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  A Place Like Home - Short Stories

  Rosamunde Pilcher

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  "A strong cast of five narrators rewinds time and transports listeners to sparkling seascapes and the English countryside." - AudioFile MagazineCelebrate life's journeys with the beloved author whose stories of life and love touched the world.A Place Like Home is a spellbinding collection of short stories by internationally bestselling author Rosamunde Pilcher, never before published in book form. The collection contains fifteen stories, which range from "Our Holiday", in which a wife surprises her husband of twenty-five years with a holiday full of Mediterranean sunshine, red rocks and blue seas in an effort to rekindle the romance they had before children; "Through the Eyes of Love", which takes the reader to a village by the sea where old flames meet again; and "A Place Like Home", where a lonely young woman goes to recuperate in the Scottish countryside after a brief illness. The fruit orchards and fresh sea air offer much needed respite—but not as much as the handsome, mysterious farmer she meets.Each unforgettable story is the perfect slice of romance written with warmth and passion featuring wonderfully memorable, smart, and feisty female characters that will transport the reader to another time and place.  A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press

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  Insomnia

  Aamer Hussein

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  On the shores of Lake Como a man and a woman talk about longing and belongingl; a translator finds himself drawn into the personal and political turmoil of the poet he translates; a woman's quiet world is eroded by World War II and the division of her country. Charting the geographies of leave-taking and homecoming, the consolations and rivalries of friendship, adolescent yearnings and maturity's tentative acceptance of longing, these exquisite stories engage with the grand narratives of our time. 'Both disconcerting and alluring...the further the reader travels into Hussein's landscape of erosion, the more potent his capacity to find beauty becomes.' Times Literary Supplement 'Profound but low key; spiritual, but pragmatic; full of longing, but also acceptance.' Independent on Sunday 'Emotionally as well as intellectually charged.' New Statesman 'Hauntingly convincing.' The Daily Telegraph 'Lovely short stories...sharp, bitter, subtle comedy.' The Times 'Fresh, personal and profoundly moving.' Kamila Shamsie, Literary Review 'Superbly written short fiction...the writing is both delicate and powerful: these are very fine stories indeed.' Independent 'A gem-like collection...Aamer Hussein is a consummate stylist...His prose is restrained, precise and yet deeply moving. He is a sensuous writer in whose stories nature acts as a balm on even the most weary of sensibilities.' Moni Mohsin, Literary Review 'Profound, beautiful' Ruth Padel 'Wonderfully evocative and readable' Kate Pullinger

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  Voices from the Moon - A Novel

  Andre Dubus

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  From the acclaimed author of ‘A Father’s Story’: A boy looks to the Catholic Church for understanding as his family weathers two failed marriages.Voices from the Moon opens amidst the fallout of Stowe family patriarch Greg’s divorce from his wife, Joan; and shortly after, that of their eldest son, Larry, from his wife, Brenda. On the verge of adolescence, young Richie Stowe grapples to make sense of these events and their consequences, and seeks solace in the church. As the family attempts to mend itself and move forward, its members are forced to reconcile their feelings of betrayal with their enduring love for one another.   Masterfully related from the alternating perspectives of its six main characters, Dubus’s richly drawn novella recounts a family’s failure to abide by those laws divined and decreed, and its path to redemption via understanding and forgiveness.  This ebook features an illustrated biography of Andre Dubus including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate.  

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  Crime and Punishment

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

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  Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in the St. Petersburg of the tsars, is determined to overreach his humanity and assert his untrammeled individual will. When he commits an act of murder and theft, he sets into motion a story that, for its excruciating suspense, its atmospheric vividness, and its depth of characterization and vision is almost unequaled in the literatures of the world. The best known of Dostoevsky's masterpieces, Crime and Punishment can bear any amount of rereading without losing a drop of its power over our imaginations. 
  Dostoevsky's drama of sin, guilt, and redemption transforms the sordid story of an old woman's murder into the nineteenth century's profoundest and most compelling philosophical novel. 
  Award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky render this elusive and wildly innovative novel with an energy, suppleness, and range of voice that do full justice to the genius of its creator

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  Nobel Prize The: Ten Winners - A...

  WB Yeats

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  Being acknowledged for what you do is always very welcome.   When it comes to Oscar’s, Emmy’s, Pulitzer’s and Nobel’s it’s also international news and for many, the pinnacle of their career. 
   
  The Nobel Prize is much lauded and very difficult to secure.  In this volume we list ten of its winners over the decades who were famed for their literature.  The prize is given with an emphasis on its contribution to literature and its influence in the world and for the individual, more usually, for the body of work created. 
   
  So, whilst none of the stories in this volume were winners in their own right, their authors most certainly were.  They perfectly illustrate both the nature and mastery of the writing and the power and the purpose set within its storied prose. 
   
  1 - The Nobel Prize - Ten Winners - An Introduction 
  2 - The Father by Bjornstjerne Bjornson 
  3 - The Phantom Rickshaw by Rudyard Kipling 
  4 - The Victory by Rabindranath Tagore 
  5 - An Arch Rascal by Knut Hamsun 
  6 - The Daughter of Lilith by Anatole France 
  7 - Dhoya by W B Yeats 
  8 - Speed by Sinclair Lewis 
  9 - The Salvation of a Forsythe - Part 1 by John Galsworthy 
  10 - The Salvation of a Forsythe - Part 2 by John Galsworthy 
  11 - Son by Ivan Bunin 
  12 - Sicilian Limes by Luigi Pirandello

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  The Femme Fatales of Horror

  Mary Shelley, Elizabeth Shelley,...

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  The Femme Fatales Of Horror.  Women, so often referred to as the gentler sex, in this volume at least, is an unfounded and unlikely description.  From their minds and pens comes a series of macabre, twisted, tales that are anything but gentle.  But as they weave their magic, usually black, and mesh you into their narrative you just know “sugar and spice and all things nice” are not likely to be what little girls really are made of and certainly not these Femme Fatales……

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