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  The Island of Dr Moreau

  H. G. Wells

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  Ranked among the classic novels of the English language and the inspiration for several unforgettable movies, this early work of H. G. Wells was greeted in 1896 by howls of protest from reviewers, who found it horrifying and blasphemous. They wanted to know more about the wondrous possibilities of science shown in his first book, The Time Machine, not its potential for misuse and terror. In The Island of Dr. Moreau, a shipwrecked gentleman named Edward Prendick, stranded on a Pacific island lorded over by the notorious Dr. Moreau, confronts dark secrets, strange creatures, and a reason to run for his life.While this riveting tale was intended to be a commentary on evolution, divine creation, and the tension between human nature and culture, modern readers familiar with genetic engineering will marvel at Wells's prediction of the ethical issues raised by producing "smarter" human beings or bringing back extinct species. These levels of interpretation add a richness to Prendick's adventures on Dr. Moreau's island of lost souls without distracting from what is still a rip-roaring good read.

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  How to Pronounce Knife - Stories

  Souvankham Thammavongsa

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  Named one of The New York Times' "7 New Books to Watch Out for in April", this revelatory debut story collection from O. Henry Award winner Souvankham Thammavongsa honors characters struggling to find their bearings far from home, even as they do the necessary "grunt work of the world." 
  In the title story of Souvankham Thammavongsa's debut collection, a young girl brings a book home from school and asks her father to help her pronounce a tricky word, a simple exchange with unforgettable consequences. Thammavongsa is a master at homing in on moments like this—moments of exposure, dislocation, and messy feeling that push us right up against the limits of language. 
  The stories that make up How to Pronounce Knife focus on characters struggling to build lives in unfamiliar territory, or shuttling between idioms, cultures, and values. A failed boxer discovers what it truly means to be a champion when he starts painting nails at his sister's salon. A young woman tries to discern the invisible but immutable social hierarchies at a chicken processing plant. A mother coaches her daughter in the challenging art of worm harvesting. 
  In a taut, visceral prose style that establishes her as one of the most striking and assured voices of her generation, Thammavongsa interrogates what it means to make a living, to work, and to create meaning.

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  A Mile High Engagement

  Cassidy Coal

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  Sarah Baxter is engaged! And she couldn't be happier. One teensy, tiny problem - she forgot to tell her family. And they may not be as thrilled as she is.
  
  ©2015 M.L. Humphrey (P)2016 M.L. Humphrey

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  Runaway Kid

  Afaf Tobala

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  الهروب لا يولد إلا هروبًا.. فقط المواجهة هي التي تطرح حلولًا.. هكذا يردد بطل الرواية الذى هرب من البيت بسبب الخلافات الاسرية، وبعد محاولات كثيرة للعيش بعيدًا عن أسرته، قرر العودة وتحمل مسئولية دعم الترابط الأسري، سواء تحت مظلة الزواج أو بعد الانفصال.

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  Burning Wheel

  Aldous Huxley

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  Though Aldous Huxley is best known for his later novels and essays, he started his writing career as a poet. The Burning Wheel is his first work, a collection of thirty poems that pay homage in style to poets who wrote in the Romantic or the French symbolist styles. Many of the poems deal with themes of light, darkness, sight, music, art, war, and idealism vs. realism. Though the optimism in his early works waned as he became older, his characteristically optimistic and determined point of view shines through.  - Summary by Mary KayThe last poem was read collaboratively by ezwa, AlgyPug and Larry Wilson.

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  Bartleby the Scrivener (version 2)

  Herman Melville

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  Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street is a novella by the American novelist Herman Melville (1819–1891). It first appeared anonymously in two parts in the November and December 1853 editions of Putnam's Magazine, and was reprinted with minor textual alterations in his The Piazza Tales in 1856. ( Summary by Wikipedia )

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