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Countdown! Amazon’s Top 50
Here is your daily Amazon’s ‘Top 50’ best-selling books for 26 April 2026, brought to you by Michael Spring-Springer, author of the thriller books The Flower Bed and Two Minutes. Click the link below to take you directly to Amazon’s best-sellers page.
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‘Empress of the World’
The worm would have truly turned if that were to be so, yet I am afraid the patriarchal existence in which we endure, or regrettably, also tolerate, still prevails as I write my newsletter this 26th day of April 2026. No, the title refers to the first and 25th movements of Carl Orff’s cantata Carmina…
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Countdown!Amazon’s Top 50
Here is your daily Amazon’s ‘Top 50’ best-selling books for 25 April 2026, brought to you by Michael Spring-Springer, author of the thriller books The Flower Bed and Two Minutes. Click the link below to take you directly to Amazon’s best-sellers page.
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Moral Corruption!
Vanity is thy corruption Thou’s image freezes all time Lost in your own seduction Self-adoration is thy crime. The Picture of Dorian Gray is about a young man who remains eternally youthful while a portrait of him ages and reflects his moral corruption. It took me 54 years to have the good fortune to read Oscar Wilde’s novel, and when I say ‘good fortune’, I mean it. Oscar Wilde is undoubtedly one of literary history’s most elegant writers. Beyond…
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Countdown! Amazon’s Top 50
Here is your daily Amazon’s ‘Top 50’ best-selling books for 24 April 2026, brought to you by Michael Spring-Springer, author of the thriller books The Flower Bed and Two Minutes. Click the link below to take you directly to Amazon’s best-sellers page.
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Tell Me About the Rabbits
Regrettably, such a remarkable novella is often remembered by the quotation of a line from its narrative, when the novel as a whole is such a vital piece of literature. I first read John Steinbeck’s novella, Of Mice and Men, when I was in my first year of secondary school at an all-boys’ private school…
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Countdown! Amazon’s Top 50
Here is your daily Amazon’s ‘Top 50’ best-selling books for 23 April 2026, brought to you by Michael Spring-Springer, author of the thriller books The Flower Bed and Two Minutes. Click the link below to take you directly to Amazon’s best-sellers page.
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XANADU!
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round; And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills, Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree; And here…
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Countdown! Amazon’s Top 50
Here is your daily Amazon’s ‘Top 50’ best-selling books for 22 April 2026, brought to you by Michael Spring-Springer, author of the thriller books The Flower Bed and Two Minutes. Click the link below to take you directly to Amazon’s best-sellers page.
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My Next Novel
I have reached another milestone in my life as an author – I am at the midpoint of writing the first draft for my next novel, which will be a completely different bend of genres, themes and tropes from my previous two novels, The Flower Bed and Two Minutes. I do not write series in…