P. C. Weber | Hanging by a Thread | The Gift | Betrayal

SUMMARY: The Gift is the opening novel in P. C. Weber’s Hanging by a Thread series. This four-book saga tells the story of Thomas Morgan, a brilliant but deeply tormented young scientist who sets out to discover a new cure for tuberculosis and ends up on an unforgettable journey in life. It is the hope of LGC Publishing that this sweeping tale of love, loss, sacrifice, and redemption will not only prove immensely entertaining to readers who live within the developed world, but will also serve to draw attention to the global epidemic of TB that rages on outside of their borders. To this end, all proceeds from the sale of The Gift are being donated to the Stop TB Partnership via the United Nations Foundation. Patrons who purchase the e-book edition of this title will also be treated to a bonus sneak preview of Betrayal, the second book in the Hanging by a Thread series.

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BACK COVER OF PRINT EDITION:

“Sometimes the truth can be a very strange thing …”

A lost recording of a mysterious interview which surfaces in a faraway land … random recollections of events from the distant past that are recounted with nearly unfathomable precision. Through these two distinct yet intimately interwoven narratives, The Gift introduces the reader to the extraordinary world of Thomas Morgan.

P. C. Weber’s first book in the Hanging by a Thread series opens with Thomas contentedly squandering away his once-promising young life. However, a chance encounter with an enigmatic stranger forces him to confront the remarkable gift he has been born with, an ability that not only confers great powers upon Thomas but has the potential to destroy him as well.

Hanging by a Thread: The Gift begins an epic tale of one man’s search for redemption and meaning in life. Journey with Thomas Morgan as he sets out to find a cure for one of humanity’s greatest scourges, driven by a legacy that is still to be written, yet all the while haunted by the searing memory of a love that refuses to die.

PUBLICATION DATE: December 14, 2011 (e-book), March 24, 2010 (print edition)

ISBN: 978-0-9826517-8-0 (e-book), 978-0-9826517-7-3 (print edition)

PAGES: 366

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SUMMARY: The Dust on a Butterfly’s Wings represents a comprehensive attempt to gather the very best of the forgotten early works of F. Scott Fitzgerald into a single volume. These short stories have for decades enjoyed a certain status as “lost” pieces, due to the author’s own failure to reprint them in either of his first two compilations, Flappers and Philosophers (1920) and Tales of the Jazz Age (1922), and the tendency of editors in later collections to favor more celebrated titles from the rich Fitzgerald canon. In addition to making these works available in a digital format for the very first time, this volume affords a unique glimpse into the extraordinary early career of this elegant voice of the Lost Generation, beginning with a series of brilliant short stories published just as his masterpiece The Great Gatsby was taking shape and reaching back to a set of exceptional writings dating from his final months in college. (Text excerpted from the foreword by P. C. Weber.)

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CONTENTS: “The Popular Girl” (The Saturday Evening Post, February 1922), “Two for a Cent” (Metropolitan Magazine, April 1922), “The Smilers” (The Smart Set, June 1920), “Myra Meets His Family” (The Saturday Evening Post, March 1920), “The Débutante” (The Smart Set, November 1919), “Babes in the Woods” (The Smart Set, September 1919), and “The Spire and the Gargoyle” (Nassau Literary Magazine, February 1917). Note that the versions of “The Débutante” and “Babes in the Woods” in The Dust on a Butterfly’s Wings are distinct from those in The Princeton Collection.

PUBLICATION DATE: May 22, 2012

ISBN: 978-0-9826517-0-4

PAGES: 175

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SUMMARY: Just three years before the publication of his first novel This Side of Paradise rendered him an overnight literary sensation, F. Scott Fitzgerald was living the spirited life of an upperclassman at Princeton University. The time he spent there resulted in a treasure trove of short stories, dramas, parodies, and verse that has been largely overlooked within his overall body of work. The Princeton Collection represents a concerted attempt to resurrect the finest of these forgotten early pieces and make them available in a digital format for the very first time. Fitzgerald’s prodigious talent is clearly obvious in this volume of collegiate writings, where he is already beginning to explore many of the themes and character personas that would distinguish his later work. Here the reader will find all of the familiar musings on the foibles of the wealthy class, the illusory nature of true beauty, and the inevitable failure of romantic idealism, not to mention an assortment of independent-minded young women who serve as prototypes to the Jazz Age flappers that Fitzgerald would later make his own. This compilation also presents a rich snapshot of campus life in the early twentieth century, a time when American involvement in the First World War loomed large, the Roaring Twenties were set to explode, and an entire generation was about to lose its innocence. Seven of these pieces were eventually revised by Fitzgerald for publication in commercial print at a later date, and The Princeton Collection also provides the final versions of these works as well as a history of how each evolved. (Text excerpted from the foreword by P. C. Weber.)

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CONTENTS: “Shadow Laurels” (1915), “The Ordeal” (1915), “To My Unused Greek Book” (1916), “Jemina: A Story of the Blue Ridge Mountains By John Phlox, Jr.” (1916), “The Usual Thing By Robert W. Shameless” (1916), “Little Minnie McCloskey: A Story for Girls” (1916), “The Old Frontiersman: A Story of the Frontier” (1916), “The Débutante” (1917), “The Spire and the Gargoyle” (1917), “Rain Before Dawn” (1917), “The Diary of a Sophomore” (1917), “Tarquin of Cheepside” (1917), “The Prince of Pests: A Story of The War” (1917), “Babes in the Woods” (1917), “Princeton—The Last Day” (1917), “Sentiment—and the Use of Rouge” (1917), “On a Play Twice Seen” (1917), “The Pierian Springs and the Last Straw” (1917), “Cedric the Stoker: The True Story of the Battle of the Baltic” (1917), “The Staying Up All Night” (1917), “City Dusk” (1918), “My First Love” (1919), “The Pope at Confession” (1919), “Marching Streets” (1919), “Sleep of a University” (1920), “The Ordeal” (1920 revision), “Babes in the Woods” (1920 revision), “The Débutante” (1920 revision), “The Spire and the Gargoyle” (1920 revision), “Princeton—The Last Day” (1920 revision), “Jemina: A Story of the Blue Ridge Mountains By John Phlox, Jr.” (1921 revision), and “Tarquin of Cheepside” (1921 revision).

PUBLICATION DATE: November 29, 2012

ISBN: 978-0-9826517-9-7

PAGES: 230

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