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  Revelations - A Classic...

  Katherine Mansfield

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  What if a single day could strip away every comforting illusion? In “Revelations” by Katherine Mansfield, a woman’s carefully constructed sense of self is quietly undone as she moves through a series of encounters that force her to confront truths she would rather avoid. Set against the routines of social obligation and polite interaction, the story follows an emotional shift that unfolds not through dramatic action, but through subtle perception and inward reckoning. As familiar roles begin to feel hollow, moments of discomfort accumulate, revealing the tension between appearance and inner reality. Mansfield exposes how moral certainty, self-image, and social performance can crumble when confronted with an unfiltered view of others - and of oneself. With psychological precision, “Revelations” explores self-deception, judgment, and the unsettling clarity of emotional awakening. Press play and step into a quietly devastating short story whose insight lingers long after the final moment.

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  The Hidden Light of Objects

  Mai Al-Nakib

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  A young girl, renamed Amerika in honour of the US role in the liberation of Kuwait, finds her name has become a barometer of her country's growing hostility towards the West. A self-conscious Palestinian teenager is drawn into a botched suicide bombing by two belligerent classmates. A middle-aged man dying from cancer looks back on his extramarital affairs and the abiding forgiveness of his wife. A Kuwaiti woman returns to her family after being held captive in Iraq for a decade.
  
  The headlines tell of war, unrest and religious clashes. But if you look beyond them you will see life in the Middle East as it is really lived – adolescent love, the fragility of marriage, pain of the most quotidian kind. Mai Al-Nakib's luminous stories unveil the lives of ordinary people – and the power of objects to hold extraordinary memories.

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  Frisky Kitty

  Kameron Claire

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  He’s a deli owner who had his ass handed to him by a feral cat.  
  She’s a veterinarian who’s heard about his beef stick.  
  She convinces him to give the frisky feline and her new kittens a temporary home, but can he convince her to stay once the kittens are grown? 
  Gideon: I just got my butt kicked by a seven-pound alley cat. I’m bleeding and holding claws of fury hostage in a tablecloth while we wait for the vet—a woman who takes my breath away when she enters the room. I’m thinking the bloody scratches are worth the “doctoring” I’m hoping she’ll give me. 
  Stephanie: I’ve seen a lot come through my office, but when a battle worn beefcake takes my direction and gently nurses the newborn kittens of the feral cat who just kicked his butt, I wonder if he would be as gentle with me? 
  Each book in the series is a complete, standalone story. This is a steamy, short, contemporary romance, complete with instalove and a guaranteed happily ever-after. If you're looking for a great lunchtime read, or something to spark sexy dreams before bed, you’ll want to pick this one up. 
  Animal Attraction Series: Lucky Dog, Frisky Kitty, Puppy Love, and Rescue Me

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  Riders Upon the Storm

  Phillip Parotti

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  An American commands a subchaser herding a convoy across the Atlantic through horrific weather during World War I in this engaging novel. 
   
  Finalist, 2023 Arizona-New Mexico Book Awards, Historical Fiction 
   
  “Parotti’s expertly detailed accounts make for constant tension.” —The Historical Novels Review 
   
  Phillip Parotti’s new novel chronicles the fast-paced action of a collection of American submarine chasers as they battle to reduce the German U-Boat menace in the English Channel during the last year of World War I. Lieutenant (junior grade) Ben Snow takes a commission in the United States Naval Reserve, and whips a dissolute crew into fighting shape. They then take their little submarine chaser, SC 65X, out into the English Channel to hunt for German U-boats in the midst of the worst winter in more than fifty years. Their achievements climax with the sinking of a German submarine and taking sixteen of her crew prisoner. 
   
  When the war ends on 11 November 1918, the chaser crews expect to return home, but their exposure to danger is by no means concluded. Instead, the chasers are tasked with exploding the 70,000 dangerous mines planted in the North Sea Mine Barrage. Having survived the war, will Ben and his crew survive the peace?

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  My Father's Mask

  Joe Hill

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  From the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Horns comes this e-short story—from Joe Hill’s award-winning collection 20th Century Ghosts. 
  Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon one afternoon in 1945. . . . 
  Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with big ideas and a gift for attracting abuse. It isn't easy to make friends when you're the only inflatable boy in town. . . . 
  Francis is unhappy. Francis was human once, but that was then. Now he's an eight-foot-tall locust and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing. . . . 
  John Finney is locked in a basement that's stained with the blood of half a dozen other murdered children. In the cellar with him is an antique telephone, long since disconnected, but which rings at night with calls from the dead. . . . 
    
   

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  Forgotten Authors The - Men -...

  Théophile Gautier, Perceval...

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  Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society. 
  In literature the ambition is much narrower.  In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published.  And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading.  Obviously for most of humanity’s time people couldn’t read and texts couldn’t be published in any great number. 
  In the 15th Century Gutenberg’s printing press began the revolution to address the second and by the 19th century had gathered pace with startling speed and mass distribution.  Education for the many was brought in to help people understand more of their world and, with new skills, how to have a better place within it.  Now, if the powers that owned the presses and means of distribution agreed an audience would now be able to avail themselves of your ideas, your printed words.  
  Sadly, in the thirst for the new, the recent and the past fell from sight, relegated to dark corners and dusty shelves.   
  But the printed word is rarely without someone, somewhere busying themselves through piles of papers and books rediscovering what a good story is, whatever its age. 
  In this volume we offer up a small selection of those talents whose time has now come again.

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