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Samurai commonly describes a warrior in Japan who serves a lord, using combat skills and living by the code of Bushido. But not everyone followed the code so directly, nor was every samurai so bold and courageous. So while the truth is somewhere between the idealized icon of fidelity and bravery, and bullies with swords, this work features the samurai who lived by their code.

"Unspoken Bonds: A Tale of Compassion in Early 1900s New York City" is a captivating short novel that transports readers to the vibrant yet unforgiving streets of a city defined by stark contrasts. The story revolves around two individuals from vastly different backgrounds who form a deep and unspoken bond.

In a town built on gold, she discovered the truest wealth lies in a heart of integrity. In 1885 Florence, Idaho Territory, a female assayer with an eye for true gold partners with a haunted former surveyor to expose a deadly claim-jumping ring, only to discover that the richest strike of all might be the love they find in each other's hearts. Ruby Lancaster knows gold better than any man in Florence, Idaho Territory. Running her late father's assay office and supply store, she's earned a reputation for spotting deception—both in minerals and in men. But when Harrison Randall arrives with ...

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.

Christmas, 1921 Two lonely people in a cold rooming house. It's a good thing for them that their landlady has Christmas magic at her fingertips. Del Peale and Josephine Withers both have loved and lost. It's why neither has acted on their mutual attraction. That changes when a newborn is abandoned on the front steps .A cold house forces Del to face the home he once shared with his wife and son. Will it be enough to let them believe that love is still possibility? Will strange twists and the abandoned baby lead to a Christmas wedding? Perhaps their landlady will need to step in with a ...

The linked stories of A FEW SMALL STONES follow Alice and her extended immigrant family in 1940s New York City as they cope with the upheavals before, during and after World War II. The stories show the pain of separation and the guilt of survival, the price of upward mobility, and the ultimate disintegration of family. In one story, the sexism of the period devastates a brother and sister. Another examines the city’s racial divide, and still another takes us to a rally on the beaches in the summer of 1940 and the violent conflict between neo-Nazi isolationists and those who wanted to ...

In the depths of a Colorado silver mine, two hearts discover that the most precious metal is trust. A female mine owner and a union-sympathizing foreman must choose between their conflicting loyalties and their growing love as labor tensions threaten to tear apart both the mine and the community that depends on it.

Reimagining each of the traditional carol's gifts, and written in tribute to Jane Austen and Georgette Heyer, The Twelve Days of Christmas is a collection of festive tales filled with seasonal cheer and heart-warming characters. Will the challenges and mysteries that the Viscount’s guests encounter be resolved by the night of the ball?

Arnold Bennett was born in 1867 in Hanley one of the six towns that formed the Potteries that later joined together to become Stoke on Trent; the area in which most of his works are located. For a short time he worked for his solicitor father before realising that to advance his life he would need to become his own man. Moving to London at twenty-one he obtained work as a solicitor’s clerk and gradually moved into a career of journalism. At the turn of the century he turned full time to writing. Clayhanger and The Old Wives Tale are perhaps his greatest and most lauded novels.

"There's no reason for them to shoot us; we ain't anyone" - Sammy, Bane of the Innocent. Two young boys become unlikely companions during the fall of Atlanta. Sammy and Ben somehow find themselves, and each other, in the rapidly changing and chaotic environment of the war torn Georgia City. As the siege ends and the fall begins in late August and early September of 1864, the Confederate troops begin to move out and Union forces cautiously move into the city. Ben and Sammy simply struggle to survive, but in the process they develop a friendship that will prove more important than either one ...

Take a break from videos and enjoy an uplifting historical novella about a loveable pixie. <>Summer of 1781<> Sweet, naïve — and psychic — pre-adolescent Jenny has just been adopted into a wonderful, yet different family. She knows Mommy and Grannie are from someplace where carriages fly in the air and books have moving pictures, but she doesn’t care if they’re odd – she loves them. Jenny’s adoring new parents try to educate the semi-feral youngster and protect her from problems that arise from growing up half-wild. However, no amount of love can prevent the chatty young girl ...

Glass Stories is a collection of two short stories set in the Muranów neighborhood of Warsaw, Poland over 250 years apart. The two young protagonists—an immigrant servant woman named Paolina, who is being punished for something she didn’t do, and Moishe, a young Jewish boy in the Warsaw Ghetto who wants to fight his Nazi oppressors—struggle against impossible odds.

Princess Anne is unhappy at Court, and spurns all suitors. She is about to become a nun, when a midnight encounter proves to have unexpected consequences.

A collection of short stories about the extremes we often find ourselves in—sometimes of our own making. Each story uses the adverb “so” in its title, emphasizing the extreme function of the following adjectives (tired, snowy, long, alive, dense, rude). McDowell uses fantasy, literary fiction, historical fiction, and speculative fiction genres to capture his explorations of the human experience.

Die tatsächliche Anzahl derer, die wegen ihrer sexuellen oder geschlechtlichen Präferenz verfolgt, misshandelt, deportiert oder getötet wurden, ist bis heute nicht geklärt. Ihnen ist diese Geschichte gewidmet. #gegendasvergessen. Tom ist Architekt. Für ihn zählen messbare Größen, etwas Handfestes, Reales. Er lebt im Hier und Jetzt. Und er lebt gut. Mit seinem Verlobten Jack in New York. Tom war noch ein Kind, als der sogenannte "Unzucht-Paragraph" in Deutschland abgeschafft wurde. Geschichte ist für ihn etwas Abstraktes, worüber alte Männer bei einem Glas Whisky palavern

De la mano de uno de los narradores que mejor ha contado el drama de la guerra del Pacífico, estos ocho relatos recrean los fragmentos más humanos y desgarradores del conflicto y del desierto de Atacama como escenario de guerra: soldados buscando el cuerpo del comandante Eleuterio Ramírez entre cadáveres carbonizados, el sangrador que intenta curar a los soldados chilenos en Antofagasta, el teniente Godoy empampado y mirando volar a los cuervos que esperan el momento de su muerte, la toma del Morro de Arica, el arribo a Lima y un ejército intoxicado con las aguas del río.

Una anciana cascarrabias está acusada de ayudar a una joven. Una dríada masculina encuentra su lugar en el mundo. Paralizada del cuello para abajo, un adolescente prodigio de la escultura tiene una nueva oportunidad de seguir con su arte. Un profesor victoriano viaja por Inglaterra para dar una conferencia sobre la evolución, solo para meterse en problemas a cada paso. En esta ecléctica mezcla de historias, que abarcan ficción histórica, realismo mágico, contemporáneo y ciencia ficción, El Bardo solo enseña una cosa: viaja con las palabras y descubre adónde te llevan.

Experience a tense 18th-century smallsword duel from the point-of-view of a sly combatant, who has a surprising plan to vanquish his smug opponent.

Fourth book in the Tales from Tipperary series, exploring community in an ancient and spiritual country.

Winds of Change is the story of how ordinary people react and adapt to political change. With the background of Chemnitz in the Eastern part of Germany it follows the lives of Dieter S., a Stasi operative, and Kai T., the man on whom he spies over the duration of the life of the GDR to which both are loyal because of its creation in opposition to fascism.