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  The Taste of Memory

  M.H. Lee

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  Dmitri is a memory eraser, someone capable of removing memories from a person's mind. It's a grueling, difficult job but worth it for the burden he removes from others. But one patient may prove more than he can handle.

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  Death in the Woods - From their...

  Sherwood Anderson

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  Sherwood Anderson was born on 13th September 1876 in Camden, Ohio. 
  When his father’s business failed the family was forced to move on a regular basis before finally settling in Clyde, Ohio.   
  Anderson, one of 7 children, left school at 14 to take a number of jobs to help with the family finances. These were difficult years. 
  He moved to Chicago in search of opportunities before joining the Army for the US-Spanish War of 1898.  He then entered Wittenberg Academy in Springfield, Ohio to complete his education before moving back to Chicago to take up a writing job. 
  In 1904 he married Cornelia Lane, her family had resources and Anderson was keen, with this family backing, to run a business. 
  The early years of their marriage produced 3 children but a nervous breakdown in 1907 and another in 1912, despite his success as a business entrepreneur, resulted in him abandoning his family and deciding that a literary career would be best for him.   
  A move back to Chicago resulted in a job in advertising, a divorce from Cornelia and marriage to Tennessee Mitchell.  
  That same year his first book ‘Windy McPherson’s Son’ was released and in 1919, his most famous book, ‘Winesburg, Ohio’, a collection of short stories about life in an Ohio town was released. 
  Anderson continued to write short stories, novels and non-fiction but his only true bestseller came with ‘Dark Laughter’.  His influence on writers that followed, from Faulkner to Hemingway, was immense. He also married a further two times.   
  Sherwood Anderson died in in Colón, Panama, on the 8th March, 1941. He was 64. An autopsy revealed that a swallowed toothpick had resulted in peritonitis. 
  His headstone epitaph reads ‘Life, Not Death is the Great Adventure.’

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  Virginia Woolf - Six of the Best...

  Virginia Woolf

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  Six has always been a number we group things around – Six of the best, six of one half a dozen of another, six feet under, six pack, six degrees of separation and a sixth sense are but a few of the ways we use this number. 
   
  Such is its popularity that we thought it is also a very good way of challenging and investigating an author’s work to give width, brevity, humour and depth across six of their very best. 
   
  In this series we gather together authors whose short stories both rivet the attention and inspire the imagination to visit their gems in a series of six, to roam across an author’s legacy in a few short hours and gain a greater understanding of their writing and, of course, to be lavishly entertained by their ideas, their narrative and their way with words. 
   
  These stories can be surprising and sometimes at a tangent to what we expected, but each is fully formed and a marvellous adventure into the world and words of a literary master.

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  Short Stories Set on The Sea -...

  Arthur Conan Doyle, H G Wells,...

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  From placid and glimmering to foaming and raging the sea is a perfect mirror of the human condition.  Our authors often place their characters on or about this vast mass that can be either friend or foe.  This liquid character has many dimensions, many ways of speaking.   
   
  01 - Short Stories Set on the Sea - An Introduction 
  02 - The Striped Chest by Arthur Conan Doyle 
  03 - The Sea Raiders by H G Wells 
  04 - A Fight with a Cannon by Victor Hugo 
  05 - The Open Boat by Stephen Crane 
  06 - A Saga of the Seas by Kenneth Grahame 
  07 - Le Horla by Guy De Maupassant 
  08 - Malachi's Cove by Anthony Trollope 
  09 - South West and by West Three-Quarters West by Frederick Marryat  
  10 - The Man Without a Country by Edward Everett Hale 
  11 - Captain Rogers by W W Jacobs 
  12 - Devereux's Last Smoke by Izola Forrester 
  13 - The Sea Voyage by Charles Lamb 
  14 - The Voice in the Night by William Hope

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  The Boy Who Drew Cats

  Anushka Ravishankar

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  "Akiro, a young Japanese boy, drew only cats. Cats, cats and more cats! No matter what
  he was asked to do, all he did was draw cats everywhere, and this artistic tendency led
  to an adventure for him one day - an adventure that would change his life. Go on a
  journey to Japan in this folktale narrated by Jaaved Jaffrey."

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  Awake In the Dark - Stories

  Shira Nayman

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  Bold and deeply affecting, Awake in the Dark is a provocative and haunting work of fiction about who we are and how we are formed by history. These luminous stories portray the contemporary lives of the children of Holocaust victims and perpetrators as they struggle with the legacy of their parents--their questions of identity, family, and faith. 
  In "The House on Kronen-strasse," a woman returns to Germany to find her childhood home; in "The Porcelain Monkey," the shocking origins of an Orthodox Jewish woman's faith are revealed; in "The Lamp," the harrowing experiences of a young woman leave her with the perfect daughter and a strange light; and in "Dark Urgings of the Blood," a patient is convinced that she shares a disturbing history with her psychiatrist. 
  Rendered in powerful, unaffected prose, Awake in the Dark is an illuminating and startling book about the disguises we don, the secrets we keep, and the consequences of our silences.

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