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  Bedtime Stories - Hans Christian...

  Hans Christian Andersen

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  A duckling who looks different, faces rejection from other animals, endures hardship and loneliness; strives in pursuit of his true self and happiness.

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  Battling the Bluestocking

  Martha Keyes

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  Phineas Donovan is possessed of a sharp intellect. Fresh from Cambridge, he obtains a generous live-in position as tutor for the son of the wealthy Lord Bettencourt. If he can prove his value, he has hopes of being given the patronage of his employer, allowing him to take up a position as vicar. There, he can pursue his intellectual endeavors in peace and relative financial comfort. In her humble but informed opinion, Lady Sarah Danneville is possessed of an even sharper intellect. If anyone should be tutoring her younger brother, it is she, not the reserved, bespectacled gentleman her father has employed to do the job. He is not fit to instruct a Danneville of Bettencourt. But as Sarah works to undermine him, Mr. Donovan shows more pluck than she expects, not to mention that he harbors a secret hobby that would be laughable if it weren’t so dreadfully unsophisticated. If she can use this secret against him, she can finally persuade her father she is more than bait to lure a prosperous match. Now, if only she can avoid being drawn into the dearth of sophistication—and Mr. Donovan’s eyes—herself. Battling the Bluestocking is the third in Martha Keyes's The Donovans regency-set romance series. Each book can be treated as a standalone.

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  The Novices of Lerna

  Angel Bonomini

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  The Novices of Lerna introduces the enigmatic fictions of Ángel Bonomini to English listeners for the first time. Shot through with wry humor and tender absurdity, these meditations on identity, surveillance, and isolation remain eerily prescient. The collection's central novella follows Ramón Beltra, an unambitious scholar who receives a mysterious invitation to a lucrative six-month fellowship at the University of Lerna in Switzerland. After he reluctantly complies with the unusual qualifying paperwork requiring several pages of detailed measurements and photographs of his entire body, Beltra soon finds himself in the deserted university town of Lerna, together with twenty-three other "novices" subject to the same undisclosed project—all of them doppelgangers of Beltra himself. At first, Beltra is the only one to bristle at the school's dizzying array of rules and regulations, but this all changes with the onset of an uncontrollable epidemic, and the fellows begin dying off one by one . . . 
   
   
   
  An overlooked master of Argentine fantastic literature, Ángel Bonomini garnered praise among peers and contemporaries like Jorge Luis Borges, before slipping mysteriously into obscurity. Bonomini was forty-three years old in 1972 when he published The Novices of Lerna, the first of four books of short stories he released before his death at age sixty-four.

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  Ugly Customer An - From their...

  Bernard Capes

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  Bernard Edward Joseph Capes was born on the 30th August 1854 in London.  He was one of 11 children. 
  His early work was as a journalist and this developed into writing many short stories for the periodicals of the time including Blackwood's, Cassell's, Cornhill Magazine, Illustrated London News, Macmillan's Magazine, Mall Magazine, Pearson's Magazine, The Idler, and The Queen. 
  It took him many years to decide that writing full-time could be a sustainable career path.  His initial success came with ‘The Mill of Silence’.  As well as being published it garnered second prize at a competition sponsored by the Chicago Record.  He exceeded that by winning it the following year with ‘The Lake of Wine’.   
  Capes quickly became both prolific and popular.  As well as his stories and articles for the periodicals he wrote around 40 volumes across novels, poetry, history as well as romance and mystery novels. 
  Bernard Capes died on 2nd November 1918 in the flu epidemic.

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  Our Lifelong Dreams

  Eleanor Wells

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  Allison Carmichael doesn't remember anything before the bright light, much less how she came to be in a soothing white room with nothing but a train ticket to an unknown destination. Through encounters with Bennett Klein and Victoria Shears, a Hollywood couple she idolized, Allison learns that she was the lead singer of a band on the brink of massive fame. As her memories return, she undergoes a liminal journey through her past and the choices that led her to a hospital room, barely clinging to life. Will she stay in this world between life and death? Or will she catch the train to the Great Beyond and whatever awaits? 
  "Our Lifelong Dreams" is a captivating, bite-sized story of life, death, and unmet expectations.

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  Two Timer

  Fredric Brown

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  What if time itself could betray you? In Fredric Brown's gripping short story "Two Timer", a man discovers the shocking consequences of time travel when an experiment goes terribly wrong. A single moment changes everything, leaving him trapped in an unsettling paradox with no way out. Known for his clever twists and sharp storytelling, Brown masterfully crafts a tale that is both thought-provoking and chilling. "Two Timer" is a must-listen for fans of classic science fiction, blending suspense, irony, and the unsettling mysteries of time in a way that only Fredric Brown can.

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