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Her Dark Materials - Volume 1

Louisa May Alcott to Rebecca Harding Davis

by Louisa May Alcott, Alice and Claude Askew, Mary Anne Atherstone, Gertrude Atherton, Mary Austin, Louisa Baldwin, Barbara Baynton, Gertrude Barrows Bennett, Stella Benson, Marjorie Bowen, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, D K Broster, Rhoda Broughton, Katharine Butler, Mary Butts, Fernan Caballeron, Willa Cather, Mary Cholmonderly, Mrs Craik, Rose Champion de Crespigny, Bithia Mary Croker, Catherine Crowe, Ella D'Arcy, Rebecca Harding Davies ...

Narrated by Laurel Lefkow, Eve Karpf, Ghizela Rowe ...

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11 hours 24 min

In these more welcome days of equality between the sexes we usually forget that the often cited ‘Gentler Sex’ can have dark and disturbing trains of thought that are more than the equal of their male brethren. Indeed, they can manipulate words in a matter of lines from comforting and loving to dark, foreboding and utterly terrifying. These femme fatales really do create stories that leech vile ... Read more

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In these more welcome days of equality between the sexes we usually forget that the often cited ‘Gentler Sex’ can have dark and disturbing trains of thought that are more than the equal of their male brethren. Indeed, they can manipulate words in a matter of lines from comforting and loving to dark, foreboding and utterly terrifying. These femme fatales really do create stories that leech vile
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Neglected Authors, The - Volume 1

Celebrated in their time, forgotten in ours

by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Grant Allen, Leonid Andreyev, Mikhail Petrovich Artzybashev, Gertrude Atherton, Lady Augusta Gregory, Stacy Aumonier, William Austin, William Austin, Richard Harris Barham, Robert Barr0, Charles Baudelaire1, Aphra Behn2, John Davys Beresford3, Helena Blavatsky4, Marjorie Bowen5, Mary Elizabeth Braddon6, Ernest Bramah7, D K Broster8, Rhoda Broughton9, Valery Bryusov0, Thomas Burke1 ...

Narrated by Eve Karpf2, Mark Rice-Oxley3, David Shaw-Parker4 ...

Unabridged

12 hours 31 min

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. ... Read more

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Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading.
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The Quasimodo Killings

by John Broughton ...

Series Book 1 - Vance and Shepherd Mysteries
Detective Inspector Jacob Vance and his assistant, Detective Sergeant Brittany Shepherd, are called upon to prevent a series of murders across London.The Metropolitan Police Commissioner has provoked a psychopath with her inaugural speech. Soon later, the commissioner receives a letter threatening a series of nine killings, culminating in 'the big one’, unless the police chief retracts her speech ... Read more

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Detective Inspector Jacob Vance and his assistant, Detective Sergeant Brittany Shepherd, are called upon to prevent a series of murders across London.The Metropolitan Police Commissioner has provoked a psychopath with her inaugural speech. Soon later, the commissioner receives a letter threatening a series of nine killings, culminating in 'the big one’, unless the police chief retracts her speech
... Read more
Journey Beyond Borders: 30 Books on Immigration Experiences

Immigrant Memoirs, Reform, and Belonging Across Early Twentieth-Century America

by Martin Andersen Nexø, Myra Kelly, Frances Minto Dickinson Elliot, Margaret Wilson, Friedrich Gerstäcker, Finley Peter Dunne, Broughton Brandenburg, Mary Antin, Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge, Peter A. Speek, George Fraser Black, Sui Sin Far, United States. Office of Education, Inc. Columbia Broadcasting System, John Robertson Henry, Council of Women for Home Missions, Home Missions Council, Eva Stern, Anzia Yezierska, Eustace Hale Ball, Stephen Graham, Emily P. Weaver, Thomas Ostenson Stine, J. P. MacLean, George T. Flom, Clara M. S. Lowe, Patrick Matthew, Scots New Zealand Land Company, F. S. Brereton, James Seton Cockburn, George A. Birmingham ...

Journey Beyond Borders: 30 Books on Immigration Experiences surveys migration as both an intimate upheaval and a public force shaping modern societies. Across fiction, memoir, reportage, social investigation, educational materials, and historical reflection, the volume ranges from tales of arrival and labor to analyses of settlement, language, race, gender, and national belonging. Its ... Read more

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Journey Beyond Borders: 30 Books on Immigration Experiences surveys migration as both an intimate upheaval and a public force shaping modern societies. Across fiction, memoir, reportage, social investigation, educational materials, and historical reflection, the volume ranges from tales of arrival and labor to analyses of settlement, language, race, gender, and national belonging. Its
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Wyrd Of The Wolf

The Unification Of Saxon Southern England

by John Broughton ...

Series Book 1 - Wyrd Of The Wolf
Among the political and religious upheaval of seventh century England, nobody is safe.As the old gods are eroded by the new church and and ambitious men vie for power, blood is shed throughout the land. In the south, ealdorman Aelfhere believes that for his only daughter, 16-year-old Cynethryth, marriage to a Saxon king is the way to security. And so, against her own wishes, Cynethryth is ... Read more

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Among the political and religious upheaval of seventh century England, nobody is safe.As the old gods are eroded by the new church and and ambitious men vie for power, blood is shed throughout the land. In the south, ealdorman Aelfhere believes that for his only daughter, 16-year-old Cynethryth, marriage to a Saxon king is the way to security. And so, against her own wishes, Cynethryth is
... Read more
Saints And Sinners

In the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms of Mercia and Lindsey

by John Broughton ...

Series Book 1 - Saints And Sinners
Saxon times were not called the Dark Ages for nothing. It was a violent, unrecognizable world of kill or be killed.In seventh century England, tribes and so-called kings vie for power and blood flows throughout the land. Aethelred - ruler of Mercia - is being pressed from all sides, and his wife Osthryth dies under unknown circumstances. Osthryth's ring falls into the hands of warrior noble ... Read more

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Saxon times were not called the Dark Ages for nothing. It was a violent, unrecognizable world of kill or be killed.In seventh century England, tribes and so-called kings vie for power and blood flows throughout the land. Aethelred - ruler of Mercia - is being pressed from all sides, and his wife Osthryth dies under unknown circumstances. Osthryth's ring falls into the hands of warrior noble
... Read more
The Last Heir of East Anglia

Danish Integration in Anglo-Saxon England

by John Broughton ...

December, AD 902. King Æthelwold of East Anglia falls in battle, leaving behind a kingdom—and a daughter.Elinor is crowned queen in a world where women rule only by extraordinary strength or divine destiny. Bound by duty and driven by a longing for peace, she weds a Danish chieftain in a bold bid to unite two warring peoples.But unity comes at a cost. Elinor suffers loss upon loss—of children, of ... Read more

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December, AD 902. King Æthelwold of East Anglia falls in battle, leaving behind a kingdom—and a daughter.Elinor is crowned queen in a world where women rule only by extraordinary strength or divine destiny. Bound by duty and driven by a longing for peace, she weds a Danish chieftain in a bold bid to unite two warring peoples.But unity comes at a cost. Elinor suffers loss upon loss—of children, of
... Read more
The Ghosts by Gaslight MEGAPACK®

by H.G. Wells, Charlotte Riddell, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Amelia B. Edwards, Mrs. Margaret Oliphant, W.W. Jacobs, Arthur Morrison, Sir Walter Scott, Rhoda Broughton, Mark Lemon ...

From fog-shrouded railway carriages to candlelit séance rooms, from haunted manor houses to snow-swept country roads, the gaslight era produced some of the finest ghost stories ever written—and many of the best have been hiding in the yellowed pages of forgotten magazines for over a century.This collection gathers twenty tales of the supernatural from the Victorian and Edwardian periods, drawn ... Read more

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From fog-shrouded railway carriages to candlelit séance rooms, from haunted manor houses to snow-swept country roads, the gaslight era produced some of the finest ghost stories ever written—and many of the best have been hiding in the yellowed pages of forgotten magazines for over a century.This collection gathers twenty tales of the supernatural from the Victorian and Edwardian periods, drawn
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Rhodri's Furies

Ninth-century Welsh Resistance to Viking and Saxon incursions

by John Broughton ...

Series Book 1 - The Bretland Trilogy
A fisherman's son, Alun ap Drystan worships his grandfather Iolyn, a renowned former warrior. The old man is worried about the future of his homeland, and to help, he sends father and son to visit a reclusive seer with Druidic blood.Speaking in riddles, the seer tells Alun the find the Battle Prince: together, they will be the saviours of Gwynedd, and that he will be a great warrior, mingling with ... Read more

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A fisherman's son, Alun ap Drystan worships his grandfather Iolyn, a renowned former warrior. The old man is worried about the future of his homeland, and to help, he sends father and son to visit a reclusive seer with Druidic blood.Speaking in riddles, the seer tells Alun the find the Battle Prince: together, they will be the saviours of Gwynedd, and that he will be a great warrior, mingling with
... Read more
Brando's Bride

by Sarah Broughton ...

A scandalous Hollywood marriage, a disputed identity, and a hidden past. In October 1957, Marlon Brando married Anna Kashfi, an actress claiming Indian heritage. The next day, a Welsh factory worker declared Anna was his daughter, Joan O'Callaghan, a Cardiff butcher's assistant.Brando's Bride unravels the truth behind Anna Kashfi's identity, exploring her Anglo-Indian background, her rise in ... Read more

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A scandalous Hollywood marriage, a disputed identity, and a hidden past. In October 1957, Marlon Brando married Anna Kashfi, an actress claiming Indian heritage. The next day, a Welsh factory worker declared Anna was his daughter, Joan O'Callaghan, a Cardiff butcher's assistant.Brando's Bride unravels the truth behind Anna Kashfi's identity, exploring her Anglo-Indian background, her rise in
... Read more
The Aspromonte Riddle

by John Broughton ...

Rome, 1847. Renowned watercolourist Edward Lear convinces his pupil, Lord John Proby to accompany him on a painting tour of Sicily.After Lear suggests an adventure into the Aspromonte Mountains of Calabria, the two start exploring paths untrodden by other Englishmen. Hiring a guide and a mule, the two encounter spectacular scenery as well as brigands, liberal revolutionaries and repressive ... Read more

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Rome, 1847. Renowned watercolourist Edward Lear convinces his pupil, Lord John Proby to accompany him on a painting tour of Sicily.After Lear suggests an adventure into the Aspromonte Mountains of Calabria, the two start exploring paths untrodden by other Englishmen. Hiring a guide and a mule, the two encounter spectacular scenery as well as brigands, liberal revolutionaries and repressive
... Read more
Sward And Sword

by John Broughton ...

Amidst the bloodshed of 11th century combat and conquest, Saxon Godwine elevates himself from landless youth to trusted confidante of the most powerful man in England.A kingmaker, Godwine's fealty propels six monarchs to occupy the English throne in his lifetime. But the pursuit of power is not without peril, and his skillful diplomacy and battle prowess are constantly tested by the schemes of ... Read more

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Amidst the bloodshed of 11th century combat and conquest, Saxon Godwine elevates himself from landless youth to trusted confidante of the most powerful man in England.A kingmaker, Godwine's fealty propels six monarchs to occupy the English throne in his lifetime. But the pursuit of power is not without peril, and his skillful diplomacy and battle prowess are constantly tested by the schemes of
... Read more

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