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  Heartbroke

  Chelsea Bieker

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  From the acclaimed author of Godshot and "a pitch-perfect ventriloquist of extraordinary talent and ferocity" (T Kira Madden) comes a defining book of Californian stories where everyone is seeking or sabotaging love. 
   
   
   
  United by the stark and sprawling landscapes of California's Central Valley, the characters of Heartbroke boil with reckless desire. A woman steals a baby from a shelter in an attempt to recoup her own lost motherhood. A phone-sex operator sees divine opportunity when a lavender-eyed cowboy walks into her life. A mother and a son selling dream catchers along a highway that leads to a toxic beach manifest two young documentary filmmakers into their realm. And two teenage girls play a dangerous online game with destiny. 
   
   
    
  Heartbroke brims over with each character's attempt to salvage grace where they can find it. Told in bright, snapping prose that reveals a world of loss and love underneath, Chelsea Bieker brilliantly illuminates a golden yet gothic world of longing and abandonment under an unrelenting California sun.

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  Job Stories Vol 1 - Companions -...

  Nick Messerli

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  In this audio book, people from a variety of professions talk about their everyday working lives, their experiences, feelings and insights.The reader of the lively short job stories has the impression of standing face to face with the interviewees and listening to them. The stories are as entertaining as they are informative and serve as career guidance for some, while for others they provide fascinating insights into the life and feelings of the workforce.The job stories are intended to invite you to browse through them by looking over the shoulders of other people at work and finding out what they do all day and how they experience their everyday working life.This book attempts to provide a snapshot of working with all its social, economic and political conditions in an inspiring and entertaining way. Many of the statements made by the people who report here touch on topics that I encounter again and again in everyday conversations. No statement is made up. Every statement is truthful.The stories are as entertaining as they are informative and serve as career guidance for some, while for others they provide fascinating insights into the lives of the working population.What does a midwife do all day? What does a dentist experience and how does one become an mortician? What does a taxi driver think about his colleagues and what does a teacher think when she has difficult pupils? What type of person do you have to be to become a pub landlord?

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  The Baron of Coyote River

  L. Ron Hubbard

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  Lance Gordon's running out of time. He's killed the man who murdered his father, and now he has a price on his head. Lance wants to live in peace, but he'll have to go through hell to get there. He heads for the one place no lawman will go — into the territory ruled by the feared king of the cattle rustlers. Taking on the Baron is his last chance — as Lance vows to redeem himself... or die trying.

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  3 Stories - Blind Characters - A...

  Mikhail Lérmontov, Aphra Behn,...

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  There is something about the number 3.    
   
  The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.   
   
  Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois.  It seems good things usually come in threes. 
   
  Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating. 
   
  From their pens to your your ears.

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  Prospector's Special

  Robert Sheckley

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  In the scorching sands of Venus’s Scorpion Desert, one man’s dream of striking it rich becomes a desperate fight for survival. “Prospector’s Special” by Robert Sheckley is a gripping sci-fi adventure that blends biting satire with raw human determination. When Tom Morrison’s sandcar fails and his supplies dwindle, he must face Venus’s deadly terrain—and his own ambition—armed with nothing but grit and a bizarre robotic mailman. A tense, ironic, and ultimately thought-provoking tale of fortune, failure, and what really matters in the end.

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  The Altar of the Dead - A...

  Henry James

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  Henry James was born 15th April 1843 in New York City. 
   
  His youth was spent travelling with his family receiving what was an "extraordinarily haphazard and promiscuous" education as they journeyed through London, Paris, Geneva, Boulogne-sur-Mer and Newport, Rhode Island, according to the father's current interests and publishing ventures. James studied primarily with tutors and only briefly attended schools.    
   
  Undoubtedly the quality of his writing has ensured his name is enshrined in the American literary tradition.  
   
  James was a committed Anglophile and spent most of his adult life as an expatriate in Europe.  Many of his novels juxtapose the Old World with the New World. Classics such as ‘The Portrait of a Lady’, ‘Daisy Miller’ and ‘The Ambassadors’, display the entanglement between American and European cultures and mentalities. They highlight the differences between the two worlds through following the experiences of American expatriates in Europe.  
   
  A prolific author he was able to easily move across genres to create vivid and totally real worlds and situations and to offer sophisticated observations of human relations as well as realistic, social criticism. 
  As a critic James was unafraid to venture into reviews and essays of those other literary giants around him.  These together with his short stories and, of course, classic novels, make Henry James an author to be not only admired but read, and read often.  
   
  In 1915 Henry James became a British citizen. 
   
  On 28th February 1916, at the age of 72, Henry James died in Chelsea, London. 
   
  He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911, 1912 and 1916. He never won. 
   
  In this story James examines the effect that the death of a dearly loved person has on a man’s life.  How he copes, how he grieves and how he attempts to move forward.

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