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  So Late in the Day - Stories of...

  Claire Keegan

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  From Booker Prize finalist and bestselling author of "pitch perfect" (Boston Globe) Small Things Like These, comes a triptych of stories about love, lust, betrayal, and the ever-intriguing interchanges between women and men. 
  Celebrated for her powerful short fiction, considered "among the form's most masterful practitioners" (New York Times), Claire Keegan now gifts us three exquisite stories, newly revised and expanded, together forming a brilliant examination of gender dynamics and an arc from Keegan's earliest to her most recent work. 
  In So Late in the Day, Cathal faces a long weekend as his mind agitates over a woman with whom he could have spent his life, had he behaved differently; in The Long and Painful Death, a writer's arrival at the seaside home of Heinrich Böll for a residency is disrupted by an academic who imposes his presence and opinions; and in Antarctica, a married woman travels out of town to see what it's like to sleep with another man and ends up in the grip of a possessive stranger. 
  Each story probes the dynamics that corrupt what could be between women and men: a lack of generosity, the weight of expectation, the looming threat of violence. Potent, charged, and breathtakingly insightful, these three essential tales will linger with listeners long after the book's conclusion.

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  The Scarlet Plague

  Jack London

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  A chilling post-apocalyptic novel that imagines a world transformed by disaster.
  
  Set in the distant future after a devastating plague has destroyed modern civilization, the story follows an old survivor recounting the fall of humanity to a younger generation. Once-great cities and knowledge have faded, replaced by fear, struggle, and primitive survival.
  
  As memories of the past emerge, the novel explores how quickly society can collapse when order, science, and structure disappear. The contrast between the lost world and the harsh new reality creates a powerful sense of warning and reflection.
  
  Blending adventure with social commentary, the story examines themes of human vulnerability, survival, and the temporary nature of progress. Its bleak atmosphere and visionary ideas make it one of the earliest dystopian classics.
  
  Written by Jack London, this novel continues to resonate with readers through its striking portrayal of civilization's fragility.
  
  Enter a world shaped by plague and survival—download your copy today.

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  The Isle of the Torturers

  Clark Ashton Smith

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. "The Isle of the Torturers" is a dark fantasy story by Clark Ashton Smith, part of his Zothique cycle–set on the last continent of a dying, far-future Earth. King Fulbra of Yoros flees his plague-ravaged kingdom (devastated by the Silver Death) wearing a protective ring given to him by a sorcerer. A storm wrecks his ship on Uccastrog, the Isle of the Torturers, whose smiling inhabitants greet shipwrecked strangers with elaborate hospitality before subjecting them to a festival of exquisite tortures. Fulbra endures days of grotesque torments alongside a fellow captive, the maiden Ilvaa, who feigns sympathy only to betray him. In the end, Fulbra wields his ring's hidden power–unleashing the Silver Death itself–to annihilate his tormentors, dying with them in grim triumph.

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  Story of the Bandbox

  Robert Louis Stevenson

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Meet Harry Hartley, a young secretary entangled in a web of debts and intrigue when he embarks on a fateful mission to deliver a hatbox. With a tempestuous general, a frivolous lady, and a charming maid in the mix, Harry's adventure takes unexpected turns, leading him to a lost fortune and a chance at love.

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  The Patron Saint of White...

  Lauren T. Davila

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  In her debut magical-realism collection The Patron Saint of White Menageries, Pushcart-nominated author Lauren T. Davila cracks Los Angeles open to reveal a kaleidoscope of unlikely heroines, talents, and dreams. 
   
  In a sticky diner, a waitress fits wisps of cloud into coffee mugs, trying to solve her patrons' problems. A motherless girl defies her father's rules, rubbing fish scales from her eyes and learning her mother's half-remembered Spanish. Spectral ballerinas haunt alleys and dance studios, and red bumps rise on the arms of an assistant whose employer has been alive too long. The prophet Cassandra, exhausted from reincarnating and never being believed, tries one last time to escape her fate. 
   
  For lovers of White Cat, Black Dog and whoever haunts the Pacific Coast Highway, The Patron Saint of White Menageries is a guide to magical LA by one of its native daughters.

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  Dracula's Guest - From their...

  Bram Stoker

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  Abraham Stoker was born in Dublin, Ireland on the 8th of November 1847, the third of seven children.  
  His early years were plagued with such ill-health that he was unable to start school until the age of seven.  He turned the long periods of recovery into an opportunity for thinking and said “I was naturally thoughtful, and the leisure of long illness gave opportunity for many thoughts which were fruitful according to their kind in later years”.  
  Strikingly at Trinity College, Dublin his health had returned with such vigour that he was named their University Athlete whilst also achieving a BA in Mathematics with honours.  
  At this time his interest in theatre became a job offer to be the Dublin Evening Mail’s theatre critic, co-owned by Sheridan Le Fanu.  He now began to also write short stories and in 1872 ‘The Crystal Cup’ was published.  An interest in art developed and he co-founded the Dublin Sketching Club.  
  In 1878 came marriage to Florence Balcombe.  She had formerly been courted by Stoker’s acquaintance, Oscar Wilde.  The marriage produced one child.   
  Stoker had some years before reviewed Henry Irving’s Hamlet and had dined with him.  That friendship now resulted in a proposal from Irving to move to London and to manage his Lyceum Theatre.  His numerous commercial innovations ensured both he and the theatre thrived.  Irving would also often take Stoker with him when he toured abroad. 
  Despite this busy life Stoker continued to write and these works paved the way for his most famous creation, published in 1897, ‘Dracula’.  It is rightly recognised as one of the greatest horror novels of all time and although not the first with a theme of Vampires, it is undoubtedly the most well-known. 
  Stoker also wrote poetry and many excellent short stories and continued to write novels and other works throughout his career. 
  Politically Stoker supported Home Rule, though only by peaceful means.  He was also keen on following scientific trends particularly in medicine. 
  In 1902 his tenure at the Lyceum Theatre ended and although he continued to write his health was deteriorating, mainly due to a series of debilitating strokes. 
  Bram Stoker died on the 20th April 1912, in Pimlico, London.  He was 64.

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