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Amgash novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Anything Is Possible explores the whole range of human emotion through the intimate dramas of people struggling to understand themselves and others. Here are two sisters: One trades self-respect for a wealthy husband while the other finds in the pages of a book a kindred spirit who changes her life. The janitor at the local school has his faith tested in an encounter with an isolated man he has come to help; a grown daughter longs for mother love...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A collection of fifteen stories, eleven of which have never been previously published, from the early career of bestselling American master Elmore Leonard. Over his long and illustrious career, Elmore Leonard was recognized as one of the greatest crime writers of all time, the author of dozens of bestselling books--many adapted for the big screen--as well as a master of short fiction. A superb stylist whose crisp, tight prose crackled with trademark...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Stories on black-white and black-black relations. In the title story, two Air Force families--one black, one white--discover in each other everything they expected, while in Palm Wine, an African-American in Africa learns his black skin earns him no merit points.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
A collection of stories on the Arab world. The story, The Land of Dreams, is on a woman aid worker in a village in the Yemen, while in The Marriage Fair a wife in Lebanon tries to obtain a divorce by pretending to be mentally ill. By the author of Beirut Blues.
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Language
English
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"Award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken is an undisputed virtuoso of the short story, and this new collection features her most vibrant and heartrending work to date"-- Provided by publisher.
In these stories, the mysterious bonds of family are tested, transformed, fractured, and fortified. A recent widower and his adult son ferry to a craggy Scottish island in search of puffins. An actress who plays a children's game show villainess ushers in...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"An irresistibly accessible yet startlingly bold book of short stories and a novella, inspired by Black lives in America and featuring the gripping eponymous work "My Monticello.""-- Provided by publisher.
Johnson's characters traverse Virginia's landscapes, still stained by some of America's most heinous acts, in pursuit of a place to call home. In each story, she reveals intimate moments within the nation's multitudes, featuring unforgettable characters...
Author
Publisher
Small Beer Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"A half-remembered children's TV show. A hotel that shouldn't exist. A mysterious ballad. A living flag. A group of girls goes camping. Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author Sarah Pinsker's second collection brings together her touchstones of music and memory, secret subversions and hidden messages"-- Provided by publisher.
10) Tell tale
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
Find out what happens to the hapless young detective from Naples who travels to an Italian hillside town to find out Who Killed the Mayor? and the pretentious schoolboy in A Road to Damascus, whose discovery of the origins of his father's wealth changes his life in the most profound way. Revel in the stories of the 1930's woman who dares to challenge the men at her Ivy League University in A Gentleman and A Scholar while another young woman who thumbs...
Author
Series
Lovecraft Country volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Summer, 1957. Atticus Turner and his father, Montrose, travel to North Carolina, where they plan to mark the centennial of their ancestor's escape from slavery by retracing the route he took into the Great Dismal Swamp. But an encounter with an old nemesis turns their historical reenactment into a real life-and-death pursuit. Back in Chicago, George Berry fights for his own life. Diagnosed with cancer, he strikes a devil's bargain with the ghost...
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Nine mall Santas must find the imposter among them. An elderly lady seeks peace from her murderously loud neighbors at Christmastime. A young woman receives a mysterious invitation to Christmas dinner with a stranger. Niccoló Machiavelli sets out to save an Italian city. Sherlock Holmes's one-time nemesis Irene Adler finds herself in an unexpected tangle in Paris while on a routine espionage assignment. Jane Austen searches for the Dowager Duchess...
13) Thrillville, USA
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"An amusement park employee overdoses after eating the gel of a fentanyl patch. Two homeless men discover the body of a drowned person. A woman encounters a dangerous stranger while driving her brother to rehab. Ex-lovers seek to rekindle their relationship with the aid of an earthquake. In the nine masterful stories that comprise Thrillville, USA, debut author Taylor Koekkoek depicts Americans living on the margins of society, seeking escape from...
14) Animalia
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
"Alfaguara republishes this anthology with the fabulous illustrations of Isol Misenta, which perfectly accompany these stories where the bestial emerges and the irrational comes into play. Aurora Bern�ardez, Julio Cort�azar's loving literary executor, gathered twenty-one stories by the writer to form a unique collection of the fauna that inhabits the Cortazarian universe. There, as is known, animals that we know coexist with others that only exist...
15) Kiss Kiss
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1962.
Language
English
Description
Eleven devious, shocking stories from the master of the unpredictable. What could go wrong when a wife pawns the mink coat that her lover gave her as a parting gift? Or when a priceless piece of furniture is the subject of a deceitful bargan? How can a wronged woman take revenge on her deceased husband or a landlady preserve her guests for ever? In these wickedly anarchic stories, Roald Dahl explores the dark, sinister side of the psyche: the cunning,...
Author
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"Journey across the stars of the Imperial Radch universe. Listen to the words of the Old Gods that ruled The Raven Tower. Learn the secrets of the mysterious Lake of Souls. And so much more, in this masterfully wide-ranging and immersive short fiction collection from award-winning author Ann Leckie"-- Provided by publisher.
Language
English
Description
The Granta Book of the African Short Story introduces a group of African writers described by its editor, Helon Habila, as 'the post-nationalist generation'. Introducing a diverse and dazzling collection from all over the continent - from Morocco to Zimbabwe, Uganda to Kenya - Habila has focused on younger, newer writers, interspersed with some of their older, more established peers, to give a fascinating picture of a new and more liberated Africa....
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