Living alone looking out onto the harbour in a secluded part of town, August works in a cafe as a waiter spending his free time drinking at their main competitor on the point and looking after his cat.For the most part it's a good if lonely life until unexpectantly his neighbour dies and in the ensuing storm of conjecture he meets a strange creature from the sea.At the first they embark upon an unusual urban adventure through the streets he thought he knew so well until a pol...

Many are the tales of young men lying about their age to join the Army, yet Jack Evans sought far more at the age of just possibly just seventeen to act behind enemy lines as an agent of the Special Operations Executive.Evans had joined the RAF in 1940, despite being well under the legal age, and two years later was recruited into the SOE as a member of the Small Scale Raiding Force. Evans related his experiences with the SOE to author Ernest Dudley in the 1950s, in which he describes his ...

This is your opportunity to experience the life of an average African-American male. You will become him and experience all the happy moments and all the joy, pain, suffering, and misery that he does. You will experience the love and even the hate that he experiences. You will experience the sex, violence, drugs and alcohol, the loneliness, the bitterness, and the reasons behind it all. You will take a ride down the back alleys of life, where even hope is afraid to go. And in the end, you ...

Yankel Krutiansky was supposed to go with his father to America in 1913. Instead, his brother was chosen and twelve-year-old Yankel was left behind in the collapsing Russian Empire. It was supposed to be just for a few months, but it turned out to be eight long years. Eight years of war, revolution, poverty, and murderous anti-Jewish pogroms. Eight years in which Yankel—the family clown, the family bad boy, and the oldest son left at home—was responsible for keeping his mother and four lit...

What do you think when you hear the term 'Pit Bull'? Some think of a cold-blooded killer dog who shouldn't be considered family, while others think of a misunderstood soul who just wants to be loved. But for Jack, the term goes deeper. It's an insult to how he looks, its a set of rules on how he should behave. For him, the term 'Pit Bull' is a reason to be treated like a monster.But Jack tries his hardest to show everyone that he is no monster. That just because he is judged, abused...

Stewart Evans is a policeman whose hobby is collecting true crime ephemera. When a second hand bookseller rang to ask him if he would be interested in a collection of letters from the Special Branch, he had no idea of the sensational revelation they would contain. One of these letters supplied an astonishing piece of infomation not contained in the decimated Scotland Yard files. The police had actually arrested and charged an American with the Ripper murders, but he escaped and disappeared...

In 1888 the dreaded figure of Jack the Ripper stalked London's East End murdering prostitutes. His crimes set in motion a huge police operation and have held a dark fascination over the public's imagination for over a century, yet his identity has never been proved. Now, for the first time, two leading Ripper experts have joined forces to treat the case like a police investigation. Drawing on their unparalleled knowledge of the Jack the Ripper murders and their professional experie...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Jack Ma (born 1964) is a Chinese entrepreneur and co-founder of Alibaba Group, one of the world's largest e-commerce and technology companies. Rising from humble beginnings as an English teacher, Ma faced multiple rejections before launching Alibaba in 1999, transforming it into a global powerhouse in online retail, cloud computing, and digital finance. His visionary leadership and emphasis on innovation helped revoluti...

Twenty percent of proceeds will benefit EveryLibrary, which supports libraries and fights censorship.The wet dreams of book lovers come to life in these seven erotic stories of library liaisons, bookstore hookups, and book convention orgies. Gay, straight, sapphic, cis and trans--everyone has a place between the stacks.A bookstore meet-cute gets steamy. Closeted gay men find connection in libraries. Roommates act out scenes from a smutty book. A man meets h...

Between August and November 1888 six women were found murdered and mutilated in London's East End and Aldgate. All were prostitutes; five were found in the street and the sixth in a house. The murders provoked massive interest in the press and dozens of letters quickly appeared, claiming to have been written by the killer. The origin of the name Jack the Ripper itself was a letter, famously written to 'Dear Boss', the head of the Central News Agency.Certain letters...

Jack the pit bull is looking for his forever home in a world where not many people like his kind of dog. He hopes a family will look past his breed and his background and choose him to be their loving and loyal pet.

Love makes monsters of us all.Descend to the darklands. Walk the shadowpath. Pray the goddess shows you mercy.Power requires sacrifice.I promised Eloise a crown. After hundreds of years of fighting and sacrifice, I swore I'd make her a princess and give her the peaceful life she deserves. But when I return to claim my throne, I find my brother sitting on it instead—with no intention of stepping aside. I'm t...