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  I Am Alien to Life - Selected...

  Djuna Barnes, Merve Emre

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  Djuna Barnes is rightly remembered for Nightwood, her breakthrough and final novel: a hallmark of modernist literature, championed by T. S. Eliot, and one of the first, strangest, and most brilliant novels of love between women to be published in the twentieth century. Barnes's career began long before Nightwood, however, with journalism, essays, drama, and satire of extraordinary wit and courage. Long into her later life, after World War II, when she published nothing more, it was her short fiction above all that she prized and would continue to revise. 
   
   
   
  Here are all the stories Barnes sought to preserve, in the versions she preferred, as well as a smattering of rarities as selected by critic and New Yorker contributor Merve Emre. These are tales of women "'tragique' and 'triste' and 'tremendous' all at once," of sons and daughters being initiated into the ugly comedy of life, monuments all to a worldview singular and scathing. As Emre writes in her foreword "[Barnes's] themes are love and death, especially in Paris and New York; the corruption of nature by culture; the tainted innocence of children; and the mute misery of beasts . . . her characters may be alien to life, but they are alive—spectacularly, grotesquely alive."

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  The Forest Dweller

  T.D. Woods

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  Eli is a young farmer, unhappy with the lifestyle and with his borderline abusive father. He's an animal lover and would rather hug one than kill it, but killing a pig is exactly what his father wants him to do. Eli refuses and runs away, not really having a destination in mind.
  He ends up in the mysterious woods feared by locals, feeling reckless and really not caring about his fate. There he runs into a bizarre young man named Jin, who lives in the forest amongst the magical creatures there. He's scantily clad and gorgeous, and Eli is instantly more attracted to him than he's ever been to anyone. So when Jin offers him a place to stay, he's quick to accept.
  But the creatures of the forest are as outraged as Eli at the killing of livestock, and chaos ensues. Jin is determined to use the commotion to take things to the next level with the innocent Eli.

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  Amid Secrets

  Stacy Lynn Miller

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  Some secrets are meant to be told. Some never should. 
   
   
   
  The four years since William Castle's death have been a rollercoaster ride for Alex Castle and Tyler Falling. In the beginning, they soared as life partners and business owners. Then the worldwide economy crashed, and so did their idyllic life. Alex has spent every waking hour since to keep Castle Resorts afloat, letting her relationship with Tyler take a backseat. 
   
   
   
  Just when Alex and Tyler commit to getting back on track, decades-old dark secrets surrounding a scandalous affair, rape, abandonment, and confidential adoptions come to light. Someone in the Castle family's past with a deep grudge holds the oldest secret of them all and intends on exacting revenge. 
   
   
   
  The tsunami of secrets converges and threatens to tear apart their families and tear down the businesses of every Castle child. No one close to Alex and Tyler is left untouched. Can Alex and Tyler pull each other through? Will their love be enough to keep everything they'd built from coming undone?

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  When Winston Went to War with...

  Jack Thorne

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  In May 1926, Britain grinds to a halt, as workers down tools for the General Strike.
  With the printing presses shut down, the only sources of news are the government's British Gazette, edited by Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill, and the independent, fledgling British Broadcasting Company, led by John Reith. The stage is set for a fierce battle over control of the news and who gets to define the truth.
  Jack Thorne's When Winston Went To War With The Wireless is a gripping play about the birth of a great British institution and its efforts to stay impartial. It premiered at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in June 2023, directed by Katy Rudd, with Stephen Campbell Moore as Reith, Adrian Scarborough as Churchill, and Haydn Gwynne as Stanley Baldwin.
  'Jack Thorne never ceases to stimulate and entertain'Evening Standard

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  When She’s Shy

  Ruby Dixon

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  I am a bashful, dorky human woman—your average refugee on Risda III. 
   
   
   
  Haina is tall, blue, and magnificent. She is effortlessly confident, and her laugh is contagious. I might hide behind the candle section at the store in Risda's port just to get a weekly glimpse at her when she makes her vendor runs. 
   
   
   
  I might be in love with her from afar. Someday I'll get the courage to talk to her. Someday. 
   
   
   
  But fate steps in, and 'someday' turns out to be a lot sooner than I expected. 
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  Once Upon a Lucky Star

  N.D. Shar

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  GUESS WHAT? I'M NOT DEAD YET 
   
   
   
  My name is Storm Redfield: Navy Commander, still kicking ass at 161 years old. 
   
   
   
  So far, I've had a good time in the twenty-third century. I discovered space travel and fought evil creatures in a distant star system. Made friends with a one-eyed Cyclopean who sounds like a British lord, discussed romance novels with a blushing AI therapist . . . And the cherry on the cake: had kinky sex with a gorgeous alien warrior. 
   
   
   
  When a quiet return to Earth turns into an almost deadly mission, my universe is tipped upside down all over again. A young girl with a hero crush, jail time, connecting to my inner cyborg . . . A mere prelude to the most insane challenge I've ever faced. My take on it? 
   
   
   
  BRING IT ON!

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