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  Gunflower

  Laura Jean McKay

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  The brilliant new short story collection from the Arthur C. Clarke Award–winning author of The Animals in That Country. 
   
  A family of cat farmers gets the chance to set the felines free. A group of chickens tells it like it is. A female-crewed ship ploughs through the patriarchy. A support group finds solace in a world without men. 
   
  With her trademark humour, energy, and flair, McKay offers glimpses of places where dreams subsume reality, where childhood restarts, where humans embrace their animal selves and animals talk like humans. 
   
  The stories in Gunflower explode and bloom in mesmerising ways, showing the world both as it is and as it could be. 
   
  ‘Startling, beautiful, and dangerous. McKay is the brightest of talents. We're lucky to have her.' 
  ROBBIE ARNOTT, AUTHOR OF LIMBERLOST 
   
  ‘McKay delivers an assured follow-up to The Animals in That Country in her own singular voice that zeroes in on our anxieties and existential crises with deft and often poetic flair.' SEQUOIA NAGAMATSU, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF HOW HIGH WE GO IN THE DARK 
   
  ‘Gunflower is like a swarm of small earthquakes: nothing is steady anymore, and the world feels bigger, scarier, almost transcendent in its strangeness.' MILES ALLINSON, AUTHOR OF IN MOONLAND

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  Mudfog and Other Sketches

  Charles Dickens

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  The Mudfog Papers was written by Victorian era novelist Charles Dickens and published from 1837–38 in the monthly literary serial Bentley's Miscellany, which he then edited. They were first published as a book as 'The Mudfog Papers and Other Sketches. The Mudfog Papers relates the proceedings of the fictional 'The Mudfog Society for the Advancement of Everything', a Pickwickian parody of the British Association for the Advancement of Science founded in York in 1831, one of the numerous Victorian learned societies dedicated to the advancement of Science. Like The Pickwick Papers, The Mudfog Papers claim affinity with Parliamentary reports, memoirs, and posthumous papers. The serial was illustrated by George Cruikshank. The fictional town of Mudfog was based on Chatham in Kent, where Dickens spent part of his youth. Mudfog was described by Dickens as being the town where Oliver Twist was born and spent his early years when the story first appeared in 'Bentley's Miscellany' in February 1837, making it a continuation of The Mudfog Papers, but this allusion was removed when the story was printed in book form. At the conclusion of his first contribution, about the mayor of the provincial town of Mudfog, Dickens explains that "this is the first time we have published any of our gleanings from this particular source," referring to 'The Mudfog Papers'. He also suggests that "at some future period, we may venture to open the chronicles of Mudfog." (Summary by Wikipedia)

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  Computer Love: A Digital Anthology

  Ricardo Pierre-Louis

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  A god overlooks the world he created with restless dissatisfaction, and contemplates ending his misery. 
  A young painter sees a dazzling woman from across the coffee shop and quickly falls in love, but her past brings him unspeakable shame. 
  A gambling addict hides his debts to save his marriage, until a shady executive demands her money back or she'll squeal. 
  Computer Love is a collection of stories about people who have experienced a profound sense of loss and seek to deeply root their sense of self in the philosophy of love. Ordinary people are driven to extreme ends about their conviction in their common bonds. Some survive, others do not, but their collective existence answers the question, what happens when your world slips away and only love remains?

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  The Cricket On The Hearth

  Charles Dickens

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  The Cricket on the Hearth is a novella by Charles Dickens, written in 1845. It is the third of Dickens' five Christmas books, the others being A Christmas Carol (1843), The Chimes (1844), The Battle of Life (1846), and The Haunted Man (1847). John Peerybingle, a carrier, lives with his young wife Dot, their baby boy and their nanny Tilly Slowboy. A cricket chirps on the hearth and acts as a guardian angel to the family. One day a mysterious elderly stranger comes to visit and takes up lodging at Peerybingle's house for a few days.

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  Hurricane

  L. Ron Hubbard

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  Wrongfully accused, Captain Spar has been condemned to Devil's Island. But now, escaping, he's out to kill the man who put him there. A storm is brewing, but even in the face of natural disaster, Spar discovers that nothing is more dangerous than human nature. Here's your ticket for a cruise to the Caribbean — with danger at every turn — as the audio version of Hurricane sweeps you away. *International Book Awards finalist for Best Group Performance 2012

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  The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

  Washington Irving

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  The quiet Dutch community of Sleepy Hollow lay in the Adirondack mountains on the western shore of the mighty Hudson River in America’s colonial period. The solitude of the woods was breathtaking, and not even a schoolmaster was immune from the eerie miasma which everyone knew permeated the dense forest. 
  Written in 1820, Washington Irving’s The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow has become a classic of American literature, and has been retold in many different ways. Here is the original, from Irving’s own hand.

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