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Much Ado About Nothing appears to have been written around 1599, shortly before As You Like It and Twelfth Night. The action combines two narrative threads: the spirited comedy of the courtship of Benedick and Beatrice, and the sombre tale of confused love between Hero and Claudio. The first is a creation by Shakespeare and the second appears to have been drawn from an Italian source, either by Bandello or Ariosto.The action takes place in Mes...

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Do you like to fly? If so, this is a great story that lets you in on the way things were in the early days of aviation, including the excitement and wonder of what it was like in the beginning. It all happens as a young inventor has hopes and dreams of breaking records with the new-fangled means of transportation. Along the way, he encounters not only dangerous weather conditions but also unscrupulous rival inventors. In spite of such hurdles ...

When booksellers Molly O'Donnell and Emma Clarke meet at an estate sale in the posh Sherwood Forest neighborhood of Atlanta, they are both there for the books. But when they venture into a closed-off basement room full of antiquarian occult books and find the dead body of a notorious book thief, they learn that searching for old books may sometimes lead to murder. As they team up to find a killer and a missing manuscript, they discover that th...

Country girl Polly Milton plies her sweet demeanor and practical ways to teach the citified Shaw family that time-tested, old-fashioned values are the surest way to a happy life. Sprinkled with wry commentary from the author, Louisa May Alcott's classic is bursting with enduring charm.

A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsThe Rise of American Civilization by Charles A. Beard and Mary R. Beard. In two volumes. Volume One: The Agricultural Era. The MacMillan Company 1927.Narrated by Joseph TablerNote: This book is 'read as written'. It was published in 1927. It is in the public domain.Narrator's note: Published as a very large book ... perhaps to show how special it is, and it is that!! I was tempted to spl...

A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsLincoln in the Black Hawk War by Alfred Augustus Jackson. Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin Volume XIV edited and annotated by Reuben Gold Thwaites. Narrated by Joseph TablerNote - This book is 'read as written'. It was published in 1898. It is in the public domain.Dusty Tomes Audio Books are public domain writings retrieved from the ravages of time, Available as n...

The galaxy is a colorful place and Crustacea is no exception. Born on a whim of a madman, the planet of psychic crabs evolved through a combination of radiation, cosmic energy, and what scientists could only describe as 'the right vibes'. Now, the crustacean leadership must deal with the impending arrival of the first ambassador from the United Commission of Planets, renegade lobsters, and foul creatures lurking in the deep.

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."Jane Austen at her witty, observant, intelligent, and sympathetic best, in this collection of her letters written to family and friends.Compiled by her niece Fanny Knight's son Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen (the first Baron Brabourne), and edited by Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, this collection includes a preface written by the editor and notes f...

Dungeons Are Half the Game.You can't control what players are going to do. That's half the fun. But you can control where they do it. That's a whole other half!The Kobold Guide to Dungeons gives both new and experienced Game Masters over 100 pages of insight and ideas into making dungeons great. In-depth essays from industry luminaries teach you to think outside your own boxes, and into a larger realm of challenge, discovery, and good old mons...

Brad Wenneberg wasn't always a 6th degree Black Belt. Nor was he always a father, a husband, a teacher, a mentor, a community leader and a man of conviction. He was, however, an alcoholic spinning out of control--so much so that he found himself on the wrong end of a gun one warm spring evening.It wasn't until Wenneberg committed to a complete personal transformation that he was able to begin his journey toward personal, emotional, financial, ...

What an immature, self-destructive, antiquated mischief is man! How obscure and gross his prancing and chattering on his little stage of evolution! How loathsome and beyond words boring all the thoughts and self-approval of his biological by-product! this half-formed, ill-conditioned body! this erratic, maladjusted mechanism of his soul: on one side the harmonious instincts and balanced responses of the animal, on the other the inflexible purp...

No One Can Stop Me But Me is a real-life rags-to-riches story that shows anything is possible if we just believe in ourselves. As a teenager, businesswoman Jennifer Hernandez fell into a life of rebellion—drugs, sex, gangs, fights, school dropouts, pregnancy, and stints in and out of psych hospitals. How did she turn this around, becoming an iconic mortgage loan officer and sought-after life coach? In No One Can Stop Me But Me, Jennifer takes ...

There is no shortage of challenges in schools today—from bullying to gun violence and beyond—yet The Magical Place We Call School reminds us of the extraordinary things that still happen in classrooms all across America and that school truly can be a safe and happy place for learning.At a time when public discourse rages on about what students should or should not be taught, when books are being banned, when school shootings fill the news, and...

Harry Starke loves a cold case, but this one is really cold, more than a hundred years cold.Family Matters is a tale that takes place on the lonely coast of Maine, where Amanda, a true believer in the paranormal, has inherited--you guessed it--a haunted house. At least that's what the rumors say.It all begins when Amanda inherits the house, substantial assets, and a large sum of money from her grandmother. The windfall comes with a request to ...

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An exciting standalone Cthulhu Casebooks narrative, a thrilling tale of mystery and dread, from the New York Times bestselling author.It's 1929 and an ageing Dr. John Watson, conscious of his imminent demise, finally sits down to write a fresh chronicle disclosing the true events behind his published accounts of Sherlock Holmes's exploits. In these pages, Sherlock Holmes and his stalwart companion encounter reanimated corpses in Highgate Cemet...

Rosemary Woodhouse and her struggling actor husband Guy move into the Bramford, an old New York City apartment building with an ominous reputation and mostly elderly residents. Neighbors Roman and Minnie Castavet soon come nosing around to welcome the Woodhouses to the building, and despite Rosemary's reservations about their eccentricity and the weird noises that she keeps hearing, her husband takes a special shine to them. Shortly after Guy ...

Rosemary Woodhouse and her struggling actor husband Guy move into the Bramford, an old New York City apartment building with an ominous reputation and mostly elderly residents. Neighbors Roman and Minnie Castavet soon come nosing around to welcome the Woodhouses to the building, and despite Rosemary's reservations about their eccentricity and the weird noises that she keeps hearing, her husband takes a special shine to them. Shortly after Guy ...