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  Stark Munro Letters

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  The letters of my friend Mr. Stark Munro appear to me to form so connected a whole, and to give so plain an account of some of the troubles which a young man may be called upon to face right away at the outset of his career, that I have handed them over to the gentleman who is about to edit them. There are two of them, the fifth and the ninth, from which some excisions are necessary; but in the main I hope that they may be reproduced as they stand. I am sure that there is no privilege which my friend would value more highly than the thought that some other young man, harassed by the needs of this world and doubts of the next, should have gotten strength by reading how a brother had passed down the valley of shadow before him.HERBERT SWANBOROUGH. LOWELL, MASS.  - Summary by Arthur Conan Doyle

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  Lucky Girls - Stories

  Nell Freudenberger

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  First highlighted in The New Yorker fiction issue, here is award-winning writer Nell Freudenberger’s debut story collection 
   
  Lucky Girls is a collection of five novella-like stories, which take place mostly in Asia. The characters—expatriates, often by accident—are attracted to the places they find themselves in a romantic way, or repelled by a landscape where every object seems strange. For them, falling in love can be inseparable from the place where it happens.  Living according to unfamiliar rules, these characters are also vulnerable in unique ways. In the title story, a young woman who has been involved in a five-year affair with a married Indian man feels bound to both her memories and her adopted country after his death. The protagonist of “Outside the Eastern Gate” returns to her childhood home in Delhi, to find a house still inhabited by the impulsive, desperate spirit of her mother, who left her family for a wild journey over the Khyber Pass to Afghanistan. In “Letter from the Last Bastion,” a teenage girl begins a correspondence with a novelist who’s built his reputation writing about his experiences as a soldier in Vietnam and who, in his letters, confides in her a secret about his past.  Highly anticipated in the literary community and beyond, Lucky Girls marks the debut of a very special talent that places her among today’s most gifted young writers.

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  Bernard Capes - A Short Story...

  Bernard Capes

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  Bernard Edward Joseph Capes was born on the 30th August 1854 in London.  He was one of 11 children. 
   
  His early work was as a journalist and this developed into writing many short stories for the periodicals of the time including Blackwood's, Cassell's, Cornhill Magazine, Illustrated London News, Macmillan's Magazine, Mall Magazine, Pearson's Magazine, The Idler, and The Queen. 
   
  It took him many years to decide that writing full-time could be a sustainable career path.  His initial success came with ‘The Mill of Silence’.  As well as being published it garnered second prize at a competition sponsored by the Chicago Record.  He exceeded that by winning it the following year with ‘The Lake of Wine’.   
   
  Capes quickly became both prolific and popular.  As well as his stories and articles for the periodicals he wrote around 40 volumes across novels, poetry, history as well as romance and mystery novels. 
   
  Bernard Capes died on 2nd November 1918 in the flu epidemic. 
   
  1 - Bernard Capes - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction 
  2 - A Danse Macabre by Bernard Capes 
  3 - A Voice From The Pit by Bernard Capes 
  4 - Bullet-Proof by Bernard Capes 
  5 - The Strength of the Rope by Bernard Capes 
  6 - The Thing in the Forest by Bernard Capes 
  7 - An Ugly Customer by Bernard Capes 
  8 - Dark Dignum by Bernard Capes 
  9 - The Voice by Bernard Capes

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  The Ship's Doctor

  Charlie Nash

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  It's just a trip to the furthest-flung mega-space-station for a basic malfunction. For a ship's doctor, a new breed of implanted organic system medico, it should have been an easy job. Instead, this doctor walks into a crisis. 
  First, there's a dead colleague. Then, the infected core, and a flight engineer who knows something about her past. Oh, and then there's the fact she's unwittingly assisted a miliary coup, which threatens to spread the infection across the 'verse. Will she make it out? Or will she sacrifice all for the station? 
  A sci-fi adventure novelette of space medicine, mercenaries and machines from Aurealis and Ditmar Award nominee, Charlie Nash. Originally published in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine and now re-released.

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  The Captain's Vengeance

  Dewey Lambdin

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  It is early February, 1799, a year of war.Sailing in the Caribbean, Captain Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy, is once again pursuing a chimera. A rich French prize ship he'd left at anchor at Dominica has gone missing, along with six of his sailors.What starts as a straightforward search for it, and them, from Hispaniola to Barbados, far down the Antilles, leads Lewrie to a gruesome discovery on the Dry Tortugas and to a vile cabal of the most pitiless and depraved pirates ever to sail under the "Jolly Roger" . . . and the suspicion that one of his trusted hands just may be the worst of them all.Against his will-again-the usually irrepressible Lewrie is made his superiors' "cat's-paw" once more, and his covert mission this time is to go up the Mississippi in enemy-held Spanish Louisiana to the romantic but sordid port of New Orleans in search of pirates and prize, where one false step could betray Lewrie and his small party as spies. Beguilements, betrayal, and death lurk 'round every corner of the Vieux Carré, and it's up to Lewrie's quick but cynical wits to win the day for their survival and wreak a very personal vengeance on his foes.

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  Exasperated - A Short Story...

  J M Barrie, Frank Stockton, GK...

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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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