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  Philomel Cottage

  Agatha Christie

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  The recently married Alix Martin is obsessed with a recurring dream of her new husband’s murder. Each time she can see the murderer clearly, and it’s the mild-mannered man she had previously been engaged to, taking his revenge. But, what’s worse is that at the end of the dream she thanks the murderer. Perplexed, Alix tries to calm herself by spending time in the garden of her picturesque cottage. But her gardener confuses her further by wishing her well on her trip to London—a trip which Alix knows nothing about. Now Alix is scared: is the gardener imagining things, or is she?

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  The Turtles of Tasman

  Jack London

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  Frederic Travers, a responsible man of high standing, gets a visit from his dying brother Tom, a globetrotting vagabond. It's a study in contrast between the two men, who each embody opposing aspects of London's character: the successful workaholic vs. the wandering adventurer. The writing is very mature and insightful, indicative of some of the more accomplished work of London's later career.

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  The Bus of Dreams

  Mary Morris

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  Fifteen deftly crafted stories from the award-winning author of The Jazz Palace, “a marvelous storyteller” (Chicago Tribune Books).   Acclaimed author Mary Morris takes us to a Greek village, Cape Canaveral, South America, New York City in the heat of August—and into the heads and hearts of characters coming to know a bit more about their worlds. A Panamanian girl searches for her beautiful sister; a typewriter reveals unspoken secrets to a vacationing couple; the employees of a copy shop long for the lives of their customers. Morris’s wistful, knowing style and her grasp of the tiny elements that mark the turning points in relationships make her stories resonate with lingering emotional truths.   Praise for Mary Morris’s The Jazz Palace:   “There is a reason I have always called Mary Morris my writing mentor: she taught me everything I know; and here is the living proof.” —Jodi Picoult, New York Times–bestselling author  

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  King in Yellow (part 1)

  Robert W. Chambers

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  Robert W. Chambers (1865-1933) studied art in Paris in the late 80's and early 90's, where his work was displayed at the Salon. However, shortly after returning to America, he decided to spend his time in writing. He became popular as the writer of a number of romantic novels, but is now best known as the author of "The King In Yellow". This is a collection of the first half of this work of short stories which have an eerie, other-worldly feel to it; but the stories in the second half are essentially love stories, strongly coloured by the author's life as an artist in France. 
  Only the first half of the collection of stories is presented here: the earlier stories are all coloured by the background presence of a play, "The King In Yellow" itself, which corrupts those who read it, and opens them to horrible experiences and to visions of a ghastly other world, lit by dark stars and distorted skies. This half of the collection is completed by a few very short pieces and two rather strange and beautiful stories of love and time, loneliness and death. (summary by Peter Yearsley)

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  The Kiss A Short Story Trilogy

  Anton Chekhov, Kate Chopin, Guy...

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  Anton Chekhov, Guy de Maupassant, Kate Chopin. These three names thrill the literary world as well as our own.  They have gravitas, they have knowledge, experience and they have the literary style and panache to seduce our imagined world. 
   
  Each has written a short story on pleasured lips placed on another’s flesh. 
   
  For Chekhov it was a kiss in a darkened room that happened by mistake.  Who was she? 
   
  For Chopin it was a kiss that almost derailed a hoped-for marriage proposal.  Why did he do that?  
   
  For de Maupassant it was a niece seeking advice from her Aunt on when to kiss and whom.  And did she? 
   
  Add to this our own experiences of ‘the kiss’.  A kiss to welcome a friend, the loving kiss for our child, our parents, the passionate kiss to a lover.   
   
  These experiences are individual to each of us but perhaps shape a thought or recall a memory when our three authors relate their own stories into our senses. 
   
  01 - The Kiss - A Short Story Trilogy - An Introduction 
  02 - The Kiss by Anton Chekhov 
  03 - The KIss by Guy de Maupassant 
  04 - The Kiss by Kate Chopin

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  Twelve Red Herrings

  Jeffrey Archer

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  A wrongly convicted murderer exacts a flawless plan of revenge. Headlights in a rear-view mirror tail a female traveler on a lonely stretch of road. A serial bride secures her future by marrying only the wealthiest of men. An escaped Iraqi with a price on his head pays an involuntary visit to his homeland. A brush with death proves the biggest break of an aspiring artist's career. Two strangers, struck by lust-at-first-sight, consider a myriad of possibilities for where the day will take them.A Macmillan Audio production.

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