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  The Trumpet Major

  Thomas Hardy

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  "The Trumpet Major" is a rich tapestry of love and war, set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars. John Loveday, the trumpet major, finds himself entwined in a heartrending love triangle with his brother Robert and the enchanting Anne Garland. Amidst the looming threat of invasion and the tumult of military life, the personal dramas of Hardy's characters unfold, capturing the essence of human resilience and the complexities of love. This novel stands as a testament to the fleeting moments of joy and the enduring spirit of hope in times of uncertainty.

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  Secrets of Rose Briar Hall

  Kelsey James

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  1908, Long Island: For Millie Turner, the young and beautiful wife of a powerful New York stockbroker, Rose Briar Hall—a gleaming edifice of white marble on the North Shore—is more than a home. Every lavish detail speaks of Charles Turner’s status and wealth, and its stylish interior is testament to Millie's sophistication. All that’s left is to prove her worthiness to be his bride. What better way than to throw a grand party for New York’s social elite? 
   
   
   
  After painstaking planning, the night of the event arrives and all is perfection—until Millie wakes to a cold, eerily quiet house, and a gray cloud where her memory should be. Can it be true that she has been in and out of consciousness for weeks, ever since the party took a terrifying turn? Millie recalls nothing. But her friends have shunned her, and it soon becomes clear that if she can't find out what really happened that night, much more than her reputation will be at risk . . . 
   
   
   
  As the house that promised so much happiness begins to feel more like a prison, Millie wonders whether a woman alone, even a wealthy one, can ever be entirely safe. And if she succeeds in finding the truth, will it bring relief, or shake her marriage, and her life, to the core?

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  Gunner's Island

  RR Holzhauer

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  Gunner’s Island is a post-war novel that will engage dog lovers, military veterans, history enthusiasts, and undoubtedly anyone who is all three. Set in the small town on a tiny Canadian maritime island, the story unfolds with the return of World War II pilot Linus, following a plane crash that left him irrevocably altered. Linus is grappling with PTSD and acclimation back into civilian life, when he is mysteriously befriended by Gunner, a full grown and affable Newfoundland dog.
   
  With a wide array of detailed characters and scenes that jump between flashbacks and present life, Gunner’s Island is both a drama and comedy. It is earnest yet jocular, weighty yet 
  wholesome, and meant to set sail the reader into the story as effortlessly as its northern ocean waves.

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  The Duke's Secret Heir

  Sarah Mallory

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  A wary wife can’t resist her own husband in this compelling Regency romance from the award-winning author of The Chaperone’s Seduction. 
   
  “This, madam, changes everything.” 
   
  Years ago, in the Egyptian desert, Ellen Tatham fell wildly in love and exchanged vows with Max Colnebrooke. But, when made to believe Max could not be trusted, she fled . . .  
   
  Now, Max is back in England to take up the reins as Duke of Rossenhall. And when he spies Ellen at a ball, the sparks are hard to contain. Little does Max know, though, that Ellen has a secret . . . And soon, he must learn to embrace an unexpected heir, and an unexpected—and disconcertingly defiant—duchess! 
   
  “Well-written . . . an entertaining, angsty read, and one that should appeal to those who enjoy second-chance romances.” —All About Romance

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  Top 10 Short Stories The -...

  Nikolai Gogol, James Joyce,...

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  Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart.  A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. 
   
  In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?  
   
  The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme.  Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. 
   
  Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made.  If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. 
   
  Human beings are, in the main, social animals, they like to gather, to herd together, to share experiences.  But some do not.  Either through choice or exclusion their way forward is difficult.  In this volume our authors and their characters share their stories. 
   
   
  1 - The Top 10 Short Stories - Loneliness An Introduction 
  2 - The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol also known as 'The Cloak' 
  3 - A Painful Case by James Joyce 
  4 - Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfield 
  5 - Vanka by Anton Chekhov 
  6 - The Outsider by H P Lovecraft 
  7 - Morphine by Mikhail Bulgakov 
  8 - Witch's Loaves by O Henry 
  9 - Hands by Sherwood Anderson 
  10 - Her Lover by Maxim Gorky 
  11 - A New England Nun by Mary E Wilkins Freeman

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  Arnold Bennett - A Short Story...

  Arnold Bennett

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  Arnold Bennett was born in 1867 in Hanley one of the six towns that formed the Potteries that later joined together to become Stoke on Trent; the area in which most of his works are located. For a short time he worked for his solicitor father before realising that to advance his life he would need to become his own man. Moving to London at twenty-one he obtained work as a solicitor’s clerk and gradually moved into a career of journalism. At the turn of the century he turned full time to writing and shortly thereafter in 1903 he moved to Paris and in 1908 published to great acclaim The Old Wives Tale. With this his reputation was set. Clayhanger and The Old Wives Tale are perhaps his greatest and most lauded novels.  
   
  1 - Arnold Bennett - An Introduction 
  2 - Mimi by Arnold Bennett 
  3 - The Supreme Illusion by Arnold Bennett 
  4 - A Letter Home by Arnold Bennett 
  5 - The Letter and the Lie by Arnold Bennett 
  6 - The Ghost of Lord Clarenceux by Arnold Bennett 
  7 - Phantom by Arnold Bennett

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