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This is a charming story of a young Canadian woman who meets her future husband while he was attempting to start a fire, not in her heart at the time, but simply while camping. Innocent in life and unaware of the magic that rubbing two sticks together would bring follow her story that begins when a 16 year old girl comes across General Norman Smith and three fifths of the five dependants. ... Read more

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“[Kurt Vonnegut] strips the flesh from bone and makes you laugh while he does it. . . . There are twenty-five stories here, and each hits a nerve ending.”—The Charlotte ObserverWelcome to the Monkey House is a collection of Kurt Vonnegut’s shorter works. Originally printed in publications as diverse as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and The Atlantic Monthly, these superb stories share ... Read more

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From the pages of America’s most inﬂuential magazine come eight decades of holiday cheer—plus the occasional comical coal in the stocking—in one incomparable collection. Sublime and ridiculous, sentimental and searing, Christmas at The New Yorker is a gift of great writing and drawing by literary legends and laugh-out-loud cartoonists.Here are seasonal stories, poems, memoirs, and more, including ... Read more

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