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  Gooseberries - From their pens...

  Anton Chekhov

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  Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born on 29th January 1860 in Taganrog, on the south coast of Russia.  
  His family life was difficult; his father was strict and over-bearing but his mother was a passionate story-teller, a subject Chekhov warmed to. As he later said; ‘our talents we got from our father, but our soul from our mother’.  
  At school Chekhov was distinctly average. At 16 his father mis-managed his finances and was declared bankrupt. His family fled to Moscow. Chekhov remained and eked out a living by various means, including writing and selling short sketches to newspapers, to finish his schooling. That completed and with a scholarship to Moscow University obtained he rejoined his family. 
  He was able to help support them by selling satirical sketches and vignettes of Russian lifestyles and gradually obtained further commissions. In 1884, he qualified as a physician and, although it earned him little, he often treated the poor for free, he was fond of saying ‘Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress.’ 
  His own health was now an issue as he began to cough up blood, a symptom of tuberculosis.  Despite this his writing success enabled him to move the family into more comfortable accommodation.  
  Chekhov wrote over 500 short stories which included many, many classics including ‘The Kiss’ and ‘The Lady with a Dog’.  His collection ‘At Dusk’ won him the coveted Pushkin Prize when was only 26.  
  He was also a major playwright beginning with the huge success of ‘Ivanov’ in 1887.   
  In 1892 Chekhov bought a country estate north of Moscow. Here his medical skills and money helped the peasants tackle outbreaks of cholera and bouts of famine. He also built three schools, a fire station and a clinic.  It left him with less time for writing but the interactions with real people gained him detailed knowledge about the peasantry and their living conditions for his stories.  
  His most famous work, ‘The Seagull’ was received disastrously at its premiere in St Petersburg. It was later restaged in Moscow to highlight its psychological aspects and was a huge success. It led to ‘Uncle Vanya’, ‘The Three Sisters’ and ‘The Cherry Orchard’.  
  Chekhov suffered a major lung hemorrhage in 1897 while visiting Moscow. A formal diagnosis confirmed tuberculosis and the doctors ordered changes to his lifestyle.  
  Despite a dread of weddings the elusive literary bachelor quietly married the actress Olga Knipper, whom he had met at rehearsals for ‘The Seagull’, on 25th May 1901. 
  By May 1904 with his tuberculosis worsening and death imminent he set off for the German town of Badenweiler writing cheerful, witty letters to his family and assuring them his health was improving.  
  On 15th July 1904 Anton Chekhov died at Badenweiler.  He was 44.

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  Vegas Bachelorette

  Kameron Claire

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  He’s a famous photographer in search of his muse. She’s a star-struck design student on a bachelorette weekend. Can they be each other’s inspiration for a happily ever-after? 
  Charlie: When I agreed to come on this adventure, I didn’t realize I’d end up sitting in the middle of a smoke-filled casino wearing an uncomfortable suit. But it's worth it when I meet a classic beauty who would photograph beautifully through my lens. 
  Bethany: A bachelorette party in Vegas is on my list of top five things I never want to do, but when I meet the photographer I’ve obsessed over for the last six-months, I’m thinking the woo-hoos and long thick lollipops aren’t so bad. Even better is the hot way he looks at me, as if he’s taking mental snapshots, but a famous fashion photographer couldn’t be interested in me. 
  Each book in the series is a complete, standalone story. This is a steamy, short story 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. 
  Vegas Nights Series: Vegas Bachelorette, Vegas Bride, Vegas Baby, and Vegas Vixen

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  The Beetle Hunter

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  Though Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is best known for his detective stories, he also wrote other short stories which are masterpieces of mystery and suspense. In some of the stories, a suppressed uneasiness gradually builds up and evolves into sheer terror; in others, the story line unexpectedly changes and comes to an unexpected conclusion. In "The Beetle-Hunter," a beginning doctor is employed on a strange errand to a coleopterist.

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  The Prussian Officer

  D H Lawrence

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  'The Prussian Officer'. There is an anti-militarism theme, unpopular as the nation drew near to war and an examination of latent homosexuality as the officer in the story struggles with his feelings for his orderly. The young soldier is driven beyond breaking point but finds a kind of redemption in his final return to natural surroundings and, symbolically, he finds equality in death with his tormentor as they are put side by side in the mortuary.

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  The Best Peace Fiction - A...

  Robert Olen Butler, Phong Nguyen

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  In the first anthology of its kind, Robert Olen Butler and Phong Nguyen assemble an astounding collection of stories that cause listeners to contemplate war, peace, and social justice in a new light. The fourteen stories featured in this volume explore the varied and often unexpected outcomes of violence. The authors explore the tragedies that occur closer to home—not on military battlefields but rather in places that are never meant to be battlefields, like schools and churches. The fiction reveals the violence that renders our most sacred and seemingly safest of places vulnerable. 
   
   
   
  Not a utopian project, this book asks whether literature has a role in furthering the ongoing pursuit of peace and justice for all. While exploring tragedy, these stories also offer hope for healing, illuminating how people can move forward from the moments when their lives change and how they can regain and reshape safe spaces to find solace.

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  The Friendly Ant - Story Book...

  Katherine Hernández

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  The Little Ant who wanted to be everyone's friend is a beautiful and fun story for babies and children, full of colorful images. It will teach your children great lessons, values and fundamental principles. Helping in the formation of character, strengthening the control of self-control. It instructs them on the importance of being altruistic and helping others. It will instill in your children the benefit of perseverance in achieving goals. It will also encourage them to be better people every day. 
  I invite you to immerse your children in this extraordinary adventure hand in hand with the splendid characters of this illustrated and magnificent story, where our beloved Ant will have to go through a long journey to help a badly wounded bee that is on the other side of the forest jungle, and thus become the most altruistic animal that could have ever walked the face of the earth. 
  Includes a surprise GIFT that your kids will love! 
  Click on "BUY NOW" and be part of this great adventure (also ideal as a gift).

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