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  Fun Is Where You Make It -...

  Betty McGillivray

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  Need a good laugh? Then grab a cup of tea and dive into this collection of humorous short stories. Betty McGillivray, a retired teacher, will entertain you with her quirky interactions in and out of the classroom. Adventures such as tipping canoes, police pranksters, creating the perfect pie for a curling bonspiel, or avoiding jury duty, bears, and tornados — told in a way that will make you feel like you are chatting with a friend. 

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  The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  A baby born old. A life that moves backward. A destiny no one could ever understand.
  When Benjamin Button enters the world as a seventy-year-old man, his bewildered parents have no idea how to raise a child who grows younger with each passing year. As Benjamin moves in reverse through love, ambition, and heartbreak, he faces a world that cannot accept what it cannot explain—and discovers that time itself can be both gift and curse.
  
  Praised as "one of Fitzgerald's most imaginative and unforgettable stories," this classic blends humor, melancholy, and quiet wonder into a tale that explores identity, aging, and the fragile beauty of human connection.
  
  If you enjoy thought-provoking storytelling, emotional depth, and a poignant twist on life's journey, this timeless short story will stay with you long after you finish it.
  
  Open the pages—and witness a life lived backward, one extraordinary moment at a time.

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  Londonia

  Kate A. Hardy

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  "Enchanting . . . Hardy's almost hopeful view of the world's inevitably chaotic future lifts this entertaining and well-told tale." 	Publisher's weekly 
  "Londonia fizzes with boisterous humour and quirky invention . . . the tale also helps to think through what really matters in life and perhaps to learn a lesson or two from our own current predicament." 		Hackney Citizen 
  Londonia, that’s where we are. A sprawl of a place surrounding The Cincture - all of it once London town. Some people say we’re in the year 2073, others cycle 60 . . . who gives a creepin’ beetle where we are in the history of man. Messed it up good and proper didn’t we – they, humankind generally. All I know is I got my shed, my friends and a little bit of an angle on stuff – visions, see inside persons, y’know.Anyway, ain’t about me so much this book, more about Hoxton and her life. Within half a clockface I knew she was different . . . not so many damefolk would take over a church after waking on a bench with not so much as a gnat’s knowledge of what happened in their life before that moment. Got it sorted she has: a finder’s life for her – whatever you want: coffee, a shootstick, fresh meat, Zeitporn, snash, gnole . . . her ‘an Jarvis, they’ll find it – for a goodly trade, of course. 
  All sorted until a jaunt into The Cincture caused her to learn something that opened up a chink into the past: something that started the ultimate finding mission. Anyway, I’m getting ahead of meself here. Pull up that armchair to the fire. I’ll put the kettle on if the waterman’s been. Jake’s the name – Jake the prophet.

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  The Nearly Dearly Departed Club

  Anônimo

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  Meet The Nearly Dearly Departed Club. Four random strangers thrown together with only one thing in common. They’re all dead. 
   
  Or maybe not … 
   
  When teenager Benji Hammerton goes worryingly quiet, his parents turn to the one person who might be able to help - Agatha Pleasant, an ageing government agent who operates largely in the shadows. As luck would have it, Agatha has a batch of new recruits at her disposal. Untapped potential desperately in need of work experience. 
   
   
  Her Nearly Dearly Departed Club. 
   
  Their search takes them to Stainmouth, a bleak town with little to offer except bitter winds and a toxic atmosphere. With a life hanging in the balance, they hunt tirelessly for the missing boy. As tensions mount, and the risks start to outweigh the rewards, the team question their involvement. Their purpose. Their future. Is any of it really worth dying for? 
   
  Especially when you’re dead already… 
   
  The Nearly Dearly Departed Club is the first instalment in the unputdowanble crime thriller series from Anthony Grace.

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  Sunday Best: Travels through the...

  Daniel Gray

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  An evocative celebration of the seventh day in all its rich variety 
  Closed shops and roast dinners. Bulky newspapers and the hum of lawnmowers. Strolls to nowhere in particular and visiting snoozing grandparents. Television theme tunes cueing bath time and a sudden dread of the looming week ahead… 
  Through an assortment of rituals and activities, Sundays came to be the unique day in our week – whether tedious, pleasant or somewhere in-between. But have they changed over time? Has anything interesting ever happened on a Sunday? Have we forgotten how to do Sunday? And, in our rushed modern lives, should we now try to recapture that distinctive, unhurried Sunday feel? 
  Offering answers to those questions and more through a mix of travelogue and social history, Sunday Best entertainingly charts the story of what author Daniel Gray argues is the People’s Day. Told through Sundays whiled away in places from the Hebrides to Hyde Park – via Sunderland, Scarborough, the Peak District and beyond – Gray’s latest book is a charming journey in time and place. 
  In Sunday Best, Daniel Gray takes us on a nostalgic journey, exploring the essence of Sundays through a blend of memoirs, essays, and humour. This literary non-fiction is a top pick for those seeking to recapture the unhurried feel of the People's Day. 
  For fans of Nige Tassell (Searching for Dexys Midnight Runners), Jon Spurling (Get It On), Giles Tremlett (The International Brigades), Jonathan Wilson (Kick and Run), and Gavin Bell (In Search of Tusitala). 
  HarperCollins 2025

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  Mona of the Manor - A Novel

  Armistead Maupin

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  Narrated by Mara Wilson 
  Set in the early 1990s, the long-awaited tenth novel in Armistead Maupin’s beloved and enduring Tales of the City series follows the adventures of Mona Ramsey, now the widowed Lady of a glorious old manor in Britain’s golden Cotswolds, and her fabulous adopted son Wilfred, as they come to the aid of an American visitor with a troubling secret. 
  When Mona Ramsey married Lord Teddy Roughton to secure his visa—allowing him to remain in San Francisco to fulfill his wildest dreams—she never imagined she would, by age 48, be the sole owner of Easley House, Teddy’s grand, romantic country manor in the UK. She also didn't imagine that she’d need to open the manor’s doors to paying guests to afford the electric bill and repair the leaking roof. Yet somehow she and her young friend Wilfred--whom guests assume is serving as Easley’s charming-but-clumsy butler--and the loopy old gardener Mr. Hargis, are making it work. 
  This delicate equilibrium is upended when Americans Rhonda and Ernie Blaylock arrive for a weekend vacation at Easley, and Wilfred stumbles onto their terrible secret. Now, instead of being able to focus on the imminent arrival of her old friend Michael Tolliver and beloved parent Anna Madrigal, Mona will need to focus all of her considerable charm, willpower, and wiles—and the help of Wilfred and Mona’s girlfriend Poppy, the town’s postmistress and local calligraphy whiz—to set things right before the Midsummer ceremony when the whole town will descend on Easley’s historic grounds.

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