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Abstract City
Par Christoph Niemann. 2012
This anthology of the illustrator’s New York Times blog features a chapter of all-new material: “a masterpiece of sophisticated humor”…
(Library Journal, starred review).In July 2008, illustrator and designer Christoph Niemann began Abstract City, a visual blog for the New York Times. His posts were inspired by the desire to re-create simple and everyday observations and stories from his own life that everyone could relate to. In Niemann’s hands, mundane experiences such as riding the subway or trying to get a good night’s sleep were transformed into delightful flights of visual fancy. In Abstract City, the struggle to keep up with housework becomes a battle against adorable but crafty goblins, and nostalgia about New York manifests in simple but strikingly spot-on LEGO creations. This brilliantly illustrated collection of reflections on modern life includes all sixteen of the original blog posts as well as a new chapter created exclusively for the book.Just Over the Horizon (The Complete Short Fiction of Greg Bear #1)
Par Greg Bear. 2016
The New York Times Book Review hails this collection of thirteen dazzling stories and a rare screenplay by Hugo and…
Nebula Award–winning author Greg Bear as a “solid introduction to the oeuvre of a classic writer.” Greg Bear—author of Queen of Angels, Eon, and Hull Zero Three, among many other hugely popular novels—has an ability to transform challenging scientific concepts into gripping fiction that has won him numerous awards and an avid following. He has written novels about interstellar war, human evolution, intelligent bacteria, international terrorism, and the exploration of deep space—but he doesn’t stop there. This brilliant collection of Bear’s stories, each newly revised by the author, proves he is a master of the short form as well. Just Over the Horizon offers thirteen mind-bending explorations of the near future . . . or just beyond the border of conventional reality. The volume includes: · “Blood Music,” a Hugo and Nebula award–winning classic and the basis for the novel of the same name—and the first science-fictional exploration of nanotechnology; · “Sisters,” in which high school students find maturity and family by confronting a tragic genetic destiny; · “Tangents,” winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards, about a persecuted scientist who seeks refuge in a better world; · “Dead Run,” a tale of union truck drivers ferrying souls through Death Valley into Hell, adapted for an episode of the television series The Twilight Zone; · “Sleepside Story,” which Bear calls one of his favorite pieces, an urban fantasy tale that takes a music student by Night Metro to the Sleepside mansion of a magical woman of the night, inverting “Beauty and the Beast” in a very modern mirror; · “Genius,” the screenplay written for the television series Outer Limits, but never produced. Just Over the Horizon combines Bear’s intense concern with the human condition with a deep understanding of science, resulting in a collection long to be remembered.Listening for Ghosts: A Novella and Four Stories
Par David Rabe. 2022
In these disquieting tales of confronting the past, the author and playwright showcases his &“keen ear for how people talk,…
think, and behave&” (Publishers Weekly). Listening for Ghosts collects some of David Rabe&’s most compelling short fiction of the past few years, including three stories that appeared in the New Yorker. In &“Things We Worried About When I Was Ten,&” a group of seemingly carefree Midwestern boys are revealed to be egregiously uncared for by their parents. &“The Longer Grief&” is a slow-motion explosion, as one moment in time propels shards of reckoning through the shared history of a brother and sister. In &“Uncle Jim Called,&” a man cooking stir fry answers a phone call from the dead . &“Suffocation Theory&” slyly depicts our off-kilter and increasingly apocalyptic world. In the novella, I Have to Tell You, the elderly tenants of a Midwestern apartment complex seek fairness from a conniving landlord. When an emergency stay in the hospital brings a near-octogenarian named Emma face-to-face with looming injustice, she finds herself burdened with two mysteries to solve. She may never get to the bottom of them, but she is determined to do all she can. Also included are &“Things We Worried About When I Was Ten,&” which won the 2021 O. Henry Prize, and &“The Longer Grief,&” which won first prize in the 2019 Narrative Story Contest.Infinite Dimensions: Stories
Par Jessica Treadway. 2022
Twelve short stories delving into the minds of characters struggling as they attempt to build their lives on shaky ground.A…
female bank executive, who thinks she&’s placed her struggles with mental illness behind her, must make a tough decision when her former hospital roommate shows up for a job interview. A college student struggling with his philosophy assignment asks a relative for help only to be troubled by the results. A recovering alcoholic author teeters on the edge of self-sabotage as she travels to a dinner meeting with an influential editor. A woman longs to have a brain tumor so that she might get some attention . . .These are just a few of the characters inhabiting Infinite Dimensions, from thewinner of the Flannery O&’Connor Award for Short Fiction for Please Come Back to Me. In this collection, Jessica Treadway links her stories with vulnerable characters in similar settings, featuring themes of fidelity, betrayal, and self-delusion. And throughout all of it, she reveals her stunning grasp of human psychology in all its complex forms.Praise for Infinite Dimensions&“Jessica Treadway&’s intense and moving stories are connected by an intriguing thread, yet each one stands alone as a gem of intuition and empathy. This is a stellar collection.&” —Hilma Wolitzer, author of Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket&“What an exquisite gift. . . . A masterclass in the story form, Treadway&’s riveting collection awakens us to the marvel of our ordinary lives, even as it demonstrates how little it takes to shatter them. . . . This book is simply astonishing.&” —E. J. Levy, author of The Cape Doctor and Love, in Theory&“Treadway&’s dynamic collection . . . intuitively explores the vulnerabilities of her characters. . . . These stories are powerful and believable.&” —Publishers WeeklyWe Install: And Other Stories
Par Harry Turtledove. 2015
From Harry Turtledove, bestselling author of the Worldwar series and The Guns of the South, a collection of nine stories…
and three essays that illuminate his broad storytelling range Harry Turtledove earned the title “master of alternate history” from Publishers Weekly for his thought-provoking novels that turn historical facts into gripping tales of possibility. But his writing talent goes much further. We Install offers a showcase of styles, from humor—in “Father of the Groom,” a scientist with a penchant for wild experimentation helps his love-struck son by synthesizing a wedding ring out of two carrots—to classic science fiction, as in the Hugo Award–winning “Down in the Bottomlands” and “Hoxbomb,” in which a regular guy just trying to make a living selling scooters has to deal with some very odd competition. The alternate history tale “Drang von Osten” begins on a bloody battlefield in World War II and ends somewhere quite different. In the brand-new “Logan’s Law,” a man discovers that sometimes, second chances really do work out. The book’s three essays tackle the diverse subjects of how to write alternate history, Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, and the history of Chanukah.We Install will delight longtime Turtledove fans and new readers alike with its rich offerings from one of the finest craftsmen writing today.The Lion Tamer's Daughter: And Other Stories
Par Peter Dickinson. 1999
Four powerful stories of adventure and imagination—in this world and beyond When Keith’s father dies, his mom sells their house…
and takes Keith with her to live in Scotland. He misses his dad and his home, but most of all he misses Melly, a girl whose father is a lion tamer, and who seemed to come from another world. Keith is in a park in Edinburgh when he sees a girl who looks exactly like Melly, and whose father once worked for the circus, taming lions. To save his best friend’s life, Keith embarks on a perilous quest to untangle the mystery of Melly’s doppelgänger. In these four tales, Peter Dickinson writes with clarity and wit about young people in extraordinary situations, characters whose adventures take place across space, time, and the boundaries of their souls. This ebook features an illustrated personal history of Peter Dickinson including rare images from the author’s collection.We Will All Go Down Together
Par Gemma Files. 2014
&“A vivid, haunting mix of horror and fantasy woven together through a complex fugue of short stories&” from the award-winning…
author of Kissing Carrion (Entertainment Weekly). One of Canada&’s most acclaimed horror writers, Gemma Files presents a mosaic of interconnected stories about interconnected families. After fleeing Scotland, five clans settled in the fictional town of Dourvale in northern Ontario. Known as the Five-Family Coven, they are the descendants of witches and witch-children, none of whom were spared persecution in their native country. Now shamans, spellcasters, singers, and thieves, the members of the Devize, Druir, Glouwer, Roke, and Rusk families survive by trading their occult powers and talents—though few can really afford their price . . . &“What makes We Will All Go Down Together so riveting isn&’t its ideas or imagery, as richly atmospheric and detailed as they are. It&’s the author&’s voice. Colorful, powerful, and charismatic, her characters are rendered in bold strokes and poignant nuances. . . . Her book is a short-story collection, true, but it also works as a dark, fractured mosaic of a novel. Across continents and centuries, the ghost-magic of Dourvale still cuts and pastes the fabric of reality. With her ghostly, magical storytelling, Files does the same.&” —NPR.org Praise for Gemma Files &“Gemma Files&’s stories are always so smart and humane, and overwhelm the reader with a true sense of wonder, awe, and horror. She is, simply put, one of the most powerful and unique voices in weird fiction today.&” —Paul Tremblay, award-winning author of A Head Full of Ghosts &“One of the genre&’s most original and innovative voices.&” —Los Angeles Review of BooksTales of Wonder
Par Jane Yolen. 1978
A breathtaking collection of literary fairy stories from an award-winning fantasist Author Jane Yolen speaks to the ancient magic within…
us all in this anthology of 30 grown-up fairy stories--lovely, lyrical, poignant, sometimes frightening tales of transformations and transfigurations, magical destinies and dangerous quests, strange visions, reawakenings, and just desserts. A past winner of the Nebula Award, World Fantasy Award, and numerous other honors, Yolen takes her rightful place alongside the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen, combining innovative literary style with fables that reimagine the myths of old and some of her legendary predecessors' most cherished characters: Cinderella, simple Jack, Guinevere, Icarus, and the Frog Prince. Step into Yolen's wondrous realm of magic and dreams, where a curious young woman's desire to read the future leads her to the weaver of tomorrow; a farm boy with the voice of an angel seeks out Lady Death to sing for the life of his mother; and a sow, a cow, and a mare set out together to see the world. These timeless stories tell of an eager girl's entrance into the Hall of Grief and a sunless prince who fears the vengeance of a jealous star. A tree-bound young dryad longs to dance in the spring, and a grumpy old potter pours his heart and soul into his greatest work. Yolen's stories are unforgettable tales of the heart and the spirit; they are truly tales of wonder.Make Mine Maclain (The Duncan Maclain Mysteries)
Par Baynard Kendrick. 1947
Three mystery novelettes featuring a blind detective and his two trusty German Shepherds by the author of Out of Control.Following…
the loss of his sight in World War I, ex–intelligence officer Capt. Duncan Maclain honed his other senses and became one of the most successful and well-known private investigators in New York City. These are some of his adventures . . .In &“The Silent Whistle,&” the captain heads west to California with his seeing eye dog Schnucke to advise on a television series about a blind man, but things go south when he discovers the studio head&’s secretary with a knife in his back . . .In &“Melody in Death,&” the captain is visiting a friend at the Knickerbocker Opera Company with Schnucke when he finds the body of a wealthy benefactor backstage . . .In &“The Murderer Who Wanted More,&” a young artist is on edge after she&’s attacked in her Manhattan apartment building and almost shot near her aunt&’s Staten Island mansion. Fortunately, she has one friend whose unique powers of detection come in handy in times like these: Captain Maclain!Baynard Kendrick was the first American to enlist in the Canadian Army during World War I. While in London, he met a blind English soldier whose observational skills inspired the character of Capt. Duncan Maclain. Kendrick was also a founding member of the Mystery Writers of America and winner of the organization&’s Grand Master Award.World of Archie Double Digest #131 (World of Archie Digest #131)
Par Archie Superstars. 2023
TWO BRAND NEW STORIES! First, in “Law & Disorder,” Reggie is causing mischief as usual—but Moose gets involved to settle…
the score, something unexpected happens: the action attracts superhero MR. JUSTICE, who’s got his eyes set on Moose as a potential sidekick! Then, in “You’re a FIREWORK!,” when innocent July 4th fireworks show at Pickens Park accidentally opens a portal to a demon world, DARKLING must send her former evil enemies out of Riverdale and back to their own world!B&V Friends Forever: Beach Party (B&V Friends Forever #1)
Par Archie Superstars. 2023
A BRAND-NEW STORY kicks off this SUMMER FUN issue! In “Babbi’s Riverdale Beach Party,” to celebrate the release of the…
new Babbi movie, Veronica decides to throw an over-the-top beach party, with everyone dressed as their favorite Babbi doll. The Lodge Beach House is turned into a lifelike version of Babbi’s Beach House—complete with unicorn rides on the beach! There are even some hints that a surprise guest will make an appearance—so when a handsome, young stranger shows up, EVERYONE wants to know who he is! All that plus even more fun in the sun stories and fabulous summer fashions!Pascoe's Ghost: And Other Brief Chronicles of Crime (The Dalziel and Pascoe Mysteries)
Par Reginald Hill. 1979
Mystery stories by the Diamond Dagger Award–winning author, “one of the masters of the modern police procedural” (The Sunday Telegraph).…
A man whose wife has been missing for a year gets some strange phone calls—as well as a visit from Detective Inspector Pascoe—in a novella that pays homage to Edgar Allan Poe. A female journalist faces skepticism from the police when she reports an assault, and finds she may have to confront the attacker herself. A family man wonders what sort of trouble the previous occupants of his new house were mixed up in—and finds some clues that were left behind in the move. These stories—and four more—from the author of the series starring Inspector Peter Pascoe and Superintendent Andrew Dalziel take us on a tour of the shadowy corners of Yorkshire, England, from a stormy churchyard to a gloomy attic, with tales of lust, greed, envy, and, of course, murder. “One of Britain’s most consistently excellent crime novelists.” —The Times (London) “Hill is never predictable.” —Milwaukee Journal Sentinel “Reginald Hill is quite simply one of the best at work today.” —The Boston GlobeDifficult Women
Par Roxane Gay. 2017
The New York Times–bestselling author of Bad Feminist shares a collection of stories about hardscrabble lives, passionate loves and vexed…
human connection. The women in these stories live lives of privilege and of poverty, are in marriages both loving and haunted by past crimes or emotional blackmail. A pair of sisters, grown now, have been inseparable ever since they were abducted together as children, and must negotiate the elder sister&’s marriage. A woman married to a twin pretends not to realize when her husband and his brother impersonate each other. A stripper putting herself through college fends off the advances of an overzealous customer. A black engineer moves to Upper Michigan for a job and faces the malign curiosity of her colleagues and the difficulty of leaving her past behind. From a girls&’ fight club to a wealthy subdivision in Florida where neighbors conform, compete, and spy on each other, Roxanne Gay delivers a wry, beautiful, haunting vision of modern America with her &“signature wry wit and piercing psychological depth&” (Harper&’s Bazaar).Nebraska: Stories (Books That Changed the World)
Par Ron Hansen. 2007
Stories of the heartland by the National Book Award finalist and author of The Assassination of Jesse James by the…
Coward Robert Ford.“Nebraska captures a rowdy, changing America. Written with wit and brawny lyricism, in voices ranging from hip to tender, the stories gathered here are as diverse and expansive as the country they celebrate…References to America’s heartland abound throughout the book and serve as a central metaphor for what’s close to American hearts, what connects us: dreams, myths and possibilities as vast as the Great Plains. Wise and smart-alecky, creaking with legend and crackling with modernisms, these tales are about American obsessions past and present.” –The Washington Post Book World“Just as Raymond Carver came to be identified with a Pacific Northwest populated by blue-collar workers, and just as Richard Ford has crafted a Montana full of drifters, so Ron Hansen has carved out his own geographical niche. His Nebraska is a distinctive mix of 19th century settlers and 1980s breadwinners, of sudden storms and life-long yearnings, of lost souls stranded in the middle of nowhere.” –USA Today“Beautifully crafted stories… Wickedness, evil, malice is called by name; and for Hansen’s people the snake in the garden never fails to appear.” —The New York Times“Breathtaking virtuosity…These short narratives are utterly clean and smooth; they click together like a collection of river-washed stones that are each remarkably different yet polished by the same hand.”—Publishers WeeklyI Meant It Once
Par Kate Doyle. 2023
'I Meant It Once explores longing, belonging and the big emotions that can make us feel small with unusual elegance…
and depth' Coco Mellors, author of Cleopatra and Frankenstein'Gorgeously written and staggeringly honest . . . It will bewitch you' Tess Gunty, author of The Rabbit Hutch'I Meant it Once signals the arrival of a major talent and voice' Brandon Taylor, author of Booker Prize Finalist Real LifeWith this sharp and witty debut collection, author Kate Doyle captures precisely that time of life when so many young women are caught in between, pre-occupied by nostalgia for past relationships - with friends, roommates, siblings - while trying to move forward into an uncertain future. In "That Is Shocking," a college student relates a darkly funny story of romantic humiliation, one that skirts the parallel story of a friend she betrayed. In others, young women long for friends who have moved away, or moved on. In "Cinnamon Baseball Coyote" and other linked stories about siblings Helen, Evan, and Grace, their years of inside jokes and brutal tensions simmer over as the three spend a holiday season in an amusing whirl of rivalry and mutual attachment, and a generational gulf widens between them and their parents. Throughout, in stories both lyrical and haunting, young women search for ways to break free from the expectations of others and find a way to be in the world. Written with crystalline prose and sly humour, the stories in I Meant It Once build to complete a profoundly recognizable portrait of early adulthood and the ways in which seemingly incidental moments can come to define the stories we tell ourselves. For fans of Elif Batuman, Ottessa Moshfegh, Patricia Lockwood, and Melissa Bank, these stories about being young and adrift in today's world go down easy and pack a big punch.'Perceptive, funny, forthright, and often alarmingly relatable, I Meant It Once is a tremendously good debut' Claire Lombardo, New York Times bestselling author of The Most Fun We Ever HadThe Amelia Jane Collection: Over 20 stories (Amelia Jane #6)
Par Enid Blyton. 2023
Meet Amelia Jane! She's a mischievous rag doll and she's about to enchant a whole new generation of readers! This…
big bumper edition contains over 20 short stories by the world's best-loved children's author, Enid Blyton.Amelia Jane has an uncanny knack for getting herself into mischief and trouble with the rest of the toys in the playroom, from throwing a big pile of alphabet blocks out the window and pushing shoes into a mouse hole to hiding clockwork keys and popping balloons. But really, Amelia Jane has a brave and adventurous heart of gold - and when the toys need help, it's Amelia Jane to the rescue!These short, entertaining and accessible stories make The Amelia Jane Collection perfect for bedtime reading and for newly independent readers of five and upwards.The Dragon in Lyonesse: The Dragon Cycle Book 8 (DRAGON CYCLE)
Par Gordon R Dickson. 1998
After their final battle, legend tells us, Arthur and his knights went to Lyonesse, the land under the sea. Now…
Lyonesse is threatened by a resurgence of the Dark Powers, those mindless malevolent forces that struggle to stop the course of History.And Jim Eckert - the Dragon Knight - and his friends are called upon to stop them.Arthur and his knights are proud; too proud to easily accept help from Jim Eckert and his allies. But they will have help - from Jim in his dragon form, from knight-in-armour Sir Brian Neville-Smyth, from the brilliant archer Dafydd ap Hywel, and from one small hobgoblin.The result is a wild ride: Arthurian fantasy adventure as only Gordon R. Dickson could tell it.The Dragon at War: The Dragon Cycle Book 4 (DRAGON CYCLE)
Par Gordon R Dickson. 1992
Baron Jim is in the thick of it again. Somehow he's found himself taking on England's oldest enemy - the…
French - who have entered into an unholy alliance with a most fearsome horror: the mighty serpents of the deep underseas. Nobody has battled them before; nobody even realised they could leave the sea. And with the serpents as their allies it's only a matter of time before the French invasion succeeds - unless Baron Jim can stop them.Together for the Twins: An Uplifting Inspirational Romance
Par Laurel Blount. 2023
He opened his home to twin boys Will he open his heart to their nanny? Self-made man Ryder Montgomery is…
the guy with all the answers…until he inherits custody of his out-of-control twin nephews. Nanny Elise Cooper is a lifesaver and even agrees to give him parenting lessons. Soon they&’re starting to feel like a real family. But with an end-of-summer expiration date, is it even possible to build a future together? From Love Inspired: Uplifting stories of faith, forgiveness and hope.Um Certo Lucas
Par Julio Cortázar. 1979
Inédito até à data no nosso país, Um Certo Lucas não é um volume de contos, nem um romance ou…
um conjunto de ensaios; é um concentrado de virtuosismo cortáziano, um verdadeiro manual contra a formalidade e o tédio de leitura essencial. Sob o nome de Lucas, um certo Julio oferece ao leitor uma apaixonada colecção de pequenas ficções, sobre os seus pianistas favoritos, sobre os costumes de determinadas famílias argentinas ou o fim de uma história de amor. Transgressor nato e dono de uma estranha sabedoria, também nos apresenta as melhores dicas para calçar sapatos, escrever poemas reversíveis, dar palestras, os modos de sair de um concerto ou de nadar numa piscina infantil. Tudo isto numa prosa lúdica e irónica, com a qual transformou a literatura do século XX. «Julio Cortázar foi um dos grandes mestres do século XX na difícil arte do conto.» — José Mário Silva, Expresso «A capacidade criativa do autor atira-nos exactamente para esse território das situações menos comuns, onde o que às vezes importa é a escrita e os sonhos que ela transporta para defronte dos nossos olhos.» — Fernando Sobral, Jornal de Negócios