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  The pursuit of Dangerous Dave’s...

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  A nameless protagonist travels to Old McDonalds Farm in order to find "Dangerous Dave's" legendairy treasure. However, is the treasure hunt real, or is the protagonist falling for a clever marketing ploy?

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  The Uber Chronicles - Mini...

  Rakesh Gambhir

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  In a collection of short tales inspired by his experiences, Gambhir reveals insight into his interactions with housewives, students, ex-cons, bootleggers, seekers, and healers pursuing side gigs in an economic revolution. From a Buddhist monk-in-training who drove an Uber to make ends meet while questioning the evils of materialism to a former circus daredevil seeking the infinite calm in Key West to a Somalian transplant relying on her faith to drive in treacherous weather, Gambhir’s stories delve beneath the surface of the mundane and the ordinary to provide a fresh look into the people, places, and cultures that comprise our big beautiful world. 
  The Uber Chronicles is a volume of bite-sized stories that highlight the wisdom and insight gathered from an Uber passenger’s short conversations with his drivers while en route.

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  A Fleet In Being

  Rudyard Kipling

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  Kipling became involved in the debate over the British response to the rise in German naval power known as the Tirpitz Plan to build a fleet to challenge the Royal Navy, publishing a series of articles in 1898 which were collected as "A Fleet in Being". And as always with Kipling there is that wonderful sardonic humor and attention to the lower orders of being.

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  Enter Stage Write - Stories to...

  Clyde Edgerton, Wiley Cash, Anne...

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  These fifteen original stories, donated by authors to help keep local theater alive, are fun, quirky, imaginative, and bold - the perfect way to tide over audiences until local stage curtains can once again rise! Each tale turns the spotlight on some unusual snapshot of life or imagination. Sales from this book, along with generous donations from others in the community, will help local theaters survive and eventually thrive despite this most unfortunate "intermission." With new shows - and the resumption of those shows forced to pause during the pandemic - casts and crews will be once again ready to entertain you, and to bring the laughter and applause back to our stages and our lives. Until then, sit back, let us entertain you, and know that your listen has made a big difference for local artists...while we all wait in the wings. Includes the following stories: Very, Very by Melissa Randall Stars of Stage and Screen by Joel Perry A Ring of Truth by K. Robert Campbell 8 Minutes, 20 Seconds by Josh Bailey John Willis Hostler by Skip Maloney Potty Stop Perils or The Trials and Tribulations of Public Restrooms by Charlotte Hackman The Sarpy County Incident by Kenneth Vest Emma’s Mission by Shawn C. Sproatt Smiles in Stormsville by Kim Henry Coppy by Gwenyfar Discovery by Eduard Schmidt-Zorner A Quiet, Decent Place by Anne Russell Grenadine, the Kudzu Queen by Wiley Cash Ace by Philip Gerard Arrival and Departure by Clyde Edgerton

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  Once We Sang Like Other Men

  John MacKenna

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  'I'm not an impulsive person. Twice in my life I've done impulsive things. The first time was when I packed a bag, walked out on my wife and kids, left my job and hit the road to follow the Captain. Goodbye was all she wrote.' These wide-ranging stories follow the disparate disciples of the Captain – a mysterious, powerful and magnetic figure whose violent and chaotic death at the hands of the army radically alters their lives in myriad ways. From rural North American farms and dive bars to the suburbs of Ireland and the sands of Palestine, we witness their struggles to find a place, a peace, in a world that is fractured and incomplete. Once We Sang Like Other Men is a surprising, mysterious, lyrical and affecting collection with a stunning range of voice from a recognised master of the form.

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  Excuse Me While I Disappear -...

  Joanna Scott

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  From a Pulitzer Prize finalist and "greatly gifted and highly original artist" comes a masterful collection of stories about the timeless universal struggle to connect (New York Times).Joanna Scott, the critically acclaimed author of ten novels and two collections, turns her “incandescent imagination” (Publishers Weekly) back to the craft of the short story, with breathtaking results. Ranging across history from the distant past to the future, Scott tours the many forms our stories can take, from cave wall paintings to radio banter to digitized archives, and the far-reaching consequences of our communications.In Venice in the Late Middle Ages, a painter's apprentice finds a way to make his mark on canvases that will survive for centuries. In the near future, after the literary canon has been preserved only on the cloud and then lost, a scholar tries to piece together a little-known school of writers committed to using actual paper. In present day New England, a radio host invites his electrician to stay for dinner, opening up new narrative possibilities for both men.Written in prose so naturally elegant, smooth, and precise that it becomes invisible, Excuse Me While I Disappear asks what remains of our stories—as individuals and civilizations—after we are gone.

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