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  Grandmother and the Priests -...

  Taylor Caldwell

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  New York Times Bestseller: In Victorian Britain, an affluent woman hosts a group of Catholic priests in her home—and listens as they tell their stories. Rose, a young girl visiting her grandmother, sits among eleven priests from Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. As each guest shares the most challenging moments of their vocations, tests of faith that have brought them face-to-face with the miseries, temptations, and evils that lurk beyond the peaceful confines of the rectory, their worldly, wealthy hostess and her granddaughter come to learn the struggles and outcomes of these confrontations with the human condition. “The priests themselves represent a mixed lot—men of exalted backgrounds, culture, worldly experience, who have found their hardest task bringing themselves down to the humble people of their flocks; men who understand only the intellectual, realistic aspects of their faith—and must learn to accept the mystical as well; men who hide their saintliness under uncouth exteriors, who learn the hard way to love their fellow men, who encounter devils as well as saints, murderers, sinners. . . . Lively reading.” —Kirkus Reviews

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  Our Mutual Friend

  Charles Dickens

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  A satiric masterpiece about the allure and peril of money, Our Mutual Friend revolves around the inheritance of a dust-heap where the rich throw their trash. When the body of John Harmon, the dust-heap's expected heir, is found in the Thames, fortunes change hands surprisingly, raising to new heights "Noddy" Boffin, a low-born but kindly clerk who becomes "the Golden Dustman." Charles Dickens's last complete novel, Our Mutual Friend encompasses the great themes of his earlier works: the pretensions of the nouveaux riches, the ingenuousness of the aspiring poor, and the unfailing power of wealth to corrupt all who crave it. With its flavorful cast of characters and numerous subplots, Our Mutual Friend is one of Dickens's most complex—and satisfying—novels

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  Lizzie Leigh

  Elizabeth Gaskell

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  The trope of the "fallen woman" has been a constant presence in world literature for centuries. Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell breathes new life into that tired archetype in the engaging short story "Lizzie Leigh," in which love ultimately triumphs even in the face of the most formidable odds.

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  Sherlock Holmes: Murders on the...

  Pennie Mae Cartawick

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  This is an enhanced audiobook with a complete music score and extensive sound effects to add to your listening experience...Murder, Murder.The scream echoed down the hallway, shaking me from my slumber and into the dim vision of the electric lights. Someone was banging on the door, and Watson scrambled to open it. I was bleary-eyed, still feeling a bit desensitized when Evelyn Reed burst in to the door.Her hands were covered with odious red, and tears streaked across her reddened face. "There's been a murder!" She repeated.

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  Whirligigs

  O. Henry

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  A Little Aural - An Erotic Short...

  Zak Jane Keir

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  She calls in to talk dirty every time he does his show on pirate radio, and their on-air flirtations are growing hotter by the night. Every single listener seems to be getting off on the chemistry between the two of them, but is there something she hasn’t told him about herself? And will they ever meet up in real life?This erotic short story from Zak Jane Keir contains explicit language of a highly sexual nature and is only suitable for a mature, open-minded adult audience.

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