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  The Best That You Can Do - Stories

  Amina Gautier

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  Winner of the 2023 Soft Skull-Kimbilio Publishing Prize, a collection of short stories that elaborate the realities of a diasporic existence, split identities, and the beautiful potency of meaningful connections 
   
   
   
  Primarily told from the perspective of women and children in the Northeast who are tethered to fathers and families in Puerto Rico, these stories explore the confusion of being one person in two places—of having a mother who wants your father and his language to stay on his island but sends you there because you need to know your family. Loudly and joyfully filled with Cousins, Aunts, Grandparents, and budding romances, these stories are saturated in summer nostalgia, and place listeners at the center of the table to enjoy family traditions and holidays: the resplendent and universal language of survival for displaced or broken families. 
   
   
   
  Refusing to shy away from dysfunction, loss, obligation, or interrogating Black and Latinx heritages, Gautier's stories feature New York neighborhoods made of island nations living with seasonal and perpetual displacement. Like Justin Torres's We the Animals or Quiara Alegria Hudes's My Broken Language, it's the characters-in-becoming—flanked by family and rich with detail—that animate each story with special frequencies, especially for listeners grappling with split-identities themselves.

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  Demon Gate

  Debbie Cassidy

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  The last thing I expected from death was a second chance. 
   
   
   
  I've been altered and now I'm a threat to Morningstar. If the forces working against me have their way, then I'll be dying again, and this time, they'll be no coming back. 
   
   
   
  The clock is ticking, and I'm not sure I'll be able to get out of this situation alive. 
   
   
   
  Hidden truths, secrets, and lies surround me. 
   
   
   
  I hate all three. 
   
   
   
  It's time to pull back the veil and reveal what's lurking behind it. 
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  Water Knife The: Book Summary &...

  Jack Rylan

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  This audiobook is an independent and unofficial overview, created solely for educational and informational purposes. It is not associated with, authorized by, or endorsed by the original author or publisher.
   
  
   
  In a near-future America ravaged by climate change, water is the most precious—and fiercely guarded—resource. As the Southwest becomes a dust-choked battleground, a ruthless water rights enforcer known as a “water knife” navigates a brutal world of corruption, espionage, and survival. When rumors of a game-changing water source surface, he crosses paths with a hardened journalist and a desperate refugee, plunging them all into a deadly race where loyalty is fluid, and the thirst for power can kill. The Water Knife is a gripping, dystopian thriller that explores the chilling consequences of environmental collapse and human desperation.

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  The Magic of Paris

  Barbara Cartland

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  After her father’s sudden death, Eva finds herself alone in Paris, with little money and even fewer prospects. Turning to the notorious Madame LeBlance, one of Paris’s most famous Courtesans, for help, Eva discovers her father died in her fragrant arms. While she is there, Lord Charles Craig calls on LeBlanc with a very different problem and LeBlance devises a brilliant and clever solution to solve both their predicaments.
   
   From here a twisted puzzle of deception and intrigue lies ahead, as Eva tries hard not to reveal her true identity, but her beauty cannot be hidden from the intolerable advances of the Marquis. Yet as the web of lies seem to turn against her, an unexpected turn of fate comes to her aide, and in doing so Eva finds a solution not only to Charles’ problem, but her own.

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  The Honey House

  Anonimo

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  She came home to heal. She didn’t expect to uncover a mystery—or fall for the man she couldn’t stand. Dr. Melissa Moore returns to Cocoa Beach craving peace. A place to paint. To breathe. To be alone with her memories.  Instead, she finds the Honey House—her late aunt’s tiny seaside cottage—hiding more than just dust and forgotten photographs. A secret in a hidden compartment. A missing woman. A name from the past whispered through old letters… Margaret.  Melissa never knew her father and aunt's younger sister. She certainly didn’t know that sister disappeared without a trace in 1948.  Then Fuzz barrels in—a slobbery St. Bernard with zero boundaries—and crashes into her heart. Right behind him? Police Captain Travis Hanson. Grumpy. Blunt. Far too handsome for her peace of mind.  Their first meeting is a disaster. Their second? Not much better.  But as the mystery deepens and memories resurface, Melissa finds herself drawn to the one man who challenges her grief—and awakens something she thought was long gone. Can uncovering the truth heal more than just the past? Can love really return when you least expect it?Step inside The Honey House—a heartwarming, clean six-book coastal romance series filled with emotional healing, beachside secrets, and the quiet magic of second chances. With every creaking floorboard and salty Cocoa Beach breeze, the past comes alive. Start reading today—and let the tide pull you home.

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  The Ring of Thoth

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  The Ring of Thoth is a short story written by Arthur Conan Doyle first published in The Cornhill Magazine in january 1890.
  Mr. John Vansittart Smith is a student of Egyptology who travels to France to see some papyri in the Louvre Museum. Tired from his visit, he sits in a corner of the museum and dozed. When he wakes up, the museum is closed and he is locked inside...

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