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The cat who had 14 tales
Par Lilian Braun. 1988
Most of the cats in Braun's stories are of the Siamese variety and vastly superior to their human companions. In…
"The Fluppie Phenomenon," cat sitters take on a kitten with a mechanical fetish, putting their appliances in danger. The protagonist of "Phut Phat Concentrates" tries to teach his humans a more advanced method of communicating. "Stanley and Spook" are a cat and boy with oddly reversed traits. Some violenceThe lilac bus: stories
Par Maeve Binchy. 1991
Every weekend seven villagers travel home from Dublin to Rathdoon aboard Tom Fitzgerald's Lilac Bus. Separate sketches, which combine to…
create a larger tale, portray the villagers' concerns: Judy Hickey's loss of the custody of her two children, Mikey Burns's affluent brother, and Tom's hospitalized sister. The collection also includes "Dublin 4," stories set in the cityThey brought their women: a book of short stories (Short story index reprint series)
Par Edna Ferber. 1933
A collection of eight short stories written between 1927 and 1933. The title story describes the gulf between two Chicago…
couples, Leonard and Muriel Starrett, steel-mill aristocracy from the North Side, and Jeff Boyd and his wife, Hank, from the South Side. Other stories include "Glamour," "Fraulein," "Meadow Lark," "Hey! Taxi!," "Wall Street--'28," "No Foolin'," and "Keep It Holy."The collected stories of Peter Taylor (Contemporary American fiction)
Par Peter Taylor. 1986
Ward number six and other stories (The World's classics)
Par Anton Chekhov. 1974
Seven short stories written in the late 1800s by noted Russian author Anton Chekhov. The title story is of Dr.…
Ragin, the director of a mental hospital, whose own alcoholism and eccentric behavior lead to his committal to the hospital. Other stories in the collection are "The Butterfly," "Ariadne," "A Dreary Story," "Neighbours," "An Anonymous Story," and "Doctor Startsev."After you've gone: stories
Par Alice Adams. 1989
Fourteen stories that explore the themes of loss, separation, and coping with change. The title story is about a woman…
who receives a series of letters from her former lover's "new woman" asking for advice on how to please the man. "What to Wear" is the musing of a woman dressing to visit her lover in a mental ward. Some strong language and some descriptions of sexShort stories of Jack London: authorized one-volume edition
Par Jack London. 1990
London was a travelin' man whose "Story of a Typhoon off the Coast of Japan" won a newspaper contest and…
was published when he returned from the Pacific at the age of seventeen. It is included in this selection of short fiction, along with his last story, "The Water Baby." Also included are a biographical essay and forty-eight of London's other short stories. For high school and older readersCollection of stories by contemporary science fiction and fantasy authors that tell about a feline detective, conceited aliens, a science…
project gone awry, misdirected interdimensional missles, plaited moonbeams, backwoods horror, religion in a box, miniature soldiers, the Spanish Armada revisited, ingrown toenails, and counterspells. Strong languageSpirits and other stories
Par Richard Bausch. 1987
Collected short stories
Par Graham Greene. 1986
The heat death of the universe and other stories
Par Pamela Zoline. 1988
The author is associated with the British-inspired New Wave writing style, and her stories are experimental in structure. Each of…
the five stories in this collection is a mosaic, with discrete images, information, and descriptions finally coming together to form a coherent, though fragmented, story. Some descriptions of sexGoodbye, Sweetwater: new & selected stories
Par Henry Dumas. 1988
A collection of short stories by Henry Dumas, who was killed in 1968 by a New York City transit police…
officer. Settings range from small towns of the rural South to the explosive streets of Harlem in the late 1960s. His stories are imbued with myth and folklore, pain and angerA twenty-eight-story anthology. Includes a tale of far-future humans who have lost contact with simple human feelings and needs, by…
Walter Williams; a people-animal fairy tale, by Ursula K. LeGuin; and Earth as a dumping ground for unwanted insubstantial aliens, by Pat Cadigan. Some strong languageThe eighteen-carat kid, and other stories
Par P. G Wodehouse. 1980
Vintage Wodehouse stories never before published in the United States. The title story, a novella, tells the comic tale of…
a wealthy, devil-may-care American student pursued by inept kidnappers. Includes "William Tell Told Again," a breezy version of the famous legend originally written for childrenThe gourmet and other stories of modern China
Par Wen-Fu Lu. 1987
Lyrical collection of tales. In "Tang Qiaodi" a night-school teacher at a cotton mill is singled out for persecution during…
a period when intellectuals are under suspicion. In "The Gourmet," a novella, a young, spirited restauranteur sees his country's recurrent struggles between socialism and capitalism as a battle between Spartans and gluttonsThe Arbor House treasury of Nobel prize winners
Par Martin Greenberg, Charles Waugh. 1983
Anthology of thirteen short stories by Nobel laureates in literature. Includes stories by Rudyard Kipling, William Faulkner, William Butler Yeats,…
George Bernard Shaw, Sinclair Lewis, Pearl S. Buck, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, and others. Some strong languageShort stories, 2: friendly brook and other stories (Penguin modern classics)
Par Rudyard Kipling. 1971
Selected from five previously published works, these thirteen short stories were written after 1900, and include "In the Interests of…
the Brethren," "A Madonna of the Trenches," and "The Church that was at Antioch."Welcome to the Arrow-Catcher Fair: stories
Par Lewis Nordan. 1983
Nine gothic stories of the South featuring men and women whose outlandish world is described by one of the characters…
as "the land of the freak and the home of the strange." In "Wheelchair" an abandoned heartsick paraplegic confronts the fall that paralyzed him. A factory worker in the "Copper Balloons" is struck dumb by the magic of the printed world in a booklet on the English language. Some strong languageTransmogrify!: 14 fantastical tales of trans magic
Par G. Davis. 2023
Perfect for fans of All Out and Cemetery Boys, this anthology claims a seat at the table of fantasy literature…
for trans and gender nonconforming stories. Transness is as varied and colorful as magic can be. In Transmogrify!, you'll embark on fourteen different adventures alongside unforgettable characters who embody many different genders and expressions and experiences—because magic is for everyone, and that is cause for celebration. Featuring stories from: AR Capetta and Cory McCarthy g. haron davis Mason Deaver Jonathan Lenore Kastin Emery Lee Saundra Mitchell Cam Montgomery Ash Nouveau Sonora Reyes Renee Reynolds Dove Salvatierra Ayida Shonibar Francesca Tacchi Nik Traxler