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  A Touch of Realism

  Saki Saki

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  Lady Blonze is hosting a Christmas party and wants to try a new idea to make it original. Her guest Blanche Boveal suggests a game where each guest has to act as a specific character consistently throughout the visit. At the end, everyone tries to guess each other's characters, and the best actor wins a prize. 
  The story satirizes the upper-class society's attempts to create novel entertainment and their obliviousness to the potential consequences of their games. Saki's signature wit and dark humor are evident in the absurd situations the characters find themselves in while trying to act out their roles.

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  Be This Her Memorial - From...

  Caradoc Evans

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  The bookshelves of British literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors.  From these Isles their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure.  Among them is Caradoc Evans.

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  Avalanche - Stories

  Jessica Westhead

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  "Things used to be easier, but even in those carefree days, the rules were in place for a reason. And that reason is: so we can all agree. So we can all have the same standard applied across the board. So there is no special treatment, which no one should receive. This is why we need the rules." 
   
   
   
  The stories in Avalanche combine humor with an earnest examination and indictment of white entitlement, guilt, shame, and disorientation in the wake of waking up to the reality of racism. Focusing on the perspective of white, cis, straight, and mostly middle-aged and middle-class characters, this collection shines a light on the obliviousness of white privilege, the violence of polite, quiet racism hiding just under the surface of mundane, everyday situations, and the anguished flailing of "well-intentioned white ladies" desperate to confirm their essential goodness at all costs. Westhead writes with compassion and empathy for both her frustrating and frustrated white protagonists and the racialized characters who encounter them, and uses humor not to comfortably distance white readers from the harmful behavior of her self-absorbed protagonists, but to pull them in close to recognize—and reckon with—those familiar parts of themselves, and to become more aware of the insidious systems of white supremacy at work behind the scenes. 
   
   
   
  Bonus material: This audiobook includes the Acknowledgments as supplemental material in printable PDF format.

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  Seeking Fortune Elsewhere - Stories

  Sindya Bhanoo

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  These intimate stories of South Indian immigrants and the families they left behind center women's lives and ask how women both claim and surrender power—a stunning debut collection from an O. Henry Prize winner 
   
   
   
  Traveling from Pittsburgh to Eastern Washington to Tamil Nadu, these stories about dislocation and dissonance see immigrants and their families confront the costs of leaving and staying, identifying sublime symmetries in lives growing apart. 
   
   
   
  In "Malliga Homes," selected by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for an O. Henry Prize, a widow in a retirement community glimpses her future while waiting for her daughter to visit from America. In "No. 16 Model House Road," a woman long subordinate to her husband makes a choice of her own after she inherits a house. In "Nature Exchange," a mother grieving in the wake of a school shooting finds an unusual obsession. In "A Life in America," a professor finds himself accused of having exploited his graduate students. 
   
   
   
  Sindya Bhanoo's haunting stories show us how immigrants' paths, and the paths of those they leave behind, are never simple. Bhanoo takes us along on their complicated journeys where regret, hope, and triumph appear in disguise.

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  Horrid Henry: Magnificent Memoirs

  Lucinda Whiteley

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  The time has come for Henry to spill the Horrid beans, once and for all, and tell the truth about everything with these moodily Magnificent Memoirs.  This is a no holds barred collection of 11 Horrid Henry super stories performed by the show's full cast. The world needs to know the story behind the superstar to beat all superstars, why girls rule and who’s the boss! So let’s turn up the Horrid and enjoy these classic stories with "Climbing Frame", "Moody Margaret, Superstar", "Girls Rule", "Gets The Blame", "President Of The Free World", "Crimson Cutlass", "Red Roof Club", "The Boss", "Girl Talk", "Home Improvement" and "It's My Show". Horridly Brilliant or Brilliantly Horrid? You decide!!

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  Thirteen

  Victoria Dean

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  In Thirteen, Victoria Dean takes the reader on a journey through the multifaceted landscape of horror. This collection of thirteen short stories offers a tryst into the paranormal, the terrors of the mundane, and what the dark shadows may be hiding around every corner. From the heart-pounding battle against a mad serial killer to an unseen evil terrorizing two best friends, and monsters that roam the night, Dean works to explore what fear is all about and what it means to overcome it.

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