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  Jack's Beanstalk

  Honey Cummings

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  What could possibly happen when Jack reveals his beanstalk… 
  Kendall met Jack at a local party, and much to her surprise, they had a little fun together, one of those one night stands that you can think about when you are alone at night but they didn’t even exchange numbers. 
  Of course the last thing on her mind was that he would show up as the new farmhand at her Dad's greenhouse business a couple of months later! 
  Who knew that growing exotic bromeliads would get a lot more interesting. 
  Kendall realizes things in her office are going to heat up and it's not because the air conditioner took a dump since the last time Jack saw her was when he had her bent over Gaston's Mercedes! 
  Can Kendall keep the heat between them searing without burning down her father’s prized vegetation? 
  The Urban Legend Fairytale Erotica Collection is a fun modern day erotic retelling of these classic fairytales with a twist.

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  War by Candlelight - Stories

  Daniel Alarcón

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  “The engaging stories . . . draw on Peru’s violent history, the plight of Lima’s poor and the hopes of immigrants in New York . . . finely crafted fiction.” —Chicago Tribune 
   
  Winner of the Whiting Writers’ Award 
   
  In this exquisite collection, Daniel Alarcón takes the reader from Third World urban centers to the fault lines that divide nations and people. Wars, both national and internal, are waged in jungles, across borders, in the streets of Lima, in the intimacy of New York apartments. These are lives at the margins of the globalized and not-yet-globalized worlds, the stories of those who shuttle between them and never quite feel at home in the cities where they were born: an unrepentant terrorist remembers where it all began, a would-be emigrant contemplates the ramifications of leaving and never coming back, a reporter turns in his pad and pencil for the inglorious costume of a street clown. 
   
  War by Candlelight is a devastating portrait of a world in flux, and Daniel Alarcón is an extraordinary new voice in literary fiction, one you will not soon forget. 
   
  “[A] raw debut collection filled with dislocated, dutiful souls.” —Entertainment Weekly 
   
   
   
  “Precise, searing language and immediately embraceable characters . . . Alarcón’s skill with language and his eye for the beautiful tragedy of the human condition are on brilliant display in War by Candlelight.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune 
   
  “Alarcón draws on the plight of Lima’s poor and the hopes of New York’s immigrants in this raw first collection.” —The New York Times Book Review

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  Grimm's Fairy Tales

  Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm

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  Children's and Household Tales (German: Kinder- und Hausmärchen) is a collection of German origin fairy tales first published in 1812 by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, the Brothers Grimm. The collection is commonly known today as Grimms' Fairy Tales (German: Grimms Märchen)

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  The Day Time Stopped Moving

  Bradner Buckner

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  All Dave Miller wanted to do was commit suicide in peace. He tried, but the things that happened after he'd pulled the trigger were all wrong. Like everyone standing around like statues. No St. Peter, no pearly gate, no pitchforks or halos. He might just as well have saved the bullet... Classic fiction from Bradnor Buckner, pen name for Ed Earl Repp, American writer, screenwriter and novelist.

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  The Jack London Collection - The...

  Jack London

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  Jack London was an American author who wrote The Call of the Wild and other books. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first Americans to make a lucrative career exclusively from writing. Here are four of his best stories: The Whale Tooth, To Build A Fire, The House of Pride, The House of Mapuhi.

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  A Madman's Diary

  Lu Xun

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  “A Madman’s Diary” is a short story by Lu Xun first published in 1918. Written in vernacular Chinese, it is considered “China’s first modern short story” and the most influential modern work in the republican era. Lu was inspired by “Diary of a Madman" by Nicolai Gogol, both in the use of the diary form and in the idea that the madman sees things more clearly than others. The story comes about when the narrator decides to visit two friends with whom he has lost touch when he learns that one of them has fallen ill. When he arrives, he is met by the brother, who informs him that his brother is no longer ill and hands him a copy of his brother’s diary. It is immediately apparent that the diarist is indeed mad. He believes he is surrounded by cannibals and that everyone has cannibalistic designs on him. His paranoia grows and he begins to see threats everywhere. He even sees  the words “Eat People” between the lines of classic Confucian texts. He eventually suspects that his late sister had been eaten by his brother, and that he himself may have unknowingly done so. He ardently hopes that everyone will have a change of heart and change their ways. The story ends with a plea to “save the children”.The story is not readily comprehensible, and it took several years for it to be recognized as important. Gradually the madman is seen as a revolutionary contemptuous of Chinese tradition and its feudal society that “eats people”, people who themselves are corrupted by traditions they cannot escape.

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