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Today\u2019s Book List:

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• The World\u2019s Last Night and Lilies That Fester by C.S. Lewis
• The Five Red Herrings, Murder Must Advertise, and Gaudy Night by Dorothy L Sayers
• Nancy Drew #45: The Spider Sapphire Mystery by Carolyn Keene
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Footsteps at the Lock by Ronald Knox
• Multiple novels by Agatha Christie
• Murders in the Rue Morgue and The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Moonstone and The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
• The Albert Campion series by Margery Allingham
• The Roderick Alleyn series by Ngaio Marsh
• The Flavia de Luce series by Allen Bradley
• The Inspector Appleby Mystery series by Michael Innes
• The Daughter of Time and Miss Pym Disposes by Josephine Tey
• Murder Fantastical by Patricia Moyes
• The Cormoran Strike series by Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling)
• Multiple novels by Alexander McCall Smith
• Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes series by Laurie King
• The Inspector Gamache series by Louise Penny
• Brave New World by David Archer
• The Chronicles of Brother Cadfael series by Ellis Peters
• The Adam Dalgliesh Series by P.D. James

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Today\u2019s poem:

The Listeners by Walter De La Mare

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\u2018Is there anybody there?\u2019 said the Traveller, \xa0\xa0

\xa0\xa0Knocking on the moonlit door;

And his horse in the silence champed the grasses \xa0\xa0

\xa0\xa0Of the forest\u2019s ferny floor:

And a bird flew up out of the turret, \xa0\xa0

\xa0\xa0Above the Traveller\u2019s head:

And he smote upon the door again a second time; \xa0\xa0

\xa0\xa0\u2018Is there anybody there?\u2019 he said.

But no one descended to the Traveller; \xa0\xa0

\xa0\xa0No head from the leaf-fringed sill

Leaned over and looked into his grey eyes, \xa0\xa0

\xa0\xa0Where he stood perplexed and still.

But only a host of phantom listeners \xa0\xa0

\xa0\xa0That dwelt in the lone house then

Stood listening in the quiet of the moonlight \xa0\xa0

\xa0\xa0To that voice from the world of men:

Stood thronging the faint moonbeams on the dark stair, \xa0\xa0

\xa0\xa0That goes down to the empty hall,

Hearkening in an air stirred and shaken \xa0\xa0

\xa0\xa0By the lonely Traveller\u2019s call.

And he felt in his heart their strangeness, \xa0\xa0

\xa0\xa0Their stillness answering his cry,

While his horse moved, cropping the dark turf, \xa0\xa0

\xa0\xa0\u2019Neath the starred and leafy sky;

For he suddenly smote on the door, even \xa0\xa0

\xa0\xa0Louder, and lifted his head:\u2014

\u2018Tell them I came, and no one answered, \xa0\xa0

\xa0\xa0That I kept my word,\u2019 he said.

Never the least stir made the listeners, \xa0\xa0

\xa0\xa0Though every word he spake

Fell echoing through the shadowiness of the still house \xa0\xa0

\xa0\xa0From the one man left awake:

Ay, they heard his foot upon the stirrup, \xa0\xa0

\xa0\xa0And the sound of iron on stone,

And how the silence surged softly backward, \xa0\xa0

\xa0\xa0When the plunging hoofs were gone.