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  Hunger - A Novella and Stories

  Lan Samantha Chang

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  Not since Maxine Hong Kingston and Amy Tan has a fiction writer explored with such powerful intensity the experience of being Asian American. The characters who inhabit this extraordinary fictional debut are caught between the burden of their past history and the fragility of their unchartered future. Hunger illuminates how first-generation immigrants from China, culturally and emotionally uprooted from their homeland, mistrust connection even as they hunger for attachment—and how the past affects and shapes their children.In luminous prose, these stories of love and loss explore the profound and painful ties between husband and wife, parent and child, sister and sister. The stunning title novella is told by a woman whose love for an exiled musician compels her into a tragic marriage in which her husband's unfulfilled desires nearly destroy their children. In other stories, a ghost seduces a young girl into a flooded river; a mother commands a daughter to avenge her father's death.Lan Samantha Chang weaves the forces of war and magic, food and desire, ghosts and family, into haunting tales. Again and again, Chang asks the question: is love not a kind of burden, stifling and terrifying in the choices and responsibilities it forces on us? And yet we yearn for it, define ourselves by our experience of it, cannot live without it.

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  His First Time: Saint - A...

  Callie Love, Ann Omasta

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  My name is Saint, but that is the only thing about me that resembles one. 
  The last thing sweet Sky needs is a stripper for a boyfriend.  
  So, why do I crave her so much? 
  I never intended to become a stripper in Las Vegas, but the ladies love my act. 
  When innocent, beautiful Sky shows up in Sin City and declares that she’s ready for a night of wild abandon, I don’t have the willpower turn her down. 
  There’s only one problem… One night with the woman of my dreams isn’t nearly enough. 
  Make that two problems… Her protective twin brother is going to strangle me when he finds out about us. 
  Can Saint convince Sky that he’s worth risking her fragile heart, or will their differences block the path to happiness? Find out now by listening to His First Time: Saint. 
  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. Listen to them all. Grab Saint now and enjoy a perfectly-portioned taste of steamy romance to satisfy your craving.

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  Daily Jobs Coffee and an Awfully...

  Tao Wong

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  Some Adventures Begin and End Small  
     
  Life after the Apocalypse is one daily grind after another. It's a good thing for Wendy that she's got friends. A lot of friends as a fairy summoner. But life in Exeter is not easy, even for a summoner and the grind of daily jobs and never-ending quests is getting to her. She's got one shot at getting a place for her own, a place of safety and maybe getting ahead. But it'll require Wendy to do the one thing she swore she'd never do again.  
     
  Fight monsters.  
     
  This is a short in the System Apocalypse universe, featuring a new character in Exeter, UK.

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  Ferry to Cooperation Island - A...

  Carol Newman Cronin

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  "Cronin has built a world that you won’t want to sail away from!" —Juliette Fay, USA Today Bestselling author 
  Loner James Malloy is a ferry captain—or used to be, until he was unceremoniously fired and replaced by Courtney Farris. Now, instead of piloting Brenton Island’s daily lifeline to the glitzy docks of Newport, Rhode Island, James spends his days beached, bitter, and bored. 
  When he discovers a private golf course staked out across wilderness sacred to his dying best friend, a Narragansett Indian, James is determined to stop such “improvements.” But despite Brenton’s nickname as “Cooperation Island,” he’s used to working solo. To keep rocky bluffs, historic trees, and ocean shoreline open to all, he’ll have to learn to work with other islanders—including Captain Courtney, who might just morph from irritant to irresistible once James learns a secret that’s been kept from him for years. 
  This salt-sprayed fourth novel by 2004 Olympic Sailor Carol Newman Cronin celebrates wilderness and water, open space and open-mindedness, and the redemptive power of neighborly cooperation.

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  Alyosha the Pot

  Leo Tolstoy

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  "Alyosha the Pot" is a short story written by Leo Tolstoy (1905) about the life and death of a simple, uncomplaining worker. 
  It was published after Tolstoy's death in 1911 and received high praise from Tolstoy's contemporaries. 
  Without ever calling Alyosha a holy fool, Tolstoy centers the story on his meekness, aloofness, and foolishness. Alyosha's simple life, soft-spoken manner, and calm acceptance of death epitomizes Tolstoyan principles.

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  The Staircase at the Heart's...

  Anna Katharine Green

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  Detective Ebenezer Gryce tells the story of the case with which he begun his career in 1840. Several wealthy men were drowned and washed ashore in New York City, and the first clue leads to a dubious money lender... (Summary by Carolin)

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