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The Star Diaries: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy (From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy)
Par Stanislaw Lem. 1985
Ijon Tichy, Lem's Candide of the Cosmos, encounters bizarre civilizations and creatures in space that serve to satirize science, the…
rational mind, theology, and other icons of human pride. Line drawings by the Author. Translated by Michael Kandel. A Helen and Kurt Wolff BookLand 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.The Human Kaboom: 6 Explosively Different Stories with the Same Exact Name!
Par Adam Rubin. 2023
The author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Dragons Love Tacos and The Ice Cream Machine returns with another hilarious,…
irresistible collection of six totally different stories with the same exact name.Adam Rubin is back with this companion to The Ice Cream Machine, inviting you into six thrilling new worlds filled with daring and danger, mystery and mayhem—not to mention explosions! In a swanky New York City hotel, a reclusive guest appears to have spontaneously combusted. On a school field trip to a human anatomy museum in space, two kids try to pull off the greatest prank in history. Somewhere on a deserted island, three siblings try to make a life for themselves after the rest of the planet has been decimated by gigantic rock monsters. And then there's the small, quaint fishing town where a boy visiting his sister stumbles across an ancient curse; the traveling circus where a young girl becomes the assistant to a death-defying human cannonball; and the rugged wilderness where one kid with superpowers just can't seem to find some peace.Each story is illustrated by a different artist, including Marta Altés, Daniel Gray-Barnett, Rodolfo Montalvo, Daniel Salmieri, Adam de Souza, and Gracey Zhang, with black-and-white artwork that practically explodes off the page. So put on a helmet and hang on tight, because this unpredictable book will blow you away!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).The Archie Wedding: Archie in Will You Marry Me? (Life With Archie #1)
Par Michael Uslan. 2010
It's the wedding of the century and the story you've waited a lifetime for! Archie finally marries Betty! ...and Veronica?…
Almost 80 years in the making! But is this really the end of the classic love triangle between Archie, Veronica, and Betty? Will the Riverdale gang ever be the same? Do Archie and Veronica live happily ever after? Follow the celebrated story - originally published in the pages of Archie #600-605 - from proposal to wedding and beyond! Watch as Archie and Veronica start a family and navigate the ups and downs of married life as one of the most famous comic couples of all time! Written by life-long Archie Comics fan and movie producer Michael Ulsan, and with art by acclaimed Archie artist Stan Goldberg, this timeless story about growing up is jam-packed with the hilarious antics and touching sentiment only Archie & Co. can bring you.Archie: The Married Life Book 1 (Life With Archie #1)
Par Michael Uslan. 2021
"Find out what happens after the “I do”s! Delve deeper into all of the emotion and drama surrounding two different…
choices: Archie’s decision to marry sultry debutante Veronica Lodge versus his decision to marry sexy girl next door Betty Cooper. How do his choices affect not only Riverdale, but the world and everyone around him? Is it a match made in heaven? Will he find that he can’t put a price on love? Collects the first six chapters of both Archie Marries Veronica and Archie Marries Betty, the most critically acclaimed storyline Archie has ever published, as originally seen in the newsstand magazine Life with Archie."Gleanings: Stories from the Arc of a Scythe (Arc of a Scythe)
Par Neal Shusterman. 2022
The New York Times bestselling Arc of the Scythe series continues with &“captivating…thrilling&” (School Library Journal) stories that span the…
timeline. Storylines continue. Origin stories are revealed. And new Scythes emerge!There are still countless tales of the Scythedom to tell. Centuries passed between the Thunderhead cradling humanity and Scythe Goddard trying to turn it upside down. For years, humans lived in a world without hunger, disease, or death with Scythes as the living instruments of population control. Neal Shusterman—along with collaborators David Yoon, Jarrod Shusterman, Sofía Lapuente, Michael H. Payne, Michelle Knowlden, and Joelle Shusterman—returns to the world throughout the timeline of the Arc of a Scythe series. Discover secrets and histories of characters you&’ve followed for three volumes and meet new heroes, new foes, and some figures in between. Gleanings shows just how expansive, terrifying, and thrilling the world that began with the Printz Honor–winning Scythe truly is.Reawakened Worlds: Vintage Dystopian and Sci-fi Stories
Par John Hayden Howard. 2023
STRAIGHT FROM THE AUTHOR'S ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS REAWAKENED WORLDS: Vintage Dystopian and Sci-fi Stories by a Master Storyteller is the first…
volume in a collection of short stories and novelettes by John Hayden Howard (1925-2014), known to fans as Hayden Howard. A well-regarded contemporary of such science fiction icons as Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, and Robert Heinlein, he was a 1967 Nebula Award finalist. Written in the classic science fiction era of the 1950s and '60s, these stories have out-of-this-world endings reminiscent of The Twilight Zone episodes from the same time. Readers encounter diverse characters, from a teen surfer and a 1940s boxer to space travelers and strange Arctic villagers. Thought-provoking themes create a unique blend of escapism and intellectual stimulation. STRAIGHT FROM THE AUTHOR'S ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS In Part 1, WHAT IF, life-altering choices and surprises await a professor in “The Tragedy of Henry Diddoh,” a 1940s prize-fighter and time-traveler in “Ten Rounds for the All-Time Champ,” and a citizen in a dystopian future in “We Specialists.” In Part 2, STRANGE ENCOUNTERS ON EARTH, readers are kept on edge with unexpected discoveries by a teen California surfer in “Gremmie’s Reef,” a New Mexico archeologist in “The Butcher,” and a Canadian Arctic researcher among bizarre villagers in “Arctic Invasion.” In Part 3, INTERPLANETARY TALES, a dog causes trouble on Mars in “Haranu,” and a massive anti-gravity battle ensues between rival spaceship crews in “Mutiny in the Orbit of Uranus.” Whether you're a fan of classic science fiction or just looking for a wild ride, Howard's imaginative worlds will leave you questioning what's possible.Relit: 16 Latinx Remixes of Classic Stories
Par Sandra Proudman. 2024
16 classic stories reimagined: Latinx characters take center stageRelit features sixteen original stories by award-winning and bestselling Latinx YA authors that…
revamp classics, myths, and fairy tales to center the multilayered Latinx experience through fantasy, science fiction, and a dash of horror.Pride and Prejudice is launched into outer space, Frankenstein is plunged into the depths of the ocean, and The Great Gatsby floats to an island off the coast of Costa Rica. A shape-shifter gives up her life to save the boy she loves from an evil bruja. La Ciguapa covets a little mermaid&’s heart of gold. Two star-crossed teens fall in love while the planet burns around them. Whether characters fall in love, battle foes, or grow through grief, each story will empower readers to see themselves as the heroes of the stories that make our world.The Southern Cross: Stories
Par Skip Horack. 2009
“These stories are the real deal, the way Larry Brown's and Raymond Carver's stories are real. They move at depth…
with what can only be called a great and authentic soul. This is a special book, and the announcement of a wonderful writer and storyteller.”--Rick BassThe sixteen short stories featured in Skip Horack’s prize-winning debut collection paint a richly textured vision of the American South. Set in the Gulf Coast over the course of a year torn halfway by the arrival of Hurricane Katrina, these stories, filled with humor, restraint, and verve, follow the lives of an assembly of unforgettable characters. An exonerated ex-con who may not be entirely innocent, a rabbit farmer in mourning, and an earnest young mariner trying to start a new life with his wife—all are characters that populate the spirited cities and drowsy parishes in Horack’s marvelous portrait of the South. "A knockout winner" for guest judge Antonya Nelson, The Southern Cross marks the arrival of a standout new voice.