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In this representative volume, "The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories" the reader will find twenty-four of Mark Twain's best shorter works. Classic and unforgettable tales that span the author's career are included, such as "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", which is Twain's most famous short story and was his first great success as an author. It is the unforgettable tale of Jim Smiley, the gambler who will bet on anything including...
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From Gibraltar to Crete; the tangled lives of naval officers and their men, Pulver and Stebbings, of marines like O'Flynn, Maori warriors like Lieutenant Ngarimu, the healer 'Ronnie' Prasad and many more, following the orders of their political masters, intent on stabilising the newly-liberated Spain and smashing the German war machine on land, on seas patrolled by HMS Hood and her sisters, and in skies overflown by the RAF and the Luftwaffe. This...
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First appearing as an anonymous serial in "Harper's Magazine" in 1895, "Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc" was Mark Twain's final novel and was published as a complete work under his name in 1896. The novel is a stark departure from Twain's usual comic and satirical writings, which is why Twain insisted it initially be published anonymously so that the public would take it seriously. The work is told from the perspective of a fictionalized version...
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Los papiros de Pedro, una novela histórica en primera persona con grandes visos de realidad, narra la historia de unos escritos hallados en Roma en el año 2004, en unas catacumbas judías, en el nicho de un tal Nabón, un judío griego converso al cristianismo. Los papiros fueron salvados de caer en un intencionado olvido por parte de las autoridades católicas de Italia gracias a la intervención de una arqueóloga colombiana. En estos, el apóstol...
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A truth we all know... but agree not to talk about... was how the Clapping Lady from the secretive Consilience Foundation described it to a teenage Methuen Pryce in 2012 as they discussed his Segmented World model. But, it was also a 'truth' that Nick O'Grady, ambitious young CEO of the high-tech Allied Answers, had not 'talked about' that was, until he invited Methuen to his plush New York office in the summer of '23.
Against expectations, the bearded...
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In a world forever altered by the Great Flood-a catastrophic event triggered by nuclear fallout and fueled by rampant greed and corruption-society has rebuilt itself aboard ships like The Tempest, where the old world's hierarchies have been replaced by a strict matriarchal order. Men serve as servants, bound by a code that demands their obedience and restricts their power. Women and children, on the other hand, hold the reins of leadership, guided...
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Daniel Brakefluid is a comedian with a cynical view of geopolitics. After a TV special in 1999 in which he tries to expose the New World Order, he is hit by a car and left for dead.
In 2024, Danny comes out of his command finds himself in a completely unrecognisable digital world. The 24-hr surveillance, censorship and loss of human rights that the masses seem oblivious to are profoundly obvious to him, so he feels an urgent obligation to alert them....
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The sun had not even risen when I heard the alarm, half-asleep I stretched out my arm and with an accurate whack, I turned it off and the ringing stopped. I decided to go back to sleep after turning around in bed, remembering that we were on vacation. Why would the alarm have sounded? Surely it was a mistake. Wrapping myself up to the head, I let myself drift back into that blissful early morning doze.
9) Gut Feeling
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Frederick Cragg is a surgeon living in the medical dark ages of 19th-century America. He is gifted with a patient; one who brings scientific promise and tender friendship. When Cragg brings the wounded man home, he risks losing his just and faithful wife. Based on a true story, this novella explores the bonds between the injured and the caregiving.
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Imagine Abraham Lincoln walking the streets of Evanston, Illinois, on Easter weekend in 1955, just a man suddenly and magically free of the terrible burden of leading the nation through war. How will the Great Emancipator react to this new world, where he finds comfort and love in the arms of a young widow? How will learning of his own death affect his efforts to end the war when he suddenly returns to the horrors of 1865? "Abraham Lincoln: A Novel...
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The collection of short stories in English, Life and the Grey Notes, brings home the simple truths of human nature, the essential human ingredients. The author has you reflecting, smiling, as you relate intimately to the characters and situations that people these stories.From the inescapable dilemma of a tea stall owner caught in the mesh of societal hypocrisy, to the inherent tendency to presume and judge that lurks within each one of us, the cherished...
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In these essays possibilities are explored about late Tudor and early Stuart history. In this era political and religious developments depended heavily on royal initiative and court politics. What if Mary Tudor had lived long enough to re-establish English Catholicism firmly? Elizabeth I had died young of smallpox? Charles I's elder brother Henry had been King instead? Or Charles and Parliament had reached agreement after the Civil War?
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Iain Bowen's Arose from the Azure Main is one of the most popular and acclaimed timelines on the internet. Beginning with the dislocation of the United Kingdom from 1980 to 1730, the effects are predictably enormous.In Dislocated to Success, Norman St John-Stevas, Viscount Fawsley, one of the story's best-loved characters, looks back on the extraordinary event and what followed it, in 'memoirs' written fifteen years after what has become known as...
14) Ruimtewedloop
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It is 2350. For more than two centuries, humanity has spread across the stars. FTL technology has opened a galaxy for exploitation and settlement. Untold wealth and the endless frontier have enabled both unprecedented human unity and a diaspora unlike any seen before in our history. The galactic face of our species is the democratic federation known as the Commonwealth of Humanity. The endeavours and exploits of its Starpatrol pioneers are legendary.Captain...
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In the spring of 1917, Vladimir Lenin was taken from his exile in Switzerland, loaded onto a sealed train, and taken to the Russian capital of Petrograd — a city where all manner of revolutionary ideas were in the air. Sent by the German government to add his radical voice to the chaos of the post-Tsarist regime, few would have expected that Lenin would soon preside over the establishment of the world's first communist state and inexorably change...
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The battle for Greece is well underway after Allied landings on the mainland and Dodds has the heavy burden of safeguarding all the inhabitants of his bride-to-be's village. Meanwhile in London politicians are turning their minds to creating a post-war Britain fit for heroes, in the Pacific the Hood is taking the war to the Japanese and Massu's quest to get the Princess to Rome meets unforseen human obstacles...
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En un momento en el que los australianos se muestran indecisos a la hora de apoyar la propuesta de invasión de Irak liderada por Estados Unidos, más de seiscientos marines estadounidenses que se encuentran rotando en Bali desaparecen repentinamente; entonces, Kuta estalla en una bola de fuego y Australia se alinea con la demanda de Estados Unidos de formar parte de la "Coalición de los dispuestos".
Basado en hechos indiscutibles, un relato paso...
18) White Demons
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"WHITE DEMONS" is an historical record of the takeover of the United States of America in the Presidential Election of 2024 by a radical, racist, militant and authoritarian far-left political party called the National Democratic Socialist (NDS) Party of America. The NDS regime ruled America with an iron fist until the outbreak of the U.S. & European Union Conflict in 2029-2030.
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The Letters were first published online in serial form by Biro Berita Monyet Putih, otherwise known as White Monkey News Bureau (2009–2013) and are here compiled in book form. Much of the content is inaccurate because of ignorance or because it's out of date. Some of the greatest howlers have been corrected; others left as testimonies to ignorance and laziness; misspellings have sometimes been corrected, othertimes not, depending on the context;...
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Two missions are afoot. The Asturian, Sergeant Massu must seek out a princess in hiding who may hold the key to bringing down the Italian Fascists while Sergeant Dodd and Georgiou are determined to kill the German General Bräuer. On the grander stage the way must be cleared for an allied invasion of Greece, the enemy must at all costs believe that the target is really Sicily and the master of deception remains Commandante O'Neill. Meanwhile a refitted...
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