Grandfather’s Stories: A Short Story for Christmas
by Ernst Wiechert

A Christmas short story just right for family read-aloud time. It is Christmas Eve on a large Prussian estate shortly after the great upheaval now known as World War I, and several tenants have gathered with their masters for the evening. Christoph, their elderly coachman, has been coaxed into telling a story for old times sake.

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Home Field: Writers Remember Baseball
by John Marshall (editor)

Baseball remembered by nine great writers – there’s community, there’s family, there’s heart. Sherman Alexie leaping from reservation Little League to women, race, and identity. Timothy Egan tells secrets of coaching girls’ Little League, including use of Doppler radar to scan for rain. Holly Morris describes how her women’s softball team, the Smellies, perfected the fine art of hooha. Lynda Barry shares a tale of a magical baseball glove laced with difficult memories of her father. Larry Colton, once a ‘can’t miss prospect’, recalls the hope and pain of his professional pitching debut, then watches a next-generation ‘can’t miss prospect’ make the same mistakes. And much more. Here is baseball without stats but full of life, played by local heroes and heroines on their home field.

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The Lost Symbol + Devil’s Bible
by Richard Stan Brown

666 is supposed to be the number of the devil, but funny enough, one has to dial up the 555 first, in order to contact Satan via telephone, but only in films, yet.The German author, writer of detective stories and well known under the pseudonym Ron B. Dawn, travels to the Baltic, to finally write the story of his life. A thriller about the perfect crime. During his journey on various trains, the writer comes to know a fellow traveler, one who makes him understand, that no perfect human crime will ever be committable. Only one existed, and that took place some 2000 years ago. Furthermore, the stranger warns strictly to read any books, defining books to be of dangerous nature. Especially the mysterious Devil’s Bible, as this writings turn every single chapter of the Holy Bible completely upside down.

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Schism
by Drew Wagar

Lumbering through the depths of space are the Generation Ships; huge self contained transports driving between the stars at sublight speeds in the midst of thousand year journeys to populate new planets. After 30 generations, a staggering and devastating truth is revealed to the occupants of one such ship

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