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By Alan Brown, Gabrielle Roy. 1982
By Constance Chaillet. 1998
By Jon Tuska. 1997
This collection of twenty-eight western short stories from the 1920s-1990s includes works by renowned writers such as Zane Grey, Max…
Brand, Conrad Richter, Alan LeMay, and Cherry Wilson, as well as contemporary tales by Richard Wheeler, Ernest Haycox, and Cynthia Haseloff. Some strong languageFour novels from African American writers during Harlem's cultural and artistic movement of the 1930s. Includes Not Without Laughter by…
Langston Hughes, Black No More by George S. Schuyler, The Conjure-Man Dies by Rudolph Fisher, and Black Thunder by Arna Bontemps. Some violence and some strong language. 2011Collection of five novels from African American writers during the black cultural mecca in 1920s Harlem, New York. Includes Cane…
by Jean Toomer, Home to Harlem by Claude McKay, Quicksand by Nella Larsen, Plum Bun by Jessie Redmon Fauset, and The Blacker the Berry by Wallace Thurman. Some strong language. 2011By Frank Norris. 1986
By Lisa Yaszek, Patrick B. Sharp. 2016
Selection of short fiction, essays, and poems by women working in the genre in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. Includes…
fiction by C. L Moore, poems by Julia Boynton Green, and journalism by L. Taylor Hansen. Also provides commentary documenting women's contributions to the pulp-magazine community. Some violence and some strong language. 2016By Isak Dinesen. 1993
Six short works of fiction from Danish author of Out of Africa (DB 23011). Includes "Babette's Feast," in which a…
woman prepares a decadent meal for a community of religious ascetics, and the novella Ehrengard, about a rakish nobleman. 1963By Leo Tolstoy, Larissa Volokhonsky, Richard Pevear. 2009
Eleven stories by the acclaimed Russian writer (1828-1910). The title piece examines death and the possibilities of redemption. Includes "The…
Prisoner of the Caucasus," inspired by Tolstoy's experiences in the Chechen War, and "Hadji Murat," featuring a Chechen rebel who defects. Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. 2009By Diana Palmer. 2011
Morie Brannt, denied the opportunity to work on her wealthy father's Texas ranch, takes a job incognito on Mallory Kirk's…
Wyoming spread to learn the business. The two manage to hide their attraction--until a crisis leaves Mallory in danger. Some explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2011By Laura Furman. 2010
Twenty short stories selected from literary magazines. In "Them Old Cowboy Songs" teenagers Archie and Rose, married homesteaders living downstream…
from the Sierra Madre in 1885, face disaster. "Clothed, Female Figure" features a Russian nanny in Manhattan. Some violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2010By Paul Andrew Hutton. 2010
An anthology of short stories and essays together with a few poems written by twenty-seven of today's top Western writers.…
Also included is the western novella "The Big Guns," by Andrew Fenady. 2020By Larry L. King. 1997
This volume brings together five essays that King considers "true fact," ten that constitute "tall tales," and four short stories…
that he classifies as "pure fiction." All of these pieces represent an ongoing attempt to define and understand his native place and his mind's country. They cover subjects ranging from a rape trial to dubious recipes and points between: writing, politics, Little League baseball, Texas basketball, racial integration in the military, dogs, sinning, and stories of troubled lives. Explicit descriptions of sexBy Pete Fromm, Maryanne Vollers, William Kittredge, Alan Kesselheim, Tim Cahill, John Clayton, Thomas Lee, Jeff Welsch, Malcolm Brooks, Glen Chamberlain, Daniel Person, Milana Marsenich, Allen Morris Jones, Scott McMillion, Jennifer Graf Groneberg, Fred Haefele, Jeff Hull, Ed Kemmick, Butch Larcombe, Myers Reece, Megan Ault Regnerus, Gail Schontzler, Craig Lancaster, John Byorth. 2015
By Anton Chekhov, Larissa Volokhonsky, Richard Pevear, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. 2004
Anton Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story, also wrote five works long enough to be…
called short novels, here brought together in one one volume for the first time, in a new translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa VolokhonskyBy Laura Furman. 2007
Twenty short stories selected from diverse periodicals. In Brian Evenson's "Mudder Tongue" a teacher gradually loses his language ability. Includes…
"The View from Castle Rock" by Alice Munro and "El Ojo de Agua" by Susan Straight. Some violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2007By Anton Chekhov, Larissa Volokhonsky, Richard Pevear, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. 2000
Thirty tales by Russian playwright and author Anton Chekhov (1860-1904). Includes brief early pieces such as "The Huntsman" and later…
works marked by symbolism, irony, and social commentary. In "Ward No. 6" a doctor at a mental hospital becomes a patient. Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. 2000By Knut Hamsun, Sverre Lyngstad. 2007
Deep in Norway's unspoiled backcountry, Isak perseveres in building a homestead, nurturing his crops, and raising a family. But the…
demands of civilization eventually intrude upon--and destroy--his simple way of life. A 2007 translation by Sverre Lyngstad. 1917By Stephen Crane, J. C. Levenson. 1996
More than one hundred works of the nineteenth-century author and reporter Stephen Crane (1871-1900). Includes five novellas; dispatches from Asbury…
Park, New Jersey, and New York state; war reports from Greece during the Greco-Turkish wars and from Cuba during the Spanish-American War; and poetry. 1984By Lorraine Heath, Georgina Gentry, Teresa Bodwell. 2006
Three western romances. In Georgina Gentry's "The Great Cowboy Race," heiress Henrietta Jennings enters a thousand-mile horse race from Nebraska…
to Illinois and falls for her toughest competitor, wrangler Comanche Jones. Also includes Teresa Bodwell's "Moonlight Whispers" and Lorraine Heath's "The Reluctant Hero." Some explicit descriptions of sex. 2006