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  Love Served with Injera - Modern...

  Gaby Van Horn, Sium Mogos

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  Love Served with Injera is a warm, intimate family story told through the eyes of nine-year-old Binyam, who is curious about how his parents—and their worlds—came together. 
  Through Binyam’s perspective, listeners are drawn into the story of Danielle and Daniel: their meeting, their differences, and the everyday moments where love, humor, and misunderstanding quietly shape a family. Food, memory, and culture move through the background as the story explores what it means to belong to more than one world at once. 
  This edition offers the English-only storytelling experience, designed for listeners who want to sink into the narrative without stopping to study or translate. Whether you’re familiar with Habesha culture or encountering it for the first time, Love Served with Injera is a story about family, connection, and the stories we inherit—and retell.

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  The Viewing Party

  Yong Shu Hoong

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  Singapore Literature Prize winner Yong Shu Hoong’s latest book features more than just poetry. There is also a ghostly tale at its core, complete with prose poems and micro fiction of exactly 100 words each, as well as annotated excerpts from an abandoned work. 
   
  In this viewing party, readers are invited to take a peek into the domain of death and cinema. You are part of a mob of dispassionate onlookers. Sometimes, you get to play the voyeuristic judge. 
   
  Winner of the 2014 Singapore Literature Prize for English Poetry 
   
  “There’s a warm easiness to Yong’s voice that’s balanced by a sharpness of insight. He cuts through the layers of familial and social habit to the unseen images and urges that give the mundane the sheen of the numinous. If the book is a viewing party, Yong is a genial and attentive host, inviting us in to absorbing scenes of everyday curiosity and surprise.” 
  -Jen Crawford, Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Creative Writing Programme at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

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  Long Odds - From their pens to...

  H Rider aggard

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  Sir Henry Rider Haggard, KBE was born on June 22nd, 1856 at Bradenham in Norfolk, England.   
  After his education he was pushed towards an Army career but failed the entrance exam. Next Haggard was positioned to work for the British Foreign Office but he seems not to have sat that exam.  Using family connections, he was sent to Southern Africa by his father in search of a further opportunity of a career. 
  Haggard spent six years there before a return to England and marriage.  He had begun to write and publish some non-fiction in Africa but it was only after studying Law in the hope it might prove to be the proper career his father wanted for him that Haggard began to write fiction, using his African experiences as the basis.   
  His first fiction was published in 1885 and the following year King Solomon’s Mines was published. It was a phenomenal success. His career was set. 
  Haggard wrote well and wrote often. He managed to sympathise with the local populations even though they were exploited and manipulated by Europeans intent on amassing fortunes in money, people and resources.  His writing career covered the great sprint to Empire of several European powers and both reflects and criticizes these events through his well-loved characters including Allan Quatermain and Ayesha. 
  In his later years Haggard pursued much in the way social reform as well as standing for Parliament and writing a great many letters to The Times. 
  Henry Rider Haggard died on May 14th, 1925 at the age of 68. His ashes were buried at Ditchingham Church.

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  Heartwarming & Timeless Short...

  Paolo Zocchi

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  Looking for the perfect blend of laughter, warmth, and nostalgia? 
  ✨ Heartwarming & Timeless Stories for Seniors offers a delightful collection of short stories for older adults designed to entertain, uplift, and spark cherished memories. Whether you're enjoying retirement, spending quiet moments alone, or reading aloud with family, this book is crafted to bring joy, comfort, and connection to every page. 
  This gentle, feel-good collection is ideal for seniors, grandparents, caregivers, and readers with dementia or memory loss. With its large print layout, simple sentence structure, and short chapters, it makes a thoughtful gift and a wonderful daily companion.📖 What makes this collection special? 
  ✅ Uplifting and Humorous Short Stories 
  Each tale is written to bring a smile or a warm chuckle—free from crude humor or confusing language. Perfect for light, relaxing reading before bed or over a cup of tea. 
  ✅ Nostalgic, Relatable, and Heartfelt 
  Enjoy stories that celebrate family, love, resilience, and the simple joys of everyday life—told in a voice that feels familiar and comforting. 
  ✅ Perfect for Reading Aloud or Shared Moments 
  Whether you're spending time with a loved one in assisted living, sharing with a book club, or looking for a thoughtful gift, these stories are perfect for sparking conversation and connection. 
  If you're searching for books for elderly parents, wholesome short stories for seniors, or large print books that offer warmth and positivity, this is the perfect choice.

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  The Shot - From their pens to...

  Alexander Puschkin

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  Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was born on 26th May 1799 in Moscow into a family of Russian nobility. 
  Raised by nursemaids and French tutors in French he learnt Russian only via the household staff. 
  He graduated from the prestigious Imperial Lyceum, near St Petersburg and plunged into the vibrant and raucous intellectual youth culture of what was then the capital of the Russian Empire.  
  In 1820, he published his first long poem, ‘Ruslan and Ludmila’, with much controversy about both subject and style.  Pushkin was heavily influenced by the French Enlightenment and gravitated, with other literary radicals, towards social reform angering the Government. 
  His early literary work and reputation was poetic and written as he travelled around the Empire or engaged himself in various rebellions against the Ottoman Empire.  A clash with his own government after his poem, ‘Ode to Liberty’, was found among the belongings of the Decembrist Uprising rebels meant two years of internal exile at his mother's rural estate.  His friends and family continually petitioned for his release, sending letters and meeting with Tsar Alexander I and then Tsar Nicholas I.   
  In 1825, whilst at his Mother’s estate, Pushkin wrote his most famous play, the drama ‘Boris Godunov’.  
  Upon meeting with Tsar Nicholas I, Pushkin obtained his release and began work as the Tsar's Titular Counsel of the National Archives.  However, because of the earlier problems the tsar retained control of everything Pushkin published, and he was banned from travelling at will. 
  Around 1828, Pushkin met the 16-year-old Natalia Goncharova, one of the most talked-about beauties of Moscow.  After much hesitation, Natalia accepted his marriage proposal after she received assurances that the government had no intentions to persecute the libertarian poet.  When the Tsar gave Pushkin the lowest court title, Gentleman of the Chamber, he became enraged, feeling that the Tsar intended to humiliate him. 
  In the year 1831, during Pushkin's growing literary influence, he met Nikolai Gogol.  Recognising his gifts Pushkin supported him and published his short stories in his own magazine ‘The Contemporary’. 
  By the autumn of 1836, Pushkin was falling into greater and greater debt and facing scandalous rumours that his wife was having an affair.  
  In January 1837, Pushkin sent a ‘highly insulting letter’ to his wife’s pursuer, Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d'Anthès.  The only answer could be a challenge to a duel. 
  It took place on 27th January.  D'Anthès fired first, critically wounding Pushkin; the bullet entered at his hip and penetrated his abdomen.  Two days later Alexander Pushkin died of peritonitis.  He was 37.

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  Time Travel Tales & Other Short...

  Remington Kane

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  From Remington Kane, author of the TANNER Series. 
  Time Travel Tales & Other Short Stories contains a dozen tales dealing with time travel, suspense, mystery, and a hit man named Tanner.

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