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  The Last Suspicious Holdout -...

  Ladee Hubbard

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  The critically acclaimed author of The Rib King returns with an eagerly anticipated collection of interlocking short stories including the title story written exclusively for this volume, that explore relationships between friends, family and strangers in a Black neighborhood over fifteen years 
  The twelve gripping tales In The Last Suspicious Holdout, the new story collection by award-winning author Ladee Hubbard, deftly chronicle poignant moments in the lives of an African American community located in a “sliver of southern suburbia.” Spanning from 1992 to 2007, the stories represent a period during which the Black middle-class expanded while stories of ""welfare Queens,"" ""crack babies,"" and ""super predators"" abounded in the media. In “False Cognates,” a formerly incarcerated attorney struggles with raising the tuition to keep his troubled son in an elite private school. In “There He Go,” a young girl whose mother moves constantly clings to a picture of the grandfather she doesn’t know but invents stories of his greatness. Characters spotlighted in one story reappear in another, providing a stunning testament to the enduring resilience of Black people as they navigate the “post-racial” period The Last Suspicious Holdout so vividly portrays.

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  The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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  "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" is a collection of short stories featuring the iconic detective Sherlock Holmes and his friend Dr. John Watson. First published in 1892, the book includes some of Sherlock Holmes's most famous cases, such as "A Scandal in Bohemia," "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle," and "The Adventure of the Speckled Band." These stories showcase Holmes's unparalleled powers of observation and deduction as he solves various mysteries, from thefts and kidnappings to more complex and unusual crimes.

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  HorrorBabble's Night Terrors -...

  Arthur J. Burks, Henry Kuttner,...

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  A collection of stories exploring the struggles of the unconcious mind. 
  Contents: 
  Vale of the Corbies by Arthur J. Burks (Weird Tales, 1925) 
  Dreams of an unkindness of ravens. 
  A Dream of Red Hands by Bram Stoker (The Sketch, 1894) 
  The sad tale of a man plagued by terrible nightmares. 
  Thirteen Phantasms by Clark Ashton Smith (The Fantasy Magazine, 1936) 
  A series of strange visions torment a sick man. 
  The Lady in Gray by Donald Wandrei (Weird Tales, 1933) 
  A strange woman and a loathsome gray slug. 
  The Crawling Chaos by H. P. Lovecraft (Beyond the Wall of Sleep, 1943) 
  The consequences of dabbling with opium. 
  The Watcher at the Door by Henry Kuttner (Weird Tales, 1939) 
  The horrible dreams of a man called Edward Keene. 
  The Man in the Tree by Ian Gordon (That Time of the Night, 2023) 
  A boy visited by a strange figure in a tree overlooking his bedroom window. 
  What Waits in Darkness by Loretta Burrough (Weird Tales, 1935) 
  A dreadful recurrent dream. 
  A Vignette by M. R. James (The London Mercury, 1936) 
  Nightmares connected to a haunted plantation. 
  The Dream Snake by Robert E. Howard (Weird Tales, 1928) 
  A terrified individual recounts the details of a recurring nightmare.

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  Blessed Are the Meek - From...

  Mary Webb

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  Mary Gladys Meredith was born on 25th March 1881 at Leighton Lodge in the village of Leighton, near Shrewsbury in Shropshire.  
  Mary was home-schooled by her father before being sent to a finishing school in Southport in 1895. Her longs walks in the countryside helped her develop a heightened sense of observation and description, of both people and places, which later infused both her poetry and prose. 
  When she was 20 she developed symptoms of Graves' disease, a thyroid disorder that caused bulging protuberant eyes and throat goitre. This caused life-long ill health and was a possible contributor to her early death.  
  Mary was first published as a teenager when her brother sent to a local newspaper her poem on a recent rail accident.  Mary, who was in the habit of destroying her work was appalled though placated when she discovered that it had received some positive appreciation in readers letters. 
  1912 brought marriage to Henry Bertram Law Webb, a teacher. He supported her literary work which, in 1917, resulted in the publication of her novel ‘The Golden Arrow.’ 
  A few years later they acquired a property in London where, it was hoped, recognition of her literary talents would be more easily recognised.   
  Her 1924 novel, ‘Precious Bane’, won the Prix Femina Vie Heureuse, the prestigious French literary prize awarded by an all-female jury. 
  Most of her poetry and various other works were only published after her death. 
  By 1927 her health was deteriorating and her marriage failing.   
  Mary Webb died on 8th October 1927 at St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex.  She was 46.

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  A Return Engagement

  Stephanie Laurens

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  A Regency era novella from #1 New York Times–bestselling author Stephanie Laurens about a royal bridesmaid's second chance with the man she loved and lost.Everyone's eyes are on a royal couple, but there is more behind the scenes than they'll ever know.Lady Nell Daughtry is certain her sister will be a perfect princess, if only she gets the reluctant bride safely to the church to marry Prince Frederick of Lautenberg.But what she doesn't know is that, in the wedding party, she's been paired with her former fiancé, Robert Knightly . . . and now she'll be face-to-face with the man who walked away.

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  Vertical Motion

  Can Xue

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  "There's a new world master among us, and her name is Can Xue." —Robert Coover 
   
  Two young girls sneak onto the grounds of a hospital, where they find a disturbing moment of silence in a rose garden. A couple grows a plant that blooms underground, invisibly, to their long-time neighbor's consternation. A cat worries about its sleepwalking owner, who receives a mysterious visitor while he's asleep. After a ten-year absence, a young man visits his uncle, on the twenty-fourth floor of a high-rise that is floating in the air, while his ugly cousin hesitates on the stairs . . .  
   
   
   
  Can Xue is a master of the dreamscape, crafting stories that inhabit the space where fantasy and reality, time and timelessness, the quotidian and the extraordinary, meet. The stories in this striking and lyrical new collection—populated by old married couples, children, cats, and nosy neighbors, the entire menagerie of the everyday—reaffirm Can Xue's reputation as one of the most innovative Chinese writers in a generation.

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