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William Stoner enters the University of Missouri at nineteen to study agriculture. A seminar on English literature changes his life, and he never returns to work on his father's farm. Stoner becomes a teacher. He marries the wrong woman. His life is quiet, and after his death his colleagues remember him rarely.

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Cherry Hendricks is a down-on-her-luck party clown in Orlando, Florida, trying to make ends meet and take her career to the next level. A date with a much older magician might just give her the break she needs... Full of heart, with an caper-y romantic plotline, STOP ME IF YOU'VE HEARD THIS ONE is entertaining, original and unmissable.

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The next title in the British Library Women Writers series that now includes three anthologies. It includes a diverse range of stories from well-known and forgotten female writers, published from the early 1910s through to the late 1980s.

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Nicholas Shakespeares collected stories take us around the globe and into the intimate lives of his characters and the dilemmas and temptations they face.

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Set in a Harlem high rise, a tight-knit cast of neighbours grapple with their own personal challenges while the forces of gentrification threaten to upend life as they know it

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Sheep-shearing galas, Antarctic ponies, human clones, the Queen's visit to Dunedin, a pounamu decoder, a childhood in the pubs of the South Island, the last days of Robert Louis Stevensonthis is Bill Manhire as backyard inventor, devising stories in which the fabulous and the everyday collide.

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THE STORIES OF BILL MANHIRE collects the stories from The New Land: A Picture Book (1990) and those added to South Pacific (1994) and Songs of My Life (1996). In addition there are previously uncollected and unpublished stories, the choose-your-ownadventure novella The Brain of Katherine Mansfield (1988), and the memoir Under the Influence (2003).

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This collection consists of nine sports fiction stories featuring sports stars from bygone eras. These 20th century snapshots involve humanizing encounters with teammates, fans, and other ordinary people. Their narratives focus on mentors, friendships, and the connection of sports to both the aspirational ideals and discriminatory contradictions of American culture.

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Their love knows no limits - but the further you go, the more dangers there are. Love becomes obsession and lust becomes control. A riveting thriller in the tradition of Gone Girl and Before I Go to Sleep.

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A memoir of astonishing power, savagery and ashen lyricism that illuminates the horrors as well as the fascination of total First World War, presenting the conflict through the eyes of an ordinary German soldier. It provides an account of the terrors of the Western Front and of the sickening allure that made men keep fighting on for 4 long years.

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Bataille's first novel: a legendary shocker that uncovers the dark side of the erotic by means of forbidden obsessive fantasies of excess and sexual extremes.

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"From the author of The Littlest Library-a heartwarming novel about a widowed children's book author who moves into a cottage in the English countryside and finds herself face-to-face with the handsome and brooding blacksmith who lives next door"--

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A new edition of this classic title.

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New York, summer of 2007. The Iraq War still rages. Domestic terror threats abound. The iPhone is about to launch. But the biggest story is straight bananas flooding the city, overtaking crack and heroin. Rich or poor, no one can resist peelin' straight.

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A collection of Stevenson's best-loved stories, including 'The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde', 'The Merry Men' and 'The Body Snatcher', introduced by Roderick Watson.

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When a mysterious cannibal pot is discovered by Steven Messenger, it is only one of the many bizarre clues that lead to the truth behind an age-old murder mystery