An enthralling anthology of 20 CWA Dagger Award-shortlisted gripping and thrilling stories for the most hardened crime fan.Featuring bestselling authors such as Neil Gaiman, Ann Cleeves, Christopher Fowler and Val McDermid.OVER TWENTY CWA DAGGER AWARD-WINNING SHORT STORIES FROM THE BEST OF THE BEST IN CRIME FICTIONLegendary editor, Maxim Jakubowski, delivers another chilling anthology collecting stories of cold-blooded murder, revenge and crimes-gone-wrong from the ...

One lifetime. Fifty books. Endless wisdom. 50 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die – Volume 2 continues the literary journey through the most profound, beautiful, and enduring stories ever written. This carefully curated collection features essential works by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Gustave Flaubert, Anne Brontë, Oscar Wilde, and many more. Covering a wide array of genres, cultures, and time periods, these masterpieces form the bedrock of world literature and invite readers into profou...

Set against the vibrant backdrop of Chicago, this is a story of science and poetry, manipulation and intrigue, and the lengths to which people will go for their passions.The Yucca Mountain Project deep in the Nevada desert is the first planned long-term nuclear storage facility. The project is designed to contain nuclear waste for ten-thousand years, the amount of time it will take for the waste to no longer be radioactive. It is an ambitious project, especially in ...

The recession has struck, and all John Gregor wants is steady work. At every job he finds, he encounters inept management, arbitrary rules and treacherous bureaucrats. However, when he is invited into a class-action lawsuit against a former employer, he begins to become curious about how much power he really has according to the law...When a man is trying to earn his keep and his livelihood is threatened, he begins to hate. When a man who hates learns his rights and figures out how...

“What I done and what I been accused of covers everything, you put ’em both together.” Wyatt Moore of Caddo Lake exaggerates, but perhaps not very much. During his long life at Caddo Lake, Moore was at various times a boat operator, commercial fisherman, boat builder, farmer, fishing and hunting camp operator, guide, commercial hunter, trapper, raftsman, moonshiner, oil field worker, water well driller, and mechanical jack-of-all-trades. Still, he always found time for his lifelon...

In 1989, People magazine named him the most beautiful male model in the world, Michael Flinn.https://malemodelindex.com/michael-flinn.htmlFlinn was the face of Hugo Boss for eleven years. Does he finish number one or number two on maleiconic.com? Find out who is on the Mt. Rushmore of Male Models.The 100 names include 22 of the 25 listed in L'Uomo Vogue's top 25 male models ever are profiles on maleinconic.comHere are some o...

One of the greatest English writers of the 19th century was a Polish-born man who couldnt even speak English fluently until he had entered adulthood. Nevertheless, Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) went on to have a well-regarded literary career that bridged Romanticism and Modernism while also covering the zenith and twilight of the British empire. Conrad used his experience within the British empire to write novels and stories that often used the sea and navy as a setting, juxtaposing the indivi...

A history of independent African American settlements in Texas during the Jim Crow era, featuring historical and contemporary photographs.In the decades following the Civil War, nearly a quarter of African Americans achieved a remarkable victory—they got their own land. While other ex-slaves and many poor whites became trapped in the exploitative sharecropping system, these independence-seeking individuals settled on pockets of unclaimed land that had been deemed to...

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?The theme ...

'Into Eternal Darkness: 100+ Gothic Classics in One Edition' presents a rich tapestry of haunting narratives and profound horror that delve into the human psyche and supernatural enigmas. This anthology superbly encapsulates the essence of the Gothic tradition, ranging from the grand, brooding Romanticism of the 18th century to the enigmatic complexities of the Victorian era. It features a spectrum of literary styles, from the epistolary form used ingeniously by Radcliffe to the ornate nar...

Focusing on the South’s four major military colleges—the Virginia Military Institute (VMI), the South Carolina Military Academy (later The Citadel), the Georgia Military Institute, and the University of Alabama—The Young Lions is the story of young Confederate military cadets at war. From the opening of VMI in 1839 through the struggles of all the schools to remain open during the war, the death of Stonewall Jackson (a VMI professor), and the Pyrrhic victory of the Battle of New Market to ...

This book contains the following works:- Alighieri, Dante: The Divine Comedy- Andersen, Hans Christian: The Complete Fairy Tales and Stories- Arnim, Elizabeth Von: The Enchanted April- Austen, Jane: Emma- Austen, Jane: Persuasion- Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice- Balzac, Honoré de: Father Goriot- Brontë, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall- Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre- Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights- Butler, S...