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Burden is the story of a seventeen-year-old British soldier, Private Herbert Burden, who was shot for desertion during World War IHe was one of hundreds so executed. It is now understood that many had committed no crime, but were suffering from PTSD. Burden's story is told in the voice of Lance Corporal Reginald Smith, the author's uncle. The author discovered years later in a box of papers that his uncle, Lance Corporal Smith, had befriended ...

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The first issue of the new magazine of scary science fiction, featuring the complete SF novel Deathworld by Harry Harrison, plus seven strange tales of perilous worlds and hostile aliens, by award-winning authors Douglas Smith and Simon Strantzas, Clifford D. Simak, Jerry Sohl and others. Retro SF movie reviews, weird science fact, and comics by Jack Kirby.

Description of Prairie Spirit This is an evocative portrait/memoir of the early years of a young prairie lad. The author's open and fresh style invites the reader to go back in time and experience day-to-day life as experienced by Dougie, the central character. By presenting the story with a strong sense of immediacy, the effect is one of being physically present in each scene. Every summer Uncle comes to take Dougie to his farm to help with t...

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An award-winning historian reveals the harrowing, little-known story of an American effort to save the newly formed Soviet Union from disasterAfter decades of the Cold War and renewed tensions, in the wake of Russian meddling in the 2016 election, cooperation between the United States and Russia seems impossible to imagine-and yet, as Douglas Smith reveals, it has a forgotten but astonishing historical precedent.In 1921, in the throes of one o...

The gripping human story of how American volunteers fought famine in Bolshevik Russia, saving Lenin's revolutionary government from chaos and millions of people from starvation.In 1921, after six years of unrelenting war and revolution, Russia was in ruins. The economy had collapsed and starvation claimed the lives of millions. People were so desperate for food that there were reports of cannibalism, reports that were revealed to be horribly a...

Wyatt's tired of dreaming the same dream of a tree with a beating heart, but most of all, Wyatt's tired of waking up to the same reality: his dad left, and his mom won't talk about it. Wyatt is on his own.So, without a second thought, he follows a mysterious stranger off the bus and deep into the woods. When she leaps into a mirror, Wyatt doesn't ask questions. He jumps right in. On the other side, Wyatt finds himself propelled into a cataclys...

Wyatt's tired of dreaming the same dream of a tree with a beating heart, but most of all, Wyatt's tired of waking up to the same reality: his dad left, and his mom won't talk about it. Wyatt is on his own.So, without a second thought, he follows a mysterious stranger off the bus and deep into the woods. When she leaps into a mirror, Wyatt doesn't ask questions. He jumps right in. On the other side, Wyatt finds himself propelled into a cataclys...

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All On-Your-Feet Guide orders receive FREE SHIPPING! Use code SHIPOYFG at check out.  This On-Your-Feet Guide provides tested strategies for building authentic relationships with your students. These authentic relationships between students and adults ensure that students know that they are valued, respected, and trusted.  Authentic relationships help students grow as individuals and they help educators grow as professionals. And, there ...

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Take your first step to selling more stories and building a career as a short fiction writer-buy this book!In an engaging and conversational style, award-winning author Douglas Smith teaches how to market and sell short fiction-and much, much more.Even experienced writers will find value in these pages as Smith takes us on a journey that begins with making your first sale and ends with learning to use short stories to build a foundation for a ...

FINALIST FOR THE AURORA AWARD-Best CollectionWe all have things we hide away inside-secrets, fears, aspects of ourselves we keep locked away. Or try to. In that respect, the characters we meet in Impossibilia are like any of us. They have things inside them too. Only their things are a little... different. A dead wife that won't leave. A wolf. The secret to being the luckiest man alive. Impossibilia was the first collection of short fiction fr...

A shapeshifter hero battles ancient spirits, a covert government agency, and his own dark past in a race to solve a murder that could mean the end of the world.The debut novel from the multi-award winning author that Library Journal describes as "one of Canada's most original writers of speculative fiction."I can't remember the last time I read a book that spoke to me, so eloquently, and so deeply, on so many levels. ... I'll be rereading it i...

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