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  A Hunger Artist

  Franz Kafka

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  A Hunger Artist is a short story by Franz Kafka.     The protagonist, a hunger artist who experiences the decline in appreciation of his craft, is an archetypical creation of Kafka: an individual marginalized and victimized by society at large. The title of the story has been translated also to "A Fasting Artist" and "A Starvation Artist".    A Hunger Artist explores the familiar Kafka themes of death, art, isolation, asceticism, spiritual poverty, futility, personal failure and the corruption of human relationships.    There is a sharp division among critical interpretations of "A Hunger Artist". Most commentators concur that the story is an allegory, but they disagree as to what is represented. Some critics, pointing to the hunger artist's asceticism, regard him as a saintly or even Christ-like figure. In support of this view they emphasize the unworldliness of the protagonist, the priest-like quality of the watchers, and the traditional religious significance of the forty-day period. Other critics insist that A Hunger Artist is an allegory of the misunderstood artist, whose vision of transcendence and artistic excellence is rejected or ignored by the public. This interpretation is sometimes joined with a reading of the story as autobiographical. According to this view, this story, written near the end of Kafka's life, links the hunger artist with the author as an alienated artist who is dying.    The moral of the story, says literature critic Maud Ellmann, is that it is not by food that we survive but by the gaze of others and "it is impossible to live by hunger unless we can be seen or represent doing so".

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  Case Sensitive

  A. K. Turner

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  A third intriguing forensic mystery for goth mortuary technician Cassie Raven to solve. Perfect for fans of Tess Gerritsen, Patricia Cornwell, and Kathy Reichs. 
   
   
   
  When the dead are silent, she will be their voice . . . 
   
   
   
  Goth-girl mortuary technician Cassie Raven has seen thousands of dead bodies but when a drowned man knocks against the hull of her canalboat, it's a bit too close to home. 
   
   
   
  Cassie is grappling with the loss of her "gift"—her conviction that she could sense the last thoughts of the dead—and at first the mystery man with the golden-green eyes isn't sharing his secrets. But the case gets under her skin and when Cassie joins forces with Detective Phyllida Flyte, together they start to dredge up secrets from the past . . . 
   
   
   
  Yet someone is watching, someone who's ready to kill to stop those secrets coming to the surface.

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  Hard Time

  Sara Paretsky

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  In an instant, the lives of two women collide. One was behind the wheels of a Trans Am she liked to drive too fast. The other was lying in the road, dying an agonizing death. When Chicago private eye V.I. Warshawski gets out of her car to look at the woman she almost hit, she begins a long, harrowing descent into a world of shadowy secrets and tangled lives— and into the grimmest heart of her city. As Warshawski unravels the mystery of a battered and discarded woman, she moves through circles of the rich and the troubled, into the pampered world of a TV star, and behind the razor wire of a women' s prison. What V.I. finds is a web of conspiracy— and explosive secrets hidden in the darkest places of all.

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  Odyssey Through Jerusalem An...

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Nora Godwin

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  An Odyssey Through Jerusalem (The Sherlock Holmes Advent Calendar, Part 22): Holmes and Watson are close to solving the case. As they try to confront the alleged perpetrator with their evidence, but things take a turn.

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  Do Or Die (A Tyler Morlin Short...

  J. T. Finn

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  #1 AMAZON BEST SELLING PULP THRILLER 
  “J.T. Finn's debut leaves readers craving more adventures with Tyler Morlin!” —Ryan Steck, The Real Book Spy 
  A brilliant hacker. A ruthless Mafia don. An impossible choice. 
  Tyler Morlin spends his nights coding and cramming for MIT exams—until a vicious crime boss kidnaps his best friend, Hank. Now Tyler faces an unthinkable dilemma: Hack the FBI by dawn or say goodbye to Hank forever. 
  With the clock ticking, Tyler pushes his intellect to the limit. But surviving will take more than just brains. It’s do or die when the villain puts him to the ultimate test of courage and loyalty. To prevail, Tyler must transform from an ordinary college student into an extraordinary vigilante overnight. 
  Can Tyler conquer overwhelming odds and save Hank? Or will one fatal misstep bury them both? 
  Gripping and fast-paced, this edge-of-your-seat thriller will keep you turning pages late into the night to uncover the mind-blowing finale. 
  If you love characters like Jack Reacher, Jason Bourne, and Evan Smoak, satisfy your craving for nonstop action with the exhilarating new Tyler Morlin series. 
  Start listening today.

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  Truth Lies Beneath

  Jack Stainton

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  In the chilling conclusion of the trilogy, Kat is left to pick up the pieces after Adam’s untimely death, but her own secrets threaten to unravel her. 
   
  As Tom, her young son, starts acting strangely—seeing and hearing things that aren't supposed to be there—Kat’s sense of reality begins to warp. Luke, now free from Sandra, urges her to move on, but doubts linger, especially after their former boss’s house is mysteriously sold on the day of Adam’s funeral. And when a woman, eerily reminiscent of Imogen moves in, Kat is drawn to her—but something feels off. The more she learns, the more she suspects their meeting was more than coincidence. 
   
  People connected to Adam’s dark past begin to meet grim fates, and Kat is left wondering how much of it is out of her control—or if she’s part of a bigger, more sinister plan. Is she being followed, or is her paranoia a sign that something far more menacing is at play?

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