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  Briefly Very Beautiful - A Novel

  Roz Dineen

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  In a land destabilized by unsafe air, wildfires, floods, viruses, supply shortages, and homegrown terror, Cass is raising three small children by herself in the city. Her husband, Nathaniel, has gone all too willingly to serve as a medic in an overseas war. His absence, and Cass's isolation, has brought her into an exhausted but harmonious rhythm with the children; while it's a frightening time, there is also a surprising, quiet tenderness in living on the edge of societal collapse. 
   
   
   
  When things start to feel more dangerous in the city, Cass evacuates with the children to her mother-in-law's house deep in the countryside. Initially, it's a place of safety, but her mother-in-law's erratic behavior and increasing grip over the children worries Cass, and so they flee again to a commune on the coast. It's an idyllic place, but Cass comes to suspect this seemingly harmonious community has a dark underbelly. 
   
   
   
  Briefly Very Beautiful is a magnetic novel about love and resilience. Against a wider backdrop of a world imploding, it is an exploration of hope and fear, beauty and joy, as well as seismic betrayal. Roz Dineen's lush prose combines with epic and precise world-building to create a society that feels at once unrecognizable but deeply, chillingly familiar. The result is a compelling portrait of what it is to parent through apocalypse.

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  Island Blues

  Arthur Stone

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  The new, detached setting is teeming with "land mines"—highly unusual ones. Plenty of other, deadlier things would be happy to reach out and touch someone anywhere, be it the roof of a skyscraper or a subway tunnel deep underground. Tons of somnambulant extras could swing either way: cut your throat or help you, purely on a whim. Weapons are as deadly as they are improbable. Deliberately imposed multiple handicaps make any attempts at camouflage meaningless. 
   
   
   
  It looks like there are way too many top Challenge participants around. Culling time is upon us.

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  Lester del Ray: 3 Science...

  Lester del Ray

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  The quirky mind of famous SF writer Lester del Ray gives us three wonderful tales ranging from zombies (Dead Ringer), time travel (how do you convince your earlier self it is safe to get into the time machine, eh?)(...And It Comes Out Here) and eternal life (The Dwindling Years). Listen and enjoy.

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  Blind Owl The (Authorized by The...

  Sadegh Hedayat

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  Widely regarded as Sadegh Hedayat's masterpiece, the Blind Owl is the most important work of literature to come out of Iran in the past century. On the surface this work seems to be a tale of doomed love, but with the turning of each page basic facts become obscure and the reader soon realizes this book is much more than a love story. Although the Blind Owl has been compared to the works of the Kafka, Rilke and Poe, this work defies categorization. Lescot's French translation made the Blind Owl world-famous, while D.P. Costello's English translation made it largely accessible. Sadly, this work has yet to find its way into the English pantheon of Classics. This 75th anniversary edition, translated by award-winning writer Naveed Noori and published in conjunction with the Hedayat Foundation, aims to change this and is notable for a number of firsts: *The only translation endorsed by the Sadegh Hedayat Foundation *The first translation to use the definitive Bombay edition (Hedayat's handwritten text) *The only available English translation by a native Persian and English speaker *The preface includes a detailed textual analysis of the Blind Owl Finally, by largely preserving the spirit as well as the structure of Hedayat's writing, this edition brings the English reader into the world of the Hedayat's Blind Owl as never before. Extensive footnotes (explaining Persian words, phrases, and customs ignored in previous translations) provide deeper understanding of this work for both the causal reader and the serious student of literature.
  
  “….There are indeed marked differences between Costello’s and Noori’s translations. As Noori indicates, his attempt to preserve the overabundance of dashes gives the reader a more immediate sense of the narrator’s agitation...The first sentence flows on in Noori’s translation, piling sensation upon sensation never allowing us to pause and catch our breath or separate out the images from the sensations. In his discussion of the relationship between his translation and Costello’s, Noori also draws on translation theory and sees Costello’s focus on the fluidity of the text in English as a “domestication” of Hedayat’s original. Noori’s new English translation and his preface are a welcome addition and will no doubt draw the attention of scholars interested in Hedayat’s works. The close textual and comparative analysis of the type Noori offers marks a new and long-overdue critical approach to the translation of the most celebrated work of modern Persian prose.” -Professor Nasrin Rahimieh in Middle Eastern Literatures

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  The Call of Mektoub - An...

  Helen S Michaelsen

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  When the sleigh and two young reindeer are stolen three nights before Christmas, the characters from an old book (The Land of Never Grow Old), must enlist the help of an English mother and daughter to save the Magical Lands of the North from being lost forever.  Their copy of the book has been handed down three generations of mothers and daughters and is one of only a few that remain in existence.  Similarly, the characters from the book can only exist for as long as children believe in them.Emma and her daughter, Lucy, must embark on an unexpected adventure that tests their courage, and determination, and reveals their willingness to embrace the kindness and compassion the world needs now more than ever.The story is presented in the style of an advent calendar, with a chapter for each night of December until Christmas Eve.  The chapters are enhanced by music and sound effects, with eight of them containing original songs created by the author and her musician friends.

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  The Waif Back

  Michael Anderle, Renée Jaggér

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  One seed changes everything. 
   
  Merritt has finally found her place in Little Avalon. With her baking skills flourishing and a council seat secured, life couldn't be better for the last living Leshbolg. 
   
  Until the ancient Fury Megaera resurfaces. 
   
  With a vengeance born from millennia of grief, Megaera will stop at nothing to destroy Merritt and everything she loves. Her warped paranormal army grows stronger each day, leaving devastation in their wake. 
   
  When Merritt discovers a stunning secret about Leshbolg reproduction, everything changes. Suddenly, she's not just fighting for herself, but for the future of her entire species. 
   
  As Little Avalon faces its darkest hour, Merritt must harness ancient nature magic to defeat Megaera once and for all. With her trusted friends at her side and Akila's mysterious powers growing, she'll need every advantage to end this centuries-old vendetta. 
   
  Will Merritt's newfound ability to create more Leshbolgs be her salvation? Or will Megaera's blind rage extinguish the last hope for an ancient species?

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