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Literary Thoughts edition <br/> presents <br/> Black John of Halfaday Creek by James B. Hendryx <br/> <br/> <br/> – <br/> <br/> <br/> &quot;Black John at Halfaday Creek" is an adventure fiction n…

American author Augusta Huiell Seaman (1879–1950) wrote her mystery novel «The Curious Affair at Heron Shoals» in 1940: Marty is a teenaged heroine, who lives in relative isolation with her grand…

Literary Thoughts edition <br/> presents <br/> The Dinner Club by H. C. «Sapper» McNeile <br/> <br/> <br/> – <br/> <br/> <br/> &quot;The Dinner Club" is a mystery novel, written in 1923 by Britis…

Set in 1914, during World War I, «The Thirty-Nine Steps» is a novel by Scottish novelist, historian, biographer John Buchan (1875 – 1940): Richard Hannay, the protagonist and narrator and an expa…

&quot;There are stories I want to tell, there are stories that I try to keep a secret. If you listen carefully you will get to know me. I am the city." <br/> Experience «A Day in the City», a day…

&quot;Once upon a time—of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve—old Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house. It was cold, bleak, biting weather: foggy withal: and he could hear the peopl…

Meine Pferde, meine Heiler beginnt mit einem Kindheitstrauma des sexuellen Missbrauchs. Durch das Zusammensein mit Pferden verwandelt Shelley Rosenberg ihre Erfahrung in ein Zeugnis der Selbsthei…

&quot;Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in …

A dangerous affair: Revenge for justice. Power and control. Set among the power games of the Mafia and the rich and beautiful of Italy, on the island of Ponza, in Ferrara and in London. Corruptio…

&quot;The Second Jungle Book" is a sequel to «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling. First published in 1895, it features five stories about Mowgli and three unrelated stories, all but one set in I…

&quot;Robin Hood assured them that he had detached a party in the direction of the road they were to pass, who would not fail to discover and apprize them of any secret ambuscade; and that he had…

&quot;Robin Hood assured them that he had detached a party in the direction of the road they were to pass, who would not fail to discover and apprize them of any secret ambuscade; and that he had…

The Egyptians are disillusioned, disappointed, fatigued and silent. Caught between power and powerlessness. Their &apos;revolution&apos; has failed. Once again they&apos;re enjoying being governe…

Literary Thoughts edition <br/> presents <br/> The Island of Captain Sparrow by S. (Sydney) Fowler Wright <br/> <br/> <br/> – <br/> <br/> <br/> &quot;The Island of Captain Sparrow" by author S. (…

More than a quarter of a century living away from the country she grew up in, the author finds she is constantly revisiting her native land, when often only inside her head. It is a journey which…

&quot;No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man&apos;s and yet as mortal as his…

&quot;The Twilight of Magic" was written in 1931 by Hugh Lofting (1886-1947), telling about the Middle Ages, when adults and children alike still believed in magic. The tale is full of castles, k…

&quot;Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays" is a collection of 23 essays by George Orwell. <br/> Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), known by his pen name George Orwell, was an E…

This important book by two leading scholars of Africa examines a series of issues that are central to the question of the postcolonial. The postcolonial paradigm, and the more recent decolonial p…

It had never been attempted before, and might never be done again. One man watching another man write a novel from beginning to end.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;On September 1, 2014, in an 11th floor…