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  Dance Me To The End Of Love - A...

  Regine Reyevsky Fisher

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  The short stories in Dance Me to the End of Love reflect the real day-to-day life of ordinary people of different ages, genders, professions, and ethnicities with connections to a believable world of imagined events. They take place in the former Soviet Union, in the United States, and in the emigration in-between. Love, marriage, infidelity, disillusionment, intimacy and the lack of it, rootlessness are subjects that move from an improbable reality to surreal events, as the American novelist Maureen Howard noted,“… is Regine Rayevsky Fisher’s strong suit, one she shares with many of the best writers who have emerged from the Soviet Union that was and the Eastern bloc, such as Kundera and Berberova…Fisher knows when to fade from a scene, when to draw conclusions that have the double vision of innocence and the informed telling.” 
  Some of the stories slap you in the face, some make you want to cry your heart out—they are wonderfully entertaining and also very wise. The author has a satirical talent for exposing so many of our human flaws and showing how people behave from insecurity and their fragile egos. But there is tenderness and forgiveness too. These tales about simple people pose more questions than answers about morals, respectability, and roads taken and missed. Most of all they are about love that holds everything together on our planet. 
   

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  August Heat - From their pens to...

  W F Harvey

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  William Fryer Harvey AM was born on 14th April 1885 into a wealthy Quaker family in Leeds, West Yorkshire. 
  He was educated at the Quaker Bootham School in Yorkshire and Leighton Park School in Reading before university at Balliol College, Oxford.  
  His health was fragile and he poured his energies into writing short stories and in 1910 published his first collection ‘Midnight House’. 
  In the Great War he was with the Friends' Ambulance Unit and then served as a surgeon-lieutenant in the Royal Navy.  There he received the Albert Medal for Lifesaving but lung damage received at that time troubled him for the rest of his life. 
  He continued to write short stories, and even a memoir, but by 1925 ill health had forced his retirement to any outside work.  Three years later he published his second collection which contained his macabre classic ‘The Beast with Five fingers’, only one more collection would come from his pen in his lifetime. 
  For many years of his life he now lived in Switzerland with his wife but a yearning to be home saw them come back to England in 1935. 
  W F Harvey died in Letchworth on the 4th June 1937. He was 52.

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  Company - Stories

  Shannon Sanders

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  A richly detailed, brilliantly woven debut collection about the lives and lore of one Black family 
   
  Shannon Sanders’s sparkling debut brings us into the company of the Collins family and their acquaintances as they meet, bicker, compete, celebrate, worry, keep and reveal secrets, build lives and careers, and endure. Moving from Atlantic City to New York to DC, from the 1960s to the 2000s, from law students to drag performers to violinists to matriarchs, Company tells a multifaceted, multigenerational saga in thirteen stories. 
   
  Each piece includes a moment when a guest arrives at someone’s home. In “The Good, Good Men,” two brothers reunite to oust a “deadbeat” boyfriend from their mother’s house. In “The Everest Society,” the brothers’ sister anxiously prepares for a home visit from a social worker before adopting a child. In “Birds of Paradise,” their aunt, newly promoted to university provost, navigates a minefield of microaggressions at her own welcome party. And in the haunting title story, the provost’s sister finds her solitary life disrupted when her late sister’s daughter comes calling. 
   
  These are stories about intimacy, societal and familial obligations, and the ways inheritances shape our fates. Buoyant, somber, sharp, and affectionate, this collection announces a remarkable new voice in fiction.

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  Horrid Henry: Super Schemes

  Lucinda Whiteley

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  Everyone loves a super schemer, and Henry’s Super Schemes are the best of the best, no one can deny (yeah, yeah, yeah!). This brilliantly Horrid collection of 11 HorridEveryone loves a super schemer, and Henry’s Super Schemes are the best of the best, no one can deny (yeah, yeah, yeah!).  This brilliantly Horrid collection of 11 Horrid Henry super stories is performed by the show's full cast and there’s Horrid homework, funny bunnies galore and even a massively Horrid hotel to enjoy here. So let’s turn up the Horrid and enjoy these classic stories with "Green Machine", "Best Boys Club", "Party Entertainers", "Mega Cool Air Guitarist", "Very Important Director", "Uber Homework", "Titanic TV", "3D Printer", "Funny Bunny", "Hotel Horrid" and "Brainbox of the Year". Horridly Brilliant or Brilliantly Horrid? You decide!! Henry super stories is performed by the show's full cast and there’s Horrid homework, funny bunnies galore and even a massively Horrid hotel to enjoy here. So let’s turn up the Horrid and enjoy these classic stories with "Green Machine", "Best Boys Club", "Party Entertainers", "Mega Cool Air Guitarist", "Very Important Director", "Uber Homework", "Titanic TV", "3D Printer", "Funny Bunny", "Hotel Horrid" and "Brainbox of the Year". Horridly Brilliant or Brilliantly Horrid? You decide!!

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  The Horror At Red Hook

  H.P. Lovecraft

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  In the shadowed streets and decaying buildings of Red Hook, New York, Detective Thomas Malone encounters horrors beyond human comprehension. Sent to investigate a series of strange events in this sinister neighborhood, he discovers a dark world of ancient rituals, occult practices, and hidden mysteries lurking beneath the city’s surface. As Malone delves deeper, he finds himself facing powers that defy all rational thought, leading him into a nightmare he may never escape. 
  Narrated by John Klicman, this audiobook brings Lovecraft’s tale of supernatural dread to life. Klicman’s captivating voice enhances the eerie, oppressive atmosphere, immersing listeners in Lovecraft’s haunting vision of fear and the unknown. 
  Perfect for fans of horror and the Lovecraftian universe, The Horror at Red Hook invites listeners into a terrifying tale of suspense, cosmic dread, and the limits of human understanding.

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  The Doll

  Charles W. Chesnutt

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  Charles Chesnutt's "The Doll" is a story of seeking truth, facing discrimination, and making bold choices for the sake of one's own livelihood.
  "The Doll", depicts the African American barber as a human character by showing him struggle with and simply show human thoughts and emotions. The story takes place during a time of huge racial prejudice, a time in which some people did not even consider African Americans to be human.

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