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The Last Chicken in America: A Novel in Stories
Par Ellen Litman. 2007
In twelve linked stories, Ellen Litman introduces an unforgettable cast of Russian-Jewish immigrants trying to assimilate in a new world.…
Tender and wryly funny, these stories trace Masha's and her fellow immigrants' struggles to find a place in a new society—lonely seniors, families grappling with unemployment and depression, and young adults searching for love.Vegas Heat
Par Lisa Renee Jones. 2012
Attorney Sonya Miller keeps her professional and personal desires strictly separate...until she meets her devastatingly sexy new client, Dante Ricci.…
His new business, a Vegas hotel that promises to fulfill clients' ultimate erotic fantasies, is all about pleasure. When he dares Sonya to reveal her secret desires, she confesses she wants to share a night of wild, wicked sex with a taste of dominance. But will she be able to give in when Dante asks her to give up control and put her pleasure in his hands?Bearing an Hourglass (Incarnations of Immortality #2)
Par Piers Anthony. 1984
When life seemed pointless to Norton, he accepted the position as the Incarnation of Time, even though it meant living…
backward from present to past. The other seemingly all-powerful incantations of Immortality--Death, Fate, War, and Nature--made him welcome. Even Satan greeted him with gifts. But he soon discovered that the gifts were cunning traps and he had become enmeshed in a complex scheme of the Evil One to destroy all that was good....From the Paperback edition.The Convict and Other Stories
Par James Burke. 1985
One of the country s most-acclaimed and popular novelists offers a selection of a dozen short stories set in James…
Lee Burke s most beloved milieu the Deep South America s best novelist The Denver Post two-time Edgar Award winner James Lee Burke is renowned for his lush suspense-charged portrayals of the Deep South--the people the crime the hope and despair infused in the bayou landscape This stunning anthology takes us back to where Burke s heart and soul beat--the steamy seamy Gulf Coast--in complex and fascinating tales that crackle with violence and menace meshing his flair for gripping storytelling with his urbane writing styleJesus Out to Sea: Stories
Par James Lee Burke. 2007
In this moving collection of short stories, James Lee Burke elegantly marries his flair for gripping storytelling with his lyrical…
writing style and complex, fascinating character portraits. The backdrop of the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast is a versatile setting for Burke's stories, which cover the scope of the human experience -- from love and sex to domestic abuse to war, death, and friendship.Knots: Stories
Par Kari Dickson, Gunnhild Øyehaug. 2017
A mesmerizing collection of playfully surreal stories from one of Norway s most celebrated writersFirst published in Norway…
in 2004 Knots is Gunnhild yehaug s radical collection of short stories that range from the surreal to the oddly mundane and prod the discomforts of mental sexual and familial bonds In both precise short-shorts and ruminative longer tales yehaug meanders through the tangled jinxed and unavoidable conflicts of love and desire From young Rimbaud s thwarted passions to the scandalous disappearance of an entire family these stories do the chilling work of tracing the outlines of what could have been in both the quietly morbid and the delightfully comical A young man is born with an uncuttable umbilical cord and spends his life physically tethered to his mother a tipsy uncle makes an uncomfortable toast with unforeseeable repercussions and a dissatisfied deer yearns to be seen As one character reflects You never know how things might turn out you never know how anything will turn out tomorrow the walls might fall down the room disappear Cleverly balancing the sensuous the surreal and the comical yehaug achieves a playful familiarity with the absurd that never overreaches the needs of her stories Full of characters who can t help tying knots in themselves and each other these tales make the world just a little more strange and introduce a major international voice of searing vision grace and humorThe Devilish Duke
Par Alice Gaines. 2012
Miss Rosalind Weaver is on a mission. She must convince the Duke of Fallon to marry her, or her father…
will give her away to the next highest bidder, a man she cannot stand. She thinks all the Duke desires is reassurance that she can give him an heir, but she soon learns he wants a more thorough test of how she will fare as his wife-in the bedroom....Great Short Works of Fyodor Dostoevsky
Par Fyodor Dostoevsky. 1968
The shorter works of one of the world's greatest writers, including The Gambler and Notes from Underground The short works…
of Dostoevsky exist in the very large shadow of his astonishing longer novels, but they too are among literature's most revered works. The Gambler chronicles Dostoevsky's own addiction, which he eventually overcame. Many have argued that Notes from Underground contains several keys to understanding the themes of the longer novels, such as Crime and Punishment and The Idiot. Great Short Works of Fyodor Dostoevsky includes: Notes from Underground The Gambler A Disgraceful Affair The Eternal Husband The Double White Nights A Gentle Creature The Dream of a Ridiculous Man.Parker Pyne Investigates: A Short Story Collection
Par Agatha Christie. 1934
Selected Stories
Par Forster, E. M.. 1879
Although he is best known for his exquisite novels, E. M. Forster also wrote remarkable short stories. He referred to…
his stories as 'fantasies' and his attraction to myth and magic is apparent in many of them. Like his novels, the stories - whether they are set in Italy, Greece, India, and other places Forster visited, or in England itself - contrast the freedom of paganism with the restraints of English civilization, the personal, sensual delights of the body with the impersonal, inhibiting rules imposed by society. Rich in irony and alive with sharp observations on the surprises life holds, the stories often feature violent events, discomforting coincidences, and other disruptive happenings that throw the characters' perceptions and beliefs off balance. This volume includes all twelve stories published during Forster's lifetime.Taking Her Boss
Par Alegra Verde. 2011
When Glory James's boss catches her having sex with a client at the office, she expects to get reprimanded, not…
Bruce Davies's revelation that he wants her, too. Even more shocking is his confession that he likes to be told what to do in bed-and that Glory is aroused by the idea. . .Baseball Crazy
Par Nancy Mercado. 2008
How magical is the experience of attending your very first baseball game and hearing the crack of the bat resound…
throughout the stadium? What's more terrifying than being out in left field praying the ball doesn't come your way? Who better are the friends you make while playing out on that diamond? Here are ten fictional stories that celebrate all aspects of the game of baseball. Baseball Crazy is a diverse collection that will hit a home run with all fans of the sport, from the most loyal old-timers to the newest rookies. Batter up! Stories by: Paul Acampora Joseph Bruchac Sue Corbett Ron Koertge Frank Portman David Rice John H. Ritter Charles R. Smith Jr. Jerry Spinelli Maria TestaGolden Ball and Other Stories
Par Agatha Christie. 1971
Is it a gesture of goodwill or a sinister trap that lures Rupert St. Vincent and his family to a…
magnificent estate? How desperate is Joyce Lambert, a destitute young widow whose only recourse is to marry a man she despises? What unexpected circumstance stirs old loyalties in Theodora Darrell, an unfaithful wife about to run away with her lover? In this collection of short stories, the answers are as unexpected as they are satisfying. The Queen of Mystery takes bizarre romantic entanglements, supernatural visitations, and classic murder to inventive new heights.Double Sin and Other Stories: Featuring Hercule Poirot And Miss Marple (Popular Author Ser.)
Par Agatha Christie. 1961
In one of London's most elegant shops,a decorative doll in green velvet adopts some rather human, and sinister, traits. .…
. . A country gentleman is questioned about a murder that has yet to be committed. . . . While summoning spirits, a medium is drawn closer to the world of the dead than she ever imagined possible. . . . In a small country church, a dying man's last word,sanctuary, becomes both an elegy and a clue to a crime. Only the Queen of Mystery could have conceived such delicious treats for suspense lovers. Only the inimitable Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple could solve them with such chilling perfection.The Mysterious Mr. Quin: A Short Story Collection (Harley Quin Mysteries #1)
Par Agatha Christie. 1930
La Tigresse
Par Bel Kaufman. 2012
A new collection of short stories from the bestselling author of Up the Down StaircaseLa Tigresse and Other Short Stories…
collects Bel Kaufman s short stories together for the first time--and introduces eight stories never before published In the title piece first published in Esquire in 1948 an aging femme fatale finds herself finally understanding what it means to truly love someone when she meets--and has a short affair with--a plain balding Frenchman who affectionately calls her la tigresse In her story From a Teacher s Wastebasket Kaufman reveals the origins of her bestselling novel Up the Down Staircase In Varya we enjoy the story of a free-spirited determinedly optimistic Russian immigrant who wins over anyone who crosses her path In her deft perceptive stories Kaufman embraces the importance of joy and of living life to the fullestLegend of a Suicide
Par David Vann. 2010
In semiautobiographical stories set largely in David Vann's native Alaska, Legend of a Suicide follows Roy Fenn from his birth…
on an island at the edge of the Bering Sea to his return thirty years later to confront the turbulent emotions and complex legacy of his father's suicide.The Red Pony (Penguin Modern Classics Ser.)
Par John Steinbeck. 1938
Selected Stories
Par O. Henry. 1993
Eighty stories that display O. Henry's comic eye and unique, ironic approach to life's realities. These stories about con men…
and tricksters and 'innocent' deceivers, about fate, luck, and coincidence, have delighted generations of readers. Set in New York and the West, in Central America and the South, they demonstrate O. Henry's mastery of speech and place, and highlight his appreciation of life's quirks.