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  Woodcuts of Women

  Dagoberto Gilb

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  These ten stories of “intensity and bravado” by the acclaimed Chicano author explore love, lust, and longing among people struggling to find their way (Jean Thompson, The New York Times Book Review).    Featuring characters of Mexican American heritage, each of these haunting stories is crafted with Gilb’s quintessentially spare yet evocative language and explores the lives of men and women at odds with each other. Steeped in an ethos of regimented gender roles, the men in these stories see the women in their lives as little more than woodcuts—crude variations of their actual complexity; symbols of seduction, mystery, and power that will ultimately bring about their undoing.   At turns powerful and resonant, hopeful and humorous, Woodcuts of Women is a tour de force by one of America’s foremost Latino writers.   “Lonely, tough stories—stories that force us to confront what’s difficult in us, and in the people we love.” —Esquire   “The gritty passions of men for women—the grand delusions and tender mercies—are the jukebox songs playing through the 10 stories of Gilb’s ‘Woodcuts of Women.’” —San Francisco Chronicle

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  Morton Hall

  Elizabeth Gaskell

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  "Morton Hall" (1853) is a story written by Elizabeth Gaskell, one of the leading representatives of British literature of the Victorian era. The book weaves together many different elements from the description of ancient houses and noble lineages to the commemoration of historical events, all with the background of childhood memories of the protagonists. This text has the ability to offer a wide reflection on social and Political Affairs of England: Elizabeth Gaskell traces back several vicissitudes until they reach the intestine foiled attack on King James I, Cromwell's Protectorate, the so-called witch hunt, until you get to touch the social and cultural revolution produced by colonial politics.
   
  In this short-story there is everything : the role of women in society and in the process of formation of children, ways considered more suited to its educator function, until detailed depictions of torture, humor, mental illness often found themselves inside the England of that time. These reasons they do fall under the genre of tales of thrill, with continuous references to ghosts, witches and superstition of the demonic element...

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  The Song of The Lady Rose - A...

  Gabino Iglesias

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  A strange final message from a ghost ship, comes alive with the voices of the past. Listen or die."The Song of The Lady Rose" by Gabino Iglesias is one of 9 short horror stories in Nightfire's audio anthology.Come Join Us by the Fire S2: Originals is the second installment of Nightfire's audio-first horror anthology, featuring a wide collection of short stories from emerging voices in the horror genre as well as longtime fan favorites. "Season 2: Originals" features nine all-new stories from authors Laird Barron, Indrapramit Das, Brian Evenson, Craig Laurance Gidney, Camilla Grudova, Shaun Hamill, Gabino Iglesias, Daniel M. Lavery, and Sunny Moraine.

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  Tales of the Fish Patrol

  Jack London

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  Wildest among the fisher-folk may be accounted the Chinese shrimp-catchers. It is the habit of the shrimp to crawl along the bottom in vast armies till it reaches fresh water, when it turns about and crawls back again to the salt. And where the tide ebbs and flows, the Chinese sink great bag-nets to the bottom, with gaping mouths, into which the shrimp crawls and from which it is transferred to the boiling-pot. This in itself would not be bad, were it not for the small mesh of the nets, so small that the tiniest fishes, little new-hatched things not a quarter of an inch long, cannot pass through. The beautiful beaches of Points Pedro and Pablo, where are the shrimp-catchers villages, are made fearful by the stench from myriads of decaying fish, and against this wasteful destruction it has ever been the duty of the fish patrol to act.These stories are set in the waterways around San Francisco Bay and involve the fish patrol with a variety of characters of different ethnicity and cultural backgrounds.

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  Love Takes the Cake - A Year of...

  Betsy St. Amant

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  They’ve helped orchestrate the perfect day for countless couples. Now twelve new couples will find themselves in the wedding spotlight in the second Year of Weddings novella collection. 
  She’s known for her delicious cakes, but there’s no recipe for dealing with the new man in her life. 
  Charlotte Cantrell is always the baker; never the bride. Clients come from near and far for her renowned wedding cakes. And while the wedding scene is Charlotte’s place to shine, her own love life is more dullthan ever.When Will, a regular at Charlotte’s bakery, catches her attention, she can only hope that he is the reliable man this single mother has always hoped to find. The problem is that he’s regularly stopping in to buy cookies for another girl. But when Charlotte is hired to bake a host of wedding goodies for a difficult bride and finds out Will is the best man, she has the perfect opportunity to get to know him better—and find out how serious Will is about this other girl in his life. 

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  Classic Radio's Greatest...

  Black Eye Entertainment

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  This collection contains 12 of the greatest Christmas shows ever broadcast during the Golden Age of Radio!You’ll hear Edmund Gwenn and Natalie Wood reprising their roles from Miracle on 34th Street; Dick Powell as Detective Richard Diamond narrating A Christmas Carol; Eve Arden in a yuletide comedy on Our Miss Brooks; Hal Peary as The Great Gildersleeve; Joel McCrea as lawman Jase Pearson on Tales of the Texas Rangers; Jim & Marian Jordan as Fibber McGee & Molly plus many more!Relive these classic Christmas shows from yesteryear and their legendary stars in this incredible collection.Screen Director’s Playhouse—“Miracle On 34th Street” w/ Edmund Gwenn & Natalie WoodFibber McGee & Molly—“Lost Key Ring” w/ Jim & Marian JordanThe Great Gildersleeve—“Present for Judge Hooker” w/ Hal PearyMy Friend Irma—“Christmas Party” w/ Marie WilsonCasey, Crime Photographer—“Christmas Shopping” w/ Staats CottsworthTales of the Texas Rangers—“Christmas Present” w/ Joel McCreaThe Life of Riley—“Flashback to First Christmas” w/ William BendixCavalcade of America—“America For Christmas” w/ Walter HustonBig Town—“Prelude to Christmas” w/ Edward Pawley & Fran CarlonRichard Diamond, Private Detective—“A Christmas Carol” w/ Dick PowellEscape—“The Man Who Liked Dickens” w/ Terry KilburnOur Miss Brooks—“Christmas Clothing Drive” w/ Eve Arden

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