[IPH] International Publishing House (November bestsellers; Collecting for December)

[Ebria]

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Yi'an, Xinhai (Toyou),
Nidaros, Jyskerige-Ostveg (Scania)
Welmonton, Beautancus (Occidentia)
Harton, Natalia (Himyar)

International Best Sellers
NOVEMBER 2018
Non Fiction Category​

1. [JYS] The Last Expedition: Journey to the North Pole and the Men who came back Heroes and Villains by Olof Arnesen
2. [GUN] Gunnish Icarus: The Life and Mysterious Death of Duncan MacLeish by David B. Smith
3. [NAT] Between Kilts and Pants: A Recent History of the White Man in Himyar by Joan Ntombi
4. [BER]We Have Forgotten God by Archbishop Kreisler
5. [NCR] Nuclear Energy and Disasters by Doctor Wagmir

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International Best Sellers
NOVEMBER 2018
Fiction Category​

1. [GUN] In Farthest Himyar by Elizabeth Engelsh Taylor
2. [NAT] The 8th of December by Jacob Mason
3. [JYS] The Bridge, by Mats Johansen
4. [BER] Beyond Empyrean by Zosa Weiss

OOC: You can now submit your national works for the December list of best sellers.
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[Serenierre]

[SRN] [NON-FIC] Glass Ceiling: The Rise of Madame Martinique BY JEAN JACQUES LULLY
The seminal biography of the iconic first female leader of the Gallian communist nation. Mr. Lully traces the journey of Elisabeth Martinique from her early days as a student at a convent school all the way through to the present as she achieved ultimate ascendancy. New edition contains important updates which focus on the Gallian War.

[SRN] [FICTION] Forgive Me BY FRANCOISE GUISE
Set in Ardeche, the novel follows the life of a priest who is plagued with guilt at the suicide of one of his confessants. The novel has been considered a masterpiece and has already been shortlisted for the Sérazin Prize for Literature. The author is one of the nominees for the University of Villesen's annual literary laureate award.

[SRN] [FICTION] My dirty commissar BY E.E. OUEIST
This sordid and erotic novel has taken the popular market by storm, rising to the top of the bestselling list in all 5 provinces of the country. The novel follows the comedic and ever debauched exploits of an intern at the Commissariat for People's Deputies - the Serenien equivalent of a legislature. The Popular Enquirer called it: "This is the novel you hide under your porn. Everyone loves it but no one will admit it."

 

[Mazidia]

[AUR] [NON-FIC] Five Years with the Cannibals, by Father VINCENT MONTANO

The intense and unfiltered memoirs of a mission to Mazidia's most remote and savage tribes, Father Vincent Montano describes with unflinching honesty his initial trepidation, his fear and horror after being kidnapped and held as a holy man against his will by the people of the Kukuruch'o, a remote plateau-dwelling tribe that practices ritualised cannibalism, and has been blamed for killing many white loggers over the years. As weeks turned to months and eventually years, he came to understand and empathise with his captors, and soon turned them into charges and eventually, fellow Catholics.

The extraordinary story has attracted much criticism for its "white saviour" narrative, blatant racism, and unconfirmable assertions, as the Kukuruch'o are considered too remote to visit even now. While others have praised the good father's work, and see it as a welcome revival of previous, failed efforts to "civilise the last corners of the earth".

[AUR] [FIC] Behind the Jade Mirror, by HIDALGO PHILLIPPE AMORARTE

A dark supernatural thriller with intense pyschological elements, Behind the Jade Mirror is the latest novel from Mazidia's seminal horror novelist. Part of Amorarte's Verdigris Mythos series, Behind the Jade Mirror is a tale of madness, transformation and horror, as a rich plantation family of the late 19th century finds an ancient yet perfectly intact Intirru Jade Mirror buried on its property. Becoming captivated by the way it seems to make everything it reflects more beautiful, the vain lady of the house soon becomes addicted, spending hours in front of the mirror, its beauty only growing as hers diminishes.

But it is what lies behind the Mirror that threatens not only her mind and soul, but the minds and souls of her entire family....

Winner of the Allende Prize for best horror novel, the Verdigris Mythos is surely set to only grow in popularity, as its themes of inescapable horror and fathomless, ancient primeval evils speak to an increasingly international audience.

 

[Bezonvaux]

[VAQ] [ FIC] Los Buscadores (The Searchers)

Eduardo Hernandez returns to his family estate in Tierra del Sol after serving eight years in the Royal Army fighting the Burgundians. Hernandez joins the the local Guardia Regional and when cattle in a neighbouring Hacienda are stolen he rides out to find to find the culprits only to find out it was ruse by a band of Llanero raiders to draw the men from their homes. With his family dead or captured Hernandez sets out to find them.

Considered to be a seminal piece of literature in the Free State, it has only found critical acclaim abroad and there are rumours of a motion film in the works, although some have criticized it for its largely inaccurate depiction of the Free States native cultures.

 

[Pelasgia]

[PLG] [FICTION] Mary the Courtesan (Maria i Etaira) BY THEODORA PAPATRIANTAPHYLLOU
A historical fiction novel that follows the story of Maria Samaraki, a peasant girl from the Pelasgian island of Chandax in the mid 20th century. Maria is forced to leave her home and flee to the neighbouring isle of Eresos when her family is killed as part of a vendetta. She is then forced to live as a courtesan to make ends meet, using her wits and beauty to make a living among the elites of Perama, the isle's capital. She slowly comes to earn a reputation among the local elites and gains access to information about their lives. However, her life is complicated once more when an affair with the eldest son of the Gatousianoi, one of the local clans of notables, results in an unwanted pregnancy. Maria tries to flee across the sea to Iolcus, while the 1949 Military Revolt further complicates matters on the island.

A national best-seller in Pelasgia, where it has recently been adapted into an award-winning TV series.

[PLG] [FICTION] Not peace, but a sword (Ouk eirinin alla machairan) BY LAMBROS STAMATAKIS
Its title being a reference to Matthew 10:34-36, this historical novel is centered in an affluent rural village in Lycaonia, Kasavas, during the Medieval Iconomachy, a conflict about holy icons in the Empire. A group of villagers from a rebel village destroyed by soldiers of the Iconophile Emperor arrive in Kasavas seeking refuge and help from their fellow Christians, despite Kasavas being an Iconophile settlement. The local priest and notable do not wish to share their privileges, and call on the 'good family men' of the village to eject the refugees. A fight ensues, leading to a narrow victory for the Kasaviots when the refugees learn that Imperial soldiers are approaching the town and retreat. However, unbeknownst to both factions, the Emperor has been dethroned and replaced by an Iconoclast.

This is the last book written by the prominent Pelasgian dissident author, having been published by his widow after his death, in self-impsoed exile in Bourgogne. The book examines socialist themes of class struggle from a Christian perspective, bringing a variant of liberation theology into the Orthodox sphere, while also proposing that conflict within the common classes that prevents them from perceiving the threat of the ruling class. Widely seen as a critique of the Pelasgian political system, the book has faced a series of bans and restrictions, and was published by Pelasgian expatriates abroad.

[PLG] [NON-FIC] The Bayonet Republic (I Politeia tis Xipholonchis) BY ANAXANDROS IGNATIOU
The latest scholarly book by the prominent Pelasgian political scientist, commentator and analyst, A. Ignatiou, the book deals with the origins, course and aftermath of the National Schism. Largely examing Pelasgian politics from the perspective of an objective outsider, the book paints the Empire as a regime whose lawmakers and rulers are theoretically elected but practically draw their power from the might of the bayonet. According to Ignatiou's analysis, the National Schism was the result of the Imperial bayonet preventing the democratically-elected Nationalists from pursuing their policy peacefully, in accordance with a long history of coups and military involvement in politics in Pelasgia. To the author, the Nationalist victory in the National Schism was owed more to a successful infiltration of military academies and command since the 1980s than to popular support. In this vein, the Nationalists' victory has not and will not bring about a new democratic Pelasgia, but will simply create a new system of de jure parliamentarianism, supported and maintained by the military bayonet. The recent suppression of the hard left and the Melingian revolt, as well as the surrounding purges and vassalisation of the opposition, are indicative of this trend's repetition.

The book has been repeatedly listed as one of the most important non-fiction works in Pelasgia by publishers, media and academia alike, and is currently topping the best-sellers list for scholarly works in Pelasgia.

 

[Tyvia]

[SEN] [NON-FICTION] Forging the Sunset: How the Far West Became Great, by Charles Laurie

A comprehensive examination of the development of the nations of Seneca, Sylvania, Beautancus, and Cantignia - and the complex factors that lead to their unique developments. In his work, Laurie is critical of the Human Commodities system and emphasizes at great length that the individualistic nature of the Engellexic colonies is what allowed for their precipitous growth. It is doubly controversial in that Laurie suggests that the comprehensive annihilation of the Occident’s native peoples was a necessary evil, and suggests that their continued presence in the non-Engelsc speaking countries of the Occident is wholly the reason for their comparative poverty and instability.


[SEN] [FICTION] Court of Lies, by Thomas Rhodes

The final book in the Evan Gaunt Trilogy, it directly follows the events of The Sundered Throne and Forgotten Empire. Evan Gaunt, a detective for the fictional New York City Police Department - modeled after Wrenhaven’s own - finally unravels the mystery behind a rash of unique killings in the city. The trail leads him up the chain to the very top: with the Mayor and Police Commissioner allegedly involved. It is an entertaining, though dark, police procedural piece that ties off the trilogy in a satisfying manner.

 

[Jydsken-Østveg]

[JYS] [NON-FICTION] Into Himyar: My life with the people, my love of the land; by Annika Sørensen
A journey into Himyari culture, as Annika writes about her mother, and how she grew up in Himyar on a coffee plantation. There she goes into the struggles of her mother, the death of her father, and the closure and sale of the plantation to Engellexic real estate developers. Annika goes into depth with her father’s infidelity, the impact it had on her mother, and how the tribes who worked on the plantation become her mother’s best friends. While eventually she and her mother moved back to Gøthehavn, a place that was shocking and difficult for her, the impact it had on her mother was all the more profound, as she returns to Himyar to find her old friends and eventually dies there. It attempts to show how those in Himyar are not necessarily the savages many in the North believe them to be, and how life long friendships often find themselves to be more important to us than we could ever imagine.

[JYS] [FICTION] A Waltz Amongst the Stars; by Henrik Østerstrøm
A young boy and girl set out from the desert moon of Tibur Colony V, to find their parents who were taken by the Tiburian Space Empire due to their abilities in engineering. Coming home for dinner late, they lay witness to the carnage from afar and vow to find their parents and bring them home. They find themselves on a journey where they learn about the true identity of their parents, their past, and what it is their destiny to truly become! A Waltz Amongst the Stars sets itself up as the first book of a series in which the children seem primed to grow older and fight for justice in the Galaxy!

 

[Natal]

[CAL][Non-fiction] We are all biracial by Tàmhas MacGobhainn
The anthropologist and archaeologist Tàmhas MacGobhainn published in November an anthology of his research about the movement of the peoples of Scania and Gallo-Germania at the end of the Bronze Age. He concentrates his work on the idea that national and popular purity is a false idea that stems from a romanticised history, extremely far away from the truth. In his research he traces the movements of the proto-Scano-Gallo-Germanians as they move in from the Frontier Lands and occupy the western continent and assimilate with the natives living on the land. His work has been described as an academical protest against nationalist politics and the labelling exaggeration of identity politics.

[CAL][Fiction] The Prince's New Internet Connection by Peadar Catan
Seen as a political satire, the book by Peadar Catan mocks the prince of an unnamed faraway kingdom who decides to start a crusade to defend his homeland on twatter. Mocking the general absurdities of twatter politics and the great ego of internet warriors, the book tells the story of the unnamed prince who becomes so much immersed that he forgets that he has a life outside twatter. The book ends with a general mental breakdown of the prince, who in the end doesn't know which like is the real one.

 

[Beautancus]

[BEA] [NON-FICTION] Racial Phylogeny of the Doégené Peoples; History of the Paramount Indigene Race of the Occident, by Ssiquoya Guess
Hailed by many as the seminal work of its kind, this reprinted edition of one of Beautancus' most prolific historians - either Cussian or Indigene - has been updated to include and reflect the most current and to date, accurate, survey of the Mid-Occidents most dominant Indigenous Cultural Group, the Doégené. Including such famous and well studied tribes and confederations as the Uctené & Meherrin, this ethno-linguistic superculture has had nearly as profound an impact on the development of the modern Confederated Republic as had the Sons of Engellex. Their common story begins in north-central Sylvania some thousands of years before the present, as but one of many such groups, almost impossibly tiny and insignificant in comparison to their offspring, and continuing along their great southeastern trek, to diversification and confrontation with the "Pyramid Builders" of prehistoric Clarendon and Chicora - mere decades prior to the arrival of Engellexic sails on the eastern horizon.

[BEA] [FICTION] She Dreams in Fiction, by Jay Gordon
Set against a backdrop of the ethnic and sectarian strife, "the Fictionals' Disturbances," in 1901 Beautancus, this is the story of the fated and troubled romance of two tragic young lovers, a Nativist boy & Fictional (Catholic) girl. Already trapped by the expectations placed upon them for their stations in society, George (Garner) and Martha (Reimarus) are still able to nurture their love and pursue courtship as their exuberantly naive and lusty hearts tell them - until the fateful Harvest of 1901, when long simmering tensions escalate into wanton carnage across the Southeast, igniting deeply repressed savagery in the hearts of nearly all those around them, in their small and otherwise unassuming Cape Commonwealth "Cotton Country" town. George and Martha must then make the most important choices of their lives - to follow what their hearts tell them, their love for each other, or to let themselves and all they have known be swept away in the fires of social upheaval and racial destiny.