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  Horrid Henry: Family Favourites

  Lucinda Whiteley

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  Discover all of the most Horrid Family Favourites in this heartwarming collection of 11 Horrid Henry super stories performed by the show's full cast. What could be more Horrid than gatecrashing a sleepover, delivering the milk and getting all your mates to come up with the best leaving present ever (spoiler alert, it's not a Roly Mo Snowglobe!!).  So let's turn up the Horrid and enjoy these classic stories with "Best Boys Sleepover", "Says Goodbye", "Skipping Lesson", "Best Parents In The World", "Family Fresh Air Day", "Milkman", "Holiday Time", "How To Be Good", "Parent's Evening", "Le Terrible" and "Mother's Day". Horridly Brilliant or Brilliantly Horrid? You decide!!

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  The Consequences - Stories

  Manuel Muñoz

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  "Her immediate concern was money." So begins the first story in Manuel Muñoz's dazzling new collection. In it, Delfina has moved from Texas to California's Central Valley with her husband and small son, and her isolation and desperation force her to take a risk that ends in profound betrayal. 
   
   
   
  These exquisite stories are set in the 1980s in the small towns that surround Fresno. Muñoz depicts the Mexican and Mexican American farmworkers who put food on our tables but are regularly and ruthlessly rounded up by the migra, as well as the quotidian struggles and immense challenges faced by their families. The messy and sometimes violent realities navigated by his characters—straight and gay, immigrant and American-born, young and old—are tempered by moments of surprising, tender care: Two young women meet on a bus to Los Angeles to retrieve husbands who must find their way back from the border after being deported; a gay couple plans a housewarming party that reveals buried class tensions; a teenage mother slips out to a carnival where she encounters the father of her child; the foreman of a crew of fruit pickers finds a dead body and is subsequently—perhaps literally—haunted. 
   
   
   
  In The Consequences, obligation can shape, support, and sometimes derail us. It's a magnificent new book from a gifted writer at the height of his powers.

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  A Scene from the Ghetto of...

  Rainer Maria Rilke

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  René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke was born into a troubled marriage on the 4th December 1875 in Prague, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.  His mother, having previously lost a baby girl, would dress the young boy up in girl’s clothing.   
  Later his father dispatched him to a military academy at age 10 but after a miserable 5 years the young Rilke left due to illness and instead entered first Prague and then Munich and finally Berlin university to study art history, philosophy and literature. 
  His initial forays into literature was in poetry.  His intense, mystical and lyrical style was much admired and over time inspired many in succeeding generations.    
  His short prose collection ‘Stories of God’, written in an impassioned burst over several nights was published in 1900 and offers a beguiling view of much of Rilke’s influences and outlook.  
  The following year he married the pioneering sculptor and artist Clara Westhoff.  The union produced one child, a daughter Ruth.   
  He lived in Paris for most of the Century’s first decade where he mixed with many great minds of the time.  Although he continued to write he also worked as a secretary to the sculptor, Rodin.   
  It was only after they settled in Switzerland in 1919 that his writing output was in full flow.  Here he wrote profusely in both German and French, which included much on his previous travels, his left-wing sympathies, his religious and existential thoughts, all part of a unique and consummate style. 
  From 1923 on, Rilke increasingly struggled with his health which was now in constant decline and often spent time rehabilitating at a sanatorium.   
  Rainer Maria Rilke died of leukaemia on the 29th December 1926 in Montreux, Switzerland.  He was 51.

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  Mij's Testament - Ailand

  GAIL O. DELLSLEE

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  The first book in the Mij's Testament trilogy takes place in the mid-1960s. A honeymoon cruise goes horribly wrong when the captain insists that his 17-year-old son take over the helm, and the ship gets lost in the Bermuda Triangle. One lifeboat full of 12 people, including the captain and his son, washes up on an island. At first they think it is deserted, but they soon discover that a young woman named Aileen lives there. She claims to have arrived there when she was three years old, but her eloquent vocabulary makes them doubt her story. When she tells them that she was raised by fairies, they question her sanity. After the rations run out, the castaways' survival depends on this unreliable girl. They attempt to teach her how to function in the civilized world, confident that they will be rescued and that Aileen will come with them when they are. However, Aileen is a stubborn girl, and she resists being forced to behave in ways that are unnatural and illogical.Will they ever be rescued? Or will they have to live like savages for the rest of their lives? And is that so bad?

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  The Clusterf*ck Collection

  Elliot Grey

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  The ClusterF*ck Collection is it's namesake. It's a collection of works that have no rhyme or reason. Some poems are about love and some are about healing. Some short stories are about trauma and some excerpts are more horror themed. It's a well rounded approach at giving the world a glimpse into my own. As a neurodivergent, Native American and trans author I could not be more proud to bring these parts of me to more people.

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  By Virtue Fall

  Barbara Anne Machin

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  A trio of stories depicting true life struggles for people in all walks of life. How individuals can spoil what is good in life through the very stubbornness in their own nature. Jealously. Harsh words and anger. Misunderstanding that would be easier to face talk about instead of walking away. No problem is insurmountable if faced instead of ignored.

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