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  A Welcome Death Edgar Allan Poe...

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  Edgar Allan Poe was one of the most important and influential American writers of the 19th century. He was the first author to try to make a professional living as a writer. Much of Poe's work was inspired by the events that happened around him. His poetry alone would ensure his spot in the literary canon. Poe's notable verses range from the early masterpiece “To Helen” to the dark, mysterious “Ulalume.” From “The Raven,” which made him world-famous upon its publication in 1845, to “Annabel Lee,” the posthumously published eulogy for a maiden “in a kingdom by the sea.” Most famously, Poe completely transformed the genre of the horror story with his masterful tales of psychological depth and insight not envisioned in the genre before his time and scarcely seen in it since. Stories like “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Cask of Amontillado,” “The Pit and the Pendulum,” “The Masque of the Red Death,” and “The Fall of the House of Usher” reveal Poe’s talent at its height. He was an early pioneer in the genre of science fiction. Poe was fascinated by the science of his time, and he often wrote stories about new inventions. Poe too is credited with inventing the modern detective story with “The Murders in the Rue Morgue.” His concept of deductive reasoning, which he called "ratiocination" inspired countless authors, most famous among them Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes. Produced by Devin Lawerence in VrndavanaMixed and assembled by Macc Kay in BangkokMusical consultant Alex Franchi in MilanProduction executive Avalon Giuliano in LondonICON Intern Eden Giuliano in Delhi   Dedicated to the sacred memory of two pure devotees, H. G. Srimati Vrndarani Devi Dasi Maharani (1953-2017) and H. G. Srila Bhakti Hirday Mangal Niloy Gosvami Maharaj Special thanks to author Brandon Stickney Music By AudioNautix With Their Kind Permission ©2020 Icon Audio Arts (P) 2020 Icon Audio Arts LLC

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  A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated)

  Charles Dickens

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  A Tale of Two Cities is an 1859 historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie whom he had never met. The story is set against the conditions that led up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror. In the Introduction to the Encyclopedia of Adventure Fiction, critic Don D'Ammassa argues that it is an adventure novel because the protagonists are in constant danger of being imprisoned or killed.

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  Popular History of Ireland Book 03

  Thomas D'Arcy McGee

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  Thomas D'Arcy McGee was an Irish refugee and a father of the Canadian confederation. His work on Irish history is comprehensive, encompassing twelve books; book 3 begins with the fortune of the family of Brian Boru and continues through the rise of the O'Conors to the political, economic, and religious condition of the island prior to the English invasion. (Summary by Sibella Denton)

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  Who Murdered Diana?

  Stephen B Ubaney

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  Wanna know who murdered Diana? Volume 4 of the Who Murdered? book series is one of the most extensively researched and most unique books on Princess Diana’s death ever published. This investigative masterpiece was created at the expense of 3981 hours of research, investigation, and production labor. For the first time, a one of a kind, “tell-all” book uses new evidence to delve deep into the power players, their agenda, and the identities of the people who planned her murder. In the end, you will not only know who did it, you will know why, and how they pulled it off. Sit back, relax, and let this “author-read” audiobook answer all of your questions. If you enjoy this audiobook, search for other volumes of the Who Murdered Book series. Volume 1: Who Murdered Elvis?, Volume 2: Who Murdered FDR, and Volume 3: Who Murdered Elvis’ The 5th Anniversary Edition. Physical copies can be purchased at whomurderedbooks.com for all of your gift giving needs. ** All rights reserved. No part may be used or reproduced by any means: graphic, electronic, or mechanical, recording, taping, or by any other information storage retrieval system without the expressed written consent and permission of the author and the publisher. Who Murdered Diana? Copyright 2021 Who Murdered? is a registered Trademark Softcover: 978-1-7333048-2-5eBook: 978-1-7333048-3-2Writers Guild of America: Registration 2114075

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  The Great Dead Body Teachers

  Jackie Dent

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  An adventure into the world of anatomy and dissection. 
  Since I was a child, I've been interested in dead bodies. When I was eight years old, I dug up the remains of my pet budgie Zazbut. He had been buried for about eight weeks in a patch of grass outside our house in Dasmarinas, a fortified village in Manila, in the Philippines. 
   
  ‘The first exhumation was the beginning of my intrigue with death, which has persisted. As a journalist, I've written about graveyards, funerals and death doulas. I always visit the local cemetery wherever I am in the world. But one thing that has largely been hidden from me in this death trip is the dead body. 
   
  Dissection might not be a normal topic to contemplate but when both your paternal grandparents donate their bodies to science it does intermittently cross your mind. 
   
  This is the story of how Jackie Dent's grandparents - Ruby and Julie - gave their bodies to science when they died. No one in her family seems to know why, or what really happened with their bodies afterwards. Were they avid science buffs? Was it to save on cremation costs? How do scientists tackle the practicalities and ethics of cutting up the dead for research? And who are body donors generally? 
    
  Weaving the personal with the history of anatomy and the dissected, Jackie Dent explores the world of whole-body donation — all the while looking for answers as to what happened to her grandparents.

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  Prohibition New York City -...

  David Rosen

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  “The drunken ’20s started roaring almost immediately, but they were loudest in Manhattan. David Rosen’s [book] has all the snazzy, jazzy details.” —NY Daily News 
   
  Texas Guinan was the queen of New York’s speakeasies in the Roaring Twenties. Her clubs were backed by leading gangsters and welcomed some of the city’s biggest sharks and swankest swells. Movie stars, flappers, madams, musicians and more flocked to midtown’s “Wet Zone,” Greenwich Village and Harlem for inebriated entertainment. Patrons threw cultural norms aside as free-flowing hooch lubricated the jazz joints, sex circuses and drag balls that fueled the era’s insurgent spirit. At the center of the party was Texas with her trademark catchphrases and guarantee to have a good time. Author David Rosen recounts Texas’s adventurous life alongside tales of Gotham’s nightlife when abstinence was the law of the land and breaking the law an all-American indulgence.

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