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  Lucky Breaks

  Yevgenia Belorusets

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  Powerful, off-beat stories about women living in the shadow of the now-frozen, now-thawing war in UkraineOut of the impoverished coal regions of Ukraine known as the Donbass, where Russian secret military intervention coexists with banditry and insurgency, the women of Yevgenia Belorusets's captivating collection of stories emerge from the ruins of a war, still being waged on and off, ever since the 2014 Revolution of Dignity. Through a series of unexpected encounters, we are pulled into the ordinary lives of these anonymous women: a florist, a cosmetologist, card players, readers of horoscopes, the unemployed, and a witch who catches newborns with a mitt. One refugee tries unsuccessfully to leave her broken umbrella behind as if it were a sick relative; a private caregiver in a disputed zone saves her elderly charge from the angel of death; a woman sits down on International Women's Day and can no longer stand up; a soldier decides to marry war. Belorusets threads these tales of ebullient survival with a mix of humor, verisimilitude, the undramatic, and a profound Gogolian irony.

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  Western Spring Weddings

  Lauri Robinson, Kathryn...

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  This historical Western romance anthology features three short tales of ranchers, cowgirls, and wedding bells! 
   
  The City Girl and the Rancher by Lynna Banning 
   
  Penniless, Clarissa Seaforth leaps at gruff rancher Graydon Harris’s offer to become his cook. She’s never cared for a man before, but surely it can’t be hard to learn . . . 
   
  His Springtime Bride by Kathryn Albright 
   
  Spring is in the air . . . Can rancher Gabe Coulter and Riley Rawlins, the boss’s daughter, find forgiveness and renew the lovers’ vows they made so long ago? 
   
  When a Cowboy Says I Do by Lauri Robinson 
   
  Dal Roberts must make his sister’s wedding a success, which means accompanying seamstress Ellie to Wichita. Could there be a double wedding on the horizon . . . ?

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  Something In It

  R. L. Stevenson

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  Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet and writer.  There was a bay upon the island, but the native said that it was the death to bathe there. The missionary heard many tales from natives. He was aware of a house raised on piles above the sea that was built of yellow reeds.The natives warned him that there is something strange in this house and he should avoid it. “There is nothing in that,” said the missionary; and he came to the bay, and went swimming. Strong wind took him and bored towards the reef. He swam harder, but the wind carried him away. He had never seen such house. It was a fine house, but there was no man there, and when the missionary looked back he saw no island, only the heaving of the sea.A SmartTouch Media production.

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  Short Story Collection Vol 025

  Various Various

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  LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 025: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.

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  One Thousand Dollars A Day -...

  Adeline Knapp

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  Adeline Knapp's One Thousand Dollars A Day is a collection of short stories which lay bare the dynamic quirks and nuances of the economic cycle. 
  Originally published in 1894, the parables have remained timeless, and prove to be just as relevant to today's modern economics.

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  Presentiments

  P. C. Wren

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  Percival Christopher Wren (1875-1941) was an English writer of adventure fiction mostly dealing with colonial soldiering in Africa. He is remembered best for Beau Geste, a much filmed book of 1924, involving the French Foreign Legion in North Africa. 
  "Presentiments" is the story of a legionnaire who knows he will be killed the following day but does not want to die without telling somebody about a set of terrible events which occurred in his childhood and which have overshadowed his life.

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