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  Short stories - as life writes them

  B. Mich. Grosch

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  In this volume 32 short stories, as life itself writes them. They take the reader from Germany to Switzerland, to Cameroon - even as far away as India and even Tibet. Some cheerful, some sad, but all entertaining and thought-provoking. The author endeavours to use polished, elevated language and is far removed from today's unfortunately often used 'telegram style'. 
  Spoken by AI's Sonia Neural and Ryan Neural.

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  Healing Hearts

  Kimberly Thomas

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  Andrea is at the top of her game as a social media guru. But then an unexpected tragedy strikes, and she's called back to the one place she vowed never to return to. 
   
   
   
  Going back to Oak Harbor meant returning to the source of her pain. She wasn't planning on staying. Why would she when the one person who hurt her the most, the one person whose validation she's needed more than anything has passed? 
   
   
   
  But, when her sister, Cora needs help to care for their sick mother and to run the family business, she has no choice but to extend her stay. She is forced to address her resentment toward her mother and her feeling of abandonment from her sister. 
   
   
   
  An old flame resurfaces and threatens her perfect relationship with her daughter. When news comes that he has died, Andrea is faced with a dilemma—tell her daughter the truth or take it to her grave. 
   
   
   
  And when an opportunity for love starts out with a crash she is hesitant to dive into this uncharted territory. 
   
   
   
  How will Andrea navigate the different relationships she's had to deal with since her return to Oak Harbor? Can she save her relationship with her daughter if she tells her the truth? 
   
   
   
  Can she have the ending she's always dreamed of?

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  Instrument of War An

  Martin Hicks

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  It is August 1863 and the Confederate Navy Cruiser Palmetto escapes from Charleston harbour to resume her career as a raider, hunting the shipping of the United States. The succeeding months see her range the Atlantic Ocean before facing a wild passage of Cape Horn, as her Captain Thomas Grover steers his ship for the Orient, seeking ever more victims in his mission to cripple the overseas commerce of the enemy. 
  Martin Hicks lives in Fraserburgh in Aberdeenshire Scotland and began writing after a career in education. “An Instrument of War,” the sequel to “Palmetto,” is his tenth book, all of them set in the war of 1861-65. He is currently working on the third and final book of the “Palmetto” series. 
  By the same author: 
  A Gathering of Soldiers 
  Hard Passage North 
  The Rappahannock Line 
  Mirage of Victory 
  The Bitterest Enemy 
  A Season for Killing 
  A Deepening Twilight 
  Bond of Blood 
  Palmetto

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  Night-time Stories

  Yen-Yen Lu

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  A child waits for the tooth fairy; a mother spends a night watching a recording of the previous night; two women face the ghosts that haunted their grandmothers. The nights in these ten stories are thick and substantial, ambiguous and alluring.
  
  Eerie, magical, hushed and surprisingly alive, this anthology shows the night as a place where connections are made and daylit lives can be changed.

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  Lets Roll Out A Circle

  Shobha Viswanath

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  "Rosa, Gulla, their cousins, and uncles are going to make rotis with Amma. But can any of them get
  the correct shape? See if you can identify the shapes of their rotis. The Rosa Gulla series introduces
  early-learning concepts to children. With cheerful illustrations and relatable characters, this book
  introduces children to shapes."

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  The Dreaming

  Andre Bagoo

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  These stories have the virtue of taking the everyday lives of gay Trinidadian men utterly for granted in their searches for adventure, pleasure, self-realisation, loving contact and sex. Written with a sharpness of perception and in a variety of engaging personal voices, these narratives find room for humour, tragic haircuts, and a connection between tattoos and terrible poetry. But they also acknowledge very real fears in a society where there is still prejudice, discrimination and homophobic violence. The narrator of several of these pieces is a writer who wants to focus on the pleasures and inner dramas of these lives as the truth about gay experience. But there are also the stories of brutal murders reported with coy innuendo in the press. If he is tempted to see his lovers as characters in a witty fiction of manners, is this the novel that can be written in Trinidad? And since this is Trinidad, could the conflicted, self-hating Dorian really be a serial killer? But then when one of Bagoo's writer narrators unwittingly alarms his writing buddies by the freedom of his gothic imagination, who knows what might be true. Not for nothing does the author include the singer Kate Bush with her Wuthering Heights in his acknowledgements. Bagoo's stories offer a witty and incisive portrait of contemporary Trinidad in all its intersections of race, class and gender politics. Not least, they have a strong sense of place – Bagoo's gay Woodbrook offers a fine sequel to V.S. Naipaul's Woodbrook in his classic Miguel Street.

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