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  Monster - The Story of a Young...

  M. R. Arnold

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  A fictionalized autobiography of the woman who wrote Frankenstein.   Two centuries ago, a twenty-year-old woman invented science fiction.   Her father gave her a better education than any woman of the age could hope for—and made her the victim of ongoing incest. At fifteen, she became involved with one of the greatest poets in England and made love to him on her mother’s grave. When she was sixteen, she escaped from home by running away for a six-week walking tour of Europe, and shared Percy Bysshe Shelley with her sister. And her mentor, Lord Byron, challenged her to prove she was as good a writer as the best poet-philosophers of the Enlightenment.   Both men admired her mind, and both wanted more. She would publish a book that changed the world—and this historical novel imagines her inner life as a woman far ahead of her time.

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  This Side of Paradise

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  The bestselling novel that established F. Scott Fitzgerald’s literary reputation and brought to vivid life the glory and despair of the “Lost Generation”.  
  Amory Blaine grew up in a wealthy family and was given an Ivy League education. Without a need to learn a profession, he chiefly dabbled in literature and partying. His school chums were of similar background, and the ideas they reflected to each other grew in their minds to be of the greatest importance. Amory began to think of himself as somewhat of a character in a Rupert Brooke poem (from which the book's title is taken). 
  World War I intervened in this happy fog and brought focus to some, doubt to others. 
  In the rapidly changing technology of the war era, the financial underpinnings of the Blaine fortune began to fall apart. The deaths of Amory's parents left the finances without a rudder and as Amory's situation deteriorated he came to realize he had only his interest in literature to fall back upon. 
  Meanwhile, a series of young women traipsed through his life, attracted to his handsome face and bright wit like moths to a candle. But Amory could never master the role of being a real person... and, one by one, they traipsed out.An Author's Republic audio production.

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  Life and Death of Doctor Faustus...

  William Mountfort

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  First produced between 1684-1688, this - as the title says - is Faust played as a comedy.  Angels to go along with Mephistopholis and Lucifer and Beelzebub, sure, but also the Seven Deadly Sins and wait a minute - Scaramouche and Harlequin??  (The author Mountfort was also an actor and was killed trying to prevent an attempt to kidnap an actress in a case that ended up in the House of Lords.) - Summary by ToddHWCast list:Dr Faustus: Beth ThomasMephistopholis: Ian QuinlanGood Angel: Frances BrownBad Angel: TriciaGScaramouche: alanmapstoneHarlequin: Anastasiia SolokhaLucifer: Chuck WilliamsonBeelzebub: AvaillePride: RapunzelinaCovetousness: russellhughesEnvy: Mary KayWrath: Kristin GjerløwGluttony: Elizabeth KlettSloth: Anna SimonLeachery: balaGiant: David OlsonHorse-courser: ToddHWCarter: Kadier CarterHostess: Kristin GjerløwOld Man: RapunzelinaEmperor: russellhughesBenoolio: David OlsonLord: Gillian SchnurrSecond Lord: ToddHWPoor : balaSecond Poor : RapunzelinaThird Poor : ToddHWFourth Poor : TriciaGScholar: Elizabeth KlettStage Directions: ToddHWEdited By:  ToddHW

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  Cry of the Wind

  Sue Harrison

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  In an ancient time of icy splendor at the top of the world, can two people whose spirits belong to each other overcome the senseless violence between their tribes?A wise storyteller and powerful hunter, Chakliux has one weakness: the beautiful Aqamdax, who has been promised to a cruel tribesman she does not love. But there can be no future for Chakliux and Aqamdax until a curse upon their peoples has been lifted. As they travel a dangerous path, they encounter greater challenges than the harsh terrain and the long season of ice. K’os, the woman who saved Chakliux’s life when he was an infant, is now enslaved by the leader of the enemy tribe against whom she has sworn vengeance. To carry out her justice she will destroy anyone who gets in her way, even the storyteller she raised as her own son. Cry of the Wind is the second book of the Storyteller Trilogy, which also includes Song of the River and Call Down the Stars.

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  Crisis of Conscience

  Mary Withall

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  When Dr. Hugh Beaton dies of pneumonia, his son Ian decides to leave his new position in Edinburgh to take over his father's medical practice on Eisdalsa. As July 1948 approaches, the remote self-sufficient community of Eisdalsa in Argyll anticipates great changes in the provision of its health services. While it is generally agreed the proposals will be for the common good, the Beaton doctors are faced with significant career changes which threaten the unity of this close knit family.

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  Birth of a Bully - Short story...

  JF Ridgley

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  Bullies have walked among us since the beginning of time but how and where do they come from. Young Cassius Julius Gullus knows...up front and personal where bullies come from. He doesn't like what he has to do, regrets ever doing it, and now he has to run away from it all. Find out why this young boy had to deal with such a thing.

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