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  F*ckface - And Other Stories

  Leah Hampton

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  F*ckface is a brassy, bighearted debut collection of twelve short stories about rurality, corpses, honeybee collapse, and illicit sex in post-coal Appalachia. 
  The twelve stories in this knockout collection—some comedic, some tragic, many both at once—examine the interdependence between rural denizens and their environment. 
  A young girl, desperate for a way out of her small town, finds support in an unlikely place. A ranger working along the Blue Ridge Parkway realizes that the dark side of the job, the all too frequent discovery of dead bodies, has taken its toll on her. Haunted by his past, and his future, a tech sergeant reluctantly spends a night with his estranged parents before being deployed to Afghanistan. Nearing fifty and facing new medical problems, a woman wonders if her short stint at the local chemical plant is to blame. A woman takes her husband's research partner on a day trip to her favorite place on earth, Dollywood, and briefly imagines a different life. 
  In the vein of Bonnie Jo Campbell and Lee Smith, Leah Hampton writes poignantly and honestly about a legendary place that's rapidly changing. She takes us deep inside the lives of the women and men of Appalachia while navigating the realities of modern life with wit, bite, and heart.   
  A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Company

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  The People on Privilege Hill

  Jane Gardam

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  “Engrossing stories of hilarity and heartbreak” from the Whitbread Award–winning author of the Old Filth trilogy (The Seattle Times). 
   
  A collection of stories from a writer at the height of her powers—a celebrated stylist admired for her caustic humor, freewheeling imagination, love of humanity, and wicked powers of observation. This is a delightful grouping of stories, witty and wise, that includes the return of Sir Edward Feathers, “Old Filth” himself. 
   
  “[Gardam’s] stories, like delicate tapestries, are alight with colors.” —The Times (London) 
   
  “When Gardam hits her mark, like other exemplary short-story writers such as William Trevor, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Elizabeth Taylor, she can be dazzling.” —The Guardian 
   
  “Gardam’s brisk narration and fearless temperament make for serious fun.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) 
   
  “Wry, economical and perpetually surprising, these 14 stories from English novelist Gardam follow the last of the intrepid, stiff upper lip WWII generation of British ladies and gentlemen. . . . Gardam vividly evokes an age of iron wills.” —Publishers Weekly 
   
  “Gardam displays the consummate skill of the short-story-teller, which is that of the caricaturist, the ability to capture a personality in a few brief strokes. . . . Privilege Hill is a collection of gentle stories that you could read to your grandmother, with the kind of sharp wit that would no doubt give her a secret smile. But they’re deeper than they look . . . so don’t read them all at once.” —The Bookbag

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  John Bartine's Watch

  Ambrose Bierce

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  Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842-circa 1914) was an American author, journalist, short story writer and satirist who disappeared in 1913 under mysterious circumstances and was never seen again."John Bartine's Watch" is the strange and terrifying tale of an evening guest who reacts with horror when his host asks him what is the time. But why is John Bartine so reluctant to look at his own watch?

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  Tarquin of Cheapside

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  A product of Fitzgerald's undergraduate days at Princeton, this short story featured in Tales of the Jazz Age was published in "Smart Set" in 1921.

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  The Ice Slipper - Cinderella...

  JT Lawrence

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  A feminist re-telling of the classic Cinderella tale ... with a perfect JT Lawrence twist. 
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  "Lawrence makes every word count, telling each story with elegance and emotional punch.” — Patsy Hennessey 
  "Each story is masterfully constructed ... Humorous, touching, creepy, but most of all entertaining, this collection is superb." — Tracy Michelle Anderson 
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  If you're a fan of Roald Dahl or Shirley Jackson, you'll love this compelling short story with a twist in the tale. 
  Start listening now.

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  Classic Philosophical Works...

  Plato, Friedrich Nietzsche,...

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  Playlist: 
  Plato — The Allegory of the CaveBertrand Russell — Appearance and Reality of The Problems of PhilosophyFriedrich Nietzsche — Thus Spoke Zarathustra Herman Hesse — SiddharthaThe Three Initiates — The KybalionLeo Tolstoy — The Kingdom of God Is Within YouImmanuel Kant — Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment?Lao Tzu — Tao Te ChingPlato — The Apology of Socrates

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