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I've been lucky all my life, but today I've had the unlucky misfortune of having my two girlfriends find out about each other. Will this be the end of my lucky streak, or can I turn this into the greatest sexual experience of my life?

Yolo dares you to look closer at the little flutters of negative thought that paralyze you from moving forward. It is an enlightening story of Yolo, a little spider monkey, who lives in her perch high atop the jungle floor and attempts to find happiness without ever taking a risk. Yolo is faced with the same unexpected challenges that we all deal with, including love, loss, family, abandonment, depression, and success.

Enoch Arden first came to international attention with a recording by Claude Raines and Glenn Gould, but it has since drifted back to obscurity. This is a work that both Luxon and Moyer have loved for many years. The poem is immediately accessible to any audience and tells a heart-wrenching story of friendship, love, separation, and sacrifice. The masterful score creates a powerful soundtrack to the saga.

E. M. Forster’s first novel explores the comic and tragic effects of culture clash between insular, provincial British personalities and sensual Italian culture and atmosphere. Lilia Herriton, an impulsive 33-year-old widow from London, travels to Tuscany, where she falls in love with both Italy and the handsome, carefree Gino Carelli, a dentist’s son 12 years her junior. When news reaches the snobbish Herriton family that Lilia intends to marry again, this time to an unsuitable Italian, the domineering Mrs. Herriton sends her son, Philip, to prevent the catastrophe - but he arrives too late.

Born in an overcrowded slum in Scotland in 1813, David Livingstone worked 12-hour days in a cotton factory from age 10 to 24. But a pamphlet by Karl Gutzlaff changed his life. Resolved to become a missionary, he applied himself to medicine, self-educating and eventually qualifying as a doctor.

Continuing a collaboration started years ago, Benjamin Luxon and Frederick Moyer now turn to the little-explored genre of music for piano and narrator. Enoch Arden first came to international attention with a recording by Claude Raines and Glenn Gould but has since drifted back to obscurity. This is a work that both Luxon and Moyer have loved for many years. The poem is immediately accessible to any audience and tells a heart-wrenching story of friendship, love, separation, and sacrifice.

Kirk, an impecunious artist of perfect physique, and Ruth, a spoilt heiress, were blissfully happy through their early days of marriage and the birth of their first son. But when Kirk returns from a trip to Columbia to find Ruth under the thumb of her Aunt Laura, an advocate of eugenics, parenting philosophies divide them. It takes a series of comic mishaps, featuring a galaxy of vintage Wodehouse characters, to retrieve the family’s happiness from the overbearing aunt.

Two American travelers have been killed—one with poison, the other with a knife through the heart—and the only clues at the scene are a woman’s wedding ring and the German word for “vengeance” written in blood. The military surgeon Dr. John Watson is brought in to investigate, along with his clever, arrogant new roommate, Sherlock Holmes.

In his first published work in prose, James Joyce paints vivid portraits of the people of Dublin, his city of birth, in a collection of stories whose larger purpose, he said, was to depict a "moral history of Ireland". From the first story, in which a young boy encounters death, to the haunting final story involving the middle-aged Gabriel, the book gives an unflinching and realistic portrayal of "dear, dirty Dublin" in the early 20th-century.

A Room with a View portrays the love of a British woman for an expatriate living in Italy, a country which to Forster represents the forces of true passion. Caught up in a world of social snobbery, Forster's heroine, Lucy Honeychurch, finds herself constrained by the claustrophobic influence of her British guardians, who encourage her to take up with a well-connected boor.

Andrew Lang drew upon his classical learning to recreate the Greek myths for children. He follows Ulysses from his boyhood, thorugh the Trojan Wars, to his voyage to seek the son of Achilles. The story of Helen of Troy, and the Trojan Horse, is told with the pace of a modern adventure. Lang's collection of retold myths includes Jason's quest for the Golden Fleece, and recounts the lives and heroic deeds of two other major figures: Theseus, who slew the Minotaur; and Perseus, who freed the princess Andromeda as one of his many tests, with the helo of the gorgon's head. Perseus, Andromeda, and her parents, Cephus and Cassiopeia, are remembered in the constellations of the summer sky. Not only will theres tales bring to life for children of all ages the quest for good and the struggle against eveil embodied in the myths, they also reveal the roots of characters referenced throughout Western litereature from Shakespeare's time to the present day. In the true spirit of adventure, Lang dedicated his book to H. Rider Haggard.

Dr. Mortimer looked strangely at us for an instant and his voice sank almost to a whisper as he answered, “Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound.”

Julio Desnoyers, a wealthy young Spanish American, tries to escape the dirt, blood, and horror of World War I. Why should he fight on foreign soil for a country that is his father's land and not his own? But everywhere he turns, war and its ravages follow Julio, changing everything. His lover Marguerite no longer desires their old life of abandoned intimacy, and his father has no use for his cowardly, profligate son. When Julio finally decides to fight, the world and his family know him for a different man.

Set amid the riot, intrigue, and pageantry of medieval Paris, Victor Hugo's masterful tale of heroism and adventure has been a perennial favorite since its first publication in 1831. It is the story of Quasimodo, the deformed bell-ringer of the Notre Dame Cathedral, who falls in love with the beautiful gypsy Esmeralda. When Esmeralda is condemned as a witch by Claude Frollo, the tormented archdeacon who lusts after her, Quasimodo attempts to save her; but his intentions are misunderstood.

Morgonen den 6 augusti 1945 fäller besättningen på planet Enola Gay en atombomb över Hiroshima. Några minuter senare har den japanska staden förvandlats till ett brinnande helvete. Tre dagar senare drabbas Nagasaki av samma öde. Till och med de förhärdade japanska generalerna, som varit fast beslutna att fortsätta strida, är skakade av den ofattbara förödelsen. När även kejsaren förespråkar en kapitulation, väljer Japan till slut att acceptera en villkorslös sådan. I allra sista ögonblicket är det nära att planerna kullkastas av en grupp officerare.

Den 25 augusti 1944 intar franska och amerikanska divisioner Paris. De svettiga och uttröttade soldaterna möts av kyssar, blommor, vin och framsträckta spädbarn. Hitlers kommendör har kapitulerat, och den svartröda hakkorsflaggan byts ut mot trikoloren på alla officiella byggnader, efter hand som befriarna rensar ut de tyska soldater som förskansat sig runt om i staden. Resten av landet är dock långtifrån befriat, och i det övriga Europa rasar kriget på. Tidigt på morgonen den 16 december bryter helvetet lös i Ardennerna i Belgien.

Den 27 januari 1944 förklarar Stalin Leningrad befriat. Efter två och ett halvt års belägring drar Wehrmacht sig tillbaka. Röda armén förföljer de uppgivna tyska soldaterna, som på bara tre dagar drivs 100 kilometer västerut. Uppmuntrad av segern beslutar den ryske generalen Govorov sig för att befria Estland. I slaget om floden Narva sätter tyskarna dock stopp för hans planer, och fronten går tillfälligt i stå. Trots det är tyskarna fortfarande trängda från alla sidor.

År 1943 har läget på östfronten vänt. I början av fälttåget krossade tyska stridsvagnar allt motstånd på sin väg över de ryska stäpperna. Nu har de slaviska "undermänniskorna" dock fått övertaget och gjort det vidsträckta landet till ett helvete för Hitlers invasionsstyrka. Nästan 100.000 soldater blir krigsfångar efter slaget vid Stalingrad i början av året. I mitten av juli tillfogar sedan Röda armén den tyska krigsmakten ett avgörande nederlag efter ett taktiskt genidrag i historiens största pansarslag.

Karl-Erik Forss lever ett anspråkslöst liv som taxichaufför. Men när han en dag träffar en ung vacker kvinna vänder hans tillvaro i en handvändning. Tillsammans tar de en kärleksfull kryssning till Estland, och framtiden ser ljus ut. Elias Beckman är en ung estländsk KGB-underordnad. När han av en okänd anledning blir beordrad att hoppa av till Väst, verkar det som om livet slutligen har tagit en godartad vändning.

"Ambulansen tvärnitar, precis som mitt liv. Och tiden niger till i några frusna ögonblick som stannar alltet, och med ögonen fortfarande slutna inser jag att mitt liv, som jag kände det, aldrig skulle bli sig likt igen. Så, tystnad. Ligg blickstilla. Inte röra sig. Och morsans jävla kungsord 'Man ska vara hel och ren inunder, för man vet aldrig var man hamnar.' Han tänker på nybytta kallingar." Det är brustet hjärta, menar författaren när han sätter diagnos på sig själv.