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  I Came Home From Saving the...

  Susan Kaye Quinn

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  SHORT STORY: A very short story about the cost of cutting down a tree.I Came Home From Saving the Rainforest is one of six short solarpunk stories in the Halfway to Better collection.If you enjoyed the optimistic climate solutions in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Ministry for the Future or the cozy cooperative future in Becky Chambers’ Monk and Robot series, you will enjoy Halfway to Better.

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  Mtdox - By Mtdox

  Mtdox

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  In the heart of Mtdox where dreams intertwine with destiny, love finds its way through the corridors of youthful ambition and secret yearnings. Mtdox  follows the journey of Emma, a spirited and determined student with a passion for art, and Lucas, the enigmatic school heartthrob with a hidden talent for music. As their paths cross in unexpected ways, they discover that their seemingly different worlds are more connected than they ever imagined.

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  Amy Levy - Six of the Best -...

  Amy Levy

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  Six has always been a number we group things around – Six of the best, six of one half a dozen of another, six feet under, six pack, six degrees of separation and a sixth sense are but a few of the ways we use this number. 
   
  Such is its popularity that we thought it is also a very good way of challenging and investigating an author’s work to give width, brevity, humour and depth across six of their very best. 
   
  In this series we gather together authors whose short stories both rivet the attention and inspire the imagination to visit their gems in a series of six, to roam across an author’s legacy in a few short hours and gain a greater understanding of their writing and, of course, to be lavishly entertained by their ideas, their narrative and their way with words. 
   
  These stories can be surprising and sometimes at a tangent to what we expected, but each is fully formed and a marvellous adventure into the world and words of a literary master.

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  Je ne Parle pas Français - A...

  Katherine Mansfield

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  What if the brightest charm hid the darkest truths beneath it? In “Je ne Parle pas Français” by Katherine Mansfield, you step into the mind of Raoul Duquette, a cynical Parisian narrator whose sharp observations, moral contradictions, and unsettling humor reveal far more about himself than about the people he judges. When he encounters a young Englishman searching for inspiration and romance in Paris, Raoul’s story takes a darker, more introspective turn - blurring the line between fascination, manipulation, and self-deception. Mansfield’s writing delivers an intimate psychological portrait that is as subtle as it is incisive, exploring the shadows beneath elegance, charm, and human desire. With her signature precision, she captures the complexity of relationships, the sting of loneliness, and the illusions we cling to in order to survive. Press play and experience one of Katherine Mansfield’s most haunting and unforgettable narratives - where every word reveals a hidden truth.

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  Waiting for the Long Night Moon...

  Amanda Peters

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  From the bestselling author of The Berry Pickers 
    
  In her debut collection of short fiction, Amanda Peters describes the Indigenous experience from an astonishingly wide spectrum in time and place—from contact with the first European settlers, to the forced removal of Indigenous children, to the present-day fight for the right to clean water 
    
  In this intimate collection, Amanda Peters melds traditional storytelling with beautiful, spare prose to describe the dignity of the traditional way of life, the humiliations of systemic racism and the resilient power to endure. A young man returns from residential school only to realize he can no longer communicate with his own parents. A grieving mother finds purpose and healing on the front lines as a water protector. And a nervous child dances in her first Mawi’omi. The collection also includes the Indigenous Voices Award–winning and title story “Waiting for the Long Night Moon.” 
    
  At times sad, sometimes disturbing but always redemptive, the stories in Waiting for the Long Night Moon will remind you that where there is grief there is also joy, where there is trauma there is resilience and, most importantly, there is power. 
    
  "Readers who engage will be well rewarded with a meaningful collection centering Indigenous people. Written in a woven style, integrating past and present, the stories often end at deft, surprising, and important moments … Stunning … Peters' award-winning debut created an audience ready for anything she writes, and they won't be disappointed by her memorable stories."—Booklist (starred review)

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  The Continental Divide - Stories

  Bob Johnson

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  A country woman makes a Sophie's Choice regarding her family's survival. A small town marshal hunts his own son for murder. A former football hero must face his role in a brutal locker room ritual. Ferocious and real, the fourteen tales in Bob Johnson's blistering debut The Continental Divide explore the undertow of violence and sin along the St. Lawrence Divide in northern Indiana, where men, women, and children struggle to find their way in the darkness . . . of the divide.

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