Showing results by publisher "Simply Media" in Genre Fiction

This book describes how the Republicans can maximize their surging majorities in the states and federal government.

This title describes how the fourth age, unregulated populism, took over from third age, regulated populism from FDR to Obama, and how the Democrats need to focus on not going out of business like the Federalists and Whigs.

The Billionaire story is one of the best stories of Danny.

The Civil War divided West Point graduates as the North tried to get Robert E. Lee to be their Commander in Chief, brothers, and here son and father, with lamentable results.

Considered one of the great American short stories; Kurt Vonnegut said it was the best. Set in the Civil War with a Southwestern humor twist worthy of Mark Twain, but much grimmer. The story of betrayal as a Northern Scout in the Civil War lures a planter to blow up a bridge so he can be caught and hanged. Short, concise, worthy.

A story of betrayal by a wife that launches a man into war; thought makes him a Yankee, feeling a Southerner, and he fights for his thoughts. The dignitary who signed his papers comes to the front for the ironic end.

A unique witty, sardonic, ironic, and insightful dictionary of terms. American humor, stem to stern. Best heard rather than read due to the sharp incisive wit. A must read in American Literature and Cultural History. Widely anthologized and used as a basis for stories such as one of the most popular Twilight zone episodes.

When George hears his mother is sick, he comes home immediately despite looking uncool to his rowdy friends, and soothes his mother. He shows his deep caring for her which moves her as well. Critics have spoken about George's being a drunk, an alcoholic, and the like. But that is not core to the story because George keeps his job for a long time; when he loses it, much of that is because he has been led into thinking work is not cool, to use the modern term.

An unexpected inheritance collides with a fatal diagnosis. Two longtime friends spend a week in Paris living each day as if it were their last, visiting sites, eating, drinking, and being merry, in spite of dire circumstances. Francophiles will relish the appreciation for all things French. This story is based on fact.

An American is reunited with two Swedish friends 53 years after knowing them as a boy in Ankarra, Turkey. A mixture of the real and fantasy, this story features a terrorist attack, tea with the Swedish King and Queen, and a conversion about music appreciation from Mozart to Wagner. Information, humor, and implausibility keep the listener trying to sift fact from fiction, while learning about Stockholm, too.

Thatcher unravels malpractice, fraud, and more that leads to murder among doctors in a hospital environment.

Perhaps the greatest American novel written, The Great Gatsby is set in New York, in 1922, in a rich, spoiled world with crime and bootlegging in the background.

An insightful story about a happily married woman who takes over her husband’s business upon his early death and creates a prospering business with seed capital from a childhood friend. She maintains her beliefs and avocations while doing the hard work of farming.

A remarkable history of one man, Zeno, his psychoanalysis, smoking addiction, philandering, love, hate, meanness, business life, family, and more told candidly and not-so-candidly by himself in a unique novel set in Europe in pre-World War I and during World War I.

The novel is about New York City society in its best years through the life of a beautiful girl who is an outside insider with a foot in and several feet outside the inner circle.

Kiev suffers from abandonment by the Germans and takeover by the Soviet Bolsheviks. Streamlined for narration and the American ear.

The novel focuses on love, society norms, and freedom, centered on Anna’s affair with Count Vronsky.

A wild west drama with mayhem and more is a dusty Arizona town.

A romance about a storm that separates a family.