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Contents: - Washington Irving. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Edgar Allan Poe. The Gold Bug - Herman Melville. Bartleby, the Scrivener - Bret Harte. The Luck of Roaring Camp - Leo Tolstoy. The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Fyodor Dostoevsky. The Dream of a Ridiculous Man - Rudyard Kipling. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi - Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The Yellow Wallpaper - Anton Chekhov. The Lady with the Dog - D.H. Lawrence. The Prussian Officer - James Joyce. Araby - Ivan Turgenev. First Love.

Of all the things that could happen while making a delivery, Jolene Mackenzie never imagined being knocked down and crushed by a man who literally dies on top of her. Who is he? Why would someone want to kill him? Why did he keep mumbling the words “wrong one” before he died? And how will the chief of police turn all the facts around and blame this on Jolene? With things already going sideways, a local inn keeper discovers that his expensive painting is missing. Of course Jolene is now a suspect for both crimes. In order to clear her name, she will need to start her own investigation. ...

Welcome to The Personality Test, the panel show in which a brand new host takes the chair for every episode to present a quiz entirely themed around themselves. Each gets to run the show by their own rules, devising topics and queries based on their life, whims, fancies and past glories. Among the showbiz celebrities in the hot seat are Gyles Brandreth, Jennie Bond, Antony Worrall Thompson, Esther Rantzen, Janet Street-Porter and Edwina Currie, while the rounds include Love It Or Hate It, True or False, That Special Day and Life's a Pitch.

Presented in the first person, the story is a collection of journal entries written by a woman whose physician husband (John) has rented an old mansion for the summer and the couple moves into the upstairs nursery. As a form of treatment, she is forbidden from working, but encouraged to eat well and get plenty of exercise and air, so she can recuperate from what he calls a temporary nervous depression - a slight hysterical tendency, a diagnosis common to women in that period.

Evelyn and Dorothy - the twins - are seven when the Forrests move from New York City, the hub of the world, to Westmere, New Zealand. The Forrest Trust Fund now cut out of their lives, the family live under a cloudless sky, in the dust and the heat, outdoors and running wild. Their father - who they would only call Frank - works for a cab company over the weekends but is really an actor. Michael, the eldest, has a friend called Daniel whose father lives in a half-way house. He starts to live with them, punches Dorothy to stop her crying, and becomes family.

Halloween is fast approaching in the small coastal town of Quinby Haven. Lillie Tillman couldn't be more excited. She's already set up decorations at the bed and breakfast where she lives and at her friend's book store. But Lillie's friends at Rousseau's Retreat don't exactly share her enthusiasm when it comes to the eerie holiday. They already have their hands full with a strange mixture of guests - an accountant scared of his own shadow, a couple who appear to hate B&Bs, a man who rattles off useless trivia and his wife who fills her handbag with anything not nailed down. If you throw in ...

It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer. A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, and reach the height of romantic felicity—but that would be asking too much of fate! Still I will proudly declare that there is something queer about it. Else, why should it be let so cheaply? And why have stood so long untenanted? John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage. John is practical in the extreme.

While making a delivery, Beavers Point bakery owner Jolene Mackenzie discovers her first dead body. Could it be connected to the recent rash of robberies in the area? Jolene's curiosity gets the better of her as she starts her own investigation with the help of her new friend Kaelyn, a local reporter. In no time at all, she finds that her life goes from fair to middlin' to seriously in danger. With the chief of police giving her a difficult time every step of the way, will Jolene be able to solve the mystery? Will she be able to save one of her neighbors from being falsely accused? What was...

Step into the peeling corners of a sunlit nursery where shadows weave stories, and the wallpaper whispers secrets to the solitary occupant. The Yellow Wallpaper is a haunting exploration of the fine line between reality and madness, told through the intimate, unraveling voice of a woman confined by both a stifling room and the suffocating norms of her time. In this groundbreaking work, Gilman transforms the mundane into the menacing, using the seemingly innocent patterns of wallpaper to reveal a tapestry of despair, resilience, and suppressed creativity.

With Her in Ourland: Sequel to Herland is a feminist novel and sociological commentary written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The novel is a follow-up and sequel to Herland (1915), and picks up immediately following the events of Herland, with Terry, Van, and Ellador traveling from Herland to "Ourland" (the contemporary 1915-16 world). The majority of the novel follows Van and Ellador's travels throughout the world, and particularly the United States, with Van curating their explorations through the then-modern world, while Ellador offers her commentary and "prescriptions".

The Christmas season is in full swing in the small lakeside town of Beavers Point. Just as everyone in town is preparing for the upcoming winter festival, threatening notes begin to appear. A local woman who never leaves her house is in a serious accident. A resident on his way home stumbles across a dead body left in the park. Rumors that a “ghost” is responsible for the death show up on social media. The incidents have everyone baffled including the town’s amateur sleuth. Since moving to Beavers Point two years earlier, Jolene Mackenzie has reconnected with old friends, made some ...

Award-winning children's author Mitali Perkins grew up steeped in stories - escaping into her books on the fire escape of a Flushing apartment building and, later, finding solace in them as she navigated between the cultures of her suburban California school and her Bengali heritage at home. Now Perkins invites us to explore the promise of seven timeless children's novels for adults living in uncertain times: stories that provide mirrors to our innermost selves and open windows to other worlds.

I love being a manny. Love it. Especially when my boss goes on extended business trips and leaves me with the keys to his Park Avenue penthouse. I mean, sure, I’ve got to watch his daughter, but she loves me almost as much as she loves her favorite K-pop group. Really. All is going well until their new neighbor thinks I’m the actual billionaire next door, and I don’t correct her. What could possibly go wrong?

Re-imagine leading and following in a world longing for true justice, compassion and freedom followers of Christ yearn to see the world changed in compassionate, positive, effective ways. As prophetic voices, Shane Claiborne and John Perkins lead the way in this move to be the hands, feet and heart of Jesus.

Tourist season is winding down in the small town of Beavers Point, but bakery owner Jolene Mackenzie is busier than ever. Not only is she helping to open a new addition to the bakery and mercantile, she's also planning her upcoming wedding. But Jolene soon discovers that some strange things are happening in town. There are complaints of unexplained loud noises during the night. A local is blamed for his wife's disappearance. Items are being stolen from the local store. And Jingles the cat has gone missing again. Jolene's friend Zoe blames it all on the full moon. Could that be possible? Or ...

Whether you know it or not, you're a leader. Maybe that's not news; you're used to taking charge. But if you're like many people, you have yet to discover your potential as a man or woman others follow in pursuit of a vision--a compelling, infectious vision that grips people and draws them...

Train. Car. Plane. Boat. Feet. He'll get there. Won't he?...

How to live with GBS, embrace life and look to the future with hope.

To lead a good life, we must know what is good. Our highest good is what is eternal and lasting. It is to know God in all that by which he makes himself known. And yet, in sin, we are alienated from God. How can we be redeemed so that we can begin to lead a good life? William Perkins, with precision and clear reasoning, takes us step by step through thinking about this problem. This book preserves his original text, and although the English usage is older, he is wrestling with concerns that are ever-present. Plato said that philosophy is preparation to die. There are only two options: be ...

Penguin presents the unabridged downloadable audiobook edition of The Econocracy by Joe Earle, Cahal Moran and Zach Ward-Perkins, read by Jonathan Keeble. A century ago, the idea of 'the economy' didn't exist. Now economics is the supreme ideology of our time, with its own rules and language...