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A Soldier of the Seventy-First

From De la Plata to Waterloo, 1806–1815

by Joseph Sinclair ...

The authors sharp eye for the illuminating detail and the oddities of human behavior enabled him to present a picture of army life as graphic and revealing as any drawn by a private soldier during the Napoleonic Wars - Christopher HibbertThis remarkable memoir was first published in Edinburgh in 1819 and has withstood the test of time. One cannot improve on Sir Charles Omans description of the ... Read more

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The authors sharp eye for the illuminating detail and the oddities of human behavior enabled him to present a picture of army life as graphic and revealing as any drawn by a private soldier during the Napoleonic Wars - Christopher HibbertThis remarkable memoir was first published in Edinburgh in 1819 and has withstood the test of time. One cannot improve on Sir Charles Omans description of the
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Hackproof Email

by Joseph Sinclair ...

Your email travels over local transmissions twice and over the Internet three times before it reaches the recipient. That's a lot of exposure. Your email is the cornerstone of your cybersecurity. If someone hacks into your email and steals your identity, it exposes your entire cyber presence to fraud or digital mischief. What can you do to make your use of email secure from hacking?Since there are ... Read more

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Your email travels over local transmissions twice and over the Internet three times before it reaches the recipient. That's a lot of exposure. Your email is the cornerstone of your cybersecurity. If someone hacks into your email and steals your identity, it exposes your entire cyber presence to fraud or digital mischief. What can you do to make your use of email secure from hacking?Since there are
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A Gathering Darkness

Thirteen Classic English Ghost Stories

by DH Lawrence, John Kendrick Bangs, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Wilkie Collins, WF Harvey, Wallace Irwin, WW Jacobs, MR James, Edith Nesbit, Alice Perrin, Charlotte Riddell, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, May Sinclair, James Roderick Burns ...

Series series Palamedes Classic
Thirteen Victorian and Edwardian ghost stories that send chills up the spine and create an atmosphere sure to make the reader turn on an extra light and push up the back of their armchair against the wall.Set amidst crumbling, ill-maintained churches and imposing cathedrals, on desolate coastland, moors and marshes, even along unlit roads extending into the new suburbs of London, the stories have ... Read more

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Thirteen Victorian and Edwardian ghost stories that send chills up the spine and create an atmosphere sure to make the reader turn on an extra light and push up the back of their armchair against the wall.Set amidst crumbling, ill-maintained churches and imposing cathedrals, on desolate coastland, moors and marshes, even along unlit roads extending into the new suburbs of London, the stories have
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The Redeemed Man

by Conrad Mbewe, Terry Johnson, Curt Daniel, Jason Helopoulos, Michael A. G. Haykin, David T. Strain, Daniel Doriani, Kevin DeYoung, Jim Newheiser, David C. Innes, Geoffrey Thomas, Derek W. H. Thomas, Ian Hamilton, Sinclair Ferguson, Gerald Hemmings, Joseph Pipa ...

In an age of cowardice and compromise, the church is asking one question:"Where are the men?"The Redeemed Man prepares you to answer Christ's call to become a man in His image—the kind of man the world needs.Featuring the contributions of trusted pastors, fathers, and husbands, this book answers the questions you're asking as you strive to glorify God in your relationships, work, and spiritual ... Read more

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In an age of cowardice and compromise, the church is asking one question:"Where are the men?"The Redeemed Man prepares you to answer Christ's call to become a man in His image—the kind of man the world needs.Featuring the contributions of trusted pastors, fathers, and husbands, this book answers the questions you're asking as you strive to glorify God in your relationships, work, and spiritual
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Iain Banks: A BBC Radio Collection

Including The Wasp Factory, The State of the Art & Espedair Street

by Iain Banks ...

Narrated by Joseph McFadden, Nina Sosanya, Paterson Joseph, Antony Sher, John-Gordon Sinclair, James MacPherson, Steven McNicoll, Full Cast, Louise Beattie, Bill Paterson ...

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5 hours 35 min

Selected readings and full-cast dramatisations from across the literary and science fiction of Iain BanksIain Banks, aka Iain M Banks, came to fame in 1984 with his transfixing debut The Wasp Factory, described as both ‘a work of unparalleled depravity’ and 'a masterpiece'. In 1993 he was acknowledged as one of the Best of Young British Writers, and his numerous bestselling books include The Crow ... Read more

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Selected readings and full-cast dramatisations from across the literary and science fiction of Iain BanksIain Banks, aka Iain M Banks, came to fame in 1984 with his transfixing debut The Wasp Factory, described as both ‘a work of unparalleled depravity’ and 'a masterpiece'. In 1993 he was acknowledged as one of the Best of Young British Writers, and his numerous bestselling books include The Crow
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Beautiful and Damned"

New Critical Essays

by Jackson R. Bryer, Sarah Sue Goldsmith, James L. W. West III, Bonnie Shannon McMullen, Walter Raubicheck, Gail D. Sinclair, Joseph K. Stitt, Richard Webb Jr. ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s second novel, The Beautiful and Damned*,* has frequently been dismissed as an outlier and curiosity in his oeuvre, a transitional work from the coming-of-age plot of This Side of Paradise to the masterful critique of American aspiration in The Great Gatsby*.*The Beautiful and Damned belongs to a genre that is widely misunderstood, the “bright young things” novel in which ... Read more

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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s second novel, The Beautiful and Damned*,* has frequently been dismissed as an outlier and curiosity in his oeuvre, a transitional work from the coming-of-age plot of This Side of Paradise to the masterful critique of American aspiration in The Great Gatsby*.*The Beautiful and Damned belongs to a genre that is widely misunderstood, the “bright young things” novel in which
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Top 10 Short Stories, The - The Modernists

The top ten modernist short stories

by James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Booth Tarkington, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Damon Runyon, Dorothy Parker, Gertrude Stein, Joseph Conrad, Katherine Mansfield, Sinclair Lewis ...

Narrated by Jim Norton, Richard Mitchley, Eve Karpf ...

Unabridged

6 hours 45 min

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 ... Read more

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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
... Read more

In Love & War

The Lives and Marriage of General Harry and Lady Smith

by David Rooney, Michael Scott ...

An absorbing historical biography of the couple wed amid the chaos of the Napoleonic wars and their adventures from Europe to Asia to South Africa.The manner of their meeting was unprecedented. In 1812, during the lawless mayhem that followed the capture of Badajoz, Spain, by Wellington, a fourteen-year-old Spanish girl sought the protection of Captain Harry Smith. They fell in love and married ... Read more

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An absorbing historical biography of the couple wed amid the chaos of the Napoleonic wars and their adventures from Europe to Asia to South Africa.The manner of their meeting was unprecedented. In 1812, during the lawless mayhem that followed the capture of Badajoz, Spain, by Wellington, a fourteen-year-old Spanish girl sought the protection of Captain Harry Smith. They fell in love and married
... Read more
Alive in the Spirit

Experiencing the Presence and Power of God

by A.W. Tozer ...

Dynamic, Never-Before-Published Work on the Holy Spirit from A.W. TozerWhat does it mean to have the Holy Spirit in our lives? Many look to extraordinary experiences and manifestations as evidence of the Spirit. But what happens when the event is over? How can we experience the Holy Spirit in the ordinary, everyday world? How can we be filled with the Spirit?In this material taken from Tozer's ... Read more

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Dynamic, Never-Before-Published Work on the Holy Spirit from A.W. TozerWhat does it mean to have the Holy Spirit in our lives? Many look to extraordinary experiences and manifestations as evidence of the Spirit. But what happens when the event is over? How can we experience the Holy Spirit in the ordinary, everyday world? How can we be filled with the Spirit?In this material taken from Tozer's
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The Modern Library Writer's Workshop

A Guide to the Craft of Fiction

by Stephen Koch ...

“Make [your] characters want something right away—even if it’s only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.” —Kurt Vonnegut“‘The cat sat on the mat’ is not the beginning of a story, but ‘the cat sat on the dog’s mat’ is.” —John Le CarréNothing is more inspiring for a beginning writer than listening to masters of the ... Read more

$13.99 USD

“Make [your] characters want something right away—even if it’s only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.” —Kurt Vonnegut“‘The cat sat on the mat’ is not the beginning of a story, but ‘the cat sat on the dog’s mat’ is.” —John Le CarréNothing is more inspiring for a beginning writer than listening to masters of the
... Read more
With the Boer Forces

by Howard Clemens Hillegas ...

In the following pages I have endeavoured to present an accurate picture of the Boers in war-time. My duties as a newspaper correspondent carried me to the Boer side, and herein I depict all that I saw. Some parts of my narrative may not be pleasing to the British reader; others may offend the sensibilities of the Boer sympathisers. I have written truthfully, but with a kindly spirit and with the ... Read more

$2.99 USD

In the following pages I have endeavoured to present an accurate picture of the Boers in war-time. My duties as a newspaper correspondent carried me to the Boer side, and herein I depict all that I saw. Some parts of my narrative may not be pleasing to the British reader; others may offend the sensibilities of the Boer sympathisers. I have written truthfully, but with a kindly spirit and with the
... Read more
Grace

The Power to Change

by Dr. James B. Richards ...

There are many things that we all believe yet do not experience. We all want victory, yet few find it. One of our greatest frustrations is that much of what we believe really doesn’t work. Too often we spend our lives struggling with the same issues. The feeling of defeat can be agonizing.It is as if we are caught in a maze of formulas and rules. We know there’s something missing, but we’re not ... Read more

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There are many things that we all believe yet do not experience. We all want victory, yet few find it. One of our greatest frustrations is that much of what we believe really doesn’t work. Too often we spend our lives struggling with the same issues. The feeling of defeat can be agonizing.It is as if we are caught in a maze of formulas and rules. We know there’s something missing, but we’re not
... Read more

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