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Thanks to the perseverance and editorial effort of his son Allan, Jim Hunter's splendid war memoirs of flying and captivity can now be enjoyed by a wider audience. In the first part there is the account of his flying career in RAF Coastal Command, culminating in an extraordinarily brave attack by...

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) is one of America’s greatest and most dark and mysterious writers. The circumstances surrounding his untimely death are still unknown, as is what made him tick. Part of the American Romantic Movement, Poe is best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, and he...

A collection of utterances from the mouths of Scottish schoolchildren over the last 70 years which have been gathered by best-selling author Allan Morrison. These frequently hilarious snippits cover a huge range of situations and subject areas.

"Thou Art the Man", originally titled "Thou Art the Man!", is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1844. It is an early experiment in detective fiction,[1] like "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", though it is generally considered an inferior story. The plot...

This is a hard-hitting saga of the Tet Offensive -- North Vietnam's all-out attempt to win the war in 1968. Praised as a "Classic War Novel" by the San Francisco Chronicle, and "...Sets high standards for all other Vietnam War fiction," by the St. Louis Post Dispatch, the widely...

Beyond Paradise is a travel / adventure true story - written with a dry sense of  humor, set in tropical Central America during the epoch of the wars.The absolute worst luck any traveler might encounter, did raise its ugly head even to the point of being thrown into the dreaded "Choluteca...

En esta antología de cuentos de Edgar Allan Poe, encontrará algunos de los cuentos más populares del maestro del terror. En este volumen ordenados cronologicamente encontrará cuentos como: El misterio de Marie Roget, La máscara de la muerte roja, El pozo y el pendulo y el corazon delator.

You always wanted to pet a Dog right? May be it was not possible due to the most important issue: The toilet issue. May be you didn’t want the hassle or your parents didn’t allow you to pet one. No more to worry about this problem as this book will tell you how you can toilet train your Dog. Believe...

Washington Irving: Rip Van Winkle (1820) Edgar Allan Poe: The Gold Bug (1842) The Purloined Letter (1845) Nathaniel Hawthorne: Howe's Masquerade (1838) The Birthmark (1843) Francis Bret Harte: The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1869) Robert Louis Stevenson: The Sire de Malétroit's Door (1878) Markheim (1885) Rudyard Kipling: Wee Willie Winkie (1888)

A classic supernatural short story by Edgar Allan Poe involving a beautiful landscape garden in the setting.

Storage wars erupt when Brandy Borne and her suspiciously well-informed mother, Vivian, win an abandoned storage unit's "mystery" contents. The good news is a rare vintage cornet. The bad news is the recently stowed body of Big Jim Bob, Vivian's former tipster. Even worse, an intruder steals...

The Raven is a narrative poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. First published in January 1845, the poem is often noted for its musicality, stylized language, and supernatural atmosphere. It tells of a talking raven's mysterious visit to a distraught lover, tracing the man's slow fall into madness. Be sure to check out our other books available !

For actions unbecoming a SWAT officer, Alex Conrad is suspended for 30 days. Rather than stay in Toronto and sulk, she decides to go home to Miner’s Cove and spend some quiet recovery time in a sleepy maritime community where nothing ever happens. After being away for three years her only perceived...

Third in Allan Massie's celebrated Dark Ages series A truly European monarch, Charlemagne was king of the Franks from 768 to 814 and for some of that time king of the Lombards, too. From 800, when at Mass on Christmas day in Rome, Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne Imperator Romanorum (Emperor...