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  Dark to Light and Other Stories

  Stephen Filbey

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  Life thwarts Floyd’s goals sooner or later. A rival challenges his new invention. His buried gold is confiscated by HM Treasury. He is wrongly charged with arson. He is unfairly dismissed. He campaigns to change part of English punctuation, yet inadvertently continues to use it afterwards. Helping a friend lands him in hospital. What has he done to deserve all this? 
  Yet he is resourceful in dealing with his adverse situations, whether personal or confronting the might of the state. Other characters must eat humble pie to stay afloat. College lecturer Ed Beck forsakes his principles. And Matt abandons his business dreams to preserve an old friendship.

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  Thrilled to Death - Selected...

  Lynne Tillman, Luc Sante,...

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  From award-winning novelist and cultural critic Lynne Tillman, Thrilled to Death is a collection of selected stories across the career of America's most audacious writer 
   
   
   
  Among the vanguard of American literary writers, Lynne Tillman's work has defied categorization throughout her legendary career—a singular body of work that both redefined and reimagined the short story form entirely. 
   
   
   
  Curated by the author, Thrilled to Death is the definitive entry point for both established fans and new readers alike. These selected stories collect a bold, playful, and eclectic ensemble of Tillman's Borgesian fictions that span decades and traverse themes of sex, death, memory, and anxiety. 
   
   
   
  With argumentative wit, Tillman's meditations and reflections on art, politics, and culture are animated by deliciously paradoxical characters who desire and fret in turn, and who are imbued with searing intelligence and dolorous ambivalence. Describing Tillman's writing, Colm Tóibín says: "Her style has both tone and undertone; it attempts to register the impossibility of saying very much, but it insists on the right to say a little. So what is essential is the voice itself, its ways of knowing and unknowing."

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  DEROS Vietnam - Dispatches from...

  Doug Bradley

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  DEROS Vietnam: Dispatches from the Air-Conditioned Jungle presents a unique, fictional montage of the war, and postwar, experiences of Vietnam support troops. Structurally based on Ernest Hemingway’s In Our Time, DEROS Vietnam (the acronym stands for Date Eligible for Return from Over Seas) is a riveting collection of 16 short stories and 16 interlinears about the GIs who battled boredom, racial tensions, the military brass, drugs, alcohol—and occasionally the enemy. From cooks and correspondents to clerks and comptrollers, DEROS Vietnam distills the essence of life for soldiers in the rear during the war and, later, back home in a divided America. Vietnam veteran Doug Bradley, a former Army journalist who served in the air-conditioned jungle at U. S. Army Headquarters near Saigon in 1970-71, tells these compelling stories with wit, intensity, and empathy. In doing so, he provides a gateway to a Vietnam experience that has been largely ignored and whose reverberations still echo across America. 
  The more common experience of war in all branches of the service is that of support. Bullets, beans, and bandages don't get to the grunts by magic. Doug Bradley's stories explore the Vietnam War as experienced by the majority of its veterans. These stories are not about battle, but like all great stories they are about the battle for the human soul. Bradley is a talented and experienced writer and he describes that battle with clarity, insight, humor, and great skill. --Karl Marlantes, author of Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War

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  Two Timer

  Fredric Brown

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  What if time itself could betray you? In Fredric Brown's gripping short story "Two Timer", a man discovers the shocking consequences of time travel when an experiment goes terribly wrong. A single moment changes everything, leaving him trapped in an unsettling paradox with no way out. Known for his clever twists and sharp storytelling, Brown masterfully crafts a tale that is both thought-provoking and chilling. "Two Timer" is a must-listen for fans of classic science fiction, blending suspense, irony, and the unsettling mysteries of time in a way that only Fredric Brown can.

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  Mistletoe and Mulled Wine at the...

  Caroline Roberts

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  The Christmas Cocktail Campervan – bringing love, laughter and friendship from coast to coast . . . 
  The gorgeously romantic new novel in the ‘Cosy Campervan series’ – next stop: Christmas markets, mince pies and kisses under the mistletoe! 
  Christmas feels like a real gift for Lucy this year. Her cosy coastal cottage is starting to feel like home, her new pizza business is getting the locals ‘All Fired Up’, and she can’t wait to spend it with her new flame Jack, the charismatic owner of the Cocktail Campervan. 
  Winding along the snow-dusted Northumberland coast for a whirlwind of Christmas markets and celebrations, Lucy and Jack can’t resist stealing a few kisses under the mistletoe. But there’s a twist in their romantic tale when Lucy’s ex turns up in the village. As her past closes in, Jack becomes increasingly distant. And Lucy worries he’s holding back a few secrets of his own . . . 
  Will Christmas bring a cold spell for Lucy and Jack? Or could it really be the most wonderful time of the year?Readers LOVE curling up with this festive romance! 
  ‘The community sucked me straight in and the cosy festive vibes were excellent for getting me in the mood for the season! I love books by Caroline Roberts, you're always in for such a treat!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
  ‘This book is the perfect gift for anyone that likes to read Christmas stories and get swept away. So grab yourself a hot chocolate or mulled wine, curl up on the sofa and dive in, trust me, you won’t be disappointed’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
  ‘I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it and really wished I had a cheeky cocktail to enjoy!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
  ‘I would not hesitate to recommend this book; it can’t fail to fill the reader with Christmas cheer’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
  ‘A lovely romantic Christmas read that will make you want to stop and finish it in one sitting’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
  ‘I fell in love with Mistletoe and Mulled Wine at the Christmas Campervan… Full of festive magic once again, Caroline has written a Christmas gem’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
  In the quaint, rural town, Lucy's life takes a wholesome turn as she navigates through the complexities of divorce and the prospects of a new marriage. The small, tight-knit community becomes her family, offering support and companionship in the festive season. 
  For fans of Cathy Bramley (The Sunrise Sisterhood), Ali Mcnamara (It Always Snows on Mistletoe Square), Jo Thomas (Keeping a Christmas Promise), Heidi Swain (A Christmas Celebration), and Jaimie Admans (The Little Christmas Shop on Nutcracker Lane). 
  HarperCollins 2022

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  Sudden Traveler - Stories

  Anonym

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  “Sarah Hall is one of those rare writers whose short fiction has the same luminosity as her novels. But the short form allows her more room to probe and roam, to experiment with form, to sink her fingers into the earth.”—The Observer (London) 
  Featuring her signature themes of identity, eroticism, and existential quest, the stories in Sarah Hall’s third collection travel far afield in location and ambition—from Turkish forest and coastline to the rain-drenched villages of Cumbria. 
  The characters in Sudden Traveler walk, drive, dream, and fly, trying to reconcile themselves with their journeys through life, death, and love. Science fiction meets folktale and philosophy meets mortality. 
  A woman with a new generation of pacemaker chooses to shut it down in the Lakeland, the site of her strongest memories. A man repatriated in the near east hears the name of an old love called and must unpack history’s dark suitcase. From the new world-waves of female anger and resistance, a mythical creature evolves. And in the woods on the border between warring countries, an old well facilitates a dictator’s downfall, before he gains power. 
  A master of short fiction, Sarah Hall opens channels in the human mind and spirit and takes us to the very edge of our possible selves.

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