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  The Man with Many Names - Stories

  Georgi Gospodinov

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  Brimming with his signature warmth and wisdom, the Booker Prize–winning author of Time Shelter returns with a brilliant new collection of stories. 
   
  Written over three decades, The Man with Many Names gathers the best of renowned author Georgi Gospodinov’s short fiction into a single new volume. Exhibiting the author at his most playful and profound, the collection captures the peculiarities of existence across forty-one tales set in and around his beloved Bulgaria: In “A Second Story,” strangers pass their time on a train through the Balkans telling stories only to be lost in translation; in “The Late Gift,” an unhoused man becomes convinced he’s on television one frigid New Year’s Eve; and in “Blind Vaysha,” a sightless woman can see into the past and future—one through each eye. Haunting these pages is a flaneur named Gaustine, a familiar trickster known to longtime Gospodinov fans. With bold leaps through time and place, and masterfully translated by Angela Rodel, this is another wildly inventive contribution from “one of the indispensable writers of our times” (International Booker Prize Jury).

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  Before the Slipper: The Prince -...

  Freya Collins

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  Before the Slipper 
  Book One of the Ever After, Unbound Series 
  By Freya Collins 
  Ella was never waiting to be rescued. 
  Long before the glass slipper became legend, she was the daughter of a royal advisor—a woman raised to understand power, law, and the quiet machinery of kingdoms. But after her father’s death, Ella finds herself trapped in a household balanced on appearances, burdened by debts the crown ignored and a future shrinking by the day. 
  Then the king announces a three-night ball to choose his queen. 
  Edmund remembers the girl who once challenged magistrates at ten years old and saw people where others saw spectacle. Ella remembers the boy who listened. When they meet again beneath the chandeliers of the palace they both once called home, what begins is not a fairy tale rescue, but a reckoning. 
  As hidden petitions surface and old loyalties are tested, Ella and Edmund must decide whether love can survive inside the systems that failed them—or whether they are strong enough to remake those systems together. 
  Elegant, emotionally rich, and deeply human, Before the Slipper reimagines Cinderella as a story about recognition, partnership, and the quiet courage of people who keep their promises. 
  Perfect for listeners who love:literary fairy tale retellingsslow-burn romanceemotionally intelligent characterspolitical and court intriguegrounded fantasy with mature emotional depth 
  A beautifully crafted short-form audio story perfect for a single immersive listening session.

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  Sleep Stories for Adults - 83...

  Corie Herolds

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  Does It takes you a long time to fall asleep? 
  Do you wake up many times during the night? 
  Are you afraid of feeling tired the next day? 
    
  If so - you’ve recognized yourself in one or more of these situations - you’re in terrible need of bedtime stories for adults. Specifically designed for stressed-out and anxious adults with sleep problems, these relaxing tales automatically melt away your stress once you start listening to them.  
  It’s easy as it sounds. You don't have to struggle to relax and fall asleep. Whatever your favorite genres are (like fantasy, mystery, adventure...), here, you’ll find bread for your teeth: stories that’ll make you "escape" from reality, forget everyday problems, and finally sleep deeply. 
  In this book, you will:Find useful tips to relieve stress before going to sleep to help you relax and sleep easier.Understand what hypnosis is and how it can help you relaxing and realizing what makes you stressed and anxious, to heal and overcome these issues.Discover how meditation helps you overcome insomnia by improving your sleep quality and minimizing daytime disorder in older adults and chronic insomnia people.Be amazed by relaxing bedtime stories that will help you find time for quiet sleeping, thanks to the serenity climate they give you. That will allow you to relax, abandoning the agitation that too often disturbs the moment of falling asleep, making it difficultAnd lot more! 
    
  Imagine the warm and relaxing narrator’s voice calming you down, over and over again.... As if you were being lulled by the waves. Until you can no longer move - you’re deeply relaxed, you’re in heaven. Sleep like a baby from tonight, and finally feel recharged. 
  Scroll to the top of the page, select the buy now button, and start sleeping like you deserve!

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  Casting the Runes - From their...

  M R James

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  Montague Rhodes James is cited as perhaps the greatest English writer of ghost stories, an opinion few would disagree with. 
  James was born on 1st August 1862 at Goodnestone Parsonage in Kent, where his father was Curate but at age 3 the family went to live at Livermere, near Bury St Edmunds in East Anglia.  
  From early childhood he had a passion for mediaeval books and antiques. He was educated initially as a boarder at Temple Grove School in East Sheen, west London, before gaining a scholarship to Eton and thence Cambridge where he gained a double first, becoming a distinguished linguist and mediaevalist.  
  Before the Great War vacations were usually spent touring Europe absorbing cultures and references for his later writing. 
  A man of enormous knowledge it was said he timed his breakfast egg whilst he completed the Times crossword.  
  Many of his elegant yet terrifying tales were created by discarding the prevailing gothic cliches and placing his characters and narrative in a realistic setting.  Thereby the stories gained atmosphere and menace on a grand scale and he was famed as the originator of the antiquarian ghost story. 
  Although story-telling and writing these 30 or so tales was a hobby, when published their effect transformed the genre and still chill the bones in our more modern times. 
  James was also a medievalist scholar and translator whose work remains highly respected. He was also Provost of Eton College between 1918 and 1936. 
  M R James died on 12th June 1936 at Eton in Buckinghamshire.  He was 73.

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  Dronethology Three

  Paul A. Hernandez

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  Dronethology Three Description 
  From fire rescues to grand robberies, from swarms on the battlefront to marriage proposals, drones are going to be used everywhere for almost every conceivable thing, and many inconceivable. 
  In this volume I try to bring as many new ideas as possible; from a man telling the tale how he earned his grubstake to his grandson, to a crew hunting down a the dreaded and feared, Meglodon, off Hawaii. 
  There is the matter of a very strange hummingbird, to an electronic scarecrow. And then of course there are the corrupt and more corrupt government contracts, the hunt for the ever elusive Yeti, and even some governmental representatives hunting down the ever elusive unicorn. 
  Come, turn a few pages and see if you can get lost from the real world and slide into mine, at least for a little while and forget what is beyond your door for a bit. 
  Thank You for investing some of your time with me. 
  Paul A. Hernandez 
  The Author

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  A Nocturne - From their pens to...

  Clothilde Graves

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  Clotilde Augusta Inez Mary Graves was born on the 3rd June 1863 at Buttevant Castle, Co. Cork, to parents with military backgrounds. 
  At age nine, the family moved to Southsea in England for yet another military posting.  Her father’s postings gave her valuable experiences that would be put to good use in later years in some of her literary works. 
  She was educated at a Catholic convent in Lourdes before returning to London in 1884 to study art in Bloomsbury.  She worked part-time at the British Museum and the Royal Female School of Art and generated further income by drawing little pen-and-ink grotesques for the comic papers.  
  A few years later a chance meeting found her writing extra lyrics for a pantomime version of Puss in Boots.  She followed up with several financially successful plays, both in London and New York, and gained a measure of notoriety in one with the comparison of marriage and prostitution.   
  Despite her dramatic success she published her first novel in 1911 under the pseudonym of Richard Dehan which she continued to use for later works.  As well as novels and plays she published collections of short stories which glow with talent and invention. 
  She was an unusual figure in London society, wearing her hair short, taking on a masculine manner and cut of clothing, and smoking cigarettes in public when such traits were considered eccentric at best.  Add to this her admired collection of Chinese and Japanese trophies, her enthusiasm for fly-fishing and her riding of a tricycle and you have a perfect image of this fascinating writer. 
  Clotilde Graves died at the convent of Our Lady of Lourdes at Hatch End in Middlesex, on the 3rd December 1932.  She was 69.

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