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  Tales of the Jazz Age

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  Tales of the Jazz Age is a collection of short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, one of the most well-known Jazz Age writers whose works have stood the test of time. These stories are separated into several themes, ranging from the fantastical to the more realistic. 
  This collection includes 11 short stories, including: 
  "The Curious Tale of Benjamin Button" – A man is born with the appearance of an old man, fully capable of speech and developed thought. He ages backwards, and has to live a very different life dealing with the odd and disappointing aspects of his predicament. 
  "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz" – A man learns of the existence of a diamond bigger than a hotel building. This diamond causes problems for the family who discovered it, as they must keep its existence a secret to keep demand for diamonds high. 
  "The Jelly-Bean" – Jim Powell has dreams of living a life full of dancing, music, and love, but his dreams are dashed by the consequences of alcoholism and greed. 
  "Mr. Icky" – A short play in which a man tells a reflective story about his life and the morals of the era while meeting a man who wants to marry his daughter. 
  The stories in this collection are excellent examples of the writing skills of F. Scott Fitzgerald, and are entertaining with a diverse subject matter. Tales of the Jazz Age is a great escape into the wild and vibrant Jazz Age era.

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  Maggie Rose and Sass

  Eunice Boeve

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  Maggie Rose and Sass explores the differences between two races and the culture of the times. The novel is set in 1888 in a fictional town based on Nicodemus, Kansas, a town settled ten years earlier by ex-slaves from Kentucky. Life in Georgia with an ugly-tempered, racist grandmother has not prepared the orphaned Maggie Rose for Solomon Town whose citizens are almost all black. Sass has lived all her life in Solomon Town, the daughter of an ex-slave mother and a free-born, educated, mixed-race father. Raised in such totally different cultures, the two girls are bound to clash.

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  David Elginbrod

  George MacDonald

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  David Elginbrod was George Macdonald's first real success, a novel of Scottish country life. Published in 1862, it was dedicated to the memory of Lady Noel Byron.(Summary from wikipedia)

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  Dear Diary - A Short Story...

  Leo Tolstoy, Charlotte Perkins...

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  The diary is that most intimate of journals, of records. 
   
  Within its pages the writer records and gives expression to their thoughts, their feelings, their emotional state on all the things that make up and surround them in this world. 
   
  For most people the diary is a way to record the milestones of life; a birthday, a new love, the passing of someone as well as the minutiae of everyday life that seems worth passing into written memory.   
   
  It may be a daily task, or an occasional flurry of words whenever it’s deemed necessary yet, apart from politicians and celebrities, these pages are never really shared.  The truth they hold is personal to the writer, and others are not privy to its contents. 
   
  With authors of the calibre of Bulgakov, Woolf, Tolstoy, Twain and many others this volume explores characters who lives seemed dominated by these diaries, and the events that unfold are both compelling and literary journeys into the very personal and intimate side of their characters’ lives. 
   
  1 - Dear Diary - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction 
  2 - Diary of a Lunatic by Leo Tolstoy 
  3 - The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 
  4 - The Diary of a God by Barry Pain 
  5 - Eve's Diary by Mark Twain 
  6 - Morphine by Mikhail Bulgakov 
  7 - The Horror of the Heights by Arthur Conan Doyle 
  8 - The Legacy by Virginia Woolf 
  9 - Diary of a Madman by Nikolai Gogol 
  10 - The Horla by Guy De Maupassant

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  A Death in Norfolk

  Ashley Gardner

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  Captain Gabriel Lacey travels with Lady Breckenridge to his boyhood home in northern Norfolk only to discover mysterious happenings in and around the Lacey estate. A young woman, cousin of an old friend, has gone missing, strange objects appear in Lacey's ruined house, and the dark windmills on the marshes keep pulling Lacey to them. 
  The underworld criminal, James Denis, uses Lacey's visit to Norfolk as an opportunity to have Lacey deliver a message to a local squire. A simple task--but one that lands Lacey squarely in international theft and murder. Lacey learns more about Denis's past, and finds himself joining forces with Denis to flush out a brutal killer and save the one person about whom Denis admits to caring.

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  The Adventurers

  Vivian Stuart

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  THEY FLED AN OLD WORLD RAVAGED BY WAR AND HEARTBREAK TO SEIZE THEIR HEARTS' DESIRES IN THE NEW...
  The ninth book in the dramatic and intriguing story about the colonisation of Australia: a country built on blood, passion, and dreams.
  Justin Broome, the son of two of the most legendary prisoners in New South Wales, learns that skill and courage do not stand a chance against prejudice.
  Bitterness and disappointment are mixed with the wear and tear of his everyday life; all the while shiploads of miserable prisoners and free settlers continue to arrive from a war-weary England.
  Rebels and outcasts, they fled halfway across the earth to settle the harsh Australian wastelands. Decades later — ennobled by love and strengthened by tragedy — they had transformed a wilderness into a fertile land. And themselves into The Australians.

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