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  The House of Mapuhi

  Jack London

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  Despite the heavy clumsiness of her lines, the Aorai handled easily in the light breeze, and her captain ran her well in before he hove to just outside the suck of the surf. The atoll of Hikueru lay low on the water, a circle of pounded coral sand a hundred yards wide, twenty miles in circumference, and from three to five feet above high-water mark. On the bottom of the huge and glassy lagoon was much pearl shell, and from the deck of the schooner, across the slender ring of the atoll, the divers could be seen at work. But the lagoon had no entrance for even a trading schooner. With a favoring breeze cutters could win in through the tortuous and shallow channel, but the schooners lay off and on outside and sent in their small boats.

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  The Garden Party

  Katherine Mansfield

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  The Garden Party is a 1922 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published (as "The Garden-Party") in three parts in the Saturday Westminster Gazette on 4 and 11 February 1922, and the Weekly Westminster Gazette on 18 February 1922. It later appeared in The Garden Party: and Other Stories. Its luxurious setting is based on Mansfield's childhood home at 133 Tinakori Road (originally numbered 75), the second of three houses in Thorndon, Wellington that her family lived in.
  The wealthy Sheridan family prepares to host a garden party. Laura is charged with instructing the workers on the placement of the marquee. Her haughty air quickly disintegrates into an intimidating admiration for the workingmen, with whom she feels a personal connection.

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  Black Jack - Booktrack Edition

  Max Brand

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  Listen to Black Jack with a movie-style soundtrack and amplify your audiobook experience. 
  The son of a notorious outlaw is adopted into a wealthy, law-abiding family as an infant after his father is killed in an attempted robbery. Will he follow in the footsteps of his outlaw father or will his life be guided by the respectable woman who nurtured him to manhood? Another exciting tale by the master of the pulp western, Max Brand.

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  The Quest of Iranon

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  The Quest of Iranon by H. P. Lovecraft is a haunting fantasy short story that follows the wandering minstrel Iranon on his search for the lost city of Aira—a place of beauty, memory, and dreams. Blending melancholic lyricism with Lovecraft’s signature dreamlike style, the tale explores themes of youth, longing, disillusionment, and the ephemeral nature of beauty. Perfect for fans of classic fantasy and dark, poetic storytelling, this story lingers as a meditation on the elusive search for belonging and the bittersweet pull of nostalgia.

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  Three Love Problems -...

  George Eliot

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  Where there is a will, there is a war. 
  In the quiet, gossiping circles of provincial England, nothing stirs the blood quite like the reading of a dead man's testament. But when old Peter Featherstone is finally laid to rest, the shocking revelations of his will threaten to unravel the lives of everyone in Middlemarch. 
  In Book 4: Three Love Problems, George Eliot weaves a masterful tapestry of shattered expectations and desperate romances. Fred Vincy's guaranteed fortune vanishes into thin air, forcing him to reckon with a life he never prepared for. The brilliant, ambitious Dr. Lydgate plunges headlong into an intoxicating engagement with the beautiful but iron-willed Rosamond Vincy—blind to the financial ruin looming on their horizon. Meanwhile, the idealistic Dorothea Brooke finds herself trapped in a suffocating marriage to Mr. Casaubon, whose bitter jealousy is ignited by the sudden, vibrant return of his young cousin, Will Ladislaw. 
  As loyalties are tested and deep-seated resentments boil over, these three intertwining love stories reveal the devastating distance between what we desire and what we are dealt. Can love survive the crushing weight of pride, poverty, and polite society? 
  Experience the drama, the wit, and the unparalleled psychological depth of one of literature's greatest novels, brought to thrilling life in this compelling audio performance.

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  The Poison Belt - A gripping...

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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  The end of the world arrives not with a fiery explosion, but with a silent, suffocating wave. 
  When the brilliant and bombastic Professor George Edward Challenger observes an abnormal blurring of Fraunhofer's lines in the stellar spectrum, he deduces a terrifying truth: the Earth is speeding directly into a cosmic cloud of poisonous ether. As reports of madness, mass sickness, and sudden death pour in from across the globe, Challenger gathers his intrepid companions from his famed Lost World expedition—Lord John Roxton, Professor Summerlee, and the journalist Edward Malone—at his countryside estate. 
  Armed with a limited supply of oxygen cylinders and sealed tightly inside a single room, the men can only watch from their window as the unstoppable tide of death consumes the human race. Will they be the last survivors of a doomed, silent planet, or is there a flicker of hope beyond the poisoned atmosphere? 
  Why you will love this: This masterclass in early Science Fiction will keep you on the edge of your seat. Blending thrilling apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic tropes with philosophical existential dread, the story combines the claustrophobic tension of a locked-room mystery with the vast, terrifying stakes of an extinction-level cosmic event. 
  About the Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) is celebrated worldwide as the creator of Sherlock Holmes. However, his boundless imagination also birthed the formidable Professor Challenger, cementing his legacy as a true pioneer of early speculative fiction and sweeping adventure.

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