Mars Confidential is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Howard Browne is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Howard Browne then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection. Views: 288
The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 is a historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper published in 1826. It is the second book of the Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy and the best known to contemporary audiences. The Last of the Mohicans is set in 1757, during the French and Indian War (the Seven Years\' War), when France and Great Britain battled for control of North America. During this war, both the French and the British used Native American allies, but the French were particularly dependent, as they were outnumbered in the Northeast frontier areas by the more numerous British colonists. The novel is primarily set in the upper New York wilderness, detailing the transport of the two daughters of Colonel Munro, Alice and Cora, to a safe destination at Fort William Henry. According to the Encyclopedia of Media and Propaganda in Wartime America, the novel has been one of the "most popular novels in English" since its publication and it remains "widely read in American literature courses". It has been adapted numerous times and in different languages for films, TV movies and cartoons. Views: 284
Bookended by her two extraordinary novels, The God of Small Things (1997) and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (2017), My Seditious Heart collects the work of a two-decade period when Arundhati Roy devoted herself to the political essay as a way of opening up space for justice, rights and freedoms in an increasingly hostile environment. Taken together, the essays speak in a voice of unique spirit, marked by compassion, clarity and courage. Radical and superbly readable, as they speak always in defense of the collective, of the individual and of the land, in the face of the destructive logic of financial, social, religious, military and governmental elites. Views: 283
It is not improbable that some of those who read this book, may feel a wish to know in what manner I became possessed of the manuscript. Such a desire is too just and natural to be thwarted, and the tale shall be told as briefly as possible. During the summer of 1828, while travelling among those valleys of Switzerland which lie between the two great ranges of the Alps, and in which both the Rhone and the Rhine take their rise, I had passed from the sources of the latter to those of the former river, and had reached that basin in the mountains that is so celebrated for containing the glacier of the Rhone, when chance gave me one of those rare moments of sublimity and solitude, which are the more precious in the other hemisphere from their infrequency. Views: 283
Quijana is a girl in pieces. One-half Guatemalan, one-half American: When Quijana's Guatemalan cousins move to town, her dad seems ashamed that she doesn't know more about her family's heritage. One-half crush, one-half buddy: When Quijana meets Zuri and Jayden, she knows she's found true friends. But she can't help the growing feelings she has for Jayden. One-half kid, one-half grown-up: Quijana spends her nights Skyping with her ailing grandma and trying to figure out what's going on with her increasingly hard-to-reach brother. In the course of this immersive and beautifully written novel, Quijana must figure out which parts of herself are most important, and which pieces come together to make her whole. This lyrical debut from Rebecca Balcárcel is a heartfelt poetic portrayal of a girl growing up, fitting in, and learning what it means to belong. Views: 282
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country is a novel of passions--sexual, racial, political, artistic--that is stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, depicting men and women, blacks and whites, stripped of their masks of gender and race by love and hatred at the most elemental and sublime. In a small set of friends, Baldwin imbues the best and worst intentions of liberal America in the early 1970s. Views: 282
Classic short story. According to Wikipedia: "Daniel Defoe (1659/1661 [?] â€" April 24 [?], 1731)[1] was an English writer, journalist, and spy, who gained enduring fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe. Defoe is notable for being one of the earliest practitioners of the novel and helped popularize the genre in Britain. In some texts he is even referred to as one of the founders, if not the founder, of the English novel. A prolific and versatile writer, he wrote more than five hundred books, pamphlets, and journals on various topics (including politics, crime, religion, marriage, psychology and the supernatural). He was also a pioneer of economic journalism. Views: 281
Kristian Jobe was living every man's dream. Health, wealth, and faith in God characterized his life, until tragedies of epic proportions strike him. Now he must cope with his accusing friends, and struggle to grasp why his loving God would allow a good man to suffer.Killer babies, Red-Eyed zombies, neighborhoods on fire, towns and graveyards infected with the dead, sexual black widows, and of course constant, insatiable hunger. These are just a few things to look out for in this new zombie-plagued world. The only good thing is that every one's equal after death, right? Of course not. You should know things wouldn't be that easy, even here at the end of the world. Views: 279
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The wild rush of action in this classic frontier adventure story has made The Last of the Mohicans the most popular of James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales. Deep in the forests of upper New York State, the brave woodsman Hawkeye (Natty Bumppo) and his loyal Mohican friends Chingachgook and Uncas become embroiled in the bloody battles of the French and Indian War. The abduction of the beautiful Munro sisters by hostile savages, the treachery of the renegade brave Magua, the ambush of innocent settlers, and the thrilling events that lead to the final tragic confrontation between rival war parties create an unforgettable, spine-tingling picture of life on the frontier. And as the idyllic wilderness gives way to the forces of civilization, the novel presents a moving portrayal of a vanishing race and the end of its way of life in the great American forests.
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A short short postscript to the novel Braji that continues the character portrait of Kraut and provides a glimpse into his life after Brajilliana.The Punishment of the Gods is an epic fantasy story spanning five books:The peace and safety of Weldera has long been bound to the fortress of Dadron, which stands impregnable in the center of Falsis. In the west, however, a dark spirit plots revenge against his ancient rival, who is worshipped as a god in Dadron. Good and evil prepare for the coming clash; but for those caught up in the midst of the struggle, the difference between the two seems to vanish away.In the midst of this conflict, Daryas Galvahirne finds himself torn from his homeland by forces beyond his understanding. Tortured by dreams and terrified by the uncertainty of the future, he discovers, to his horror, that much of this future has come to rest upon his own shoulders. Though he has a powerful prince for a rival and a terrifying monster as his enemy, his greatest anxiety is born from the demand of his beloved that he return to her without spot or blemish. But how can a soul, black throughout, be made white? Views: 274
An old man yearns to die after an unexpected encounter that nearly took his life. Unable to accomplish the task alone he decides to make an offer with a caretaker that has been stealing from him, enticing her with something she would never refuse.Mayenta has returned once again to the land with no recollection of where she had gone. All she knew was, every time she returned to the vale, she returned lying in the same spot underneath a dogwood tree growing high upon Honor Mountain--and, as usual, she returned naked. What did it mean that she left Paigorya without warning? Where did she go? WHY did she go? And, most importantly, who was she?The Dogwood Tree eBook short story includes a free excerpt from Laurie Y. Elrod's novel, Blackridge-Book One of the So'ladiun. Views: 273
The narrative describes the life of an Englishman, stolen from a well-to-do family as a child and raised by Gypsies who eventually makes his way to sea. One half of the book concerns Singleton\'s crossing of Africa and the later half concerns his life as a pirate. Defoe\'s description of piracy focuses for the most part on matters of economics and logistics, making it an intriguing if not particularly gripping read. Singleton\'s piracy is more like a merchant adventurer, perhaps Defoe\'s comment on capitalism. Views: 271
