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  Top 10 Short Stories The - The...

  Virginia Woolf, Radclyffe Hall,...

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  Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart.  A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. 
   
  In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?  
   
  The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme.  Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. 
   
  Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made.  If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. 
   
  In this volume English women have begun the long haul to be treated as equals, even though some see others as beneath them.  Class still has its boundaries and its distinctions. Our authors show that the decade brings much to revel in but also much to worry our hearts.  
   
  01 - The Top 10 - The 1920's - The English - The Women - An Introduction 
  02 - The String Quartet by Virginia Woolf 
  03 - Miss Ogilivy Finds Herself by Radclyffe Hall 
  04 - Her Murderer by Mary Cholmondeley 
  05 - Hodge by Elinor Mordaunt 
  06 - Blessed Are the Meek by Mary Webb 
  07 - Young Magic by Helen Simpson 
  08 - Sylvia by Bessie Kyffin-Taylor.wav 
  09 - The Black Crusader by Alicia Ramsay 
  10 - Decay by Marjorie Bowen 
  11 - The Night of No Weather by Violet Hunt

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  First Ladies The: Book summary &...

  Margot Langley

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  This content is an independent and unofficial summary created for informational and educational purposes only. It is not affiliated with, authorized, approved, licensed, or endorsed by the original author or publisher. All rights to the original work belong to its respective copyright holders. This summary is not intended to substitute the original book, but to offer a concise overview and interpretation of its main ideas.
   
  
  Two extraordinary women step behind the scenes of power to reshape a nation’s destiny—one through discreet salons that spark policy change, the other by forging bipartisan relief efforts and pioneering educational reforms. Their stories intertwine at the heart of Washington, where soft influence and relentless resilience blend into a masterclass in strategic leadership. The First Ladies will inspire listeners to harness empathy, craft data-driven initiatives, and build coalitions that turn vision into lasting impact.

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  The Newcomers

  Vivian Stuart

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  The fourth book in the dramatic and intriguing story about the colonisation of Australia: a country built on blood, passion, and dreams.The battle continues in the new British colony of Australia: the fight for power as well as survival. The corrupt military officers are doing everything they can to gain legal and political power, while the governor is finding it difficult to carry out his duties.And Jenny Taggart, now freed from her convict status, is fighting hard for her family, her redemption, and her new country.Rebels and outcasts, they fled halfway across the earth to settle the harsh Australian wastelands. Decades later — ennobled by love and strengthened by tragedy — they had transformed a wilderness into a fertile land. And themselves into The Australians.

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  Hell's Legionnaire

  L. Ron Hubbard

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  American Ann Halliday is as fiery as the Sahara sun. And now she's feeling some real heat, as the prize captive of the Berber known as The Killer. But Dusty Colton, an American deserter from the French Foreign Legion has a different idea. Can they team up and turn evil on its head? One thing's for sure — between Ann and the Hell's Legionnaire, the temperature is about to get even hotter. Experience the lust for power and the race to escape, as the audio version of Hell's Legionnaire brings all the passions of the desert to vivid life.

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  A Letter Home - Story from a...

  Arnold Bennett

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  Arnold Bennett was born in 1867 in Hanley one of the six towns that formed the Potteries that later joined together to become Stoke on Trent; the area in which most of his works are located. For a short time he worked for his solicitor father before realising that to advance his life he would need to become his own man. Moving to London at twenty-one he obtained work as a solicitor’s clerk and gradually moved into a career of journalism. At the turn of the century he turned full time to writing and shortly thereafter in 1903 he moved to Paris and in 1908 published to great acclaim The Old Wives Tale. With this his reputation was set. Clayhanger and The Old Wives Tale are perhaps his greatest and most lauded novels.

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  Double Lives

  Mary Monroe

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  The latest twist-filled novel in award-winning New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe’s Depression-era Alabama saga tells the riveting tale of identical twin sisters with a talent for switching lives and hiding the scandalous results—until one risk too many changes the game forever … 
   
  Since childhood, identical twins Leona and Fiona Dunbar have been getting in—and out—of trouble by pretending to be each other. Yet underneath, they couldn’t be more different. Outspoken Leona lives to break rules, have a good time, and scandalize their respectable hometown of Lexington. Fiona is a seemingly demure churchgoing girl who is the apple of her domineering, widowed mother Mavis’s eye. 
   
  But together, the twins have fooled teachers, boyfriends, bosses, racist police—and most importantly, straitlaced Mavis. Even when Leona does jail time for Fiona, their unbreakable bond keeps them fiercely loyal. … So when Fiona feels stifled in her passionless marriage, and Leona is heartbroken over losing her one true love, it’s perfect timing to change places once again … 
   
  Leona is shocked to discover she enjoys the security of being a wife and homebody. And the unexpected spark between her and Fiona’s husband is giving her all kinds of deliciously sexy ideas. Meanwhile, Fiona enjoys being free, single, and reveling in the independence she’s never had. And the more she indulges her secret, long-repressed wild child, the more Leona’s ex-lover becomes one temptation she’s having trouble resisting … 
   
  As the sisters’ masquerade ignites desires and appetites they never expected, it also puts their most damning secrets on the line. Once the fallout rocks their small town, can Fiona and Leona’s deep sisterhood shield them from total disaster and help them reconcile their mistakes? Or will the trust between them become a weapon that shatters their lives for good?

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