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  • The Beauties of Belladonna

    by Gilbert Allen ...
    Pulling up to the gated community known as Belladonna—nestled comfortably in the foothills of South Carolina—one is confronted by a logo featuring a wide-eyed Cleopatra surrounded by the legendary poisonous plant. It’s the sort of place that has a hammerlock on the American Dream, featuring a championship golf course, prizewinning lawns, Tuscan architecture, compulsory three-car garages, faux ... Read more

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  • The Beasts of Belladonna

    Stories

    by Gilbert Allen ...
    If the short story collections of John Cheever and Flannery O'Connor had a love child, it would be The Beasts of Belladonna. Alternately hilarious and heartbreaking, Gilbert Allen's collection of fifteen linked stories explores every corner of the suburbanized foothills of South Carolina. Belladonna--a gated community with Tuscan architectural covenants--boasts a championship golf course, ... Read more

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  • The Final Days of Great American Shopping

    Stories Past, Present, and Future

    by Gilbert Allen ...
    A quirky assortment of materialistic suburbanites trying to supersize and spend their way to happinessAn affectionate satire of the culture of self-indulgence, The Final Days of Great American Shopping exposes the American obsessions with money, mass marketing, and material objects. In Belladonna, a gated subdivision in upstate South Carolina, readers meet acolorful cast of characters doing their ... Read more

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  • The Victorian Mystery Megapack: 27 Classic Mystery Tales

    by Wilkie Collins, Arthur Conan Doyle, Arthur Morrison, Anna Katharine Green, Susan Glaspell, G.K. Chesterton, Max Pemberton, John Kendrick Bangs, Israel Zangwill, W.S. Gilbert, Rudyard Kipling0, Grant Allen1, Jacques Futrelle2, M. McDonnell Bodkin3, Catherine Louisa Pirkis4, Robert Barr5, Robert Barr6, H. Greenhough Smith7, Edgar Allan Poe8, Jack London9, Charles Dickens0, J.P. Buschlen1, Dick Donovan2, R.C. Lehmann3 ...
    The theme of this Megapack is classic mystery and crime fiction from the Victorian era. We have taken the liberty of extending the qualifying publication dates to the end of World War I, since that event marked more of a turning point in world literature than the advent of the Edwardian Age. Certainly the spirit of Victorian crime fiction continued beyond Queen Victoria. This volume contains 25 ... Read more

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  • THE THRUMS TRILOGY – Auld Licht Idylls, A Window in Thrums & The Little Minister (Illustrated) (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Historical Novels - Exhilarating Tales from a Small Town in Scotland

    by J. M. Barrie, Owen Fenlow ...
    Gathering Auld Licht Idylls, A Window in Thrums, and The Little Minister, this illustrated trilogy presents Barrie's imagined Scottish weaving town of Thrums with affectionate precision and comic irony. Its sketches and narrative episodes explore Calvinist "Auld Licht" piety, domestic ritual, poverty, gossip, courtship, and communal memory, moving from episodic local-color portraiture toward the ... Read more

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  • Equal is Equal, Fair is Fair

    Vermont's Quest for Equity in Education Funding, Same-Sex Marriage, and Health Care

    by Allen Gilbert ...
    Equal is Equal, Fair is Fairis about Vermont's push during the last 25 years for equity in education, marriage benefits for same-sex couples, and health care services. Why Vermont, and why success in the first two areas but not the third? What's the history behind these movements? Key is Vermont's constitution, the least amended of any state constitution in the country. It contains a vision for ... Read more

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  • Running Wild Press Short Story Anthology, Volume 9

    by Adam Cheshire, Ayman Eckford, Mark Williams, Gilbert Allen, August Reynolds, Arindam Kalita, G. Milton, Theresa Walker, Abhishek Udaykumar, Jason A. Wyckoff, Jessica Berg, Scott Taylor, Ibtisam Shahbaz, Elizabeth Behle, Ernest Langston, Joy Curtis, Lauren Lang ...
    It was a true delight to select these stories and compile an anthology of work from around the world. Covering themes as wide as death to dancing, magic to mystery, nostalgia to neurosis, time travel to traveling through time, and science fiction to society, these stories venture outward and inward to form a permanent collection built by the temporary gathering of talent. The authors came together ... Read more

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  • J. M. BARRIE Ultimate Collection: 90+ Titles in one Volume (Illustrated) (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Peter Pan adventures, novels, plays, essays & memoirs — a 90+ title illustrated set

    by J. M. Barrie, Owen Fenlow0 ...
    J. M. BARRIE Ultimate Collection: 90+ Titles in one Volume (Illustrated) gathers the remarkable breadth of Barrie's imagination: plays, novels, stories, sketches, and essays that range from the wistful enchantments of Peter Pan to the sharp social observation of his Scottish fiction. Read together, these works reveal a writer of delicate irony, theatrical instinct, and emotional ambiguity, poised ... Read more

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  • Pastors' Wives Tell All

    Navigating Real Church Life with Honesty and Humor

    by Stephanie Gilbert, Jessica Taylor, Jenna Allen ...
    In a world that expects near perfection from people in ministry, it is hard to be honest about struggles of being a pastor's wife or a woman in ministry--let alone have a sense of humor about it! In their popular podcast, Pastors' Wives Tell All,Jessica Taylor, Stephanie Gilbert, and Jenna Allen create a safe place for pastors' wives and women in ministry to be their most authentic selves. Now ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Lethal Sex

    Mystery Writers of America Presents: Classics, #4

    by Christianna Brand, Ursula Curtis, Margaret Millar, Bernice Carey, Margaret Manners, Anthony Gilbert, Jean Potts, Miriam Allen deFord, Gladys Cluff, Carolyn Thomas, Nedra Tyre, D. Jenkins Smith, Veronica Parker Johns, Juanita Sheridan ...
    Series Book 4 - Mystery Writers of America Presents: Classics
    THE FAIRER SEX? NOT THESE LADIES…The female of the species is absolutely deadlier than the male in these 14 cunningly-crafted tales of suspense, crimes of passion, and murder, all by women writers. Edited by MWA Grandmaster and bestselling mystery author John D. MacDonald, these bone-chilling stories show the depths that men and women will stoop to in pursuit of what they want. Christianna Brand ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Jest a Minute: The Complete Series 1 and 2 Plus Specials

    A BBC Radio Comedy Panel Game

    by Rhod Gilbert ...
    Narrated by Rhod Gilbert, Jeremy Hardy, Tom Allen, Sarah Millican, Greg Davies, Lucy Porter, Milton Jones, Jon Richardson, Ed Gamble, Alun Cochrane0, Lloyd Langford1 ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 53 min

    Stand-up star Rhod Gilbert hosts the panel show about the serious business of comedyThe hilarious comic lovechild of A Question of Sport and QI, Jest a Minute is a light-hearted, lively show that quizzes leading comedians on their knowledge of comedy. Host Rhod Gilbert accepts no backchat and gives short shrift to cheek as he recklessly awards points based on how quick, agile and witty he ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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    Pastors' Wives Tell All

    Navigating Real Church Life with Honesty and Humor

    by Stephanie Gilbert, Jessica Taylor, Jenna Allen ...
    Narrated by Stephanie Gilbert ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 34 min

    In a world that expects near perfection from people in ministry, it is hard to be honest about struggles of being a pastor's wife or a woman in ministry—let alone have a sense of humor about it! In their popular podcast, Pastors' Wives Tell All, Jessica Taylor, Stephanie Gilbert, and Jenna Allen create a safe place for pastors' wives and women in ministry to be their most authentic selves. Now ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook