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  Ezra’s Ghosts

  Darcy Tamayose

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  Award-winning author Darcy Tamayose returns with Ezra’s Ghosts, a collection of fantastical stories linked by a complex mingling of language and culture, as well as a deep understanding of grief and what it makes of us. Within these pages a scholar writes home from the Ryukyu islands, not knowing that his hometown will soon face a deadly calamity of its own. Another seeker of truth is trapped in Ezra after her violent death, and must watch how her family—and her killer—alter in her absence. The oldest man in town, an immigrant who came to Canada to escape imperial hardships, sprouts wings, and a wounded journalist bears witness to his transformation. Finally, past and present collide as a researcher reflects on the recent skinwars that have completely altered the world’s topography. Binding the stories together is an intersect of arrival and departure—in a quiet prairie town called Ezra.

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  Good Women - Stories

  Halle Hill

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  "A stunning slow burn brimming with observation, emotion, and incident.” —Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review 
   
  “A fantastic firecracker of a collection I'll return to again and again!” —Deesha Philyaw, author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies 
   
  In her dynamic debut, Halle Hill’s Good Women delves into the lives of twelve Black women across the Appalachian South. 
   
  A woman boards a Greyhound bus barreling toward Florida to meet her sugar daddy’s mother; a state fair employee considers revenge on a local preacher; a sister struggles with guilt as she helps her brother plan to run away with a man he's seeing in secret; a young woman who works for a scam for-profit college navigates the lies she sells for a living. 
   
  Darkly funny and deeply human, Good Women observes how place, blood ties, generational trauma, obsession, and boundaries―or lack thereof―influence how we navigate our small worlds, and how those worlds so often collide in ways we don’t expect. Through intimate moments of personal choice, Hill carefully shines a light on how these twelve women shape and form themselves through faith and abandon, transgression and conformity, community, caution, and solitude. 
   
  With precision and empathy, Hill captures the mundane in moments of absurdity, and bears witness to both joy and heartbreak, reminding us how the next moment could be life-changing. Vibrant and exacting, Hill is a must-read new voice in literary fiction.

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  Top 10 Short Stories The - The...

  Franz Kafka

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  Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart.  A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. 
   
  In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?  
   
  The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme.  Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. 
   
  Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made.  If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. 
   
  Whether Central Europe is part of East or West or both it is undeniable that it is also unto itself.  Its stories and literature are amongst the boldest narratives anywhere.  These authors have helped established the incredible literary heritage of all our ages. 
   
  01 - The Top 10 - The Central Europeans - An Introduction 
  2 - The New Paris by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 
  3 - A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka 
  4 - A Legend of Old Egypt by Boleslaw Prus 
  5 - Gods in Exile by Heinrich Heine 
  6 - The Chamomile Drops by Jaroslav Hasek 
  7 - The Criminal from Lost Honour by Friedrich Schiller 
  8 - The Bundle of Letters by Moritz Jokai 
  9 - Vampirismus or Aurelia by E T A Hoffman 
  10 - The Vampire by Jan Neruda 
  11 - Wake Not the Dead by Johann Ludwig Tieck

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  Gold Rings - Seasonal Sparkles

  Mo Fanning

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  Welcome to 'Gold Rings,' a collection of four evocative short stories from Mo Fanning's acclaimed collection 'Five Gold Rings.' Each tale, narrated by a different voice, transports you through the seasons, unfolding a tapestry of human emotions and experiences. And if Christmas is just a little too jolly, let Mo change your mind.

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  The Travelling Salesman - James...

  Paul Amann

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  James Mason is a rogue, some would say a lovable rogue. He is a salesman of items that any guesthouse on the south coast of England can’t manage without, and he spends his weeks travelling along from one city to another, encouraging landladies to purchase his products. In the evenings he stays with one or other of his customers and very often ends up spanking them or their eighteen-year-old daughters.  
  Each week he stays in a central point and usually stays at the same guesthouse from Sunday night to Saturday morning. How does he choose the guesthouse? I hear you ask. Is it always by the quality of their accommodation? “Yeah, right!” 
  He rates the guesthouses he stays at in the following way. 
  1. Is the landlady a single woman? 
  2. Is he properly looked after when he stays there? 
  3. Does the landlady have a daughter? 
  4. Is the room cheap? 
  5. Will the landlady write an invoice for twice what she charges him, for his expense claim? 
  6. Does the landlady and/or her daughter like to be spanked? 
  7. Is the account a small one? 
  When he is thinking with the part of his brain that he keeps in his pants, all of the above criteria are combined and then discarded if he discovers that number six is in place. 
  He just loves spanking naughty girls, and you will be amazed at how many he finds when he’s travelling. 
  He is thirty-two years old and still looks pretty good in the suit that he wears when he is selling. No tie nowadays, of course. He doesn't exercise at all but he is very fit, being on his feet most of the day and exercising on his back in the evenings, three times a week usually. He never apologises for his behaviour. Up to you if you approve or not. Most people don’t seem to care.

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  The Body of a Soul - Stories

  Lyudmila Ulitskaya

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  A new collection of stories by the acclaimed Ludmila Ulitskaya, masterfully translated into English 
   
  “[A] magnificent collection . . . [by] a writer of boundless tenderness.”—Geneviève Brisac, Le Monde 
   
  While we can feel, know, and study the body, the soul refuses definition. Where does it begin and end? What does the soul have to do with love? Does it exist at all, and if so, does it outlast the body? Or are the soul and body really one and the same? 
   
  These are questions posed by the characters who inhabit this book of stories by the award-winning Russian writer Ludmila Ulitskaya. A woman believes that the best way to control her life is to control her death. A landscape photographer wonders if the beauty he has witnessed can triumph over decay. A coroner dedicated to science is confronted by a startling physical anomaly, a lonely widow experiences an extraordinary transformation, a woman whose life is devoted to language finds words slipping away from her. 
   
  In these eleven stories, artfully rendered into English by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, Ulitskaya maps the edges of our lives, tracing a delicate geography of the soul.

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