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Keeping Her Difficult Balance
Par Barb Johnson. 2009
The lives of four unlikely friends intersect on the backstreets of New Orleans. Living amid poverty and violence, these fragile…
heroes of the American underclass redefine our notions of family, redemption, and love.The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Volume 3 (The tiny Book Of Tiny Stories Ser.)
Par Joseph Gordon-Levitt. 2012
Mr. Lincoln's Wars: A Novel in Thirteen Stories
Par Adam Braver. 2003
In this highly ambitious collection, Adam Braver explores Abraham Lincoln's inner life and personal turmoils -- while also reflecting on…
the indelible impact Lincoln had on the nation during the last year of his presidency. Braver brings the president to life, not just as the strong and resilient leader of history books but also as a grief-stricken father, heartbroken over the loss of his young son.Across a rich canvas of truth and imagination, Mr. Lincoln's Wars reveals a president within the White House walls. We see Lincoln as he explores the meaning of loss through a chance encounter with the father of a slain soldier. And a good-hearted young Union soldier is quickly turned into a killer in the name of President Lincoln. Finally, there is the assassination and the autopsy, as seen through the eyes of John Wilkes Booth, Mary Lincoln, the assistant surgeon general, and one of Lincoln's closest friends.Brilliant in its depiction of the country during the waning days of the war, this book is an insightful and moving exploration of the myth of celebrity and the passions it arouses. More than anything, Mr. Lincoln's Wars introduces a talented new writer whose storytelling ability knows no bounds.The Dream of the Ridiculous Man: Stories
Par Fyodor Dostoyevsky. 2009
The Barracks Thief
Par Tobias Wolff. 1984
The Barracks Thief is the story of three young paratroopers waiting to be shipped out to Vietnam. Brought together one…
sweltering afternoon to stand guard over an ammunition dump threatened by a forest fire, they discover in each other an unexpected capacity for recklessness and violence. Far from being alarmed by this discovery, they are exhilarated by it; they emerge from their common danger full of confidence in their own manhood and in the bond of friendship they have formed.This confidence is shaken when a series of thefts occur. The author embraces the perspectives of both the betrayer and the betrayed, forcing us to participate in lives that we might otherwise condemn, and to recognize the kinship of those lives to our own.Imaginary Magnitude
Par Stanislaw Lem. 1985
These wickedly authentic introductions to twenty-first-century books preface tomes on teaching English to bacteria, using animated X-rays to create "pornograms,"…
and analyzing computer-generated literature through the science of "bitistics." "Lem, a science fiction Bach, plays in this book a googleplex of variations on his basic themes" (New York Times Book Review). Translated by Marc E. Heine. A Helen and Kurt Wolff BookThe Best American Short Stories 2019 (The Best American Series)
Par Anthony Doerr, Heidi Pitlor. 2019
#1 New York Times best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anthony Doerr brings his&“stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors&” (San…
Francisco Chronicle) to selecting The Best American Short Stories 2019. &“As soon as you complete a description of what a good story must be, a new example flutters through an open window, lands on your sleeve, and proves your description wrong,&” writes Anthony Doerr about the task of selecting The Best American Short Stories 2019. The year&’s best stories are a diverse, addictive group exploring everything from America&’s rich rural culture to its online teen culture to the fragile nature of the therapist-client relationship. This astonishing collection brings together the realistic and dystopic, humor and terror. For Doerr, &“with every new artist, we simultaneously refine and expand our understanding of what the form can be.&” The Best American Short Stories 2019 includes Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Jamel Brinkley, Jeffrey Eugenides, Ursula K. Le Guin, Manuel Muñoz, Sigrid Nunez, Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, Jim Shepherd, Weike Wang, and others.Bones and Heart: A Night and Nothing Short Tale (Night and Nothing Novels)
Par Katherine Harbour. 2015
Land of Big Numbers: Stories
Par Te-Ping Chen. 2021
A Best Book of the Year: Barack Obama · NPR · The Washington Post · The Philadelphia Inquirer · Esquire…
· Kirkus Reviews · Chicago Public Library · Electric LiteratureMalala Yousafzai’s Fearless Book Club Pick for Literati "Dazzling...Riveting." —New York Times Book Review“Gripping and illuminating . . . At the heart of Te-Ping Chen’s remarkable debut lies a question all too relevant in 21st Century America: What is freedom?” —Jennifer Egan “Immensely rewarding, from the first sentence to the last . . . An exceptional collection.” —Charles YuA “stirring and brilliant” debut story collection, offering vivid portrayals of the men and women of modern China and its diaspora, “both love letter and sharp social criticism,” from a phenomenal new literary talent bringing great “insight from her years as a reporter with the Wall Street Journal” (Elle).Gripping and compassionate, Land of Big Numbers traces the journeys of the diverse and legion Chinese people, their history, their government, and how all of that has tumbled—messily, violently, but still beautifully—into the present.Cutting between clear-eyed realism and tongue-in-cheek magical realism, Chen’s stories coalesce into a portrait of a people striving for openings where mobility is limited. Twins take radically different paths: one becomes a professional gamer, the other a political activist. A woman moves to the city to work at a government call center and is followed by her violent ex-boyfriend. A man is swept into the high-risk, high-reward temptations of China’s volatile stock exchange. And a group of people sit, trapped for no reason, on a subway platform for months, waiting for official permission to leave.With acute social insight, Te-Ping Chen layers years of experience reporting on the ground in China with incantatory prose in this taut, surprising debut, proving herself both a remarkable cultural critic and an astonishingly accomplished new literary voice.Dirty Old Men: Anthology
Par Omar Tyree. 2009
An erotic book of short stories dealing with the international, historical, and undeniable fetish that many older men have for…
younger women.The New York Times bestselling author, Omar Tyree, weaves exciting erotic tales in this anthology featuring stories on the fetish older men for younger women. &“The Bartender&” is about a married man who is tempted by a young female bartender in his after-work hangout. &“The Stripper Club Bandit&” is about a horny old man who continues to be thrown out of strip clubs for propositions the dancers. &“Skin Deep&” is about a veteran photographer who falls head-over-heels for a young model who is the mistress of the magazine publishers. Many more scintillating stories in this anthology explore the sexual fantasies that consume the minds of older men lured by the overwhelming beauty and seduction of younger women.This Good Man (The Mysteries of Angel Butte #5)
Par Janice Kay Johnson. 2014
A man of integrity or not? The moment Captain Reid Sawyer helps social worker Anna Grant with a sticky situation, she's hooked.…
He's gorgeous and clearly interested in her. Yet even as he pursues her, she senses he's holding back. For someone who prizes honesty and doing the right thing, how much of his evasion can Anna tolerate? Her trust in Reid is further shaken when he confesses what he's done to protect his newly discovered brother. Is Reid really one of the good guys? Then he's involved in a hostage situation. Suddenly, she fears she could lose him before telling him how she truly feels!The Simple Art of Murder (Vintage Crime Ser. #Vol. 27)
Par Raymond Chandler. 1888
The renowned novel from crime fiction master Raymond Chandler, with the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe…
• Featuring the iconic character that inspired the forthcoming film Marlowe, starring Liam NeesonIn The Simple Art of Murder, which was prefaced by the famous Atlantic Monthly essay of the same name, noir master Raymond Chandler argues the virtues of the hard-boiled detective novel, and this collection, mostly drawn from stories he wrote for the pulps, demonstrates Chandler's imaginative, entertaining facility with the form. Included are the classic stories "Spanish Blood," Pearls Are a Nuisance," and "Guns at Cyrano's," among others.Goldfish: From Trouble Is My Business (A Vintage Short)
Par Raymond Chandler. 1950
In this short story from Raymond Chandler&’s Trouble is My Business, the iconic private eye, Philip Marlowe, takes up the…
case of the Leander Pearls. Stolen decades ago, the thief was caught but the pearls themselves were never recovered. With the $25,000 reward still on the table, Marlowe&’s on the case, but he soon realizes he&’s not the only one. A quintessential work of detective fiction, Goldfish is a classic Marlowe caper, filled with twists, turns, and double-crosses. A Vintage Short.Trouble Is My Business: A Novel (A Philip Marlowe Novel #8)
Par Raymond Chandler. 1888
The renowned novel from crime fiction master Raymond Chandler, with the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe…
• Featuring the iconic character that inspired the film Marlowe, starring Liam Neeson.This collection by crime fiction master Raymond Chandler features four long stories in which private eye Philip Marlowe is hired to protect a rich old guy from a gold digger, runs afoul of crooked politicos, gets a line on some stolen jewels with a reward attached, and stumbles across a murder victim who may have been an extortionist.The Guy Not Taken: Stories
Par Jennifer Weiner. 2004
Jennifer Weiner's talent shines like never before in this collection of short stories, following the tender, and often hilarious, progress…
of love and relationships over the course of a lifetime. From a teenager coming to terms with her father's disappearance to a widow accepting two young women into her home, Weiner's eleven stories explore those transformative moments in our every day. We meet Marlie Davidow, home alone with her new baby late one Friday night, when she wanders onto her ex's online wedding registry and wonders what if she had wound up with the guy not taken. We stumble on Good in Bed's Bruce Guberman, liquored-up and ready for anything on the night of his best friend's bachelor party, until stealing his girlfriend's tiny rat terrier becomes more complicated than he'd planned. We find Jessica Norton listing her beloved New York City apartment in the hope of winning her broker's heart. And we follow an unlikely friendship between two very different new mothers, and the choices that bring them together -- and pull them apart. The Guy Not Taken demonstrates Weiner's amazing ability to create characters who "feel like they could be your best friend" (Janet Maslin) and to find hope and humor, longing and love in the hidden corners of our common experiences.Call to Arms (Echoes Of Classics Ser.)
Par Lu Xun. 2001
Call to Arms is a collection of revolutionary Chinese writer Lu Xun’s most famous and most important short stories. Featuring…
“A Madman’s Diary,” a scathing attack of traditional Confucian civilization and “The True Story of Ah Q,” a poignant satire about the hypocrisy of Chinese national character and the first work written entirely in the Chinese vernacular. Together this collection exposes a contradictory legacy of cosmopolitan independence, polemical fractiousness, and anxious patriotism that continues to resonate in Chinese intellectual life today.Call to Arms (Echoes Of Classics Ser.)
Par Lu Xun. 2001
Call to Arms is a collection of revolutionary Chinese writer Lu Xun’s most famous and most important short stories. Featuring…
“A Madman’s Diary,” a scathing attack of traditional Confucian civilization and “The True Story of Ah Q,” a poignant satire about the hypocrisy of Chinese national character and the first work written entirely in the Chinese vernacular. Together this collection exposes a contradictory legacy of cosmopolitan independence, polemical fractiousness, and anxious patriotism that continues to resonate in Chinese intellectual life today.In The Gloaming: Stories
Par Alice Elliott Dark. 2001
From the author of Think of England and Fellowship Point, a captivating collection of stories—the title piece successfully made into…
an HBO film—about the complex relationships between lovers, spouses, neighbors, and family members. By turns funny, sad, and disturbing, these are stories of remarkable power. When the austere and moving title story of this collection appeared in The New Yorker in 1993, it inspired two memorable film adaptations, and John Updike selected it for inclusion in The Best American Short Stories of the Century. In these ten stories, Alice Elliott Dark visits the fictional town of Wynnemoor and its residents, present and past, with skill, compassion, and wit.Sing to It: Stories
Par Amy Hempel. 2019
LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARDONE OF TIME&’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARONE OF NPR&’S BEST BOOKS OF 2019From legendary…
writer Amy Hempel, one of the most celebrated and original voices in American short fiction: an astounding collection of fifteen stories that are &“riveting in precision&” (The Atlantic) and &“scintillating as the blade of a knife&” (The Wall Street Journal). Amy Hempel is a master of the short story. A multiple award winner, Hempel is beloved and highly regarded among writers, reviewers, and readers of contemporary fiction.These fifteen exquisitely honed stories reveal Hempel at her most compassionate and spirited, as she introduces characters, lonely and adrift, searching for connection. In &“A Full-Service Shelter,&” a volunteer at a dog shelter tirelessly, devotedly cares for dogs on a list to be euthanized. In &“Greed,&” a spurned wife examines her husband&’s affair with a glamorous, older married woman. And in &“Cloudland,&” the longest story in the collection, a woman reckons with the choice she made as a teenager to give up her newborn infant. Quietly dazzling, these stories are replete with moments of revelation and transcendence and with Hempel&’s singular, startling, inimitable sentences.Ravishing, heartbreaking, and powerfully concise, Sing to It is an &“exquisite collection&” (The Wall Street Journal) and a &“quiet masterpiece by a true American original&” (NPR).A Cathedral of Myth and Bone: Stories
Par Kat Howard. 2018
From the acclaimed author of Roses and Rot—a &“Brothers Grimm tale for the contemporary reader&” (School Library Journal, starred review)—Kat…
Howard&’s exquisite shorter works, nominated for the World Fantasy Award, and performed on WNYC&’s Selected Shorts—called &“brilliant&” (Library Journal, starred review). Kat Howard has already been called a &“remarkable writer&” by Neil Gaiman and her &“dark and enticing&” (Publishers Weekly) debut novel, Roses and Rot, was beloved by critics and fans alike.Now, you can experience her collected shorter works, including two new stories, in A Cathedral of Myth and Bone. In these stories, equally as beguiling and spellbinding as her novels, Howard expands into the enchanted territory of myths and saints, as well as an Arthurian novella set upon a college campus, &“Once, Future,&” which retells the story of King Arthur—through the women&’s eyes.Captivating and engrossing, and adorned in gorgeous prose, Kat Howard&’s stories are a fresh and stylish take on fantasy. &“Kat Howard seems to possess a magic of her own, of making characters come alive and scenery so vivid, you forget it exists only on the page&” (Anton Bogomazov, Politics and Prose).