Have you met Eadweard Muybridge? I loved this extraordinary man, I identified with him at times, David Stansfield makes him so alive, so human, so present... I savored the different levels of the text offered by the author. They complement themselves, nourish themselves, enrich themselves: the child aching for love; the grown-up lover, sincere and immature, murdered and murdering; the father of pure invention at the mercy of his brilliant, tyrannical sponsor; the genius embraced by both the artistic and the scientific community; a man both of and ahead of his time who meets the brilliant...

When Peter was thirteen years old, his father committed suicide. Later in life, he comes across some letters his father had sent from the trenches of World War One. Certain words and phrases in these letters reveal a side of his father the man had never suspected when he was growing up. As he digs deeper and deeper into his family's past, he uncovers a world he realizes he had never understood, could never even have imagined. Just beneath the surface of the apparently quiet, civilized, well-bred world of his family he had known as a child, there was a completely different reality, a parallel...

Fifty two-minute stories on a variety of topics.

In Beverly Hills, thirteen men meet to launch an ancient "treasure" upon the world. Thirty miles away in Malibu, impoverished filmmakers Martin and Monique put the finishing touches to a docudrama about the so-called "secret marriage" of King George IV they hope will raise the money to save the life of their seven-year old grandson, who has been stricken with a potentially fatal disease. But Hollywood isn't interested in their movie - until the pair stumble on a real Royal secret so explosive it could be the end of the British Monarchy as we know it. Now Hollywood is beating down their door...

Jerusalem, 1947: a young Israeli girl loses her big sister. Jaffa, 1948: a young Palestinian boy loses his two best friends. Dover, 1963: a young Englishman falls in love with a language. Forty years on, in Malibu, California, these three lives intersect, when former real estate developer David Finkelstein receives an unexpected invitation to a Jewish fundraiser that is destined to turn his life upside-down, embroiling him in not one, but two atrocities so monstrous they threaten to send the entire Middle East up in flames. Finkelstein's struggle to prevent these appalling acts soon puts his...

In Volume One of this series, ISIS Wants To Kill You, we took a brief look at the root causes of ISIS: first and foremost, the anger that had built up among many Middle Eastern Muslims after 100 years of almost non-stop humiliation at the hands of the Western Powers, culminating in the disastrous invasion of Iraq and the subsequent civil wars in that country and in Syria. In this volume, in order to gain a deeper understanding of the "mind of ISIS," we will try to look inside the heads of the Muslims who have already joined ISIS and increasing numbers of Muslims - quite a few of them recent...

England, May 1941. In the North Atlantic, German U-boats are devastating the British supply convoys, pinpointing their location with uncanny accuracy. Enter Ian McLeod, a lonely, asthmatic, little boy of eleven, bullied by all the other children at school, who escapes his horrible everyday reality by living in a toy soldier fantasyland of spies and secret codes. Until one day his fantasies become reality when he discovers something that could not only save not only his Royal Navy Captain father but the entire Atlantic convoy that he commands from an "attack at noon." The clock is ticking...

Suppose you were the most dangerous and decorated Navy SEAL ever and saw your career, your family, and even your home savagely destroyed by the greed of four men at the top of four mega corporations? Suppose you now had to live in the gutter - with nothing but time on your hands - and knew you were one of the most highly trained and lethal covert operators on the planet? Would you sit still? Or would you exact... well, a terrible revenge? Warning: You may need to set aside some unbroken reading time because this one is hard to put down. Combining the satirical sting of Gulliver's Travels with...

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