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  Laughable Loves

  Milan Kundera

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  "An intellectual heavyweight and a pure literary virtuoso, Milan Kundera takes some of Freud's most cherished complexes and irreverently whirls them about in acts of legerdemain that capture our darkest, deepest human passions. . . . The tales in Laughable Loves surprise and illuminate. . . . Kundera's world is complex, full of mockeries and paradoxes. Life is often brutal and humiliating; it is often blasphemous, funny, irritating." — Cleveland Plain Dealer 
  Milan Kundera is a master of graceful illusion and illuminating surprise. In one of these stories a young man and his girlfriend pretend that she is a stranger he picked up on the road—only to become strangers to each other in reality as their game proceeds. In another a teacher fakes piety in order to seduce a devout girl, then jilts her and yearns for God. In yet another girls wait in bars, on beaches, and on station platforms for the same lover, a middle-aged Don Juan who has gone home to his wife. Games, fantasies, and schemes abound in all the stories while different characters react in varying ways to the sudden release of erotic impulses.

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  Dominoes at the Crossroads -...

  Kaie Kellough

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  Dominoes at the Crossroads maps an alternate Canada—one crisscrossed by a Caribbean diaspora seeking music, futures, and portals to their past. 
  In this collection of stories, Kaie Kellough’s characters navigate race, history, and coming-of-age by way of their confessions and dreams. Through the eyes of jazz musicians, hitchhikers, quiet suburbanites, student radicals, secret agents, historians, and their fugitive slave ancestors, Kellough guides us from the cobblestones of Montreal’s Old Port to the foliage of a South American rainforest, from a basement in wartime Paris to an underground antique shop in Montréal during the October Crisis, allowing the force of imagination to tip the balance of time like a line of dominoes.

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  Forgotten Authors The - Women -...

  Louisa Baldwin, Aphra Behn,...

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  Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society. 
  In literature the ambition is much narrower.  In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published.  And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading.  Obviously for most of humanity’s time people couldn’t read and texts couldn’t be published in any great number. 
  In the 15th Century Gutenberg’s printing press began the revolution to address the second and by the 19th century had gathered pace with startling speed and mass distribution.  Education for the many was brought in to help people understand more of their world and, with new skills, how to have a better place within it.  Now, if the powers that owned the presses and means of distribution agreed an audience would now be able to avail themselves of your ideas, your printed words.  
  All too often the talents of women have been scorned, mocked and laughed at.  In reality that was more usually by those who’s own talents were hardly fit to even grace their shadows.   
  But society in general still connived and set women to one side in almost everything that men considered their rightful territory.  And literature was one such territory.  Remarkably resilient as well as talented these women strove to be published, to show themselves as equals.  The results more often than not proved that they were.   
  Sadly, in the thirst for the new, the recent and the past fell from sight, relegated to dark corners and dusty shelves.    
  But the printed word is rarely without someone, somewhere busying themselves through piles of papers and books rediscovering what a good story is, whatever its age. 
  In this volume we offer up a small selection of talents whose time has now come again.

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  Fables for Adults - Anyone who...

  Fanny Kemble Johnson, Henry...

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  As we grow from child to adult we are usually told short stories which soften and help us understand the vital information a story has to impart.  It’s a clever concept by saying one thing―many times with an animal protagonist―and meaning another.  In adult years these stories continue along the same lines but what they are really saying is that what you see is not always what you get. 
   
  Words from the pens of Oscar Wilde, Leo Tolstoy, Henry James and others really can illuminate and explain subjects difficult to broach. 
   
  1 - Fables for Adults - An Introduction 
  2 - The Devoted Friend by Oscar Wilde 
  3 - The Altar of the Dead - Part 1 by Henry James 
  4 - The Altar of the Dead - Part 2 by Henry James 
  5 - How Much Land Does A Man Need by Leo Tolstoy 
  6 - The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde 
  7 - The Rewards of Industry by Richard Garnett 
  8 - The Lightning Rod Man by Herman Melville 
  9 - The Man Who Hated God by Winifred Holtby 
  10 - The Strange Looking Man by Fanny Kemble Johnson 
  11 - The Model Millionaire by Oscar Wilde 
  12 - How a Muzhik Fed Two Officials by Nikolai Schedrin 
  13 - The Nightingale and the Rose by Oscar Wilde 
  14 - The Tale Of The Stairs by Hristo Smirenski 
  15 - The Juniper Tree by The Brothers Grimm 
  16 - The Three Palaces by Richard Garnett 
  17 - The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde 
  18 - Jeannot and Colin by Voltaire

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  All Soul's Eve - From their pens...

  Dora Sigerson Shorter

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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 Dora Sigerson Shorter.

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  Vegas Bride

  Kameron Claire

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  He’s the ultimate wingman who doesn’t remember last night. She’s a crisis management specialist who remains calm despite waking up besides a stranger. Can the morning after turn into forever after for two people who have more in common than they think? 
  Scott: This is why I don’t drink tequila. I wake up next to a gorgeous, naked woman, and I have no idea what we have or haven’t done, which includes getting married. I’d be freaking out if my new, maybe bride, wasn’t so damn cool. She’s my perfect match, calm and rational, yet definitely willing to live-in-the-moment. But is she willing to create a lifetime of moments with me? 
  Lish: What a crazy morning! I wake up next to a hard and ready man whose name I can’t remember. But I’m not worried, because I know me, and he’s exactly the kind of man I would’ve seduced on the dance floor last night. What a shame neither of us remember what we may or may not have done… maybe he’s willing to make new memories? 
  Each book in the series is a complete, standalone story. This is a steamy short contemporary romance, complete with instalove and a guaranteed happily-ever-after. If you're looking for a great lunchtime read, or something to spark sexy dreams before bed, you’ll want to pick this one up. 
  Vegas Nights Series: Vegas Bachelorette, Vegas Bride, Vegas Baby, and Vegas Vixen

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