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  How Santa Claus Came to...

  Bret Harte

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  Originally published in Harte's 1875 short-story collection The Tales of the Argonauts, How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar is set in California in the early 1860s and, like the rest of the tales in that collection, features the gold-seeking Argonauts. In this tale, like many of Harte's others, the folly and grit of human existence balance any good intentions, good cheer, or hope, resulting in a more complicated and somewhat bleak ending than is commonly found in most Christmas tales. This recording of How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar was recorded as part of Dreamscape's Classic Christmas Stories: A Collection of Timeless Holiday Tales.

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  The Ghost at the Rath by Rosa...

  Rosa Mulholland

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  Rosa Mulholland was born in Belfast on 19th March 1841.  
   
  She originally wished to become a painter but turned to literary pursuits and attempted to publish her first book at 15. Charles Dickens, who took an early interest in her work, did much to encourage and help her during his lifetime including publishing many of her works in his magazine ‘All the Year Round’. 
   
  Her early years in the remote and mountainous west of Ireland helped her gather backdrops, landscapes and characters that would be put to great use later in her career.    
   
  Mulholland was a keen poet and was published in magazines and journals as well as in book form. She was also a devout Catholic and prominent in literacy circles. 
   
  In May 1891 she married John Thomas Gilbert in Dublin.  He was a Dublin antiquarian and historian, who authored the ‘History of the City of Dublin’, and edited several other important standard works. With his knighthood in 1897 Rosa became Lady Gilbert. 
   
  Mulholland was a prolific and well-received writer during her career. Her early works tend to show women yearning for careers and lifestyles that at that point society would not accept and she was careful not to overstep those boundaries.  In her later years much of her fiction was embedded with independent, strong-willed female heroines. 
   
  Rosa Mulholland died on 21st April 1921 in Dublin, Ireland. 
   
  One of Mulholland’s most popular short stories is ‘The Ghost at the Rath’. An inherited house is not as welcoming as one hoped it would be.

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  Learn to Read - Learn English...

  Christian Stahl

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  Would you like to improve your English listening skills? This audiobook enables you to expand your English vocabulary and your listening capabilities in a fun and easy way. This audiobook includes 100 English short stories suitable for beginners and intermediate learners.  
  The stories are funny, captivating, and easy to understand, and you be able to learn how British English is used.  
  The English stories contain loads of dialogue so you can get a grasp of how people from Britain speak English on a daily basis. All the English stories are clearly explained in audio. This English language audiobook offers you a wide range of culturally important information you can use when you travel to the United Kingdom or study there, and frankly, this book is not only for English language learners but also for anyone interested in British culture in general. 
  This English learning audiobook will educate as well as entertain you, so get your copy now!

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  Family Affair Shorts A: Heartbreak

  Mary Campisi

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  The story before the story… 
  What happened before A Family Affair began? Bestselling author Mary Campisi answers this question in her new Park Bench series. These short stories make the perfect park-bench read, and are named after her signature park bench covers. 
  In A Family Affair Shorts: Heartbreak, Book Four, Gloria finally decides to confront her suspicions that Charles has been having an affair and hires a private investigator. It is one thing to suspect, but what she discovers is so much more than a simple affair. And for those who remember Gloria’s ability to exact revenge, you won’t want to miss this! 
  Note: These stories are intended for those who’ve read A Family Affair, Book One in the Truth in Lies series, and provide an in-depth look into the lives of the characters readers love to love—even a few they love to hate. Don’t miss these compelling collections! 
  Park Bench series: 
  Book One: A Family Affair Shorts: Destiny 
  Book Two: A Family Affair Shorts: Regret 
  Book Three: A Family Affair Shorts: Love 
  Book Four: A Family Affair Shorts: Heartbreak 
  Book Five: A Family Affair Shorts: Peace

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  Christmas Al Dente

  Jennifer L. Hart

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  'Tis the season for pasta and mayhem. 
  Andy Buckland is determined that nothing will interrupt her first Christmas with Malcolm Jones and her last holiday spent in her childhood home. When the family recipe book disappears from the Bowtie Angel, and Aunt Cecily threatens to put "The Eye" on the entire population of Beaverton if it isn't returned, Andy and Jones decide to put the eggnog on hold for a little old fashioned sleuthing. But as one secret leads to another and rumors are served up along with hot buttered penne, Andy can't shake the suspicion that her life is about to change forever.

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  My Adventure in Jermyn Street

  A. J. Alan

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  The narrator receives a mysterious envelope in the post containing a single theatre ticket for that evening. There is no note or return address, and he has no idea who could have sent it. When he attends the performance, in the third act a mysterious lady takes the seat next to him and asks him to come with her to see her brother George after the performance. They are whisked away by car to a sinister upper floor apartment in Jermyn Street, where the affair becomes more and more enigmatic.

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