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  The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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  The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge is one of the fifty-six Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle. One of eight stories in the volume His Last Bow, it is a lengthy, two-part story consisting of "The Singular Experience of Mr. John Scott Eccles" and "The Tiger of San Pedro", which on original publication in The Strand bore the collective title of "A Reminiscence of Mr. Sherlock Holmes".Holmes is visited by a perturbed proper English gentleman, John Scott Eccles, who wishes to discuss something "grotesque". No sooner has he arrived at 221B Baker Street than Inspector Gregson also shows up, along with Inspector Baynes of the Surrey Constabulary. They wish a statement from Eccles about the murder near Esher last night. A note in the dead man's pocket indicates that Eccles said that he would be at the victim's house that night.Eccles is shocked to hear of Aloysius Garcia's beating death. Yes, he spent the night at Wisteria Lodge, Garcia's rented house, but when he woke up in the morning, he found that Garcia and his servants had all disappeared. He was alone in an empty house. He last remembers seeing Garcia at about one o'clock in the morning when he came to Eccles's room to ask if he had rung...Famous works of the author Arthur Conan Doyle: A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, The Valley of Fear, His Last Bow, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, Stories of Sherlock Holmes, The Lost World.

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  Ensnared by Fate

  Jerry Sacher

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  Carl Moore is an auto mechanic and a small-town boy in a small town in eastern Oregon. He longs for adventure, tired from being tied down to his troubled family life and the town's judgement.
  Then a drifter named Allen comes to town and takes a job as a cook at the local diner. It's friendship at first sight which quickly turns to like, but just as their friendship progresses, disaster strikes town, and Carl and Allen are forced to flee.
  When they return, their troubles are only beginning, this time in the form of a man from Allen's past as well as Carl's father.
  Will they get a chance to find happiness?

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  Valentine Poet

  Horus Dorus

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  A narrator walks through life with a poet's mind and a heart bound by obsession. Dante's every thought and every pulse are controlled by the idea of her. When he unblocks Lyla after years of silence, the floodgates open. Their conversations became poetry, their silences thunderous. But as words weave between them, past and present blur, bleeding into a dangerous longing.
  
  Torn between reality and the fiction he pens. Dante spirals into a rhythmic descent. A mind lost in love, in longing, in the unbearable weight of unspoken words. Valentine Poet is an intoxicating lyrical descent into obsession, passion, and the raw ache of wanting something just out of reach.
  
  In this novel, love is not a gift. It is a longing, a compulsion, a poem that refuses to end.

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  New Grub Street

  George Gissing

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  New Grub Street by George Gissing is a masterful Victorian novel that offers a compelling exploration of ambition, literature, and the changing world of publishing in late nineteenth-century England. Through the lives of struggling writers, editors, and intellectuals, Gissing examines the challenges of artistic integrity, financial survival, and personal ambition in an increasingly commercial literary marketplace.
  
  With remarkable realism and psychological depth, George Gissing creates an unforgettable portrait of creative life, revealing the sacrifices, rivalries, and aspirations that shape those devoted to the written word. Richly developed characters and incisive social commentary illuminate enduring themes of success, failure, friendship, love, and the often difficult balance between artistic ideals and practical necessity.
  
  Regarded as one of the greatest novels about the literary profession, New Grub Street remains an essential work of English literature. Perfect for readers of Victorian fiction, literary classics, and novels about authors, publishing, and creative ambition, this enduring masterpiece continues to captivate with its insightful storytelling, memorable characters, and timeless relevance.

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  Ramen Assassin

  Rhys Ford

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  When life gives Kuro Jenkins lemons, he wants to make ponzu to serve at his Los Angeles ramen shop. Instead he's dodging bullets and wondering how the hell he ended up back in the Black Ops lifestyle he left behind him. After rescuing former child star Trey Bishop from a pair of thugs in the middle of the night, he knows it's time to pick up his gun again. But it seems trouble isn't done with Trey, and Kuro can't quite let go… of either the gun or Trey Bishop. Trey Bishop never denied his life's downward spiral was his own fault. After a few stints in rehab, he's finally shaken off his Hollywood bad-boy lifestyle but not his reputation. The destruction of his acting career and his relationships goes deep, and no one trusts anything he says, including the LAPD. When two men dragging a dead body spot him on a late-night run and try to murder him, Trey is grateful for the tall, dark, and deadly ramen shop owner he lusts over—not just for rescuing him, but also for believing him. Now caught in a web of murders and lies, Trey knows someone wants him dead, and the only one on his side is a man with deep, dark secrets. Trey hopes Kuro Jenkins will stick around to see what the future holds for them once the dust settles, but from the looks of things, neither of them may survive to find out.

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  American Fever - A Novel

  Dur e Aziz Amna

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  On a year-long exchange program in rural Oregon, a Pakistani student, sixteen-year-old Hira, must swap Kashmiri chai for volleyball practice and try to understand why everyone around her seems to dislike Obama. A skeptically witty narrator, Hira finds herself stuck between worlds. The experience is memorable for reasons both good and bad; a first kiss, new friends, racism, Islamophobia, homesickness. Along the way Hira starts to feel increasingly unwell until she begins coughing up blood, and receives a diagnosis of tuberculosis, pushing her into quarantine and turning her newly established home away from home upside down. 
   
   
   
  American Fever is a compelling and laugh-out-loud funny novel about adolescence, family, otherness, religion, the push-and-pull of home. It marks the entrance on the international literary scene of the brilliant fresh voice of Dur e Aziz Amna.

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