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You’ve just made the first step to finding the perfect read for your weekend, vacation or coffee breaks. “The Spectre Bridegroom” in 1,000 words is exactly what it suggests – a 1,000-word summary of “The Spectre Bridegroom”. This download will give you a first-person view into the story...

You’ve just made the first step to finding the perfect read for your weekend, vacation or coffee breaks. “Red Cavalry” in 1,000 words is exactly what it suggests – a 1,000-word summary of “Red Cavalry”. This download will give you a first-person view into the story of this e-book. It will...

While the central ideal of Roman philosophy exemplified by Lucretius, Cicero and Seneca appears to be the masculine values of self-sufficiency and domination, this book argues, through close attention to metaphor and figures, that the Romans also recognized, as constitutive parts of human experience,...

If the world is flat, as Thomas Friedman says, then aren't some people going to be falling off the edge? Award-winning Time Magazine correspondent Alex Perry (China, India, and Africa) takes us on an unforgettable journey to some of the planet's most remote and dangerous places to explore the sharp...

Genocide has emerged as one of the leading problems of the twentieth century. No corner of the world seems immune from this form of collective violence. While many individuals are familiar with the term, few people have a clear understanding of what genocide is and how it is carried out. This book...

Most wars between countries end quickly and at relatively low cost. The few in which high-intensity fighting continues for years bring about a disproportionate amount of death and suffering. What separates these few unusually long and intense wars from the many conflicts that are far less destructive?...

A book for nonbelievers who embrace the reality-driven life. We can't avoid the persistent questions about the meaning of life-and the nature of reality. Philosopher Alex Rosenberg maintains that science is the only thing that can really answer them—all of them. His bracing and ultimately...

In a nearly forgotten trailer Park on the Gulf Coast of Florida, a cashiered Iraq war hero, Brody, struggles to help the unlikely and mostly unlucky residents even as he strives to find love and some peace. Nearby is an elephant rehab park, run by two women who are partners, operating it with virtually...

Cory Rocque is thirty years old, a successful company CEO, and a lot too busy for romance. That's what he tells himself, even if his pesky PA and friend Linnet ain't buying it, and keeps trying to fix him up. So when he begins to receive a mysterious series of romantic gifts - at the same time as...

An acclaimed journalist travels the globe to solve the mystery of her ancestry, confronting the question at the heart of the American experience of immigration, race, and identity: Who are my people? “A thoughtful, beautiful meditation on what makes us who we are . . . and the values and...

How is it delivered? That's the best bit! Royal Mail. Postman Pat brings your smack to your door with a smile and his black and white cat is none the wiser. Bruce is nineteen, unemployed and living with his Nan. A struggling young Geordie tech-head, he's the unlikeliest international criminal...

It's 9 o'clock.Time for coffee.Every day, I visit the same diner.Every day, I see the same people.Except today.Today, something is very, very wrong.

You're So Mummy is an honest take on 21st-century motherhood that sticks two finger-puppets up at parenting manuals. This isn't a book mothers can turn to for advice. It's not going to tell you how to make your kid sleep, or how to get them into a good school, or anything useful at all in fact....

Charles Latham, wastrel younger son of the Earl of Clitheroe, returns home drunk from the theatre to find his father gruesomely dead.  He suspects murder.  But when the Latham ghosts turn nasty, and Charles finds himself falling in love with the priest brought in to calm them, he has to unearth the skeleton in the family closet before it ends up killing them all.