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  The Latchkey Kid

  Helen Forrester

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  Timeless family drama from the best-selling author of Tuppence to Cross the Mersey. With over 3 million copies sold around the world, Helen Forrester’s gripping fiction continues to move readers. 
  Olga Stych has focused all of her efforts on climbing to the top of the social pyramid, letting her son Hank fall by the wayside as she rose. 
  As she works to retain her position, her strained relationship with Hank will prove a threat. When he writes a sensational book that causes a stir in his mother’s circles, it’s only a matter of time before Olga’s secrets are revealed. 
  Is status all that matters to Olga? Or will she finally realise what it has cost her? 
  In The Latchkey Kid, Helen Forrester presents a gripping historical saga that delves into the life of Olga Stych, a woman obsessed with social status. As her son Hank's sensational book threatens to reveal her secrets, Olga must confront the true cost of her ambition. 
  For fans of Katie Flynn (First Love, Last Love), Maureen Lee (Flora and Grace), Rosie Goodwin (The Winter Promise), Sheila Newberry (The Canal Boat Girl), and Shirley Dickson (Our Last Goodbye). 
  HarperCollins 2022

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  The Man Who Did Not Believe in...

  Jerome K. Jerome

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  Jerome Klapka Jerome was born on the 2nd May 1859 at Belsize House in Caldmore, Walsall, England. 
  His family were reduced to poverty whilst he was a toddler owning to failed investments in the local mining industry. 
  After several moves in declining circumstances Jerome became a pupil at St Marylebone Grammar School.  His aim then was to go into politics, or even become a man of letters, but with the death of his father, when he was thirteen, and his mother two years later, now meant that he had to support himself and leave all thoughts of education behind. 
  He spent four years working for the London and North Western Railway, initially collecting coal that fell along the railway lines.  Thereafter, using the name Harold Crichton, he tried his hand at acting but the repertory company he joined was stretched in its resources and, at times, relied on the actors to purchase their own props and costumes.  After three years he tried journalism, teaching and work as a solicitor’s clerk.  All came to nothing.  Finally, in 1885, he had some success with ‘On the Stage―and Off’, a comic memoir collection of his stage experiences and his early attempts at acting.  
  Shortly thereafter he married and his honeymoon on the Thames became the inspiration for ‘Three Men in a Boat’.  This of course was a wild success, both critically and commercially, but also his creative high point.  
  Although he was now able to write full time, he was never able to attain all the heights of that classic humorous novel.  He remained a prolific writer of novels, plays and short stories and its from those classic works that these stories have been mined. 
  Jerome K Jerome died in Northampton General Hospital on the 14th June 1927 two weeks after suffering a paralytic stroke and a cerebral haemorrhage on a motoring tour.  He was 68.

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  A Man and Some Others

  Stephen Crane

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  Stephen Crane (November 1, 1871 - June 5, 1900) was an American novelist, poet and journalist. He was born in Newark, NJ. Crane is noted for his early employment of naturalism, a literary style in which characters face realistically portrayed and often bleak circumstances, but Crane added impressionistic imagery and biblical symbolism to the austere realism.

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  The Album

  Anton Chekhov

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  Anton Chekhov has begun his literature career in the 1880s. First he deprecated turning a person into slave. Later he began to make higher demands to his characters and to blame not only their environment, but also themselves for losing their dignity and for enslavement and abjection."The Album" is a story of an official being congratulated on his jubilee and becoming an album with portraits of his colleagues as a gift. Touched to the depth of his soul he comes home to get warm and loving congratulations there, but as the album that he has just highly valued was taken by kids, his attitude weirdly changes, but the reasons thereof are left to us entirely. "The Album" will definitely set you thinking and probably check your own behavior and even thoughts as well.A SmartTouch Media production.

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  Polly the Pelican's Fishing Frenzy

  Kelly Johnson

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  "Polly the Pelican's Fishing Frenzy" by Kelly Johnson follows Polly, a determined pelican renowned for her fishing prowess along Seaside Bay. With her friends Sammy the Seahorse, Bella the Dolphin, and Ollie the Otter, Polly embarks on a quest fueled by curiosity and camaraderie to catch legendary silver fish. Their journey through the bay's depths tests their skills and bonds, culminating in a triumphant catch that solidifies their friendship and inspires others with tales of courage and unity. This heartwarming story celebrates the joy of adventure, the beauty of nature, and the enduring power of friendship.

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  The Happy Prince

  Oscar Wilde

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  The story of "The Happy Prince" has three major themes.
  Firstly it shows that apparent beauty is nothing and the real beauty is to bestow love and sacrifice. Secondly, it discusses that love and sacrifice are two saving forces. Thirdly, it shows that there is a large gap between rich and poor people the rulers and the masses. When the happy prince is alive he lives a happy life without sorrows, he is living a care free life but after his death he sees through a tall Colum that life has another view except happiness and that is helplessness poverty, hypocrisy and corruption of elite and ruling class.
  When a bird swallow comes and stays under the feet of prince he begs for his helps match girl, poor writer…
  The Happy Prince " has been written in fairy tale mode through which he has exposed the exploitation, materialism and corruption of Victorian society. 
  The Happy Prince is social satire prudence says that "the truepurpose of satire is the modification of vices by correction".
  It was first published in 1888 in the anthology The Happy Prince and Other Tales, which, in addition to its title story, also includes "The Nightingale and the Rose", "The Devoted Friend",   "The Selfish Giant" and "The Remarkable Rocket".

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