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The Art of War
by Sun Tzu
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Sn Tzu wrote this classic treatise on warfare approximately 2500 years ago, during a time of great political uncertainty and sweeping military campaigns. Written simply without fanfare using military scenarios and recommended responses, The Art of War has proven to be inspirational to many people who have applied its theories in every day life. The work provides practical guidance for almost anything that may require strategy and tactics--from business to sports to actual warfare. [Translated fr... more info>>
Words: 11028 - Reading Time: 31-44 min.
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Over There
by Robert Vaughan
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Volume two of Robert Vaughan's stunning American Chronicles follows the tumult of American during the second decade of the twentieth century. The indestructible Titanic goes down in the cold arctic sea, millions of immigrants flood into the country, a bloody worker's revolution occurs in Russia, and in Sarajevo an assassination quickly ignites the flames of the First World War. It is 1912, and the Lady Lucinda Chetwynd-Dunleigh can hear the final strains of the ship's orchestra as the famous Tit... more info>> (Published: 1992)
Words: 131401 - Reading Time: 375-525 min.
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Language for Time Travelers
by L. Sprague de Camp
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A non-fiction essay on the nature of change in the English language. Mr. de Camp's examples include a fictional account of a time traveler's communication difficulties 500 years into the future. (Published: 1938)
Words: 5066 - Reading Time: 14-20 min.
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The Lost Generation
by Robert Vaughan
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In this, the third, explosive volume of Robert Vaughan's AMERICAN CHRONICLES, prohibition and gangland wars define the era. The 1920s were perhaps the most exciting and glamorous decade of the century, as America leaves behind the strife and deprivations of war, while the Jazz Age brings the young, dissolute, and decadent into the smoky interiors of basement speakeasies. Idealistic young journalist Kendra Mills risks her career--and her life--to expose the criminal underside of American society.... more info>> (Published: 1992)
Words: 135225 - Reading Time: 386-540 min.
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A Steady Trade: A Boyhood at Sea
by Tristan Jones
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Tristan Jones vividly and colorfully describes his childhood as a Welsh boy growing up by the sea. The story of his boyhood in pre-World War II England is strikingly charming and nostalgic. The challenges and adventures he encounters will have you seeing, smelling, feeling, hearing, and tasting the sea as you travel with him through this coming-of-age story. (Published: 1982)
Words: 101487 - Reading Time: 289-405 min.
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Charlie Chan's Words of Wisdom
by Howard M. Berlin
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A selection of more than 600 proverbs spoken by the cinema's favorite Chinese detective. Also includes a selection of proverbs spoken by Mr. Moto (Peter Lorre) in the cinema. (Published: 2001)
Words: 13877 - Reading Time: 39-55 min.
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Speaking of the Fantastic: Interviews with Classic Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors
by Darrell Schweitzer
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A collection of interviews with Terry Bisson, Marion Zimmer Bradley, John Brunner, Jonathan Carroll, Robert Holdstock, Ellen Kushner, Ursula K. Le Guin, Fritz Leiber, Ray Faraday Nelson, Frederik Pohl, Dan Simmons, Lawrence Watt-Evans, and Gene Wolfe. (Published: 2002)
Words: 69733 - Reading Time: 199-278 min.
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The Battle of Anzio
by T. R. Fehrenbach
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The Battle of Anzio was among of the most bloody of the World War II conflicts. T.R. Fehrenbach's accurate account stunningly depicts the reality of the Allied forces' fight for survival on an Italian beach as they stormed what Winston Churchill called the soft underbelly of the Axis powers. In one of the turning points of the war, the allies clung to a narrow strip of sand while German planes swooped in from above and artillery shells and mortar fire pounded them on the ground. This is a true a... more info>> (Published: 1962)
Words: 56439 - Reading Time: 161-225 min.
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The Confessions of Nat Turner
by William Styron
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Few modern American novelists have dared as much as William Styron in writing The Confessions of Nat Turner. A white man and a Tidewater Virginian by birth, Styron put himself inside the life and mind of Nat Turner, the black man who led a slave rebellion in Virginia in 1831. It is a true story told as a novel, though the author prefers to call it "a meditation on history" rather than a historical novel. Many black critics scorned it when it was published, refusing to accept Styron's bold concei... more info>> (Published: 2001)
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Brave New World Revisited
by Aldous Huxley
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In 1958, Aldous Huxley wrote what might be called a sequel to his novel Brave New World, published in 1932, but it was a sequel that did not revisit the story or the characters, or re-enter the world of the novel. Instead, he revisited that world in a set of 12 essays. Taking a second look at specific aspects of the future Huxley imagined in Brave New World, Huxley meditated on how his fantasy seemed to be turning into reality, frighteningly and much more quickly than he had ever dreamed. That h... more info>> (Published: 1958)
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The Psychic Power of Animals
by Bill D. Schul
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Pets are more than companions. The animals we share our lives with are channels to another world. Documentation exists that proves animals do indeed possess a sixth sense. Discover the mysterious and fantastic revelations about: dogs who trace their masters across vast distances; dogs who read minds, dolphins as super beings, conversations between people and animals, the strange friendship between Native Americans and rattlesnakes, animals who reside in pyramids, the German shepherd who taught m... more info>> (Published: 1977)
Words: 64272 - Reading Time: 183-257 min.
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The Engines of the Night
by Barry N. Malzberg
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Aspiring science fiction writers, take heed! If you want to understand where the field has been and where it's going--if you want a career--you need this book. In The Engines of the Night, Malzberg reviews his own ambivalent relationship with science fiction up to 1980 and gauges its past and future potentials. Would science fiction have been better off without Hugo Gernsback and the pulp-literature stigma with which he cursed it? What are the seminal works of science fiction? Can science fictio... more info>> (Published: 1984) Locus Poll Award Winner, Hugo Award Nominee
Words: 64592 - Reading Time: 184-258 min.
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Robert E. Lee
by Manfred Weidhorn
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Robert E. Lee's life has been regarded as one of great honor and esteem and he has been a man admired for his loyalty, patriotism, and conduct as not only an American, but also a Virginian. And when he made the decision to turn down Lincoln's offer to command a large army of Union Soldiers in the war against the secession, and instead chose to extend his loyalty to the Confederate Army, his intentions were to defend his land and the people in Virginia and not to fight for either secession or sla... more info>> (Published: 1988)
Words: 31971 - Reading Time: 91-127 min.
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Identity Card
by F. M. Esfandiary
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In a narrative where tragedy begs to be masked by comedy, F.M. Esfandiary conveys the consequences and realities of Iranian life. In an attempt to flee the underdeveloped, bureaucratic country, a Middle Easterner searches for every possible way to obtain an identity card that will allow him to leave Iran. In this comic masterpiece we follow this alienated man on a journey to freedom against the backdrop of a society dominated by ceremonious formalities, politeness, responsibility and confusion. ... more info>> (Published: 1966)
Words: 55199 - Reading Time: 157-220 min.
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The Road to Victory
by David Colley
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The Red Ball Operation, the vital train of supplies improvised by American troops during the invasion of Europe, was one of the GIs' bravest exploits, without which World War II would have dragged on at a terrible cost of allied lives. Yet it has been overlooked due to the fact that it was mostly manned by African-Americans. Now it is told in full in this first book-length study. It is a book not only about the war between the Yanks and their Nazi enemy, but also of war with an enemy closer to h... more info>> (Published: 2000)
Words: 67813 - Reading Time: 193-271 min.
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China to Me: A Partial Autobiography
by Emily Hahn
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A revolutionary woman for her time, Emily Hahn takes us on an adventure through the many faces that populate the landscape of China. Blending fiction and non-fiction seamlessly, Emily Hahn looks at everything and everyone she met on her breath-taking journey through the China of the nineteen-thirties. Hahn investigates not so much the complicated issues of political blocs and party conflict, but the ordinary, or extraordinary, lives of Chinese residents and tourists. This includes taking us into... more info>> (Published: 1944)
Words: 202483 - Reading Time: 578-809 min.
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U. S. Marines In Action: Tales of the Old Corps, 1773-1953
by T. R. Fehrenbach
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Ten major wars and two hundred minor actions comprise the history of the United States Marine Corps, and parallel the history of America itself. "U.S. Marines in Action" provides a comprehensive and stirring account of the activities of the military corps that has become synonymous with guts and glory. Fehrenbach dramatizes the incredible heroism of the leathernecks over two centuries of peacekeeping missions in every quarter of the globe. (Published: 1962)
Words: 71184 - Reading Time: 203-284 min.
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Putting It Together: Turning Sow's Ear Drafts Into Silk Purse Stories
by Mike Resnick
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Multiple award-winning author Mike Resnick analyzes his writing process, discussing in detail how he writes his short stories. Each discussion is accompanied by the developing drafts of five of his most famous stories. An insightful look into the writing process ... and some of his creative choices are sure to surprise you. This book contains early drafts of some of Resnick's most acclaimed works, and presents detailed discussions of the mistakes he made in the early drafts, why he made changes,... more info>> (Published: 2001) Hugo Award Nominee
Words: 54425 - Reading Time: 155-217 min.
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Ice!
by Tristan Jones
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Retiring on a pension after being torpedoed in WWII, Tristan Jones embarks on a test of endurance that will last over two years, nearly killing him more than once. Attempting to sail farther North than anyone ever has, he embarks from Iceland on the Cresswell in the summer of 1959. His only companion? A three-legged, one-eyed Labrador named Nelson. He spends his first winter holed up near an Eskimo village in a Greenland fjord. After a violent snowstorm and without an adequate supply of food, he... more info>> (Published: 1978)
Words: 85872 - Reading Time: 245-343 min.
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Saga of a Wayward Sailor
by Tristan Jones
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Tristan Jones was one of the most acclaimed sea-faring storytellers ever. The combative Welshman was born at sea on a ship off Tristan da Cunha. He dropped out of school at 14 to work on sailing barges, and then spent the rest of his life at sea--first in the Royal Navy, then as a delivery skipper, then as a daring adventurer. Saga of a Wayward Sailor tells the tale of one of his most exciting adventures. Jones sails through treacherous waters aboard the Cresswell, a lifeboat converted into a sa... more info>> (Published: 1979)
Words: 80815 - Reading Time: 230-323 min.
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