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  3 Stories - War at Home - A trio...

  Luigi Pirandello, Winifred...

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  There is something about the number 3.    
   
  The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.   
   
  Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois.  It seems good things usually come in threes. 
   
  Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating. 
   
  From their pens to your your ears.   
   
  01 - 3 Stories - War At Home 
  02 - War by Luigi Pirandello 
  03 - Them Others by Stacy Aumonier 
  04 - The Casualty List by Winifred Holtby

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  Hyacinth

  Saki Saki

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  In this comedic tale, the story revolves around a spirited young boy named Hyacinth, whose mischievous nature leads to chaos during a local election. His mother, Matilda, is determined to bring him along to the polling station, despite warnings from her friend Mrs. Panstreppon about Hyacinth's unpredictable behavior. As the election unfolds, Hyacinth's antics take a wild turn when he befriends the children of a rival candidate and mischievously locks them in a pigsty, threatening their safety in the heat of political rivalry.

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  10 Christmas Stories: Classic...

  Mark Twain, Lucy Maud...

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  Before you is a timeless classic that will never cease to warm your heart and fill the long winter evenings with anticipated wonders and merry celebrations. This collection of Christmas stories by famous authors is the best gift for the holidays. These festive stories range from touching and magical to funny and sad. They include the best classic works of literature; whose themes involve the nativity and the magic of Christmas. Prepare yourself to experience true holiday magic and create new Christmas traditions as you read through these classics year after year.
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  A Letter from Santa Claus by Mark Twain;
  A Christmas Inspiration by Lucy Maud Montgomery;
  The Tailor of Gloucester by Beatrix Potter;
  A Kidnapped Santa Claus by Lyman Frank Baum;
  Vanka by Anton Chekhov;
  Christmas Every Day by William Dean Howells;
  The Three Kings by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow;
  The Fir Tree by Hans Christian Andersen;
  Christmas in India by Joseph Rudyard Kipling;
  A Christmas Carol by Gilbert Keith Chesterton.

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  Mrs Pulaska and Other Stories

  Christopher Burns

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  With this new collection the acclaimed novelist Christopher Burns proves his mastery of the short story form. His intelligent but conflicted characters face their decisive moments across wide ranges of time and place, each action reshaping their futures and redefining their pasts. Interplaying with these choices are locations that underpin and define each story, such as a repository of unstable nitrate film, a desert outcrop where a daughter vanished, a winter barn in which a silent refugee works without explanation, and a Parisian suicide that echoes down far more than a century.
  In these stories, landscape itself can be a determinant, as essential to the narrative as the characters that walk into a draining reservoir, a Neolithic cave, or a remote Greek church. For these are driven people – haunted or determined, alert or unaware, lovers or doubters, saviours or perpetrators.
  Several of these stories have previously appeared in publications as diverse as Les Temps Modernes, Granta Shorts, Best British Short Stories, The Time Out Book of New York Stories and Prospect.
  Christopher Burns' work has been praised by Kazuo Ishiguro, Melvyn Bragg, Margaret Drabble, Hilary Mantel and others. He is the author of six novels, including The Flint Bed (shortlisted for the Whitbread award), The Condition if Ice, A Division of the Light, and an earlier collection of short stories, About The Body. He lives in Cumbria.
  This is a wholly distinctive, ambitious and challenging collection that can be read again and again.

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  Householders

  Kate Cayley

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  A CBC BOOKS AND QUILL & QUIRE ANTICIPATED FALL BOOK 
  		 
  A LAMBDA LITERARY MOST ANTICIPATED LGBTQIA+ TITLE
  		 
  A 49TH SHELF BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021
  		 
  Linked short stories about families, nascent queers, and self-deluded utopians explore the moral ordinary strangeness in their characters’ overlapping lives.
  		 
  A woman impersonates a nun online, with unexpected consequences. In a rapidly changing neighborhood, tensions escalate around two events planned for the same day. The barista girlfriend of a tech billionaire survives a zombie apocalypse only to face spending her life with the paranoid super-rich. From a university campus to an underground bunker, a commune in the woods to Toronto and back again, the linked stories in Householders move effortlessly between the commonplace and the fantastic. In deft and exacting narratives about difficult children and thorny friendships, hopeful revolutionaries and self-deluded utopians, nascent queers, sincere frauds, and families of all kinds, Kate Cayley mines the moral hazards inherent in the ways we try to save each other and ourselves.

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  Weigh Anchor - A Jesse McDermitt...

  Wayne Stinnett

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  A lifelong friend finds something deep in the Everglades that is so very odd, that when he calls Jesse McDermitt, at first the semi-retired former special operator is in total disbelief. But he is also very intrigued, and the duo set out on another adventure reminiscent of their childhood days.  
  But their youthful quest had been all about fun and make-believe. This one was real, waiting nearly a century to be discovered. 
  There is another party interested in what Billy Rainwater stumbled upon. They have been searching for decades and will stop at nothing to recover what they believe to be not only their personal property, but their legacy. The Glades never gives up secrets readily. 
  Deep in the River of Grass, untold dangers lurk, waiting to snatch the unwary. It raises its ugly head in the backcountry of the Middle Keys, as well. But when it finds its way into the parking lot of Jesse’s favorite watering hole, a line in the sand has to be drawn once again.

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