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  Top 10 Short Stories The -...

  Lafcadio Hearn

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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. 
   
  In this volume we examine one of the great names from the past whose works invite life, rituals and the spirit world together to fashion dramatic and chilling unforeseen happenings. 
   
   
  1 - The Top 10 Short Stories - Lafcadio Hearn - An Introduction 
  2 - The Ghostly Kiss by Lafcadio Hearn 
  3 - L'Amour Apres La Mort by Lafcadio Hearn 
  4 - The Undying One by Lafcadio Hearn 
  5 - Stranger Than Fiction by Lafcadio Hearn 
  6 - Diplomacy by Lafcadio Hearn 
  7 - Before the Supreme Court by Lafcadio Hearn 
  8 - Of A Promise Broken by Lafcadio Hearn 
  9 - A Dead Secret by Lafcadio Hearn 
  10 - The Corpse Rider by Lafcadio Hearn 
  11 - The Vision of the Dead Creole by Lafcadio Hearn

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  The Lost Girl - The...

  Rosie Goodwin

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  1875With their father missing and their mother suddenly passing, Esme and Gabriel are forced to track down their estranged grandfather in Lincolnshire. Cold and unwelcoming, he is reluctant to take them in, but aware of his standing as the village vicar, he knows must protect his reputation, and allow the children to stay with him.Esme's relief at finding refuge soon turns to despair when Gabriel is sent to boarding school, leaving her alone in their grandfather's unhappy home. But the house isn't as empty as it first appeared and Esme, with her unusual gift of being able to see spirits, begins to encounter the ghosts of young women in the abandoned rooms and dark corridors of the rectory. The women are trapped between this world and the next, seeking help from Esme and leaving her with a mystery to solve if she is to stand a chance of establishing a peaceful, happy life. Can Esme lay the ghosts to rest to save herself and find the life she deserves?

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  The Happy Valley

  Benjamin Harnett

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  In this kaleidoscopic voyage through the past, present, and future of the United States, a young girl uncovers a secret society, a middle-aged man searches for his lost first love, a group of teens invent a role-playing game, protests threaten to topple the government, and an eccentric lawyer and his young Vietnamese protégée re-open a dormant case. 
  This atmospheric tale, at turns gothic, poetic, cerebral, and funny, ranges from rural Upstate New York to the far reaches of the Zebulon Galaxy; from the 1700s to the 4th decade of the 21st century. Includes 66 full-page b&w illustrations by the author, maps, an Appendix with a Timeline, and a Reading Group Guide. 
  “One of the most intriguing, beguiling, and thought-provoking books I read this year.” 
  —Diana Spencer, author of Varro’ s Guide to Being Roman 
  “Fabulous and engaging ... richly creative!”   
  —Glenda Burgess, award-winning author of So Long As We ’ re Together 
  In a near-future America, on the eve of revolution, a message pops up on a screen, “Can you help me?”­—then it, and its sender, June, disappear. 
  June’s disappearance prompts a visit back to the narrator’s rural, Upstate New York hometown, and a reconstruction of their shared past in the early 90s, when he and his group of friends created their own roleplaying adventure in a clubhouse on a dilapidating farm. 
  It was June’s entry into their group that made all their game-playing real, and embroiled the teens in a great mystery, starting with the strange, serpent-headed key that flashed gold on custodian Clyde Duane’s copious key ring, and spiraled outward—connecting their town’s hidden past to a movement that could change everything about the way we live. 
  Populated by a fantastic cast of characters, this captivating book stands at the intersection of philosophy and adventure.

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  Cristina of Aspen Aisle

  Andrew Case

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  One day, Will Millhouse, an ordinary, lonesome bachelor, encounters a young girl who claims to be his daughter from the future. Should he believe her? Cristina of Aspen Aisle is a mystery, a frontier adventure, and a love story that reminds us of the echoing beauty and joy all around us, if we are willing to see with new eyes. 
    
  "It's exactly the kind of book I would love to read but is impossible to find. I suppose I feel...giddy, agape, aglow, awakened to fresh awareness 'that I too am a man in love.' It has all the freshness of a first novel but none of the flaws. I'm in awe of the mastery of plot, suspense, timing, tone: all such delicate matters yet handled with perfect pitch. Case has really learned well from L.M. Montgomery, and indeed improved upon her in that his writing is so brilliantly and unabashedly God-struck. And the clarity of the prose: all the way through there's nary a misstep in sentence structure, rhythm, dialogue, etc. The writing never gets in the way of itself, and this alone is no small feat." 
  —MIKE MASON, best-selling author of The Mystery of Marriage and Same Old, Same New

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  Wolves of Wagria

  Eric Schumacher

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  For fans of Bernard Cornwell and Conn Iggulden comes the tale of Olaf Tryggvason and his adventures in the battle-scarred kingdom of Wagria. 
   
   
   
  It is AD 972. Olaf Tryggvason and his oath-sworn protector, Torgil, are once again on the move. They have left the Rus kingdom and now travel the Baltic Sea in search of plunder and fame. But a fateful storm lands them on the Vendish coastline in a kingdom called Wagria (present-day Holstein). 
   
   
   
  There, they find themselves caught between the aggression of the Danes, the political aspirations of the Wagrian lords, and the shifting politics in Saxland. Can they survive or will they become just one more casualty of kingly ambitions? Find out in this harrowing sequel to the bestselling Forged by Iron and Sigurd's Swords.

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  America falls but - Casey's Journey

  Carolynne Wilson

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  In a future where democracy has fallen and the Crumpt dynasty rules America as a hereditary empire, truth is the most dangerous weapon of all. Behind fortified city walls, the elite Calberras control science, power, and life itself. Beyond them, the rest of the nation struggles to survive in the ruins of what once was freedom. 
  Casey, a gifted young scientist, inherits a legacy tainted by secrets. Her great-grandmother, Martha Hemingway, gave birth at eighty after developing a groundbreaking anti-aging formula, a discovery now twisted by those in power. Working under the regime’s control, Casey uncovers fragments of her family’s hidden research, exposing a truth that could either restore hope or destroy what’s left of humanity. 
  As she risks everything to expose the deception that built a fallen nation, Casey must decide whether to protect her family or ignite a revolution that could change the course of history.

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