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  Childhood (version 2)

  Leo Tolstoy

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  Childhood is the first published novel by Leo Tolstoy, released under the initials L. N. in the November 1852 issue of the popular Russian literary journal The Contemporary.  It is the first in a series of three novels and is followed by Boyhood and Youth. Published when Tolstoy was just twenty-three years old, the book was an immediate success, earning notice from other Russian novelists including Ivan Turgenev, who heralded the young Tolstoy as a major up-and-coming figure in Russian literature.  Childhood is an exploration of the inner life of a young boy, Nikolenka, and one of the books in Russian writing to explore an expressionistic style, mixing fact, fiction and emotions to render the moods and reactions of the narrator. - Summary by Wikipedia

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  The Autobiography of God - A Novel

  Julius Lester

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  A critically acclaimed author “melds the classic college mystery with deeply theological ruminations on suffering and death. . . . richly absorbing” (Publishers Weekly). 
   
  Rebecca Nachman is a Rabbi without a synagogue. Having resigned from her dwindling congregation, she now works as a college counselor at a small Vermont college advising students about private matters and offering the “Jewish perspective” on issues raised at faculty dinner parties. 
   
  Deeply lonely and on the edge of losing her faith, she comes into possession of a Torah, the last relic of Czechowa, a village of Polish Jews who were exterminated by the Nazis. With the Torah, the unquiet spirits of the village dead begin to visit Rebecca. On one visit they leave a manuscript written in Hebrew and titled My Life, an autobiography by God who, like any eager author, is seeking a sympathetic reader. No one has ever finished reading the manuscript, including Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther, Maimonides, and Augustine. God thinks Rebecca will. 
   
  Rebecca’s life is further complicated when one of her advisees—a troubled young woman who seemed on the verge of confessing something—is found murdered. As the college struggles to comprehend the tragedy and a police investigation is launched, Rebecca begins reading, and so comes to confront the central challenge to her faith in His most troubling and unlikely incarnation. 
   
  “In true Yiddish style, Lester writes with the irony and intensity and sometimes dark comedy . . . that dramatize the Jewish belief that good and evil coexist in people and in God.” —Booklist

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  The Solace of Bay Leaves

  Leslie Budewitz

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  The Solace of Bay Leaves is the fifth Spice Shop mystery, featuring Pepper Reece, a forty-something single city girl. 
   
    
   
  When her life fell apart at forty, after she stumbled over her husband, a Seattle police officer on the downtown bike beat, and a parking enforcement officer practically plugging each other's meters, and the law firm where she worked as an HR manager imploded in scandal, taking her job with it, Pepper never expected to find solace in bay leaves. But season after season, as the new owner of Seattle Spice in the Pike Place Market, Pepper faces danger head-on, determined to work for justice, protect those she loves, and live a spicy life.

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  The Brass Starling

  Isaac D. Peterson

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  In an alternate early twentieth-century New York—an immigrant’s daughter fights the forces of darkness to save her family—and finds an ally in Nikola Tesla . . .   When Thomas Edison’s corporate thugs steal her father's invention, Willow Locke must find a way to defend her family. Willow finds an unexpected ally in Nikola Tesla, who works in secret in a basement lab away from his main facility at Wardenclyffe, which he fears has been infiltrated by spies . . .   Tesla is creating advanced technology that is a century ahead of its time, but everything he makes must be kept hidden. Willow will use his inventions to unravel the corporate union-busters and protect her loved ones from violence. But in the course of her investigation she uncovers a hideous secret, an immortal enemy pulling the corporate strings, and a devastating plot for a final annihilation. Even with Tesla’s help, she is only one person. Can she stand against the forces of murder and darkness allied against her?

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  Letters To Lenin - Episode Four...

  Olivia Lewis-Brown

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  “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles." - Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto (1848)  
  In the final instalment of the Letters to Lenin series the men ( now devastated after Bernard's death ) decide to kidnap Clemence Reed and make him listen. However when they discover Mr Reeds business associates want him dead in order to inherit his coal empire, the men see an opportunity to further their union demands. When Nancy falls Ill and the strike is yet again threatened, Nikolai must choose between the woman he loves and the community he so passionately wants to protect. Now the leader of the newly formed 'Miners Federation Of Great Britain', Nikolai battles with his sense of right and wrong in order to lead the coal mining proletarians into the future of the industrial age. 
  Packed with vengeance, revolution, tragedy and woe this finale is guaranteed to have you on the edge of your seat. 
  If you would like to find out more about this series and the creators behind the voices please visit www.letterstolenin.theatre 
  If you would like to stay informed on future writing work from Olivia Lewis-Brown you can visit her personal site at www.lewis-brown.com or visit www.screamwriter.blog for updates

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  Private Justice

  Marie Ferrarella

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  When a senator is disgraced by scandal, his hotshot attorney son, Dylan, rushes to pick up the pieces for the sake of the splintering Kelley family. Dylan's only ally is the feisty Cindy Jensen, whose loyalty to her boss is as compelling as her drop-dead-gorgeous looks.The senator's not the only one whose world is in disarray: Cindy's grappling with an unexpected pregnancy and bears scars from the past. The last thing she's looking for is romance, even with a man who's as sweet as he is steely. But little do she and Dylan know, Senator Kelley has even more secrets…secrets that might cost the newfound lovers their lives.

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