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  Afterparties - Stories

  Anthony Veasna So

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  INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 
  WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE’S JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST BOOK  
  WINNER OF THE FERRO-GRUMLEY AWARD FOR LGBTQ FICTION 
  Named a Best Book of the Year by: New York Times * NPR * Washington Post * LA Times * Kirkus Reviews * New York Public Library * Chicago Public Library * Harper’s Bazaar * TIME * Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air * Boston Globe* The Atlantic 
  A vibrant story collection about Cambodian-American life—immersive and comic, yet unsparing—that offers profound insight into the intimacy of queer and immigrant communities 
  Seamlessly transitioning between the absurd and the tenderhearted, balancing acerbic humor with sharp emotional depth, Afterparties offers an expansive portrait of the lives of Cambodian-Americans. As the children of refugees carve out radical new paths for themselves in California, they shoulder the inherited weight of the Khmer Rouge genocide and grapple with the complexities of race, sexuality, friendship, and family. 
  A high school badminton coach and failing grocery store owner tries to relive his glory days by beating a rising star teenage player. Two drunken brothers attend a wedding afterparty and hatch a plan to expose their shady uncle’s snubbing of the bride and groom. A queer love affair sparks between an older tech entrepreneur trying to launch a “safe space” app and a disillusioned young teacher obsessed with Moby-Dick. And in the sweeping final story, a nine-year-old child learns that his mother survived a racist school shooter. 
  The stories in Afterparties, “powered by So’s skill with the telling detail, are like beams of wry, affectionate light, falling from different directions on a complicated, struggling, beloved American community” (George Saunders).

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  Against Time

  J.S. Fletcher

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  Joseph Smith Fletcher (1863-1935) was a British journalist and author. He wrote more than 230 books on a wide variety of subjects, both fiction and nonfiction. He was one of the leading writers of detective fiction in the Victorian 'golden age' of the short story. 
  
  
  "Against Time" is the adventure of a young clerk, Ledbitter, who realises, to his horror, that he has forgotten to post an important letter from his employer to a prospective client containing a valuable tender. He had left the letter in the inside pocket of the waistcoat he had been wearing the day before. But when he gets home, he discovers that his wife has sold the waistcoat with a bundle of other second-hand clothes. In a panic, he sets off to track down the waistcoat and recover the letter before it is too late.

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  Anthology of Classic Short...

  Arthur Conan Doyle, G.K....

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  Read the best mystery and adventure short stories. Be it cozy, historical, detective or murder mystery stories; our collection includes them all:
  The Red-Headed League by Arthur Conan Doyle
  The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle by Arthur Conan Doyle
  The Arrow of Heaven by G. K. Chesterton
  The Sign of the Broken Sword by G. K. Chesterton
  The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe
  The Master of Mystery by Jack London
  The Problem of Cell 13 by Jacques Futrelle
  The Three Strangers by Thomas Hardy
  The Diamond as Big as the Ritz by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell

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  Scottish Traditional Tales

  A.J. Bruford, D.A. MacDonald

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  Stories of heroes, clans, and more in a collection that “savours the Scottish rendering of old folk tales . . . A treasure house of the oral tradition” (The Wee Review).   All over the world, traditional tales were told at the fireside until books, newspapers, radio, and television took their place. This is an entertaining collection from Scotland, recorded and collected by researchers from the School of Scottish Studies at the University of Edinburgh over the past fifty years. Taken from a variety of sources, from the Hebridean Gaelic tradition to recordings of Lowland cairds (travellers), some are well-known tales which have equivalents in other cultures and languages, whilst others are unique to Scotland. The tales are arranged by theme: tall tales, hero tales, legends of ghosts and evil spirits, tales of fate and religion, fairies and sea-folk, children’s tales, trickster tales, tales of clan feuds, and robber tales. This “fine book which is highly recommended” quickly establishes itself as a classic (Dalriada).

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  The Blue Moccasins

  D H Lawrence

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  'The Blue Moccasins' has the charm of looking at some eternal human problems such as unequal marriage, the waning of sexual desire and a woman who cannot give herself wholly to her husband in a thoroughly English and local setting; the stage of an amateur dramatic society where all the passions and delusions come to a head.

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  The White Cat

  W.W. Jacobs

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  William Wymark Jacobs (1863 - 1943) was an English author of short stories and novels. His most popular works in the early part of the last century were his humorous tales set around the docks of Wapping and in the tap-room of the infamous Cauliflower tavern.Many of his stories were written in a Cockney vernacular and were keenly observant of character.  "The White Cat" is a humorous tale of a disputed inheritance, a clever old rogue and a suspiciously mislaid white cat.

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