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  Christmas Eve and Christmas Day

  Edward Everett Hale

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  This is a collection of ten Christmas Stories, some of which have been published before. I have added a little essay, written on the occasion of the first Christmas celebrated by the King of Italy in Rome. (Summary by Book Preface)

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  Island Time

  Susan Wiggs

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  A workaholic and a free spirit collide at a Pacific-Northwest island getaway in this romantic short story by a #1 New York Times–bestselling author. 
   
  Off the coast of Washington lies Spruce Island, home to Rainshadow Lodge, the perfect summer retreat. Neither Mitch Rutherford or Rosie Galvez expect to find romance during their month-long visit to the rambling Victorian getaway. Mitch, an architect, is a workaholic on a deadline, while Rosie’s determined to relax and enjoy the scenery while preparing an environmental report. But despite—or perhaps because?—of their differences, they find themselves drawn to each other, and their lives are irrevocably changed by their stay at the lodge. 
   
  Originally published in 1998 in That Summer Place anthology.

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  In the Vault

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937), who wrote as H. P. Lovecraft, was an American writer who achieved posthumous fame through his brilliant and highly influential works of horror fiction.In the Vault tells the tale of a lazy and parsimonious undertaker who tries to skimp on the cost of a coffin by reusing a substandard, cheap box which he had made previously for a very short man. The recipient of the flimsy coffin is the vindictive farmer Asaph Sawyer, a man known in the neighbourhood to be permanently set on vengeance on anyone who slights him....

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  The Wolf Book

  Henry Chapman Mercer

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  Henry Chapman Mercer (1856-1930) was an American archeologist, artifact collector, tile maker and writer of extraordinary supernatural stories.The Wolf Book is the story of a professor who spends the summer travelling in Hungary and Romania in search of rare manuscripts. At the monastery at Jollok, he learns that the library was plundered a hundred years earlier by a sinister nobleman who was rumoured to be a werewolf. This man had been seeking a valuable manuscript which had mysteriously vanished.The professor leaves the monastery, taking with him as a souvenir one of the old scrolled farm ledgers. When he comes to examine the ledger, he finds that it contains a hidden compartment in which is hidden a very strange manuscript covered in gold and jewels...but some very disturbing images and texts.Having made this discovery, the professor finds himself hotly pursued by some very sinister individuals, all determined to steal his manuscript. In particular, there is a sinister gypsy woman dressed in red who seems to appear wherever he goes.

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  Candide

  Voltaire

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  "Candide" is a delightful story filled with boundless misadventure while tackling the great philosophical issues of the Enlightenment era. The story is about Candide, a young man who is the illegitimate nephew of a German baron with whom he resides. When it is discovered he is kissing the baron's beautiful daughter he is thrown from the castle where he experiences the horrors of war, poverty, the maliciousness of man, and the hypocrisy of the church.
   
  Obviously, Voltaire is poking fun at Leibniz, Pope, and others who assail that the world created by God was the best possible of all worlds with perfect order and reason, as spoken through the greatest of all fictional philosophers, Candide's tutor, Pangloss. As you listen to segments of "Candide", take the time to research both the book and Voltaire to gain a richer understanding of the themes interlaced throughout the audiobook.

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  Cobb's Anatomy (version 2)

  Irvin S. Cobb

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  Irving  S. Cobb discusses the human body and its various strange parts in his own inimitable hilarious style.  He discusses the tummy and the problems of having a large one; teeth, hair and finally hands and feet.   Summary by Phil Chenevert

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