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Ebria

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[IPH]
International Publishing House
104 Wakerley Road
Harton, Lower Natalia Republic
Federation of the Natal

Proudly Printing in the Following Languages: Engelsh, Pelasgian, German, Aurarian, Kadikistani, Frankish, Gaelic, Xinhaiese, Azraqi, Rozvian, Yiddish, Hebrew, Wala, Urudoah, Retalian, Virunian
Regional Headquarters:
Windhaven, Gunnland (Northern Germania and Vaalbara),
Trier, Eiffelland (Southern Germania),
Solis, Auraria (Gallia)
Yi'an, Xinhai (Toyou),
Nidaros, Jyskerige-Ostveg (Scania)
Elephant and Castle, SoCRER (Echidna)
Harton, Natalia (Himyar)

OOC: I decided to also bring back the IPH. So, anyone is invited to bring forwards two books, one of fiction and one of non-fiction, together with two or three lines describing it and then I will randomize them to bring on the monthly best sellers read in Europe.
 
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Ebria

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Non-Fiction
Between Kilts and Pants: A Recent History of the White Man in Echidna and Himyar by Joan Ntombi. In her recent book, the Mbunda academic, Joan Ntombi is analising the ways the Gunnish presence in Port Stanley and Loago has influenced the local peoples in Echidna compared to the presence of the Engells in SoCRER and Natalia. The distinction she brings forward is the feudal and clan structure of the Gunns which make them more keen to keep alive the native institutions, compared to the other Thaumantic and Gallo-Germanian colonists, which wanted to create a "modern standard" based on their own national structures. She also claims that the Engels in Natalia are unique because they are more similar to the Gunns in this case, as they came to the country without the support of a company or a state itself, but as immigrants and have moulded themselves on the institutions of the local hegemon, the Rozvi Kingdom.

Fiction
The 8th of December, by Jacob Mason. Set in one single day, the novel follows the last moments in the life of a depressed war veteran, who came home and couldn't re-adapt to civilian life. Presenting his life stories in flashbacks triggered by involuntary memory, the novel is a tribute to the unknown soldiers, who instead of dying like a hero survives the war and returns to a society that doesn't accept him and sees him as irreparably damaged.
 

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Gunnish Icarus: The Life and Mysterious Death of Duncan MacLeish [Politics, Nonfiction] David B. Smith ( ). From the author of the bestselling Lords of the Isles (2017) about Clan MacLeish, David Smith's follow-up effort traces the career of billionaire shipping magnate Duncan MacLeish, his accession to the chiefdom of his clan, the criminal activities of his brothers and close associates, and his mysterious death in Trivodnia. Smith marshals evidence that Trivodnian Homeland Union leader Moisei Carlebach is involved in the murder. After the MacLeish was no longer politically useful to the Zionist leadership, Smith argues, they removed their protection and allowed his Yiddish and Kranislavian criminal rivals to ambush him in Amstov. Riveting. ****

In Farthest Himyar [Fiction] Elizabeth Engelsh Taylor (Port Stanley). In her debut novel, E. E. Taylor tells the story of a powerful Gunnish statesman searching for his missing uncle in the Himyari country of Port Stanley. But nothing about politics and love is quite what he expects. A fast-paced, sexy thriller. ****
 

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Non-Fiction:
THE LAST GREAT EXPEDITION: JOURNEY TO THE NORTH POLE AND THE MEN WHO CAME BACK HEROES AND VILLIANS
Written by Olof Arnesen, he documents the famous Austwegian expedition to the North Pole, the build up to the expedition and the tragic failures that cost the lives of 13 men. While the return of the men from the pole was a success, upon their return scandalous stories emerged as to how the 13 died. Heroes and villians of the expedition would emerge, and they’d meet two decades later two men, the hero Admiral and then Prime Minister Sørloth in Parliament as adversary to the villian, Magnus Gunnar Thoresen. The two would battle for the rights of the copper miners who tragically died and the government who led it happen. The Last Great Expedition has us question who we consider our heroes, and frames that in the bleak environment of the midnight sun.

Fiction
THE BRIDGE
Written by Mats Johansen, the Bridge follows Police Detective Johanna Rasmussen who tracks a case in which the largest bridge in Gøthehavn is the scene of three homicides. Seemingly unrelated, the victims, women of older age have something in common: their participation in a University of Gøthehavn feminist group 25 year ago. The Bridge, examines the complexities of gender relations in the modern world, but also during a civil rights movement in Jyskerige. One serial killer isn’t the only criminal, and a larger movement is involved that is closer to Johanna than she ever knew.
 

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Non-Fiction
We Have Forgotten God by Archbishop Kreisler. A re-publication of a series of essays by renowned Bergenheimer theologian Albrecht Kreisler, current Archbishop of Midweis, which deals with searing honesty and laser-like focus on the key issues facing both the Tiburan Catholic/Christian faiths and religion in general in the modern world. With stark and riveting prose, Kreisler addresses the issues of abortion, theodicy, materialism, the afterlife and the dangers of apologia.

Never one to mince words, Kreisler's positions are nothing if not well-reasoned, and while in some respects controversial- he does not shy away from criticising current Tiburan Catholic policy or dogma where it conflicts with his reasoned world-view- his efforts to engage with, understand, and defend not only what faith provides but the value of faith even when it seemingly has no answers, has won many fresh converts to his cause, if not always his church.

Fiction
Beyond Empyrean by Zosa Weiss. This is a rare example of Bergenheimer science fiction which transcends the usual pulp and space opera formats, to tell a story of a family that becomes separated in space when their respective craft begin to accelerate faster than the speed of light in opposite directions. Although initially able to communicate, they are soon separated by more than vast space but also time, as their lives inexorably are torn apart by the cruel realities of relativity.

The tragic finale, which sees the father of the family reunited with distant descendants one million years after the point of separation, serves as a melancholy meditation on the nature of legacy, and makes us question what it means to be human.
 

Northern Cooperative Unions

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Nuclear Energy and Disasters by Doctor Wagmir of the National Scientific Institute. A re-released and re-published version of the "samizdat" book released in the late 60s by Doctor Yaroslaw Wagmir on the potential dangerous uses of nuclear physics, particularly around potential disasters that could arise out of using nuclear fuel for reactor system - in particular, detailing a disaster of a theoretical nuclear plant located in Rigustad due to cooling errors, causing a slow-burn of nuclear fuel through concrete to coolant chambers, which in turn would cause a massive thermal explosion that may spread nuclear and radioactive material throughout the continent, making the entirety of the continent unlivable.

The book is hailed as one of the most scathing reports on the field of theoretical nuclear physics, and a horrifying "what-if" of using nuclear technology in general. Most academics across the world concur with Doctor Wagmir's theories, and the book has had a great historical impact in many places in the prevention of delving too deeply into nuclear science. Due to the liberalization of the Northern Government, the book was officially sanctioned to be printed en masse.

The Far-Right - Geotri, Monarchies of Germania, and the Destruction of the Working Class, written by sociologist Bogomir Piatek, this nonfictional book delves into the history of far-right politics throughout the world, starting with the rise of the Geotrian Dictator Adolf Schmied. It compares the policies of absolutist monarchies with those of military juntas and far-right parties advocating racial supremacy. The book has been subject to great controversy in many conservative circles on the basis of its criticism of the modern "ancien regime" across the continent and the fact that the book has come from a communist country, but many circles consider it decently unbiased due to the liberalization of the Northern Realms throughout the years.
 
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