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  A Pair of Blue Eyes

  Thomas Hardy

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  A young architect is sent to a remote Cornish parish to survey a church tower and falls in love with the rector's daughter; so, later, does the London critic who reviews his work. Hardy had been that architect, restoring churches for a living, and he set the novel on the cliffs he knew — where he also invented the cliffhanger, quite literally, in the most famous chapter.

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  Ugly Customer An - From their...

  Bernard Capes

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  Bernard Edward Joseph Capes was born on the 30th August 1854 in London.  He was one of 11 children. 
  His early work was as a journalist and this developed into writing many short stories for the periodicals of the time including Blackwood's, Cassell's, Cornhill Magazine, Illustrated London News, Macmillan's Magazine, Mall Magazine, Pearson's Magazine, The Idler, and The Queen. 
  It took him many years to decide that writing full-time could be a sustainable career path.  His initial success came with ‘The Mill of Silence’.  As well as being published it garnered second prize at a competition sponsored by the Chicago Record.  He exceeded that by winning it the following year with ‘The Lake of Wine’.   
  Capes quickly became both prolific and popular.  As well as his stories and articles for the periodicals he wrote around 40 volumes across novels, poetry, history as well as romance and mystery novels. 
  Bernard Capes died on 2nd November 1918 in the flu epidemic.

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  The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

  Washington Irving

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Sleepy Hollow is a strange little place...some say bewitched. Some talk of its haunted valleys and streams, the ghostly woman in white, eerie midnight shrieks and howls, but most of all they talk of the Headless Horseman. A huge, shadowy soldier who rides headless through the night, terrifying unlucky travellers. 
   
  Schoolteacher Ichabod Crane is fascinated by these stories....Until late one night, walking home through Wiley's swamp, he finds that maybe they're not just stories.

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  By the Rule of Contrary

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

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  Lucy Maud Montgomery (November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942), published as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables. The book was an immediate success. The title character, orphan Anne Shirley, made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and gave her an international following.
  By the Rule of Contrary: "Look here, Burton," said old John Ellis in an ominous tone of voice, "I want to know if what that old busybody of a Mary Keane came here today gossiping about is true. If it is well, I've something to say about the matter!

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  SOE Agent Code Name LILLY

  Steve Urry

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  Mary Dumont is a third officer in the Women’s Royal Naval Service working at the Admiralty Communications Centre in London in 1942 where she is recruited by the Special Operations Executive (SOE) to become a wireless operator-saboteur. Parachuted into France, Mary joins a small band of resistance fighters where she leads a double life, a schoolteacher by day, a wireless operator by night; all goes horribly wrong, Mary is captured and tortured by an SS major who is determined to obtain both her codes and the names of her companions. Mary makes a daring escape during an air raid, unknown to her, German Intelligence has infiltrated SOE, a double agent known to Mary has also been parachuted into France to capture a Dutch scientist who is escaping to England with plans for the German V1 flying bomb. Evading capture, 
  Mary’s resistance cell must get the scientist to England before he can be handed over to the Gestapo, but first Mary must eliminate the German double agent. Just when she thinks it is safe on returning to England, Mary and her companions discover the identity of the traitor within SOE, they must try to eliminate him before he can return the scientist to the Germans.

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  The Inimitable Jeeves - Jeeves...

  P. G. Wodehouse

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  Some people solve problems. Bertie Wooster collects them beautifully.
  An ill-advised lunch, a formidable aunt, a sentimental friend with catastrophic romantic instincts, and a betting disaster — in this universe, high society seems permanently one misunderstanding away from collapse. Fortunately, there remains the calm, incomparable intelligence of Jeeves, who can restore social order with a raised eyebrow and a perfectly timed remark.
  In The Inimitable Jeeves, P. G. Wodehouse turns ordinary inconvenience into high comedy. Drawing rooms, country lanes, and stuffy London clubs become stages for brilliant deadpan farce, where every sentence sparkles with dry wit and every disaster arrives impeccably dressed.
  This audiobook gathers the immortal adventures of a gloriously clueless gentleman and his genius valet — a world overflowing with verbal brilliance, absurd dignity, and the unique art of making absolute chaos feel wonderfully civilized.
  You don't listen for the outcomes. You listen for the exquisite friction of a British gentleman attempting to manage a wildly dysfunctional social circus — and for the elegant rescue that inevitably follows.
  Contents
  • Jeeves in the Springtime
  • Aunt Agatha Takes the Count
  • Scoring off Jeeves
  • Sir Roderick Comes to Lunch
  • Jeeves and the Chump Cyril
  • Comrade Bingo
  • The Great Sermon Handicap
  • The Purity of the Turf
  • The Metropolitan Touch
  • The Delayed Exit of Claude and Eustace
  • Bingo and the Little Woman

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