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The Secret Dead
Par S. J. Parris. 2014
A short story featuring Giordano Bruno: heretic, philosopher and spy. Perfect for fans of C. J. Sansom. Even the dead…
have a story to tell. . . Naples, 1566. During a sweltering summer, eighteen-year-old Giordano Bruno takes his final vows at San Domenico Maggiore and is admitted to the Dominican Order - despite doubts over his tendency to ask difficult questions. Assisting in the infirmary, Bruno witnesses an illicit autopsy performed on the body of a young woman. Her corpse reveals a dark secret, and Bruno suspects that hers may not have been an accidental death. His investigation leads him to a powerful figure who wants to keep the truth buried - and Bruno is forced to make a choice between his future in the Order, and justice for an innocent victim and her grieving family. . .The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky (Modern Library Classics)
Par Fyodor Dostoevsky, David Magarshack. 2001
This collection, unique to the Modern Library, gathers seven of Dostoevsky's key works and shows him to be equally adept…
at the short story as with the novel. Exploring many of the same themes as in his longer works, these small masterpieces move from the tender and romantic White Nights, an archetypal nineteenth-century morality tale of pathos and loss, to the famous Notes from the Underground, a story of guilt, ineffectiveness, and uncompromising cynicism, and the first major work of existential literature. Among Dostoevsky's prototypical characters is Yemelyan in The Honest Thief, whose tragedy turns on an inability to resist crime. Presented in chronological order, in David Magarshack's celebrated translation, this is the definitive edition of Dostoevsky's best stories.Talking to the Enemy: Stories
Par Avner Mandelman. 2005
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has shaped the consciousness of a generation, but never before has it been brought to life in…
such vivid and telling prose. Part Tim O'Brien and part Bernard Malamud, Avner Mandelman's Talking to the Enemy ranges from boisterously entertaining tales of domestic squabbles to dark narratives from disillusioned soldiers. Awarded the Jewish Book Award when it was published in Canada and supplemented with recent stories, Talking to the Enemy is the powerful American debut of an international favorite."Pity" draws the reader through the descending layers of horror of an Israeli soldier who is party to an assassination attempt gone terribly wrong. In "Terror" a man recalls a traumatic childhood incident that taught him family comes first--before justice, before fear. On a lighter note, "Mish-Mash" is a comical tornado set off when a winning lottery ticket is discovered in a less-than-conventional family, best described as "Sholem Aleichem writes Peyton Place on speed" (Montreal Gazette). Underneath their often brash exteriors Mandelman's characters search for reconciliation and fulfillment in a land where conflict is a part of everyday life. Mandelman ensnares readers in intense plot-driven narratives that are pierced through with unexpected and ingenious twists. Beneath the surface of the often sparse prose lies evocative, unanswered questions about humanity. Every story delivers a thoroughly engrossing read with an unforgettable ending.The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2012 gathers twenty of the best short stories of the year, selected from thousands published…
in literary magazines. These remarkable stories explore the boundaries of the imagination in settings as various as an army training camp in China, the salt mines of Detroit, a divided Balkan town, and the eye of a hurricane. Also included are essays from the eminent jurors on their favorite stories, observations from the winners on what inspired them, and an extensive resource list of magazines.Posthumous Papers of a Living Author
Par Peter Wortsman, Robert Musil. 2006
This collection of exploratory pieces, short stories, and reflections was originally published in Zurich in 1936. It was the last…
volume Robert Musil published before his sudden death in 1942. Musil had begun to fathom the impossibility of com- pleting his monumental masterpiece The Man Without Qualities and this volume reveals a radically different aspect of his work. Musil observes a fly's tragic struggle with flypaper, the laughter of a horse; he peers through microscopes and telescopes, dissecting both large and small. Musil's quest for the essential is a voyage into the minute.Secrets: Stories Selected by Marthe Jocelyn (Secrets Ser. #3)
Par Marthe Jocelyn. 2005
In all their permutations, these unforgettable stories explore one of the irresistible facets of human nature, the fact that everyone…
has a secret. Marthe Jocelyn has selected twelve stories by several of the best authors in North America to explore the nature and the power of secrets. Sometimes secrets can be downright funny - how would you like to be the front person for your fake, clairvoyant mother? Secrets can also be scary - if you are pretending that your father is dead so you don't have to introduce him to your teacher. And sometimes secrets can break your heart, and heal it - when they have to do with the ties that bind generations together.Contributors include Susan Adach, Anne Carter, Gillian Chan, Nancy Hartry, Marthe Jocelyn, Julie Johnston, Dayal Kaur Khalsa, Loris Lesynski, Anne Gray Sarndal, Martha Slaughter, Teresa Toten, and Elizabeth Winthrop.From the Trade Paperback edition.The Invisible City: A New York Sketchbook
Par Pete Hamill. 1980
In this collection of thirty-four sketches, the author captures the extraordinary range of people, experiences, places and feelings that is…
New York City -- the city behind the glamorous facade of Manhattan, inhabited by people who remember when this was "a great big wonderful town and they were young in its streets."These sketches, many based on actual incidents, take as their subject the "smaller dramas" of mankind, the chance encounters and random episodes that inform one's life; often twisting suddenly, surprisingly, at the end, they convey strong feelings in little space. Using all of New York as his broad canvas, Pete Hamill recreates the baffling array of human emotions, from sadness and nostalgia to home and love, with affection, grace and wry understanding.The Garden
Par Claire Lorrimer. 1980
Sweet Talk: Stories
Par Stephanie Vaughn. 1990
Stephanie Vaughn is a writer's writer, one whose debut collection of stories, Sweet Talk, was published more than two decades…
ago to critical acclaim. Readers have come to these stories over the years through word of mouth, posting glowing reviews to their Goodreads pages and on their blogs--unanimously agreeing that this collection is a modern classic that deserves to be in print. Crafted in graceful, honest prose, Vaughn's stories go straight to the heart of how people live, grow and survive.The Tongue's Blood Does Not Run Dry: Algerian Stories
Par Tegan Raleigh, Assia Djebar. 1997
What happens when catastrophe becomes an everyday occurrence? Each of the seven stories in Assia Djebar's The Tongue's Blood Does…
Not Run Dry reaches into the void where normal and impossible realities coexist. All the stories were written in 1995 and 1996--a time when, by official accounts, some two hundred thousand Algerians were killed in Islamist assassinations and government army reprisals. Each story grew from a real conversation on the streets of Paris between the author and fellow Algerians about what was happening in their native land.Contemporary events are joined on the page by classical themes in Arab literature, whether in the form of Berber texts sung by the women of the Mzab or the tales from The Book of One Thousand and One Nights. The Tongue's Blood Does Not Run Dry beautifully explores the conflicting realities of the role of women in the Arab world. With renowned and unparalleled skill, Assia Djebar gives voice to her longing for a world she has put behind her.Stories in an Almost Classical Mode
Par Harold Brodkey. 1988
The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios
Par Yann Martel. 1993
Here are four unforgettable stories by the author of Life of Pi. In the exquisite title novella, a very young…
man dying of AIDS joins his friend in fashioning a story of the Roccamatio family of Helsinki, set against the yearly march of the twentieth century whose horrors and miracles their story echoes. In "The Time I Heard the Private Donald J. Rankin String Concerto with One Discordant Violin, by the American composer John Morton," a Canadian university student visits Washington, D.C., and experiences the Vietnam War and its aftermath through an intense musical encounter. In "Manners of Dying," variations of a warden's letter to the mother of a son he has just executed reveal how each life is contained in its end. The final story, "The Mirror Machine", is about a young man who discovers an antique mirror-making machine in his grandmother's attic. The man's fascination with the object is juxtaposed with the longwinded reminiscences it evokes from his grandmother. Written earlier in Martel's career, these tales are as moving as they are thought-provoking, as inventive in form as they are timeless in content. They display that startling mix of dazzle and depth that have made Yann Martel an international phenomenon.Mermaids on the Golf Course: A Virago Modern Classic (Virago Modern Classics #187)
Par Patricia Highsmith. 1985
By the bestselling author of The Talented Mr Ripley, Carol and Strangers on a Train'One of the exhilarating effects of…
reading Highsmith's stories . . . is their surehandednes, their amazing breadth and abundance . . . they compel attention and they add significantly to her already formidable presence' Washington PostThe stories collected in Mermaids on the Golf Course, first published in 1985, are among Patricia Highsmith's most mature, psychologically penetrating works. Published in the latter part of her career, these stories reveal Highsmith's mastery of the short story form. Moving between locales as various as France, Mexico, Zurich, and New York, Highsmith transforms the mundane features of everyday life into an eerie backdrop for her penetrating stories of violence, secrecy, and madness.In 'The Stuff of Madness', Christopher Waggoner, increasingly dismayed by his wife's habit of preserving dead pets in their garden, enacts a devious revenge by adding a bizarre new exhibit to their collection; in the title story, a eminent economist's brush with death endows his once-familiar desires with tragic consequences; and in 'A Shot from Nowhere', a young painter who witnesses a gruesome death on a vacant Mexican Street becomes trapped in an unimaginable nightmare.In these piercing stories, Highsmith creates a world all the more frightening because we recognise it as our own...Genesis (A Tom Fox Enovella)
Par Tom Fox. 2015
Fans of Dan Brown and Simon Toyne will love Tom Fox's debut e-novella, GENESIS. A deathly conspiracy is unravelling in…
the heart of Rome...only one man can stop all hell breaking loose.In the centre of Rome, a man of God fires a gunshot that echoes throughout the Santa Maria in Trastevere church.The shot misses its intended target, police officer Gabriella Fierro, by a whisper. But it's clear her investigation is on the brink of exposing a truth that some will go to untold lengths to keep hidden.Now journalist and partner Alexander Trecchio must work quickly to uncover the conspiracy, and to save Gabriella, before all hell breaks loose.Available exclusively in ebook ahead of Tom Fox's electrifying debut novel, DOMINUS.The Island of the Women and Other Stories
Par George Mackay Brown, George Mackay Brown, G Mackay Brown. 1998
In these six stories George Mackay Brown leads us back along the sweep of Orkney's past and beyond even that…
to the remoteness of fable. He reveals the timelessness of the lived moment and the constants of island life in the harvest of sea and land and the compulsions of voyage and homecoming.Sutton Impact
Par Ward Sutton. 2005
A full-color trouncing of the Bush Dynasty from cult-favorite Village Voice cartoonist Ward Sutton, Sutton Impact brings together for the…
first time the artist's hilarious, irreverent social commentary and his vivid poster art. More than two hundred pieces document the flights and folly of an era, from politics to popular music, excoriating the USA PATRIOT Act, John Ashcroft's evangelical songwriting, the Democrats' domestic blunders, and much more.How the Marquis Got His Coat Back
Par Neil Gaiman. 2014
A Neverwhere short story from one of the brightest, most brilliant writers of our generation - the Sunday Times and…
New York Times bestselling author of the award-winning The Ocean At the End of the Lane. The coat. It was elegant. It was beautiful. It was so close that he could have reached out and touched it.And it was unquestionably his.***'Gaiman's achievement is to make the fantasy world seem true' The TimesThe Journey Prize Stories 23 (Journey Prize #23)
Par Alison Pick, Alexander Macleod, Sarah Selecky. 2011
Discover some of Canada's best new writers with this highly acclaimed annual anthology, made possible by the generosity of Pulitzer…
Prize-winning author James A. Michener.For more than two decades, The Journey Prize Stories has been presenting the best short stories published each year by some of Canada's most exciting new writers. Previous contributors -- including such now well-known, bestselling writers as Yann Martel, Elizabeth Hay, Annabel Lyon, Lisa Moore, Heather O'Neill, Pasha Malla, Timothy Taylor, M.G. Vassanji, and Alissa York -- have gone on to win prestigious literary awards and honours, including the Booker Prize, the Giller Prize, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, the Governor General's Award, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and CBC's Canada Reads competition. The stories included in the anthology are contenders for the $10,000 Journey Prize, which is made possible by Pulitzer Prize-winning author James A. Michener's donation of Canadian royalties from his novel Journey. The winner will be announced in fall 2011.From the Trade Paperback edition.Mermaid: Mermaid (EDGE: I HERO: Immortals #4)
Par Steve Skidmore, Steve Barlow. 2015
Take on the role of the hero and save the world in this fully interactive, choose-your-own-destiny adventure story.YOU are a…
princess of the mer-folk and your people are facing invasion from the terrible tritons and their crew of undersea pirates. To save your people you must find Tethys, Lady of the Sea, and ask for her aid. First you will have to evade the triton cavalry and their hunting creatures selkies and merlions, elude the singing sirens, and finally escape capture from the terrible pirates so you can deliver your message to Tethys.Part of the I:Hero Immortals series - where the hero never dies! If you become trapped simply blow your conch-shell to return to the safety of Coral City, home of your people, and begin your adventure again. Written by the award-winning duo Steve Barlow and Steve Skidmore.Age appropriate for 6 to 8 year olds and more sensitive readers. Also suitable for reluctant readers and less confident older readers. Printed using a special font approved by the British Dyslexia Association.The Rooster Trapped in the Reptile Room: A Barry Gifford Reader
Par Andrei Codrescu, Barry Gifford, Thomas A. Mccarthy. 2003
"Everything I have to say about race and religion and politics is in the novels," declares Barry Gifford. The Rooster…
Trapped in the Reptile Room gathers generous portions of all thirteen novels and novellas, as well as first-person essays, generous helpings of poetry, journalism, and a new interview with the author. The broad contours of an episodic output emerge--a full-length view of the freaks and freakish incidents that populate Gifford's unique human comedy. A world, as Lula, the author's favorite of all his characters, reflects, "wild at heart and weird on top."The Rooster Trapped in the Reptile Room provides essential reading for anyone after the soul of American writing.