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  The Return of Sherlock Holmes

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of 13 Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1903-1904, by Arthur Conan Doyle. The stories were published in the Strand Magazine in Great Britain, and Collier's in the United States.
  The book was first published in February 1905 by McClure, Phillips & Co. (New York) then on 7 March 1905 by Georges Newnes, Ltd. (London) and was the first Holmes collection since 1893, when Holmes had "died" in "The Final Problem". Having published The Hound of the Baskervilles in 1901–1902, which was set before Holmes' "death", Doyle came under intense pressure to revive his famous character. The first story is set in 1894 and has Holmes returning in London and explaining the period from 1891–1894, a period called "The Great Hiatus" by Sherlockian enthusiasts. Also of note is Watson's statement in the last story of the cycle that Holmes has retired, and forbids him to publish any more stories.
  Content: The Adventure of the Empty House / The Adventure of the Norwood Builder / The Adventure of the Dancing Men / The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist / The Adventure of the Priory School / The Adventure of Black Peter / The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton / The Adventure of the Six Napoleons / The Adventure of the Three Students / The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez / The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter / The Adventure of the Abbey Grange / The Adventure of the Second Stain

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  Mistress

  Emily Hayes

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  Soriya signs a contract to become a full time submissive to a CEO. What happens when lines are crossed and rules become blurred? 
   
   
   
  Soriya is struggling to find a job and her place in a new city. Out of nowhere she is offered an extremely well paid job as a full time submissive to a gorgeous older CEO, Victoria King, if she just signs a contract agreeing to certain rules. 
   
   
   
  Victoria wants everything from Soriya. Her mind, her body, and her soul. Victoria wants Soriya to serve her in every way, including sexually. 
   
   
   
  Will Soriya be able to give Victoria what she wants? 
   
   
   
  What will happen when the rules in the contract are gradually broken? 
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  Atomic Station - When Progress...

  Frank Belknap Long

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  When humanity feared its own discoveries might destroy the world, it built a distant orbital sanctuary where unimaginable energies could be harnessed far from Earth. That sanctuary was meant to be a promise of survival, a place where courage and discipline would safeguard the future. But when a pioneering voyager returns from the depths of space, he finds silence where there should be welcome and shadows where there should be light. 
  Inside the isolated station, time has moved differently, and the legacy of forbidden power has reshaped every living thing. Survivors cling to fragments of knowledge, strange new beings wander the corridors, and a long-dead commander’s warning waits to be heard. As danger closes in, one man must confront the consequences of humanity’s greatest gamble and decide whether mercy or destruction offers the only path forward. 
  Atomic Station is a tense, haunting tale of responsibility, sacrifice, and love discovered at the edge of catastrophe. It explores what happens when progress outruns wisdom and asks whether redemption is possible after a century of unintended change. With mounting dread and sudden tenderness, the story races toward a choice that will echo far beyond the cold silence of space. 
  Frank Belknap Long was a master of speculative suspense who blended cosmic wonder with deeply human stakes. His fiction often placed ordinary people before extraordinary dilemmas, forcing them to weigh compassion against survival. In this unforgettable story, he imagines a future shaped not by conquest of the stars, but by the moral cost of getting there.

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  Trick of the Light

  Fiona McCallum

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  The old saying goes: 'A problem shared is a problem halved'. But what if your problem is secret? 
    
  Erica, newly widowed, is devastated to discover her venture capitalist husband left their finances in ruins. Determined to save her home while protecting her teenage daughters, she vows to get back on her feet without letting them, or anyone else, know the truth.  
  When her girls head off on a long-planned overseas adventure, Erica focuses on her much-loved job behind a makeup counter to keep her emotionally and financially afloat - although she is troubled by a peculiar encounter at work.  
  Then she loses her job, the darkness beckons and Erica's life spirals downwards, further disturbed by strange occurrences in her house. Missing objects. Stopped clocks. Noises in the night. Should she doubt her very sanity? Can she swallow her pride and make herself reach out to her friends in time? Does she have a choice? 
  A moving story of loss, change and self-discovery from Australia's master storyteller.

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  Winesburg Ohio

  Sherwood Anderson

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  Published in 1919, and listed on the Modern Library roster of the 20th century's 100 greatest novels in English, Winesburg, Ohio presents a series of loosely related character studies of the inhabitants of a fictional Midwestern town that together form a novel of unusual unity and vision. The inarticulate and lonely citizens of Winesburg, each with his or her own secret tale to tell, frequently relate those tales to, or through their interactions with, the character of George Willard, a young Winesburg citizen on the cusp of manhood with dreams of becoming a writer. Thus Winesburg tells the story of the townspeople's loneliness and alienation in parallel with the tale of George's own coming of age. The citizens of Winesburg are described obliquely as "grotesques," but as the introductory chapter makes clear, "The grotesques were not all horrible. Some were amusing, some almost beautiful . . ." (Description by Stewart Wills)

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  The Duel

  Anton Chekhov

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  The Duel is a novella by Anton Chekhov and was published in 1891. It tells the story of the debates between a scientist, a government worker, his mistress, a deacon, and a physician about wits and ethics. This verbal battle leads to a violent contest: the duel. The story begins with Ivan Andreitch Laevsky – a government worker - who has run off with a married woman, Nadyezyhda Fyodorovna to a small town in the Caucasus. While there, he forms several acquaintanceships with a colorful array of characters. Among them, he has friends and enemies. But there’s one person in particular who has it in for him – the zoologist Von Koren. Von Koren is broad-shouldered, swarthy, vigorous and hardheaded realist young man.This version of the book is translated by Matin Karimi to Persian (Farsi) and narrated by Amir Mohammadi. The Persian version of Duel’s audiobook is published by Maktub worldwide.

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