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By Otto Penzler. 2010
Fifty-three stories, novellas, and serialized novels featuring hard-boiled detectives that were published in the pulp magazine Black Mask from 1920…
to 1951. Includes short bios of Dashiell Hammett, Erle Stanley Gardner, Raymond Chandler, John D. MacDonald, and the collection's other noir authors. Some violence and some strong language. 2010By Bill Henderson, Pushcart Prize Editors. 2013
Collection of sixty-five works of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry selected for the annual Pushcart Prize. In "Helen Keller Answers the…
Iron" Andrew Hudgins reflects on his youthful love of jokes and his adult perspective on the ones that mock tragedy, disability, and death. Strong language and some violence. 2012By Otto Penzler. 2012
Seventy-nine ghost stories--written over a span of more than a century--organized around themes such as haunted houses, trains, and seances.…
Includes tales by Rudyard Kipling, Edith Wharton, H.P. Lovecraft, Isaac Asimov, Chet Williamson, and others. With brief biographical sketches of the authors. Some violence and some strong language. 2012By Fern Michaels, Leslie Meier, Holly Chamberlin, Kristina Mcmorris, Kristina McMorris, Holly Chamberlain. 2012
Four Christmas love stories. In Fern Michaels's title piece an actress/bartender and a trauma surgeon vacationing at a ski resort…
question their career choices. Also includes Leslie Meier's "The Christmas Thief," Holly Chamberlin's "The Joy of Christmas," and Kristina McMorris's "The Christmas Collector." Bestseller. 2012By Tom Franklin, Brian Carpenter. 2012
Collection of twenty-eight previously published works, memoirs and fiction, that showcase life in the American South--without romanticism. In an excerpt…
from A Childhood: The Biography of a Place, Harry Crews reminisces about his Georgia birthplace. In Pinckney Benedict's "Pit" a dog fight ends in murder. Violence and strong language. 2012By Neil Gaiman, Charles Stross, Cherie Priest, Caitlin R. Kiernan, China Miéville, Michael Marshall Smith, Kim Newman, Sarah Monette, Paula Guran, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Rafael Tavares. 2011
Twenty-seven previously published short stories in the tradition of horror writer H.P. Lovecraft. Contributing authors include Neil Gaiman, Caitl�in Kiernan,…
and China Mi�eville. In Laird Barron's "Old Virginia" a Cold War-era CIA agent on a secret assignment doesn't realize he's fighting supernatural forces, not communists. Some violence. 2011By 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 Wendell Berry. 2004
Short stories set in the Kentucky community of Port William from 1888-1986. In "Hurt Man" five-year-old Mat Feltner learns of…
loss as he watches his mother attend to a wounded man. In "The Inheritors" farmer Danny Branch has an unforgettable car ride with elderly Wheeler Catlett. Some strong language. 2004Thirty-six tales of demonic lore, fallen angels, and the devil. Includes stories by Lovecraft and Poe, an excerpt from Danielle…
Trussoni's novel Angelology (DB 70757), and essays analyzing Satan's historical roots and demons in popular culture. Violence, strong language, and descriptions of sex. Bram Stoker Award. 2011By Deborah Treisman. 2010
Short stories and excerpts of novels-in-progress by twenty North American writers under age forty, selected by the New Yorker. Among…
those at various stages of their careers bringing news of the world and the human heart: Jonathan Safran Foer, Nell Freudenberger, Yiyun Li, Karen Russell, and Gary Shteyngart. 2010By K. C. Constantine, Nancy Martin, Rebecca Drake, Lila Shaara, Hilary Masters, Kathryn Miller Haines, Kathleen George, Terrance Hayes, Paul Lee, Kathleen Georgfe, Steward O'Nan, Carlos Antonio Delgado, Aubrey Hirsch, Tom Lipinski, Reginald McKnight. 2011
Collection of fourteen stories set in various parts of Pittsburgh. In Stewart O'Nan's "Duplex" a woman takes careful steps to…
end the relationship between a friend's son and his trashy girlfriend so she can get an apartment she covets. Violence, strong language, and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2011By Fern Michaels, Nan Parson Rossiter, Rosalind Noonan, Elizabeth Bass, Nan Rossiter. 2011
Four Christmas novellas filled with romance. In the title story, single Melanie McLaughlin applies to an adoption agency to fulfill…
her wish for children. Meanwhile, her friend's brother, professor Bryce Landry, falls in love with Melanie--and comes through for her when two orphaned siblings need a home. Bestseller. 2011By Geraldine Brooks, Heidi Pitlor. 2011
Twenty short stories selected from the past year's American and Canadian magazines. In "Foster" an Irish girl is sent to…
live with strangers for the summer. In "Free Fruit for Young Widows" an Israeli man explains war to his son. Some violence and some strong language. 2011Annual anthology of stories, essays, and poems published by small presses. In "We Don't Deserve This" married, globe-trotting physicians Jake…
and Sarah, who haven't seen their kids in years, discover that the two young teens are child pornographers. Strong language, some violence, and some descriptions of sex. 2011By Gregory Benford, John Barnes, Greg Bear, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Stephen Baxter, Damien Broderick, Robert Reed, Karl Schroeder, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Jonathan Strahan, John C. Wright, Charles Stross, Peter Watts, Gwyneth Jones, Hannu Rajaniemi, Barbara Lamar, David Moles. 2010
By Debbie Macomber, Susan Mallery, Christina Skye. 2011
Three romances featuring people who knit. In "The Twenty-first Wish" ten-year-old Ellen hopes her adopted mother will marry her birth…
father. In "Coming Unraveled" Robyn goes home to help her grandmother run a knitting store. In "Return to Summer Island" Caro meets a marine who is redeploying to Afghanistan. 2011By Max Allan Collins, Sara Paretsky, Barbara D'Amato, Stuart M. Kaminsky, Libby Fischer Hellmann. 2007
Noir stories from twenty-one writers, including Sara Paretsky, Marcus Sakey, and Barbara D'Amato. In Stuart Kaminsky's "Blue Note," gambler Pitch…
Noles must win at a poker game or his blues-singer mother will lose a finger to a loan shark. Violence, strong language, and explicit descriptions of sex. 2007By Brad Watson. 2010
Twelve short stories about the harsher aspects of human experience. In the title piece Will, a teenage boy, elopes with…
his pregnant girlfriend, Olivia, and moves into an apartment near a psychiatric hospital. Will becomes successful and blissfully happy with Olivia--unless that's merely a dream. Some strong language. 2010By Laura Furman. 2011
Twenty short stories selected from literary magazines. In "Bed Death" two American girls teach English in a school in Malaysia,…
until one leaves alone. In "Never Come Back" a miner's daughter-in-law takes off with his grandson. Strong language, some violence, and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2011By Denys Johnson-Davies. 2006
English translation of Arabic short stories and excerpts from novels by seventy-nine writers from fourteen countries--from Morocco in the west…
to Iraq in the east. Brief author profiles precede entries. Features "A Man of Letters" by Egyptian Taha Hussein, who has been blind since early childhood. 2006