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  Hollywood Stage - Death Takes A...

  Various Authors

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  Hollywood is indelibly printed in our minds as the ‘go-to place for entertainment and has been for decades.  When there really did seem to be more stars in Hollywood than in Heaven Hollywood Stage had them performing films as radio plays – on the sponsors dime of course.  The Hollywood Ringmaster himself, Cecil B DeMille unveils the treasures and the stars for you right here…..

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  Life and Adventures of Jack...

  Walt Whitman

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  Walter Whitman was an American poet, essayist and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse. His work was controversial in its time, particularly his 1855 poetry collection Leaves of Grass, which was described as obscene for its overt sensuality. Whitman's own life came under scrutiny for his presumed homosexuality.Born in Huntington on Long Island, as a child and through much of his career, he resided in Brooklyn. At age 11, he left formal schooling to go to work. Later, Whitman worked as a journalist, a teacher, and a government clerk. Whitman's major poetry collection, Leaves of Grass, was first published in 1855 with his own money and became well known. The work was an attempt at reaching out to the common person with an American epic. He continued expanding and revising it until his death in 1892. During the American Civil War, he went to Washington, D.C. and worked in hospitals caring for the wounded. His poetry often focused on both loss and healing. On the death of Abraham Lincoln, whom Whitman greatly admired, he wrote his well-known poems, "O Captain! My Captain!" and "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd", and gave a series of lectures. After a stroke towards the end of his life, Whitman moved to Camden, New Jersey, where his health further declined. When he died at age 72, his funeral was a public event.Whitman's influence on poetry remains strong. Mary Whitall Smith Costelloe argued: "You cannot really understand America without Walt Whitman, without Leaves of Grass ... He has expressed that civilization, 'up to date,' as he would say, and no student of the philosophy of history can do without him." Modernist poet Ezra Pound called Whitman "America's poet ... He is America.

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  Wrecked by Rum

  Lucy Lakestone

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  When rum collectors collide … 
  When mixologist Pepper Revelle joins the Bohemia Bartenders for what promises to be an entertaining, rum-soaked tiki convention in sultry South Florida, she expects divine ukuleles, sublime swizzles and a chance to know chief bartender Neil a little better. What she gets is chaos — the death of a high-profile rum collector, a cast of sneaky suspects and ten thousand limes to squeeze. 
  With one of their own under suspicion, Pepper and Neil set out to find the real killer. But behind the aloha shirts and cocktail parasols is a blender full of secrets. The centerpiece of the convention is a high-dollar tasting of rums that survived a shipwreck and other disasters, and when a precious bottle vanishes from the crime scene, everyone with a ticket is a suspect. 
  As Pepper tries to keep the insatiable crowd inebriated and her gregarious dog Astra sober, she finds peril under every palm tree. It seems like everybody’s guilty of something. But who’s guilty of murder? And can she and Neil find the culprit before they’re smacked like the mint in a Mai Tai? 
  Wrecked by Rum is the second book in the Bohemia Bartenders Mysteries, funny whodunits with a dash of romance set in a convivial collective of cocktail lovers, eccentrics and mixologists. These quasi-cozy culinary comedies contain a hint of heat, a splash of cursing and shots of laughter, served over hand-carved ice.

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  Passing Through

  Katia Rose

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  Nestled in a towering fir forest on British Columbia's famous Vancouver Island, Three Rivers Campground is calling you to come relax, explore, and maybe even fall in love . . . 
   
   
   
  Emily Rivers does not have time for love. 
   
   
   
  Or dating. Or even a one night stand. 
   
   
   
  As the eldest of the Rivers sisters, she's too focused on keeping her family's campground running in the wake of a devastating tragedy to even think about romance. 
   
   
   
  When Kim Jefferies shows up at the local small town bar looking like a lesbian snack on a stick, Emily writes her off as yet another tourist just passing through—no matter how much the butterflies in her stomach try to tell her otherwise. 
   
   
   
  Only Kim's plans of 'passing through' fade the second she sees Emily Rivers, despite the fact that the whole point of her soul-searching journey was to stop falling for random women in bars who only lead her to heartbreak. 
   
   
   
  The last thing they're looking for is a love story, but with the help of some conniving sisters, an interfering bartender, and the magic of the great outdoors, that might be exactly what Kim and Emily are going to get.

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  Stories From the Shadows -...

  Mark Twain, Rudyard Kipling,...

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  An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories. 
   
  But where do these ideas and stories come from?  A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form?  An inspiration from a Muse?  A suggestion from an everyday event? 
   
  Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work.  They help to nourish single words into sentences and paragraphs that ease themselves from the shadows and are suddenly upon us in twisted revelation that may thrill, may disturb, but will always engage and help us explore the edge of darkness where some of the very best literature patiently lurks …. waiting …. for the likes of me and you. 
   
  1 - Stories From the Shadows - Ghosts - An Introduction 
  2 - A Ghost Story by Mark Twain 
  3 - My Own True Ghost Story by Rudyard Kipling 
  4 - The Canterville Ghost - Part 1 by Oscar Wilde 
  5 - The Canterville Ghost - Part 2 by Oscar Wilde 
  6 - The Eyes by Edith Wharton 
  7 - Only A Dream by H Rider Haggard 
  8 - The Apparition of Mrs Veal by Daniel Defoe 
  9 - The Tapestried Chamber by Walter Scott 
  10 - The Judge's House by Bram Stoker 
  11 - The Boarded Window by Ambrose Bierce 
  12 - The Closed Window by A C Benson 
  13 - The Ghost in the Clock Room by Hesba Stretton 
  14 - The Open Door - Part 1 by Margaret Oliphant 
  15 - The Open Door - Part 2 by Margaret Oliphant 
  16 - The Shadows on the Wall by Mary E Wilkins Freeman 
  17 - The Last House in C Street by Mrs Craik 
  18 - The Story of the Green House, Wallington by Allen Upward 
  19 - Thurnley Abbey by Perceval Landon 
  20 - Christmas Eve at a Cornish Manor House by Clara Venn 
  21 - To Let by B M Croker 
  22 - The Haunted Orchard by Richard Le Gallienne 
  23 - The Ghost at the Rath by Rosa Mulholland 
  24 - The Tyburn Ghost by Wilhelmina FitzClarence, The Countess of Munster 
  25 - The Botathen Ghost from Footprints of Former Men in Far Cornwall by the Reverend R S Hawker 
  26 - The Spectre of Tappington - Part 1 by Richard Harris Barham 
  27 - The Spectre of Tappington - Part 2 by Richard Harris Barham 
  28 - The Spectre Bridegroom by William Hunt 
  29 - John Charrington's Wedding by Edith Nesbit 
  30 - A Spirit Elopement by Clotilde Graves 
  31 - Reality or Delusion by Mrs Ellen Wood 
  32 - The Phantom Coach by Amelia Edwards 
  33 - The 9.30 Up-Train by Sabine Baring-Gould 
  34 - The Story of the Rippling Train by Mary Louisa Molesworth 
  35 - The Story of 'The Spaniards', Hammersmith by Kate and Hesketh Pritchard 
  36 - The Old Nurse's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell 
  37 - A Smiling Ghost by W G Kelly 
  38 - Let Loose by Mary Cholmondeley.wav 
  39 - The Cold Embrace by Mary Elizabeth Braddon 
  40 - The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth by Rhoda Broughton 
  41 - Since I Died by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps 
  42 - A Collector's Company by R H Malden

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  K-9 Confidential

  Nichole Severn

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  This fierce K-9Is facing killer oddsSecurity agent Granger Morais is stunned when he and his K-9, Zeus, confront the one person he thought was dead—and can’t afford to trust again. Helping ex-informant Charlie Acker discover who killed her young sister may be key to taking down her powerful extremist family. But when Granger must protect her from a ruthless cartel that wants her special skills, will his and Charlie’s troubled history—and reignited heat—keep them alive…or be the one trap they never saw coming?From Harlequin Intrigue: Seek thrills. Solve crimes. Justice served.Discover more action-packed stories in the New Mexico Guard Dogs series. All books are stand-alone with uplifting endings but were published in the following order:  Book 1: K-9 SecurityBook 2: K-9 DetectionBook 3: K-9 ShieldBook 4: K-9 GuardiansBook 5: K-9 ConfidentialBook 6: K-9 Justice

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