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MobileRead Forums - ePub Books http://www.mobileread.com/forums Share your e-books in ePub format (e.g. Sony Reader) en Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:27:28 GMT vBulletin 30 http://www.mobileread.com/feeds/images/mr/misc/logo.gif MobileRead Forums - ePub Books http://www.mobileread.com/forums Historical Fiction Mühlbach, Luise: The Empress Josephine. V1. 9 Feb 2010 http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=73227&goto=newpost Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:56:23 GMT "Luise Muhlbach was the pen name of Clara Mundt (1814-1873), a German writer best known for her works of historical fiction."

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“I win the battles, Josephine wins me the hearts.” These words of Napoleon are the most beautiful epitaph of the Empress Josephine, the much-loved, the much-regretted, and the much-slandered one.

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]]> ePub Books crutledge http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=73227 Mystery Wallace, Edgar: The Calendar. v1. 7th Feb 2010 http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=72966&goto=newpost Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:50:13 GMT 1930 thriller by Edgar Wallace, the prolific British author and journalist.

An exciting thriller set in the world of horse-racing. In an impulsive moment, a man agrees to "throw" a big race, and then is faced with all the consequences.

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]]> ePub Books HarryT http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=72966 Historical Fiction Mühlbach, Luise: Andreas Hofer. V1. 6 Feb 2010 http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=72889&goto=newpost Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:00:38 GMT "Luise Muhlbach was the pen name of Clara Mundt (1814-1873), a German writer best known for her works of historical fiction."

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The year 1809 had come; but the war against France, so intensely longed for by all Austria, had not yet broken out, and the people and the army were vainly waiting for the war-cry of their sovereign, the Emperor Francis. It is true, not a few great things bad been accomplished in the course of the past year: Austria had armed, organized the militia, strengthened her fortresses, and filled her magazines; but the emperor still hesitated to take the last and most decisive step by crowning his military preparations with a formal declaration of war.

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]]> ePub Books crutledge http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=72889 <![CDATA[Spiritual Chesterton, G.K.: What's Wrong With The World. V1. 06 Feb 2010]]> http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=72867&goto=newpost Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:22:23 GMT Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was one of the most influential English writers of the 20th century. His prolific and diverse output included philosophy, ontology, poetry, journalism, biography, Christian apologetics, fantasy and detective fiction.
Chesterton has been called the "prince of paradox".[1] Time magazine, in a review of a biography of Chesterton, observed of his writing style: "Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories—first carefully turning them inside out."[2] For example, Chesterton wrote the following:
Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.[3]
source: wikipedia

A most important book by Chesterton giving his remarkably perceptive analysis on social and moral issues, more relevant today than even in his own time. In his light and humorous style, yet deadly serious and philosophical, Chesterton comments on feminism and true womanhood, errors in education, the importance of the child, and other issues, using incisive arguments against the trendsetters' assaults on the common man and family. Chesterton possessed the genius to foresee the dangers if modernist proposals were implemented. He knew that lax moral standards would lead to the dehumanization of man, and in this book he staunchly defends the family, its constituent elements and character over against those ideas and institutions that would subvert it and thereby deliver man into the hands of the servile state. In addressing what is wrong, he also shows clearly what is right, sane and sensible and how to change things in that direction.

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]]> ePub Books weatherwax http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=72867 Other Fiction Lytton, Edward Bulwer: The Pilgrims of the Rhine. V1. 06 Feb 2010 http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=72864&goto=newpost Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:07:53 GMT I could not find much of a description of this book. I could not find much of a description of this book.

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]]> ePub Books weatherwax http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=72864 Spiritual Sheldon, Charles M.: In His Steps V1. 06 Feb 2010 http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=72863&goto=newpost Sat, 06 Feb 2010 16:55:45 GMT n His Steps is a best-selling book written by Charles Monroe Sheldon. First published in 1896, the fictional book has sold more than 30,000,000 copies, and ranks as the 39th best-selling book of all time, along with Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls. The full title of the book is In His Steps: What Would Jesus Do?.

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In His Steps takes place in the railroad town of Raymond, presumably located in the eastern U.S.A. (Chicago, IL and the coast of Maine are mentioned as being accessible by train). The main character is the Rev. Henry Maxwell, pastor of the First Church of Raymond, who challenges his congregation to not do anything for a whole year without first asking: “What Would Jesus Do?” Other characters include Ed Norman, senior editor of the Raymond Daily Newspaper, Rachel Winslow, a talented singer, and Virginia Page, an heiress, to name a few.
The novel begins on a Friday morning when a destitute vagabond appears at the front door of Henry Maxwell while the latter is preparing for that Sunday’s upcoming sermon. Maxwell listens to the vagabond’s helpless plea briefly before curtly brushing him away and closing the door. The same vagabond appears in church at the end of the Sunday sermon, walks up to “the open space in front of the pulpit,” and faces the people. No one stops him. He quietly but frankly confronts the congregation—“I’m not complaining; just stating facts.”—about their compassion, or lack thereof, for the homeless like him in Raymond. Upon finishing his address to the congregation, he collapses and dies a few days later.
That next Sunday, Henry Maxwell, deeply moved by the events of the past week, presents a challenge to his congregation: “Do not do anything without first asking, ‘What would Jesus do?’” This challenge is the theme of the novel and is the driving force of the plot. From this point on, the rest of the novel consists of certain episodes that focus on individual characters as their lives are transformed by the challenge.

Source: Wikipedia

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]]> ePub Books weatherwax http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=72863 Mystery Wallace, Edgar: Circumstantial Evidence. v1. 6th Feb 2010 http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=72856&goto=newpost Sat, 06 Feb 2010 14:46:40 GMT Full title: "Circumstantial Evidence and Other Stories", a 1934 collection of crime short stories by the prolific British author and journalist, Edgar Wallace.

The collection contains the following stories:

Circumstantial Evidence
Fighting Snub Reilly
A Romance in Brown
Discovering Rex
The Man in the Golf Hut
A Tryst with Ghosts
The Child of Chance
The Dear Liar
The Christmas Princess
Findings are Keepings
The Little Green Man

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]]> ePub Books HarryT http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=72856 Mystery Wallace, Edgar: The Frightened Lady. v1. 5th Feb 2010 http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=72739&goto=newpost Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:39:26 GMT 1932 thriller by the prolific British author and journalist, Edgar Wallace.

Everyone tried to conceal the truth, but the Frightened Lady is unable to hide her fear. Chief Inspector Tanner quickly realises that many things about the household of Lord and Lady Lebanon are not easily explained. Why are two American 'toughs' employed as footmen? Why is Lady Lebanon so unwilling to answer any questions? What he does know is that the only obviously innocent person is utterly consumed with terror. Here is Inspector Tanner's first real clue.

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]]> ePub Books HarryT http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=72739 Other Fiction Galsworthy, John: A Modern Comedy. v1, 5 Feb 2010 http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=72731&goto=newpost Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:25:44 GMT John Galsworthy (1867-1933) devoted virtually his entire professional career to creating a fictional but entirely representative family of propertied Victorians: the Forsytes. He made their lives and times, loves and losses, fortunes and deaths so real that readers accused him of including as characters in his drama real individuals whom they knew. He was the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932.

This is the second trilogy of "The Forsyte Chronicles" the first being "The Forsyte Saga". It contains three full-length novels and two shorter interludes:

The White Monkey
(Interlude) A Silent Wooing
The Silver Spoon
(Interlude) Passers By
Swan Song

Here, the story is set in the 1920's, and the main characters are Fleur, Soames Forsyte's daughter, and her husband Michael Mont. The changes in customs and morals of the time are somehow the background of this whole book.

The text has been taken from the eBooks@Adelaide site, but I have proofread the whole book (many corrections done, checking against available scans when possible), added a family tree, curly quotes, italics, etc.

Any kind of feedback is welcome.

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]]> ePub Books Jellby http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=72731 Young Adult Montgomery, L. M: Anne Of Avonlea. V1. 5 Feb 2010 http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=72727&goto=newpost Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:21:41 GMT Lucy Maud Montgomery CBE, (always called "Maud" by family and friends) and publicly known as L.M. Montgomery, (30 November 1874–24 April 1942) was a Canadian author, best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables, published in 1908.

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A tall, slim girl, "half-past sixteen," with serious gray eyes and hair which her friends called auburn, had sat down on the broad red sandstone doorstep of a Prince Edward Island farmhouse one ripe afternoon in August, firmly resolved to construe so many lines of Virgil.

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]]> ePub Books crutledge http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=72727 Other Fiction Meredith, George: The House on the Beach. V1. 4 Feb 2010 http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=72625&goto=newpost Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:11:32 GMT George Meredith, OM (12 February 1828 – 18 May 1909) was an English novelist and poet during the Victorian era. His first home was in Portsmouth, where his father was a tailor. When George was only five years old, his mother died. His childhood after her death was not happy. In 1842, when George Meredith was 15, he attended the Moravian school at Neuwied on the Rhine. Although he was there for less than two years, Meredith was to refer to this period as the only real education he had. The school stimulated his intellect and taught him to respect rationality, self-respect, sincerity and courage. The time spent there also left him with a love of German music, poetry and the German countryside. It marked the end of his formal schooling. Excerpt The experience of great officials who have laid down their dignities before death, or have had the philosophic mind to review themselves while still wielding the deputy sceptre, teaches them that in the exercise of authority over men an eccentric behaviour in trifles has most exposed them to hostile criticism and gone farthest to jeopardize their popularity. It is their Achilles’ heel; the place where their mother Nature holds them as she dips them in our waters. The eccentricity of common persons is the entertainment of the multitude, and the maternal hand is perceived for a cherishing and endearing sign upon them; but rarely can this be found suitable for the august in station; only, indeed, when their sceptre is no more fearful than a grandmother’s birch; and these must learn from it sooner or later that they are uncomfortably mortal. George Meredith, OM (12 February 1828 – 18 May 1909) was an English novelist and poet during the Victorian era. His first home was in Portsmouth, where his father was a tailor. When George was only five years old, his mother died. His childhood after her death was not happy. In 1842, when George Meredith was 15, he attended the Moravian school at Neuwied on the Rhine. Although he was there for less than two years, Meredith was to refer to this period as the only real education he had. The school stimulated his intellect and taught him to respect rationality, self-respect, sincerity and courage. The time spent there also left him with a love of German music, poetry and the German countryside. It marked the end of his formal schooling.

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The experience of great officials who have laid down their dignities before death, or have had the philosophic mind to review themselves while still wielding the deputy sceptre, teaches them that in the exercise of authority over men an eccentric behaviour in trifles has most exposed them to hostile criticism and gone farthest to jeopardize their popularity. It is their Achilles’ heel; the place where their mother Nature holds them as she dips them in our waters. The eccentricity of common persons is the entertainment of the multitude, and the maternal hand is perceived for a cherishing and endearing sign upon them; but rarely can this be found suitable for the august in station; only, indeed, when their sceptre is no more fearful than a grandmother’s birch; and these must learn from it sooner or later that they are uncomfortably mortal.

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]]> ePub Books crutledge http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=72625 Mystery Wallace, Edgar: White Face. v3. 4th Feb 2010 http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=72611&goto=newpost Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:46:40 GMT "Michael Quigley had a fair working knowledge of perverse humanity, having acquaintance with burglars, the better class of confidence man, professional forgers, long firm operators, swindlers, ingenious and naive, bank workers, bucket-shop keepers and pickpockets. He did not know White Face because nobody knew him, but that was a pleasure deferred. Sooner or later, the lone operator would make a mistake and come within the purview of a crime reporter..."

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]]> ePub Books HarryT http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=72611 Mystery Wallace, Edgar: When the Gangs Came to London. v1. 4th Feb 2010 http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=72609&goto=newpost Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:40:09 GMT 1932 crime thriller by Edgar Wallace.

Set in the late 1920s-early 1930s, this is a kind of "crossover mob story", tracing the exploits (and eventual downfall) of two gangs from Chicago, operating in London.

The book has all the elements you would expect from Edgar Wallace – an all-knowing villain (or set of villains), a hard-working intelligent set of policemen from Scotland Yard fettered by a very British set of laws, quick murders of the rich and the poor, an exceedingly pretty woman, a hint of a love interest (so wonderfully portrayed by Wallace in so many of his works), a company that acts as a cover for the mob (another Wallace staple)… Not to mention, Wallace’s sparkling oh-so-brilliant language and outstandingly dry wit – a wit that pervades through the narratives and the dialogues.

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]]> ePub Books HarryT http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=72609 Action Wallace, Edgar: The Yellow Snake. v2. 4th Feb 2010 http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=72608&goto=newpost Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:36:19 GMT 1926 thriller by Edgar Wallace.

Fing-Su is a graduate of Oxford and head of the dreaded Society of the Joyful Hands, which he uses to further his plans to dominate the world. Very much in the mold of Sax Rohmer's "Dr. Fu-Manchu".

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]]> ePub Books HarryT http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=72608 Mystery Wallace, Edgar: The Valley of Ghosts. v2. 4th Feb 2010 http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=72607&goto=newpost Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:33:16 GMT In "The Valley of Ghosts" we have a novel which shows Wallace's enthralling skill at its best. Here murder was done in a quiet settlement of the English countryside, but there was more than one ghost. Why had Stella Nelson been with the murdered man in the middle of the night, shortly before the fatal shot? Who was the mysterious blackmailer who had all England in fear? Why did Scottie reform? Why didn't the famous detective, Andy MacLeod, do his duty? A most entertaining detective story, and Edgar Wallace at his best.

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