This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.In a daring quest for knowledge, ambitious scientist Victor Frankenstein pushes the boundaries of science and nature by creating life from death. But his experiment yields a horrifying result — a living creature cast out by society and doomed to suffer in loneliness and rage. As the consequences of Victor’s hubris spiral out of control, man and monster are locked in a chilling struggle that explores the darkest depths of human ambition,...

Life is Change.Children become adults. Summer becomes Winter. The old pass from life to death. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.But to some, life is purgatory. A place of temporary suffering between this world and the next.In these eleven stories, every painful, frightening transition is driven by a single element.That element is Purgatorium.

More than 25 of the greatest Science Fiction stories ever written—many in eBook form for the very first time. More than four hundred pages of top flight fiction selected by the editors at www.fantasticstoriesoftheimagination.com, including 'Ticking' by Allen M. Steele; 'All Cats are Gray' by Andre Norton; 'The Velvet Glove' by Harry Harrison; 'The Day of the Boomer Dukes' by Frederic Pohl; 'The Troubadour' by Peter Sherman; 'Riya's Foundling' by Algis Budrys; 'Asleep in the Forest of the T...

The Vintage Science Fiction Collection 25More Than 12 Hours of Classic Science FictionThe golden age of science fiction was built on bold ideas, unforgettable characters, and stories that dared to imagine the impossible. The Vintage Science Fiction Collection 25 brings together twenty-two remarkable adventures from many of the genre’s most celebrated authors, delivering more than twelve hours of classic storytelling.

This information will teach you how to clean your car the right way. It’s not about rinsing it off only. It’s about taking your time and putting your souls touch on it. It’s about putting some love into it and taking the bad away for better. You will have a great perspective of your car and life after reading The Master Detailer.

May of 1864 was perhaps the Civil War's most terrible month. Dawn Drums begins at this crucial time and its action coincides closely with the sesquicentennial of the events it depicts.Told by the voices of Abraham Lincoln, Clara Barton, Almira Martin, General Grant and an assorted host of other Civil War participants, including a small group of "contrabands," Robert Walton's narrative offers an utterly unique and riveting view of the Civil War's last year.Dawn Drums will en...

International skilled heath worker migration is a key feature of the global economy, a major contributor to socio-economic development and reflective of the transnationalization of health and elder care that is underway in most OECD nations. The distribution of care and health workforce planning has previously been analysed solely within national contexts, but increasingly scholars have shown how care deficits are being addressed through transnational responses. This Element examines the c...

Since the outbreak of the Syrian Civil War in 2011, over 5.6 million people have fled Syria and another 6.6 million remain internally displaced. By January 2017, a total of 40,081 Syrians had sought refuge across Canada in the largest resettlement event the country has experienced since the Indochina refugee crisis. Breaking new ground in an effort to understand and learn from the Syrian Refugee Resettlement Initiative that Canada launched in 2015, A National Project examines the experienc...

Josiah Flynt Willard was an American sociologist and author. After several years of experience as a vagrant, he wrote fiction and nonfiction as a kind of expert on tramps and tramping. His further works dealing with the lower and criminal classes include “Found Guilty,” part of a collection of stories written in collaboration with Francis Walton, an American author and attorney.

Lost Sci-Fi Books 226 thru 230 gathers an extraordinary range of vintage science-fiction—from cosmic dread to patriotic devotion, sly humor to tragic heroism.In Conquest Over Time by Michael Shaara, Contact Man Pat Travis lands on the astrologer-ruled world of Mert during an eclipse that marks him as an omen of disaster. Trapped among the “unfortunates” condemned by their birth-charts, he must turn superstition into strategy befor...

Ten Unforgettable Journeys Into the Strange, the Cosmic and the UnknownStep into ten extraordinary worlds where survival, mystery, ancient horrors and impossible futures collide. This collection brings together some of the most imaginative storytellers of the Golden Age and beyond, delivering adventures that span distant planets, forgotten civilizations, time itself and the darkest corners of the human mind.A lone human faces an alien champion in Ar...

Beyond the Stars 6 delivers twenty-two unforgettable adventures from the golden age of science fiction, bringing together an extraordinary collection of timeless stories that continue to captivate readers decades after they were first published. From distant galaxies and mysterious planets to unexpected encounters and astonishing discoveries, every story celebrates the limitless possibilities of the universe.This remarkable volume features stories by Arthur C. Clar...