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<title>Hijacked Chicago BB Card Show Promoter</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Needless to say, this book is a good companion amidst your busy days. It is bound to remind you of that one moment in your existence where you had no choice but to take a risk and plunge into a wild ride called life.]]></description>
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<title>In the Garden of Pineapples</title>
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<description><![CDATA[If you appreciate rags-to-riches type of stories, this may be one of your cup of tea. It is a fictional take on reality and vice versa-something which you can surely enjoy amidst a cold weather and a cup of hot tea. But like what the author said in his introduction, if you do not know how to listen, then this book is not for you.]]></description>
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<title>A Short Story, Jeffery's Guilty Pleasure</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A short story. Jeffery a young married man, experiences guilty pleasure as a result of a forbidden affair outside of his marriage. This short story evolves around Jeffery's thinking and reasoning for allowing the affair to occur in the first place. Even as his family falls apart and he moves on to his mistress, Jeffery learns that guilty pleasures, as a result of a forbidden affair, is a formula for unhappy endings in the long run. ]]></description>
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<title>William Faulkner's A Rose for Emily</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A Rose for Emily explored the history and legend of the south while delving into the sensitive insight on the human character. It deals with how Emily, the main character, refused to accept change.]]></description>
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<title>Is the Short Story Dead?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 15:59:31 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A reader loves to get their claws into a good book. The bigger the better because you never want a story to end. The world is full of big books; some brilliant, some good, some bad, and others that are just a waste if time.]]></description>
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<title>Hemingway's Clues: The Excellence of His Short Fiction</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Ernest Hemingway always said more with less. Instead of explicitly stating his meanings and reasons, he placed them subtly in his short fiction, as clues to be uncovered by astute reader-detectives.]]></description>
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<title>Red Moon</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:16:39 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I stood out in the cold, damp grass barefoot and felt the tendrils of mist curl around me. The lighthouse half a mile down the beach flashed through the fog every one and a half seconds exactly. Last year it was one of the last kerosene-lamp lighthouses still used on the east coast, but in May they changed it to electric bulbs after someone on a sailboat couldn't see it and hit the rocks.]]></description>
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<title>Charles Dickens' The Signal-Man: Teaching Dickens and the Art of Ambiguity!</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Dickens' The Signalman must be one of the most enigmatic stories ever written and although students may find it difficult, they often come to recognise the art of its slipperiness! Heated debates can ensue as to who is actually haunting whom in the tale. It is a dramatically compelling way to show students the power of ambiguity in a narrative and makes students really look at a text to find the place(s) where it 'means' what it seems to signify.]]></description>
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<title>William Trevor's Cheating at Canasta: Things Are Only Ever Finished But Never Finished With?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[William Trevor's collection of short stories 'Cheating at Canasta' reveals the subtle ways we sabotage our own prospects of happiness as well as those of others. This review explores the unfinished nature of Trevor's 'finished' tales, where characters always seem to be finding ways to leave each other and even more subtly, themselves.]]></description>
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<title>The Village That Vanished</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Gather round my people, gather round. And hear the voices of your ancestors in this tale of courage and sacrifice. These are the words from a masterpiece of Ann Grifalconi titled, "The Village that Vanished." Bravery and ingenuity flow from this exciting story of an entire village hiding from slavers, a story from the heart of Africa told by Ann Grifalconi, a great storyteller. It is an inspiring tale of three women's' courage and a village that refuses to die.]]></description>
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<title>The Politics Of Animal Stories - Chinua Achebe</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Achebe's short story 'What Has Literature Got to Do With It' links literature to creation. It asks the pertinent question whether stories create people or people create stories. The work is an examination of the reversal of political and social order through the symbol of an animal story and examines the threat authority faces and the impending nature of transition in society.]]></description>
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<title>In Pursuit of the Old Patterson Farm Buck</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 13:46:37 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Lou Champa lives in southern Ohio. His favorite sport was deer hunting. He wouldn't miss the deer season for any reason. He usually buys several non-resident licenses so that he can hunt deer in as many states as possible. Late last fall, he hunted in northern Wisconsin, and that's where this incident occurred.]]></description>
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<title>Nathaniel Hawthorne's David Swan: An Analysis of Binary Opposites</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 13:29:39 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This article discusses the summary of Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story David Swan and the binary opposites found within the story. The first part narrates the summary of the story in the universal present tense of the verb. The second part is the analysis of a few binary opposites found in the story.]]></description>
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<title>Short Stories About Love by Julia Valenskaya</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 11:53:46 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Julia Valenskaya's One-Cup Stories Are For The Heart and Soul. Never can I say have two short stories that took all of minutes to read had such a profound effect on me. Each word of Julia Valenskaya's short stories engaged me each step of the way...]]></description>
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<title>Beauty and the Beast by Marie Leprince De Beaumont</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 13:18:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Fairy tales have continued to fascinate and enthrall generations of young minds over the decades. Perhaps one of the most popular of all time is the story of the "Beauty and the Beast".]]></description>
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<title>William Dalrymple's 'Nine Lives' - A Summary</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In this book the author brings out beautifully the tales of nine Indian people, hailing from different cultures and tradition of India. William Dalrymple has subtly touched upon some grey areas of Indian tradition, religion, and a quest for one's own identity amidst the economic and social changes of the regions in South Asia.]]></description>
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<title>At Home: A Short History of Private Life</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Book Review: At Home - A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson. Bryson makes his writings so very interesting due to the very fact that he infuses his own imagination, satire and humour into it. His study of human nature and human history are revealed in a tour of his own home, a remarkable way to discuss history, but he somehow pulls it off.]]></description>
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<title>Bien Pretty Woman</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The short story Bien Pretty displays how a man can let his passion hurt a woman. The element their mad love affair lacked was communication. One day Flavio blindsided Lupe with the bomb saying ""I must go. To Mexico"... "My mother wrote me. I have compromises to attend to." There was a long pause... "My mother writes that my sons-"" It was at this point that Lupe finally found out about Flavios mystery life. This devastated Lupe to the length of their love affair. The brevity of passion that Flavio felt for her was what held him from telling the truth sooner.]]></description>
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<title>The Sea Wolf</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 14:46:56 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The Sea wolf is a novel written by Jack London. It is an intriguing tale about the adventures of a protagonist, Humphrey Van Weyden aboard the ship called the Ghost.]]></description>
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<title>Full Dark, No Stars</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 10:07:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Stephen King requires no introduction. A legend in the genre of horror stories, his short stories have thrilled and scared legions of ardent readers. The movies based on his works have turned into cult hits and almost every one pays homage to one of the scariest writers on earth.]]></description>
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<title>Room a Novel by Emma Donoghue</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 21:02:07 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Book Review: Room a novel by Emma Donoghue. A unique novel from the pen of Emma Donoghue, Room is whole lot different from the what you have ever read. The protagonist is a five year old boy named Jack who was born and has lived his entire life in an 11 foot by 11 foot room.]]></description>
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<title>Review of &quot;Everyday Use&quot; by Alice Walker: Coming to Terms With Constance Wangero and Dee Johnson</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 14:33:42 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Readers and writers have, for four decades, wondered and debated about the origin of the name "Wangero," which name is prominent in Alice Walker's renowned short story "Everyday Use" that bears a mid-20th Century flavor. Wangero is the African name that the youngster Dee Johnson adopts after she leaves USA's rural Deep South for college and urbanism where she becomes modernized and radicalized.]]></description>
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<title>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 09:10:01 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Lewis Carrol phenomenally successful work "Alice In Wonderland", is all about Alice falling down a rabbit hole and then coming back to the surface. The intriguing factor of the novel is what happens to her between this interval of time. The novel has been a favourite among all those who love fantasy filled stories and almost every kindergarten kid grows up listening to dear Alice's adventures.]]></description>
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<title>The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Book Review: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The literary world is incomplete without mention of Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary fictional character Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock Holmes ruled the minds of audiences in a manner no other literary character has been able to do and his adventures continues to awe, frighten and excite us till this very day. The author wrote several novels featuring Holmes but it was his short stories that turned into a raving success among the readers.]]></description>
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<title>The Gift of the Magi - An Appreciation</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 11:12:09 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The Gift of the Magi - An Appreciation is a critique of the immortal short story by O. Henry on the theme of Christmas and gift exchange. The short write-up brings out the essence of the story without revealing the surprise ending.]]></description>
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<title>Stories and Short Poems for Kids: A Family Reading Night</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 08:51:31 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Reading stories and short poems for kids aloud to your children is a critical step in teaching your child to read, but it has a wonderful hidden benefit as well. When you take the time to read to your children you are taking time with them, with no distractions, no cell phone, no computer, no TV. You are showing them that they are an important priority for you.]]></description>
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<title>Christmas Short Stories: Reading Holiday Favorites Together</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 07:34:15 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Ready to start a fun new tradition using great Christmas short stories? Here are some great stories to get your tradition started.]]></description>
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<title>I Am One of Them: A Review of Uwem Akpan's Book &quot;Say You're One of Them&quot;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This is a review of Uwem Akpan's much acclaimed collection of short stories entitled "Say You're One of Them". In his work, Akpan describes the trials and tribulations of children protagonists through some of Africa's bloodliest crises, including the much publicized Rwandan genocide. In the simple voice of innocent children, he tells vibrant accounts of death and betrayal, filled with harsh truth and horrific evidence, of some of humanity's most terrible crimes. Yet beyond the darkest confines of death, his tales remind us that life always prevails.]]></description>
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<title>Benefits of Short Stories</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 11:41:59 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A short story is a literary work that tells a series of event in a specific setting. These series of events are the product of the writer's powerful mind and imagination. They are the result of contemplations, and realizations done by the writer either during his gloomy or happy days. Short stories are the outlet of the writer's emotions. It is through short stories that a writer directly or indirectly expresses his ideals, beliefs and opinions regarding issues that continually confronting the society. Thus short stories are written due to several purposes such as to inspire, to educate, to entertain and to provoke one's emotions.]]></description>
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<title>Alice Walker's &quot;Everyday Use&quot; - What Is 'Wangero Leewanika Kemanjo' And 'Wa-Su-Zo-Tean-O'?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:40:45 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A central character in Alice Walker's "Everyday Use," the beautiful Dee Johnson, breaks away from her Deep South United States roots to become the heavily educated, urbanized, modernized young woman who despises her cultural setting. She later visits her bucolic dirty southern family of her mother Mama Johnson and unattractive scruffy and scarred sister Maggie. Dee signifies her transformation after stepping out of the car, by uttering to the two, "Wa-su-zo-Tean-o," and declaring that her new name is African: Wangero Leewanika Kemanjo.]]></description>
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<title>&quot;Mute,&quot; by Stephen King (A Review)</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:25:53 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I finally found a well written, short story with a good ending by Stephen King, a little too many cuss words for my liking, but not bad; "Mute," from the book "Just after Sunset." In the process I found out he was seventeen-days older than I. Somehow I'm not surprised.]]></description>
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<title>Short Story Review - Stephen King's &quot;Harvey's Dream&quot;</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:21:38 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[From the book "Just after Sunset," by Stephen King: "Harvey's Dream" a ten page story, in a book over 350-pages, $28.000 (I got it on sale for $7.00; thank goodness), dated 2008. To my knowledge, Mr. King hasn't written short stories for a while, this book was his first in a number of years. It says on the leaf inside the book "Stephen King...delivers an astonishing collection of short stories...." Harvey's Dream, is far from being astonishing. I read a few of his books years ago, only one impressed me, but I never read his short stories, and this story is badly written, by anybody's standards. I haven't gotten to the full book yet, it make take a year or two after reading this ten-page story which is real stale, oversimplified, written in short sentences that don't seem to connect properly.]]></description>
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<title>Stephen King - &quot;The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates&quot; Review</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:16:19 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This short story of Mr. King's "The New York Times..." really needed to be longer, it is better than "Harvey's Dream," but that isn't saying much. It starts off with a mystery, and ends in twilight. He is by far no Bram Stoker in writing short stories; it is goofy, a little gross, plainly written, more satire than drama or whatever: to be honest, when he wrote the book "Just before Sunset," he should have reviewed some of H.P. Lovecraft's short stories, and Clark A. Smith's, and Stokers: you can see he's out of practice.]]></description>
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<title>Ayana (Short Story Written by Stephen King)</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:05:47 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[For a short story we are dealing with a lot of character names to remember. Consequently, this takes a lot of work and concentration, is the story worth it? Good question. In comparison to "Harvey's Dream," and "The New York Times..." along with "Rest Stop," it is a little better written, although the ending in "Rest Stop," is far above "Alana's ending.]]></description>
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<title>A Review to &quot;Everyday Use&quot; by Alice Walker</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 21:37:48 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[An African-American mother 'Mama Johnson' had experienced difficulties all her life during her upbringing. While her daughter 'Dee' who on the other hand had always received quality education from Augusta, Georgia and a superior life. Mama has one other daughter 'Maggie' whom she considers to be less fortunate.]]></description>
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<title>And Thereby Hangs a Tale by Jeffrey Archer</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:50:06 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Telling short stories is something that comes naturally to Sir Jeffrey Archer. His entertaining, stylish and witty short stories are just the right showcase for his expertise of characterization as well as unexpected plot twists in the story. The book And Thereby Hangs a Tale gives you all the reasons to understand why Jeffrey Archer is one of the bestselling authors of the world. All the short stories collections produced by him so far have turned out to be among the top ten bestsellers.]]></description>
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<title>Title - Six Great Short Stories - Author - Robert M. De La Torre - Book Review</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:08:54 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Appropriately entitled, "Six Great Short Stories" is a unique work encompassing Robert Michael de la Torre's wit and wisdom in his creative approach to the ancient art of storytelling. He opens with Always Walking Barefoot, a simple tale of a childish friendship of a young boy, Ben, ten years old, and a girl, Freida, as they get into mischief in a country setting, not much unlike a Huckleberry Finn world. ]]></description>
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<title>The Central Irony of An Outpost of Progress</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Joseph Conrad satirizes colonial attempts to civilize 'dark' Africa. This satire runs across An Outpost of Progress, Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim and many other tales. Read details of this irony as exhibited in An Outpost of Progress.]]></description>
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<title>A Feministic Study of &quot;Wiser Than a God&quot;, A Short Story by Kate Chopin</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Kate Chopin began her writing career strikingly with the creation of a triumphant woman artist-Paula von Stolz-a character who seems to be a projection of the author's own ambitions. "Wiser than a God," Chopin's first story accepted for publication, portrays the resolution of the woman artist with utter confidence. ]]></description>
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<title>Review - Broken by J Matthew Nespoli</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:31:35 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Imagine reading a book which doesn't tell you one story, but 14 different ones, a varied mosaic of multi colored, multi textured pieces. The thing you would want most definitely, when you plough through the winding curves that make up the complicated lives of each of the individuals, is a base that connects all of them and a roof that lends meaning to the stories. What we have then is a beautiful house, diverse inside with its many rooms, each with a different view of life, each with its own experiences, and each with a different scent that leads to different places.]]></description>
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<title>Once Upon a Time in Africa - Stories of Wisdom and Joy (2004) By Joseph G Healey - A Review</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:09:08 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This is a unique and intriguing book that remarkably captures the essence of African society in response to and in cooperation with Christianity, other religions, and foreign society. The book captures day-to-day activities, and also fuses in parables, proverbs, poems, folklore, prayer, stories, African culture, poetry, spirituality, and tales.]]></description>
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<title>Beautifully Written With Stories That Make You Believe</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:06:21 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I instantly fell in love with this book's beautiful cover - which was a sure sign that I was going to love the short stories. The author has a beautiful way with words - making them feel as though they simply flow gracefully through the story. It made each short story incredibly touching and an absolute joy to read. ]]></description>
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<title>The Innovative Avant-Garde Short Story</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:57:30 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Most writers follow the set conventions and style of writing set by the former writers, but some break through such set conventions in order to bring innovation. The innovative short story is sometimes termed as avant-garde, experimental, or unconventional fiction. In this article, you will learn about this "innovative" aspect of story and its development.]]></description>
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<title>Weepin' Willa by Nariscia Lott</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:04:11 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Weepin' Willa by Nariscia Lott is her first book of short stories which revolved from her past to present life. At first, I asked myself how I should read this book because as you may see, the stories are not in chronological order, but as I continue reading each story, I begin to understand why she wrote her book this way. ]]></description>
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<title>Beg, Borrow, Steal - A Writer's Life by Michael Greenberg</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:23:57 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA["Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer's Life" by Michael Greenberg isn't the kind of book I normally read, but I'm glad I read this one. The book is a collection of short stories, all around eleven to twelve hundred words that capture a snippet of the author's life. Some are sad, some funny, others mundane, but all a part of the life of writer Michael Greenberg.]]></description>
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<title>Jamaica Kincaid - Extraordinary Novelist, Essayist and Memoirist</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:07:44 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A novelist, essayist, poet and short story writer, Jamaica Kincaid is very popular worldwide. She was born in the year 1949 in the tiny of Antigua, her mother named her Elaine Potter Richardson. She did not know her father but lived with her step father; at this time Antigua was one of the British colonies so she was schooled in this system. 
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<title>&quot;The Fruit of My Pen&quot; and &quot;The Moonshiner&quot;, Two Wonderfully Entertaining Books by Michael L Schuh</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:59:43 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What great joy there is to be found, in these two wonderful unique poetry books by Michael L Schuh. A poet and very versatile writer, renown throughout the poet world simply as Mike44.]]></description>
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<title>The Unpredictable Monarch - The Most Dominant Force Forever! Part 8</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:02:02 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The purpose of this novelette is to produce a generation without terrorism and separation, a generation with a broader mind, a generation where peace and love are dominant, a generation where values are the priority, a generation in which each one care for everyone. I would be glad if the seeds for broader thinking sown here would reap in to the minds of readers.]]></description>
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<title>&quot;A Day's Wait&quot; Short Story - A General Analysis</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:03:33 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This is a story by Ernest Hemingway which displayed many developments and characteristics to make it an excellent short story. There are some common elements which must be present such as the plot, conflict, characters, protagonist, antagonist, climax, resolution, theme and the like. This story certainly displayed those areas in clear manner for the reader to enjoy and understand.]]></description>
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<title>Exaggerated Stereotypes of Mountain Folk</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:43:11 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This article concerns only one short story from the book, "Kentucky Straight."  "Sawdust," written by "Chris Offut," gives the reader an insider's view into the life of a backwoods Appalachian family.]]></description>
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<title>An Analysis of the Story Editha</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:55:28 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The story Editha implied quite a prevalent and antiquated standpoint about war and its acclaimed days. The story itself embodied the kind of glamour and prestige that World War 2 movies portrayed, or so they did. Certainly, this short story tried to emphasize war as being beautiful and necessary for communal living.]]></description>
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<title>An Analysis of The Hills Like White Elephants</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:55:20 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Primarily from the dialogue between the American and Jig, it seems that the two are an unmarried couple.  Their discussion suggests that they are confronted with some kind of problem. With further analysis, one can begin to discern that the couple was in fact talking about having an abortion.]]></description>
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<title>Lessons From the Story, The Yellow Wallpaper</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:55:11 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A possible theme for the story The Yellow Wallpaper is that married couples should always communicate with one another. If there is one thing that struck me the most, it was the fact that the two characters showed no signs of communicating to fix their problems. The setting of the story was during the 1800s and during that time, physicians had no knowledge post-partum depression, which was what the woman in the story had.]]></description>
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<title>Themes of a Small Good Thing</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:54:36 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The story "A Small Good Thing" contained a good number of themes. I specifically wanted to emphasize on the idea of compassion, simply because it is an act that unites and defines human well-being.]]></description>
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<title>An Analysis of the Story Hands</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:54:21 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In the story "Hands" it seems to me that Wing Biddlebaum became a victim of false accusation. Instances where people are wrongly accused frequently inflict emotional harm on a person that can sometimes never be repaired.]]></description>
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<title>Interpreters of Maladies - Sensuous Symbols</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:21:38 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Mr. and Mrs. Das are on vacation in India.  Mr. Kapasi, the taxi cab driver had an affection for Mrs. Das.  He viewed her through the rear view mirror. His fascination grew as he watched her at the temple when she viewed the naked statutes.  The infatuation ended when the address he gave her on a slip of paper blew out of her pocket book.]]></description>
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<title>&quot;Everyday Use&quot; by Alice Walker - A Review</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:58:47 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Daughters Maggie and Dee are born to Mama Johnson a hardworking single mother in the rural Deep South of the United States. Dee the beautiful one branches out to school and embraces glamorous westernization and modernization, and transforms to despising her rural traditional background. Maggie was scarred by a fire, she is scrawny and skinny, she stays home with her mother and hangs on to tradition. The short story is about the clash between urban and rural tradition, the ramifications.]]></description>
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<title>A Burning Decision</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:13:11 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What really makes a short story a good one? What must it have for a reader to want to keep reading? Most readers want to read about a character that they feel they can relate to.]]></description>
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<title>The Writing Life of James Joyce</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:03:48 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Joyce's first major work, Dubliners, a collection of fifteen short stories, was published in 1914. They concentrate on the idea of an epiphany, a moment when the main protagonist gains self-awareness or understanding. The stories follow a logical order from childhood to adolescence to maturity and finally death, the last story being entitled The Dead.]]></description>
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<title>A Book Review of Lighting the Dark Side - Six Modern Tales by William R Potter</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:52:54 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Great book of six short stories that contain extraordinary characters in unusual circumstances. This is the perfect book to carry around with you and read in waiting rooms and any situation where you would like to make time fly by quickly!]]></description>
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<title>Black Milk</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:43:53 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Manto is known for writing unspeakable truths, hidden and dark tales of mankind augmented with pessimism, reality and bleak side of life, depicting sociopolitical and historical events along with the shades of gender and racial discrimination, injustice, violence, and all that one could feel. He gives the voice to all such emotions and pent up feelings that everyone wants to express but is unaware of the channel to express, this is the reason his words coincide with thoughts of all folks irrespective of their social strata, language and culture.]]></description>
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<title>The Destiny of Natalie X by William Boyd</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:28:42 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[An aspect of William Boyd's writing that always seems close to the surface of his work is an examination of selfishness. At the very least, his characters fulfil their self-interest. One recalls how the events of The New Confessions or Any Human Heart unfold, how in both cases the central character's aspirations are forever paramount, often to the detriment of those he proclaims to love.]]></description>
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<title>Gossip is Part of Human Nature, Albeit One of the Worst Parts</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:12:28 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Some of the best short stories are ones that teach us lessons. They tell us stories that make us think and put us there in the heat of passion and within the emotion of the tale. We feel as if we are one with the lesson, we are one with the characters and we feel their wisdom, joy and their pain. I know of just such a story one I would like to recommend to you. It's a short story and a lesson about gossip, about the damage it does and how it's impossible to undo.]]></description>
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<title>A Great Short Story of World Records and Olympic Gold</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:11:02 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Short stories often capture our imagination and make us feel alive, as if we are intimately involved in the scene along with the characters. A good short story will do this and you'll know the quality of a story by its ability to put you there. One such short story I recommend for the athlete that needs an uplift or the person who comes up against adversity is; "Olympic Gold" by Catherine Swift]]></description>
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<title>The Irony of Life As Seen in the Jewelry</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:22:27 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The theme of "The Jewelry" by Guy de Maupassant is that life can be full of irony. I think that the author actually went a little overboard on this theme. Though I enjoyed no less for his overindulgence.]]></description>
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<title>The Modern Significance of Hawthorne's Suspicion of Science</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:44:58 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Does Nathaniel Hawthorne's suspicion of modern science still resonate today? You might be surprised!]]></description>
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<title>Poisoned Petals by Andy Crabb</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:08:26 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Poisoned Petals by Andy Crabb is a set of over forty short stories, tales with a Spanish flavour. Most are set in Spain, with many featuring locations and people from within the Costa Blanca, where the author lives, works and continually observes. Some are historical, others utterly contemporary, both in time and in content.]]></description>
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<title>Tamil Historic Novels</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:17:27 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The novel form of Tamil literature has been in existence only since around two centuries. Before that, the poetry form used to rule the roost for nearly two thousand years. The novel is a relatively new genre in Tamil literature but is very popular among the Tamil novel readers.]]></description>
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<title>Kalki - The Legendary Tamil Novelist</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:28:31 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The mere mention of the name 'Kalki' is enough to send most the Tamil readers of yesteryears into a journey of nostalgia.  Kalki is a name that sparks off memories of kingdoms and the saga of war, patriotism, love and loyalty that go into the making and perishing of those kingdoms in the Chola dynasty period in South India.]]></description>
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<title>Tamil Short Stories</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 07:50:17 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The short story format originated from Europe.  The Tamil world believes that the short stories in Tamil can be traced back to the seventeenth century to 'Paramartha Kurunkathai' a transition from the classical Tamil poetry.]]></description>
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<title>Book Review - The President's Parasite and Other Short Stories by Jim Musgrave</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:35:27 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The short story IS NOT dead. Jim' Musgrave's stories vary enough that there's no one marketing umbrella formula that can lump them together other than original, creative and thought provoking. His work affects the mind in a subtle way, much like Twilight Zone. It entertains but grabs you and doesn't just let go until it threads into your mind and makes you think.]]></description>
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<title>Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour - An Introduction (1963) - J D Salinger</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:12:12 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters (1955) and Seymour: An Introduction (1959), are a pair of long short stories written by Salinger about the Glass family. The former ostensibly about Buddy Glass, and the latter about Seymour Glass, but quite often it appears that the opposite is true.]]></description>
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<title>Barcelona Plates (2000) - Alexei Sayle</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:38:50 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[To fully appreciate this collection of short stories, one must, I think, be familiar with the author Alexei Sayle's stand-up or television sketch comedy work. His prose very much mirrors his angry, ranting, incredulous Liverpudlian persona.]]></description>
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<title>No One Belongs Here More Than You (2007) - Miranda July</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:55:52 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Miranda July is one of those annoying people who seems to be able to turn their hand to just about anything. Artist, musician, filmmaker, actress, writer, all around smarty-pants; and on top of all that, with those piercing blue eyes and slender figure, she's also quite beautiful.]]></description>
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<title>Short Stories on Steroids and Stephen's Short Story Strategies</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:30:07 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Recently, someone in our Online Think Tank asked me what short story did I feel was the best or which one would I recommend to him to promote thought? You see, someone during an argument or debate on a topic of aerodynamics, told him he needed to read more. I told him that he needed to dream more, and he asked well, what short story should I read?]]></description>
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<title>On The Yankee Station by William Boyd</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:10:00 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[On The Yankee Station by William Boyd is a book of short stories, its title taken from the most substantial of the series. Set on an aircraft carrier in the Vietnam War, it tells of the ruthless bullying of a crew member by his superior, a pilot drunk on his own status. Revenge becomes a strong motivation. ]]></description>
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<title>Drakas! by SM Stirling</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:21:45 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Drakas! is an anthology of short stories written against the background of S. M. Stirling's Draka universe. Each story stands on its own, and they are set at various times and places from the 19th century to the 21st and beyond. Towards the end of the book, we also see the same kind of cross-time travel that featured in Drakon. Contributors to the anthology include a wide range of authors, some of whom are very well-known (including Harry Turtledove and David Drake). The quality of the stories themselves is variable - many are excellent, but there are a couple of weaker ones.]]></description>
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<title>No Experts Needed - Book Review</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:06:30 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[No Experts Needed is a refreshing collection of true stories of inspiration and introspection.  Author Louise Lewis, faced with being "set free" from corporate America and yet still having bills to pay, set forth on a magnificent personal journey of self-reflection.]]></description>
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<title>When Murder Becomes Profitable - Book Review - Legends, Leaders, Legacies</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:25:16 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A book review of Legends, Leaders, Legacies written by Susan Vollmer.  There are 18 mini-biographies of good-natured of people who were willing to shout the truth without regard to its consequences.  The story of each hero is accompanied by sick inhabitants of society who considered murder more important than his or her desire for greed and/or power.  The message of this book review is that we should all put a high value on liberty and freedom.    ]]></description>
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<title>The Crack Of Dawn Short Stories Should End With A Twist</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:34:31 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[She came for him at the crack of dawn. He heard her cross the room and the small boy hoping to hide, slid deep beneath the bedding. But there was no escape that way. She ripped back the covers and dragged him sobbing from the bed. He begged and pleaded all the while looking up hopefully, but the look of grim determination on her pale face told him there was to be no mercy.]]></description>
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<title>A Book To Read While Waiting!</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:06:40 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[While Waiting is a book to take with you--and read "while waiting!" Filled with life and/or ghost stories, it is family oriented and fun to read!]]></description>
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<title>American Cool By Susan DiPlacido</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:15:38 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Life is about taking risks...if you don't take risks you end up lonely and afraid of change, and what fun is that? Well, it is safe. In Susan DiPlacido's latest book, "American Cool," her characters are risk takers and they're making life changes all over the place. This book is hot!]]></description>
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<title>&quot;The Story That Must Be Told&quot; Edited by Irene Watson &amp; Victor R Volkman - Book Review</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:27:15 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What will you do when life puts you to the ultimate test? "The Story That Must BeTold," edited by Irene Watson and Victor R. Volkman, contains 21 true stories of courage, love, endurance, and undying hope from people around the USA and UK. Follow each of our authors as they detail what it took to face impossible circumstances and powerfully transform them into forgiveness, understanding, and grace. ]]></description>
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<title>Altared Book Review</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2007 15:21:19 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If you have ever been through the stress of planning a wedding, you will enjoy this book.]]></description>
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<title>&quot;An Infinity of Days in the Psychotic Atomik Empire&quot; by Gregory Alan Norton- Book Review</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2007 11:30:16 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Everyday across the U.S., millions of people face a wide range of injustices, from harassment on the job, unfair pay, to unrelenting authoritarian bosses. For most people, retaliation is a fleeting daydream, but for a growing number of working people, standing up and fighting for their rights has become a reality. Their heroic boldness inspired the 23 short stories featured in activist/author Gregory Alan Norton's rousing new book, "An Infinity of Days in the Psychotic Atomik Empire."  Norton's book delves into the tough realities of modern day Chicago and brings to life a diverse cast of characters, including college students, union organizers and telemark, who use any means they can to maintain their dignity and civil rights. Many of these stories were originally published in prominent literary publications, such as "The Princeton Arts Review" and "Tarpaulin Sky." ]]></description>
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<title>The Christmas Box - Book Review</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2007 14:01:20 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA["The Christmas Box" was written by Richard Paul Evans in 1994 as a story for his children.  Evans circulated some copies of the story to his friends who encouraged him to publish it.  When it was published, the little book became a #1 seller on the NY Times list as a hardback and a paperback edition at the same time.  It was the first book to achieve that distinction.]]></description>
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<title>Book Review: In Sweet Company - Conversations With Extraordinary Women About Living A Spiritual Life</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2007 13:05:03 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I feel as if I know these women - as if they are friends of mine. Olympia Dukakis, Sister Helen Prejean, Grandmother Twylah Nitsch, Le Ly Hayslip, Riane Eisler ... They range in ages from 31-91 ... They are writers, priests, Fullbright Scholars, Seneca elders, freedom fighters, historians, psychotherapists, dancers, authors, mothers
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<title>Haruki Murakami's The Elephant Vanishes</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:43:03 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A short summary of each of the short stories from Haruki Murakami's The Elephant Vanishes. A brilliant collection from the master of a small and beautiful genre ]]></description>
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<title>Book Review: The Outdoors Inside Out</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jan 2007 11:22:15 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If you enjoy humor, particularly dry humor, give a quick read of Tom Hubbard's The Outdoors Inside Out.  This little gem is filled with short stories of his hunting and fishing expeditions right along side daily life with friends, family and all that entails.]]></description>
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<title>The Cage Keeper and Other Stories (Book Review)</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 06 Dec 2006 14:22:49 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA["The Cage Keeper and Other Stories" is a collection of seven short stories by Andre Dubus III. The beauty of this book is in the potency of the characters and the author's mastery of the language.]]></description>
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<title>Hidden Lies and Other Stories (Book Review)</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 Oct 2006 06:08:41 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Hidden Lies and Other Stories is an anthology of short stories addressing people of diverse backgrounds.  The stories are written by Vivian Gilbert Zabel and Holly Jahangiri, two very capable authors.  

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<title>&quot;Symptoms of Terminal Passion&quot; author Chester Aaron: Book Review</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2006 18:14:50 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Chester Aaron was in a WWII heavy-machine-gun platoon and helped liberate the concentration camp at Dachau. After the war, he worked as an X-ray technician and later as a lit and writing professor at St. Mary's College in Moraga. Along the way he became an expert on garlic (he raises 92 varieties from 30 countries on his Occidental ranch). He's also published 20 books. The themes of the seven stories in his latest are familiar: love and loss, old world versus new, war, death, Italian food. But the tales combine aspects of his interesting life in surprising ways. ]]></description>
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<title>The Lord Had Something Better in Mind - Book Review</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2006 14:52:44 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Magnolia Roussel is a determined community college student and hard worker, wanting only to be as good as the boy her mother Myrtle always wanted but never had. Each spring sees her on the family strawberry farm trying to produce an acceptable crop, but when the Roussell berries are marked unclassified by Louisiana state inspectors Magnolia is forced to sell them on her own. With the Lord's guidance, however, she is not worried.]]></description>
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<title>&quot;Short, Shorter and Shorter Stories for People Who have to Wait&quot; author Chuch McCann: BOOK REVIEW</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jun 2006 13:59:13 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The stories are for everyone, especially for the person forced to wait for the plane to load, the Novocain to numb the nerves, the baby's arrival or while waiting for the Governor to call and pardon the condemned.  Some stories you can begin to read and finish as your elevator goes from ground level to the third floor, others while your loved one shops for shoes.]]></description>
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<title>Finding Lilies - Book Review</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2006 19:44:53 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Kelly Baugher creates a spellbinding tale in Finding Lilies.  Readers will enjoy an emotional trip through several spicy  and socially revealing scenes.]]></description>
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<title>Traci's Story - Book Review</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2005 19:08:31 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This is very a moving tale that is based on a true story of a 
woman brought up by an alcoholic single mother. ]]></description>
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<title>Never Be Boring Again: Book Review</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2005 18:46:25 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Doug Stevenson knows how to make a story come to life, and in 'Never Be Boring Again,' he shows you how you can do it, too. He makes the process (almost!) painless, even if you are not a natural story teller.]]></description>
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<title>The Letter - Review</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2005 07:41:33 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As a writer, I think The Letter must have been a very   interesting challenge for author Roxanna Russell. This work   of fiction is actually a collection of 14 short stories - each   revolving around some kind of letter; the Suicide Note, the   Closure Letter, Love Letter, Fan Letter and so on. Yet the   book is also a novel, in that each chapter is centered on a   particular family and each chapter ties into the next.]]></description>
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<title>A Journey to the Truth, Sohrab ChamanAra</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2005 09:32:08 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Sam's search for Truth takes him down various paths, many religions and beliefs, and he meets many people, all of whom turn out to be messengers in his life. He studies all of the religious denominations; Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism, and discovers that the answers can't be found from just one religion.]]></description>
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<title>On the Shelf (Continued) 13 Outsize Volumes</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2005 08:11:16 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It occurred to me, while composing my previous missive, that undertaking to record every book in my collection was a mite ambitious. Having conducted a swift scan of the shelves in my study, I can safely conclude that I must be one sandwich short of a picnic. I counted here alone over 1,000 books - 1,047 if you insist - and would venture to suggest that the house must contain north of 3,000 titles. Assuming, of course, that I don't buy any more, it will only take me about three lifetimes to properly review what I have. Please forgive me, therefore, if I should appear to speed read the shelves periodically, alighting perhaps upon an old but much loved friend or, indeed, upon a friend I never knew I liked. ]]></description>
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