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  Uncomplicated People

  Maria Krestovskaya

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  Uncomplicated People is another masterfully written, bittersweet tale by Maria Krestovskaya - an everyday tragedy of love lost and dream wasted on the altar of solid and secure mediocrity.

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  Stories Of Santa Claus

  L. Frank Baum

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  L. Frank Baum was an American author best known for his children’s books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its sequels. He wrote 14 novels in the Oz series, plus 41 other novels (not including four lost, unpublished novels), 83 short stories, over 200 poems, and at least 42 scripts. He made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and screen; the 1939 adaptation of the first Oz book became a landmark of 20th-century cinema. The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus is a 1902 children’s book. Santa Claus, as a baby, is found in the Forest of Burzee by Ak, the Master Woodsman of the World (a supreme immortal), and placed in the care of the lioness Shiegra; but thereupon adopted by the Wood Nymph, Necile. Upon reaching young adulthood, Claus is introduced by Ak to human society, wherein he sees war, brutality, poverty, child neglect, and child abuse. Because he cannot reside in Burzee as an adult, he settles in the nearby Laughing Valley of Hohaho, where the immortals regularly assist him, and Peter Knook gives him a little cat named Blinky.

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  The Hanging Stranger - From...

  Philip K. Dick

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  Philip Kindred Dick was born in 1928.  Widely considered one of the greatest of science fiction writers, his talents were immense but he lived almost his whole life on the edge of poverty. Born prematurely on December 16, 1928 his twin sister died which caused a shadow over the rest of his life.  Many of his works would refer to the ‘phantom twin’.  Bizarrely her tiny body was buried in Colorado where her parents also had Philips name inscribed on the tombstone. Eventually upon his death in 1982 he too was interred in the same plot. Philip sold his first short story in 1951 and then became a full-time writer selling his first novel in 1955.  He wrote continually and whilst considered a genius of the science fiction genre he was ignored by the mainstream.  Now of course much of his work is turned into films and he is rightly lauded.  All his work is at times visionary, and haunting dealing with many themes. Dick wrote of his work. "In my writing I even question the universe; I wonder out loud if it is real, and I wonder out loud if all of us are real."

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  The Metamorphosis

  Franz Kafka

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  Immerse yourself in the surreal and haunting world of Franz Kafka’s classic novella, The Metamorphosis, brought to life by the evocative voice of narrator Jake Urry. 
  When Gregor Samsa awakens to find himself transformed into a gigantic insect, his life is irrevocably altered. Kafka’s masterful tale explores themes of identity, alienation, and the human condition, presenting a profound and often disturbing vision of a man trapped in a nightmarish reality.

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  The Night Land - An Epic Science...

  William Hope Hodgson

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  Venture into a dying Earth where the sun is extinguished, and the last of humanity cowers within a colossal metal pyramid against a blackened world of cosmic horrors. 
  In the unfathomable future, the sun has long since burned out. The remnants of mankind survive within the Great Redoubt, a towering fortress of grey metal standing seven miles high, besieged by monstrous entities and silent forces of pure evil lurking in the eternal dark of the Night Land. From this heavily guarded sanctuary, a young man armed with the rare gift of Night-Hearing intercepts a mysterious, telepathic signal. Across millions of miles of monster-infested wastelands, another refuge—the Lesser Redoubt—is calling out. To his shock, the voice in his mind belongs to the reincarnated soul of his lost love from a forgotten age. As the Earth-Current powering her distant sanctuary begins to fail, he must choose between the safety of the fortress and an impossible, heroic quest into the pitch-black abyss. 
  Why you will love this: This staggering visionary epic is a masterpiece of early Science Fiction / Fantasy, blending dark fantasy, weird fiction, and post-apocalyptic cosmic terror. Fans of dying earth tropes, epic fantasy, grimdark world-building, and enduring romance will be captivated by this atmospheric, eerie, and monumental survival story. From Watcher beasts to ancient psychic connections, it is a quintessential pillar of weird lit that will haunt your imagination. 
  William Hope Hodgson (1877–1918) was an English author and pioneer of weird fiction, cosmic horror, and early science fiction. His incredibly imaginative, atmospheric tales deeply influenced later giants of the genre, including H.P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith, securing his legacy as a titan of imaginative literature.

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  The First Men in the Moon

  HG Wells

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  When bankrupt Mr Bedford departs to Lympne to try and turn around his fortunes by writing a play, he has little inkling that he is about to meet a man who will send him tumbling into space! Dr Cavor is a scientist without an ounce of common sense, hard at work to develop a substance opaque to gravity. Bedford soon becomes alive to the financial possibilities, but after a near fatal accident upon it's creation, Cavor suggests an alternative possibility for his new Cavorite: A journey to the moon. But neither of them are prepared for the strange flora, and even stranger fauna they encounter, as the first men in the moon... will they survive to tell the tale?  
  Narrated by Michael Ward

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