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  someone birthed them broken -...

  Ama Asantewa Diaka

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  “Delightfully assertive, subversive and vibrant... an original voice.” ––Imbolo Mbue, author of the New York Times bestseller and PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction winner Behold the Dreamers • ""A compelling delight""—Booklist 
  A visceral and candid portrait of today’s Ghanaian youth, told in interconnected short stories by acclaimed spoken-word artist and author of the poetry collection Woman, Eat Me Whole Ama Asantewa Diaka. 
  In this startling collection of short fiction, Ama Asantewa Diaka creates a vibrant portrait of young Ghanaians’ today, captured in the experiences of characters whose lives bump against one other in friendship, passion, hope, and heartache. Men like Opoku Sr., not yet forty and struggling to keep his family’s cocoa business afloat after his father’s unexpected passing. Opoku strains under the burden of caring for his eight younger siblings and the child whose mother ran off. When his new girlfriend tells him she’s pregnant, he knows he has nothing left to give. 
  Years later, that girlfriend’s son, Opoku Jr., now faces his own troubles, including his girlfriend Boatemaa, who (correctly) suspects he is sneaking around, and Amoafoa, the woman he’s seeing on the side. And there is John, who confides to his crush Baaba about a surprising encounter with a male friend over a game of FIFA; Baaba, who falls into a whirlwind romance with her professor that ends in violence; and their friend Ayeley, who is learning to accept pleasure after being raised to believe it is sinful. 
  Diaka charts this constellation of interconnected lives in thirteen stories, exploring themes which run through the collection like a current: corruption and economic hardship, trauma and infidelity, shame, neglect, and the tribulations of the female body. In telling their stories, Diaka illuminates hope, freedom, and triumph that can be found in the everyday—the bonds between women, the joys of love and sex and art and dancing, the possibility of repair and redemption. 
  Renowned for her spoken word artistry, Ama Asantewa Diaka demonstrates her lyrical brilliance in this emotionally rich work that unveils profound truths about her country, its inhabitants, and the universality of human experience.

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  The Mysterious Stranger and...

  Mark Twain

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  The author of outstanding travel books, autobiographical works and novels, including the classic The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835–1910) is regarded by many as America's finest humorist and a major writer of short stories.The four selections in this volume span his entire writing career and are among his best-known stories.

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  His First Time: Adam - A sexy...

  Callie Love, Ann Omasta

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  My name is Adam, and I’m part of an elite, rare group… I’m a male librarian. 
  Most women don’t see that there’s more to me than just my love of books. 
  But Eve is not most women. 
  I’m brainy, reserved, surprisingly tough, and known for my humorous bad-date stories.  
  Gorgeous Eve is temptation personified. When she saunters into my library and takes a bite out of my juicy, red apple, my entire world turns upside down. 
  Thanks to her, I’ll never again walk through aisle L through R of the Media Center without smiling. 
  But I want more than simply a hot quickie, and Eve has already told me a lie. 
  Can I trust this beautiful temptress with my heart? 
  Will Eve’s devastating secret block the duo’s path to happiness in this forbidden love story? Find out now by listening to His First Time: Adam. 
  The Hot Shots of Romance Quickies are scorching short stories featuring sexy heroes, curvy heroines, seductive insta-love, sizzling bedroom scenes, and satisfying happily-ever-after endings. Start anywhere. Binge-read them all. Grab Adam now and enjoy a perfectly-portioned taste of steamy romance to satisfy your craving.

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  Strange Dreams and Terrifying...

  Various Authors

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  A collection of classic short stories for the restless sleeper...."A Dream of Wild Bees" by Olive Schreiner, "The Face" by E. F. Benson, "The Dream" by A. J. Alan, "In a Far-Off World" by Olive Schreiner, "A Soothing Dream" by Fedor Sologub, "Life's Gifts" by Olive Schreiner, "A Curious Dream" by Mark Twain, "The Artist's Secret" by Olive Schreiner and "A Joy Ride" by A. J. Alan.

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  The Brown Hand - and Other Tales...

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is of course famous for his creation of the great Sherlock Holmes. The stories of the master detective are justifiably well known but he also wrote many short stories which are not so well known but deserve to be. The four stories in this recording were first published singly in magazines, principally “The Strand.” They later appeared in the collection “The Great Keinplatz Experiment and Other Tales of Twilight and the Unseen” in 1919. They are:“The Brown Hand”“Playing with Fire”“How it Happened”“De Profundis”

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  Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge...

  Ambrose Bierce

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  There is a bridge at Owl Creek that is surrounded by dry and cracking driftwood. Burning the bridge would be the perfect way for a civilian Southerner to strike a blow against the Union Army. But Peyton Farkuar doesn’t make it that far. And instead, finds a rope around his neck.

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