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  Born Again

  Alfred Lawson

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  "I doubt that anyone who reads [Born Again] will ever forget it: it is quite singularly bad, with long undigestible rants against the evils of the world, an impossibly idealistic Utopian prescription for the said evils, and - as you will have gathered - a very silly plot." - oddbooks.co.ukAlfred Lawson was a veritable Renaissance man: a professional baseball player, a luminary in the field of aviation, an outspoken advocate of vegetarianism and economic reform, and the founder of a pseudo-scientific crackpot philosophy called Lawsonomy. Born Again, his only novel, is a bizarre, delirious, and delightfully silly utopian science-fiction novel that lays the groundwork for the philosophy that would later dominate Lawson's life. It tells the story of John Convert, a wayward, seafaring soul (based loosely on Lawson, minus the conveniently symbolic initials) who is tossed overboard by his crewmen after a physical altercation. Convert awakens on an island inhabited by a race of superhuman giants -- called the Sagemen -- who slumber in their subterranean city. He then meets Arletta, a giantess who takes Convert on a journey that will change his life in ways too fantastically strange to imagine. (Introduction by ChuckW)

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  Twas The Night Before Christmas...

  Clement Clarke Moore

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  Twas the Night Before Christmas has been called "arguably the best-known verses ever written by an American" and is largely responsible for some of the conceptions of Santa Claus from the mid-nineteenth century to today. It has had a massive effect on the history of Christmas gift-giving. Before the poem gained wide popularity, American ideas had varied considerably about Saint Nicholas and other Christmastide visitors. A Visit from St. Nicholas eventually was set to music and has been recorded by many artists.

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  MILF's Masquerade : Real MILFs 5...

  Tori Westwood

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  The Masquerade Ball was an annual party my boss held at his huge house and it gave some of us in his office the chance to dress up and pretend. I'd got my friend's younger one Dylan a job there a few months ago but he'd told me he couldn't make the party, so when the guy who I've just serviced takes off his mask to reveal himself I'm more than a little shocked to discover it's Dylan.We've already done something naughty, we might as well do something naughtier! Listen as I make him mine.

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  Edna Ferber: The Maternal Feminine

  Edna Ferber

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  Edna Ferber was an American novelist, short story writer and playwright. Her novels were popular in her lifetime and included the Pulitzer Prize-winning So Big (1924), Show Boat (1926; made into the celebrated 1927 musical), Cimarron (1929; made into the 1931 film which won the Academy Award for Best Picture), and Giant (1952; made into the 1956 Hollywood movie). In this short story she explores the essence of human maternal and feminine feelings and actions. How they interact and produce both emotional pain and joy.

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  The Duel

  Anton Chekhov

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  The plot centres around Laevsky, who is living in a small seaside town in the Caucasus after running away with another man's wife, Nadyezhda Fyodorovna, amid dreams of starting a new life.The dreams have come to nothing as Laevsky idles away his life drinking and playing cards, and Nadyezhda begins to have other affairs.Laevsky's scheme to run away again, this time without his mistress, brings him into conflict with the rationalist Von Koren, who believes in Darwinian principles of natural selection and extinction of the weak and useless.Matters come to a head when an outburst from Laevsky leads to a duel. Von Koren is determined to teach Laevksy a lesson. (Introduction by Phil)

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  The One Night Dash

  MJ Fields

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  Noelle: By day, I sell stories in my bookstore. By night, I'm writing my own spicy romcoms. My books are my escape. 
   
  In college, athletes were never my type. Not when the risk of letting someone that close always outweighs the reward. Which is why Dash Sterling, the hockey player who made lit class bearable, the guy whom I introduced to my then-best friend, was never even on my radar. 
   
  Now, one spilled coffee, one ruined dress, and he's suddenly everywhere. And worse? He's looking at me like I’m the story he wants to write. 
   
  Dash: I've been a goner for Noelle Pembrooke since the first day of lit class. She challenged me, made me laugh, and made me want more than I thought I deserved. But she never looked my way—not really. So, when she introduced me to her best friend, I let myself settle. A situationship, nothing real, nothing close to what I could have felt for her. 
   
  Now we're both in New York, our lives colliding again, and this time, I'm not standing on the sidelines. Noelle may secretly write her spicy romance full of happy-ever-afters, but luckily for me, she still hasn't found hers. 
   
  Some stories aren't just written. They are fought for. 
   
  Contains mature themes.

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