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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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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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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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A Short History of the World illustrated H. G. Wells - A Short History of the World: with original illustrations
Although best known for his scientific romances that paved the way for the modern science fiction genre, H. G. Wells (1866-1946) produced significant works on politics, society, science and history. Fascinated as much with the real world as his imaginary one, and displeased with the quality of history textbooks at the end of World War...
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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...
6) Presidential
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What makes a President 'presidential'?
Is it tone of voice, is it the right suits, is it saying the right phrases to the right people?
In Presidential, Martin Concagh explores an alternate world through the defining moments of different American Presidents. The influential moments of faces both familiar and unfamiliar to our world; what defined the presidencies sick men, grieving men, angry men and combative men (and women) and how that defined...
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As the twentieth century approaches, politics and extreme weather have combined to turn the world upside down and the changes are still happening.
Germany is gone; Central and Western Europe now try to adjust to new realities.
A series of natural disasters sweep across the Stuart realms and an American millionaire's tendency to seasickness changes the shape of international trade for ever.
Trying to kill the monarch becomes an international...
8) Double Play
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What if Lee Harvey Oswald had been an agent tasked with infiltrating an assassination plot against JFK? What if he was successful, but a twin plot to murder Vice President Johnson had succeeded?A spiralling conspiracy apparently succeeds, but two men soon know the truth – they just happen to be in prison.
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Alice is a girl with her dream job, at the centre of the political heart of the nation — the English Parliament in Oxford. Admittedly, her role in parliament is a caterer, and her nation is just whatever odds and sods were left over when the various English towns and regions got their devolved assemblies. But she's proud to be part of an organisation that allows England's voice to be heard. The problem is, who is speaking, and who are they speaking...
10) The Blue Lotus
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In Fight and Be Right and The World of Fight and Be Right, Ed Thomas explored the strange parallel history that resulted from the unlikely political success of Winston Churchill's father. There are many stories to be told in this world. This is one of them.
It's 1934, and as war rages across the globe the city of Shanghai preserves an uneasy neutrality between the rival alliances- until a young journalist is brutally murdered. Can the killer be brought...
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What if the Third Reich not only marched to victory in Europe but Goose stepped down Broadway? William Cothran explores the life of a man in America under the jackbooted heel of the Third Reich. From the towering buildings of New York City to the sleepy little suburbs a thrilling mystery awaits. A wealthy ad man living the high life finds himself face to face with one of the Third Reich's own SS investigators. What secret does this man of means hope...
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"Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." — George OrwellThe Fascist and Communist dictatorships left a bloody stain on the 20th Century, leaving tens of millions dead in their wake and a bitter taste in the mouth for hundreds of millions more when they encounter those ideologies. But what if they had never got the opportunity to do that damage?
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What if Napoleon Bonaparte had escaped from St. Helena and wound up in the United States?
The year is 1821. Former French Emperor Napoleon has been imprisoned on a dark wart in the Atlantic since his defeat at Waterloo in 1815. Rescued in a state of near-death by Gulf pirate Jean Laffite, Napoleon lands in New Orleans, where he struggles to regain his health aided by voodoo priestess Marie Laveau. Opponents of the Bourbon regime expect him to reconquer...
14) The Sea Eagles
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When an super powered alien teenage bat sent a 1990 West German patrol boat back in time, it caused a few ripples, and not only in the North Sea. The Sea Eagle Secret became the biggest story of the century, changing history for German sailors, Russian spies, French soldiers, Chinese politicians, Japanese admirals, British scientists, Czech bureaucrats, American airmen, and many others (not to mention Gilberto). This is history as it might have been...
15) A Southern Yarn
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The book starts at the Battle of Spotsylvania with Grant attacking the salient. It traces through the remainder of that battle, then the march south to the North Anna River. Here Lee devises a trap by deploying his forces in an inverted V with the head against the river at Ox Ford. Grant was forced to divide his army into three separate depositions, two of which were south of the river. The actual history sees Lee falling violently ill with a severe...
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Harold Wilson was launched into the spotlight as the darling of Labour's modern left in the leadership election of 1960, challenging Gaitskell and making himself the de facto leader of the Labour Left. His was the promise of a modernising party, committed to shaping Britain into a progressive and technocratic nation, and this promise would be put to the test when he became Prime Minister in 1964. Sadly, it was a test he did not pass and the failures...
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It's 1959 in socialist Virginia. The Deep South is an independent Black nation called Nova Africa. The second Mars expedition is about to touch down on the red planet. And, a pregnant scientist is climbing the Blue Ridge in search of her great-great grandfather, a teenage slave who fought with John Brown and Harriet Tubman's guerrilla army.
Fire on the Mountain is the story of what might have happened if John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry had succeeded,...
18) The Wave
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The Wave was written to answer a question the author often asked: You say that we are on the cusp of a paradigm shift, a radical change in worldview that will thrust art and culture onto center stage. What does that mean? How will the world be different? The Wave is speculative fiction. In 2023, a young journalist, Rebecca Price, writes a series of articles describing an emergent cultural change that has been gathering force over the previous decade...
19) Juniper Point
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June 1910. Charles Richard Crowningshield, a wealthy industrialist from Chicago, is sending his family east, to escape the summer heat. They arrive by private train, to the village of Woods Hole, a small fishing village on the tip of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. He's just purchased a new home there, high atop Juniper Point, a windswept promentary with views to the sea and the Elizabeth islands beyond. But the house, built in 1880, a large Victorian mansion...
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You don't wake up one day and become a Mafia hit man. It doesn't happen overnight. This is a story about how a young football-loving American boy could end up a calculated killer, 'strictly business.' It tells of a long and dangerous journey to becoming an assassin. A successful professional killer is made, not born. You get to experience his thoughts as he tries to justify the world of blood, sex, and death.
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