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  Top 10 Short Stories The -...

  Nikolai Gogol, Guy de...

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  Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart.  A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. 
   
  In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?  
   
  The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme.  Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. 
   
  Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made.  If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. 
   
  In this volume our classic authors share their narratives in the form of letters to create both intimacy and the knowing that the events unfolding, line by line, will bring both knowledge and revelation in very short order. 
   
  01 - Top Ten Stories - Epistolary - An Introduction 
  2 - Diary of a Madman by Nikolai Gogol 
  3 - Le Horla by Guy de Maupassant 
  4 - The Story of B 24 by Arthur Conan Doyle 
  5 - Eve's Diary by Mark Twain 
  6 - Diary of a Plain Girl by Amy Levy 
  7 - The Diary of a God by Barry Pain 
  8 - The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth by Rhoda Broughton 
  9 - Morphine by Mikhail Bulgakov 
  10 - The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 
  11 - Dionea - Part 1 by Vernon Lee 
  12 - Dionea - Part 2 by Vernon Lee

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  Dying Rose: Six tragic deaths a...

  Douglas Smith, Kathryn...

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  An investigation into the deaths of six Aboriginal women and the police responses that left families reeling 
    
  'If you think it's hard being a white woman in Australia, try being a black woman.' These were the words that set a team of journalists at the Adelaide Advertiser on an investigation into the tragic deaths of six young Indigenous women. 
  It was Courtney Hunter-Hebberman who uttered those words, up on stage at an International Women's Day event. A shocking number of Indigenous women die every year by murder or suicide, and Courtney's daughter, Rose, was one of them. Rose's apparent death by suicide at nineteen, in a backyard shed, had left her mother craving answers - answers the police seemed unable to give her. 
  Inspired by Courtney's courage and grief, the Advertiser team hoped to shed light on Rose's death and put Courtney's mind at rest. But what they found, as their investigation of one death rolled into another five, was disturbing. Lack of urgency, sloppy searches, poor communication, and assumptions by police were just some of the problems . 
  As the team probed further, even bigger questions about whether Indigenous Australians, especially women, are heard when they speak. 
  Based on the podcast Dying Rose, this is a compelling look at young Indigenous women's vulnerability to danger, and how, when their lives are cut short, their families are left to cope with a grief seemingly compounded by indifference.

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  Most Famous Silent Film Actors...

  Editors Charles River

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  Only a select few actors become international stars in their time, but none had as unique a career as Charlie Chaplin. Chaplin was the first true film star, and he managed to do so even when films were still silent. He has been honored with too many awards to count, and the fact that his name remains instantly recognizable nearly a century after his first film is a testament to his influence. Chaplin is known for the singular blend of pathos and humor evinced by his films, and it is not uncommon for audiences to laugh and cry at alternate points of a Chaplin film, a trait that continues to endear audiences even to this day. 
  In the 1920s, the burgeoning movie industry was starting to come into its own, and alongside actor and director Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton was at the peak of Hollywood. It’s no surprise that Keaton was so effective in silent films, because he had been practicing comedy in his family’s vaudeville acts as “The Little Boy Who Can’t Be Damaged”, becoming a popular performer by the age of 5. Indeed, his physical form of comedy, which initially involved having his father throwing him around the stage, translated well onto the screen, and some of his slapstick and other comic gags remain legendary even today, in part because Keaton practiced his own stunts.  
  Everything about Rudolph Valentino, from his body to the characters he played, was exotic. His career may have been abbreviated by his premature death at the age of 31, but Valentino popularized the (somewhat racist) stereotype of the “Latin lover” in Hollywood, and even his name was markedly more out of the ordinary than those of other actors. In an era dominated by hyper-masculine actors like Douglas Fairbanks, or comedians such as Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, Valentino had a more ethnic and mysterious appeal, and he was lusted after by women to a degree that remains unsurpassed in the industry.

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  Polzunkov - Dignity in Disgrace...

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Tim Zengerink

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  Everyone laughed at him—but he may have been the only one who truly understood. 
  In Polzunkov, Fyodor Dostoevsky tells the story of a man scorned by society, humiliated by his peers, and laughed at by all. He laughs along with them—until a moment of moral clarity reveals the truth about who he really is. 
  This modern audiobook adaptation brings Dostoevsky’s satirical and deeply moving tale to life with accessible language and heartfelt narration. 
  What You’ll Hear in This Modern Translation: 
  •	A vivid character study of a man masking pain with humor 
  •	A story that examines class, cruelty, and the longing for dignity 
  •	An emotional arc that builds to an unexpected and powerful conclusion 
  Included in This Edition: 
  Faithfully adapted for modern listeners, this audiobook offers a fresh, emotionally resonant take on one of Dostoevsky’s lesser-known gems. 
  Listen today—and discover the quiet strength behind a face everyone thought was just a joke.

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  The Boy Who Survived Auschwitz

  Adriana Lerman

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  Levi Lerman was a cheerful and lively boy from the town of Ostrowiec. He was only fourteen years old when his life took an unimaginable turn with the outbreak of World War II in 1939, when the Nazi forces invaded Poland and occupied his hometown.
  Over a painful six-year period, Levi endured a harsh life in the Ostrowiec ghetto, suffered devastating losses, performed exhausting forced labor, and survived countless transfers to concentration camps, including the extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
  In the middle of this torment, a single light guided him through the darkness: his unbreakable determination to live and to protect his father—a strength that helped him survive against all odds.

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  Blanca Turrubiate-Simpson Within...

  Rebecca. Harris

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  In the shadows of South Carolina's lowcountry, one woman witnessed the unraveling of America's most notorious legal dynasty. 
  Blanca Turrubiate-Simpson never imagined that her position within the Murdaugh household would place her at the epicenter of a scandal that would captivate the nation. For years, she observed the carefully constructed facade of power, privilege, and Southern gentility that concealed a darker truth—a web of corruption, deceit, and ultimately, murder. 
  Now, for the first time, Blanca breaks her silence. 
  This is not just another retelling of the Murdaugh saga. This is the untold story from someone who was there—who saw what happened behind closed doors, who heard the conversations that were never meant to be repeated, who witnessed the slow collapse of a family empire built on lies and maintained through fear. 
  From the shocking double murders that made international headlines to the decades of financial fraud that defrauded vulnerable victims, from the suspicious deaths that were too quickly ruled accidents to the courtroom drama that riveted millions, Blanca provides unprecedented access to the intimate details that only an insider could know. 
  With unflinching honesty and remarkable courage, she reveals how a family that once seemed untouchable fell from grace, how justice was delayed but not denied, and how the truth—no matter how deeply buried—eventually finds its way to the surface. 
  This is a story of loyalty and betrayal, of power and its ultimate price, of one woman's decision to finally tell the truth, no matter the cost. In the house of Murdaugh, every room held a secret. Blanca Turrubiate-Simpson is ready to unlock them all.

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