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  Code Noir - Fictions

  Canisia Lubrin, Christina Sharpe

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  "Code Noir is storytelling at its deepest and most intimate. These stories are magic and you must enter them as if you, too, are wondrous." —Dionne Brand, author of Nomenclature, Theory, and Map to the Door of No Return 
   
   
   
  Canisia Lubrin's debut fiction is that rare work of art—a brilliant, startlingly original book that combines immense literary and political force. Its structure, deceptively simple, is based on the infamous Code Noir, a set of real historical decrees originally passed in 1685 by King Louis XIV of France defining the conditions of slavery in the French colonial empire. The original code had fifty-nine articles; Code Noir has fifty-nine linked fictions—vivid, unforgettable, multilayered fragments filled with globe-wise characters who desire to live beyond the ruins of the past. 
   
   
   
  With a foreword by Christina Sharpe, Code Noir ranges in style from contemporary realism to dystopian literature, from futuristic fantasy to historical fiction. This inventive, shape-shifting braid of narratives exists far beyond the boundaries of an official decree.

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  Bone Broth - A Novel

  Lyndsey Ellis

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  Justine Holmes is a widow, former activist, and funeral thief, mourning her husband's death during the aftermath of the Ferguson unrest in St. Louis, Missouri. As family tensions deepen between Justine and her three grown children - a former Bay Area activist at odds with her hometown's customs, a social climbing realtor stifled by the loss of her only child, and a disillusioned politician struggling with his sexual identity, the matriarch is forced to face her grief head-on. By reconciling a past tied to her secret involvement in civil rights activism during the early 1970's in St. Louis, Justine quickly learns the more she attempts to make peace with her history, the more skeletons continue to rise to the surface.  
  Set in a struggling suburb of North St. Louis during the Ferguson unrest in 2014, Bone Broth delivers the touchstones of an inequitable society: violence, suppression, and the human capacity to continue in the face of extreme adversity.

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  A Problem Princess

  Anna Harrington

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  General Clayton Elliott, Home Office Undersecretary and new viscount, gets suspicious when London is too quiet. Everyone says that the anarchist group he's been fighting died along with its leader, but his instincts say just the opposite. Then he meets Her Serene Highness Princess Cordelia of Monrovia. Resigned to doing her duty for her country, she is in London to make a match with a royal duke—and as a royal princess, she has no say in which duke she'll marry. But when she is shockingly attacked at a party, Clayton becomes her bodyguard. Is there a connection between the evil group Scepter and whoever apparently wants the princess dead? The longer Clayton and Cordelia spend evading her enemies and pursuing their individual missions, the more they realize they can depend only on each other... This gorgeous, danger-filled Regency romance is one fans of Sarah MacLean, Elizabeth Hoyt, and Bridgerton won't want to miss!

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  The Lonely Island - The Refuge...

  R. M. Ballantyne

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  ased on the true story of the mutiny aboard HMS Bounty, this historical adventure follows Fletcher Christian and his fellow mutineers after they cast Captain Bligh adrift and flee in search of a place beyond the reach of British law. Seeking an island remote enough to escape discovery, they settle on the tiny, uncharted Pitcairn Island in the South Pacific — where they remain hidden from the outside world for more than two decades. Drawing on real historical accounts of the Bounty affair, R. M. Ballantyne weaves a tale of rebellion, survival, hardship, and unexpected redemption as a small, isolated community forms out of the wreckage of mutiny. A classic Victorian adventure novel that blends fact and fiction to tell the fuller story of what became of the Bounty's crew.

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  The Short Stories of W W Jacobs...

  WW Jacobs

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  William Wymark Jacobs was born on 8th September 1863 in Wapping, East London.  
   
  He was educated at a private school and then Birkbeck Literary and Scientific Institution, now part of the University of London. 
   
  In 1879, Jacobs began work as a clerk in the civil service, in the Post Office Savings Bank.  In 1885 his first short story was published but it was not until almost the turn of the century that he would abandon his post office career to that as a full-time writer. By then he was a very popular author, his collections selling extremely well and with an excellent income. 
   
  His best-known work is the macabre ‘The Monkey's Paw’ and he is also highly regarded for his ghost stories although much of his remaining short story output is streaked with humour.  His characters are immediately identifiable and we all know that life will take chunks out of them in no time at all.  
   
  Jacobs married the noted suffragette Agnes Eleanor Williams in 1900 at West Ham, Essex. They went on to have two daughters and three sons as they settled down to life.  
   
  By the outbreak of the First World War his literary output had declined and he now mainly spent his time rewriting his earlier stories for the stage.  In all he wrote 18 plays. 
   
  W W Jacobs died on 1st September 1943 at Hornsey Lane, Islington in London. He was 79. 
  01 - W W Jacobs - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction 
  02 - The Monkey's Paw by W W Jacobs 
  03 - Jerry Bundler by W W Jacobs 
  04 - Three Sisters by W W Jacobs 
  05 - Captain Rogers by W W Jacobs 
  06 - The Money Box by W W Jacobs

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  Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal...

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

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  Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp by Harriet Beecher Stowe is a powerful and uncompromising novel that confronts the moral, social, and political realities of slavery in pre–Civil War America. Published in 1856 as a follow-up to her groundbreaking work Uncle Tom's Cabin, this stirring narrative deepens Stowe's exploration of injustice while presenting a more complex and militant examination of resistance, conscience, and reform.
  
  Set in the shadowy wilderness of the Great Dismal Swamp—a vast, haunting landscape straddling Virginia and North Carolina—the novel weaves together the lives of enslaved individuals, plantation owners, reformers, and fugitives. At its center is Dred, a fierce and prophetic figure who lives hidden in the swamp. Inspired in part by real-life maroon communities and the revolutionary spirit of resistance, Dred becomes a symbol of defiance against oppression and a voice of righteous anger in a world built on cruelty and exploitation.
  
  Through a richly layered narrative, Stowe contrasts differing attitudes toward slavery within Southern society. Some characters attempt to justify or soften the institution, while others recognize its inherent brutality and moral corruption. The novel explores not only the physical suffering imposed by bondage but also the spiritual and psychological toll it exacts on both the enslaved and the enslavers.
  
  Unlike the sentimental tone that characterizes parts of Stowe's earlier work, Dred carries a sharper political edge. It grapples with questions of lawful resistance, moral responsibility, and the limits of patience in the face of systemic injustice. The swamp itself serves as a powerful metaphor—a place of refuge, danger, and hidden strength—reflecting the turbulent national climate of the 1850s as the United States edged closer to civil war.
  
  Stowe's vivid characterizations and detailed depictions of Southern life provide readers with a multifaceted view of a divided society. The novel challenges complacency and urges reflection on the cost of compromise with injustice. At its core, Dred is both a story of suffering and a call for transformation, emphasizing the urgent need for moral courage and societal change.
  
  Ambitious, impassioned, and historically significant, Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp stands as an important work of American literature. It captures a nation in moral crisis and gives voice to the struggle for freedom and human dignity in one of the most turbulent periods of American history.

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