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This book is a true-to-life collection of 30 short stories from physicist and electrical engineer Roman Litovsky chronicling his family’s harrowing emigration journey in 1989 from Ukraine to the United States during the height of the impending collapse of the USSR. It details his life in Kyiv, traveling throughout Europe to gain freedom from the oppressive Soviet regime, settling in the U.S., and his life after that with a great engineering career at a prominent U.S. electro-acoustic company.

A fragile metal plate created in 1847 is found by Prof. Harry Inman in an old bookshop and becomes a pathway into a Victorian summer. Browsing in an old shop, Professor Harry Inman comes across the image of a famous hotel in Saratoga Springs, NY taken on a fragile metal plate in 1847, an actual daguerreotype that had been among the first results of early photography. The small framed image becomes an unexpected window into the past, one that pulls him literally into another time and space. It is a world that appears increasingly mesmerizing and seductive, the Saratoga Springs of grand ...

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

A string of pearls makes its way through three generations of women in the Clarendon family. Their behavior changes but will respect for family tradition survive?

It’s Prohibition-era Detroit. With a family to feed, Edmund Grabowski is short on money and even shorter on patience—until a shady pharmacist makes him a dangerous offer. Will he survive his first descent into criminality—or will it destroy his life?

On the storm-swollen Aisne in northeastern France, an alcoholic actor combats both his demons and nature’s tempests. Along the Main and Rhine in Germany, a kindhearted logger has but one wish: to travel with the lumber from his small Franconian hometown to the end of the river in the Netherlands, where it feeds into the majestic North Sea. In a bucolic vale in the French region of Brittany, two families, divided by religion and an unnamed stream, sustain a centuries-old feud, their resolve no match for the constantly shifting flow of water.

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.

Elizabeth Gaskell, famed author of Cranford, is cherished for her incise social observations and portrayals of the changing nature of English life through the Industrial Revolution of the Victorian era. In Cousin Phillis, Paul Manning has only recently left home to work on the railway line for the dashing Mr Holdsworth. Lodging with an Independent Minister on the outskirts of London, he becomes acquainted with his distant cousins, where he is delighted to meet his genial relations, and not least his cousin Phyllis

A story set in Bethlehem during the time of the first Christmas. A lonely, sad shepherd, asleep when the angels sang their triumphant song, missed his chance of seeing the new baby. In time and through hardships, the memory of the baby's mother led him to the child.

Ranked Top 10 "Best Lit Mags of 2023" by Chill Subs Delight in intriguing, thought-provoking conversations about ethics, philosophy, and social issues! After Dinner Conversation is a monthly literary magazine publishing short fiction. Each issue features both established writers and up-and-coming authors who contribute fascinating philosophical insights on controversial topics like marriage equality, assisted suicide, the meaning of death, animal rights, and defining your "purpose." It's time to go deep in search of truth! If you love reading imaginative short stories on hot topics that ...

A friends-to-sweethearts and an almost-missed-opportunity story set near Prescott, Arizona Territory in 1893. Penny Larson only had eyes for one man, Nathan Cahill, until he moved away. After waiting for him with no word for eight months, she gives up and gives her heart to another man. Weeks before her wedding, her world is turned upside down when her true love shows up on her doorstep. Will she choose to honor her word to her fiancé, or will she choose her childhood friend? Nathan Cahill finally settles in at his parents’ new ranch, far from his best friend, a woman who stirred his ...

Synopsis - A traveling wise man gives each customer the service they need, and teaching his apprentice a valuable lesson about externality. After Dinner Conversation is a growing series of short stories across genres to draw out deeper discussions with friends and family. Each story is an accessible example of an abstract ethical or philosophical idea and is accompanied by suggested discussion questions. Podcast discussions of this short story, and others, is available on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, and Youtube. ★★★ If you enjoy this story, subscribe via our website to "After Dinner ...

She turned down Henry Tudor. But would she be allowed to marry the man she loved? In 1509 Marguerite d’Angoulême of the royal House of Valois is the King of France’s most valuable unmarried asset. Gaston de Foix is France’s most promising young knight, eager to prove himself on the King’s Italian campaigns. Fanned by chivalric ideals of courtly love, Marguerite and Gaston burn for each other with a secret flame. When Gaston learns that the King intends to marry Marguerite to the Armagnac heir, he is heartbroken. Louis XII needs Armagnac lands for the crown of France. What better ...

Filled with suspense, these stories are at times comforting and humorous, or horrifying. The Other Side of Down Home is a collection of seven tales that stir the imagination and keep readers thinking long after they are over. Each story is unique and compelling. The contents include the previously published stories Better Off Dead, Ride The Wind, The Tenant, Creative Minds, Mask of Mitwaba, Redneck Reunion, and Kentucky Feud. -- “I have become a huge Ryan King fan and this did not disappoint. I liked the characters and the plot keeps your attention to the very end.”

This series is a collection of mainly novellas and a select few shorts, written by a hand-picked mix of Chinese and other international writers; it artistically reincarnates the 60-year-old gruesome battle of Japan’s invasion of Communist Party-led China, dissecting this culturally important event from all levels and angles.

Svegliata di soprassalto da frastuoni di metallo, rombi di vampa, urla di ribelli. Bombardata dalle palandre del Re Sole. Conquistata dagli austriaci, con le teste rasate e le uniformi impeccabili. Terra di nobili e mercanti, di idealisti e faccendieri, di patrioti ed espatriati. Genova. Porta del Mediterraneo. È lei la città che presta le sue strade, le sue piazze, i suoi quartieri a questi nove racconti in cui le vicende della grande Storia – remota e recente, eroica e vergognosa – irrompono nella vita dei singoli e la stravolgono.

"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.

When the ingenious Hugo made it his mission to save the souls and lives of his fellow humans, he is not like most sanctimonious people out there. So, when he tries to stop a massacre, he is only protecting the sanctity of life and preventing the tainting of a soul. However, his self-sacrificing act ignites a haunting impulse that sees him blazing a path through life in pursuit of a cause against evil, which raises mixed feelings and questions his beliefs. But who is the searching soul to himself in a conflict with his world that mirrors man's pilgrimage through life? Is Hugo a "Man of God",...

A young king is desperately trying to hold his kingdom together in the backdrop of his diminishing powers owing to the influence of the new French colonial masters. He flexes his muscles and takes his sister out of her conjugal home by arrogating to himself the use of his traditional powers over the issue of the bride price. Her overzealous uncle with an overactive imagination challenges the new king in a French court, thereby highlighting a bizarre but insightful case of the clash of occidental and African cultures. The beleaguered princess finds herself at a crossroads and acts the best ...

When the debased Njoumen seeks sanctuary in his grandfather's royal palace, her number one concern is her mental health. As she glosses in her recovered status as a princess and unleashes the full force of her free-spiritedness, her unfamiliar ways make her the source of attention. But nobody has an idea of what would make her contented in life. That is until she engages her grandfather the king. What she wants most is a man to make her feel fulfilled in life, a sense of worth her husband never stirred in her bosom. So, when three years later, Njoumen's dejected husband challenges this ...