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  Robinson Crusoe in Words of One...

  Lucy Aikin

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  This book is a fictional autobiography of the title character — a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers before being rescued. You know the story; but do you know the story told in words of one syllable? Here Lucy Aikin under the pen name of Mary Godolphin retells Daniel Defoe's famous tale of danger and solitude and resourcefulness. Because of the simpler words, this might be a good book for listeners where English is not their first language. By Lucy Aikin and Daniel Defoe. (Summary by Phil Chenevert)

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  In The Moonlight

  Rachel Lawson

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  Good quotes from Stand and Deliver: In The Moonlight- story "Stand and deliver, your money or your life!" shouted the highwayman. "I hear that you met a real highwayman the other day I wish I had been with you. They are so thrilling and romantic!" "Hand over your loot! Either give it to me now or I will take it from your body!" Terrence the Terror said. "I said give it back, Terry!" said Sir Justin. "Tom your friend is a nut!" Mary said. "What did he do murder the driver so he could drive the coach?" asked Sir Thomas. "I bailed up the Terror and took your sister's stuff back as she was under my care!" said Sir Justin. "New to this are you lad!" said one of them. "Terry I think you killed him!" said one of the others he was the black-clad highwayman named the Ghost for his sudden appearances and disappearances. "I just found her here, I was on my way to see you." "I have never seen anything so beautiful! I could forget everything and live in this moment forever"

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  The Colour out of Space

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  "The Colour Out of Space" is a science fiction/horror short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written in March 1927. In the tale, an unnamed narrator pieces together the story of an area known by the locals as the "blasted heath" in the wild hills west of the fictional town of Arkham, Massachusetts. The narrator discovers that many years ago a meteorite crashed there, poisoning every living being nearby; vegetation grows large but foul tasting, animals are driven mad and deformed into grotesque shapes, and the people go insane or die one by one. Lovecraft began writing "The Colour Out of Space" immediately after finishing his previous short novel, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, and in the midst of final revision on his horror fiction essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature". Seeking to create a truly alien life form, he drew inspiration from numerous fiction and nonfiction sources. First appearing in the September 1927 edition of Hugo Gernsback's science fiction magazine Amazing Stories, "The Colour Out of Space" became one of Lovecraft's most popular works, and remained his personal favorite of his short stories. It was adapted into feature films in 1965, 1987, 2010, and 2019

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  Sideline Infraction

  Emily Silver

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  What happens when I find the right guy at exactly the wrong time? 
   
   
   
  I'm Alex Young. Star quarterback for the Denver Mountain Lions. Captain of the team. Son. Brother. Teammate. And I'm gay. 
   
   
   
  No one can know. My secret could destroy everything. I lock myself up in the closet and throw away the key. It's better this way. I can focus on football and being the best quarterback I can be. Until him. 
   
   
   
  With that first look, I'm a goner. I've never met anyone like him. With each passing day, he's breaking down my walls that I've worked so hard to build. 
   
   
   
  But what if someone finds out? What if I'm outed to the world and cut from the team I love? I can't risk it. 
   
   
   
  But when Carter kisses me like that? I can't resist. 
   
   
   
  I am in so much trouble.

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  Kurt Vonnegut: The Big Trip Up...

  Jr. Kurt Vonnegut

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  Welcome to the year 2185 where aging has been conquered and people can live forever thanks to the miracle of Gerasone!  Take a dose every day and never age again.  This story showcases Gramps Ford, At 182 the head of the large Ford family who are all crammed into one apartment and subject to the constant badgering and irrational demands of the oldest Ford.  He controls what will happen when he dies and so controls them.  Every one of the many members of his extended family yearn for the day when he will take "that Big Trip Up Yonder".  Vonnegut is bitingly funny and scary at the same time in this story so buckle up and have fun!

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  The Comet - From their pens to...

  W E B Du Bois

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  William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was born on the 23rd February 1868, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.   
  He was the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1895.  As a sociologist his writing, including the classic 1903 work ‘The Souls of Black Folk’, introduced the concept of "double consciousness"—the sense of 'twoness' felt by Black Americans—and his famous statement, "The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line." 
  Du Bois was a seminal figure in the long fight for the full and immediate introduction of Civil Rights.  He was the only Black co-founder of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) and served as the editor of its influential magazine, ‘The Crisis’, which was not only a widely applauded platform for protest against segregation but a valuable literary space for black authors to gain an audience for their stories. 
  As well as writing widely and prolifically in non-fiction he also wrote novels and short story fiction, many of which were surprising in their choice of genre, including science fiction. 
  Although he embraced socialism and later Communism he became further disillusioned with the slow progress of the US Government to act on its promises and renounced his American citizenship and moved to Ghana in 1961. 
  W E B du Bois deid in Accra, Ghana on the 27th August 1963, one day before the March on Washington.  He was 95.

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