This is a reissue of the first half of A 1632 Christmas, one of the last Ring of Fire Press books Eric worked on. The second half is Special Issue 2, December 2024. These stories range from Grantville, through Germany, to Sweden and even farther.Garrett W. Vance's "A Christmas in Wonderland Isles" takes us back to Pam Miller and all the other wonderful people working to save the dodo bird in Wonderland Isles. In George Grant's "A Christmas for Kjell", we celebrate Saint Lucia in Sw...

This issue of Eric Flint's 1632 & Beyond is the first one in which all the stories focus on a single theme. That is Redbird Institute, a new STEM, arts, and vacation venue a few miles east of the Ring of Fire.State Library Papers(Non-Fiction)This is our first issue that opens with a non-fiction article. It's "What is Redbird?" by Bethanne Kim. It's background information for the entire issue.Redbird Reader(Fiction...

This issue was not planned with a theme. Nor did we pick stories because they matched. In fact, no one even noticed until the stories were back from the proofreaders. Every single one answers the question, "Whatever happened to _____?"Twenty-five years ago, in Chapter 4 of 1632, Balthazar and Rebecca Abrabanel's carriage driver fled. David Hankins tells the driver's story in "The Abrabanel Rescue." This is David' Hankins first 1632 story. Dominik Wagner, a simple coachman, must fin...

Are you looking for a journey that will take you through 100 of the Top Dressage Riders of All Time, along with funny comments and a word puzzle? Then this book is for you. Whether you are looking at this book for curiosity, choices, options, or just for fun; this book fits any criteria. Creating 100 of the Top Dressage Riders of All Time did not happen quickly. It is thorough look at accuracy and foundation before the book was even started. This book was created to inform, entertain and m...

"Cittandino in Villa" Or "The Economy of the Citizen in the Country" By Lancelot Schaubert is the story of Vincenzo Tanara, an obsessive collector of rare plants who often resorts to theft to obtain his prize specimens. He encounters kudzu, a vine native to Japan that had been released into the up-time USA and had run rampant, overtaking and strangling out native vegetation. Vincenzo steals some cuttings and begins to sell them to rich garden owners, a decision he later comes to regret . ....

Hannah, a young Communist in Nazi Germany, leaves home to hide from the soldiers who want to kill her. In her efforts to find shelter, she meets two Jews who help her.Throughout Hannah's final hours, she falls in love, conquers fear, and discovers the truth behind death.

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE!"I wish I'd had these books as a kid. Hilarious!" -- Dav Pilkey, creator of Captain Underpants and Dog ManThey may look like Bad Guys, but these wannabe heroes are doing good deeds... whether you like it or not in this New York Times bestselling illustrated series.POP QUIZ! You are on the roof of a skyscraper. Every floor of that building has nasty things that just don't like you....

From The Man Booker International Prize finalist Robert Seethaler comes a tender, heartbreaking story of one young man and his friendship with Sigmund Freud during the Nazi occupation of Vienna.Seventeen-year-old Franz Huchel journeys to Vienna to apprentice at a tobacco shop. There he meets Sigmund Freud, a regular customer, and over time the two very different men form a singular friendship. When Franz falls desperately in love with the music hall dancer Anezka, ...

In this sexy international romance, an accident inspires a woman to add seducing her handsome Italian rescuer to her bucket list.Billionaire Francesco Calvetti doesn't do nice, and he doesn't do damsels in distress. Apart from that one time. He never thought he'd see Hannah Chapman again after saving her life. A woman like her, pure and untouched, has no place in his dark world.Ever since losing her beloved sister, innocent Hannah has sheltered herself from...

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Duncan is an ocean from home over the holidays and expects to spend them alone. To his pleasant surprise, one of his European co-workers, Georg, befriends him and includes Duncan in the holiday traditions of his homeland: cutting a Christmas tree under starry skies at Georg's country estate, decorating it at the family's city home, and shopping at the Christmas market in Munich. Both men are lonely and realize they have much in common. But Georg's life is in Germany and Duncan's is in Bost...

NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING SERIES. The seventh anthology of tales set in Eric Flint’s phenomenal Ring of Fire universe—all selected and edited by Flint.A cosmic accident sets the modern West Virginia town of Grantville down in war-torn seventeenth century Europe. It will take all the gumption of the resourceful, freedom-loving up-timers to find a way to flourish in the mad and bloody beginning of the Renaissance. Are they up for it? You bet they are.Edited by Eric...