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  The Mountain Girl

  Payne Erskine

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  A delightful love-story, genuinely American in feeling and treatment. The story is stirring, the heroine is ideal. (Summary by the Chicago Tribune, from time of publishing)

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  The Library Window

  Margaret O. Oliphant

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  Margaret Oliphant (1828 – 1897]) was a Scottish novelist who wrote as Mrs. Oliphant. She is best known for her fictional works, historical novels and supernatural tales.  
  "The Library Window" is a ghost story. A young girl, visiting her aunt in Scotland, finds herself increasingly intrigued by a mysterious window in the house opposite her own favourite window, where she sits to read. There seems to be a local mystery about the window, including a dispute about whether there is even a window there at all. Increasingly this doubt seems odd to the girl as the days go by, as she can see into the room opposite and make out furniture and objects there. Then one day she sees someone in that room...

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  The Scriptural Panoramist

  Mark Twain

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  Mark Twain is one of the most important figures in American life and American culture as a whole. He is connected by the innumerable threads with the course of development of the country, its national characteristics and social contradictions, and this deep connection significantly extends throughout his work. This short story, called “The Scriptural Panoramist”, tells about a man who earns a living, showing in the churches different panoramas in the biblical theme and commenting them. Once he hired an old man, to play the piano, accompanying the pictures with a suitable melody. And the old musician actually did it... But the melodies selection has been very peculiar.A SmartTouch Media production.

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  Spanking the Women's Group 3 -...

  Paul Amann

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  Jack Pilton continues to spank the ladies in the village of Little Trumpington, but he has fallen for Mary. A new group member, Jenny, the vicar's wife, suggests that they organise a stall at the village fete and offer spankings to any adult at a pound a smack, two pounds if it is on their knickers. There would be no bare-bottom spankings at the fete, or so they thought. Jack needs to find someone to help with the spankings so he asks Terry’s mother, Mrs Grant, who turns out to be an excellent spanker. Finally, Jack proposes to Mary after the fete and she accepts.

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  Utopia

  Thomas Moore

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  Embark on a journey to an ideal society with "Utopia" by Thomas More, now available as a captivating audiobook. In this groundbreaking work, More presents a visionary depiction of an imaginary island where social, political, and economic harmony reign supreme. 
  Listeners will be transported to a world where poverty, injustice, and inequality are nonexistent, and where citizens live in harmony with one another and with nature. Through vivid descriptions and thought-provoking dialogue, More invites listeners to ponder the possibilities of a society founded on principles of equality, justice, and communal living. 
  Perfect for fans of speculative fiction and political philosophy, "Utopia" offers a compelling exploration of utopian ideals and the quest for a better world. Whether you're a student of philosophy or simply intrigued by the concept of utopian societies, this audiobook provides a thought-provoking listening experience. 
  So, if you're ready to explore the realms of imagination and envision a world of possibilities, start listening to "Utopia" today and embark on a journey of discovery and enlightenment. Start Listening to "Utopia" today!

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  The Boatman and Other Stories

  Billy O'Callaghan

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  “I know of no writer on either side of the Atlantic who is better at exploring the human spirit under assault than Billy O’Callaghan.”—Robert Olen Butler 
  The prizewinning Irish short-story writer and author of the highly praised novel, My Coney Island Baby, delivers his most accomplished book of short fiction to date—a poignant story collection that “grips from the opening page” (Bernard MacLaverty).  
  These are twelve poignant, quietly dazzling, and carefully crafted stories that explore the resiliency of the human heart and its ability to keep beating in the wake of bereavement, violence, lost love, and incomparable trauma and grief. 
  Spanning a century and two continents, from the muddy fields of Ireland to a hotel room in Paris, a dingy bar in Segovia to an airplane bound for Taipei, The Boatman and Other Stories follows an unforgettable cast of characters. Three gunshots on the Irish border define the course of a young man’s life; a writer clings fast to a star-crossed affair with a woman who has never been fully within his reach; a fisherman accustomed to hard labor rolls up his sleeves to dig a grave for his child; and a pair of newlyweds embark on their first adventure, living wild on the deserted Beginish Island. 
   
  Ranging from the elegiac to the brutally confrontational, these densely layered tales reveal the quiet heroism and gentle dignity of ordinary life. Billy O’Callaghan is a master celebrant of the smallness of the human flame against the dark: its strength and its steady brightness.

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