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  People Want to Live

  Farah Ali

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  Set primarily in Pakistan, these award-winning stories follow people living on the brink of abandonment—in their personal relationships and their place in the world.A mother, coping with the sudden death of her son, uncovers long buried secrets in his absence. An anguished girl grabs a chance for a life beyond the orphanage walls where she lives and discovers the price of freedom. A young couple tries to keep their fraught relationship steady as a heat wave engulfs their city. A son returns to visit his ageing parents while beset with memories of a troubled childhood. And two thieves find themselves in a situation more precarious by the minute, and more dangerous than their original mission.Farah Ali's debut collection of thirteen stories, People Want to Live, features stories of togetherness and reckless faith in the face of a world that's built to break us. Her characters mount battle with loneliness and in their fight reveal surprising vulnerabilities and an astonishing measure of hope.

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  Self-Portrait with Ghost - Short...

  Meng Jin

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  “A knockout short story collection...Each one of these 10 dizzyingly immersive stories offers up a heady and visceral portrait of what ails us, from isolation and self-doubt, to unrequited love and regret over what might have been, to what it means to be (and to be considered) an American."" -- San Francisco Chronicle 
  Meng Jin’s critically acclaimed debut novel, Little Gods, was praised as “spectacular and emotionally polyphonic (Omar El-Akkad, BookPage), “powerful” (Washington Post), and “meticulously observed, daringly imagined” (Claire Messud). Now Jin turns her considerable talents to short fiction, in ten thematically linked stories. 
  Written during the turbulent years of the Trump administration and the first year of the pandemic, these stories explore intimacy and isolation, coming-of-age and coming to terms with the repercussions of past mistakes, fraying relationships and surprising moments of connection. Moving between San Francisco and China, and from unsparing realism to genre-bending delight, Self-Portrait with Ghost considers what it means to live in an age of heightened self-consciousness, seemingly endless access to knowledge, and little actual power. 
  Page-turning, thought-provoking, and wholly unique, Self-Portrait with Ghost further establishes Meng Jin as a writer who “reminds us that possible explanations in our universe are as varied as the beings who populate it” (Paris Review).

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  More than a Mistress

  Ann Lethbridge

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  Captivating Regency-era romances are the trademark of author Ann Lethbridge. Here Charles Mountford, Marquis of Tonbridge, is adamant about bringing his estranged brother, Robert, home. So he strikes a deal with his parents—Robert may return if Charles agrees to marry a proper young lady. Charles is happy to fulfill his duty—until he meets Miss Merry Draycott. The unconventional beauty isn’t exactly who his parents had in mind, yet he finds her impossible to resist.

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  Inky Odds

  L. Ron Hubbard

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  The greatest American journalists of the 20th century all made their names on as war correspondents, but none of them would beat out Bat Conroy to a good story. When it comes to the Japanese invasion of China, Bat's always been top dog... until now. An unknown writer is stealing his thunder and maybe even his job — and the most shocking news of all is the true identity of the elusive journalist. Get the news hot off the presses as the audio version of Inky Odds goes to war and delivers the extraordinary story behind the story.

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  Women's Short Stories Volume 4

  Kate Chopin, Dorothy Parker,...

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  Women's Short Stories - Vol 4.  The art of writing a short story can be barely noticed by a reader such is the quality with which they are usually written.  It is a difficult trade, an unforgiving discipline but for those who master it the rewards are many.  In this series of works by our greatest female writers we bring you a selection of those we consider the best.  In Volume 4 we bring you the classics of A Pair Of Silk Stockings – Kate Chopin, Here We Are – Dorothy Parker, Right At Last - Elizabeth Gaskell. These stories are read for you by the renowned actresses Eve Karpf and Liza Ross

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  The Call of Cthulhu

  H.P. Lovecraft

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  "The Call of Cthulhu" is one of H. P. Lovecraft's best-known short stories. Written in the summer of 1926, it was first published in "Weird Tales", February 1928. It is the only story written by Lovecraft in which the extraterrestrial entity Cthulhu himself makes a major appearance. It is written in a documentary style, with three independent narratives linked together by the device of a narrator discovering notes left by a deceased relative. The narrator pieces together the whole truth and disturbing significance of the information he possesses, illustrating the story's first line: "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity; and it was not meant that we should voyage far."

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