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  Forbidden Gold

  L. Ron Hubbard

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  The Yucatan jungle hides a world of secrets... of wealth, love, and fate. Daredevil pilot Kurt Reid is about to fly into the heart of it in search of his destiny — and gold. It's an adventure as daring and dangerous as any undertaken by Indiana Jones. Thanks to his grandfather's dying wish, his entire inheritance hangs on his finding one particular gold nugget. Before it's over, he'll either land on a Mayan sacrificial altar or in the arms of his sexy co-pilot Joy. One way or another, things are heating up fast. Journey into the heart of darkness in the Mexican rain forest as the audio version of Forbidden Gold takes you to a place where the glitter of gold makes passions seethe.

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  A Proper Marriage - A Novella

  Dorothy Love

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  From a hasty union begun in shame, a young man and woman struggle to build a lasting love. 
  Following a brief romance with George Mackenzie, Blue Gap, North Carolina’s most desirable suitor, Olivia Brooks finds herself abandoned and expecting a child. She is cast out of her father’s house and hastily weds George’s brother Luke, whom she has known since childhood. Luke hopes that giving his brother’s child a name will prove his own worth and provide a home for the woman he has long admired. 
  Determined to make a fresh start, they set off for Laurel Grove, Tennessee, but an accident on an icy mountain road forces them to take refuge with a Quaker family in Sweetbriar Creek. As Olivia and Luke recover from their injuries and await the birth of the child, they must confront their past mistakes and make peace with old hurts and betrayals if they are ever to forge a proper marriage.

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  Echoes of the Past - A powerful...

  Evelyn Hood

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  A Scottish historical saga of loss, love and hope from Sunday Times bestselling author Evelyn Hood! Perfect for fans of Catherine Cookson, Katie Flynn and Val Wood ❤️ 
  Can a family thrive after the death of a domineering patriarch? 
  Buckie, Scotland 1912 
  One year after Weem Lowrie’s death, his wife Jess and children are still living in his shadow, bound by the strict decisions he imposed when he was alive. 
  Eldest son James and his sister Bethany are trapped in marriages arranged to bolster the value of the family’s fishing business. Youngest son, Innes, struggles with the memory of his father’s disapproval over his failure to become a fisherman. 
  James longs to take over as skipper of the family fishing boat, The Fidelity, rather than working for his uncle. Bethany dreams of escaping from her role as a wife and stepmother to two young children and Innes longs for acceptance and respect from his siblings and to be seen as a man. But pursuing these aims only seems to invite new conflict into their lives. 
  And when Jess’s childhood sweetheart returns to Buckie, his attempts to help the family using his wealth and influence seem destined to cause even more chaos. 
  Storytelling at its best, Evelyn Hood is the original bestselling Scottish saga writer 💫 
  Previously published as The Shimmer of the Herring 
  PRAISE FOR EVELYN HOOD PRAISE FOR EVELYN HOOD  'Compelling from the start, heartfelt and beautifully written.' - Rosie Clarke 'An engrossing read, I loved it and am sure you will too' - Fenella J. Miller 'If you like Catherine Cookson, you’ll love Evelyn Hood’s books.’ - Lizzie Lane  ‘Evelyn Hood’s characters step off the page and into your heart.’ - Sheila Riley  ‘This is addictive and heartfelt storytelling, with colourful characters you'll never want to say goodbye to.’ - Jane Lark 'Wonderfully descriptive, with memorable characters and a true sense of place.' - Tracy Baines 'Faultless historical detail and emotionally complex characters makethese engrossing and intelligent Evelyn Hood's sagas deeply satisfying' - Maisie Thomas ‘Evocative, beautifully rich, brilliantly detailed and meticulously researched - this story transported me and kept me up way past my bedtime - a triumph of a story. I very highly recommend Evelyn Hood’ – Renita D’Silva 
  'Scotland's Catherine Cookson' - Scots Magazine 
  ‘Hood is immaculate in her historical detail’ - Scottish Herald 
  'Quite simply, I couldn't put it down. A rich and rewarding read' - Emma Blair 
  'Evelyn Hood has been called Scotland's Catherine Cookson. Unfair. She has her own distinctive voice' - Scots Magazine 
  ‘Touching, romantic and unforgettable’ - Reader Review 
  ‘Love all her books’ - Reader Review 
  ‘Evelyn Hood produces the best of stories’ - Reader Review 
  ‘I cannot put her books down’ - Reader Review 
  ‘Love everything Evelyn Hood writes’ - Reader Review 
  ‘Evelyn Hood is a fantastic writer, bringing the past to life and drawing you right into the story’ - Reader Review

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  Sister Deborah

  Scholastique Mukasonga

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  In a four-part narrative brimming with historical asides, alluring anecdotes, and murky questions left in the margins of colonial records, Sister Deborah heralds "a life that is more alive" as it explores the tensions and myths of Rwanda's past. 
   
   
   
  When time-worn ancestral remedies fail to heal young Ikirezi's maladies, she's rushed to the Rwandan hillsides. From her termite perch under the coral tree, health blooms under Sister Deborah's hands. Women bear their breasts to the rising sun as men under thatched roofs stand, "stunned and impotent before this female fury." 
   
   
   
  Now grown, Ikirezi unearths the truth of Sister Deborah's passage from America to 1930s Rwanda and the mystery surrounding her sudden departure. In colonial records, Sister Deborah is a "pathogen," an "incident." Who is the keeper of truth, Ikirezi impels us to ask, Who stands at the threshold of memory? Did we dance? Did she heal? Did we look to the sky with wonder? Ikirezi writes on, pulling Sister Deborah out from the archive, inscribing her with breath. 
   
   
   
  A novel that works in the slippages of history, Sister Deborah at its core is a story of what happens when women—black women and girls—seek the truth by any means.

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  New York Short Stories NOT by O...

  Herman Melville, Willa Cather,...

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  In this series we listen to short stories that are NOT by perhaps the most well-known author of this type.  But the many other rich talents in the volume may have treated the subject matter a little differently, or were perhaps just overlooked in the stampede to applaud the winner, but these authors are of equal merit.   
   
  Each of their works is laden with talent, has purpose, and is rich and textured in this gloried niche of literature. 
   
  01 - New York Short Stories Not by O Henry - An Introduction 
  2 - Bartleby the Scrivener - Part 1 by Herman Melville 
  3 - Bartleby the Scrivener - Part 2 by Herman Melville 
  4 - Paul's Case by Willa Cather 
  5 - The Wedding Knell by Nathaniel Hawthorne 
  6 - The Sphinx by Edgar Allan Poe 
  7 - Light by Achmed Abdullah 
  8 - Here We Are by Dorothy Parker 
  9 - Cool Air by H P Lovecraft 
  10 - The City of Refuge by Rudolph Fisher 
  11 - The Repairer of Reputations - Part 1 by Robert W Chambers 
  12 - The Repairer of Reputations - Part 2 by Robert W Chambers

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  Madame Sorel's Lodger

  Tracy Wise

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  A tormented artist arrives in a village in southern France to begin painting again. He stands before a house with blue shutters, hoping the change of scenery and brilliant colors of the countryside will calm the buzzing in his mind. 
  Madame Sorel, a formidable widow, runs a respectable and orderly boarding house. She finds this artist puzzling. Weighed down with canvas, easel, and a sailcloth bag filled with brushes and paints, he hurries out in his shabby clothing each morning, leaving a trace of footprints on the dusty street. His presence stirs something in her, something held back for many years. 
  Others in the village befriend the Artist, including Gretchen, the young housekeeper guided by her tender feelings for the painter, and Luc, the salt-of-the-earth farmer who hides his demons behind amiability and hard work. No one understands the Artist--what he sees, how he paints, or why he stays--and their confusion increases as he becomes increasing erratic, plagued by forces growing out of his control. As his time in the village hurtles toward a stunning, fateful end, all those touched by his visions are altered forever. 
  A bold exploration of the encompassing drive of creativity, the power of art, and the bonds of community and friendship, MADAME SOREL'S LODGER explores what it means to follow or hide your heart and how these choices, in the end, are what make us human.

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