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  Love Me Merrily - An Atheist...

  Alyssa Jarrett

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  They don’t believe in Christmas magic—until they make their own 
  Summer McKenzie hates the holidays. Maybe it’s because she’s an atheist who’s never had a reason for the season. Maybe it’s burnout from working at the second-best hotel in Yosemite National Park. Or maybe it’s because nothing has felt truly festive since she lost the love of her life in a climbing accident. 
  Still, even Scrooges have to do their jobs, and this year, Summer is determined to nab a promotion to sales director by throwing Granite Grove Lodge’s merriest masquerade yet. She’s not expecting anyone to get her out of her bah-humbug funk. She definitely isn’t expecting John Beecher. 
  With his punk-rock aesthetic and graphic designer’s eye, John’s talented at many tasks: creating seating charts, painting stunning landscapes, and helping out in a pinch. He’s also a fellow heathen who understands her grief in a way no one else has. As one party-planning catastrophe after another brings them closer, Summer starts to feel something she never thought she’d feel again: hope. 
  In the final days before Christmas, they fall for each other like a surprise Sierra Nevada snowstorm—hard, fast, and totally unplanned. Sweet, spicy, and full of heart, Love Me Merrily is a holiday novella for anyone who’s ever found joy in unexpected places and love on their own terms.

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  Timbered Love

  Ella Stories

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  When a gruff lumberjack with a sensitive soul unknowingly falls in love with the spirit inhabiting the forest he's about to cut down, his conflicted heart must choose between his livelihood and protecting the ethereal presence he's grown to care for. Their love will redefine what it means to connect and communicate, and together, they must navigate industry pressures, conservation issues, and the strange, beautiful bond between the tangible and intangible.

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  Things

  D H Lawrence

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  'Things' takes a cutting look at two 'idealistic' young Americans who travel Europe in an attempt to give their spoiled lives some meaning and in the end settle for suburban America, surrounded by their possessions, their 'things'.

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  To Never Say Goodbye

  Mike DeFrench

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   I didn’t want to do the holograms. I never did. 
  I reiterated this fact, to myself, as I saw her standing there, beautiful as ever. My sweet Mollie. She even was wearing that blue dress that she loved so much (I loved it even more, if that was possible—she looked so good in it!) And even from where I was standing, ten feet away, I could see the curls in her blonde hair bounce as she turned her head. I could see her blue eyes. Vibrant. Real. So real... 
  But they were not real. 
  I knew this. Of course. I held Mollie’s hand as she passed. I looked her in the eyes as we shared one last moment. I heard her last breath leave her lips as she gave up the ghost. But now her ghost is with me. It is so real. But it is not real. And I can’t let her go. 
   

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  Sheridan Le Fanu - Six of the...

  Sheridan Le Fanu

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  Six has always been a number we group things around – Six of the best, six of one half a dozen of another, six feet under, six pack, six degrees of separation and a sixth sense are but a few of the ways we use this number. 
   
  Such is its popularity that we thought it is also a very good way of challenging and investigating an author’s work to give width, brevity, humour and depth across six of their very best. 
   
  In this series we gather together authors whose short stories both rivet the attention and inspire the imagination to visit their gems in a series of six, to roam across an author’s legacy in a few short hours and gain a greater understanding of their writing and, of course, to be lavishly entertained by their ideas, their narrative and their way with words. 
   
  These stories can be surprising and sometimes at a tangent to what we expected, but each is fully formed and a marvellous adventure into the world and words of a literary master.

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  Fables for Adults - Anyone who...

  Fanny Kemble Johnson, Henry...

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  As we grow from child to adult we are usually told short stories which soften and help us understand the vital information a story has to impart.  It’s a clever concept by saying one thing―many times with an animal protagonist―and meaning another.  In adult years these stories continue along the same lines but what they are really saying is that what you see is not always what you get. 
   
  Words from the pens of Oscar Wilde, Leo Tolstoy, Henry James and others really can illuminate and explain subjects difficult to broach. 
   
  1 - Fables for Adults - An Introduction 
  2 - The Devoted Friend by Oscar Wilde 
  3 - The Altar of the Dead - Part 1 by Henry James 
  4 - The Altar of the Dead - Part 2 by Henry James 
  5 - How Much Land Does A Man Need by Leo Tolstoy 
  6 - The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde 
  7 - The Rewards of Industry by Richard Garnett 
  8 - The Lightning Rod Man by Herman Melville 
  9 - The Man Who Hated God by Winifred Holtby 
  10 - The Strange Looking Man by Fanny Kemble Johnson 
  11 - The Model Millionaire by Oscar Wilde 
  12 - How a Muzhik Fed Two Officials by Nikolai Schedrin 
  13 - The Nightingale and the Rose by Oscar Wilde 
  14 - The Tale Of The Stairs by Hristo Smirenski 
  15 - The Juniper Tree by The Brothers Grimm 
  16 - The Three Palaces by Richard Garnett 
  17 - The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde 
  18 - Jeannot and Colin by Voltaire

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