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  White Fang (Version 2)

  Jack London

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  When White Fang is birthed in a cave to a wolf sire and a wolf/dog halfbreed dam, he is heir to two traditions. At first he is content to explore and learn laws of the Wild. But then his mother is caught and held by old memories of a past relationship with Man, and White Fang follows her into service with the Indians. Life among sled dogs is hardly less cruel and dangerous than living in the Wild, but brutality notches upward when his drunken master sells him to a nasty, twisted hanger-on at a riverside town of white men. He is stripped of everything soft and gentle when forced to fight to the death for a crowd of bettors.Taming this savage spirit and reclaiming the nobility within looks impossible. Fortunately, and heart-warmingly, a man arrives in White Fang's life to try."White Fang" is often called the mirror image of Jack London's acclaimed "The Call of the Wild" in which a dog follows the reverse arc from tame to free. (summary by Mark)

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  Lady Flora's Fiancé - A Comedy...

  Iris Lim

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  In retrospect, she should have known he wasn’t a footman.  
   
  The only child of the Earl and Countess of Brewster, Lady Flora Pelham agrees to meet her mother’s collection of potential suitors, until a misunderstanding has two out of the three gentleman believing her already betrothed. Unwilling to have her arrogant suitors proven right in their suspicions, Flora pounces on a neighbor’s footman and hires him to impersonate her fictitious fiancé. 
   
  Henry Carrington, the young Duke of Stafford, is late to a house party where he’s supposed to meet the famously single Lady Flora Pelham. When the very lady in question mistakes him for a footman and propositions him to pose as her imaginary fiancé, Henry takes the chance, against his better judgment, to get to know the unconventional woman. 
   
  When a fake betrothal starts to foster real feelings, both Flora and Henry try their best to untangle the web they’ve weaved, but not without a few more misunderstandings along the way. 
   
  A lighted-hearted, bite-sized historical romance.

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  Thrilled to Death - Selected...

  Lynne Tillman, Luc Sante,...

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  From award-winning novelist and cultural critic Lynne Tillman, Thrilled to Death is a collection of selected stories across the career of America's most audacious writer 
   
   
   
  Among the vanguard of American literary writers, Lynne Tillman's work has defied categorization throughout her legendary career—a singular body of work that both redefined and reimagined the short story form entirely. 
   
   
   
  Curated by the author, Thrilled to Death is the definitive entry point for both established fans and new readers alike. These selected stories collect a bold, playful, and eclectic ensemble of Tillman's Borgesian fictions that span decades and traverse themes of sex, death, memory, and anxiety. 
   
   
   
  With argumentative wit, Tillman's meditations and reflections on art, politics, and culture are animated by deliciously paradoxical characters who desire and fret in turn, and who are imbued with searing intelligence and dolorous ambivalence. Describing Tillman's writing, Colm Tóibín says: "Her style has both tone and undertone; it attempts to register the impossibility of saying very much, but it insists on the right to say a little. So what is essential is the voice itself, its ways of knowing and unknowing."

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  Mateo Falcone - From their pens...

  Prosper Mérimée

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  The bookshelves of European literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors.  From this continent their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure.  Among them is Prosper Mérimée acknowledged as the first French short story writer.

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  Here in the (Middle) of Nowhere

  Anastacia-Renee

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  In this bold hybrid collection of poetry, flash fiction, and Afrofuturism sci-fi, the award-winning interdisciplinary writer and author of Side Notes from the Archivist explores what happens when god is a Black woman in a town. What happens when there are multiple universes in the middle of nowhere? 
  And what if in each universe there reigned other Black woman gods? One million versions of god, and one million saints to watch over us? And what if this Black woman god were placed here on earth? 
  These are just a few of the questions Anastacia-Reneé asks in this daring and mind-bending hybrid collection. Hers is a universe of striking variety—monsters, nontraditional saints, witches, zombies, the couple in the apartment next door, the wise elders from down the block, and gods watching over us all—as well as community and connectedness. 
  With a prose storyline and characters that connect through family, time, and place, Anastacia-Reneé paints world(s) rich with wonder and the paranormal as she peers into the lives of everyday people and spectacular creatures inhabiting not just our neighborhoods, but other dimensions. Here in the (Middle) of Nowhere is about interstellar ancestry, community and spirituality. It is about the things we invoke, conjure, and rely on to maintain joy as we keep it moving through difficult eras. Anastacia-Reneé’s power imbues her spellbinding storytelling with lovingly rendered characters brought to life in lyrical poetry. She builds worlds within worlds and dares us to fully see and love ourselves in all our complexity.

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  Gold Fever

  Steven Becker

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  Where can you run when you need to escape your past? 
  The Caribbean isn’t a place where Nick and the crew of the Panther can sail freely any longer, so they set off on their biggest adventure yet: Around Cape Horn to join the San Francisco Gold Rush. 
  The opportunities in the lawless gold fields are uniquely suited to the crew’s abilities—and eerily similar to their pirate past. 
  Their new adventure is fraught with danger, excitement, and the ultimate risk as they face broadsides, raging rivers, deadly fires, and above all, the greed instilled in men. To survive, Nick and company have to use their experience and cunning to outwit the raucous’49ers.

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