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H.G. Wells was known as the father of science fiction—but his creative geniusencompassed far more than a single literary genre. He was also a visionary, asatirist, a sociologist, and an historian.This audio anthology contains some of Wells’ lesser-known stories and is thethird in a series produced by Raconteurs Audio in collaboration with SpokenRealms.This collection includes:The Argonauts of the Air read by Tim BruceT...

William Patterson weaves a chilling novel of gothic suspense about the terror lurking within a beautiful mansion—and the consequences for a newcomer who dares to call it home…Liz Huntington met her husband David, scion of one of Palm Beach’s wealthiest families, just weeks ago. Their honeymoon was idyllic and Liz is blissfully happy—at first. But she feels increasingly uneasy in her lavish new home. Huntington House and its staff still seem to be in the thrall of David’s f...

Herbert George Wells was one of the most prolific and visionary British writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. H. G. Wells, as he is universally known, is now best remembered for his science fiction novels, although he wrote across many genres, including nonfiction. His fiction embraces history, science fiction, horror, satire, fantasy, and social commentary. Wells was also a futurist, foreseeing air travel, tanks (as in “The Land Ironclads”—part of this anthology) s...

Cut By CutWhen Jessie Clarkson left Sayer's Brook, Connecticut, she was pregnant, terrified, and married to a psychopath. She knew Emil would do anything to prevent her incriminating him--if he ever found her. Staying alive for the sake of her child was all that mattered.Inch By InchFive years later, Emil is dead and Jessie is ready to stop running. With her daughter Abby starting school, going home to be among friends and family ma...

When a young couple tries to resurrect a ramshackle B&B, a terrifying evil is awakened in this “deliciously creepy thriller” (New York Times–bestselling author Kevin O’Brien).For Jack and Annabel Devlin, inheriting an old bed and breakfast in western Massachusetts seems like a perfect chance to start over. But Annabel’s first impressions of the Blue Boy Inn don’t ease her nerves. Locals whisper about its long history of murders and mysterious disappearance...

Trial confirms Richard North Patterson’s place as “our most important author of popular fiction.”In a propulsive narrative that culminates in a nationally televised murder case, Trial explores America’s most incendiary flashpoints of race.A Black eighteen-year-old voting rights worker, Malcolm Hill, is stopped by a white sheriff’s deputy on a dark country road in rural Georgia. His single mother, Allie, America’s leading voting rights advocate, restlessly awaits his return ...

Markets and Conflict: Economics of War and Peace explores the causes, impacts, and linkages of contemporary geopolitics, markets, and conflict along with their economic impacts on all stakeholders. It compiles the most current research and insights about market behaviours during conflicts of different types and severity, detailing how markets actually respond and what readers can do to implement a proactive early-response strategy. Today's international "order" is one characterized by inst...

There have been pirates that you all have heard about, Blackbeard, Henry Morgan, and even Calico Jack, but there is one who has fallen into obscurity, yet people celebrate his feats till this day. Why is this? Who is this?That pirate is known as Gasparilla. The pirate who stole an experimental naval ship and concurred a city. The pirate who was the Robin Hood of the seas. Jose Gaspar changed everything, but he and his escapades had to be silenced forever until now.This is h...

For the first time, the real story of the life of Robert A. Heinlein in the authorized biographyRobert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) is generally considered the greatest American SF writer of the 20th century. A famous and bestselling author in later life, he started as a navy man and graduate of Annapolis who was forced to retire because of tuberculosis. A socialist politician in the 1930s, he became one of the sources of Libertarian politics in the USA in his later year...

The Ultimate Western Collection surveys the imaginative territories of the American West and its borderlands through adventure tale, historical romance, frontier realism, detective fiction, humor, and the hard-edged Western yarn. Its capacious selection moves from mythic landscapes and encounters at the edge of settlement to cattle drives, mining camps, military outposts, and contested communities. Canonical frontier narratives sit beside popular serial fiction and lesser-known regional vi...

"The definitive biography of the writer who defined science fiction." —Allen Steele, Hugo Award–winning authorRobert A. Heinlein is generally considered the greatest American science fiction writer of the twentieth century. His most famous and widely influential works include the Future History series (stories and novels collected in The Past Through Tomorrow and continued in later novels), Starship Troopers, Stranger in a Strange Land, a...

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly gathers more than 175 Western novels and short stories into a capacious archive of frontier writing. Spanning adventure romance, outlaw tale, mining-camp sketch, cattle-drive narrative, historical fiction, and psychologically charged wilderness drama, the volume charts the genre's movement from nineteenth-century local-color storytelling to the popular Western's modern forms. Classic frontier legends, tales of gunfighters and scouts, and narratives of settlem...