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By Jm Holmes. 2018
Four young men struggle to liberate themselves from the burden of being black and male in America in an assured…
debut "as up-to the-minute as a Kendrick Lamar track and as ruefully steeped in eternal truths as a Gogol tale" (Kirkus, starred review).Bound together by shared experience but pulled apart by their changing fortunes, four young friends coming of age in the postindustrial enclave of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, struggle to liberate themselves from the legacies left to them as black men in America. With potent immediacy and bracing candor, this provocative debut follows a decade in the lives of Dub, Rolls, Rye, and Gio as they each grapple with the complexity of their family histories, the newfound power of sex and drugs, and the ferocity of their desires. Gio proves himself an unforgettable narrator, beautifully flawed and unstintingly honest, as he recounts both the friends' conflicts and their triumphs. Whether it's a fraught family cookout, a charged altercation on the block, a raucous night in high-society Manhattan gone wrong, or the troubled efforts of a drug hustler to go clean, JM Holmes brings the thump and the heat of his scenes to life with the kind of ease that makes us not just eavesdroppers but participants. How Are You Going to Save Yourself illuminates in breathtaking detail an entire world-one that has been underrepresented in American fiction. At times funny, often uncomfortable, occasionally disturbing, these stories fearlessly engage with issues of race, sex, drugs, class, and family. Holmes's blistering and timely new voice, richly infused with the unmistakable rhythms of hip-hop that form the sound track to his characters' lives, delivers an indelible fiction that has never been more vital and necessary.By Stephan Remberg. 2017
In Federn Sammeln vermischt Daniela I. Norris perfekte Erzählkunst und ein ausgeprägtes spirituelles Bewusstsein, um uns eine wunderschöne und eindringliche…
Reihe von Geschichten aus dem Jenseits zu bringen. Ein Fest für Herz, Verstand und Seele, jede Geschichte ist vielschichtig mit sich entspinnenden Intrigen und jede wird Sie noch lange begleiten, nachdem die Seiten umgeblättert wurden.By Penelope Lively. 2017
A glimmering collection of new short fiction from the Booker Prize winner. “Lively writes with an astringent blend of sympathy…
and detachment, emotional wisdom and satiric wit.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times In such acclaimed novels as The Photograph, Family Album, and How It All Began, Penelope Lively has captivated readers with her singular blend of wisdom, elegance, and humor. Now, in her first story collection in decades, Lively takes up themes of history, family, and relationships across varied and vividly rendered settings. In the title story, a Mediterranean purple swamp hen chronicles the secrets and scandals of Quintus Pompeius’s villa, culminating with his narrow escape from the lava and ash of Vesuvius. “Abroad” captures the low point of an artist couple’s tumultuous European road trip, trapped in a remote Spanish farmhouse and forced to paint a family mural and pitch in with chores to pay for repairs to their broken-down car. Other stories reveal friends and lovers in fateful moments of indiscretion, discovery, and even retribution—as in “The Third Wife,” when a woman learns her husband is a serial con artist and turns a house-hunting trip into an elaborately staged revenge trap. Each of these delightful stories is elevated by Lively’s signature graceful prose and eye for the subtle yet powerfully evocative detail. Wry, charming, and keenly insightful, The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories is a masterful achievement from one of our most beloved writers.By Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Margaret Hunt. 2013
We all know the stories -- or do we? We know who Snow White is, but what about Rose Red?…
And what happens to an all-too willful child? Learn more intriguing stories about "Wise Folks," "The King's Son Who Feared Nothing," and . . . well . . . "Donkey Cabbages"--to name a few. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were well-known nineteenth-century German storytellers, academics, linguists, and cultural researchers who did not hold back when telling terrifying tales, including parables and fables designed to teach and entertain readers of all ages.- This chic and inexpensive edition comes with a heat-burnished cover, foil stamping, luxurious endpapers, and a smaller trim size that's easy to hold.- The Brothers Grimm Volume 2: 110 Grimmer Fairy Tales contains more than a hundred stores and fables.The Brothers Grimm Volume 2: 110 Grimmer Fairy Tales is perfect for the short story lover, and offers many entertaining tales to delight--and fright--literature lovers.By Gary Soto. 2011
Being thirteen is happy, sad, humiliating, surprising, wonderful, awful, exciting, boring -- in other words, full of ups and downs.…
The thirteen-year-olds in Gary Soto's thirteen stories experience all this and more. In one story, a girl's world is turned upside down when she visits a college campus where she expects to find a rarified atmosphere of intellectual pursuit, only to meet a tour guide who is tattooed, overly pierced, hungover, and not at all focused on academics. In another, two girls test the attraction of their new bodies by flirting with boys at a mall and then find themselves in an uncomfortable and somewhat frightening situation. The stories in this book are about family relationships, friendships, self-worth, and questions of integrity.By Thea Bowering. 2013
“So I have always walked alleys alone, with my monster face, listening through a wall for the words that might…
cultivate me, that are contained within the homes of ex-lovers, the ones who caught a glimpse and ran away.” In the neon-slick streets of Thea Bowering’s imagination, monster girls and femme flâneurs roam, anthropologist’s eyes on barroom denizens, disguising themselves in men’s clothing and embarking on doomed love affairs. Old World meets New World as the cafés and piazzas of Europe’s capitals intermingle with the dust and desolation of the 21st Century modern West. Strikingly modern while also filled with fin de siècle regret, Thea Bowering’s first story collection is shot through with allusion and timeless themes given new life.By Lydia Davis, Lucia Berlin, Stephen Emerson. 1999
"I have always had faith that the best writers will rise to the top, like cream, sooner or later, and…
will become exactly as well-known as they should be-their work talked about, quoted, taught, performed, filmed, set to music, anthologized. Perhaps, with the present collection, Lucia Berlin will begin to gain the attention she deserves." -Lydia DavisA MANUAL FOR CLEANING WOMEN compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin. With the grit of Raymond Carver, the humor of Grace Paley, and a blend of wit and melancholy all her own, Berlin crafts miracles from the everyday, uncovering moments of grace in the Laundromats and halfway houses of the American Southwest, in the homes of the Bay Area upper class, among switchboard operators and struggling mothers, hitchhikers and bad Christians. Readers will revel in this remarkable collection from a master of the form and wonder how they'd ever overlooked her in the first place.By Patrice Martinez, Patricia Puente José. 2017
Acrisios interrumpi su labor para mirar al animal favorito de la diosa Artemisa Cerca…
de la ciudad de Ceran a un pueblo de la regi n de Beocia un modesto campesino trabajaba sus tierras Pero un increible encuentro cambiar su destino y le mostrar un nueva forma de vivir su labor la viticulturaBy Edna O'Brien. 2018
Estos extraordinarios relatos de Edna O'Brien, publicados por primera vez en castellano en una edición a cargo de Marta Orriols,…
son una muestra brillante de la capacidad de su autora para manejar tramas y para manipular cada palabra con el detalle de una artesana y la delicadeza de una amante. «El amor es como la naturaleza, pero al revés: primero vienen los frutos, luego las flores; al cabo de un tiempo parece marchitarse y finalmente cala hondo, tan hondo que nadie lo ve, y a menudo morimos con ese amor secreto escondido dentro de nosotros.»Edna O'Brien John Banville habla de ella como la maestra de la fragilidad, Philip Roth nos recuerda su precisión casi cruel a la hora de diseccionar sentimientos. Y los dos aciertan. Las mujeres retratadas en estos cuentos tienen el descaro de pedirle al amor mucho más de lo que sería razonable; sin embargo saben recoger con soltura lo que queda de los platos rotos en el suelo de una cocina, y siguen adelante con toda la energía que Edna O´Brien ha puesto en sus palabras y sus gestos. Pocas veces las vemos resignarse a un matrimonio largo, donde los días se parecen unos a otros, a menudo las vemos huyendo de casas, colegios y conventos, pero en su desesperación por una vida más libre sacuden al lector y le interpelan. Es así como la gran autora irlandesa ha creado un mundo donde todo es conocido pero nada se repite, porque bastan un verbo o un adjetivo para que el mundo sea otro.By Ureen Freely, Sait Abasiyanik. 2014
Sait Faik Abasiyanik was born in Adapazari in 1906 and died of cirrhosis in Istanbul in 1954. He wrote twelve…
books of short stories, two novels, and a book of poetry. His stories celebrate the natural world and trace the plight of iconic characters in society: ancient coffeehouse proprietors and priests, dream-addled fishermen adn poets of the Princes' Isles, lovers and wandering minstrels of another time. Many stories are loosely autobiographical and deal with Sait Faik's frustration with social convention, the relentless pace of westernization, and the slow but steady ethnic cleansing of his city. His fluid, limpid surfaces might seem to be in keeping with the restrictions that the architects of the new Republic placed on language and culture, but the truth lies in their dark, subversive undercurrents.Sait Faik donated his estate to the Daruşafaka foundation for orphans, and this foundation has since been committed to promoting his work. His former family home on Burgazada was recently restored, and now functions as a museum honoring his life and work. He is still greatly revered: Turkey's most prestigious short story award carries his name and nearly every Turk knows by heart a line or a story by Sait Faik.By Adam Schuitema. 2010
"Travel brochures, postcards, and license plates from decades past touted Michigan as 'The Water Winter Wonderland!' And in Adam Schuitema's…
stories, it is just that: a wonderland where men and boys collide with sand and snow, flora and fauna; where nature is not only somewhere to explore, but a place to hide. In his Michigan, deer frolic through urban areas, old men pilfer sand dunes, and the woods are the best place to hide your Playboys. From childhood to adulthood, these guys struggle to do the right thing--searching the woods, gazing out at the lake, sifting the ashen sands--for a clue as to how to become the men they need to be. Schuitema's Freshwater Boys is the literary equivalent of an early spring leap into the still icy waters of the bay: shocking, refreshing, cleansing. The best way to rouse a spirit drowsy from an endless, arduous winter." --Michael Zadoorian, The Leisure Seeker and The Lost Tiki Palaces of DetroitBy Katherine Page. 2014
Katherine Hall Page author of the beloved Faith Fairchild series invites you to enjoy her first-ever collection of…
short fiction Readers will delight in the broad range of these mysteries--tales to suit every taste and mood Page s tales will take readers from the skyscrapers of Manhattan to the dunes of Cape Cod and even Across the Pond Her characters include a man who longs for widowerhood dreaming of the attention from the casserole brigade--good women lining up at his door offering food and perhaps themselves as well A newlywed discovers her husband s ingenious hiding places for objects like spare keys One spinster turns to friends for help with the supernatural Another unmarried woman finds a baby named Christopher in her barn on Christmas Eve in Maine A British bride calls on Faith and her sister for help after a series of alarming accidents And Faith herself is almost Sliced in a reality cooking show when the competition turns deadly The title Small Plates refers to the length of these servings but also to the occasional pleasure of ordering tapas or appetizers rather than an entr e--providing tastes that the author hopes will linger long on the palateBy Robert Stone. 1997
The stories collected in Bear and His Daughter span nearly thirty years - 1969 to the present - and they…
explore, acutely and powerfully, the humanity that unites us. In "Miserere," a widowed librarian with an unspeakable secret undertakes an unusual and grisly role in the anti-abortion crusade. "Under the Pitons" is the harrowing story of a reluctant participant in a drug-running scheme and the grim and unexpected consequences of his involvement. The title story is a riveting account of the tangled lines that weave together the relationship of a father and his grown daughter.By Rocio Bonilla, Elsa Punset. 2017
Elsa Punset, autora e importante referente en el ámbito de la inteligencia emocional, ha creado la colección «El taller de…
emociones», una herramienta que ayudará a los niños a conocer y controlar sus propias emociones, algo imprescindible para crecer feliz. Los Atrevidos y el concurso de las ideas geniales incluye claves para fomentar la CREATIVIDAD. Saber gestionar nuestras emociones no siempre es fácil, especialmente para los más pequeños. Educar con inteligencia emocional es algo esencial para enseñar a los niños a manejar sus emociones y así mejorar sus relaciones con los demás, superar los problemas cotidianos y tomar mejores decisiones. Elsa Punset, la conocida autora y referente indispensable en el ámbito de la inteligencia emocional, combina en esta colección aventuras entrañables para los niños y niñas con el taller de emociones, en el que toda la familia descubrirá pistas y recursos para mejorar su inteligencia emocional. Los Atrevidos son Alexia, Tasi y su perro Rocky. Ellos están descubriendo cómo hacer magia con sus emociones. Acompañados por el genial y experimentado entrenador de emociones, la gaviota Florestán, se enfrentarán cada noche a retos divertidos y trepidantes. A través de sus aventuras aprenderemos de forma amena a gestionar nuestras emociones, o lo que es lo mismo: a ponerles nombre, calmarlas o transformarlas. En Los atrevidos y el concurso de las ideas geniales, Álex, Tasi y Rocky descubren el increíble PODER CREATIVO que todos tenemos gracias a los consejos de su amigo Florestán.By Theodore Dreiser. 1994
By Ed Teja, Susanna Battisti. 2014
In una cittadina un giornalista viene assassinato...ma perché?Un investigatore privato di Los Angeles va in vacanza in Colorado per vedere…
un vecchio amico e dedicarsi un po' alla pesca, ma è come non fosse mai andato via dalla città. Si imbatte in un omicidio e il suo amico, il direttore ed editore del giornale locale vuole che lo risolva. Un reporter del luogo, che sognava di diventare un giornalista investigativo, è stato ucciso. Lo Sceriffo è un bravissimo pescatore e un funzionario eletto. Avrà a che fare con pochi sospetti, moventi non troppo credibili... e una trota famelica.By Ed Teja, José Eduardo Paiva. 2014
Lisa estava em busca de diversão em suas férias no México, e agora alguns vigaristas esperam que ela pague uma…
valiosa quantia em dinheiro à eles em troca de algumas fotos que pudessem revelar grandes momentos de sua viagem. O que Bart diria se visse essas tais fotos? Se ele divorciar dela por causa de um pouco de diversão, ela poderá perder todo aquele adorável dinheiro. É claro que ela não poderia dar qualquer coisa à um chantagista ganancioso que estaria disposto a arruinar um perfeito casamento.By Jasmine Black, Francesca O. 2018
Jill sempre stata avvertita che la sua passione per il gioco d azzardo prima o poi l…
avrebbe messa nei guai E adesso si trova davvero in guai seri Ha perso una partita a poker contro due miliardari molto sexy e adesso la vogliono come vincita Faranno a lei tutto ci che desiderano per un anno intero Mentre si trova lungo la strada verso la sua nuova vita in Italia a bordo di una limousine color crema Franco e Gianni mostreranno esattamente a Jill cosa significa essere vinta da due miliardari Sesso A Tre Serie Jasmine Black Sedotta Da Due Biker Sedotta da due Boss Presa Da Due MiliardariBy Dustin M. Hoffman. 2016
Rare voices in fiction, the lives of the working class consume this collection. Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize…
in Fiction, One-Hundred-Knuckled Fist brings to life the narratives of midwestern blue-collar workers. In these sixteen stories, author Dustin M. Hoffman invites readers to peek behind the curtain of the invisible-but-ever-present “working stiff” as he reveals their lives in full complexity, offering their gruff voices—so often ignored—without censorship. The characters at the heart of these stories work with their hands. They strive to escape invisibility. They hunt the ghost of recognition. They are painters, drywall finishers, carpenters, roofers, oil refinery inspectors, and hardscapers, all aching to survive the workday. They are air force firemen, snake salesmen, can pickers, ice-cream truck drivers, and Jamaican tour guides, seething forth from behind the scenes. They are the underemployed laborers, the homeless, the retired, the fired, the children born to break their backs. One-Hundred-Knuckled Fist initiates readers into the secret nightmares and surprising beauty and complexity of a sweat-stained, blue-collar world.By Alexander Mccall Smith. 2016
A Knopf Canada Original E-Short, and a spin-off story from the Isabel Dalhousie series.Philosopher and amateur sleuth Isabel Dalhousie has…
an unstinting commitment to her principles. Sticking to her promises has always been one of them. Then Isabel runs into an old classmate facing marital and financial troubles, who reveals a secret about a painting up for auction that becomes more and more difficult for Isabel to keep. In the meantime she comes across a revealing note accidentally put in the pocket of her son's jacket at daycare, and obviously intended for another classmate's parent. Thankfully, Isabel's devoted husband, Jamie, is there to help our heroine navigate her competing moral obligations. Beautifully perceptive and witty, this original short story by Alexander McCall Smith shows Isabel calling upon all of her intelligence, charm, and tact.