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  The Nonexistent Knight

  Italo Calvino

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  An empty suit of armor is the hero in this witty novella, a picaresque gem—now available in an independent volume for the first time—that brilliantly parodies medieval knighthood. 
  Set in the time of Charlemagne and narrated by a nun with her own secrets to keep, The Nonexistent Knight tells the story of Agilulf, a gleaming white suit of armor with nothing inside it. A challenge to his honor sends Agilulf on a search through France, England, and North Africa to confirm the chastity of a virgin he saved from rape years earlier. 
  In the end, after many surprising turns of plot, a closing confession draws this sparkling novella to a perfect finish.

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  Gold Mountain - (The "Shades of...

  Linda Hughes

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  There might be gold in them thar hills, but curmudgeonly San Francisco business tycoon Caden Caldwell treks to Alaska in a fit of rage looking for his free-spirited son, Colt, who has struck out for the Klondike Gold Rush. 
  What Caden finds is something else altogether. Orphaned children. Wayward women. Quirky prospectors. Tlingit Indians. Isolated with this motley crew when early winter weather hits, he has no choice but to re-evaluate his life in ways that terrify yet intrigue him. Will he ever be the same? Does he want to be? There is hope that Caden Caldwell might strike it rich in ways he never imagined.

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  Short Stories About Gambling - A...

  Alexander Pushkin, D H Lawrence,...

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  When you are winning gambling seems very easy.  You place a bet and receive your winnings. The thrill is a joyous electric shock of joy and applause.  And winnings. 
   
  If you lose, well, at first you know your luck will turn.  It must, you’re a winner.  But if your luck fails, and keeps failing, misery endures and then envelops your life.  Everything is centered on that next roll of the dice, the turn of the card …. Nothing else matters. You are addicted.  
   
  01 - Short Stories About Gambling - An Introduction 
  02 - The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin 
  03 - The Rocking Horse Winner by D H Lawrence 
  04 - After the Race by James Joyce 
  05 - The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calveras County by Mark Twain 
  06 - A Bread and Butter Miss by Saki 
  07 - Brown of Calaveras by Bret Harte 
  08 - A Guardian of Morality by Anthony Hope 
  09 - The Bet by Anton Chekhov 
  10 - The Bet by Barry Pain 
  11 - Sir Julian Garve by Ella D'Arcy 
  12 - Tennessee's Partner by Bret Harte 
  13 - A Terribly Strange Bed by Wilkie Collins

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  Had a Good Time - Stories from...

  Robert Olen Butler

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  ”Gloriously imaginative and utterly hypnotizing short stories” inspired by vintage twentieth-century postcards, from a Pulitzer Prize-winning author (Booklist, starred review). 
   
  For many years, author Robert Olen Butler has collected picture postcards from the early twentieth century—not so much for the pictures on the fronts but for the messages written on the backs, little bits of the captured souls of people long since passed away. Using these brief messages of real people from another age, Butler here creates fully imagined stories that speak to the universal human condition.  
   
  In “Up by Heart,” a Tennessee miner is called upon to become a preacher, and then asked to complete an altogether more sinister task. In “The Ironworkers’ Hayride,” a young man named Milton embarks on a romantic adventure with a girl with a wooden leg. From the deeply moving “Carl and I,” in which a young wife writes a postcard in reply to a card from her husband who is dying of tuberculosis, to the eerily familiar “The One in White,” in which a newspaper reporter covers an incident of American military adventurism in a foreign land, these short stories are intimate and fascinating glimpses into the lives of ordinary people in an extraordinary age. 
   
  “A wonderful collection.”—The Atlantic Monthly

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  The Mannequin Makers - A Novel

  Craig Cliff

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  In early twentieth-century New Zealand, a grieving man embarks on a bizarre project: “A story about obsession gone horribly wrong . . . spellbinding and original.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) 
   
  Excitement is rare in the small town of Marumaru, New Zealand. So when a young Maori man arrives on the morning train one day in 1903—announcing the imminent visit of a famous strongman—the entire town turns out to greet him, save one. Colton Kemp, a department store window-dresser, is at home, watching his beloved wife die in premature childbirth. Tormented by grief, he hatches a plan to make his name and thwart his professional rival, the silent and gifted Carpenter: over the next sixteen years he will raise his newborn twins in secrecy and isolation, to become human mannequins in the world’s most lifelike window display. 
   
  “At once fantastical and deeply human. Reminiscent of the likes of Peter Carey’s Oscar and Lucinda or Tim Winton’s Cloudstreet, there is something delightfully off-kilter, imaginative and original in Cliff’s storytelling . . . a superb novel of parental obsession, the lure of the unattainable and the tragedy inherent within human nature.” —The Hoopla 
   
  “A book that makes grand promises and delivers.” —The New York Times

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  Whiter Than Snow

  Sandra Dallas

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  From the New York Times bestselling author of Prayers for Sale comes a powerful novel about the intersection of redemption, forgiveness, and love....On a spring afternoon in 1920, Swandyke—a small town near Colorado’s Tenmile Range—is changed forever. Just moments after four o’clock, a large split of snow separates from Jubilee Mountain high above the tiny hamlet and hurtles down the rocky slope, enveloping everything in its path.  Meet the residents whose lives this tragedy touches: Lucy and Dolly Patch, two sisters long estranged by a shocking betrayal. Joe Cobb, Swandyke’s only black resident, whose love for his daughter forces him to flee Alabama. Then there’s Grace Foote, who hides secrets and scandal that belie her genteel facade. And Minder Evans, a Civil War veteran who considers cowardice his greatest sin. Finally, there’s Essie Snowball, born Esther Schnable to conservative Jewish parents, who now works as a prostitute and hides her child’s parentage from the world.  Fate, chance, and perhaps divine providence all collide in the everyday lives of these people. And ultimately, no one is without sin, no one’s soul is whiter than snow, and no one is without the need for forgiveness.  A quintessential American voice and a writer of exquisite historical detail, Sandra Dallas illuminates the resilience of the human spirit in her newest novel.

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