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  Champagne

  Anton Chekhov

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  Champagne is a short story by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, written in 1887.
  The story is written in the first person. The young head of a remote railway stop lived with his wife and without children in solitude, amusing himself with vodka and watching passing trains.
  Life was boring. One day before celebrating the New Year, he sat with his wife at the festive table, drank enough and thought about boredom. We waited for the clock to show the arrival of the New Year. At five minutes to twelve he uncorked the bottle, the cork flew out, and the bottle slipped out of his hands and fell to the floor. The wife greeted Happy New Year with frightened eyes. She knew that the falling bottle was a bad omen and meant that something bad would happen in the new year.
  After arguing with his wife, the narrator left the house thinking that this had already happened to them, that the worst could not happen. He remembered his dead parents, how he was kicked out of the gymnasium, how he wandered around with nothing to do and friends. He did not love his wife; he married when he was still a boy.
  Returning home, he saw his wife cheerful - "good aunt" Natalya Petrovna, the wife of the hero's wife's uncle, a woman of free behavior, came to them for three days. At dinner, "aunt" and "nephew" drank well, they became dizzy, and their romance began (a terrible, mad whirlwind). In this whirlwind, the hero loses his wife, mistress, and job. He asks "what else bad could happen to me?"

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  A Good Day For A Massacre...

  William W. Johnstone, J. A....

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  "Life on the straight and narrow is easier said than done for a pair of crooks like Jimmy “Slash” Braddock and Melvin “Pecos Kid” Baker. But these reprobates are doing their damnedest to make an honest go of it. They’ve managed to safely deliver a church organ to a mountain parish when their sometime employer—Chief U.S. Marshal Luther T. “Bleed-’m-So” Bledsoe—recruits them for a job only fools would take. 
   
  Marshal Bledsoe wants them to pick up a shipment of gold in the mining town in the Sawatch Mountains. Here’s the catch: Slash and Pecos’s wagon is just a decoy. When a ruthless gang ambushes the real gold shipment, it’s up to Slash and Pecos to go after the trigger-happy bandits. And they won’t be alone. A lady Pinkerton, Hattie Friendly—who is anything but—survived the ambush and is hellbent on getting the gold back. Even if she has to team up with a pair of ornery old cutthroats like Slash and Pecos. 
   
  Adapted from the novel and produced with a full cast of actors, immersive sound effects and cinematic music! 
   
  Performed by Drew Kopas, Zeke Alton, James Konicek, Jessica Lauren Ball, Jessica Threet, Colleen Delany, Tracy Olivera, Todd Scofield, MJ Casey, Christopher Graybill, Bill Gillett, Bradley Foster Smith, Chris Stinson, Chris Walker, Christopher Williams, Danny Gavigan, David Cui Cui, Donald Guzzi, Drew Kopas, Dylan Lynch, Earl Fisher, Eric Messner, Henry W. Kramer, Jacob Yeh, James J. Johnson, Johnathon Lee Taylor, Ken Jackson, Marni Penning, Matthew Bassett, Matthew Pauli, Matthew Schleigh, Mort Shelby, Nanette Savard, Peter Stanley, Rayner Gabriel, Richard Rohan, Robb Moreira, Rose Elizabeth Supan, Scott McCormick, Terence Aselford, Thomas Penny, Wyn Delano, and Yasmin Tuazon."

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  Deceptive Calm

  Patricia Skipper

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  Against the turbulent backdrop of declared martial law in South Carolina, a stunning light-skinned beauty, Vanessa, lives in a Catholic orphanage for Blacks. After a series of racial traumas, Vanessa obtains the birth certificate of a deceased white baby and uses this document to assume the child's identity. She moves to California and enrolls at UC Berkeley under her newly acquired name. 
  Vanessa marries into one of California's wealthiest families. Her charmed life abruptly ends eighteen months after the birth of her first child who is diagnosed with sickle cell trait. Discovering that the woman he married is Black, as is his toddler son, Vanessa's ruthless husband plots his revenge but they both survive. The police investigation that follows seems pretty clear-cut until a curious, young detective uncovers some clues to her private life where nothing is as it appears. The aftermath of the discovery brings down a pillar of San Francisco society.

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  Home for Christmas

  Judith Hudson

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  Sometimes falling in love means risking it all. 
  Just out of pastry school, Louise Ingstrom has returned to Fortune Bay for Christmas before going to Seattle to find her dream job. Her dad is sick and she wants to help out, but is staying at the Murphy's cabin for the month to avoid the drama at home. 
  Her old friend Blue has stood by her forever, ever since they were kids and she lost everything she cared about, but she's never known how much he cared. Now he's determined not to get caught up in her drama again, especially since another new boyfriend is coming to visit. It's time to get on with his own life - with or without her. 
  But as Christmas festivities swirl around them, fate steps in and Louise's plans begin to crumble. Will Blue still be there to pull her through this time?

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  Bound by Blood and Stars - She...

  Lila Everly

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  To save her dying brother, the greatest thief in the mortal realm just made a bargain with a monster. The prize? His literal, stolen heart. 
  Kaelen Driscoll, known in the shadows as the Wraith of the Borderlands, has stolen from noble houses, sunken ruins, and dragon aeries. But her latest target is suicide: the Silent Keep of the Night Court. Desperate to find a vial of pure starlight to cure her brother's fatal fae curse, Kaelen infiltrates the vault of Eryx Valthor, the immortal Shadow King. 
  She doesn't make it out. 
  Instead of an execution, Eryx offers her a terrifying trade. Three centuries ago, the king's capacity to feel was ripped from his chest and hidden deep within the treacherous Emberwood. He is completely hollow—incapable of love, joy, or mercy. If Kaelen can brave the lethal horrors of the Wild Court and steal back his missing emotions, he will give her the starlight. If she fails, her soul belongs to the Night Court for a century. 
  But the Heartstone is guarded by blood-magic, spectral hounds, and the cruel madness of the Erlking. As Kaelen navigates the treacherous shadow-realm, she begins to realize the cold, calculating king might not be the monster the legends claim. And returning three centuries of suppressed emotion to the most powerful shadow-mage in existence might just shatter them both. 
  A gripping dark fantasy romance perfect for fans of high-stakes heists, deadly fae bargains, and slow-burn enemies-to-lovers tension.

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  Bethel Merriday

  Sinclair Lewis

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  “Bethel Merriday” is a novel by Sinclair Lewis, first published in 1940. The book depicts the journey of an aspiring young actress, Bethel Merriday, and her life in a touring company. Most of the story surrounds her time in an acting troupe preparing for and performing a ‘modern’ version of "Romeo and Juliet".

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