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Paris in the Dark

by Robert Olen Butler ...

Series Book 4 - The Christopher Marlowe Cobb Thrillers
A novel of murder and espionage during the First World War: "Rich atmosphere and a propulsive plot...a satisfying, stylish thrill."― The Tampa Bay TimesAutumn 1915. World War I is raging across Europe, but Woodrow Wilson has kept Americans out of the trenches—though that hasn't stopped young men and women from crossing the Atlantic to volunteer at the front. Christopher "Kit" Cobb, a Chicago ... Read more

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A novel of murder and espionage during the First World War: "Rich atmosphere and a propulsive plot...a satisfying, stylish thrill."― The Tampa Bay TimesAutumn 1915. World War I is raging across Europe, but Woodrow Wilson has kept Americans out of the trenches—though that hasn't stopped young men and women from crossing the Atlantic to volunteer at the front. Christopher "Kit" Cobb, a Chicago
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The Hot Country

by Robert Olen Butler ...

Series Book 1 - The Christopher Marlowe Cobb Thrillers
A US war correspondent is plunged into the Mexican civil war in “a whip-smart tale of intrigue and espionage” by the Pulitzer Prize winner (CNN.com).Undaunted by enemy territory and sweltering heat, Christopher “Kit” Marlowe Cobb, the fearless American newspaper journalist, has arrived in Mexico in the spring of 1914. The country is rocked by civil war, the American invasion of Vera Cruz, and the ... Read more

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A US war correspondent is plunged into the Mexican civil war in “a whip-smart tale of intrigue and espionage” by the Pulitzer Prize winner (CNN.com).Undaunted by enemy territory and sweltering heat, Christopher “Kit” Marlowe Cobb, the fearless American newspaper journalist, has arrived in Mexico in the spring of 1914. The country is rocked by civil war, the American invasion of Vera Cruz, and the
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Wartime Lives

by Robert Olen Butler, Tom Bissell, Benjamin Percy, Charles Johnson, Maile Meloy, Tim O'Brien ...

Narrated by Kathleen Chalfant, Oskar Eustis, Dylan Baker, Keith Szarabajka, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Ted Marcoux ...

Series series Selected Shorts
Unabridged

3 hours 15 min

What happens to people's lives during times of battle and strife? From the American Revolution to the ongoing war in Iraq, the subject of this collection is how people cope with the dramatic shifts that come with war. Before Independence, a slave fights for freedom by taking up arms for the British; in WWI, a mother goes to the front lines to see her son; and in our time, a teenager in Oregon ... Read more

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What happens to people's lives during times of battle and strife? From the American Revolution to the ongoing war in Iraq, the subject of this collection is how people cope with the dramatic shifts that come with war. Before Independence, a slave fights for freedom by taking up arms for the British; in WWI, a mother goes to the front lines to see her son; and in our time, a teenager in Oregon
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Poetry of September, The

by Robert Browning, William Butler Yeats, William Wordsworth ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe ...

Series series Month in Verse
Unabridged

38 min

The ninth month of the year in our Gregorian calendar and with it arrives the Autumn equinox and the first glimpses of the new season. There is much for out Poets including Browning, Kingsley, Yeats, Lanier and Lindsay to say and write about. Among our readers are Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe. The tracks are; September - An Introduction; September 1st 1802 By William Wordsworth; In September ... Read more

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The ninth month of the year in our Gregorian calendar and with it arrives the Autumn equinox and the first glimpses of the new season. There is much for out Poets including Browning, Kingsley, Yeats, Lanier and Lindsay to say and write about. Among our readers are Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe. The tracks are; September - An Introduction; September 1st 1802 By William Wordsworth; In September
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The Hemingway Valise

by Robert Olen Butler ...

Series Book 34 - Bibliomysteries
An American spy in Paris solves a legendary mystery as the Pulitzer Prize–winning author's "thrilling historical series" continues ( The Wall Street Journal).Former Chicago journalist turned globe-trotting spy Christopher Marlowe Cobb has already lived many lives—from London to Mexico to Berlin—when he returns to France in 1922. Where better to work on his novel than among such literary ... Read more

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An American spy in Paris solves a legendary mystery as the Pulitzer Prize–winning author's "thrilling historical series" continues ( The Wall Street Journal).Former Chicago journalist turned globe-trotting spy Christopher Marlowe Cobb has already lived many lives—from London to Mexico to Berlin—when he returns to France in 1922. Where better to work on his novel than among such literary
... Read more
Had a Good Time

Stories from American Postcards

by Robert Olen Butler ...

"Gloriously imaginative and utterly hypnotizing short stories" inspired by vintage twentieth-century postcards, from a Pulitzer Prize-winning author ( Booklist, starred review).For many years, author Robert Olen Butler has collected picture postcards from the early twentieth century—not so much for the pictures on the fronts but for the messages written on the backs, little bits of the captured ... Read more

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"Gloriously imaginative and utterly hypnotizing short stories" inspired by vintage twentieth-century postcards, from a Pulitzer Prize-winning author ( Booklist, starred review).For many years, author Robert Olen Butler has collected picture postcards from the early twentieth century—not so much for the pictures on the fronts but for the messages written on the backs, little bits of the captured
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A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

by Robert Olen Butler ...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize: "Uncannily perceptive stories written by an American from the viewpoint of Vietnamese citizens transplanted to Louisiana" ( People).A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain is Robert Olen Butler's Pulitzer Prize–winning collection of lyrical and poignant stories about the aftermath of the Vietnam War and its enduring impact on the Vietnamese. Written in a soaring prose, ... Read more

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize: "Uncannily perceptive stories written by an American from the viewpoint of Vietnamese citizens transplanted to Louisiana" ( People).A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain is Robert Olen Butler's Pulitzer Prize–winning collection of lyrical and poignant stories about the aftermath of the Vietnam War and its enduring impact on the Vietnamese. Written in a soaring prose,
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THE OBVIOUS CLUE - Ultimate Murder Mystery Collection

The Murders in the Rue Morgue, A Study in Scarlet, The Innocence of Father Brown, The Leavenworth Case, More Tish…

by Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Anna Katharine Green, Arthur Conan Doyle, Mary Roberts Rinehart, John Kendrick Bangs, Agatha Christie, Robert Barr, Ellis Parker Butler, Maurice Leblanc, Wilkie Collins, Edgar Wallace, Melville Davisson Post, R. Austin Freeman, A. E. W. Mason, E. W. Hornung, G. K. Chesterton, Victor L. Whitechurch ...

THE OBVIOUS CLUE - Ultimate Murder Mystery Collection is an exquisite compilation that traverses the myriad landscape of mystery narratives, illuminating the thrilling art of the whodunit. Through a kaleidoscope of literary styles, this anthology captures the essence of suspense and deduction, weaving an intricate web of enigmas that challenge the intellect while ensnaring the reader's imagination ... Read more

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THE OBVIOUS CLUE - Ultimate Murder Mystery Collection is an exquisite compilation that traverses the myriad landscape of mystery narratives, illuminating the thrilling art of the whodunit. Through a kaleidoscope of literary styles, this anthology captures the essence of suspense and deduction, weaving an intricate web of enigmas that challenge the intellect while ensnaring the reader's imagination
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Tabloid Dreams

Stories

by Robert Olen Butler ...

There are a dozen ways the American Dream can go awry in this "unrepeatable . . . tour de force" of short fiction from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author ( The Washington Post Book World)."[With] touches of Italo Calvino, Roald Dahl, and Gabriel García Márquez" the Pulitzer Prize and National Magazine Award–winning author dazzles with his mastery of the short story and his ability to find humor and ... Read more

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There are a dozen ways the American Dream can go awry in this "unrepeatable . . . tour de force" of short fiction from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author ( The Washington Post Book World)."[With] touches of Italo Calvino, Roald Dahl, and Gabriel García Márquez" the Pulitzer Prize and National Magazine Award–winning author dazzles with his mastery of the short story and his ability to find humor and
... Read more
Renew: A Missional Movement for the None, Done, and Undone

A DIY Manual for Kingdom Expansion

by Robert Butler ...

The RENEW idea was born out of this experience, our reluctance to accept the status quo and the understanding that the American institutional church of our fathers is crumbling. While we admit some church expressions are thriving, many are only the result of transfer growth of those who are discontent. While the 'cool' factor may bring them in, we know there's not a fog machine, a strobe light, a ... Read more

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The RENEW idea was born out of this experience, our reluctance to accept the status quo and the understanding that the American institutional church of our fathers is crumbling. While we admit some church expressions are thriving, many are only the result of transfer growth of those who are discontent. While the 'cool' factor may bring them in, we know there's not a fog machine, a strobe light, a
... Read more
From Where You Dream

The Process of Writing Fiction

by Robert Olen Butler ...

The Pulitzer Prize–winning author "shares his insights into—and passion for—the creation and experience of fiction with total openness" ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).Robert Olen Butler, author of Perfume River, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, and A Small Hotel, teaches graduate fiction at Florida State University—his version of literary boot camp. In From Where You Dream, Butler ... Read more

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The Pulitzer Prize–winning author "shares his insights into—and passion for—the creation and experience of fiction with total openness" ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).Robert Olen Butler, author of Perfume River, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, and A Small Hotel, teaches graduate fiction at Florida State University—his version of literary boot camp. In From Where You Dream, Butler
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Late City

A Novel

by Robert Olen Butler ...

The Pulitzer Prize–winning author shares an "exceptionally nuanced, tender, funny, tragic, and utterly transfixing portrait" of one man's troubled century ( Booklist, starred review).At 115 years old, former newspaperman Sam Cunningham is also the last surviving veteran of World War I. As he prepares to die in a Chicago nursing home, the results of the 2016 presidential election come in—and he ... Read more

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The Pulitzer Prize–winning author shares an "exceptionally nuanced, tender, funny, tragic, and utterly transfixing portrait" of one man's troubled century ( Booklist, starred review).At 115 years old, former newspaperman Sam Cunningham is also the last surviving veteran of World War I. As he prepares to die in a Chicago nursing home, the results of the 2016 presidential election come in—and he
... Read more

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