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  The Dream Woman - A dream comes...

  Wilkie Collins

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  Wilkie Collins was born on 8th January 1824 in Marylebone, London.  
   
  The family moved several times in his early years before, at 12, they travelled to France and Italy for 2 years where the sights and atmosphere made a deep and lasting impression on him. 
   
  He resumed his education at Mr Cole’s private boarding school in Highbury, Islington.  Here, he began his literary career under unusual circumstances: the school bully would give him no peace until he had been told a bedtime story.  This ‘little brute’ helped create one of England’s greatest writers.  
   
  On leaving school, in 1841, he became a clerk at a tea merchant before, 2 years later, publishing his first short story.  However, his first novel was rejected and remained so during his lifetime.  
   
  A brief stint at Lincoln’s Inn to please his father and to acquire a steady income was halted by his father’s death.  Collins then wrote and published his fathers’ memoirs.  He then completed his legal education though he would never practice.  
   
  In March 1851, he was introduced to Charles Dickens and there now started a period of sustained literary output and a remarkable lifelong friendship.  His stories were published in Dicken’s magazines, and he toured with Dicken’s theatrical before the two of them travelled to the Continent. 
   
  By the early 1860’s worrying signs of ill-health appeared with rheumatic gout.  As it worsened, he sought respite and cures in German spa towns and gave up writing to help his recuperation. 
   
  His personal life had become very complicated.  He was living with the widowed Caroline Graves and conducting an affair with a much younger Martha Rudd.  With the serialised release of ‘The Moonstone’ and vicious attacks of gout Caroline left him and married another.  Collins was now prescribed opium and was soon its lifelong dependent.  Martha bore him two children and with the return of a now divorced Caroline Graves he now divided his time between the two women. 
   
  In 1874 he set aside writing to tour North America on a reading tour. 
   
  Throughout his later years he continued to write and publish.  In all 30 novels, 14 plays, 60 short stories and over a 100 non-fiction essays as well as many more collaborations with Dickens. 
   
  In 1884 the Society of Authors elected him as it’s Vice-President. 
   
  Wilkie Collins died from a paralytic stroke on September 23rd, 1889, in London. He was 65.

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  The Greatest Softball Game

  K G Wauthier

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  When she walked through the door to his office, Jake knew trouble was on the horizon. He would be proven right. 
  Their secret love affair lasted more than two years. They fell madly in love, but there was a problem. Matti was married—to someone else. 
  Their relationship ended abruptly when she left in the middle of the night without a word, for parts unknown. They remained separated by life’s circumstances for eighteen years. 
  This story is about a flame that neither time nor 3,000 miles could extinguish. Jake and Matti found happiness despite the odds. It tells of the collateral damage created along the way, how they made new friends in a distant state, brought together five generations, melded families, healed old wounds, and welcomed a newborn while Jake delivered a pitch during what some consider “The Greatest Softball Game.”

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  Loxley Belle

  M.L. Bullock

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  Jerica and Jesse settle into Summerleigh and count themselves lucky to start their family in the beautiful old home. With the renovations nearly complete, Jerica uncovers Loxley Belle's name carved in a wooden desk in a forgotten shack near the old home. Along with the discovery comes the feeling that the last Belle girl needs her help. Jerica and Jesse do their best to piece together the past and find that the youngest Belle had secrets of her own. Small-town drama and a rich southern background add to the tension of this riveting, ghost-filled mystery.

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  Zanzibar Tales: Folktales Told...

  Collected by George W Bateman

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  Zanzibar Tales: Told by the Natives of East Africa 
  Read by Kennedy Center Award Winning actor Dennis Edward DelaneyAbout this AudiobookCover Design by David Earl DeWitt | ZacaPublishing.comPublic Domain Source Material was used in the Publication of this Audiobook 
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  Zanzibar Tales: Told by the Natives East Coast Africa” is from a 1901 collection of traditional East African folktales translated from Swahili by George W. Bateman, offering insights into the culture, beliefs, and values of the people of Zanzibar. 
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  1. The Monkey, the Shark, and the Washerman’s Donkey 
  2. The Hare and the Lion 
  3. The Lion, the Hyena, and the Rabbit 
  4. The Kites and the Crows 
  5. Goso, the Teacher 
  6. The Ape, the Snake, and the Lion 
  7. HammDaanee 
  8. Maak Jeechonee, the Boy Hunter 
  9. The Magician and the Sultan’s Son 
  10. The Physician’s Son and the King of the Snakes 
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  AudioBook length: 02:38:49.07 
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  The Weeds

  Katy Simpson Smith

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  A Mississippi woman pushes through the ruin of the Roman Colosseum, searching for plants. She has escaped her life, apprenticed herself to catalog all the species growing in this place. Crawling along the stones, she wonders how she has landed here, a reluctant botanist amid a snarl of tourists in comfortable sandals. She hunts for a scientific agenda and a direction of her own. In 1854, a woman pushes through the jungle of the Roman Colosseum, searching for plants. As punishment for her misbehavior, she has been indentured to the English botanist Richard Deakin, for whom she will compile a flora. She is a thief, and she must find new ways to use her hands. If only the woman she loves weren’t on a boat, with a husband. But love isn’t always possible. She logs 420 species. Through a list of seemingly minor plants and their uses?medical, agricultural, culinary?these women calculate intangible threats: a changing climate, the cost of knowledge, and the ways repeated violence can upend women’s lives. They must forge their own small acts of defiance and slip through whatever cracks they find. How can anyone survive? Lush, intoxicating, and teeming with mischief, The Weeds is a tense, mesmerizing page-turner about science and survival, the roles women are given and have taken from them, and the lives they make for themselves.

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  Noise Floor - The Vinyl...

  Andrew Cartmel

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  The Vinyl Detective plunges into the world of electronic dance music in his seventh adventure. Expect laughs, LPs, cats and the return of fan favourites, Nevada, Tinkler, Stinky Stanmer and more. 
   
  The Vinyl Detective enters the fraught and frenzied realm of electronic dance music. 
   
  Lambert Ramkin aka Imperium Dart, techno trickster and ambient music wizard of the 1990s, has gone walkabout, disappearing from his rather palatial home in Kent. 
   
  This isn't the first time he's pulled a vanishing act, but he's never been gone so long before and his wife — wives, actually; it's complicated — are worried and hire the Vinyl Detective to find the old rascal. 
   
  They theorise that wherever the missing man is, he won't be able to resist turning up at a record fair somewhere in search of 12-inch white label acid house singles, which he collects compulsively. 
   
  And no one knows the world of record fairs better than the Vinyl Detective. 
   
  They're not wrong…

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