Oct 26, 2010

Discount on Scaramouche

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Oct 21, 2010

Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini

A Romance of the French Revolution

Set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, Scaramouche starts off when Andre-Louis Moreau vows revenge after his best friend was killed in a mockery of a duel by an arrogant nobleman, Marquis de la Tour d’Azyr.

With his courage, intelligence and quick wit, Moreau excels as a skilled dramatic actor, a scenario writer, a fencing master, a lawyer, a passionate orator and eventually as a politician, and throughout this he keeps on upsetting the aristocratic Marquis de la Tour d’Azyr in his pursuits. During all this time, the expectation towards the final confrontation between these two men builds up until it is finally settled in an unexpected way.

However, being a man who can fight equally well with his sword, his mind, his pen, as well as his mouth, Moreau stays true to his morality and does not allow his quest to destroy the nobleman cloud his judgement as the world around him spirals into total chaos, testing his human character and spirit to the utmost.

Filled with exciting swashbuckling action and adventure, duels, romance, intrigue and politics, Scaramouche remains one of the most stimulating and engaging historical action-adventure novels ever written.

You can view more about this title at the CruGuru website. It is available in paperback from Lulu.com and in PDF E-book format from Lulu.com. ISBN: 978-1-920414-52-8; 978-1-920414-53-5.

Jul 7, 2010

Yet Another Day by J. H. Jowett

A Prayer for Every Day of the Year

Yet Another Day incorporates a short prayer for each day of the year to guide and fulfil your prayer life. These prayers directly penetrate your heart’s deepest recesses and open your eyes for the all-encompassing love of Jesus Christ by teaching you to listen and to be quiet in God.

The author, the Rev. John Henry Jowett, M.A., stated the following in his foreword: We need a firmer and quieter assurance while we pray. Even in our supplications it is needful to “rest in the Lord.” Perhaps it would be a good thing for many of us in our praying seasons if we were to say less and to listen more. “I will hear what God the Lord will speak.”

Listening might bring restfulness where speech would only inflame us. It is not an insignificant thing that the marginal rendering of that lovely phrase, “Rest in the Lord,” is just this, “Be silent unto the Lord.”

You can view more about this title at the CruGuru website. It is available in paperback from Lulu.com and in PDF E-book format from Lulu.com. ISBN: 978-1-920414-49-8, 978-1-920414-50-4.

Jan 27, 2010

The Red Battle Flyer by Manfred Freiherr Von Richthofen

The Red Battle Flyer is Manfred von Richthofen's autobiography which mainly deals with his role as an ace Fighter Pilot in the First World War for the German forces.

The book describes how he went from being a cavalry officer to an observer on an aircraft, to a fighter pilot, and finally to the most famous fighter pilot of the war. Von Richthofen provides gripping detailed descriptions of his and his comrades' exciting exploits as fighter pilots, but we also learn about the continued loss of comrades in death and the suffering of war.

Von Richthofen had 80 "kills" to his name, making him the most successful flying ace during the war. He was known as the "Red Baron", where the "Red" referred to the bright red colour of his famous Fokker triplane and the "Baron" referred to his title of Freiherr, which means Baron.

This thrilling account of air fighting in World War I allows us more than a glimpse into the mind and life of one of the most effective and skilled warriors of all time.

You can view more about this title at the CruGuru website. It is available in paperback from Lulu.com and in PDF E-book format from Lulu.com. ISBN: 978-1-920414-32-0, 978-1-920414-33-7 .

Within You is the Power by Henry Thomas Hamblin

Within You is the Power shows us there is a power lying hidden in mankind, by the use of which any person can rise to higher and better things in life. The object of this book is to help people to bring their inward powers of mind and spirit into expression, wisely and in harmony with the laws of life and to build up character.

There is no way whereby the discipline of life can be avoided. There are no cunning means by which fate can be tricked or evaded. Each life must meet its own troubles and difficulties: each soul must pass through its deep waters, every heart must encounter sorrow and grief. But no one needs to be overwhelmed in the great conflicts of life, for one who has learned the this great secret, dwells in an impregnable city, built upon the Rock of Truth, against which the storms of life beat in vain.

While this book does not offer any vain promises of an easy life, it rather endeavours to show how to become so strong that life looks almost easy by comparison.

You can view more about this title at the CruGuru website. It is available in paperback from Lulu.com and in PDF E-book format from Lulu.com. ISBN: 978-1-920414-30-6, 978-1-920414-31-3.

The Terror by Arthur Machen

During the First World War in Britain a series of unexplained deaths and murders occur with no sign of who or what is responsible.

-- "The working man told me about it, and added some dreadful details. Corpses so terribly maimed that coffins had been kept covered; faces mutilated as if by some gnawing animal..."

You can view more about this title at the CruGuru website. It is available in paperback from Lulu.com and in PDF E-book format from Lulu.com. ISBN: 978-1-920414-34-4, 978-1-920414-35-1.

Jan 4, 2010

A Martian Odyssey by Stanley G. Weinbaum

A Collection of Science Fiction Short Stories

Stanley G. Weinbaum is best known for his pioneering science fiction short story, A Martian Odyssey, published in 1934 to large (and continuing) praise, which introduces a sympathetic alien, Tweel.

Other stories by Weinbaum deal with Dixon Wells, a playboy who runs afoul of the inventions of his erstwhile tutor in "Newer Physics", Prof. van Manderpootz, a boastful genius who rates Einstein as his intellectual equal (or even a bit inferior). In "The Worlds of If", the professor’s invention exposes what might have been; in "The Ideal", Manderpootz constructs a device that can show the image of someone's ideal (in Wells' case, his perfect woman); the invention in "The Point of View" allows one to see the world from another's perspective.

This collection of Weinbaum's stories include A Martian Odyssey, Valley of Dreams, The Adaptive Ultimate, The Mad Moon, The Worlds of If, The Ideal, The Point of View, Pygmalion's Spectacles, Parasite Planet, The Lotus Eaters and The Circle of Zero.

You can view more about this title at the CruGuru website. It is available in paperback from Lulu.com and in PDF E-book format from Lulu.com. ISBN: 978-1-920414-11-5, 978-1-920414-12-2.