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  A Double Barreled Detective Story

  Mark Twain

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  A Double Barrelled Detective Story is a novel by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), in which Sherlock Holmes finds himself in the American west.At a mining camp in California, Fetlock Jones, a nephew of Sherlock Holmes, kills his master, a silver-miner, by blowing up his cabin. Since this occurs when Holmes happens to be visiting, he brings his skills to bear upon the case and arrives at logically worked conclusions that are proved to be abysmally wrong by an amateur detective with an extremely keen sense of smell, which he employs in solving the case. This could be seen as yet another piece where Twain tries to prove that life does not quite follow logic. (Summary by Wikipedia)

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  The Star

  H. G. Wells

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  Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was a prolific English writer of science fiction stories and novels and is frequently credited as being the father of science fiction. "The Star" is the story of a shooting star which is discovered hurtling towards our solar system. It is on a collision course with Neptune. When the celestial crash occurs, the two planets combine into a gigantic burning star which is being drawn rapidly and irresistably towards our sun. But on what trajectory? Will it hit any other planets on its way? What about the earth?

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  Night Terrors Vol 21 - Short...

  Harrison Shimens, Buck Weiss,...

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  Travel into the darkness and the nightmares will never end… 
  Scare Street is proud to present a diabolical new collection of seventeen ghastly stories. Each spine-tingling tale is a portal to a new world, the beginning of a seemingly endless voyage into fear and dread. An infinite horizon beckons, as the sun sets behind overcast, craggy mountains. 
  But be warned: Not every journey is worth taking. Some roads lead where you might not expect. And some nightmares are too terrifying to awake from. 
  That’s the thing about traveling into the darkness… 
  You never know which trip will be your last. 
  This volume consists of the following stories: 
  1. The Shape by Harrison Shimens 
  2. The Graveyard Worm by Buck Weiss 
  3. Spaghetti Man by Jill Benson 
  4. Daughters by Jenna Dietzer 
  5. Celestiradix by John Forrester 
  6. The Open House by John Peyton Cooke 
  7. Lady of the Lump by Stephen Mcquiggan 
  8. The Old Treehouse by Brock Kevin Poulsen 
  9. Thalassophobia by Melanie Atkinson 
  10. Incident at Wombat Gully by Kris Ashton 
  11. Troposphere by Jon Douglas Rainey 
  12. Loose Lips by Matt Bliss 
  13. What Grows Underneath Ends in Silence by Timothy G. Huguenin 
  14. Every Little Hair on Your Head by Alex Laurel Lanz 
  15. Hantu Toilet by Joni Chng 
  16. You Can’t Kidnap a Baby by Natasha Ruhwald 
  17. The Box by Ron Ripley and Kevin Saito

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  The Wrong Suitcase

  Laura Jane Williams

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  When you lose your luggage, the last thing you expect to find is love… 
  RIGHT PLACE 
  As she touches down in Italy, Izzy couldn’t be more excited. She’s needed a reason to let her hair down, and she knows that the wedding of the year in a lavish Tuscan castle will be just the ticket… 
  RIGHT TIME 
  On the morning of his best friend’s wedding, everything is going wrong for Sam. And when he finally reaches the hotel and unzips his luggage, his day goes from bad to worse… 
  WRONG SUITCASE 
  Izzy has a case full of men’s shirts and chinos. Sam has a case full of make-up palettes and bikinis. Could a fateful meeting to switch their bags back be the start of something special? Because in losing their luggage, they’re about to find each other… 
  A warm-hearted novella packed with love, longing and lost luggage, this is the perfect Valentine’s day treat from the internationally bestselling author of smash-hit rom com, Our Stop. 
  Readers totally love The Wrong Suitcase: 
  ‘Full of humour and wit, romance and warmth […] I simply did not want it to end!’ NetGalley Reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
  ‘This gorgeous novella may be a shorter book but it is large on the great story it delivers. An easy five stars from me.’ NetGalley Reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
  ‘A delightful, romantic, uplifting and heartwarming novella, which really cheered me up.’ NetGalley Reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
  ‘The perfect read when you are looking for something short and sweet to open your heart and make you feel all gooey inside!’ NetGalley Reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
  ‘What a witty, bold and funny short story!’ NetGalley Reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
  ‘Such a dreamy listen on a cold winter’s day.’ NetGalley Reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
  ‘An easy, heartwarming read that has sunshine leaping off the page! A must-add addition to your bookshelf.’ NetGalley Reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
  ‘Really got me in the mood for summer […] made me laugh, cry and even swoon!’ NetGalley Reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
  ‘I loved it. I couldn’t stop laughing. […] full of witty characters and one-liners.’ NetGalley Reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
  ‘Not only is Laura a great writer but she is a great narrator too!’ NetGalley Reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
  The Wrong Suitcase is a comedy-infused holiday fiction that tells the stories of Izzy and Sam, two strangers whose paths cross in the most unexpected of ways. Their journey, filled with laughter and romance, is a testament to the unpredictability and beauty of life. 
  For fans of Beth O'Leary (The Wake-Up Call), Sophie Cousens (The Good Part), Emily Henry (Beach Read), Christina Lauren (The Exception to the Rule), and Josie Silver (A Winter in New York). 
  HarperCollins 2022

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  Dance Me To The End Of Love - A...

  Regine Reyevsky Fisher

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  The short stories in Dance Me to the End of Love reflect the real day-to-day life of ordinary people of different ages, genders, professions, and ethnicities with connections to a believable world of imagined events. They take place in the former Soviet Union, in the United States, and in the emigration in-between. Love, marriage, infidelity, disillusionment, intimacy and the lack of it, rootlessness are subjects that move from an improbable reality to surreal events, as the American novelist Maureen Howard noted,“… is Regine Rayevsky Fisher’s strong suit, one she shares with many of the best writers who have emerged from the Soviet Union that was and the Eastern bloc, such as Kundera and Berberova…Fisher knows when to fade from a scene, when to draw conclusions that have the double vision of innocence and the informed telling.” 
  Some of the stories slap you in the face, some make you want to cry your heart out—they are wonderfully entertaining and also very wise. The author has a satirical talent for exposing so many of our human flaws and showing how people behave from insecurity and their fragile egos. But there is tenderness and forgiveness too. These tales about simple people pose more questions than answers about morals, respectability, and roads taken and missed. Most of all they are about love that holds everything together on our planet. 
   

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  Hell's Bottom Colorado

  Laura Pritchett

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  Winner of the PEN USA Award for Fiction. “An admirable, steely-eyed collection of stories and vignettes featuring a family of ranchers.”—Publishers Weekly   On Hell’s Bottom Ranch, a section of land below the Front Range, there are women like Renny who prefer a “little Hell swirled with their Heaven” and men like Ben, her husband, who’s “gotten used to smoothing over Renny’s excesses.” There is a daughter who maybe plays it too safe and a daughter plagued by only “half-wanting” what life has to offer. The ranch has been the site of births and deaths of both cattle and children, as well as moments of amazing harmony and clear vision.   “Set in the unpredictable West, these stories remind us that we cannot escape the messiness and obsessions of ordinary life.”—Patricia Henley, author of Hummingbird House   “Displays the talent of a brilliant, new writer.”—The Rocky Mountain News   “With the rugged beauty of the Rocky Mountains as backdrop, Pritchett’s spare yet richly evocative stories portray the stark reality of life on a Colorado cattle ranch, where three generations of one family tend the land and animals, devoting and losing themselves to an existence few would understand or choose to follow . . . Regardless of whether the songs she hears are sung by a meadowlark or a jailbird, Pritchett excels at juxtaposing the sensuous with the severe, the rapturous with the repugnant.”—Booklist   “The stories jump back and forth in time, but their message is clear: this family’s ties are as quixotic, fierce, and enduring as the land that binds them together.”—School Library Journal

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