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  Men Without Women

  Ernest Hemingway

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  Originally published in October 1927, the second short-story collection published by Pulitzer Prize winner and Nobel Laureate Ernest Hemingway contains the following fourteen stories: The Undefeated In Another Country Hills Like White Elephants The Killers Che Ti Dice La Patria? Fifty Grand A Simple Enquiry Ten Indians A Canary for One An Alpine Idyll A Pursuit Race Today is Friday Banal Story Now I Lay Me Themes and subject matter range from bullfighting, boxing, and prizefighting to divorce, infidelity, and death. Critics at the time praised Hemingway's concise language and powerful prose. Content Warning: As a part of the public domain, Men Without Women is a literary work that reflects the time in which it was published—both its good and its ill. The original text of Men Without Women contains slurs and depictions that represent prejudiced and harmful beliefs regarding race, ethnicity, and religion. To erase or bury this representation of inequity and prejudice would be akin to pretending it never existed, a denial that only perpetuates and extends the original harm done. Thus, in the interest of preserving and documenting both the faults and highlights of literary history—an instrumental, crucial function of works entering the public domain—this text is unedited and uncensored in this audiobook recording. Please proceed with discretion.

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  Have Mercy On Us

  Lisa Cupolo

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  Each of the ten stories in Have Mercy on Us is an illuminating window into a human life. In the way of all the best fiction, these stories enlarge our understanding of what it means to be alive, with characters who leap off the page. In this award-winning collection, the people are varied in age, race, and origin. An old man travels to a village in Kenya in an attempt to bring his estranged son home; against her mother’s wishes, a young woman attends the funeral of the father she never met, hoping to forge a relationship with her eight siblings; a woman long married to a renowned artist whose infidelity is nearly blatant, takes things into her own hands in a brilliantly realized moment of independence; in an imagined, loving portrait, the writer Zora Neale Hurston is shown near the end of her life in 1948, working as a maid in a motel in Ft. Pierce, Florida. Spare, romantic without being sentimental, these powerful stories are, above all, about love, and the impossible and remarkable ways we yearn for connection. Cupolo’s writing is rich with vision, insight and grace—cause for celebration.

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  Stories To Make You Cry -...

  Anton Chekhov, Stephen Crane,...

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  When we read or listen, words can have a transforming effect.  Our mood can alter in the space of a few sentences from joy to sadness.  And not just our mood.  These words can affect us physically, they can engage our emotions and even in their sadness bring a lump to our throat and tears to our eyes.  Sometimes the relief can be palpable. 
   
  Our authors, from Anton Chekhov, Stephen Crane, Willa Cather, Katherine Mansfield and a wealth of others are well aware of what their talents will evoke.   Genius has many names.   
   
  1 - Short Stories To Make You Cry  - An Introduction 
  2 - Vanka by Anton Chekhov 
  3 - A Dark Brown Dog by Stephen Crane 
  4 - Suicides by Guy de Maupassant 
  5 - The Life of Ma Parker by Katherine Mansfield 
  6 - The District Doctor by Ivan Turgenev 
  7 - Paul's Case by Willa Cather 
  8 - Hands by Sherwood Anderson 
  9 - Silence by Leonid Andreyev 
  10 - The Stones of the Village by Alice Dunbar Nelson 
  11 - Hide And Seek or Pliatki by Fyodor Sologub

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  Cursed - A Prequel Story

  Kay Ross

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  Who do you trust? 
  Nuss needs a new life, one she hopes will bring better opportunities and solitude. With that motivation alone, she’s traveled weeks with a caravan that is full on judgment and empty on safety. 
  Now, only days away from her goal, the unwelcome arrival of two sorcerers threatens to stop her. And if they don’t, then the silent creature they've tracked to the caravan might. A creature far too capable of hiding in plain sight and wearing any face.  
  As the sorcerers' search brings them close to her, Nuss realizes the creature may be even closer. In a world where any connection with other people could get you cursed and executed, Nuss must determine who, if anyone, can be trusted. Failure may end her old life before her new one can even begin. 
  Cursed is the stand-alone (short story) prequel to Whisper, first book in The Entian Curse Trilogy! 
  Narrated by Ink Arnadine 

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  A Capitalist - From their pens...

  George Gissing

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  George Robert Gissing was born on November 22nd, 1857 in Wakefield, Yorkshire.  
  He was educated at Back Lane School in Wakefield. Gissing loved school. He was enthusiastic with a thirst for learning and always diligent.  By the age of ten he was reading Dickens, a lifelong hero. 
  In 1872 Gissing won a scholarship to Owens College. Whilst there Gissing worked hard but remained solitary. Unfortunately, he had run short of funds and stole from his fellow students. He was arrested, prosecuted, found guilty, expelled and sentenced to a month's hard labour in 1876. 
  On release he decided to start over.  In September 1876 he travelled to the United States. Here he wrote short stories for the Chicago Tribune and other newspapers. On his return home he was ready for novels. 
  Gissing self-published his first novel but it failed to sell.  His second was acquired but never published. His writing career was static.  Something had to change.  And it did. 
  By 1884 The Unclassed was published.  Now everything he wrote was published. Both Isabel Clarendon and Demos appeared in 1886. He mined the lives of the working class as diligently as any capitalist. 
  In 1889 Gissing used the proceeds from the sale of The Nether World to go to Italy. This trip formed the basis for his 1890 work The Emancipated. 
  Gissing's works began to command higher payments. New Grub Street (1891) brought a fee of £250.  
  Short stories followed and in 1895, three novellas were published; Eve's Ransom, The Paying Guest and Sleeping Fires. Gissing was careful to keep up with the changing attitudes of his audience.  
  Unfortunately, he was also diagnosed as suffering from emphysema. The last years of his life were spent as a semi-invalid in France but he continued to write. 1899; The Crown of Life. Our Friend the Charlatan appeared in 1901, followed two years later by The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft. 
  George Robert Gissing died aged 46 on December 28th, 1903 after catching a chill on a winter walk.

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  Sexy Strangers

  Rachel Kramer Bussel

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  Explore the allure of sex with a stranger with this erotic short story collection . . . 
   
   
   
  Have you ever looked across a crowded room, locked eyes with someone you don't know, and immediately undressed them in your mind? Sexy Strangers is the book for you! These nineteen erotic stories have bottled that dazzling, frenetic energy and undeniable chemistry associated with an instant lust connection. The characters you will meet don't need to know each other's names to know desire is demanding; their needs won't be slaked until they're pressed up against the person who whips them into a frenzy. From mysterious neighbors and bar guests to unbeknownst competitors, these strangers instantaneously give in to their passion, strip down, and bare all. Whether it's at the roller rink, the beach, a sex club, or the library, these lustful leads can be found getting it on anywhere, anytime. 
   
   
   
  Edited by the award-winning Rachel Kramer Bussel, with stories by Suleikha Snyder, Kate Sloan, Dr. J., Oleander Plume, and more, these sizzling encounters are hot, dirty, and sure to get you off! 
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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