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  Now You See It - Stories from...

  Bathsheba Monk

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  It's pretty much a straight shot from the upstate New York towns of Richard Russo's books to Bathsheba Monk's Cokesville, PA. This is coal and steel country. The sort of place where an inch of soot on the windowsill means a regular paycheck—and two inches means a fat one. And what's the best make-out spot in town? Next to the burning slag heap. In seventeen beguiling, linked stories, spanning fourty-five years, Monk brings a corner of America alive as never before. Her world bursts with indelible characters: Mrs. Szilborski, who bakes great cake, but sprays her neighbors' dogs with mace; and Mrs. Wojic, who believes her husband was reincarnated—as one of those dogs. Then there is the younger generation: Annie Kusiak , who wants to write, and Theresa Gojuk, who dreams of stardom. Cokesville is their Yoknapatawpha; they ache to escape it and the ghosts of their ancestors and the regret of their parents. What ghosts—and what regrets! When Theresa's father Bruno falls into a vat of molten steel, the mill gives the family an ingot roughly his weight to bury. As deliciously wry as Allegra Goodman in The Family Markowitz, and with the matter-of-fact humanity of Grace Paley, Bathsheba Monk leads us into a world that is at once totally surprising and recognizable. These stories glow like molten steel.

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  Seconds of Pleasure - Stories

  Neil LaBute

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  Stories from the award-winning director and playwright. “Labute’s smart, edgy offering delivers pleasures well beyond the time frame his title suggests.”—Booklist 
   
  In Seconds of Pleasure, Neil LaBute brings to the page his cutting humor and compelling take on the shadowy terrain of the human heart. Best known for his controversial plays and films, his short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker and Playboy. Seductive and provocative, each potent and pithy tale in Seconds of Pleasure finds men and women exploiting—or at the mercy of—the hidden fault lines that separate them: In “Time Share,” a woman leaves her family at their vacation home after discovering her husband in a compromising situation; a middle-aged man obsesses over a scab on the calf of a pretty young girl in “Boo-Boo”; and a vain Hollywood actor gets his comeuppance in “Soft Target.” LaBute infuses Seconds of Pleasure with his trademark wit and black humor and unleashes his imagination in stories that offer unflinching insight into our very human shortcomings and impure urges with shocking candor. 
   
  “LaBute’s usual sleazy suspects are prepared to risk family, love, career, and freedom for the momentary satisfaction of their sometimes brutal desires. It will end badly, we know, and that’s what makes each dark tale as irresistible as good gossip. Fallibility and weakness, LaBute has demonstrated once again, have their own allure.”—Black Book 
   
  “Seconds captures in print both the nuanced rhythms of contemporary speech and the pitfalls of dark I-Me-Mine gratification.”—LA Weekly 
   
  “LaBute is a master at crafting shocking situations and nasty characters.”—Publishers Weekly

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  Top 10 Short Stories The - H P...

  HP Lovecraft

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  His name is a byword for unspeakable horror and dread.  Across ten stories this dark master holds a fascinating lure for all of us.  Word by word, line by line we are drip-fed stomach-churning terror of a mesmerizing kind… 
   
  1 - The Top Ten - H P Lovecraft 
   
  2 - Re Animator 
   
  3 - The Call of Cthulu 
   
  4 - The Color Out of Space 
   
  5 - The Lurking Fear 
   
  6 - The Thing On the Doorstep 
   
  7 - Pickman's Model 
   
  8 - The Cats of Ulthar 
   
  9 - The Picture in the House 
   
  10 - Polaris 
   
  11 - The Rats in the Walls

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  American Fairy Tales

  L. Frank Baum

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  American Fairy Tales is Collection of 12 Short Stories written in 1901 by L. Frank Baum. Lyman Frank Baum was an American author chiefly famous for his children's books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. He wrote 14 novels in the Oz series, plus 41 other novels, 83 short stories, over 200 poems, and at least 42 scripts. This audio book contains 12 of Baums’s stories, with a play time of almost 1 hour long. These stories come to life when narrated with the deep soft voice of Brice Salek. Some wording has been carefully reworked by Audiobooks Inc. for your enjoyment.

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  First Death - Seventeen Series...

  A.D. Starrling

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  Discover where it all started…  
     Carpathian Mountains, Moldavia.   
     
  Ten-year-old Lucas’s life is a simple but happy one. All that changes when the Hunters finally track down his whereabouts.  
     
  Forced to bear witness to horrific scenes that forever shatter his innocence, he discovers the shocking secret behind his less than ordinary existence. What follows is a fight for survival that will define the nature of a boy bound to an incredible destiny whose origins have been lost to the tides of time.  
     
  First Death is a short story set in AD Starrling's bestselling supernatural thriller series Seventeen. If you like high-octane adventures that combine science and fantasy, then you'll love the world of Seventeen.  
     
  Visit Shop AD Starrling to get digitally signed books and discounted bundles!

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  Bedtime Stories For Kids: - A...

  Alexa Wood

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  Are you looking for a fun, soothing way to bond with your kids? Does your child have difficulty falling asleep? Do you want to calm your child down, improve their vocabulary, and listening skills? 
   If yes, then this little collection of spellbinding stories for kids can help you. 
  These stories put you into the perspective of the main character, placing you directly into the landscape and action of the story, for a first-hand, invigorating experience. 
  You can see and experience everything for yourself, in order to learn more about yourself and your abilities by the time you return to your daily life. 
  Sleep stories are relaxing classic tales and works of literature that are engineered to help you fall asleep faster and stay sleeping through the night. 
  You'll deeply relax your body and mind. 
   In this audiobook you’ll discover stories like: 
  ·        Poor Little Kyle 
  ·        The Tortoise that never gave up 
  ·        The brave Little Panda 
  ·        A happy Zoo Day 
  ·        The Brave 
  And many other stories… 
  Your children will be delighted to hear these stories written especially for them. 
  You will never have problems again and you will never have to read stories to your children again.So, what are you waiting for? You will thank yourself later for choosing to listen to this audiobook.Download this audiobook and improve your life.

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