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  A Lead Pill

  R A Jacobson

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  My Gran used to say, “There are times when the only way out is a lead pill.” These are stories when things got that bad. 
  A Lead Pill is the second collection of short stories from a HARD PLACE. 
  Stories of loneliness and betrayal, of false hope and shattered dreams, of gifts and regrets, of love and accidental kindness. Each story follows separate paths that lead to the understanding that sometimes the only solution is a lead pill. 
  A life of stacked years never knowing that it was all in service to a memory in Service Up. 
  What do you do when life has outlived the reason to be alive in Tired of Living. 
  Finding love in the strangest places can lead to some strange results in Passing it Forward. 
  The desperate do desperate things that they soon come to regret in Haymaker. 
  She wanted the power, she just didn’t want to be used by it in The Refusal. 
  All your life you have wanted something but maybe you didn’t know what that was in The Touch. 
  His love of numbers led him to ask for something that turned out to be something else entirely in Adding it up.

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  Avalanche - Stories

  Jessica Westhead

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  "Things used to be easier, but even in those carefree days, the rules were in place for a reason. And that reason is: so we can all agree. So we can all have the same standard applied across the board. So there is no special treatment, which no one should receive. This is why we need the rules." 
   
   
   
  The stories in Avalanche combine humor with an earnest examination and indictment of white entitlement, guilt, shame, and disorientation in the wake of waking up to the reality of racism. Focusing on the perspective of white, cis, straight, and mostly middle-aged and middle-class characters, this collection shines a light on the obliviousness of white privilege, the violence of polite, quiet racism hiding just under the surface of mundane, everyday situations, and the anguished flailing of "well-intentioned white ladies" desperate to confirm their essential goodness at all costs. Westhead writes with compassion and empathy for both her frustrating and frustrated white protagonists and the racialized characters who encounter them, and uses humor not to comfortably distance white readers from the harmful behavior of her self-absorbed protagonists, but to pull them in close to recognize—and reckon with—those familiar parts of themselves, and to become more aware of the insidious systems of white supremacy at work behind the scenes. 
   
   
   
  Bonus material: This audiobook includes the Acknowledgments as supplemental material in printable PDF format.

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  Désirée's Baby - From their pens...

  Kate Chopin

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  Katherine O'Flaherty was born on the 8th February 1850 in St Louis, Missouri to parents of French and Irish descent. 
  At age 5, she was sent to the Sacred Heart Academy and, apart from a 2 year period at home when her father died, remained there until graduating in 1868.  Whilst there she began writing and became an avid reader of almost anything that crossed her path.   
  Kate married Oscar Chopin in 1870 and the couple moved to New Orleans, and later to the rural setting of Cloutierville, Louisiana to raise their 6 children.  
  In 1882 her husband died leaving her in a deep trench of debt.  Despite her best efforts to turn the businesses around they were sold, and she moved the family back to St Louis and the financial help of her mother.  Sadly, her mother died within the year.  Kate, now struggling with depression, pushed herself to write and gained a local reputation as a writer of short stories that captured the local color and vibrancy of her surroundings.  
  By the early 1890’s her short stories were published nationally.  With this widespread audience also came negative reviews, controversy, and cries of immorality as themes such as interracial relationships, the rights of women and other burning issues of the day were written about. 
  Despite the criticism, which unnerved her, she continued to write though in the main her works, around 100 short stories and two novels, were not attributed with any literary worth. 
  Kate Chopin died from a brain haemorrhage in St Louis Missouri on the 22nd of August 1904.  She was 54. 
  For much of the 20th Century her work was forgotten and out of print.  It was only in early 1970’s, with the rise of feminism and the call for a more just society that she was given the status her works had long described and shone a literary light at.  She is now safely revered as one of America’s great authors.

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  Murder on the Aisle - The 1987...

  Mary Higgins Clark

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  Prepare to be entertained by a host of Hollywood celebrities reading the finest collection of short mystery stories— many by Edgar Award-winning writers— set in the world of entertainment. The fourteen stories collected here include:
  
  
  " Revival in Eastport" by Jon L. Breen
  
  " The Enjoyment of an Artist" by Gordon Bennett (writing as Isak Romun)
  
  " A Break in the Film" by John F. Suter
  
  " Gee Whiz, My Lovely" by Betty Buchanan
  
  " It Was Bad Enough" by Ron Goulart
  
  " Snookered" by Gerald Tomlinson
  
  " The Waste Pile at Apple Bowl" by Joan Richter
  
  " A Slip of the Lip" by Lawrence Treat
  
  " The Double Death of Nell Quigley" by J. F. Pierce
  
  " Death of a Princess" by Joyce Harrington
  
  " Saturday's Shadow" by William F. Nolan
  
  " New York, New York" by Thomas Adcock
  
  " Captain Leopold Goes to the Dogs" by Edward D. Hoch
  
  " The Last Escape" by Henry Slesar

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  Your Sons and Your Daughters Are...

  Rosie Garland

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  "Who's afraid of a girl who shines bright?" Rosie Garland's spellbinding short story collection explores extraordinary people defying expectations. Blurring natural and supernatural, these enchanting yet disquieting stories unveil the extraordinary within ordinary people. Garland deftly unveils our deepest fears and desires, embracing transformative potential. Brace for a journey pushing imagination's limits, where the impossible becomes reality.

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  The Thorn in the Flesh

  D H Lawrence

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  ‘The Thorn in the Flesh’ was written by D H Lawrence in 1914.  The story can be read in tandem with 'The Prussian Officer' which was written in the same year and has a similar setting and theme. In this story, the young soldier fights against his own shortcomings as a soldier and as a man. He flees the scene of his crime into the arms of his lover where he finds solace and comfort but he cannot escape the inevitable military machine that Lawrence hated.

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