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What if, while your body lay asleep, you lived another life—fully, completely, and by choice? After a mysterious accident at sea, a modern man awakens on a remote Polynesian island in the 18th century. Alone at first, he learns to survive, to listen to the rhythms of nature, and eventually to love. With Nani, a young island woman, he builds a life shaped by devotion, hardship, and profound simplicity. Together they raise children, end ancient rituals, and create a future far from the world he once knew. When he finally awakens in a hospital bed—his parents at his side, years believing ...

In the opulent ballrooms of Regency-era London, Mercy Ainsworth plays her part flawlessly. By day, she's the poised daughter of an esteemed earl, an embodiment of grace and decorum. But when the moon ascends and the city's shadows lengthen, she transforms into a clandestine artist of Drury Lane, her paintings ablaze with untamed passion.

No matter how harsh the instruction or inhumane the conditioning, military doctrine cannot replace compassion with uncaring steel. At his post in the bowels of a Japanese submarine, one frightened boy endures the unspeakable slaughter of an illicit war until he reaches a psychological breaking point. Drafted as a teenager into one of the bloodiest and most fanatical navies in history, he will spin the wheels for ill.

"You cannot give life to a painting if you don't know who died for it." Revenge, betrayals and conspiracy among rivals are nothing compared with the blood spilt over family issues. Donna Atalanta of Perugia knows this only too well. In 1500 she commissions a young painter named Raffaello Sanzio to create the famous Pala Baglioni–The Entombment. The behind-the-scenes story of the famous Pala Baglioni, now housed in the Villa Borghese Museum in Rome, is told by a particular voice that accompanies Raffaello during the composition of his work of art. What happened in the notorious Bloody ...

Beneath the cobblestone streets and candlelit alleys of America’s oldest cities lie stories that never made it into the history books. Urban Legends of America’s Oldest Cities explores the whispered tales born alongside the nation itself—accounts of vanished settlers, sealed-off tunnels, cursed buildings, and crimes buried deeper than any archive. These are the stories passed quietly from generation to generation, shaped by fear, guilt, and the lingering presence of unfinished business. Each chapter focuses on a different historic city, uncovering legends rooted in colonial life, ...

"The LeMesurier Inheritance" presents readers with a captivating short story featuring Agatha Christie's renowned detective Hercule Poirot. In this intriguing narrative, Poirot is engaged to investigate a family inheritance matter involving the LeMesurier estate.

During the 1901 World’s Fair, snake-oil salesman, Jim Duncan, stumbles upon the body of a murdered boy, on The Midway. But when the body vanishes, he realizes nothing is as it seems. He plunges deep into the shadows of the fair’s gleaming facades to uncover a demonic conspiracy to assassinate the President and change the course of human history. In this heart-pounding prequel to The King of Pain, Dreamland weaves a mesmerizing tapestry of history, suspense, and horror. Prepare to be captivated by a story that will be with you long after you turn the last page.

America's black intellectuals - writers, historians, educators, and community activists - have made major contributions to the struggle for equality and human rights throughout American public life. The key streams of thought that gave rise to the intellectual traditions associated with African Americans emerged in the 18th and 19th centuries. These same traditions continue to develop and influence social and political processes today.

Travel through time from the 1460s to 1918 in this collection of short stories and poems. There's royalty and commoners, witches and the bewitched, good, bad and ugly in this collection, in which so many are simply after a new life for either themselves, or those they love. Sometimes both. Will they be successful, or will bad decisions, and in some cases, terrible people, catch up with them first?

The Samurai Sword Under the Fossilized Tree Beneath a sun-bleached, fossilized tree, a man prepares to die according to an ancient ritual, watched by the one who must carry out the final blow. Between them rests a sword passed down through generations — a blade that carries not only family honor, but the weight of a silenced history. What begins as an intimate act of ceremonial death unfolds into a harrowing reckoning with the past: the internment of Japanese American citizens during World War II, the stripping of identity, the humiliation of confinement, and the cost of enforced silence....

In 19th Century New Zealand, the Thomas family’s lives will never be the same again when seven-year-old Daniel Thomas is abducted from their farm by Maoris angered by the desecration of land that is tapu, or sacred. The land contains the bones of their iwi's ancestors. The culprit, Daniel’s father, devotes his remaining years to searching for his missing blue-eyed, blond-haired son. Until his death a decade later, he’s assisted in his search by Daniel’s identical twin brother Benjamin. Like his father, Benjamin believes Daniel is still alive. Twenty years later and now a family man ...

Gizmo Carson is headed to the Most Iconic Music Festival of All Time… Woodstock. The year is 1969 and the summer is buzzing with anticipation for the ultimate celebration of peace, love, and music. Gizmo, the charismatic protagonist of the novel Orgone Gizmo, receives a call from his friend Sparrow at the Vermont commune, inviting him to join their caravan to Woodstock. Without hesitation, Gizmo packs up his VW camper and hits the road. The old hippie school bus he’s following is plastered with peace symbols and reeks of pot, while his VW’s 8-track tape player is rocking songs of the ...

Through Time and Conflict - The Max Chronicles is an historical adventure that follows the extraordinary lineage of three generations of a courageous whippet named Max, whose loyalty and bravery shape pivotal moments in history.

Alive with anecdote, this is a further wonderful companion for anyone who enjoys Scotland's heritage and tales of its gaunt and shadowy ruins.

Another story of Roma Eterna. A Roman nobleman is sent in punishment to a remote corner of the Empire–the Arabian city we know as Mecca...

A woman in love with an ideal. A man who struggles to move past the demons haunting him. A marriage that might never happen in this clean romance. Jack Dixon knew his mother was right. Marriage might be his only chance at a normal life. He allows his mother to write a letter to a matchmaker. In fact, he does not even bother to read it. Little does he know, the contents do not at all resemble who he is as a person. Priscilla Pringle fell in love with the perfect man who wrote such a tender letter. When she meets him, the grumpy man is the complete opposite of the person she expects to find ...

EDITORIAL REVIEW A chilling, intelligent work of existential horror, this novel transforms first contact into something far more disturbing than invasion — quiet correction. With disciplined restraint and relentless plausibility, it explores how humanity adapts not through resistance, but through acceptance. Unsettling, original, and impossible to shake, this is horror that lingers long after the final page. SIBERIAN INCIDENT The 1989 Case Where Twenty-Three Soldiers Were Turned to Stone In the frozen wilderness of Siberia, a Soviet military unit was dispatched to investigate an ...

A city on the brink. A woman living in secrecy. A love tested by war. As the Civil War threatens to tear St. Louis apart, Captain Robert Warren is determined to keep the city from falling into the hands of Southern sympathizers. Duty has always come first, until he crosses paths with Mollie Grove, a woman whose quiet courage challenges everything he believes. Mollie lives a dangerous double life, risking everything to help enslaved men and women reach freedom through the Underground Railroad. When her secret is discovered by her uncle’s closest friend, Robert sees not recklessness—but ...

An earl, a novelist, and a scandal that could ruin them both. Miss Amelia Ashworth is no aristocrat. By day, she is Lilian Hartman, a middle-class silver fork novelist who pens glittering tales about high society to make ends meet. At night, she becomes the elusive Miss Amelia Ashworth— a spinster without a traceable lineage—attending balls for research purposes. For years, she has managed this double life, but when whispers of a hidden romance between her and the handsome Earl of Westmoore ignite the ton, Lilian finds herself at the center of a social storm she never intended. At ...

"In the Shadow of the Ripper: A Love Story Tainted by Madness" transports readers to Victorian London, where Olivia, a determined female detective, finds herself entangled in the hunt for Jack the Ripper. As she delves deeper into the investigation, Olivia forms a bond with Jack, a charming man who hides a dark secret. Their burgeoning romance becomes complicated when Olivia discovers Jack may be the very Ripper she's been hunting. Caught between her duty and her love for Jack, Olivia must confront the devastating truth about the man she loves. "In the Shadow of the Ripper: A Love Story ...