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  Short Story Collection Vol 030

  Various

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  LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 030: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.

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  A Bird on its Journey

  Beatrice Harraden

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  Beatrice Harraden (1864–1936) was a British writer and suffragette."A Bird on its Journey" is the story of a mysterious young Englishwoman hiking alone through Switzerland. When she arrives at a mountain hotel, she discovers that the piano is badly out of tune. The young woman - although she is travelling with only a small knapsack, has brought with her a tuning hammer and she proceeds to tune the piano. The rest of the snobbish English guests assume that the girl is indeed a piano tuner and as a result they ignore her and consider her impertinent and unfeminine. But the girl has a secret and she soon has her revenge on the party.

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  The Sky the Stars the Wilderness...

  Rick Bass

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  “Two appealing short stories and an exquisite novella” about the relationship between humans and the natural world around them (Kirkus Reviews). This is a “wondrous” (GQ) collection of short fiction exploring the subtle interplay between predator and prey, from “a literary titan” (The New York Times Book Review).   In the title story, a woman has returned to live on the west Texas ranch that has been in her family since Texas was a republic. Her mother, who died when she was a child, is buried there; the three men who raised her—her father, grandfather, and Old Chubb, a Mexican ranch hand—are gone; and her brother, like herself, is childless. Soon, all that will be left of the family is the land: “I suppose the land is all we will leave behind,” she reflects. “In that way it is both our parents and our children.”   Land is central to the other tales here as well. In The Myths of Bears, a man tracks his wife through a winter wilderness as she both lures and eludes him. And in Where the Sea Used to Be, an ancient ocean buried in the foothills of the Appalachians becomes a battleground for a young wildcat oilman and his aging mentor.   “Rick Bass is a force of nature. [This book] is a force of language. As a reader, a third thing comes to mind: gratitude for a good story that allows us to ponder what is above and what is below.” —Terry Tempest Williams   “What’s exhilarating about Rick Bass’s stories is that they show every hallmark of ‘the natural’—that lucid, free-flowing, particularly American talent whose voice we can hear in Twain, Fitzgerald, and Hemingway.” —Chicago Tribune

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  Bedtime Stories For Kids: - A...

  Alexa Wood

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  Are you looking for a fun, soothing way to bond with your kids? Does your child have difficulty falling asleep? Do you want to calm your child down, improve their vocabulary, and listening skills? 
    
   If yes, then this little collection of spellbinding stories for kids can help you. 
  These stories put you into the perspective of the main character, placing you directly into the landscape and action of the story, for a first-hand, invigorating experience.  
   You can see and experience everything for yourself, in order to learn more about yourself and your abilities by the time you return to your daily life.  
   Sleep stories are relaxing classic tales and works of literature that are engineered to help you fall asleep faster and stay sleeping through the night.  
   You'll deeply relax your body and mind. 
   In this audiobook you’ll discover stories like: 
  ·        Poor Little Kyle 
  ·        The Tortoise that never gave up 
  ·        The brave Little Panda 
  ·        A happy Zoo Day 
  ·        The Brave 
  ·        The Three Pigs 
  ·        The Lone Wolf 
  ·        Anna and the wicked wood lady 
  And many other stories… 
  Your children will be delighted to hear these stories written especially for them.So, what are you waiting for? You will thank yourself later for choosing to listen to this audiobook.Download this audiobook and improve your life.

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  Main Street

  Sinclair Lewis

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  This book tells the wonderful story of Carol Milford, a city girl in St. Paul, Minnesota. In the beginning of the story she is full of hope and aspirations as she completes her studies at college. Her dreams are those of changing the world in which she lives and making a true contribution to society. She marries a doctor from a small town in the country and moves to his home in Gopher Prairie, Minnesota. Gopher Prairie is a town like any other small town in America and the town folks don't really see a need for change at all.. Follow Carol as she tries to impose her ideas on the small town folk and gradually her large dreams and aspirations fade into the tall grass of the middle Midwest.

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  The Peace Process - A Novella...

  Bruce Jay Friedman

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  A brilliant new collection from one of American literature’s most original and hilarious purveyors of dark comedy Silenced by the horrors of Nazi Germany, a Jewish satirist is inspired to write again by his biggest fan: Joseph Goebbels. A retired English teacher dies on the operating table and wakes up to an afterlife in which literature does not exist; he can claim any masterpiece as his own, from The Catcher in the Rye to Crime and Punishment—if only he can remember what actually happens in those stories. On his first trip to the Holy Land, a down-on-his-luck filmmaker reluctantly agrees to help a young Israeli Arab escape to New York, only to watch in dismay as the upstart lands a buxom, Yiddish-speaking girlfriend and a monster movie deal.   Mario Puzo once said that the world of Bruce Jay Friedman’s short fiction is “like a Twilight Zone with Charlie Chaplin.” Ironic, clever, perceptive, and hysterical, The Peace Process is vintage Friedman—fourteen finely crafted tales that take dead aim at the sweet spot between pleasure and pain.

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