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  Untitled Train Story

  Teo Kai Xiang

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  A journalist investigates the stalled construction of a new MRT station, where a subterranean secret has been uncovered by workers. When she finds traces of unexplained disappearances however, what began as a strange article becomes an investigation with dangerous urgency.

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  Selected FIC029000 by F Scott...

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  Ranging in tone from humor to sentimentality, these stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald are set against a backdrop of jazz, flappers, and the changing mores of American society.  In "Bernice Bobs Her Hair," wallflower Bernice is taken in hand by her more popular cousin, whose motives are not entirely altruistic.  In "Benediction," a young woman visits her brother in seminary.  A camel goes to a party in "The Camel's Back."  "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is a poignant fantasy about a man who ages backward.  Finally, tragedy befalls a young couple in "The Lees of Happiness."  The stories in this collection are from the books Flappers and Philosophers and Tales of the Jazz Age.  (Summary by Laurie Anne Walden)

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  Conan the Barbarian: Gods of the...

  Robert E. Howard

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  "The Frost-Giant's Daughter" is, arguably the earliest chronological story by Robert E. Howard in terms of Conan's life. The brief tale is set somewhere in frozen Nordheim, geographically situated north of Conan's homeland, Cimmeria. Conan is depicted by Howard as a youthful Cimmerian mercenary traveling among the golden-haired Aesir in a war party.Shortly before the story begins, a hand-to-hand battle has occurred on an icy plain. Eighty men ("four score") have perished in bloody combat, and Conan alone survives the battlefield where Wulfhere's Aesir "reavers" fought the Vanir "wolves" of Bragi, a Vanir chieftain. Thus, the story opens.Following this fierce battle against the red-haired Vanir, Conan the Cimmerian, lying exhausted on the corpse-strewn battlefield, is visited by a beautiful, condescending and semi-nude woman identifying herself as "Atali." Upon her bodice, she wears a transparent veil: a wisp of gossamer that was not spun by human distaff. The mere sight of her strange nakedness kindles Conan's lust and, when she repeatedly taunts him, he madly chases her for miles across the snows with the intent of raping her. The excitement continues but I won't ruin the story for you by saying more. Can Conan deal with this daughter of a frost-giant? And what when her daddy shows up?

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  The Fringes Of The Fleet

  Rudyard Kipling

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  During the war (WWI), Kipling wrote the booklet "The Fringes of the Fleet" containing essays and poems on various nautical subjects of the war. Some of the poems were set to music by English composer Edward.

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  Dixie City Jam

  James Lee Burke

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  A sunken Nazi U-boat drags a Louisiana deputy into lethal danger in this hard-boiled mystery by a New York Times–bestselling author. 
   
  It’s out there, under the salt of the Gulf of Mexico, off the Louisiana coast—a buried Nazi submarine. Detective Dave Robicheaux of the New Iberia Sheriff’s office has known of its existence since childhood, when he was terrified by nightmares of the evil Nazi sailors just offshore. Then, as a teenager he stumbled upon the sunken sub while scuba diving—but for years he kept the secret of its watery grave. 
   
  But decades later, a powerful Jewish activist wants the sub raised, and Robicheaux’s knowledge puts him at the center of a terrifying struggle of conflicting desires. A neo-Nazi psychopath named Will Buchalter, who insists that the Holocaust was a hoax, wants to find the submarine first—and he’ll stop at nothing to get Robicheaux to talk . . .  
   
  With colorful characters, flawless plotting, and devilishly clever dialogue, Dixie City Jam is a spine-tingling suspense novel you won’t want to miss! 
   
  “[Burke’s] darkest, densest novel yet.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

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  Two Tales From Algernon Blackwood

  Algernon Blackwood

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  Algernon Henry Blackwood (March 14, 1869 - December 10, 1951) was an English broadcasting narrator, journalist, novelist and short story writer, and among the most prolific ghost story writers in the history of the genre. The following recording includes the short stories, "The Olive" and "Ancient Lights."

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