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  All Aboard The Dreamtime Express...

  Stephen Stratford

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  Embark on a whimsical, breathtaking journey in this charming rhymed bedtime tale, 'Journey Through Enchanted Nightscapes: A Whimsical Ride on the Magic Dream Train.' It's a dream-fuelled night-time train adventure through fantastical realms that will enrapture young ones and nurture their imagination. 
  Meet the 'magic dream train,' a splendid vehicle journeying through the silken night, carrying children's dreams and lighting up their imagination. Nightly, it begins a voyage across star-studded glades, over sugar-coated hills, and even to a dragon's lair, casting a magical radiance and evoking awe and delight in every corner of the dreamscapes. 
  Every child's dream is welcomed, including frolicking unicorns, majestic castles, playful fairies, and high-flying kites. The magic dream train not only navigates candy mountains and seaside vistas, but it also traverses realms of vivid imagination where pirates navigate, dinosaurs wander, and mermaids chant. 
  At every mystical station stop, the train unfolds a thrilling tale, introducing children to a world brimming with dreamy escapades. The journey celebrates the fanciful nature of dreams, gliding through territories where wishes blossom like blooms, and a congenial gnome resides near a rainbow bridge and a gingerbread house. 
  As dawn nears, the magic train concludes its bewitching journey, smoothly reverting to reality. With the morning sun's first rays, the dream-powered voyage concludes, yet the allure of the magical expedition lingers. 
  This one-of-a-kind tale invites every child to snuggle into bed and set off on this nightly escapade. Let the magic train transport your child into the realm of dreams, where reality might not always hold, but that’s the enchantment of the dream train's magical journey. A captivating read offering a blend of excitement and tranquility, ideal for a magical bedtime voyage.

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  The Eyes Have It - A seemingly...

  Philip K. Dick

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  Philip Kindred Dick was born in 1928.  Widely considered one of the greatest science fiction writers, his talents were immense but he lived almost his whole life on the edge of poverty. Born prematurely on December 16, 1928 his twin sister died which caused a shadow over the rest of his life.  Many of his works would refer to the ‘phantom twin’.  Bizarrely her tiny body was buried in Colorado where her parents also had Phillips name inscribed on the tombstone. Eventually upon his death in 1982 he too was interred in the same plot. Phillip sold his first short story in 1951 and then became a full time writer selling his first novel in 1955.  He wrote continually and whilst considered a genius of the science fiction genre he was ignored by the mainstream.  Now of course much of his work is turned into films and he is rightly lauded.  All his work is at times visionary, and haunting dealing with many themes. Dick wrote of his work. "In my writing I even question the universe; I wonder out loud if it is real, and I wonder out loud if all of us are real."

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  3 Stories - Madness to Murder -...

  Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan...

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  There is something about the number 3.    
   
  The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.   
   
  Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois.  It seems good things usually come in threes. 
   
  Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating. 
   
  From their pens to your your ears.  
   
  01 - 3 Stories - Madness to Murder 
  02 - A Pastoral Horror by Arthur Conan Doyle 
  03 - The Lie by Leonid Andreyev 
  04 - The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe

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  Gold Rings - Seasonal Sparkles

  Mo Fanning

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  Welcome to 'Gold Rings,' a collection of four evocative short stories from Mo Fanning's acclaimed collection 'Five Gold Rings.' Each tale, narrated by a different voice, transports you through the seasons, unfolding a tapestry of human emotions and experiences. And if Christmas is just a little too jolly, let Mo change your mind.

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  Rising Moon - A Jesse McDermitt...

  Wayne Stinnett

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  On Grassy Key, things aren’t as idyllic as they seem. The quiet, sleepy community has been awakened. A young woman with strong ties to the community is missing. 
  A local craftsman, the last person to see the girl, is questioned and released. The girl’s friends are interviewed. Nobody knows what happened to Cobie, except that she left for work one day and didn’t arrive. The only lead is the girl’s car, parked where she worked. But it provides no clues, and nobody saw anything. 
  Days go by. Then weeks. The case grows cold. 
  The employer of the girl’s mother knows Jesse McDermitt, a retired Marine and reputed government spook. Jesse leans on people the way only he can and soon finds there is a lot more to the abduction than anyone knew. 
  Does he find the missing girl? Does he survive what he uncovers? 
  Find out in this 19th novel in Wayne Stinnett’s wildly popular Jesse McDermitt Caribbean Adventure series.

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  A Middle-Sized Artist - From...

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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  Charlotte Perkins Gilman was born on 3rd July 1860 in Hartford, Connecticut, to an unaffectionate mother and a father who abandoned her and her older brother to a life of poverty. 
  Inevitably her schooling was limited and by 15 she had attended seven different schools but received only four years education.  However Charlotte was resourceful and did spend time with her father’s aunts – the suffragist Isabella Beecher Hooker and the ‘Uncle Tom Cabin’s’ author, Harriet Beecher Stowe as well as many hours at the public library studying ancient civilisations. 
  In 1878, she enrolled in classes at the Rhode Island School of Design where she met Martha Luther and they developed a close relationship until Luther married in 1881. Charlotte was devastated and detested romance and love until she met and married the artist Charles Walter Stetson.  
  Their only child, Katharine Beecher Stetson, was born in 1885 but left Charlotte with post-natal depression, then often dismissed as a case of hysteria or nerves.  Unsuited to domestic life she ruptured her life and moved to California with Katherine.  She divorced in 1894 and then sent Katharine east to live with her father and his second wife confirming that his paternal rights be acknowledged and that Katherine establish a relationship with her father. 
  After her mother died in 1893, Charlotte moved back east and became involved with her first cousin, Wall Street attorney, Houghton Gilman who she married in 1900. After his death she moved back to California, where Katherine now lived.   
  Her most popular story is ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ which touched on her own post-partum depression and underlined the need for women to be responsible for their mental and physical well-being, as the narrator is ordered by her husband/doctor to take compete rest in her room where she is isolated and becomes obsessed with the revolting yellow wallpaper.   
  She wrote other notable short stories the best of which we also include.   
  Charlotte lectured widely for social reform, wrote important non-fiction works that questioned our patriarchal system and left a legacy as a leading and positive spokesperson for feminism.  
  She was diagnosed with incurable breast cancer in 1932 and, as she wrote in her suicide note and autobiography, she ‘chose chloroform over cancer’    
  Charlotte Perkins Gilman took her own life on 17th August 1935, aged 75, in Pasadena, California.

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