The Silver Bear by Derek Haas

By Derek Haas

A hitman isn't really allowed to have a life...

He calls himself Columbus. a few name him the Silver undergo. All recognize him as one of many deadliest assassins within the world.

Now, as he tracks a robust baby-kisser with presidential aspirations, the fragmented items of his personal lifestyles start to element to a negative fact that would unmake every little thing he's, tear aside the shadowy, felony international he rules-and placed him correct within the crosshairs.

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Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Evangeline, A story of Acadie, is an epic poem by means of the yank poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, first released in 1847. Any earnings generated from the sale of this e-book will pass in the direction of the Freeriver group venture, a venture designed to advertise harmonious neighborhood dwelling and health and wellbeing on the planet. to profit extra concerning the Freeriver venture please stopover at the web site - www.freerivercommunity.com

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Smokeheads by Douglas Johnstone

By Douglas Johnstone

This identify is shortlisted for CrimeFest's final chuckle Award. 4 associates, one weekend, gallons of whisky. What may get it wrong? pushed through novice whisky-nut Adam, 4 late-thirties ex-university friends are heading to Islay - the distant Scottish island international recognized for its unmarried malts - with a pockets filled with funds, a stash of coke and a major thirst. Over a weekend soaked within the most interesting cask power spirit, they meet younger divorcee Molly, who Adam has a tender spot for, her little sister Ash who has every type of difficulties and Molly's ex-husband Joe, a regulate freak who additionally occurs to be the neighborhood police. As occasions spiral uncontrolled, they're all thrown right into a nightmare that will get worse at each flip.

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Remembering the End: Dostoevsky as Prophet to Modernity by P. Travis KROEKER, Bruce K. Ward

By P. Travis KROEKER, Bruce K. Ward

Dostoevsky was once a type of writers of the 19th century who got here to be looked via many readers within the following century as a prophet. How does he stay prophetic for us now, within the early twenty-first century? Remembering the tip explores and assesses Dostoevsky's critique of modernity, with specific concentrate on the Grand Inquisitor (in The Brothers Karamazov), the place his prophetic imaginative and prescient reveals its such a lot extreme expression. The authors write to explain the religious realism of Dostoevsky's biblically charged literary paintings, and to teach the way it may help us to recollect who we're during this modern/postmodern second in which--as participants and individuals of communities--we are required to make severe offerings concerning the that means of justice, heritage, fact and happiness. The ebook might be of curiosity to readers in comparative literature, ethics, political conception, philosophy, spiritual experiences and theology.

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Alice Sit-By-The-Fire by J. M. Barrie

By J. M. Barrie

The prolific Scotish writer and dramatist J. M. Barrie is most famed for his production of Peter Pan. Born in Kirriemuir, Forfarshire in 1860, he graduated Edinburgh college and commenced operating as a journalist. quickly after he released his first novel larger lifeless becaming a well-liked author with many winning novels. After his most famed paintings Peter Pan he nonetheless endured to jot down on growing many extra loved stories.

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The coming race by Edward Bulwer Lytton

By Edward Bulwer Lytton

The arrival Race through Edward Bulwer Lytton - the radical tells the tale of a tender, independently prosperous vacationer (the narrator), who unintentionally unearths his means right into a subterranean, unusual global occupied through beings who appear to resemble angels and make contact with themselves Vril-ya. this can be a vintage best-seller and an excellent inventive tale that would depart you short of extra.

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Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

By Thomas Hardy

Jude the vague, by means of Thomas Hardy, is a part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which bargains caliber versions at reasonable costs to the coed and the final reader, together with new scholarship, considerate layout, and pages of conscientiously crafted extras. listed here are a few of the striking good points of Barnes & Noble Classics: All variants are superbly designed and are published to more suitable requisites; a few contain illustrations of ancient curiosity. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls jointly a constellation of influences—biographical, old, and literary—to enhance every one reader's realizing of those enduring works. Virginia Woolf known as him “the maximum tragic author between English novelists,” yet Thomas Hardy used to be so distressed via the surprised outrage that greeted Jude the vague in 1895 that he made up our minds to hand over writing novels.  For in telling the tale of Jude Fawley, whose many makes an attempt to upward thrust above his type are beaten by means of society or the forces of nature, Hardy had attacked Victorian society’s such a lot adored institutions—marriage, social category, faith, and better education.   A negative villager, Jude Fawley longs to review on the elite collage of Christminster, yet his goals are thwarted through classification prejudice—and an earthy state woman who tips him into marriage through pretending to be pregnant.   Entrapped in a loveless marriage, he turns into a stonemason and falls in love together with his cousin—the highbrow, free-spirited Sue Bridehead, who's additionally unsatisfied in marriage.  Sue leaves her husband to dwell with Jude and finally bears his kids out of wedlock.  Their poverty and the burden of society’s disapproval start to take their toll at the couple, forcing them right into a shattering downward spiral that results in some of the most surprising scenes in all of literature. A gorgeous masterpiece, Jude the vague is Hardy’s bleakest and so much own novel.Amy M. King is an Assistant Professor of Literature on the California Institute of know-how, and the writer of Bloom: The Botanical Vernacular within the English Novel, impending from Oxford collage Press. She can also be the writer of articles on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature and tradition, and has taught commonly within the English novel at Haverford university and Caltech. King obtained her doctorate in 1998 from Harvard collage in English and American Literature and Language.

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