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  The Gentleman from San Francisco

  Ivan Bunin

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  The Gentleman from San Francisco is a short story by Ivan Bunin, a Nobel Prize-winning but often overlooked Russian author. It was translated into English by D. H. Lawrence (with Samuil Koteliansky). The story is often hailed as a classic of the genre.
  
  A 58-year-old American from San Francisco, now in possession of a vast fortune, sets off with his wife and daughter on a world tour. A series of events causes laughter, embarassment, and revolt as he and his family travel through Italy and remarkable changes begin to take effect.

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  Ligeia; Morella; The Oval Portrait

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  Ligeia; Morella; The Oval Portrait are a short stories in the Gothic horror genre by 19th-century American author and critic Edgar Allan Poe. Poe's short story 'Ligeia' offers the account of an opium-addled narrator who believes that he has seen the resurrection of his beloved first wife, Ligeia, after the death of his second wife, Rowena. "Morella" by Edgar Allan Poe is about a woman who seemingly dies and gives birth to a daughter who looks just like her. Her husband loves the daughter, but she dies when he names her the same as her mother, implying that mother and daughter were the same person. Edgar Allan Poe's Gothic horror story "The Oval Portrait" is among his shortest narratives. As it recounts the story of the death of a painter's young wife,"The Oval Portrait" is actually the 1845 revision of a longer story, "Life in Death," which Poe wrote in 1842, shortly after his beloved young wife, Virginia, first fell ill with the tuberculosis that would kill her five years later. Poe was terrified at the prospect of losing Virginia, and the death of beautiful young women was a frequent topic in his work at this time. In his 1846 essay "The Philosophy of Composition," he even called this the most poetic of all subjects.

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  A Groom for Becca

  Lynn Donovan

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  When Becca’s husband dies in the freak blizzard that September, she brings her remaining livestock and two girls to town to live. Her hand is forced by Pastor Collins to reply to a potential intended, Haden Jarrod, but before he arrives, she falls for her sister’s intended, Charlie T. Cairn. 
  Charlie arrives in Last Chance, Nebraska, prepared to marry Linda Applebee, but finds her sister, Becca Collingsworth, much more enjoyable to be around. When the woman who left him at an altar in Pennsylvania shows up begging for him to reconsider, things get really complicated. 
  Can these two work things out? Will Becca trust Charlie even though his previous fiancée is in town? How can Charlie convince her that she is truly his destiny when it looks like she’s his third choice? Will Pastor Collins send Becca back to Wisconsin? Or will Becca give everything up and marry her friend, the livery owner?

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  The Treehouse in the Woods

  David Girard

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  The Treehouse in the Woods is an intricately-woven tale of nine pre-teens who develop lifelong friendships during an unlikely summer together at a northern California vineyard.  Author David Girard uses his own life experiences as a successful vintner and lawyer, his love of history, and his extensive knowledge of the region to intertwine specific details with a heartfelt story of relationships, family, conflict resolution, teamwork, and love.   
  Adam and Henry Draper have been given an opportunity to get out of the city and spend the summer at their grandfather's vineyard in El Dorado County, California.  While there, they meet more kids their age and build new friendships along the way.  They learn of the native American history, Japanese history, and Gold Rush history of the region,  They encounter old caves, spooky cemeteries, noisy dirt bikers, annoying peacocks, dark woods, and even learn to paint! But, most of all, they cement their newfound friendships in the creation of a treehouse in the woods behind the vineyard. 
  This is a story for all ages but will really speak to pre-teen children who have ever felt alone and who yearn for the embrace of new friends.

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  Fatal Errors - A Collection of...

  Andy Crosby

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  Lessons are hard when you’re dead. Luckily for us, five demises have been written in this collection of longer stories. When a school ghost takes a lesson, history takes flight. A prostitute’s corpse corrupts in a Western saloon. Will you give salvation to a restless spirit looking down upon his surgery? A misogynist’s broth tastes sweeter than human kindness. And a curve becomes the Shrortest distance between two points. No, you read that correctly. This is a lively telling of tales, taken from the dead, for the living who want to see how mistakes can inform and entertain. To err is human; to not read is a fatal error.

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  The River Town - A Novel

  Farah Ali

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  A poignant and powerful first novel following the breakup of a Pakistani family in the face of climate disaster, and their indefatigable search for stability, love, and belonging. 
   
   
   
  In the rural town in Pakistan where Baadal grows up, children are named like talismans to sustain life and ward off unhappiness. At seventeen, Baadal has come to understand why his parents gave him that name, with hopes that their Big River will one day flow wide again, and their thirst will be quenched after years of drought. But in the final year of his schooling, abundance seems impossibly far away. As his parents' marriage—full of rage, despair, and often violence—reaches a breaking point, the only comfort Baadal can afford is a budding kinship with Meena, a divorced older woman he meets on the banks of the drying river. 
   
   
   
  Meena has only just escaped her abusive husband, but her resistance to remarry soon gives way to the promise of stability and companionship that Baadal offers. Together, they leave the town in search of greater fortunes in the city. But even strong-willed, independent Meena finds herself bowed by the strain of Badaal's punishing work schedule, her struggling beauty parlor, and the tension with Baadal's mother, Raheela, as she seeks to leave behind a life of disappointments and discover a freedom she's never known.

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