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  Exasperated - A Short Story...

  J M Barrie, Frank Stockton, G K...

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  In this volume we discover that the obvious and the easy are not perhaps as obvious and easy as our authors first present them. 
   
  They play with us.  There is certainty.  Then there is uncertainty.  There is a fact and then seemingly not. 
   
  One thing we can rely on though is that each new twist and turn takes us on a journey of frustration and exasperation that is as enjoyable as it is bewildering. 
   
  And, in the company of the sparkling wits of Chesterton, Aumonier, Barrie and a host of others who summon indignation and vexation as they rile and befuddle us then being exasperated was never quite so much fun. 
   
  01 - Exasperated - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction 
  02 - A Somewhat Improbable Story by G K Chesterton 
  03 - The Man Who Did Not Believe in Luck by Jerome K Jerome 
  04 - Putois by Anatole France 
  05 - The Lady, or the Tiger by Frank Stockton 
  06 - The Inconsiderate Waiter by J M Barrie 
  07 - The Absent Minded Man by Jerome K Jerome 
  08 - The Little Room by Madeline Yale Wynne 
  09 - The Mysterious Card by Cleveland Moffet 
  10 - Where Was Wych Street by Stacy Aumonier

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  Mary Butts - Six of the Best -...

  Mary Butts

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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. 
   
  1 - Six of the Best - Mary Butts - An Introduction 
  2 - Mary Butts - An Introduction 
  3 - With & Without Buttons by Mary Butts 
  4 - The Dinner Party by Mary Butts 
  5 - Angele Au Couvent by Mary Butts 
  6 - Brightness Falls by Mary Butts 
  7 - After the Funeral by Mary Butts 
  8 - In Bayswater - Part 1 by Mary Butts 
  9 - In Bayswater - Part 2 by Mary Butts

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  A Deadly Affair - Unexpected...

  Anonimo

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  “[We] can’t get enough of Christie’s plush and murderous thrills.” —Entertainment Weekly 
  From the Queen of Mystery—this all-new collection of stories about love gone horribly wrong will get your heart racing. 
  Love can propel us to our greatest heights . . . and darkest depths. In this new compendium of Agatha Christie short stories, witness the dark side of love—crimes of passion, games of the heart, and deadly deceits. This pulse-pounding compendium features beloved detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, master of charades Parker Pyne, the enigmatic Harley Quin, and the adventurous Tommy and Tuppence, all at the ready to solve tantalizing mysteries. 
  In “The Face of Helen,” a night at the Royal Opera could reach a fatal crescendo for a woman caught in a dicey love triangle; “Finessing the King” delivers a curious ad in the personals that could mask sinister intentions; who’s in danger of getting stung in “Wasps’ Nest” depends on rounding up suspects and solving a murder—before it even happens. These are just a few of the tales in this collection featuring essential reading that Christie fans old and new will simply love to death.

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  Sunrise - Radiant Stories

  Erika Kobayashi

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  Sunrise is a collection of interconnected stories continuing Erika Kobayashi's examination of the effects of nuclear power on generations of women. Connecting changes to everyday life to the development of the atomic bomb, Sunrise shows us how the discovery of radioactive power has shaped our history and continues to shape our future. 
   
   
   
  In the opening, eponymous story "Sunrise," Yoko, born exactly two years and one day after Nagasaki was decimated, mirrors her life to the development of nuclear power in Japan. In "Precious Stones," four daughters take their elderly mother to the restorative waters of a radium spring, exchanging tales of immortality. In "Hello My Baby, Hello My Honey," a woman goes into labor during the final days of WWII. And finally, "The Forest of Wild Birds" shows Erika visiting the site of the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster, touring grounds that were once covered in green. 
   
   
   
  Translator Brian Bergstrom returns in this collection, bringing to life Kobayashi's unsettling, lasting, and striking prose. The stories in Sunrise force a reckoning with the lasting effects of known and unknown histories and asks how much of modern life is influenced by forces outside of our control.

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  A Dead Secret - From their pens...

  Lafcadio Hearn

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  Lafcadio Hearn was born on the 27th June 1850 on the Ionian isle of Levkás in Greece to a British Army officer and a Greek Mother. 
  His father, fearing for his career prospects at being married to a Greek Orthodox wife, sent them to Dublin whilst he continued to advance his career with further postings.  Life there was difficult for mother and son.  His father returned, wounded and traumatised, when Lafcadio was three.  He annulled the marriage and she remarried but had to give up care of Lafcadio to her sister-in law.   
  After brief periods for Catholic education in England and France he emigrated to Ohio in the United States when he was 19, taking on a series of casual jobs before embarking on a career as a journalist, publishing poems and essays in Cincinnati.  It was whilst here that he began a side-line in translating, starting with Gautier and Flaubert.  He married in 1874 to a 20 year old African-American woman in violation of Ohio's anti-miscegenation law.  The marriage soon failed. 
  In 1877 he relocated to New Orleans to write on a variety of themes before picking up a two year assignment from Harper’s to write in the West Indies, where he also wrote his first novel. 
  In 1890 Harper’s sent him to Japan.  Here he left journalism and took the remarkable decision to become a schoolteacher in the north of Japan.   Enraptured by the culture he was driven to explain it in various Western publications to those who had little, if any, knowledge of its culture.  Within the year he had fallen in love with, and married, a high-born Japanese lady, together they would have four children.   
  In 1895 he became a Japanese national and took the name Koizumi Yakumo, Koizumi being his wife’s family name. 
  The following few years, whilst a professor of Literature at the Imperial University of Japan, were his most creative and admired period.   
  Lafcadio Hearn died of heart failure on the 26th of September 1904, in Tokyo, Japan shortly before leaving to deliver a series of lectures at Cornell University in New York State.  He was 54.

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  ASMR Lucid Nightmares 3Mily

  DexRay

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  ASMR Lucid Nightmares 3Mily(Emily) 
  (Some of the platforms bots don't get the 3 is pronounced as an E - so the title in the credits may say it as spelled 3Mily - but it's actually pronounced Emily) 
  Another ASMR story reading from one of my Lucid Nightmares short stories. Close your eyes, relax your mind, as I read you off to sleep.  
  Be sure to check out more of my ASMR audiobooks from wherever it is you discovered this one. 
  Carpe diem 
  Dex

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