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  A Lickpenny Lover - From their...

  O Henry

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  William Sydney Porter was born on 11th September 1862 in Greensboro, North Carolina. At age 3 his mother died from tuberculosis. From an early age it was clear Porter had a large appetite for reading as he absorbed the world around him. 
  He first attended at a school run by his aunt before enrolling at the Lindsey Street High School and then worked at his uncle’s drugstore and gained a pharmacists’ license in 1881.  
  A persistent cough took him to Texas in the hope that a change of climate would help his symptoms. He took on various types of work, initially from ranch hand and cook and then as varied as pharmacist, draftsman, bank teller and journalist. He also began to write, though for now, purely as a hobby. 
  He was a member of several singing and dramatic groups when he met 17 year old Athol Estes, daughter of a wealthy Austin family. Despite her mother’s objection owing to Athol’s tuberculosis, they began courting and in July 1887, they eloped and soon married. 
  Athol, impressed by his writing, encouraged him to get them published. A job as a draftsman at the Texas General Land Office paid a healthy $100 dollars per month and life was good. 
  But then life turned cruel. His son died a few hours after birth although a daughter, Margaret, came the following year.  His job had to be vacated but another was found at the First National Bank of Austin. The bank operated informally and Porter was careless in keeping the books. He lost that job but began writing for the humourous weekly The Rolling Stone and the Houston Post. Some time later the federal Bank auditors went through his former accounts and he was arrested on charges of embezzlement. 
  Porter fled the day before his trial to Honduras. Holed up for several months he began to write.  Athol had become too ill to travel to meet him and learning that her health was deteriorating he surrendered to the court in February 1897.  Bail was obtained so that he could stay with Athol during her final days.  
  Porter was sentenced to five years at the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus. His pharmacy qualifications got him the job of night druggist.  His sentence also gave him time to write and publish fourteen short stories. In December 1899 in McClure’s Magazine he published a short story as O Henry.  
  He was released two years early in July 1901, and reunited with Margaret, now 11, in Pittsburgh.  He now began his most prolific period of writing; a short story per week for the New York World, while also publishing works in other magazines.  Eventually over 600 of his short stories were published. 
  Porter was a heavy drinker and in 1908 his health, which had deteriorated for several years, took a dramatic turn for the worse, as did his writing.  
  O Henry died of cirrhosis of the liver complicated by diabetes and an enlarged heart on 5th June 1910.

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  Carmen Reid New Women's Fiction

  Carmen Reid

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  Every Rule Worth Breaking

  Amanda Chaperon

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  Rules are made for a reason, but some rules are meant to be broken. 
   
   
   
  After dropping out of NYU, moving across the country, and spending the last two years as co-owner of a successful activewear brand, Mackenzie Jean has decided it's time to go back to school. Does she want to finish her degree? Absolutely. But enrolling at Michigan State University is about so much more. Somewhere along the way, she lost herself in the fog of her anxiety, and it's time she rediscovers who she is. 
   
   
   
  Aiden Fuller is an MSU hockey standout set to embark on his senior season. He's flying high, all of his dreams within reach, until a seemingly harmless dare from his teammates ends with Aiden staring down a ten-game suspension. Now, he's terrified he's on the verge of losing the one thing in his life that means the most to him. 
   
   
   
  When a chance encounter during Welcome Weekend pulls Kenzie and Aiden into each other's orbits, suddenly all the rules they've carefully laid out for their lives seem to be hindering more than helping. 
   
   
   
  Can Aiden be a safe place for Kenzie, a place where her mind is at rest and she can simply be? And will Kenzie help Aiden realize he can have it all—the game and the girl?

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  The Night Island

  Jayne Ann Krentz

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  The disappearance of a mysterious informant leads two people desperate for answers to an island of deadly deception in this new novel in the Lost Night Files trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Jayne Ann Krentz. 
   
  Talia March, Pallas Llewellyn, and Amelia Rivers, bonded by a night none of them can remember, are dedicated to uncovering the mystery of what really happened to them months ago—an experience that amplified innate psychic abilities in each of them. The women suspect they were test subjects years earlier, and that there are more people like them—all they have to do is find the list of others who took that same test. When Talia follows up on a lead from Phoebe Hatch, a fan of the trio’s podcast, she discovers that the informant has vanished. 
   
  Talia isn’t the only one looking for Phoebe, however. Luke Rand, a hunted and haunted man who is chasing the same list that Talia is after, also shows up at the meeting place. It’s clear he has his own agenda, and they are instantly suspicious of each other. But when a killer begins to stalk them, they realize they have to join forces to find Phoebe and the list. 
   
  The rocky investigation leads Talia and Luke to a rustic, remote retreat on Night Island in the Pacific Northwest, where the Unplugged Experience promises to rejuvenate guests.  
   
  Upon their arrival, Talia and Luke discover they are quite literally cut off from the outside world when none of their high-tech devices work on the island. It soon becomes clear that Phoebe is not the first person to disappear into the strange gardens that surround the Unplugged Experience.  
   
  And then the first mysterious death occurs. … 
   
  “Krentz is back with an adrenaline-infused, paranormal-tinged romantic suspense novel that makes the most of its isolated island setting … Readers will come for Krentz’s can’t-putit-down plotting and stay for the combustible sexual chemistry and delightfully quippy banter.”—Booklist, starred review

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  Caught by the Kingpin

  Evie Rose

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  My guardian angel is a devil mafia boss. 
  Helping the most dangerous mafia boss in London was a risk, but I didn’t expect to see his gorgeous face everywhere afterwards.  
  I fall asleep to dreams of my escape tomorrow, cupcakes, and the ice blue eyes of my kingpin stalker who leaves me presents. 
  I awake to gunshots. A hand over my mouth. In a blur of noise and smoke, he steals me away. The kingpin treats me like a captive princess and I’m conflicted. He’s twice my age. It's wrong to desire him and not the freedom I’ve been planning. So I creep out of the luxurious bedroom. At the end of the corridor, I hear his deep voice. 
  “That’s the game you want to play, is it? Try then. But if I catch you, you’ll be mine.” 
  I run. 
  Caught by the Kingpin is a sweet and steamy age gap instalove romance with a possessive and obsessed billionaire hero and the innocent girl who doesn’t know the danger he’s saving her from. 
  Dual narrated in swoonworthy British accents by John York and Jill Smith.

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  Young Love - Short Stories - We...

  James Joyce, Stephen Crane,...

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  Love.  Perhaps the one word solution for everything.  An emotion, a state of mind that we strive for, search for.  A wondrous force that binds, inspires, and a force that can spin out of control; unbalanced and fragile.  Love reflects, changes and embraces us all.    
   
  In this series we explore the many facets of love through literary talents that span both time and country.   
   
  Perhaps our first love is the one that captures us more completely than any other, save of course if we meet ‘the one’.   
   
  In our young years emotions rage, consume, and boil over with an intensity that almost shocks us.  Yet we are devoted to its path and can see no end in sight, perhaps they are ‘the one’. 
   
  1 - Love Stories - Young Love - An Introduction 
  2 - Araby by James Joyce 
  3 - The Pace of Youth by Stephen Crane 
  4 - Horse in the Moon by Luigi Pirandello 
  5 - An Awakening by Sherwood Anderson 
  6 - Freckles by William Pett Ridge 
  7 - Springtime A La Carte by O Henry 
  8 - Foreordained by Anthony Hope 
  9 - The Way the World Is by Zona Gale

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