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28 October 1882 – 1 December 1911 Richard Barham Middleton's..... "The Ghost Ship" is one of the best-loved ghost stories in English literature.  He was a tragic figure, a young man impatient for success, who managed to live the archetypal life of the Romantic Bohemian poet, complete with poverty, unrequited love for an impossible woman (a prostitute), despair, and an early suicide.  While he published many pieces in the best magazines of the day, no volumes of his work were published in his lifetime.  As soon as he was dead, he was..... "discovered."  Four volumes of his collected works were in print within eighteen months. Three more followed in the next two decades.  His poetry was acclaimed in the press as a new Keats, both for the brilliance of his work and the brevity of his life.  He is remembered today for a handful of superbly crafted, eerie fantasies, such as..... "The Coffin Merchant," ....... "On the Brighton Road,"

Yuval Noah Harari is the author of  international bestsellers.  He is an Israeli historian and a professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The Guardian quotes Yuval as saying..."Homo Sapiens as we know them will disappear in a century or so." Yuval also gives a free online course in English titled..."  A Brief History of Humankind ."  Over the years, more than 100,000 people throughout the world....  have already taken his course.

 A visionary explorer Nansen and his partner Hjalmar Johansen went further north than man had ever been. An explorer in his youth and a humanitarian in his later years, he truly lead a remarkable life. Watch the short video and you will understand.He was polar explorer,a humanitarian, and diplomat and led a blessed life..  His books are treasures to be placed where they are readily available for one and all. Truly.... he is the author of many master pieces!  Once read they must be shared!   There is a Nansen Refugee Award  that was established in his honor in 1953.... because of his life's work of repatriation and integration of refugees. A truly remarkable man... his legacy endures.

Born: Robert Lee Frost, Mar 26, 1874, San Francisco, California, US Died: Jan 29, 1963, Boston, Massachusetts, USOccupation: Poet, playwright

Winslow Eliot's novels have been translated into eleven languages and published in twenty countries. Through practices, meditations, and fun improvisations, the author takes you on a journey that activates the search and discovery of your soul’s purpose. She shows you  a way to breathe authenticity into every part of your daily existence by....  offering a map toward self-actualization. This is done through 22 stages of the traditional Fool’s journey, and using a wide variety of wisdom sources and practical exercises, including Sufism, Buddhism, Taoist philosophies, anthroposophy, mystical Christianity, Jungian psychology, mythology.......  and her own life experience.

" I wanted to create books with a wide-range of unforgettable characters, with heat and romance, and lots of guns. It wouldn’t be complete without a slice of humor and charm." Meet the crime-solving duo of the Florida Keys: Madison who has all the charm of the girl next door, not to mention a deadly aim and Fab, her best friend, a femme fatale private investigator with a taste for danger and stilettos. 

In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American.  It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father.....a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man.....has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey,,,,,first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother’s family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father’s life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance.  Pictured in left hand photograph on the cover: Habiba Akumu Hussein and Barack Obama, Sr.  Is.....President Obama's paternal grandmother and his father as a young boy.  Pictured in right hand photograph on the cover: Stanley Dunham and Ann Dunham.....President Obama's maternal grandfather and his mother as a youn

In a career spanning more than seventy years, Ray Bradbury , who died on June 5, 2012, at the age of 91, inspired generations of readers to dream, think, and create. A prolific author of hundreds of short stories and close to fifty books, as well as numerous poems, essays, operas, plays, teleplays, and screenplays.....  Bradbury was one of the most celebrated writers of our time.! His groundbreaking works include Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles , The Illustrated Man , Dandelion Wine , and Something Wicked This Way Comes . Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel "Fahrenheit 451" is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction,  Firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never quest

  Danielle Steel is the fourth-best-selling fiction author of all time! It is estimated 800 million copies of her work has been sold!  I’ve written 161 books (I’m published in 69 countries and 43 languages), which seems like a lot, even to me. I publish six books a year (7 this year), and work on several at the same time. Sometimes I work on five books at the same time. It sounds crazy, but it works for me, like an artist who has several painting in progress. It’s a juggling act, but I love it. And I try to keep the books different, so I do historicals and books with contemporary themes, books that deal with problems or tragedies and what that does to people’s lives. The books are set in industries or particular settings. I learn a lot when I write them. I also write happy or fun books. Sometimes I laugh out loud when I’m writing, or cry when I’m writing a sad part. If you laugh or cry when you’re reading them, you can bet that I did too when I wrote them. I’ve also written non-

President Clinton’s book is also the fullest, most concretely detailed, most nuanced account of a presidency ever written—encompassing not only the high points and crises but the way the presidency actually works: the day-to-day bombardment of problems, personalities, conflicts, setbacks, achievements.

“This is one attempt to uncover how we got to this surreal political moment. It is also an attempt to predict how, under cover of shocks and crises, it could get a lot worse. And it’s a plan for how, if we keep our heads, we might just be able to flip the script and arrive at a radically better future.” –From the Introduction

CLIVE STAPLES LEWIS (1898–1963) Was one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century and arguably one of the most influential writers of his day. He wrote more than thirty books, allowing him to reach a vast audience.... and his works continue to attract thousands of new readers every year! His 30 books,    have been translated into more than 30 languages and have sold millions of copies.  The books that make up " The Chronicles of Narnia"  have sold the most and have been produced on the stage, television, radio, and cinema.  His philosophical writings are widely cited by Christian apologetics from many denominations. “To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But i

George Raymond Richard Martin, often referred to as GRRM, is an American novelist and short-story writer in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres, screenwriter, and television producer. Born September 20, 1948...... Bayonne, New Jersey, U.S. A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings,  A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and  A Dance with Dragons  

Dr. Seuss was born Theodor Geisel in Springfield, Massachusetts, on March 2, 1904. While Theodor Geisel died on September 24, 1991, Dr. Seuss lives on, inspiring generations of children of all ages to explore the joys of reading. “A person’s a person, no matter how small,” Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, would say. “Children want the same things we want. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained and delighted.”