were truly great - even in error.

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  Don't Cry Dance - A Memoir of...

  Nina Angelo

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  Janka was a 16 year old Polish School girl when the Nazi's arrived. Alberto was a feisty Spanish/Greek from Thessaloniki. They met in the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp. In 2016 Nina Angelo, their daughter raised in Australia, started to write her family's memoir, celebrating her parents' survival and love story, their new life and new beginning in Sydney.This audiobook includes music composed by Yantra De Vilder.

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  Top 10 Short Stories The - The...

  Charles W. Chesnutt

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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. 
   
  Across the American continent African Americans have never achieved equal status.  Civil war, societal upheavals white ignorance have still left many at the bottom of the heap. For them the American dream is just that, a long way from real life.  Yet these authors are unafraid to spell out their lives for future generations, it is a powerful legacy.  Hope endures. 
   
  01 - The Top 10 - The African American Short Story - An Introduction 
  2 - The Scapegoat by Paul Laurence Dunbar 
  3 - The Grist in the Mill by Wallace Thurman 
  4 - The Stones of the Village by Alice Dunbar Nelson 
  5 - The Quadroons by Lydia Maria Child 
  6 - Two Offers by Frances W Harper 
  7 - The Wife of His Youth by Charles W Chesnutt 
  8 - The City of Refuge by Rudolph Fisher 
  9 - Talma by Pauline E Hopkins 
  10 - The Hoodoo by Martha Gruening 
  11 - The Black Vampyre by Uriah Derick D'Arcy

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  The Autobiography of Benjamin...

  Benjamin Franklin

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  Franklin's Autobiography has received widespread praise, both for its historical value as a record of an important early American and for its literary style. It is often considered the first American book to be taken seriously by Europeans as literature. 
  By the 1860s, use of the Autobiography and its depiction of Franklin's industry and relentless self-improvement had become widespread as an instructive model for youth.  
  "Franklin's is one of the greatest autobiographies in literature, and towers over other autobiographies as Franklin towered over other men."  
  Download this incredible audio book of one of the best autobiographies ever written!

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  Life as it Happens 2000 - 2005

  Howard Mack

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  A collection of two short stories about life of an IT consultant between the years 2000 - 2005.The stories take place in Toronto, Montreal and Paris. It contains stories of both a homeless adventure and a fantastic vacation in Paris.

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  Scent of the Missing - Love and...

  Susannah Charleson

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  A “haunting meditation on trust, hope and love” by a woman who adopts and trains a Golden Retriever puppy to become a search-and-rescue dog (People).   In the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing, Susannah Charleson’s attention was caught by a newspaper photograph of a canine handler, his exhausted face buried in the fur of his search-and-rescue dog.   Susannah, a dog lover and pilot with search experience herself, was so moved by the image that she decided to volunteer with a local canine team, plunging herself into an astonishing new world. While the team worked long hours for nonexistent pay and often heart-wrenching results, Charleson discovered the joy of working in partnership with a canine friend and the satisfaction of using their combined skills to help her fellow human beings.   Once she qualified to train a dog of her own, Charleson adopted Puzzle—a smart, spirited Golden Retriever puppy who exhibited unique aptitudes as a working dog, but was a bit less interested in the role of compliant house pet. Scent of the Missing is the story of Charleson’s adventures with Puzzle as they search for a lost teen; an Alzheimer’s patient wandering in the cold; and signs of the crew amid the debris of the space shuttle Columbia disaster—all while unraveling the mystery of the bond between humans and dogs.   “A riveting view of both the human animal bond and the training of search and rescue dogs. All dog lovers and people interested in training service dogs should read this book.” —Temple Grandin, author of Animals Make Us Human

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