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  Taiwan Travelogue - A Novel

  Yang Shuang-Zi

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  WINNER OF THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE 
   
   
   
  May 1938. The young novelist Aoyama Chizuko has sailed from her home in Nagasaki, Japan, and arrived in Taiwan. She's been invited there by the Japanese government ruling the island, though she has no interest in their official banquets or imperialist agenda. Instead, Chizuko longs to experience real island life and to taste its authentic cuisine. 
   
   
   
  Soon a Taiwanese woman—who is younger than she is, and who shares the characters of her name—is hired as her interpreter and makes her dreams come true. Chizuru arranges Chizuko's travels and proves to be an exceptional cook. Chizuko grows infatuated with her companion and intent on drawing her closer. But something causes Chizuru to keep her distance. It's only after a heartbreaking separation that Chizuko begins to grasp what the "something" is. 
   
   
   
  Disguised as a translation of a rediscovered text by a Japanese writer, this novel was a sensation on its first publication in Mandarin Chinese in 2020 and won Taiwan's highest literary honor, the Golden Tripod Award. Taiwan Travelogue unburies lost colonial histories and reveals how power dynamics inflect our most intimate relationships.

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  Paddy Whack

  Anónimo

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  Paddy Whack is a historical tale of resiliency and coming of age from pianist and author Francis Martineau. Based in part on his own childhood in Scotland, each episode chronicles the story of a boy growing up in the shadow of World War II, the diary of his mother, and a separate correspondence between two would-be lovers attempting to find a semblance of normalcy in turbulent times. 
  Martineau's exquisite dramatic reading of the text brings the story to life with deep feeling, immense charm, and an evocative mix of local dialects. In addition, his original piano music dotted throughout makes this recording a uniquely personal expression. Settle in. You've never heard anything quite like this. 
  Paddy Whack is the first book in a series. Book two, A Far Cry, is now available as well.

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  Artists On Art - A Short Story...

  H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe,...

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  Art. The greatest standard bearer of what the human condition really is?  Or Emperor’s Clothes, cheap gimmicks displayed as all-knowing? 
  When it comes to writing we have our favourite authors.  But what of the authors themselves. What are they keen to write of? 
  For our classic authors; from Poe to Lovecraft, from Woolf to Fitzgerald art in their words, is something to be admired.  From many angles, many views, their stories, their characters interact with art and the consequences fall as they may. 
   
  01 - Artists on Art - A Short Story Volume 
  02 - Pickman's Model by H. P. Lovecraft 
  03 - The Mezzotint by M. R. James 
  04 - Psyche's Art by Louisa May Alcott 
  05 - Fun In An Artist's Studio by F. Scott Fitzgerald 
  06 - Blue & Green by Virginia Woolf 
  07 - The Oval Portrat by Edgar Allan Poe

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  Some Die Young

  J. A. Johnstone, William W....

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  William W. Johnstone and J. A. Johnstone present Book 2 in the Man From Waco series.

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  The Flight in Winter

  Judith M. Day

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.   
  The Campbells had always been King’s men. Indeed, MacCailean Mor (Son of the Great Colin) was the Gaelic title of the Campbell chief. This was in memory of Sir Colin Campbell, murdered in the String of Lorne in 1296 whilst on King’s business. It was therefore with great heart searching that Archibald Campbell, 8th Earl and later 1st Marquess of Argyll, found himself leading the Covenanters. 
  This is the story of his life from a teenaged Lord Lorne until his execution by a vengeful Charles II. Many at the time held that it was judicial murder. Argyll was a man before his time and desired a constitutional monarchy and freedom of worship, both of which we take for granted today.

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  Gallows Thief

  Bernard Cornwell

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  Rider Sandman, having fought Napoleon in the French wars, expected to lead the life of an English country gentleman, but now, two years after Waterloo, his family is impoverished, his name is disgraced and he has been forced to relinquish the woman he loves from her obligation to marry him. Desperate to earn money he accepts the job of being the government's Investigator; an official who discovers whether petitions for mercy sent by condemned criminals should be granted. His first case concerns a portrait painter who is due to hang for murder in a week's time and the government makes it clear that they want the verdict confirmed. 
  But Rider Sandman, whose qualifications for the post are nonexistent, discovers that the painter is almost certainly innocent and, as he peels back the layers of a corrupt penal system, he finds himself pitted against some of the wealthiest and most ruthless men in Regency England who want to keep the truth hidden.

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