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  Hungry - A Good Women Story

  Halle Hill

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  In her dynamic debut, Halle Hill’s Good Women delves into the lives of twelve Black women across the Appalachian South. 
   
  A woman boards a Greyhound bus barreling toward Florida to meet her sugar daddy’s mother; a state fair employee considers revenge on a local preacher; a sister struggles with guilt as she helps her brother plan to run away with a man he's seeing in secret; a young woman who works for a scam for-profit college navigates the lies she sells for a living. 
   
  Darkly funny and deeply human, Good Women observes how place, blood ties, generational trauma, obsession, and boundaries―or lack thereof―influence how we navigate our small worlds, and how those worlds so often collide in ways we don’t expect. Through intimate moments of personal choice, Hill carefully shines a light on how these twelve women shape and form themselves through faith and abandon, transgression and conformity, community, caution, and solitude. 
   
  With precision and empathy, Hill captures the mundane in moments of absurdity, and bears witness to both joy and heartbreak, reminding us how the next moment could be life-changing. Vibrant and exacting, Hill is a must-read new voice in literary fiction.

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  My Own Miraculous - A Short Story

  Joshilyn Jackson

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  A young mother must grow up fast to protect her savant son in this short story by the New York Times–bestselling author of Someone Else’s Love Story. 
   
  Shandi Pierce got pregnant when she was only seventeen years old. She instantly fell in love with her son Natty, but four years later she’s still more parented than parent. She lives with her mom, her dad pays her bills, and her best friend, Walcott, acts as her white knight. But Natty is no ordinary kid, and when his savant behavior catches the attention of an obsessive stranger, only Shandi sees the true menace. 
   
  To protect her boy, Shandi must figure out how a daughter with a son can remake herself into a true mother. In this e-original short story, Joshilyn Jackson returns to the world of Someone Else’s Love Story to give a fierce and funny character a standalone adventure of her own.

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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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  The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter

  Ambrose Bierce

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  Originally written by Adolphe Danziger De Castro in 1889, but based on an earlier German tale, this story was submitted to Ambrose Bierce for revision. He insisted on reinstating the tragic ending which De Castro had altered in order to cater for the tastes of the day. In reverting to the original plot, the story regains its full importance as a work of great literature. The young monk, Ambrosius, falls in love with the village outcast, Benedicta, who is the daughter of the hangman. The story is the tale of his struggle with himself, as he strives for religious purity against worldly and carnal temptation. When he is sent out into the wilderness to contemplate and finds that Benedicta is living close by, his struggle reaches a head. But Benedicta is in love with the Saltmaster's dashing son, Rochus. Ambrosius has to contend with his own jealousy, confusion and uncertainty as to God's real purpose for him. As one tragic event follow another, the young monk begins to lose his grip on reality... leading to a dramatic denouement which sends the reader reeling in shock. One of the great classics of its age.

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  The Murders in the Rue Morgue &...

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  Edgar Poe was born in Boston Massachusetts on 19th January 1809. His father abandoned his family the following year and within a year his mother had died leaving him an orphan.   
   
  He was taken in by the Allan family but never formally adopted although he now referred to himself as Edgar Allan Poe.  His father alternatively spoiled or chastised him and tension was frequent over gambling debts and monies for his education.  His university years to study ancient and modern languages was cut short by lack of money and he enlisted as a private in the army claiming he was 22, it is more probable he was 18. After 2 years he obtained a discharge in order to take up an appointment at the military academy, West Point, where he failed to become an officer. 
   
  Poe had released his 1st poetry volume in 1827 and after his 3rd turned to prose and placing short stories in several magazines and journals.  At age 26 he obtained a licence to marry his cousin.  She was a mere 13 but they stayed together until her death from tuberculosis 11 years after. 
   
  In January 1845 ‘The Raven’ was published and became an instant classic.  Thereafter followed the prose works for which he is now so rightly famed as a master of the mysterious and the macabre. 
   
  Edgar Allan Poe died at the tragically early age of 40 on 7th October 1849 in Baltimore, Maryland. Newspapers at the time reported Poe's death as ‘congestion of the brain’ or ‘cerebral inflammation’, common euphemisms for death from disreputable causes such as alcoholism but the actual cause of death remains a mystery. 
   
  Many authors have been cited as inventing the detective genre.  Perhaps the strongest claimant is the American Edgar Allan Poe.  His creation of the Parisian sleuth C. Auguste Dupin with his quite astounding analysis and deductive powers allied to Poe’s great imagination and wit create a literary tour de force. 
   
  Poe’s opening story ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’ met with phenomenal success and indeed is a still a favourite to this day.  From this came the sequel ‘The Mystery of Marie Rogêt’.  Together they create a strong and vibrant Parisian duo, a credit to Poe, Paris and, of course Dupin and a cast of unforgettable characters.

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  The Great Fairy Tale Collection...

  Andrew Lang, Maurice Baring,...

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  A fascinating collection of some of the great—but less well known—fairy tales of all time.  
  The Glass MenderThe Giant who had no HeartThe Gifts of the MagicianThe Miller, his Son and their AssPunchkinThe Enchanted KnifeThe MinstrelThe StonecutterThe ParrotThe Alligator and the JackalThe Stag at the PoolThe Cormorants of UdrostThe Three DogsThe Brahman, the Tiger and the Six JudgesThe PancakeEast of the Sun and West of the MoonThe Stag in the Ox StallThe Lad and the DevilThe Blue RoseThe Man who was going to Mind the HouseThe Golden MermaidThe Lads who met the Trolls in Hedale WoodsThe Curse of the Seven ChildrenThe FrogThe Blind Man, the Deaf Man and the DonkeyThe Cunning ApprenticeAn Old Fashioned Christmas EveThe Eagle and the JackdawThe Two FrogsThe Silver MountainThe Donkey SkinTit for TatThe Old Woman and the PhysicianThe Wise PrincessThe Bronze RingThe Princess who was hidden UndergroundMatthias the Hunter’s StoriesThe Language of AnimalsMercury and the WorkmenPeter Gynt

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