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  The Permanent Tenant

  J. S. Fletcher

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  Joseph Smith Fletcher (1863-1935) was a British journalist and author. He wrote more than 230 books on a wide variety of subjects, both fiction and nonfiction. He was one of the leading writers of detective fiction in the Victorian golden age of the short story.'The Permanent Tenant' is the story of a loyal dog, Boris, whose master disappeared suddenly under mysterious circumstances three years earlier. The faithful hound sits day after day in the garden of a cottage, looking out at the sea. Every evening Boris wanders down to the seaside cove where his master vanished in search of him. Clearly the dog is convinced that his master will one day return. And then one day something astounding happens....

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  Cool Air

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937), better known as H. P. Lovecraft, was an American writer who achieved posthumous fame for his brilliant and highly influential works of horror fiction."Cool Air" is the story of a mysterious, reclusive doctor who appears to be suffering from a peculiar illness which involves him cooling his rooms to extremely cold temperatures and taking strange chemical baths.Then one day the pump system which refridgerates his apartment breaks down...and a sequence of events unfolds which is truly horrific.

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  Holiday in a Stetson

  Marie Ferrarella, Tina Leonard

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  Untamed hearts discover the gifts of love and family in this anthology featuring two contemporary Western holiday romances. 
   
  The Sheriff Who Found Christmas by Marie Ferrarella 
   
  Former big city cop Lani Chisholm is determined to get Sheriff Garrett Tanner in the holiday spirit—especially since the sexy Scrooge became guardian to his niece. With a heart the size of Texas, Lani has more than enough love for Garrett and his little girl. And with some unexpected help from a tree hunt and a missing angel, a certain Western lawman just may discover his own Christmas miracle . . .  
   
  A Rancho Diablo Christmas by Tina Leonard 
   
  Trading kisses under the mistletoe is not what brought Johnny Donovan to Rancho Diablo. After all, he’s a diehard bachelor—and Jess St. John’s the most undomesticated woman in New Mexico. Then why does the petite horse trainer fill Johnny with such heart-soaring holiday spirit? The plan was to outsmart the Callahan matchmakers. Only, now it’s Johnny who’s hankering to get Jess to say yes. What’s a love-charmed Santa to do?

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  The Doll's Alphabet

  Camilla Grudova

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  Short stories from an unholy marriage of Angela Carter, Sheila Heti, and H. P. Lovecraft.
    Dolls, sewing machines, tinned foods, mirrors, malfunctioning bodies - by constantly reinventing ways to engage with her obsessions and motifs, Camilla Grudova has built a universe that's highly imaginative, incredibly original, and absolutely discomfiting. The stories in The Doll's Alphabet are simultaneously childlike and naive, grotesque and very dark.

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  The Reticence of Lady Anne

  Saki Saki

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  Edwardian satirist Hector Hugh Munro (1870-1916), who wrote under the pseudonym “Saki” tells the story of an unusual three-way domestic dispute between Egbert, his wife Lady Anne, and Don Tarquinio the cat. As often happens with Saki, there is a cynical twist at the end.

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  O Russet Witch!

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  Written after the completion of the first draft of his second novel, this short story featured in Tales of the Jazz Age was written by Fitzgerald and features a man who settled in his love life and the daring, interesting woman who could have been his future.

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