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  The Last of Squire Ennismore -...

  Charlotte Riddell

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  Charlotte Eliza Lawson Cowan was born in Carrickfergus, County Antrim, Ireland, on 30th September 1832, the youngest daughter of James Cowan, a High Sheriff for the County of Antrim, and Ellen Kilshaw from Liverpool, England. 
  In the winter of 1855, four years after her father's death, she and her mother moved to London. Sadly, within the year, her mother also passed. 
  In 1857, she married Joseph Hadley Riddell, a civil engineer.  The marriage was happy by all accounts but produced no children. 
  Her first novel, ‘The Moors and the Fens’, was published in 1858 under the pseudonym of F. G. Trafford, which she used until publishing under the moniker ‘Mrs Riddell’ from 1864. 
  Charlotte was a prolific, respected and popular author. In her literary career she published over 50 novels and short stories. The most notable is perhaps ‘George Geith of Fen Court’ (1864), for which she was paid £800. It was later dramatised in 1883 by Wybert Reeve. 
  From 1867, Charlotte ventured into new territory, becoming the co-proprietor and editor of the well-regarded St. James's Magazine, which had begun publishing 1861. She also edited the magazine ‘Home in the Sixties’, and wrote short stories and tales for the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge and Routledge's Christmas annuals.  
  Charlotte was a prominent writer of ghost stories; ‘Fairy Water’, ‘The Uninhabited House’, ‘The Haunted River’, ‘The Disappearance of Mr Jeremiah Redworth’ and ‘The Nun's Curse’, all deal with buildings occupied by supernatural phenomena. Charlotte also wrote several short ghost stories, such as ‘The Open Door’ and ‘Nut Bush Farm’, which are regularly anthologised. 
  In 1880 Joseph died.  She now withdrew from society and became a recluse.  From 1886 this was in Upper Halliford, Middlesex.  
  In 1901 Charlotte became the recipient of the first pension, £60 a year, from the Society of Authors. 
  Charlotte Riddell died from cancer in Ashford, Kent, on 24th September 1906.

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  Una Dozzina - About A Dozen...

  S. Lucia Kanter St. Amour

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  From the author of the internationally acclaimed book club favorite, The Covert Buccaneer comes this luminous collection of slice-of-life vignettes that capture fleeting moments before they vanish — the small, human intervals that rarely announce their importance until memory claims them. 
  Written across years and places — from Italy to Chicago to the shifting neighborhoods of San Francisco — these brief pieces preserve ordinary life with uncommon attentiveness: an afternoon in a mischievous Fiat, commuters bound by tacit ritual, a house that disappeared without warning, a mother writing to children she worries will forget they were loved, a recipe rescued while no one was paying attention, and a city corner where children speak Italian. Each vignette stands alone while covertly conversing with the others, forming a mosaic of lived experience. 
  The collection resists agenda and argument. It doesn't explain itself or rush toward relevance. Instead, it invites readers into a series of remembered rooms — intimate spaces where time slows, attention sharpens, and the ordinary briefly becomes resplendent. 
  Una Dozzina rewards browsing, revisiting, and serendipity. Though the order of pieces is carefully curated, readers may open it anywhere and linger. It will speak to anyone who has loved a place that disappeared, a person they could not keep, or a moment only recognized once it had become memory. 
  Ideal for readers of literary nonfiction, flash prose, and contemplative essays — and for admirers of works such as From Scratch by Tembi Locke, Harper Lee's The Land of Sweer Forever, and the reflective lineage of writers like Natalia Ginzburg and Joan Didion. With occasional flashes of the compressed, observational clarity found in García Márquez’s shorter chronicles, this collection honors the unsung art of noticing and the enduring beauty, tragedy, and hushed magic of what passes.

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  Liable Charity - A Charity...

  Wayne Stinnett, Kimberli...

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  Charity Styles had been the catalyst for the demise of many. But in the past that usually meant the end of a human life. As an assassin for the CIA, it came with the territory. 
  But this time she feels responsible for the end two of her friend’s relationship. 
  She sets out on a voyage to find one of the partners in the hopes of rectifying the rift she helped create. Along the way, she encounters a deadly foe, bent on becoming rich regardless of how many must suffer or die. 
  Charity finds her friend but before they can reconcile the problem, they must join forces with an animal rights activist to rescue an innocent woman from a Mexican cartel involved in the trafficking of endangered wildlife. 
  Facing down armed and powerful cartel members will be child’s play compared to the fight yet to come when Charity admits what she’s done. 
  It’s the height of summer in Campeche, but when Charity Styles is around, things tend to get even hotter.

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  A Baby Tramp

  Ambrose Bierce

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Little Jo Salter is barely old enough to walk when fate begins its cruel work. Orphaned by a plague that sweeps the town of Blackburg — a place already famous for unnatural wonders, where crimson snow once fell from the sky — the child is passed from reluctant hands to distant relations, only to be lost, forgotten, and left to wander. And wander he does: a solitary, ragged figure on the roads of America, drawn by something he cannot name back toward the town where his mother lies buried. Told with Bierce's signature blend of mordant irony and unexpected tenderness, "A Baby Tramp" builds toward a quiet, devastating ending in a haunted graveyard — a tale where the bitterest satirist in American letters reveals the broken heart beneath the cynicism.

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  Survivors of the Hive

  Jason Heroux

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  Loss. Grief. Centipedes. Silence. The word "no." The word "yes." A high school poetry contest that may or may not be linked to the end of the world. The characters in this collection are under attack. A grief-baffled son hopes to save an innocent insect from a toxic genocide, a daughter struggles to accept loss while visiting a community overwhelmed by denial, a sorrow-stricken father recalls his bizarre final conversation with his only child; the individuals in these stories discover how difficult it can be to let go of what's gone in order to live with what's left.

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  The Last of the Vampires - From...

  Phil Robinson

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  The bookshelves of British literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors.  From these Isles their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure.  Among them is Phil Robinson.

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