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  Aquariums

  J. D. Kurtness

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  An intimate yet wide-sweeping story of a marine biologist working to save ocean ecosystems from climate change.With the world’s oceans ravaged by climate change, Émeraude, a young marine biologist, works to preserve aquatic ecosystems by recreating them for zoos. When her work earns her a spot aboard a research vessel with an extended mission in the Arctic, it is the inescapable draw of the ocean that will save her when the world she leaves behind is irrevocably changed.Stories of Émeraude’s ancestors — a young sailor abandoned at birth, a conjuror who mixes potions for her neighbours, a violent young man who hides in the woods to escape an even more violent war, and a talented young singer born to a mother who cannot speak — weave their way through her intimate reflections on a modest life, unknowingly shaped by those who came before.

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  The Crystal Egg

  H. G. Wells

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  What if an unassuming object in a dusty London shop window was actually a window to another world? 
  In The Crystal Egg, H.G. Wells delivers a chilling, contemplative tale of obsession and cosmic mystery. When Mr. Cave, a reclusive and mistreated shopkeeper, discovers that a strange crystal egg in his possession reveals visions of an alien world, he becomes consumed by the silent vistas of Mars—and the winged beings who may be watching us in return. 
  As the boundary between Earth and the stars blurs, Cave’s hidden observations take on an unsettling clarity. Are we truly alone, or merely unaware of the watchers above? 
  This mesmerizing short story from the father of science fiction explores themes of discovery, alien contact, and the lonely fragility of human life—made all the more haunting by Richard Stibbard’s atmospheric narration.

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  Selective Listening - 20 Short...

  Brian Paone

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  TWENTY TALES OF WHEN THE MACABRE & HUMANITY CLASH 
  Monstrous spiders attack a hotel. A ghost cat that’s part of a paranormal revenge scheme. Two gunslingers refuse to duel. A haunted marine base flightline. A witch barista. A rattlesnake bite that creates multiverses. A fortune teller who is always right and always wrong. A dead, newlywed werewolf in a drainpipe. A mermaid whose captor is using her tail for meat … 
  What do they all have in common? Music inspired the stories in this collection. Some songs are mainstream; others are obscure. Regardless of whether you know the songs, these tales will make you laugh, gasp, tremble, and fill you with childlike nostalgia, while you pull the bedsheets to your eyes to check once more that your closet door isn’t still creaking open by itself …

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  25+ The World's Greatest Short...

  Washington Irving, Edgar Allan...

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  Contents:
  
  - Washington Irving. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
  - Edgar Allan Poe. The Gold Bug
  - Herman Melville. Bartleby, the Scrivener
  - Bret Harte. The Luck of Roaring Camp
  - Leo Tolstoy. The Death of Ivan Ilyich  
  - Fyodor Dostoevsky. The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
  - Rudyard Kipling. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
  - Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The Yellow Wallpaper
  - Anton Chekhov. The Lady with the Dog
  - D.H. Lawrence. The Prussian Officer
  - James Joyce. Araby
  - Ivan Turgenev. First Love
  - Nikolay Gogol. The Mantle
  -  Mikhail Bulgakov. The Embroidered Towel
  - Ivan Bunin. The Gentleman from San Francisco
  - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Carmilla
  - O.Henry. The Gift of the Magi
  - Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
  - Robert Louis Stevenson. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  - H.G. Wells. The Magic Shop
  - W.W. Jacobs. The Monkey's Paw
  - Arthur Conan Doyle. His Last Bow
  - Henry James. Daisy Miller
  - H.P. Lovecraft. The Call of Cthulhu
  - Alexsandr Pushkin. The Queen of Spades
  - G.K. Chesterton. The Blue Cross

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  Oxygen

  Dawn Blair

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  It has to be the janitor. 
  The voice coming through her radio has to be the station's janitor. What other explanation could there be? 
  Unless... 
  No! Ghosts do not exist! 
  Hoping to leave the past behind, Shelly gets in her car and starts driving. But in running away, Shelly encounters an adventure she never expects. 
  It all begins with a strange voice on the radio… 
  A haunting tale of the unexplained from the author of fantasy tales such as Fractured Echo and The Doorway Prince. 
  Come discover what supernatural events await on a lonely highway.

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  The Mirror of the Sea

  Joseph Conrad

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  "Here speaks the man of masts and sails, to whom the sea is not a navigable element, but an intimate companion. The length of passages, the growing sense of solitude, the close dependence upon the very forces that, friendly to-day, without changing their nature, by the mere putting forth of their might, become dangerous to-morrow, make for that sense of fellowship which modern seamen, good men as they are, cannot hope to know." In this volume of essays, more than in any other single work, we get to see clearly just what Joseph Conrad's years working on sail-powered ships meant to him — and they certainly meant a great deal to him, for all Conrad's subsequent fretting that he might be typed as "only" a writer of the sea. This collection is particularly renowned for the lengthy episode titled "The Tremolino", where Conrad gives us, in the character of the real-world Dominic, the model of his fictional Nostromo, as well as an account of personalities and gun-running activities he would later depict in "The Arrow of Gold".

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