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  What I’d Rather Not Think About

  Jente Posthuma

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  What if one half of a pair of twins no longer wants to live? What if the other can’t live without them? 
   
  This question lies at the heart of Jente Posthuma’s deceptively simple What I’d Rather Not Think About. The narrator is a twin whose brother has recently taken his own life. She looks back on their childhood, and tells of their adult lives: how her brother tried to find happiness, but lost himself in various men and the Bhagwan movement, though never completely. 
   
  In brief, precise vignettes, full of gentle melancholy and surprising humour, Posthuma tells the story of a depressive brother, viewed from the perspective of the sister who both loves and resents her twin, struggles to understand him, and misses him terribly.

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  Forgetting the Lost

  J. Martain

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  Most children are afraid of the dark. She knows better.Six-year-old Madeline Galloway knows she's unlikeable. Unlovable. Uncanny. But when she encounters a strange man she believes to be a fallen angel, will her abilities save her life—or ruin it?Set in coastal North Carolina in the 1940s, this atmospheric novella is part Southern gothic, part supernatural suspense. Narrated by April Doty, this work stands alone or as a prequel to the speculative women's fiction novel "Daughters of Men."

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  Summertime Lilies: A...

  LM Karen

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  Matt Knight is in love with the single mother next door, but Brittany Masters has been hurt before. Can he convince her to take a chance on love? 
  Brittany Masters isn’t looking for love. Balancing the responsibilities of being a full time nurse manager and an only parent has the young mother desperate for a quiet summer. But when a handsome bachelor moves in next door and sets his sights on her, her plans go right out the window. 
  For Matt Knight, it was love at first sight. After meeting the beautiful woman next door and her energetic son, he knows immediately he made the right move. Despite his certainty, Matt will have his work cut out for him to convince Brittany he’s worth her very limited time. 
  Seeking solace on her front porch swing after a bad day, Brittany finds Matt might be just what she needs, if she can move past her reservations and open her heart to love.  
  Summertime Lilies is the heartwarming first book in the clean and wholesome Oak Street Series. If you like relatable characters, witty banter, and sweet romance, you’ll adore LM Karen’s sentimental story. 
  Buy Summertime Lilies to feel all the feels today!

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  The Squaw - A gruesome tale...

  Bram Stoker

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  Abraham Stoker was born in Dublin, Ireland on the 8th of November 1847, the third of seven children.  
   
  His early years were plagued with such ill-health that he was unable to start school until the age of seven.  He turned the long periods of recovery into an opportunity for thinking and said “I was naturally thoughtful, and the leisure of long illness gave opportunity for many thoughts which were fruitful according to their kind in later years”.  
   
  Strikingly at Trinity College, Dublin his health had returned with such vigour that he was named their University Athlete whilst also achieving a BA in Mathematics with honours.  
   
  At this time his interest in theatre became a job offer to be the Dublin Evening Mail’s theatre critic, co-owned by Sheridan Le Fanu.  He now began to also write short stories and in 1872 ‘The Crystal Cup’ was published.  An interest in art developed and he co-founded the Dublin Sketching Club.  
   
  In 1878 came marriage to Florence Balcombe.  She had formerly been courted by Stoker’s acquaintance, Oscar Wilde.  The marriage produced one child.   
   
  Stoker had some years before reviewed Henry Irving’s Hamlet and had dined with him.  That friendship now resulted in a proposal from Irving to move to London and to manage his Lyceum Theatre.  His numerous commercial innovations ensured both he and the theatre thrived.  Irving would also often take Stoker with him when he toured abroad. 
   
  Despite this busy life Stoker continued to write and these works paved the way for his most famous creation, published in 1897, ‘Dracula’.  It is rightly recognised as one of the greatest horror novels of all time and although not the first with a theme of Vampires, it is undoubtedly the most well-known. 
   
  Stoker also wrote poetry and many excellent short stories and continued to write novels and other works throughout his career. 
   
  Politically Stoker supported Home Rule, though only by peaceful means.  He was also keen on following scientific trends particularly in medicine. 
   
  In 1902 his tenure at the Lyceum Theatre ended and although he continued to write his health was deteriorating, mainly due to a series of debilitating strokes. 
   
  Bram Stoker died on the 20th April 1912, in Pimlico, London.  He was 64.

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  Love Served with Injera - Modern...

  Gaby Van Horn, Sium Mogos

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  Love Served with Injera is a warm, intimate family story told through the eyes of nine-year-old Binyam, who is curious about how his parents—and their worlds—came together. 
  Through Binyam’s perspective, listeners are drawn into the story of Danielle and Daniel: their meeting, their differences, and the everyday moments where love, humor, and misunderstanding quietly shape a family. Food, memory, and culture move through the background as the story explores what it means to belong to more than one world at once. 
  This edition offers the English-only storytelling experience, designed for listeners who want to sink into the narrative without stopping to study or translate. Whether you’re familiar with Habesha culture or encountering it for the first time, Love Served with Injera is a story about family, connection, and the stories we inherit—and retell.

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  A Flight in Ice

  Vivien Dean

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  Life hasn't turned out like Connor McClure hoped. His relationship is over, he lost his friends in the break-up, and nothing makes him happy anymore. All he wants is to hide from the world, but the only place available to him is his parents' home in the rural Michigan community he abandoned thirteen years ago. Since they're in Florida for the winter, he'll have the whole house to himself.
  Except he doesn't. In their absence, the McClures asked a young neighbor to look after the property. Jerry is young, energetic, and oh yeah, gay. From everything he's learned about Connor, he might be harboring a little crush, but Connor is in no place for dating. Right now, he needs a friend, someone to help him remember that second chances are always possible ...

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