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  Another Chance to Get It Right -...

  Andrew Vachss

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  The acclaimed and ground breaking collection of short stories, poetry, and allegory by Andrew Vachss, one of the most powerful voices in the field of child protection. This work is an illumination of the realities of child abuse, juvenile violence...and tribute to the power of imagination.  
  People Magazine says, "Another Chance is Dr. Seuss dressed up as a Scorsese movie, another on-target hit by an author who has made children his primary concern." 
  Another Chance to Get it Right offers a unique look at the potential of parenting, as much inspirational as it is instructional, both a blessing and a warning for us all.

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  The Pit and the Pendulum

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  This short story is about a man who is brought in front of the Spanish Inquisition and judgment passed upon him to suffer the horrors of the Pit in Toledo. Toledo, Spain is located just south of Madrid and was the center of the Spanish Inquisition. The Inquisition was originally intended to ensure the belief and practices of those who converted from Judaism and Islam, but the methods used for those who were judged to be heretics was torture. His torture involved being thrown into a pit, being drugged and strapped to a table where a large pendulum blade is slowly lowered directly over his awaiting body. Poe brings a real sense of fear during an intense episode of this single prisoner.

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  Disappearing Act - A Host of...

  Robert Sheehan

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  In his debut collection of short stories, Robert Sheehan disappears into characters, challenging the complacencies of everyday experience, often from entirely unexpected angles.
  Informed by the author's peripatetic life, Disappearing Act reflects on the absurdity of human behaviour. Sheehan delves deep into his characters' streams of self-talk and self-imposed delusions, exploring the dark impulses that lurk below the shiny surfaces of many outwardly normal lives.
  Dark and provocative, the collection will stay with the reader long after the book is finished.
  Warning: Contains Adult Content

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  To Cut a Long Story Short

  Jeffrey Archer

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  A #1 New York Times–bestselling author “maintains his obsession with surprise endings, producing a collection of fourteen cleverly twisting tales” (Publishers Weekly).  
   
  From the master storyteller comes a compelling collection of fourteen riveting tales of elaborate confidence tricks, political chicanery, immoral behavior, and dangerously illicit affairs, rendered with the breathtaking narrative twists that have become the Jeffrey Archer hallmark. 
   
  Here are stories that will engross and astonish, peopled with a rich assortment of truly memorable characters: the intoxicating woman who appears to her lover only once every six years; the British diplomat who employs his rather creative—if not entirely ethical—financial talents for a greater good; the millionaire who declares himself bankrupt to test the love and loyalties of those closest to him. 
   
  This is Jeffrey Archer at the top of his form, as he offers us unique fables for our time and civilization, each one shining a harsh yet hypnotic light on that fascinating, complex being called “human.” 
   
  Praise for Jeffrey Archer: 
   
  “Cunning plots, silken style . . . Archer plays a cat-and-mouse game with the reader.” —New York Times 
   
  “Archer is a master entertainer.” —Time 
   
  “Archer plots with skill, and keeps you turning the pages.” —Boston Globe 
   
   
   
  “A storyteller in the class of Alexandre Dumas.” —Washington Post 
   
  “Archer has a gift for plot that can only be described as genius.” —Daily Telegraph

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  The Death of Halpin Frayser

  Ambrose Bierce

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  "Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842 - 1914) was an American writer famous for his dark and cynical writings, which earned him the nickname ""Bitter Bierce"".  He is famous also for his mysterious demise. He wrote a letter to a friend, which he closed by saying, ""As to me, I leave here tomorrow for an unknown destination,"" and then he vanished without a trace, his disappearance becoming one of the most famous in American literary history. ""The Death of Halpin Frayser"" is a deeply disturbing tale, written with the sense of a terrible nightmare in which a man is horribly attacked in a wood by the undead animated corpse of his dead mother. "

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  The Case for the Baptism of the...

  Mike DeFrench

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  A priest in the far future makes his case a Cardinal of the Catholic Church for the baptism of an alien species.

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