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  Venice is gone

  Emanuele Missinato

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  The future is now. 
  An extremely powerful short story about human emotions and awareness of the climate change effects. 
  A fragile, unique city. A journey through a country in ruins. The complicated relationship 'Father to Son'. 
  What are we really doing to combat the effects of global warming? 
  Make Think.

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  The Wife of His Youth - From...

  Charles W. Chesnutt

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  Charles Waddell Chesnutt was born on 20th June 1858 in Cleveland, Ohio, to parents who were both ‘free persons of color’. His paternal grandfather was a white slaveholder, and Chesnutt although he identified as African-American noted that he was seven-eighths white.   
  By age 20 Chesnutt had married and settled in Cleveland.  After reading law and passing the bar exam he established a lucrative court reporting business, which rapidly elevated his financial standing. 
  The Atlantic Monthly published his short story, and the first by an African-American, ‘The Goophered Grapevine’. This was quickly followed by 2 volumes of his short stories mainly themed with racial identity that were more complex than those of many of his contemporaries.  
  Encouraged by Atlantic editors, Chestnutt moved to writing novels. It published his first ‘The House behind the Cedars’ in 1900. 
  As well as business interests and his writing he also toured on the national lecture circuit, primarily in northern states. 
  Despite this his novels received poor sales but excellent reviews and so a self-fueling literary career based on novels was beyond his reach.   
  With the turn of the new century Chesnutt turned more energies to his court reporting business and in 1910, he served on the General Committee of the newly founded National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) becoming one of the early 20th century's most prominent activists and commentators. 
  Chesnutt is now regarded as an integral part of the Harlem Renaissance which did much to reinforce Black culture as a thriving, vibrant and essential part of 20th Century culture. 
  Charles W Chesnutt died on 15th November 1932.  He was 74.

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  Edna Farmer: Farmer In the Dell

  Edna Ferber

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  You can take the farm boy out of the rural area and send him to the big city, but  you cannot take the farm out of the boy.  Edna Ferber tells here of the farm boy who grew up into a smart man who moved to the city because farm work was just ridiculously too hard.  But perhaps the city life is not as great as he was led to believe; and perhaps the city job just does not answer some deep need in him to feel the soil in his fingers and to watch things grow.  What will he do?  He knows the pain and uncertainty and misery of farm life so is that even an option for a smart man?   Listen and find out.

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  The Loss of the Swansea: A Story...

  W. L. Alden

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  The Loss of the Swansea: A Story of the Florida Coast by W. L. Alden is a gripping tale of maritime disaster, human endurance, and survival along the rugged and unpredictable Florida coastline. Blending adventure with vivid natural description, the novel captures the perilous relationship between sailors and the sea, where fortune can change in an instant and survival depends on courage, skill, and determination.
  
  The story centers on the ill-fated vessel Swansea and the dramatic events surrounding its loss. As the crew confronts sudden danger at sea, they are forced to rely on their instincts and each other in order to endure the unfolding crisis. Washed ashore on unfamiliar territory, they must then face new challenges posed by isolation, environment, and uncertainty about rescue.
  
  W. L. Alden crafts a narrative rich in atmosphere and tension, bringing to life both the beauty and danger of coastal waters. His detailed storytelling immerses readers in the experience of life at sea, highlighting the unpredictability of nature and the resilience required to survive it.
  
  Themes of survival, disaster, teamwork, courage, nature's power, isolation, and human endurance run throughout the novel. The story explores how individuals respond under extreme pressure and how cooperation and determination can become essential tools in overcoming adversity.
  
  The Loss of the Swansea stands as a compelling example of classic maritime fiction. With its blend of adventure, realism, and atmospheric storytelling, it continues to appeal to readers who enjoy tales of shipwrecks, survival, and the untamed forces of the natural world.

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  The Horla - Le Horla

  Guy de Maupassant

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Amid the serene beauty of the French countryside, a man begins to feel the unraveling threads of his mind. An unseen presence—a shadow, a whisper—lurks in his tranquil home, bringing with it dread, madness, and questions too terrifying to answer. Is it merely his imagination, or has something unimaginable crossed into his world? With his sanity teetering on the edge, he must confront an entity that defies comprehension and challenges humanity's place in the universe.

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  They Don't Wear Labels - From...

  E M Delafield

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  Edmée Elizabeth Monica Dashwood, née de la Pasture, and more commonly known as E M Delafield, was born in Steyning, Sussex on 9th June 1890.   
  Raised in the fading years of the Victorian era with its Empire and strict moral codes Delafield, not yet married at twenty-one, joined a French religious order, in Belgium, but soon decided that this was a totally wrong choice for her.   
  Her next challenge was her work during the horror of the First World War.  Delafield decided to take up a position as a nurse in a Voluntary Aid Detachment in Exeter.  It was whilst here that she managed to write her first novel, ‘Zella Sees Herself’.   
  With the end of the war new opportunities were sought and she now took up a position for the South-West Region of the Ministry of National Service in Bristol.  With it came enough time to write two more novels: ‘The War Workers’ (1918) and ‘The Pelicans’ (1918).   
  On 17th July 1919, she married Colonel Arthur Paul Dashwood, OBE, an engineer responsible for building the massive docks at Hong Kong Harbour.  The marriage produced two children; Lionel and Rosamund.  That same year her fourth novel, ‘Consequences’, was published.   
  The couple spent their early years in Malaya but returned to England to live in Croyle, an old house in Kentisbeare, Devon.  Delafield continued to collect responsibilities and organise whatever she could.  At the initial meeting of the Kentisbeare Women's Institute, Delafield was unanimously elected president, and also became a Justice of the Peace, raised the children and, of course, continued to write her best-selling novels.   
  Her greatest work is undoubtedly the largely autobiographical ‘Diary of a Provincial Lady’, which is a simply structured journal of the life of an upper-middle class Englishwoman, living mostly in a Devon village of the 1930s.  It spawned several best-selling sequels.  Her works also includes stage and radio plays, film scripts and short stories.  
  After the death of her son in 1940, her health began to markedly decline.    
  E M Delafield died on 2nd December 1943 after collapsing whilst giving a lecture in Oxford.  She was 53.

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