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  Honest Work - A Good Women Story

  Halle Hill

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  Maudette works at the state fair. She hates her job, she hates what her mother does for a living, she hates the people in her town, especially one of her mother’s clients, a local deacon. Working the tilt-a-whirl one day, she begins to consider revengeHonest Work is a short story from Halle Hill’s Good Women, which delves into the lives of twelve Black women across the Appalachian South. Darkly funny and deeply human, Good Women observes how place, blood ties, generational trauma, obsession, and boundaries―or lack thereof―influence how we navigate our small worlds, and how those worlds so often collide in ways we don’t expect.

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  Stories by Suffragettes

  Beatrice Harraden, Violet Hunt,...

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  A collection of short stories written by prominent supporters of the women's suffrage movement in the United Kingdom. 'The Operation' by Violet Hunt 'An Idyll of London' by Beatrice Harraden 'The Mahatma's Story' by May Sinclair 'The Man in the Scented Coat' by Sarah Grande'A Bird on Its Journey' by Beatrice Harraden 'The World's Slow Stain' by May Sinclair 'Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched' by May Sinclair 'The Kidnapping of Phil Altamore' by Ella Hepworth Dixon 'The Token' by May Sinclair 'The Nature of the Evidence' by May Sinclair'The Umbrella Mender' by Beatrice Harraden
  A Red Door Consulting production.

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  The Adventures of Pinocchio

  Carlo Collodi

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  "The Adventures of Pinocchio" is a story about an animated puppet, boys who turn into donkeys, and other fairy tale devices. The setting of the story is the Tuscan area of Italy. It was a unique literary marriage of genres for its time. The story's Italian language is peppered with Florentine dialect features, such as the protagonist's Florentine name.

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  Swans A Swimming: Twelve Days of...

  Stuart MacBride

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  Seventh story in a collection of interlinked tales of crime and retribution laced with dark humour, set around the festive season 
  James Kirkhill thinks he has the best job in the world: coaching the girls’ swimming team. But he’s about to get into some very deep water… 
  Swans A Swimming by Stuart MacBride, the Sunday Times bestselling author, is a black, humorous mystery that will keep you hooked. This hard-boiled thriller is a top bestseller that is a must-read for all detective fiction fans. 
  For fans of Mark Billingham (The Wrong Hands), Tg Reid (The Killing Parade), Jd Kirk (A Killer of Influence), J M Dalgliesh (A Dead Man on Staffin Beach), and Andrew Raymond (The Shortlist).

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  The Horla

  Guy de Maupassant

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  Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893), a French author, was one of the most influential short story writers of the 19th century.'Le Horla' is a truly terrifying story of a man, told through the pages of his diary, who is under the malign influence of some strange, invisible, parasitic being which saps his life energy.De Maupassant's clear, pragmatic language contrasts eerily with the ghastly and macabre narrative and draws the listener into the sheer terror of the situation.

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  Wood's Hope - Action and...

  Steven Becker

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  On New Year's Day 1959, with Castro on the brink of overthrowing the Batista regime, the soon-to-be-deposed dictator looted the Cuban treasury and loaded it into four B26 Marauder bombers headed for Tampa. 
  Only three planes landed. 
  The fourth has never been found, and was rumored to contain three billion dollars in gold.  
  For diver, fisherman, and salvor Mac Travis, things are never as easy as they seem. While attempting to salvage his wrecked boat in the Bahamas, he stumbles onto the lost sixty-year-old plane, now encrusted in coral. But when the wrong person overhears that it may be the missing Marauder, containing billions in gold, history becomes Mac’s enemy. With a fortune at stake, the CIA and the Mob—the big losers in the Cuban Revolution—are tipped off the wreck has been found. With a chance to recover their losses, the fight begins, leaving Mac as a pawn in a larger game—one that could cost him the life of a dear friend.  
  Filled with boating, diving, and intrigue, the treasure hunt begins. Check out Wood’s Hope to come along on Mac’s new adventure. 

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