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Strange Love (Made In Michigan Writers Ser.)
Par Lisa Lenzo. 2014
The nine stories of Strange Love center on Annie Zito, a smart-but-not-always-wise divorced mother, and Marly, her strong yet vulnerable…
daughter, as they seek and stumble upon an odd cast of boys and men. All the stories are linked and alternate between mother and daughter; and while each tale stands alone, together they make up a larger whole. The first story begins when Annie is thirty-one years old and Marly is eight and they live in a tiny apartment overlooking a marsh near Lake Michigan, and the last story ends a decade and a half later with both women on the cusp of new adventures. Throughout these years, mother and daughter struggle with male characters: the hot-headed teenager next door, a therapist with a faulty heart, a homeless man who occupies the daughter's porch, a divorced professor trying his wings, a flatterer who becomes abusive, a brilliant and neurotic doctor, a schizophrenic photographer, an engineer in love with comedy. Yet the women also clash with each other as Annie tries to protect her child and find a lasting relationship with a man, and Marly learns how to navigate and survive the romantic and sexual arena and find her place in the larger world. Annie's deceased firstborn baby daughter is a darker thread woven through these stories, a subtle influence who is never seen but not forgotten. And in the background as well as the foreground is Annie's beloved Lake Michigan, into whose deep waters she swims to remind herself that the world is beautiful and large and on whose frozen ice she kneels, as these pages end, in a moment that is both surprising and sublime. By turns comical and poignant, lyrical and incisive, Strange Love displays Lenzo's storytelling gifts at their finest. These stories will appeal to all readers of fiction.New York Mosaic: (VMC) (Virago Modern Classics #66)
Par Isabel Bolton. 1997
'To read Bolton's three novels in sequence is to relive the three major moments of the American half century' GORE…
VIDAL'Rapturous . . . a welcome revival' ANITA BROOKNER, SPECTATOR'Exquisitely stylish' GUARDIAN 'Bolton's writing about New York is immensely evocative, even astonishing at times' VIVIAN GORNICK, LOS ANGELES TIMES On their first publication, Isabel Bolton's novellas won high praise from such reviewers as Edmund Wilson and Diana Trilling (who in 1946 called her 'the most important new novelist in the English language to appear in years').Highly poetic, evocative stories of city life, the characters in these novellas are mirrored by the complexities of New York itself. Each carefully constructed narrative is built by the layering of conversation, perception, and inner monologue onto lyrical descriptions of a vibrating New York City. Out of print for many years, New York Mosaic brings together the finest fiction from this unique and timeless writer.The Village Maestro and 100 Other Stories: And 100 Other Stories
Par Vaghese Mathai. 2022
Power tales. Brief by design, these stories – micro-stories, really – are unforgettably impactful. Their professor-author first delivered them as…
his signature "class-openers" on university campuses, raiding literature, history, science, philosophy, the scriptures, and even personal life. Nimble and quick, they bridge diverse knowledge fields, never failing to leave an inspirational stamp on the reader's soul.There's Something I Want You to Do
Par Charles Baxter. 2015
From one of the great masters of the contemporary short story, here is an astonishing collection that showcases Charles Baxter's…
unique ability to unveil the remarkable in the seemingly inconsequential moments of an eerie yet familiar life. Penetrating and prophetic, the ten inter-related stories in There's Something I Want You to Do are held together by a surreally intricate web of cause and effect--one that slowly ensnares both fictional bystanders and enraptured readers. Benny, an architect and hopeless romantic, is robbed on his daily walk along the Mississippi River, and the blow of a baseball bat to the back of his knee feels like a strike from God. A drug dealer named Black Bird reads Othello while waiting for customers in a bar. Elijah, a pediatrician and the father of two, is visited nightly by visions of Alfred Hitchcock. Meanwhile, a dog won't stop barking, a passenger on a transatlantic flight reads aloud from the book of Psalms during turbulence, and a scream carries itself through the early-morning Minneapolis air. As the collection progresses, we delve more deeply into the private lives of these characters, exploring their fears, fantasies, and obsessions. They appear and reappear, performing praiseworthy and loathsome acts in equal measure in response to the request--or demand--lodged in each story's center. The result is a portrait of human nature as seen from the tightrope that spans the distance between dreams and waking life--a portrait that could have arisen only from Baxter's singular vision. Readers will be stunned by his uncanny understanding of human attraction and left to puzzle over the meaning of virtue and the unpredictable and mysterious ways in which we behave.From the Hardcover edition.Shock Shop
Par Cullen Bunn. 2022
Cullen Bunn (Harrow County), Danny Luckert (Regression), and Leila Leiz (The Last Book You&’ll Ever Read) present a brand-new horror…
anthology flip book. Taking place in a haunted comic book shop, with a twisted retailer, filled with tales of terror sure to leave you with the lights on—welcome to the SHOCK SHOP!In FAMILIARS: After a painful divorce and custody battle, Trevor rents a house and tries to rebuild his life. Soon, he discovers that his house appears to be "haunted" by more than one spirit—the minions of a long-dead coven of witches. When the creatures begin feeding on Trevor's feelings of anger and guilt, they lash out at those who draw his ire, whether he wants them to or not.In SOMETHING IN THE WOODS, IN THE DARK: A husband and wife who are going through a tough time go on a camping trip with a few friends into a deep section of woods. As they trek further into the forest, they realize that they are being stalked. Something in the woods starts killing the campers. It is a hideous, inhuman thing that may have ties to the campers...more than any of them realize.Collects Shock Shop #1–#4.Time for Bed: Stories (Yellow Shoe Fiction)
Par Wendy Rawlings. 2019
Bed is where we sleep and dream, where we make love and give ourselves nightmares. The thirteen stories in Wendy…
Rawlings’s Time for Bed traverse the complicated terrain of bedtime activity, from adulterous couplings to nightmares that come to life, in terms that can feel lurid, unsettling, or disturbingly funny. A college student struggles with her mother leaving her father for a “cafeteria lady” at her high school. A woman loses her only daughter in a mass school shooting and goes on a road trip to buy a custom coffin, then decides to take a side trip to NRA headquarters. A daughter decides she should be born again—literally. Social, cultural, and familial disruptions haunt these characters in their waking lives as they look to grab something or someone for stability. A collection of comic stories that confront difficult and tragic events, Time for Bed crafts dreamscapes and bizarre encounters into bedtime stories for adults.World of Archie Double Digest #130 (World of Archie Double Digest #130)
Par Archie Superstars. 2023
TWO BRAND NEW STORIES! First, in “Spring Breaking and Entering,” Pureheart and Fly-Girl’s plans for a fun spring break are…
foiled by the arrival of two villains, Smash & Grab! But will Pureheart be able to resist the allure of beach time in order to solve a crime? Then, in “Can’t Top This,” Inferno is hot on the (balloon) tail of villain Kennel Kween, as the evildoer takes to the skies in a hot air balloon! Will he be able to take her down (literally!)?The Stories of the Lotus Sutra
Par Rafe Martin, Gene Reeves. 2010
Stories are ancient and wondrous tools with the mysterious power to transform lives. And the stories and parables of the…
Lotus Sutra-one of the world's great religious scriptures and most influential texts-are among the most fascinating and dramatic. In this fun, engaging, and plain-English book, Gene Reeves-the translator of Wisdom's critically acclaimed and bestselling edition of the Lotus Sutra-presents the most memorable and remarkable of the Lotus Sutra's many stories and parables, along with a distillation of his decades of reflection on them in an accessible, inspiring, and naturally illuminating way. The Stories of the Lotus Sutra is the perfect companion to Reeve's breathtaking translation of this scriptural masterpiece as well as a thoroughly enjoyable stand-alone volume for those who want to bring the inspiring teachings of the bodhisattva path into their daily lives.The EC Archives: Tales from the Crypt Volume 3
Par Al Feldstein, William Gaines. 2023
No line of comics is more revered and more controversial than the late, great EC Comics, and no EC title…
is more associated with the legendary publisher than Tales from the Crypt.This volume of the complete collection of the revered magazine features classic tales of horror, murder, and the supernatural written by Al Feldstein and illustrated by Jack Davis, Graham Ingels, Jack Kamen, George Evans, Joe Orlando, and Marie Severin.This handsome hardcover volume collects Tales from the Crypt issues #29–#34, including the original stories, ads, text pieces, and letters.Tales From Beyond the Brain
Par Jeff Szpirglas. 2019
Imagine walking home from school one day and seeing a brain on the side of the road, a brain that,…
it turns out, is looking for a new home. Or instead of paying attention to the teacher, you shoot a paper airplane across the room and accidentally rip a hole in the fabric of the universe. And what would you do if you discovered that the reading group you thought was for dummies was actually recruiting kids with telekinetic powers? Tales from Beyond the Brain is a collection of thirteen spooky stories that are as outrageous as they are terrifying. It's a throwback to the weird tales of yesteryear, in the vein of Tales from the Crypt and The Twilight Zone, but with contemporary characters and settings. Getting an education has never been more dangerous. This is the first volume in an ongoing series.Three thrilling stories of the law from the master of the legal thriller.Homecoming takes us back to Ford County, the…
fictional setting of many of John Grisham's unforgettable stories. Jake Brigance is back, but he's not in the courtroom. He's called upon to help an old friend, Mack Stafford, a former lawyer in Clanton who three years earlier became a local legend when he stole some money from his clients, divorced his wife, filed for bankruptcy, and left his family in the middle of the night, never to be heard from again. Until now. Now Mack is back and he's leaning on his old pals, Jake and Harry Rex, to help him return. His homecoming does not go as planned.In Strawberry Moon, we meet Cody Wallace, a young death row inmate only three hours away from execution. His lawyers can't save him, the courts slam the door, and the Governor says no to a last minute request for clemency. As the clock ticks down, Cody has only one final request.The Sparring Partners are the Malloy brothers, Kirk and Rusty, two successful young lawyers who inherited a once prosperous firm when its founder, their father, was sent to prison. Kirk and Rusty loathe one another, and speak to each other only when necessary. As the firm disintegrates, the fiasco falls into the lap of Diantha Bradshaw, the only person the partners trust. Can she save the Malloys, or does she take a stand for the first time and try to save herself? 350+ million copies, 45 languages, 10 blockbuster films:NO ONE WRITES DRAMA LIKE JOHN GRISHAMSuch a Pretty Little Picture and Other Stories (Dover Thrift Editions: Short Stories)
Par Dorothy Parker. 2023
Dorothy Parker’s literary prowess reveals a razor-sharp wit in this original collection of twelve short stories, published between 1922 and…
1927 in the top literary magazines of the day, including The Smart Set, The New Yorker, and The New Republic. These superbly crafted satirical stories, rich with keen insights into human nature, illuminate the pretentious absurdities within relationships between men and women — in and outside of marriage, the politics of patriarchy and power, the subordination of women, and observations of class and race. An excellent sampling of Parker’s acerbity rooted in an intimate realism and subtle feminism, this collection of early works features some of Parker’s best-known tales, including “Arrangement in Black and White,” “Mr. Durant,” “Such a Pretty Little Picture,” and “The Last Tea.”The Collected Stories of Greg Bear
Par Greg Bear. 2002
There are a number of stories in this collection that won awards and a number that should have won. There…
is a feast of good reading for anyone who appreciates a well told story with credible science.Fifty-Two Stories (Vintage Classics Ser.)
Par Anton Chekhov. 2020
From the celebrated, award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and War and Peace: a lavish, masterfully rendered volume of stories by…
one of the most influential short fiction writers of all time.Chekhov's genius left an indelible impact on every literary form in which he wrote, but none more so than short fiction. Now, renowned translators and longtime house authors Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky give us their peerless renderings of fifty-two Chekhov stories--a full deck! These stories, which span the full arc of his career, reveal the extraordinary variety and unexpectedness of his work, from the farcically comic to the darkly complex, showing that there is no one type of "Chekhov story." They are populated by a remarkable range of characters who come from all parts of Russia, all walks of life, and who, taken together, have democratized the short story. Included here are a number of never-before-translated stories, including "Reading" and "An Educated Blockhead." Here is a collection that promises profound delight.That Old Country Music: Stories
Par Kevin Barry. 2020
From the author of the wildly acclaimed Night Boat to Tangier, a New York Times "Top 10" book of 2019,…
here are stories of contemporary Ireland: full of love (and sex), melancholy and magic, bedecked in some of the most gorgeous prose being written today.With his three novels and two short story collections, Kevin Barry has steadily established his stature as one of the finest writers not just in Ireland but in the English language. His prodigious gifts with language, character, and setting in these eleven exquisite stories transport the reader to an Ireland both timeless and recognizably modern. Shot through with dark humour and the uncanny primal power of the Irish landscape, the stories in That Old Country Music represent some of the finest fiction being written today.Who Do You Think You Are?: Penguin Modern Classics Edition
Par Alice Munro. 1978
"Alice Munro's stories are universally admired-if one defines the 'universe' as that part of the world's population that reads good…
books." —Wayne Johnston Rose and her stepmother, Flo, live in Hanratty-across the bridge from the "good" part of town. Rose, alternately fascinated and appalled by the rude energy of the people around her, grows up nursing her hope of outgrowing her humble beginnings and plotting an escape to university. Rose makes her escape and thinks herself free. But Hanratty's question-Who Do You Think You Are?-rings in her ears during her days in Vancouver, mocks her attempts to make her marriage successful, and haunts her new career. In these stories of Rose and Flo, Alice Munro explores the universal story of growing up-Rose's struggle to accept herself tells the story of our lives.Jean Ross Justice: On the Life and Work of an American Master (The Unsung Masters Series)
Par Jean Ross Justice, Ryan Bollenbach, Kevin Prufer. 2022
The wife of acclaimed poet Donald Justice, Jean Ross Justice spent much of her life in academic and literary circles.…
Though her work was overshadowed by that of her husband during her lifetime, this collection and accompanying commentary recognize her subtle brilliance. In "Double First Cousins," a young woman sets her life aside to help her ailing cousin and falls in love with her cousin's charming husband. In "The Next to Last Line" an accomplished poet appropriates a line written by one of her students. In "The Sky Fading Upward to Yellow" a woman ponders her friend's affair with a famous writer. Essays examine several of the stories in this collection and show why they endure.Stay With Me, Wisconsin
Par JoAnneh Nagler. 2021
This collection of eleven short stories presents people of many ages and backgrounds, all seeking love and finding it in…
unexpected places. The settings include Mexico, New York City, and the Himalayas, but each of the main characters has ties to rural Wisconsin. In "Ponty Bayswater," a lonely widower reconnects with an Army buddy from World War II. In "Atotonilco" a desperate widow takes the advice of a Buddhist therapist and finds a new life in a Mexican village. In ""Kewaskum" a young woman's refusal to follow family tradition sets off a cascade of events and realignments that transform the lives of the people around her.Dognapped! (Puppy Patrol #29)
Par Jenny Dale. 2000
Puppies Are a priority at King street Kennels Bramble is a strong, handsome dog with a tough past. But now…
he's a much-loved farm dog--and his owner, Harry Grey, would hate to be without him. When Harry discovers a badly injured terrier hidden at Priorsfield farm, Neil and Emily Parker are worried for the safety of local dogs. Then Bramble goes missing--and someone or something is putting him in real danger... Most of the books in the Puppy Patrol series are in Bookshare's library with more coming soon. Search for books by Jenny DaleDesde el más allá
Par Gláucio Imada Tamura. 2022
Vio cuando estamos muy estresados y, de la nada, la vida viene y nos regala algo bueno? Pues sí, y…
vivir esta experiencia buena es una forma de alivio, no? Bueno… Menos para el doctor Igor que, luego de tanto ajetreo para resolver la cuestión de las tierras de su bisabuela, el último día de trabajo él atiende a una pareja de ancianos muy simpáticos, pero que, al final, acaban dejando al abogado con una enorme desconfianza.