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		<title>Night Train to Frankfurt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Marisa Silver They were going to boil Dorothy&#8217;s blood. Take it out, heat it, put it back in. The cancer would be gone. Well, that wasn&#8217;t exactly it. The treatment had a more formal-sounding name, thermosomethingorother, a word that was both trustworthy (because you recognized the prefix) and lofty, so that you didn&#8217;t really [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GREENSLEEVES</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Helen Simpson &#8220;Gardening!&#8221; the girl said, and tilted back in her chair the way she knew would get a reaction. &#8220;It&#8217;s like knitting, isn&#8217;t it.&#8221; &#8220;Stop that, Lara,&#8221; her mother said. &#8220;You&#8217;ll break the chair.&#8221; &#8220;A sign of middle age,&#8221; Lara continued. &#8220;Old age. It&#8217;s what old people do when there&#8217;s nothing left in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Write A Short Story</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An old master gives us an exemplary what-not-to-do list in her new book Alice Munro spins tales that show us, again and again, and with wondrous grace, how much can be done in a simple short story. Yet the 74-year-old Canadian does it by breaking every rule ever taught in a writing seminar, setting up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paper Losses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although Kit and Rafe had met in the peace movement, marching, organizing, making no-nukes signs, now they wanted to kill each other. They had become, also, a little pro-nuke. Married for two decades of precious, precious life, she and Rafe seemed currently to be partners only in anger and dislike, their old, lusty love mutated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Sun and the Clouds and the Water</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Carl Deuker Alec&#8217;s grandpa proves to be his best friend. But what happens when a best friend gets hurt and everything turns hopeless? Kids at school think I&#8217;m a nerd. That&#8217;s because I don&#8217;t like basketball or football, but I do like chess and math. At home it&#8217;s just about the same, though nobody [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buddy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There was once a little girl named Alizabeth. She lived up in the mountains where there was snow and woods with her mother and father and her older brother John. Alizabeth always walked to school by herself every morning. One morning when she was walking to school, she tripped and fell. She looked up and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peter&#8217;s Treasure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Chessie, look what I found.&#8221; I was lying on the rug in my room, watching the rainbow that my mirror makes on the floor at the same time every day. I was wishing that it weren&#8217;t Thursday, and that Mom wasn&#8217;t at the hairdresser, and that I could be at Beth&#8217;s working on my history [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strophes of Lake Michigan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Admissions Office, I would like to use this college application essay to explain two blemishes on my record: an F in my creative writing class and a suspension for nearly killing my teacher It is my hope that if you know the whole story, you will still consider admitting me to your institution. You [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sans Farine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My father, Jean-Baptiste Sanson, had christened in the church of Saint-Laurent two children: a daughter, who married Pierre Hérisson, executioner of Melun, and a son, myself. After my mother&#8217;s death, he remarried, his second wife from a family of executioners in the province of Touraine. Together they produced twelve children, eight of whom survived, six [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lust, Survivor Style</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For Gabrielle FlannerY, coworker Dell Kingston is off-limits. But when she finds herself alone with him in the wilderness, she can&#8217;t resist his lips, his touch, his… • Sexy marketing executive Gabrielle Flannery is determined to excel at her firm in Atlanta. But there&#8217;s one person standing in her way: Dell Kingston, her hot, smooth-talking [...]]]></description>
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