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  The Bull

  Saki Saki

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  In "The Bull" by Saki, the story revolves around two half-brothers, Tom and Laurence Yorkfield, who embody contrasting lifestyles and values. Tom is a practical farmer, proud of his small herd and particularly of a vigorous young bull named Clover Fairy, which he believes is a valuable asset. In contrast, Laurence is an aspiring artist who paints animals, including bulls, but feels superior due to his artistic pursuits.

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  Head & Shoulders - A coming of...

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on 24th September 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota into an upper-middle class family. Whilst his mother was pregnant with him, his two young sisters tragically died.  Fitzgerald once said this was when his destiny as a writer was ordained. 
   
  His intelligence and talent was recognised from an early age, with his first story, about a detective being published in the school magazine when he was just 13.   
   
  In 1913 he enrolled at Princeton but his devotion to his own literary pursuits resulted in him leaving and, rather bizarrely, joining the Army.  In 1918, stationed at Fort Sheridan near Montgomery, Alabama he met and became infatuated and then inseparable from Zelda Sayre.  Initially though she refused to marry him but with the success of ‘This Side of Paradise’, the fame and the flow of money enabled them both to begin a gilded life.  For them this was The Jazz Age.  For Fitzgerald he was already an alcoholic. 
   
  He continued to write with great mastery and the titles of his novels and many of his 164 short stories are household names.  The Great Gatsby, often cited as The Great American Novel was published to mixed reviews.  As America moved from the Great Depression to the slaughter of the Second World War his works and himself were seen as far too entwined with the decadent twenties. The world had moved on and he hadn’t.   
   
  Further tragedy was never far from his life. Zelda after years of erratic and now intolerable behaviour was committed to an institution in 1936.  His own sales began to decline and he became a hack for hire in Hollywood, dependent on increasing amounts of booze and the weekly pay check.  His drunken state had often resulted in arrest or hospitalisation, further imperiling his talents.   Despite his contribution to many MGM films he received only one credit. 
   
  The end came all too soon for one of America’s greatest ever writers.  On 21st December 1940, at only 44 years of age in Hollywood, F Scott Fitzgerald succumbed to a heart attack.

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  The Bench

  Ty Carlson

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  Upon receiving a strange invitation in the mail, Evan Reader is suddenly faced with a choice: either continue living his drab existence or risk the hope of change. 
  The invitation details an intricate process involving the memory chip imbedded in his arm. A process which would allow him to speak with his wife, Meredith, who died in a tsunami four years ago. Evan’s desire to see the childhood sweetheart he married overwhelms his doubts and he agrees to it. Where previously the pain and dread had stopped him from moving on from his grief, he’s now forced to face memories and emotions that he’s avoided since her death. He also rediscovers those other emotions – love and connection – both of which he refused to believe he was worthy to experience. 
  But when the digital representation of his wife begins to reveal memories that he doesn’t have, he suspects there may be a glitch in the program. He must then decide to either stop the process and return to his lonesome life or embrace the parts that help explain the feelings of emptiness. He decides to continue and his initial hesitation is cast aside when he realizes that his loneliness can only be solved by talking through the pain with his wife, reliving some of the most difficult parts of his life. 
  While Meredith begins to fill in the gaps of what he believed was infallible truth, their conversation reveals that not only are his memories incomplete, but that he’s missing the most important parts.

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  The Daymakers

  Grace McGinty

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  The Daymakers were the hottest alt-rock band since the nineties, the masked members making fans swoon at the very thought of who might be hiding under the skull masks. Known only by their stage names–Royal, Hero, Poet and Knight–their real identities were a carefully held secret. 
  I was third-generation white trash who had no value to society. That was a direct quote from my guidance counselor, by the way. She wasn’t wrong, not really. My mom had OD’ed and my dad was in prison. I had no one and nothing. 
  Our paths should never have crossed. But by a weird twist of fate–and the flying fists of my ex-boyfriend–I ended up in the wrong place at the right time. Hiding from my ex beneath a tour bus, I was a convenient solution to an ongoing problem for the tour company. 
  They needed their band members to stop screwing random groupies and risking the anonymity which brought in millions of dollars for both the band and the label. 
  I needed to get the hell away from LA and earn enough money to have a fresh start. 
  I was taking back my future, and if that meant going on tour across the country as a glorified toy for the pleasure of some masked rockstars, then it was my choice. 
  Unfortunately, the demons of my past weren’t done with me yet. 
  THE DAYMAKERS is a standalone why choose, rockstar romance. This book contains sensitive topics. Trigger warnings are available on the author's website.

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  Keep Me Safe - Cecile DuMond's...

  Bellamy Gayle

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  Her HUSBAND arranges HER murder 
  … Or does he?  
  Before she learns to fear the cruel streak in her husband, Barley— 
  Before she is shot and he is killed—Cecile dreams of a simple, normal life.  
  To escape the unknown killer, she flees her beloved home in New Orleans and the law career she loves. 
  Then, captured by surprise and locked away, she fears she is on the verge of death. 
  Why is Cecile trapped in this predicament? Will the truth save her? And does she really want to know? 
  The shocking answer may be enough to cause someone else to die.

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  Yielding to None

  Michael Anderle, Martha Carr

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  Idina Moorfield's elemental magic has changed. The problem may be spreading. 
   
   
   
  Now, it's affecting Hellion Squadron and the monsters they face. But how does Idina's team do their job when magic keeps changing all the rules before they can learn them? 
   
   
   
  Hellion's missions can't pause just because Bravo Team's abilities are causing a little more havoc than normal. They'll have to improvise, work together, and cover each other's backs until Uncle Richard's deadly research provides either an explanation or something they can use. If it ever does. 
   
   
   
  Without civilians being harmed in the process . . . 
   
   
   
  Or Idina's unit completely losing it without the right intel, gear, or temporary new team members who don't play nice with others. 
   
   
   
  All while tensions rise, new relationships are formed, and Idina finds something that might just run a little bit deeper than the family she's known. 
   
   
   
  Work and life just got a lot more complicated.

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