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  Typewriter in the Sky

  L. Ron Hubbard

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  It's not easy living in someone else's world. But that's the story of Mike de Wolf's life... — literally. He awakens to find himself a fictional villain in someone else's book, landing in the West Indies three centuries ago, pursued by pirates and a wild woman on horseback. What's a guy to do? The answer's written in the sky — in this wildly original, wickedly amusing novel.

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  Twelve Stories and a Dream

  H. G. Wells

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  A brand new collection of thirteen short stories by the master of supernatural suspense and thrillers, exploring science fiction and fantasy themes. All of the stories in this volume follow a simple and classic pattern: Exposition, conflict, resolution. Because of the short story format, there is not much room for complication or denouement, so these stories by nature are simpler than some of Wells’ other work, and therefore will keep the listener entertained and engrossed! 
  Included in this collection are:FilmerThe Magic ShopThe Valley of SpidersThe Truth About PyecraftMr Skelmersdale in FairylandThe Inexperienced GhostJimmy Goggles the GodThe New AcceleratorMr Ledbetter’s VacationThe Stolen BodyMr Brishner’s TreasureMiss Winchelsea’s HeartA Dream of Armageddon 
  About The Reader 
  John Banks is one of the UK’s most prolific audiobook narrators, working for the likes of Big Finish, Audible, Random House and Games Workshop. He is a true multi-voice, creating everything from monsters to marauding aliens. He is also an accomplished stage and TV actor. 
  About The Author  
  Herbert George Wells was a novelist, teacher, historian and journalist, who has become known as the “father of science fiction.” His works have been adapted countless times, and provided the basis for many literary and theatrical productions.

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  The Thing in the Upper Room

  Arthur Morrison

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  Arthur George Morrison (1863-1945) was an English writer and journalist known for his realistic novels and stories about working-class life.'The Thing in the Upper Room' is a classic Victorian horror story. Poor young English artist Attwater is delighted to find an oddly cheap top-floor room to rent in an old house in Paris. The room, as he is aware, has a reputation for being haunted. But what the nature of the haunting is, nobody seems to know - the place has been let only once in living memory owing to its reputation, and that tenant had committed suicide at the point where the police were breaking down his door to arrest him for murder. But Attwater could not possibly conceive the terrifying nature of the spirit that inhabits that unsettling room at the top of the stairs.

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  Lighting Up Time - A short story...

  Debbie Young

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  When Emma, a young English journalist, is required to babysit in a dark country house on the longest night of the year - the winter solstice, 21st December - she must confront both her fear of the dark and her unresolved grief for her much-loved late Great Aunt Sophie. Where will she find the courage she needs to avoid risking an even greater loss? 
   
  This single short story, about 3000 words long, will brighten the darkest night and offer comfort and hope as the days grow longer. 
   
  EARLY REVIEWS FOR LIGHTING UP TIME 
  "A delightful story." – Petrea Burchard 
  "Lovely story that perfectly captures that big sister/little sister thing, and Aunt Sophie is a lovely gentle presence throughout – I especially like the way you use scent (perfume, flowers) to evoke her.". Lucienne Boyce 
  "You had me scared of the dark with you!" Melanie Spiller 
  "Lovely story and a great, feel-good ending ." – Christina Courtenay, romantic novelist 
   
  OTHER SHORT STORIES BY DEBBIE YOUNG 
  Debbie Young has published three short story collections, Quick Change - Tiny Tales of Transformation, Stocking Fillers - Twelve Short Stories for Christmas, and Marry in Haste - 15 short stories of dating love and marriage as well as the stand-alone Christmas tale The Owl and the Turkey. Her flash fiction and short stories have also been included in many anthologies. 
   
  PRAISE FOR DEBBIE YOUNG'S SHORT FICTION 
  "Very subtle, very English, very clever" (Marius Gabriel, novelist) 
  "Debbie Young's attention to detail brings the extraordinary out of the everyday" (Calum Kerr, founder of National Flash Fiction Day) 
  "Brimful of the Debbie Young brand of sly and wry humour" (Mari Howad, author of the Mullins Family Saga) 
   
  NOVELS BY DEBBIE YOUNG 
  Debbie Young also writes novels, including the Sophie Sayers Village Mystery series that begins with Best Murder in Show.

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  Crooked House - B2+ Collins...

  Agatha Christie

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  Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. 
  Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at learners of English. 
  The Leonides family live together in a large and crooked house in a wealthy London suburb. When the elderly millionaire Aristide Leonides is murdered with a fatal injection, the family reluctantly suspect his glamorous, young second wife. 
  Charles Hayward, who is engaged to the late millionaire’s granddaughter, observes the family closely and makes a terrible and shocking discovery…

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  The Cunning Apprentice

  Maurice Baring

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  Maurice Baring (1874-1945) was an English writer who retold traditional fairy tales from many countries. 
  The Cunning Apprentice is a fairy tale set in Russia. It tells the story of a young lad who is apprenticed to a wicked sorcerer who intends to use his magic to trick the boy's parents into giving up their son to him forever. Only the cunning of the lad enables him to turn the magician's magic against him.

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