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  The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other...

  Owen Wister

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  This is the fifth published book of Owen Wister, author of the archetypical Western novel, The Virginian. Published in 1900, it comprises eight Western short stories. (Summary by David Wales)

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  The Unreliable Nature Writer

  Claire Carroll

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  Is this the type of confetti made from lots of tiny dead flowers? 
  Yes. Seems to be. It’s quite popular nowadays I think, as a sustainable alternative— 
  Pretty morbid to throw dead flowers over our friends. 
  Meet the Unreliable Nature Writer: a macabre product of late capitalism, climate anxiety and personal loss. Finding herself alone at a wedding, tailed by an unctuous and infatuated fellow guest, she proceeds to have her fun – plunging us into a potpourri of disturbing, darkly funny visions of a near future. Aloof, evasive and sardonic, she will be our guide; her stories will bare truths about how the world we’re changing so violently might affect us in turn… 
   
   
   
  In suburbia, a woman – a beloved wife and mother – begins a sordid affair with the humanoid robot her husband has brought home. 
   
   
   
  In a grand mansion, a woman recounts a dream of social stability and home ownership to a bizarre tribunal that will determine her future. 
   
   
   
  At a campsite, ordinary families swarm to pass their sweltering summer holiday – while just off the coast, the rich and powerful enjoy a very different kind of holiday from static cruise ships.

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  On the Hunt

  Jessica Andersen, Shannon K....

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  New York Times bestselling author Gena Showalter, Shannon K. Butcher, Jessica Andersen, and Deidre Knight present a steamy collection of all-new novellas featuring sexy paranormal hunters. With shadowy creatures, intoxicating magic, vividly imagined worlds, and sizzling passion, this is an anthology no fan of paranormal romance will want to miss.In Showalter's Ever Night, Rose Pascal is swept into a dark, haunting world every year on her birthday-a world ruled by a warrior king who hunts her kind. Neither of them can deny the passion that soon consumes them both.In Butcher's The Collector, demon hunter Neal Etan sets out to acquire a powerful artifact but finds much more in beautiful Viviana Rowan. The antique dealer's touch strengthens his magic-and her life may be in Neal's hands if they don't recover the artifact in time.In Andersen's Crystal Skull, archaeologist Natalie Albright's dig gets shut down amid rumors that she has awakened the local demons. But when the terrifying underworld creatures attack, Natalie must team up with her ex to survive. As they fight the ancient menace, they discover a destiny that binds them together-and threatens to tear them apart.And in Knight's Red Angel, Jamie Angel, leader of the deadly Nightshades, has tracked every kind of monster and demon that roams the darkness, but none of his experiences can prepare him for falling in love with one of the creatures he's been trained to destroy.

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  The Garden Lodge

  Willa Cather

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  "The Garden Lodge" is a short story by Willa Cather, first published in 1905. It tells the story of a woman asked by her husband if she would agree to tear down their garden lodge and build a new summer house there instead. She grows nostalgic as she remembers spending fond times there with tenor Raymond d'Esquerre when he was visiting. Although a moderate and no-nonsense woman, the singer rekindled her passion for music during his stay. She had to let go of it after her lazy brother killed himself and her father was crippled with debts. She then proceeds to go to the garden lodge and plays a piece of opera that she played with the tenor the previous summer. However, after a night's sleep she comes around and tells her husband she agrees the lodge should go.

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  They Move Below

  Karl Drinkwater

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  Horror lives in the shadows. 
  It exists under the earth’s surface in ancient caves. Below the vast sea’s undulating waves. Under dense forest cover. Within a storm’s thick, rolling clouds. And downstairs in our homes, when we hear the knife drawer rattle in the night. Even our minds and bodies harbour the alien under the skin, the childhood nightmares in our subconscious. 
  Darkness hides things, no matter how much we strain our eyes. And sometimes those things are looking back at us. 
  In this collection of fifteen scary stories to tell in the dark, Karl Drinkwater sews flesh onto the bones of our worst fears, full of creeping menace that seeps from urban legends and folk horror.

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  Stories of Unknown Canadians

  Kelvin Bueckert

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  It's history! 
  It's what we can still learn from today. 
  Three stories of obscure Canadians come alive as they are told in the first person. An incident that was recorded as happening on the prairie in the late 1800s is told as a humor piece. Letters found in a local museum are turned into an overview of the tragedy that was World War I. Finally, we remember the efforts of Donald Carruthers to found the Manitoba Agricultural Museum. 
  Illustrated with vintage photographs, this is a collection suitable for anyone interested in history...or simply anyone who enjoys a unique story about real people.

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