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  Jane Austen: The Complete Novels

  Jane Austen, Claire Walsh, Brian...

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  This Audiobook contains the complete novels of Jane Austen- Emma- Lady Susan - Love and Friendship, and Other Early Works- Mansfield Park - Northanger Abbey- Persuasion- Pride and Prejudice - Sense and Sensibility - The Watsons

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  Bayou Stories

  Kate Chopin

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  This collection of nine short stories takes the listener back to nineteenth-century Louisiana. Universal themes of love and death are intertwined with the issues of slavery and racism. Each story, steeped in the religious and social culture of the bayou, holds an unexpected turn or two.

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  Tales of the Five Towns

  Arnold Bennett

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  This is a selection of short stories recounting, with gentle satire and tolerant good humour, the small town provincial life at the end of the nineteenth century, based around the six towns in the county of Staffordshire, England, known as the Potteries. Arnold Bennett chose to fictionalize these towns by changing their names and omitting one (Fenton) as he apparently felt that “Five Towns” was more euphonious than “Six Towns”. The real town names which are thinly disguised in the novel are: Hanley, Longton, Burslem and Tunstal, the fifth, Stoke, became “Knype”.Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) was born in Hanley, the eldest child of a pawnbroker who subsequently became a solicitor. Bennett’s father wished him to become a solicitor too, but he failed his university entrance examination and instead became a solicitor's clerk, at first in his father's office and, from 1889, in London.He showed early promise as a writer winning a writing competition in a local newspaper as a boy. In London he began to see his writing published in popular magazines and he joined the staff of ‘Woman’ magazine in 1893.His first novel to be published, A Man from the North, appeared in 1898 and its success allowed him to give up other work to concentrate on writing. His first short story (A Letter Home) was written in 1893 and appears in Tales of the Five Towns. (Summary by Martin Clifton)

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  Spanking the Women’s Group 5 -...

  Paula Mann

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  My name is Jack Pilton and I moved into one of those lovely old terraced houses that Cornwall is so famous for, in a village called Little Trumpington. Soon after I arrived in the village I was asked if the local women’s group could use my lounge for their weekly card game and I was welcome to join in if I could play whist. 
  I was very soon swept away with the game but more importantly the forfeits that the losers agreed to. The winners would spank the losers but as I was the only man in the group I eventually did all the spanking.  
  Since then spanking has become the main part of the women’s group. In this audiobook, I will tell you about my honeymoon with Mary in Spain and the lovely little maid we both spanked while we were there. When we came back I had to spank all the members of the Women’s Group

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  Short Story Press Presents Guide...

  Short Story Press, Jasmine Bowen

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  • Is an actor’s life as glamorous as it seems? 
  • Avion and Jared, two leads in a new historic play, can barely stand each other, let alone stand the horrid historical play they are both starring in. 
  • The story of Elizabeth Woodville and King Edward is well known, but they can’t seem to capture each character in their acting. 
  • Each of the actors in this play is a Blist actor, headed nowhere fast. 
  • Reviews on previews are terrible and they don’t expect to get far. 
  • When strange things start to happen, on and off set, they begin to question who is really in control. 
  • Dangerous accidents push them to their limit. 
  • It’s about standing your ground, believing in your dream, and overcoming obstacles. 
  • These actors believe in their dream so strongly that they are willing to put their lives in danger in order to continue this production. 
  • They find, as long ago, that strength and love come from the oddest places and can overcome. 
  • “No, no, no, we aren’t people. We play people. There’s a difference” 
  • Each of these actors is now propelled towards fame; but at what cost, as their lives flash in front of them? 
  Short Story Press publishes short stories written by everyday writers.

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  Serafina's Stories

  Rudolfo Anaya

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  This innovative novel combines Spanish folktales with Native American legends to create a captivating Southwestern version of The Arabian Nights. Like Scheherezade, who ensured her survival by telling her royal husband stories, the title character in Rudolfo Anaya’s creative retelling of The Arabian Nights must entertain the recently widowed governor with legends of Nueva Mexicana, or she and her fellow captives will die. With fresh snow covering the high peaks of Sangre de Cristo, a group of native dissidents prepare for revolt. In seventeenth-century Santa Fe, insurrection against a colony of the king of Spain is punishable by death. A Spaniard loyal to the governor names twelve conspirators. One of them is a young woman. Raised in a mission church, fifteen-year-old Serafina speaks excellent Spanish and knows many of her country’s traditional folktales. She and the governor strike a bargain: Each evening, she will tell him a cuento. If he likes it, he will release one prisoner the following day. The twelve tales recounted here mirror the struggle of a divided country. They include the social and political symbolism behind “Beauty and the Beast” and retell “Cinderella” as “Miranda’s Gift.” Interspersed with these timeless cuentos is the story of Serafina herself, and that of a people battling to preserve a vanishing way of life under the long shadow of the Inquisition.

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