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  H G Wells - Six of the Best -...

  H G Wells

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  Herbert George Wells was born on September 21st, 1866 at Atlas House, 46 High Street, Bromley, Kent. He was the youngest of four siblings and his family affectionately knew him as ‘Bertie’.  
  The first few years of his childhood were spent fairly quietly

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  Whimsical Wonders - 50 Tales of...

  Derick Chibilu

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  Whimsical Wonders: 50 Tales of Fictional Fun is a delightful collection of stories that will capture your imagination and transport you to a world of whimsy and wonder. These stories are a product of the creative mind of Mr. Derick Chibilu, a lover of fun and fanciful tales. 
  Whether you're a child or an adult, you'll find something to love in this collection. The stories are crafted to be engaging, entertaining, and imaginative, providing a much-needed escape from the stresses of everyday life. 
  Mr. Chibilu has poured his heart and soul into creating these tales, and it shows in the quality of the writing. Each story is unique and original, with colorful characters, surprising plot twists, and a healthy dose of humor. From talking animals to enchanted forests, from brave heroes to mischievous fairies, these stories will captivate your imagination and leave you wanting more. 
  This collection is perfect for reading on the go - whether you're on a long flight, waiting at the doctor's office, or taking a break from the hustle and bustle of daily life. The stories are also ideal for bedtime reading, as they are suitable for all ages and will inspire sweet dreams and playful imaginations. 
  If you're looking for a collection of fun and lighthearted stories that will make you smile, Whimsical Wonders: 50 Tales of Fictional Fun is the book for you. So why not pick up a copy today and join Mr. Chibilu on a journey through his imaginative world of whimsy and wonder? You won't be disappointed!

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  A Piece of Steak - American...

  Jack London

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  John Griffith Chaney was born on January 12th, 1876 in San Francisco.   
   
  His father, William Chaney, was living with Flora Wellman when she became pregnant.  Chaney insisted she have an abortion.  Flora's response was to turn a gun on herself.  Although her wounds were not severe the trauma made her temporarily deranged. 
   
  In late 1876 his mother married John London and the young child was brought to live with them as they moved around the Bay area, eventually settling in Oakland where now, calling himself Jack, he completed grade school. 
   
  Jack worked hard at several jobs, sometimes 12-18 hours a day, but his dream was university.  He studied hard and borrowed the money to enrol in the summer of 1896 at the University of California in Berkeley. 
   
  In 1897, at 21, Jack searched out newspaper accounts of his mother's suicide attempt and for the name of his biological father. He wrote to Chaney, then living in Chicago, who claimed he could not be Jack’s father because he was impotent and casually asserted that London's mother had relations with other men.  Jack, devastated by the response, quit Berkeley and went to the Klondike. Other accounts suggest that his dire finances presented Jack with the excuse he needed to leave. 
   
  In the Klondike Jack began to gather material for his writing but also accumulated many health problems, including scurvy, which together with hip and leg problems he would carry for the rest of his life. 
   
  During the late 1890's Jack was regularly publishing short stories and by the turn of the century full blown novels. 
   
  By 1904 Jack had married, fathered two children and was now in the process of divorcing.  A stint as a reporter on the Russo-Japanese war of 1904 was equal amounts trouble and experience. But that experience was always put to good use in a continuing and remarkable output of work. 
   
  In 1905 he married Charmian Kittredge who at last was a soul and companion who brought him some semblance of peace despite his advancing alcoholism and his incurable wanderlust. 
   
  Twelve years later Jack had amassed both wealth and a literary reputation through such classics as ‘The Call of the Wild’, ‘White Fang’ and many others. He had a reputation as a social activist and was a tireless friend of the workers.   
   
  Jack London died suffering from dysentery, late-stage alcoholism and uremia, aged only 40, on November 22nd 1916 at his property in Glen Elen in California 
   
  In ‘A piece of Steak’ an ageing prizefighter seeks one last win. Not for glory, or to revisit fame, but simply to put food on the table and keep his family together.  But to do that he must beat a highly rated up and coming adversary.

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  The Novices of Lerna

  Angel Bonomini

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  The Novices of Lerna introduces the enigmatic fictions of Ángel Bonomini to English listeners for the first time. Shot through with wry humor and tender absurdity, these meditations on identity, surveillance, and isolation remain eerily prescient. The collection's central novella follows Ramón Beltra, an unambitious scholar who receives a mysterious invitation to a lucrative six-month fellowship at the University of Lerna in Switzerland. After he reluctantly complies with the unusual qualifying paperwork requiring several pages of detailed measurements and photographs of his entire body, Beltra soon finds himself in the deserted university town of Lerna, together with twenty-three other "novices" subject to the same undisclosed project—all of them doppelgangers of Beltra himself. At first, Beltra is the only one to bristle at the school's dizzying array of rules and regulations, but this all changes with the onset of an uncontrollable epidemic, and the fellows begin dying off one by one . . . 
   
   
   
  An overlooked master of Argentine fantastic literature, Ángel Bonomini garnered praise among peers and contemporaries like Jorge Luis Borges, before slipping mysteriously into obscurity. Bonomini was forty-three years old in 1972 when he published The Novices of Lerna, the first of four books of short stories he released before his death at age sixty-four.

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  One of Twins

  Ambrose Bierce

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. One of Twins by Ambrose Bierce plunges readers into a chilling tale of doppelgängers, deception, and dark secrets. When identical twins John and Mortimer's inseparable bond leads to a web of mistaken identities, an eerie series of events unfolds, culminating in love, betrayal, and tragedy. As the lines blur between loyalty and self-preservation, one twin becomes entangled in an enigmatic mystery involving a beautiful yet enigmatic woman. What sinister forces lie beneath their uncanny connection?

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  Here the Dark

  David Bergen

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  From the streets of Danang, Vietnam, where a boy falls in with a young American missionary, to fishermen lost off 
  the islands of Honduras, to the Canadian prairies, where a teenage boy’s infatuation reveals his naiveté and an aging 
  rancher finds himself smitten, the short stories in Here the Dark explore the spaces between doubt and belief, evil and 
  good, obscurity and light. Following men and boys bewildered by their circumstances and swayed by desire, surprised 
  by love and by their capacity for both tenderness and violence, and featuring a novella about a young woman who 
  rejects the laws of her cloistered Mennonite community, Scotiabank Giller Prize–winner David Bergen’s latest deftly 
  renders complex moral ambiguities and asks what it means to be lost—and how we might be found.

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