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  The Manhood of Edward Robinson -...

  Agatha Christie

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  A classic Agatha Christie short story from the collection The Golden Ball and Other Stories. 
  Sane and sensible Edward Robinson secretly dreams of fast cars, adventurous women, and danger, but his fiancée, Maud, keeps him grounded in reality. When Edward wins money in a newspaper competition, he immediately buys the sleek red car of his dreams – without telling Maud. Adventure swiftly ensues, as he is embroiled in high society scandals that lead him to a significant transformation.

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  The Garden Lodge

  Willa Cather

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  "The Garden Lodge" is a short story by Willa Cather, first published in 1905. It tells the story of a woman asked by her husband if she would agree to tear down their garden lodge and build a new summer house there instead. She grows nostalgic as she remembers spending fond times there with tenor Raymond d'Esquerre when he was visiting. Although a moderate and no-nonsense woman, the singer rekindled her passion for music during his stay. She had to let go of it after her lazy brother killed himself and her father was crippled with debts. She then proceeds to go to the garden lodge and plays a piece of opera that she played with the tenor the previous summer. However, after a night's sleep she comes around and tells her husband she agrees the lodge should go.

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  Anthony Hope - Six of the Best –...

  Anthony Hope

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  Six has always been a number we group things around – Six of the best, six of one half a dozen of another, six feet under, six pack, six degrees of separation and a sixth sense are but a few of the ways we use this number. 
   
  Such is its popularity that we thought it is also a very good way of challenging and investigating an author’s work to give width, brevity, humour and depth across six of their very best. 
   
  In this series we gather together authors whose short stories both rivet the attention and inspire the imagination to visit their gems in a series of six, to roam across an author’s legacy in a few short hours and gain a greater understanding of their writing and, of course, to be lavishly entertained by their ideas, their narrative and their way with words. 
   
  These stories can be surprising and sometimes at a tangent to what we expected, but each is fully formed and a marvellous adventure into the world and words of a literary master. 
   
  1 - Six of the Best - Anthony Hope -  An Introduction 
  2 - Anthony Hope - An Introduction 
  3 - My Astral Body by Anthony Hope 
  4 - Foreordained by Anthony Hope 
  5 - Middleton's Model by Anthony Hope 
  6 - A Sucessful Rehearsal by Anthony Hope 
  7 - A Little Joke by Anthony Hope 
  8 - How They Stopped the 'Run' by Anthony Hope

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  Some Dreams From Now - 135 Years...

  Theophilus Kwek

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  Lim Boon Keng. David Marshall. Chandran Nair. Ho Poh Fun. 
   
  Some Dreams From Now presents 70 defining pieces of writing from the Raffles Institution archives— many brought into the public eye for the first time—that trace the contours of Singapore’s history. 
   
  From youthful dreams of a freer and more peaceful society, to emerging voices that shaped the aspirations of a new nation, they tell the untold story of a school and its community at the heart of a changing city.

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  A Spectacular Event

  Kimberly Thomas

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  In the coastal town of Oak Harbor there is a wedding for every season, and this is one that promises to be a spectacular event—a winter wonderland extravaganza. As long as there are no cold feet, that is. 
   
   
   
  You would think that being surrounded by the Hamilton family and preparing to marry the man of her dreams, that Rory would be happy . . . But she's not. 
   
   
   
  Dealing with a difficult mother-in-law and fighting for her fiancé's attention is proving to be a little more than what she signed up for. 
   
   
   
  Meanwhile . . . 
   
   
   
  Andrea struggles to accept her inability to help her sick and dying mother while trying to navigate her budding love life, and strengthening the bond of trust between her and her daughter. 
   
   
   
  Come along for the ride and find out how it all ends. Can the engagement survive the mother-in-law from hell? Or will the bride not make it down the aisle this holiday season?

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  Poirot Investigates

  Agatha Christie

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  The very first collection of superb short stories featuring Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings…First there was the mystery of the film star and the diamond… then came the 'suicide' that was murder… the mystery of the absurdly cheap flat… a suspicious death in a locked gun-room… a million dollar bond robbery… the curse of a pharaoh's tomb… a jewel robbery by the sea… the abduction of a Prime Minister… the disappearance of a banker… a phone call from a dying man… and, finally, the mystery of the missing will.What links these fascinating cases? Only the brilliant deductive powers of Hercule Poirot!1. The Adventure of The Western Star2. The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor3. The Adventure of The Cheap Flat4. The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge5. The Million Dollar Bond Robbery6. The Adventure of The Egyptian Tomb7. The Adventure of the Clapham Cook8. The Kidnapped Prime Minister9. The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim10. The Adventure of The Italian Nobleman11. The Case of The Missing Will

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