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  The Open Boat

  Stephen Crane

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  As a well-paid war correspondent, Crane was shipwrecked en route to Cuba in early 1897. 
  He and a small party of passengers spent 30 hours adrift off the coast of Florida, an experience which Crane would later transform into his most famous short story, The Open Boat, in 1898. 
  (P)2007 Listen and Live Audio, Inc.

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  Mumu - Turgenev brilliantly...

  Ivan Turgenev

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  Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was born on 9th November 1818 in Oryol, Russia to parents from the nobility.  He and his two brothers were raised by their mother on the family estate.  Surrounded by foreign governesses he became fluent in French, German, and English.  Their father spent little time with them and this undoubtedly had an effect on him and his brothers.  When he was nine the family moved to Moscow to give their children a better education. 
   
  Turgenev studied for a year at the University of Moscow and then at the University of St Petersburg to study Classics, Russian literature, and philology.  During that time his father died from kidney stone disease.  In 1838 Turgenev studied philosophy and history at the University of Berlin for 3 years before returning to St Petersburg for his master's. 
   
  He started his career with the Russian Civil Service and it was only in 1852, after several earlier publications, that he made his name with his short story collection, ‘A Sportsman's Sketches’, based on his observations of peasant life and nature. 
    
  That same year he wrote an obituary for Nikolai Gogol: "Gogol is dead!... What Russian heart is not shaken by those three words?... He is gone, that man whom we now have the right (the bitter right, given to us by death) to call great."  The St Petersburg censor banned publication but the Moscow censor allowed it.  He was dismissed but Turgenev was held responsible and imprisoned for a month, and then exiled to his country estate.  
   
  Along with many other intellectuals Turgenev left Russia and settled in Paris in 1854.  During this period he wrote his finest stories and four novels.  
   
  Alexander II ascended the Russian throne in 1855, and the political climate relaxed.  Turgenev returned home.  
   
  ‘Fathers and Sons’, Turgenev's most famous and enduring novel, appeared in 1862. Its leading character is considered the first ‘Bolshevik’ in Russian literature. But the hostile reaction prompted Turgenev's decision to again leave Russia.  
   
  His health declined during his later years.  In January 1883, an aggressive malignant tumor was removed but by then it had metastasized in his upper spinal cord, causing him intense pain in his final few months of life.  
   
  Ivan Turgenev died on 3rd September 1883 of a spinal abscess, a complication of the metastatic liposarcoma, in his house near Paris.  He was buried in St Petersburg.  
   
  In Mumu, Turgenev hauntingly tells the story of a Gerasim, a six foot five deaf mute with the menial job of yard-porter who is ostracized by all those around him.  A dog, Mumu, becomes his only true and faithful friend.  One day he is given a dreadful and agonizing choice.

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  Silent Refrain

  K. MacCabe

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  The war is now a storm long past, but the scars still linger, and they are deep. Sophia Trotsky has arrived to give an interview for a documentary on The Great War, where the memories hit as hard as the battles. However, the courage to face the memories once more comes from a chance encounter with a reflection of the tattered soul within.

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  Our Strangers - stories

  Lydia Davis

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  From one of the most accomplished writers of our time comes another brilliant collection of short fiction. Artful, deft, and inventive; Lydia Davis’ newest collection of stories delves into topics ranging from marriage to tiny insects. These stories are a celebration of language and careful observation that once again confirms Davis’ sincere love and mastery of the form. 
  Only available at independent bookstores and libraries, by request of the author.

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  Soulcatcher - And Other Stories

  Charles Johnson

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  Short stories inspired by the history of slavery in America, by the National Book Award–winning author of Middle Passage. Nothing has had as profound an effect on American life as slavery. For blacks and whites alike, the experience has left us with a conflicted and contradictory history. Now, famed novelist Charles Johnson, whose Middle Passage won the National Book Award, presents a dozen tales of the effects and experience of slavery, each based on historical fact, and each about those Africans who arrived on our shores in shackles. From Martha Washington’s management of her slaves, bequeathed to her at the death of the first president, to a boy chained in the bowels of a ship plying the infamous passage from Africa to the South laden with human cargo, from a lynching in Indiana to a hunter of escaped slaves searching the Boston market for his quarry, from an early Quaker meeting exploring resettlement in Africa to the day after Emancipation—the voices, terrors, and savagery of slavery come vividly and unforgettably to life. “[These] highly detailed short historical fictions bring to life this most shameful period in our nation’s history.” —The New York Times Book Review

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  Ghosts of You - Do You Love Me?...

  Hani'Machi -

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  Mix it up love and hate.  
  Why don't you choose one? So I can find my self-worth. 
  "To those on hands and nails against guilt." 
  Inah is fighting against ghosts she couldn't win without.  
  "Four wicked sisters and a pair of lonesome shoulders leave…" 
  Can she resurfaced on the murky water of past and guilt, and the hunting motion? 
  "...the black lake which reminds her the smell of tube color mixed in water…" 
  Will she let go of the red hand of destiny or hold on? 
  ASIAN Publisher comments:This book is not what you think it is. This is not another ghost story nor a crime story. It is love and hate mixed up between sisters! My fingers are curling and my heart is breaking! This is the best book you can buy today. It offers a compact, short story without missing all the juicy details.A book for all ages. 'Entertainment and escapism' into a world dark blue-lit guilt and scratching of brown ground in heap to the lake, but gloom with real and dripping tangibleness. Raw feeling of need yearning through the cracks of each characters' hearts.Every turn there's a heart-wrenching drama, twisting and turning and churning the reader's heart.Do away with common sisters or sibling rivalry book. Delve deeper into the starking reality of a complicated human relationship.The author says in the end; all answer is in the book...now, think.It's kinda like a puzzle being put together. Not like any sisters drama, nobody gets to be the queen.  
  Get your copy of this audiobook today and dive right into this gripping, immersive masterpiece!

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