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  Old Faces: Yet More Tales from...

  Edward Forde Hickey

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  This book portrays a closely-knit group of people living in the north Tipperary hills during the early 20th century - a community largely made up of small farmers, whose lives were far different from today. The book's inspiration comes from writers such as Thomas Hardy and attempts to pass on to readers the lyrical and rich phrasings of Tipperary's old hill folk and capture the spiritual wealth of an age that remained unchanged for several centuries.  
  Tales of . . . brotherly love and hate, a rogue's return from across the sea and his efforts to reform, an unexpected first-love at the harvest-time dance-in-the-fields, persecution of two old saints at the hands of misguided youth, sports-day activities for adults and children alike following the arduous channelling of a new stream, two adventurous toddlers getting lost in the wilderness but saved by a witch, and more.  
  'Lovers of literature will find themselves engrossed in the lives of a past hillside community.'  Addison & Cole

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  The Haunting of the Necromancer

  Rachel Lawson

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  A hilarious farce. 
  When the king of the grim reapers's son needs help to take a ghost haunting his home, he asks his father to help remove it but was it a mistake.Good Quotes From The Haunting of the Necromancer 
  "We are not fake anythings!" said Lance. 
  "I could debate that with you," said Blake. 
  "Where is the ghost?" Blake said changing the subject. 
  "Now I have a ghost and a grim reaper in my lounge room!" said Lance infuriated. 
  "Grand Reaper? What's that?" the ghost asked. 
  "Another name for a couch potato!" Lance hissed, 
  "Dork why you shouting," said Junior walking in the room. 
  "Oh, he's no bother, he has good taste! Anyone who likes Neighbours is alright with me" Blake said. 
  "You sure this isn't The Munsters!" Blake asked. 
  "I want to watch this!" said the ghost standing up. 
  "Quit it stop using the voice let him watch this!" Blake said. 
  "He is a ghost he shouldn't be watching soapies!" said Lance. 
  "Dork!” snapped Junior in protest.

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  The Dark Side of Sci-Fi - 15...

  Philip K. Dick, Ian Gordon,...

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  A collection of speculative fiction stories, concerning extraterrestrials, other worlds, and bleak futures. 
  Contents: 
  "Fessenden's Worlds" by E. Hamilton (Weird Tales 1937) 
  A man creates a miniature universe. 
  "The Hanging Stranger" by P. K. Dick (SF Adventures 1953) 
  A man happens upon a body suspended from a lamppost. 
  "The Glass Labyrinth" by S. A. Coblentz (WT 1943) 
  A tale of time and dimensions. 
  "The Transgressor" by H. Kuttner (WT 1939) 
  A curious invention... 
  "The Red God Laughed" by T. McClusky (WT 1939) 
  Following the extinction of the human race... 
  "The Crystal Egg" by H. G. Wells (New Review 1897) 
  An object that serves as a window into the planet Mars. 
  "Beyond the Wall of Sleep" by H. P. Lovecraft (Pine Cones 1919) 
  Strange slumbers in the Catskill Mountains. 
  "The Fear Experiment" by I. Gordon (HorrorBabble 2018) 
  A dark experiment in Georgia. 
  "Old Rambling House" by F. Herbert (Galaxy SF 1958) 
  All they wanted was a home they could call their own... 
  "There is a Reaper ..." by C. V. De Vet (Imagination 1953) 
  What awaits us after death? 
  "In the World's Dusk" by Edmond Hamilton (WT 1936) 
  The last survivor of the human race. 
  "The Supernumerary Corpse" by C. A. Smith (WT 1932) 
  Jasper Trilt was dead—but... 
  "2 B R 0 2 B" by K. Vonnegut, Jr. (If 1962) 
  Death becomes a voluntary act. 
  "The Ultimate Experiment" by T. DeKy (Comet 1941) 
  Robots—the children of men. 
  "The Red One" by J. London (Cosmopolitan 1918) 
  Worshippers of something strange in the jungle.

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  The Best That You Can Do - Stories

  Amina Gautier

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  Winner of the 2023 Soft Skull-Kimbilio Publishing Prize, a collection of short stories that elaborate the realities of a diasporic existence, split identities, and the beautiful potency of meaningful connections 
   
   
   
  Primarily told from the perspective of women and children in the Northeast who are tethered to fathers and families in Puerto Rico, these stories explore the confusion of being one person in two places—of having a mother who wants your father and his language to stay on his island but sends you there because you need to know your family. Loudly and joyfully filled with Cousins, Aunts, Grandparents, and budding romances, these stories are saturated in summer nostalgia, and place listeners at the center of the table to enjoy family traditions and holidays: the resplendent and universal language of survival for displaced or broken families. 
   
   
   
  Refusing to shy away from dysfunction, loss, obligation, or interrogating Black and Latinx heritages, Gautier's stories feature New York neighborhoods made of island nations living with seasonal and perpetual displacement. Like Justin Torres's We the Animals or Quiara Alegria Hudes's My Broken Language, it's the characters-in-becoming—flanked by family and rich with detail—that animate each story with special frequencies, especially for listeners grappling with split-identities themselves.

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  Women of Consequence

  Greg Wolos

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  In these stories, readers will meet women like: the fallen starlet who revives her career by voicing a wretched dog-man in an animated horror film; the surrogate nearing her due date who, hoping for greater profit, runs off to Mexico with her valuable cargo; the meals-on-wheels driver with an eating disorder who survives on bits picked from the dinners of her clients; the casting agent who hires a performance artist to nurse her new baby; the young professional who, seeking eligibility for an exclusive dating service, pretends severe colorblindness; the dangerously protective mother who attempts to destroy her child’s faith in his physical senses. Victims or victimizers, the mothers, daughters, sisters, lovers, friends, and ghostly presences in this collection face their unique circumstances with passion and creativity. Whether or not they find satisfaction, they are all Women of Consequence.

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  Top 10 Short Stories The - Jack...

  Jack London

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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. 
   
  Jack London is widely regarded as one of America’s pre-eminent writers of the great outdoors.  His stories are raw and, at times, harrowing, but always dependable fare.  His work also includes stories on pandemics and bizarre scientific experiments.  An author so much more than the usual wrapper proclaims. 
   
  01 - The Top 10 - Jack London - An Introducution 
  02 - In A Far Country by Jack London 
  03 - A Thousand Deaths by Jack London 
  04 - A Wicked Woman by Jack London 
  05 - The Unparallelled Invasion by Jack London 
  06 - The White Silence by Jack London 
  07 - To Build a Fire by Jack London 
  08 - The Law of Life by Jack London 
  09 - South of the Slot by Jack London 
  10 - An Odyssey of the North - Part 1 by Jack London 
  11 - An Odyssey of the North - Part 2 by Jack London 
  12 -A Piece of Steak by Jack London

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