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Whiskers in the Dark

A novel of the war in Vietnam

by James D. Brown ...

Morrow led the platoon cautiously up the narrow draw in the green jungle twilight; the warning sense that usually kept him out of trouble was up--enemies were near--but today the officers were too focused on their plan to pay him any attention. Steep, rocky slopes boxed him in like a rat sneaking between a lion's paws, hoping it wouldn't wake up and swat him. Dark fissures among the ledges stared ... Read more

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Morrow led the platoon cautiously up the narrow draw in the green jungle twilight; the warning sense that usually kept him out of trouble was up--enemies were near--but today the officers were too focused on their plan to pay him any attention. Steep, rocky slopes boxed him in like a rat sneaking between a lion's paws, hoping it wouldn't wake up and swat him. Dark fissures among the ledges stared
... Read more
Born in Chains - Collected Slave Narratives

First-Person Testimonies of Enslavement, Escape, Resistance, and the Fight for Freedom

by Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Booker T. Washington, William Grimes, Solomon Northup, Sojourner Truth, Mary Prince, Zamba Zembola, Boyrereau Brinch, Olaudah Equiano, Solomon Bayley, Henry Watson, John Brown, William Craft, Ellen Craft, J. W. Loguen, John Andrew Jackson, Willie Lynch, Nat Turner, Louis Hughes, Jacob D. Green, Elizabeth Keckley, Josiah Henson, Charles Ball, Austin Steward, Henry Bibb, William Wells Brown, L. S. Thompson, James W. C. Pennington, Kate Drumgoold, Lucy A. Delaney, Moses Grandy, Leonard Black, Henry Box Brown, Phillis Wheatley, James L. Smith, Joseph Mountain, Peter Still, Annie L. Burton, Israel Campbell, Lewis Clarke, Francis Fedric, William Still, Moses Roper, Joseph Vance Lewis, Rev. Greensbury Washington Offley, John Thompson, Venture Smith, Isaac D. Williams, William Walker, Octavia Albert ...

Born in Chains—Collected Slave Narratives assembles a capacious archive of bondage, flight, resistance, emancipation, and memory. Spanning autobiography, dictated testimony, spiritual reflection, political argument, and documentary recollection, the volume reveals the formal range of slave narrative traditions across the Atlantic world. Accounts of escape, family separation, literacy, labor, ... Read more

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Born in Chains—Collected Slave Narratives assembles a capacious archive of bondage, flight, resistance, emancipation, and memory. Spanning autobiography, dictated testimony, spiritual reflection, political argument, and documentary recollection, the volume reveals the formal range of slave narrative traditions across the Atlantic world. Accounts of escape, family separation, literacy, labor,
... Read more
Cracking the Crab

Russian Espionage Against Japan, from Peter the Great to Richard Sorge

by James D.J. Brown ...

Richard Sorge is one of history's most famous spies. This hard-drinking, womanizing, motorcycle-crashing Soviet officer penetrated the German embassy in Tokyo during the 1930s and gathered intelligence credited with changing the course of the Second World War. It is an intriguing tale; but Sorge's spy ring was just one chapter in a much longer history of Russian and Soviet espionage in and against ... Read more

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Richard Sorge is one of history's most famous spies. This hard-drinking, womanizing, motorcycle-crashing Soviet officer penetrated the German embassy in Tokyo during the 1930s and gathered intelligence credited with changing the course of the Second World War. It is an intriguing tale; but Sorge's spy ring was just one chapter in a much longer history of Russian and Soviet espionage in and against
... Read more
Giza's Industrial Complex

Ancient Egypt's Electrical Power & Gas Generating Systems

by James Ernest Brown, Dr. J.J. Hurtak, Dr. Desiree Hurtak ...

Although pyramids are similar in design, many may have had different or dual functions. The authors propose that ancient Egypt developed and controlled an elaborate power system that was centered around Giza and as far south as Abydos. They believe that the underground structures, channels, and cavities that surround ancient Pyramid structures were part of an immense industrial complex, including ... Read more

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Although pyramids are similar in design, many may have had different or dual functions. The authors propose that ancient Egypt developed and controlled an elaborate power system that was centered around Giza and as far south as Abydos. They believe that the underground structures, channels, and cavities that surround ancient Pyramid structures were part of an immense industrial complex, including
... Read more
War Stories of the Battle of the Bulge

by Michael Green, James D. Brown ...

"Told by those who lived during . . . Hitler's last gasp attack in the West . . . a riveting book for anybody with an interest in the Second World War." — CurledUpThe powerful German counteroffensive operation codenamed "Wacht am Rhein" (Watch on the Rhine) launched against the American First Army in the early morning hours of December 16, 1944, would result in the greatest single extended land ... Read more

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"Told by those who lived during . . . Hitler's last gasp attack in the West . . . a riveting book for anybody with an interest in the Second World War." — CurledUpThe powerful German counteroffensive operation codenamed "Wacht am Rhein" (Watch on the Rhine) launched against the American First Army in the early morning hours of December 16, 1944, would result in the greatest single extended land
... Read more
Patton's Third Army in World War II

by Michael Green, James D. Brown ...

The military history of the celebrated U.S. General's campaign across Nazi-occupied Europe during the Second World War.General George S. Patton was champing at the bit to lead the D-Day invasion, but Eisenhower placed him in command of a decoy unit, the First U.S. Army Group. Nearly seven weeks after D-Day, Patton finally got his chance to take Third Army into battle. He began a ten-month rampage ... Read more

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The military history of the celebrated U.S. General's campaign across Nazi-occupied Europe during the Second World War.General George S. Patton was champing at the bit to lead the D-Day invasion, but Eisenhower placed him in command of a decoy unit, the First U.S. Army Group. Nearly seven weeks after D-Day, Patton finally got his chance to take Third Army into battle. He began a ten-month rampage
... Read more
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Sensual Abduction

by Kimberly Brown, Rosè Dior ...

Narrated by Winston James, J. Shani Michaels ...

Unabridged

7 hours 29 min

Forbidden love: Where the heart battles the mind and desire wins every time.For Nala Stanton, love has not always been kind. She fell in love with a façade, and now she's desperate to free herself before it's too late. When opportunity arises, she takes it, even though being found would surely bring her a death sentence. Armed with a new identity and half a million dollars in stolen drug money, ... Read more

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Forbidden love: Where the heart battles the mind and desire wins every time.For Nala Stanton, love has not always been kind. She fell in love with a façade, and now she's desperate to free herself before it's too late. When opportunity arises, she takes it, even though being found would surely bring her a death sentence. Armed with a new identity and half a million dollars in stolen drug money,
... Read more
Edge of Ash

A first novel by James D. Brown

by James D. Brown ...

What if Donald Trump succeeded in his quest for a third term, not just winning power, but dismantling the very guardrails meant to stop a mad king?In Edge of Ash, American democracy falls without a shot fired. The political firewalls built to contain kings, strongmen and tyrants collapse under the weight of greed and fear. As the U.S. turns against its allies, Canada finds itself on the front line ... Read more

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What if Donald Trump succeeded in his quest for a third term, not just winning power, but dismantling the very guardrails meant to stop a mad king?In Edge of Ash, American democracy falls without a shot fired. The political firewalls built to contain kings, strongmen and tyrants collapse under the weight of greed and fear. As the U.S. turns against its allies, Canada finds itself on the front line
... Read more
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The One

The Life and Music of James Brown

by R.J. Smith ...

Narrated by Kevin R. Free ...

Unabridged

14 hours 12 min

Senior editor at L.A. Magazine, RJ Smith saw his first book, The Great Black Way, win the coveted California Book Award. With The One, Smith profiles one of the 20th century's most innovative musical icons, the Godfather of Soul himself, James Brown. Drawing on extensive research and captivating interviews, Smith chronicles Brown's rise from abject poverty to the pinnacle of fame, while also ... Read more

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Senior editor at L.A. Magazine, RJ Smith saw his first book, The Great Black Way, win the coveted California Book Award. With The One, Smith profiles one of the 20th century's most innovative musical icons, the Godfather of Soul himself, James Brown. Drawing on extensive research and captivating interviews, Smith chronicles Brown's rise from abject poverty to the pinnacle of fame, while also
... Read more

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Japan, Russia and their Territorial Dispute

The Northern Delusion

by James D. J. Brown ...

Series series Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
The territorial dispute between Japan and Russia over four islands off the northeast coast of Hokkaidō has been an enduring obstacle to closer relations between the two powers and therefore an important determinant of geopolitics in North-East Asia. Having emerged at the end of World War II, this conflict has now existed for more than seven decades. And yet, despite the passage of so much time, ... Read more

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The territorial dispute between Japan and Russia over four islands off the northeast coast of Hokkaidō has been an enduring obstacle to closer relations between the two powers and therefore an important determinant of geopolitics in North-East Asia. Having emerged at the end of World War II, this conflict has now existed for more than seven decades. And yet, despite the passage of so much time,
... Read more
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If You Love Me

by Kimberly Brown ...

Narrated by Erica Lynne, J.Y. Kora, Winston James ...

Unabridged

7 hours 55 min

“Of all human weaknesses, obsession is the most dangerous.”Evenie Lewis knows this all too well. A case of mistaken identity has stolen ten years of her life. When the opportunity arises, Evenie jumps at the chance to escape once and for all. Clueless to her surroundings, she sets out to find her way back home with dreams of reuniting with her family being her motivation. Unbeknownst to her, life ... Read more

$29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

“Of all human weaknesses, obsession is the most dangerous.”Evenie Lewis knows this all too well. A case of mistaken identity has stolen ten years of her life. When the opportunity arises, Evenie jumps at the chance to escape once and for all. Clueless to her surroundings, she sets out to find her way back home with dreams of reuniting with her family being her motivation. Unbeknownst to her, life
... Read more
The Writer

A Thriller

by James Patterson, J. D. Barker ...

A true-crime author gets swept up in a murder plot in a psychological thriller from the world's #1 bestselling author, James Patterson.**"Excellent ... perfectly executed ... genuinely suspenseful, even shocking." —**BooklistNYPD Detective Declan Shaw gets a call: How fast can you get to the Beresford building on Central Park West?In the tower apartment, Shaw finds two people. One of them is ... Read more

$19.99 CAD

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A true-crime author gets swept up in a murder plot in a psychological thriller from the world's #1 bestselling author, James Patterson.**"Excellent ... perfectly executed ... genuinely suspenseful, even shocking." —**BooklistNYPD Detective Declan Shaw gets a call: How fast can you get to the Beresford building on Central Park West?In the tower apartment, Shaw finds two people. One of them is
... Read more

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