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  Classic Short Stories - Volume...

  Katherine Mansfield, Stacy...

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  Stories are one of mankind’s greatest artistic achievements.  Whether written down or spoken they have an ability to capture our imagination and thoughts, and take us on incredible journeys in the space of a phrase and the turn of a page. 
   
  Within a few words of text or speech, new worlds and characters form, propelling a narrative to a conclusion with intricate ease. Finely crafted, perfectly formed these Miniature Masterpieces, at first thought, seem remarkably easy to conjure up. But ask any writer and they will tell you that distilling the essence of narrative and characters into a short story is one of the hardest acts of their literary craft.  Many attempt, but few achieve.

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  The Vatersay Raiders

  Ben Buxton

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  A Scottish historian recounts how Hebridean croft farmers raided a neighboring island in order to survive—and sparked a national debate over land rights. In 1906, men from the Hebridean islands of Barra and Mingulay took possession of the uninhabited island of Vatersay. Two years later, they were imprisoned for refusing to leave—and for building huts and planting potatoes without permission. The case caused an outcry across Scotland, and the government eventually bought Vatersay for the purpose of croft farming. In the first book on the subject, historian Ben Buxton tell the full story of the Vatersay Raiders: their struggle to escape the oppressive policies of an absentee landowner, the raiding and settlement of the island, and the fraught process of dividing it up into crofts. The book also documents the larger history of Vatersay, from intriguing monuments of prehistory to shipwrecks and the 19th century evictions that left it uninhabited. An outline of subsequent developments, including the Vatersay Causeway which connects the island to Barra, completes the narrative.

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  Being Unstoppable - Conquering...

  Sean Swarner

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  Being Unstoppable is the first book in the 7 Summits to Success series. It is a story of one man’s journey to accomplishing what was once thought impossible. Sean Swarner overcame two different cancers to make his dream of climbing Mt. Everest (with one lung), the highest mountain in the world, a reality. In addition to sharing his story with the world, Sean shares the guiding principles that made his own dreams a reality. Being Unstoppable begins with Sean’s story of survival, adventure, and cliff-hanging suspense. It concludes with a section containing simple, practical steps anyone can use to fulfill their own dreams and goals. Sean teaches how he managed to make the impossible possible and how to incorporate those same simple but powerful steps into climbing one's own Everest.

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  The Zeroes - My Misadventures in...

  Randall Lane

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  Magazine entrepreneur Randall Lane had a prime seat at Wall Street's biggest greed fest. The Zeroes is a memoir about the excesses and bad behavior of an outsider who got pulled into a crazy, self-contained world. Among Randall's eye-popping true stories: 
   
  —How fortunes were made, from the million-dollar score made in the thirty-minute gap between the collapse of the Twin Towers on 9/11, to the man who personally made $4 billion from the 2008 housing meltdown. 
   
  —How fortunes were spent, from Lane's $1,000-per-seat trader-versus-trader boxing matches to $60 million bidding wars for Gulfstream jets. 
   
  —How Lane crossed paths with dozens of famous people who tried to cash in on the feeding frenzy or found themselves in the middle of it, including Diana Ross, Alex Rodriguez, Al Gore, John Travolta, half the 1986 Mets, and virtually every major player involved in the economic collapse. 
   
  When the crash hit, Lane's company and personal portfolio were destroyed along with the high-flying traders his magazines celebrated. The Wall Street Journal called his magazines' demise "one of those moments when a chance arrow of history scores a perfect bull's-eye on a deserving target." Even Lane has to agree. 
   
  In the tradition of Michael Lewis's Liar's Poker, this memoir will serve as a timeless reference when people in the future ask, "What were the Zeroes really like?"

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  Christmas - In Stories and Poetry

  William Wordsworth, Fyodor...

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  Christmas may come but once a year but human emotions, the driving force of our characters are with us every day.   
   
  Yet, somehow these same emotions when they happen at Christmas, seem amplified, we seem more tender to their touch, their words. 
   
  In this volume we take the verse and poems of our classic poets and put them alongside our short story masters to reveal a Christmas that everyone remembers and that everyone wants to be part of.-  
  1 - Christmas. In Stories and in Poetry - An Introduction 
  2 - What the Bells Saw and Said by Louisa May Alcott 
  3 - Christmas Bells by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  4 - Ring Out Wild Bells. Christmas Poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  5 - As Sleigh Bells Seem In Summer by Emily Dickinson 
  6 - Minstrels.  A Christmas Poem by William Wordsworth 
  7 - Carol by Ben Jonson 
  8 - A Christmas Carol by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
  9 - A Christmas Carol by G K Chesterton 
  10 - A Christmas Carol by Aubrey De Vere 
  11 - Old Christmastide (An Extract) by Sir Walter Scott 
  12 - No Mercy Here by Daniel Sheehan 
  13 - Christmas Carol by Sara Teasdale 
  14 - The Gift of the Magi by O Henry 
  15 - The Three Kings by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  16 - An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour by Robert Herrick 
  17 - On the Morning of Christs Nativity by John Milton 
  18 - Nativity by John Donne 
  19 - The Nativity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by Christopher Smart 
  20 - God Rest by Daniel Sheehan 
  21 - Upon Christ His Birth by Sir John Suckling 
  22 - Christmas For Atheists by Daniel Sheehan 
  23 - A Nativity by Rudyard Kipling 
  24 - The Beggar Boy at Christ's Christmas Tree by Fyodor Dostoevsky 
  25 - The Beautiful Mother by Jacopone da Todi 
  26 - New Prince New Pomp by Robert Southwell 
  27 - The Burning Babe by Robert Southwell 
  28 - The Nativity by Henry Vaughan 
  29 - The Mother of God by William Butler Yeats 
  30 - The Savior Must Have Been A Docile Gentleman by Emily Dickinson 
  31 - Christmas Poem by Robert Herrick 
  32 - December Sales Drive by Daniel Sheehan 
  33 - A Christmas Ghost Story by Thomas Hardy 
  34 - The House of Christmas by G K Chesterton 
  35 - Christmas Eve in War Times by Edward Payson Roe 
  36 - A Visit From St Nicholas ('Twas The Night Before Christmas) by Clement Moore 
  37 - The Snow Man by Wallace Stevens 
  38 - Christmas Eve by Christina Rossetti 
  39 - The Masque of Christmas by Ben Jonson 
  40 - Christmas Fancies by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
  41 - Christmas At Sea by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  42 - In The Bleak Midwinter by Christina Georgina Rossetti

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  Young Magic - Power may be good...

  Helen Simpson

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  Helen de Guerry Simpson was born in Sydney, Australia on the 1st December 1897.  As a 17 year old she was sent to France and then on to Oxford, England to complete her education.  Whilst there she founded the Oxford Women's Dramatic Society.  She was sent down in 1921 apparently for breaking regulations prohibiting men and women students from acting together. 
   
  Her early work of poems, plays, a novel and a collection of short stories found little commercial success. It was only with ‘Boomerang’ in 1932 that her success was established.  Helen continued to write across the genres and by now had become intensely interested in politics.  She was selected to run by the Liberals for the Isle of Wight parliamentary seat in the expected General Election of 39 or 40. 
   
  Sadly this coincided with the rapid onset of cancer and her health very quickly deteriorated.   
   
  Helen Simpson died in Worcestershire, England on the 14th October 1940.  She was 42. 
   
  In ‘Young Magic’ a young girl has definite supernatural abilities which she attempts to control.  Years later when she returns home and begins a relationship those abilities begin to reappear in a more sinister form.

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