A promise kept across troubled waters.When wealthy Will Goodbow's dying wife, Grace, asks him to help reunite separated immigrant families, he can't refuse. Though he doesn't share her passion, he promises to try. This vow takes him from his comfortable life in Newport, Rhode Island, to the heart of the immigration crisis at the Texas border.As Will navigates legal obstacles and ethical dilemmas, he enlists the help of unlikely allies: a crusty sea captain,...

As a meticulous assassination plot begins to unfold with a series of murders in Washington, US President Del Winters and her father (Henry) are forced into lockdown at Camp David with Henry's friend (Stanely Bigelow) and the friend's aging German shepherd (Augie). An aging DC homicide detective (Jack Renfro) and his protégé (Audrey Sanderson) partner with the nation's anti-terrorism chief, Admiral Tyler Brew and FBI agents to unravel the planned attack. But little do they know how much inf...

After the government’s first choice to design a secret installation is discovered and murdered by foreign agents, the president turns to a lonely widower from Pittsburgh to take her place. Stanley Bigelow’s unusual engineering skills and solitary life make him suitable for the work, but Captain Tyler Brew, the Navy SEAL overseeing the project worries that the man’s age, weight, and lack of physical fitness will make him vulnerable to his predecessor’s fate. Despite round-the-clock protecti...

Heart of Darkness is a novella by Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad, about a voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State, in the heart of Africa, by the story's narrator Charles Marlow. Marlow tells his story to friends aboard a boat anchored on the River Thames, London, England. This setting provides the frame for Marlow's story of his obsession with the ivory trader Kurtz, which enables Conrad to create a parallel between London and Africa as places ...

Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he became a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. Conrad wrote stories and novels, many with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of what he saw as an impassive, inscrutable universeThis book, newly up...

The Tale by Joseph Conrad is a haunting and psychologically intense short story set against the shadowy backdrop of the First World War. Framed as a story told by a naval officer to a woman in a quiet room, the narrative gradually unfolds into a tense account of suspicion, duty, and moral uncertainty at sea.When a British naval commander encounters a seemingly innocent vessel in restricted waters, he is forced to decide whether its crew can be trus...

This story is a master-quality example of such a tale as it follows two French soldiers from the arbitrary circumstances of their first meeting and subsequent duel, through their lives serving in the army of Napoleon, all the way to their postwar lives and final meeting.

This Brief describes the concept and realization of gene therapy for HIV from the unique historic perspective and insight of two pioneers of the clinical applications of stem cell gene therapy for HIV.Gerhard Bauer applied ribozyme-anti-HIV and other vectors to manufacture clinical grade, HIV-resistant hematopoietic stem cells for the first patients that received stem cell gene therapy for HIV, including the first child in the world and the first fully marrow-ablated HIV infected p...

Weird talesAn interesting book with old time stories that will keep you reading. The stories are fairly short so they won't keep you reading to far past your bedtime. A very good read!

A Beautifully Eerie and Unforgettable TaleThe Child That Went With the Fairies by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu is a haunting short story that blends folklore, mystery, and supernatural unease with remarkable atmosphere. The contrast between the beauty of the fairy world and the darker sense of danger beneath it makes the story especially memorable.Le Fanu’s writing is elegant and evocative, creating a mood that is both enchanting and unsettling. It is a...

New authors and collections. Daring tales of kidnap and rescue, assassination and revenge, the politics of death and espionage, these are the themes of this latest volatile concoction of classic and new writing. The days of empire and traditional war have been replaced by cyber warfare but the subtle, lethal methods of agents and spies remain the same, and so has the power of great writing, with stories here to chill and intrigue every reader.New, contemporary and notable writers f...

This compact novel, completed in 1900, as with so many of the great novels of the time, is at its baseline a book of the sea. An English boy in a simple town has dreams bigger than the outdoors and embarks at an early age into the sailor's life. The waters he travels reward him with the ability to explore the human spirit, while Joseph Conrad launches the story into both an exercise of his technical prowess and a delicately crafted picture of a character who reaches the status of a literar...