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  Dubliners - Step into the...

  James Joyce

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  Experience the quiet desperation, unspoken desires, and breathtaking epiphanies of a city trapped between a fractured past and an uncertain future. 
  Before Ulysses reshaped modern literature, James Joyce laid its foundation in the dim, lamp-lit streets of his hometown. In this captivating collection, children face the death of their innocent faith, teenagers endure the shattering loss of first loves, and desperate adults desperately seek an escape from suffocating routines, broken homes, and stifling regrets. Through grippingly realistic portrayals of ordinary citizens yearning for an elusive elsewhere—whether it's an exotic bazaar in Araby or a doomed ship to Buenos Aires in Eveline—this masterclass in character study weaves an unforgettable tapestry of humanity, ambition, and tragic self-awareness. 
  Why you will love this: Fans of classic literature and profound character arcs will find an undeniable, hypnotic pull in these pages. This towering achievement of Literary Fiction masterfully executes the short story form, marrying gritty social realism with a poetic exploration of the human condition. Whether you enjoy introspective historical fiction, dark atmospheric dramas, or coming-of-age epiphanies, this psychological narrative offers an incredibly immersive listening experience that will resonate long after the final chapter. 
  Historical Note: James Joyce (1882–1941) was a pioneering Irish novelist and poet whose revolutionary approach to stream-of-consciousness narrative transformed global literature. First published in 1914, Dubliners remains his most accessible yet intricately structured work, standing forever as a pivotal touchstone of the modernist movement.

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  Vegas Baby

  Kameron Claire

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  He’s a widower attending a medical conference. She’s a recent divorcee hoping to get her groove back. He’s noticed her before, but this time is different, with an empty ring finger to prove it. Can he convince her they’re meant for more than a week long love affair? 
  Jack: I’ve attended this medical office convention before, but this is the first time I’m feeling bold. But I didn’t expect the shy woman I’ve been checking out for the last couple of years to not only be available, but interested in a Vegas fling. Only one week will never be enough for me, but how do I convince her to want more? 
  Diane: First time I’m attending this convention this single, and my girlfriend has filled my head with stories about “what happens in Vegas” touting it's time for Diane to get her groove back. She’s right, and when I meet Jack, I’m sure he’s the one I want to have this sexual reawakening with—only nothing about him feels temporary. Can he fall for a woman who propositions him for a no-strings-attached weekend? 
  Each book in the series is a complete, standalone story. This is a steamy, short story romance, complete with instalove and a guaranteed happily ever-after. If you're looking for a great lunchtime read, or something to spark sexy dreams before bed, you’ll want to pick this one up. 
  Vegas Nights Series: Vegas Bachelorette, Vegas Bride, Vegas Baby, and Vegas Vixen

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  Watching Women & Girls

  Danielle Pender

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  Chosen as one of the ‘best new book releases’ by COSMOPOLITAN 
  A ‘best summer read’ by ELLE MAGAZINE 
  When you look at a woman, who do you see? 
  “Every aspect of her body or personality was up for inspection: too big, too small, too available, too hidden, too much, not enough.” 
  A wedding day brings back memories of sisterhood and betrayals; a motorway service station is the site of explosive violence, but also strange bonds; a trip home forces a reminder of a life-changing, lost friendship; a woman confronts her own infidelity; an artist celebrates a life spent in observation. 
  This debut collection movingly explores how women and girls are looked at, look at one another, and look at themselves, and how living as an object can shape their passions, fears, and joys. With a clear eye and dark humour, Danielle Pender considers sex, parenting, grief and class as lenses for the ways in which the world watches women — and how women are always watching back. 
  In Watching Women & Girls, Danielle Pender masterfully weaves together a collection of short stories that delve into the complexities of marriage, divorce, and family dynamics. The book, a top pick in fiction, offers a unique perspective on romance, showcasing the author's ability to capture the essence of human relationships. 
  For fans of Jessica Knoll (Luckiest Girl Alive), Ottessa Moshfegh (McGlue), Mieko Kawakami (All The Lovers In The Night), Sam Bett (Voices of the Fallen Heroes), and Mona Awad (Bunny). 
  HarperCollins 2022

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  Encounter An

  James Joyce

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  An Encounter is one of James Joyce’s most quietly disturbing and psychologically precise stories, capturing a moment when childhood imagination collides with the uneasy realities of the adult world. 
  Set in Dublin, the story follows two schoolboys who skip class in search of adventure, inspired by tales of the Wild West and dreams of escape from the rigid discipline of school and home. Their day unfolds as a series of small freedoms—wandering the quays, watching ships, imagining distant lands—until a chance meeting in a lonely field alters the tone of their holiday entirely. 
  What begins as youthful restlessness gradually darkens into discomfort and fear as the boys encounter a strange older man whose conversation drifts from nostalgic reflections to unsettling fixations. Joyce renders the scene with restraint and precision, allowing unease to build through repetition, implication, and the narrator’s growing awareness rather than overt action. 
  An Encounter explores themes central to Dubliners: lost innocence, moral paralysis, and the quiet moments when perception shifts and the world reveals itself as more complicated—and more threatening—than expected. Narrated by John Young, this recording preserves Joyce’s subtle pacing and emotional tension, bringing to life a story that lingers long after its final lines.

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  Una Dozzina - About A Dozen...

  S. Lucia Kanter St. Amour

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  From the author of the internationally acclaimed book club favorite, The Covert Buccaneer comes this luminous collection of slice-of-life vignettes that capture fleeting moments before they vanish — the small, human intervals that rarely announce their importance until memory claims them. 
  Written across years and places — from Italy to Chicago to the shifting neighborhoods of San Francisco — these brief pieces preserve ordinary life with uncommon attentiveness: an afternoon in a mischievous Fiat, commuters bound by tacit ritual, a house that disappeared without warning, a mother writing to children she worries will forget they were loved, a recipe rescued while no one was paying attention, and a city corner where children speak Italian. Each vignette stands alone while covertly conversing with the others, forming a mosaic of lived experience. 
  The collection resists agenda and argument. It doesn't explain itself or rush toward relevance. Instead, it invites readers into a series of remembered rooms — intimate spaces where time slows, attention sharpens, and the ordinary briefly becomes resplendent. 
  Una Dozzina rewards browsing, revisiting, and serendipity. Though the order of pieces is carefully curated, readers may open it anywhere and linger. It will speak to anyone who has loved a place that disappeared, a person they could not keep, or a moment only recognized once it had become memory. 
  Ideal for readers of literary nonfiction, flash prose, and contemplative essays — and for admirers of works such as From Scratch by Tembi Locke, Harper Lee's The Land of Sweer Forever, and the reflective lineage of writers like Natalia Ginzburg and Joan Didion. With occasional flashes of the compressed, observational clarity found in García Márquez’s shorter chronicles, this collection honors the unsung art of noticing and the enduring beauty, tragedy, and hushed magic of what passes.

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  Violet Symphony - From their...

  John Gould Fletcher

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  John Gould Fletcher was born in Little Rock, Arkansas on 3rd January 1886 to a socially prominent family.  
  He was educated at Phillips Academy, Andover before advancing to Harvard University which he attended from 1903 to 1907, before dropping out after his father's death. 
  As a young man Fletcher spent many years in England where he became part of the influential Imagist group of poets together with Amy Lowell and Ezra Pound.   
  His first marriage came from a resumed relationship with the now married Florence Emily ‘Daisy’ Arbuthnot. Her adultery with Fletcher was the grounds for her divorce from Malcolm Arbuthnot.  They married on 5th July 1916 but later divorced.  
  Fletcher first published in 1912, with ‘The Dominant City’ too much praise and admiration and followed this with other well-regarded volumes such as ‘Irradiations: Sand and Spray’, and ‘Goblins and Pagodas’. 
  In the late 1920s and 1930s Fletcher became increasingly active with a group of Southern writers and poets known as the Southern Agrarians. They published the classic ‘I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition’. 
  Although he was highly regarded as a poet he was not very prolific.  However, such was the undoubted quality that in 1939 he received the Pulitzer Prize for his work ‘Selected Poems’.  He was the first poet from the south to receive such an accolade.  Fletcher’s other passion and pursuit was as an authority on modern painting, a subject on which he also published. 
  A second marriage followed in 1936 to the children’s author, Charlie May Simon. They built ‘Johnswood’, a residence on the bluffs of the Arkansas River and travelled frequently to New York for shots of modern culture and intellectual stimulation as well as to the American West and South for the climate after Fletcher developed chronic arthritis. 
  In 1937 he wrote his autobiography, ‘Life is My Song’. 
  His developing passion for his roots and background resulted in the writing of a history of his State and published in 1947; ‘Arkansas’. 
  By now Fletcher was suffering from bouts of depression and on 10th May 1950, he committed suicide by drowning himself in a pond near his home in Little Rock, Arkansas.

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