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  The History of the Man in Black

  Oliver Goldsmith

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  Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774) was an Irish novelist, playwright and poet. In The History of the Man in Black he describes the cynical journey of a generous and benevolent young man from dire pecuniary circumstances to riches, achieved by divesting himself of any moral considerations for others.

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  Doug Bradley's Spinechillers...

  H.P. Lovecraft, M. R. James,...

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  This triumphant final volume of Spinechillers begins with Doug Bradley's personal guide to the writers and the history of the stories.M.R. James' classic Number 13 starts off this volume with a mystery about a disappearing and reappearing hotel room, can you guess the room number?Story two is the tale of a cat that can not only talk, but spills secrets that should have been truly left behind.Next, we present one of the most famous stories by H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu.  Doug transports you into Lovecraft's world of indescribable horror, accompanied by Alistair Lock's outstanding orchestral score.Edgar Allan Poe's well-known allegory on our mortality, The Masque of the Red Death, follows.Then Jeffrey Combs reads the concluding part of Lovecraft's Herbert West: Reanimator series, The Tomb Legions.Finishing up Volume 13 is Poe's 1843-penned poem, "The Conqueror Worm".

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  Ozma of Oz

  L. Frank Baum

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  Readers of all ages will welcome the chance to be reunited with Dorothy Gale and such beloved characters as the Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and Cowardly Lion, as well as to meet new favorites such as the Hungry Tiger, whose appetite is never satisfied; Princess Langwidere, who has thirty heads; Billina, a talking chicken; and Tiktok, a mechanical man.Blown overboard while sailing with her uncle, Dorothy finds herself in the fairy realm of Ev. She sets out with her friends to rescue the Queen of Ev and her ten children, who have been imprisoned by the cruel Nome King. But even Ozma, the wise Ruler of Oz, is no match for the clever king, and it's up to Dorothy to save everyone from terrible danger. But will the Nome King's enchantments be too much even for the plucky little girl from Kansas?

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  Youth

  Joseph Conrad

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  Born in 1857 in Poland, Joseph Conrad became a British citizen just before he turned 30. 
   
  In the intervening years he lost both parents; becoming an orphan at 11 being thereafter raised by an uncle, who at 16 let the boy go to Marseille where he began to work on merchant ships though at times it included stints gun running and the intrigue of political conspiracy.   
   
  At age 36 his life turned from one of ships to one of literary pursuit.  Conrad brought to English Literature both a further layer of style and a deeper examination of the human psyche in a wealth of work. He wrote many novels, rightly regarded today, as some of the finest in English literature.   
   
  Among their canon are Lord Jim, Nostromo, The Shadow Line and of course Heart Of Darkness.

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  The Circus in Winter

  Cathy Day

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  Over a half century, a small Indiana town hosts a circus troupe during the off-seasons in linked stories “as graceful as any acrobat’s high-wire act” (San Francisco Chronicle). 
   
  A Story Prize Finalist 
   
  From 1884 to 1939, the Great Porter Circus made the unlikely choice to winter in an Indiana town called Lima, a place that feels as classic as Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, and as wondrous as a first trip to the Big Top. In Lima, an elephant can change the course of a man's life—or the manner of his death. Jennie Dixianna entices men with her dazzling Spin of Death and keeps them in line with secrets locked in a cedar box. The lonely wife of the show’s manager has each room of her house painted like a sideshow banner, indulging her desperate passion for a young painter. And a former clown seeks consolation from his loveless marriage in his post-circus job at Clown Alley Cleaners. In this collection of linked stories spanning decades, Cathy Day follows the circus people into their everyday lives and brings the greatest show on earth to the page. 
   
  “[An] exquisite story collection.” —The Washington Post 
   
  “Often funny, always graceful, and rich with a mix of historical and imaginative detail.” —Tim O’Brien, author of The Things They Carried 
   
  “Sublimely imaginative and affecting.” —The Boston Globe

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  That's the Ticket & Voices in...

  Mary Clark

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  Acclaimed suspense writer Mary Higgins Clark presents two short stories narrated by her daughter Carol: "That's the Ticket!"Ernie and Wilma Bean have finally made it! Their lucky number has won the special Christmas lottery. Wilma is out of town, though, and it's tough to keep news like that a secret for too long. It couldn't hurt to celebrate a little with Loretta Thistlebottom, could it?"Voices in the Coal Bin"The country cabin where Mike spent so many idyllic summers with his grandmother ought to be the perfect place for his wife, Laurie, to recover from the nightmares of her childhood. But now that Mike and Laurie have arrived, what could be causing such an ominous feeling to come over both of them?

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