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Death on the Edge: A V.I. Warshawski Short Story (V.I. Warshawski Novels)
By Sara Paretsky. 2018
In this short story from New York Times bestselling author Sara Paretsky, acclaimed detective V.I. Warshawski must confront gun violence…
in her own Chicago hometownLegendary sleuth V.I. Warshawski is no stranger to the sound of bullets. Growing up in the Windy City, it was a way of life: loved ones taken too early, gangs patrolling the streets by night, police too quick to touch a trigger. Now, in the wake of a string of high school shootings across the United States, V.I.’s hometown has become impassioned by the growing movement to tackle gun violence. News reaches her old high school on Chicago’s South Side that an essay competition spearheaded by renowned newspaper The Edge is calling for high school students to write about how gun violence has affected their young lives. Overseeing the contest is Marcena Love, a British journalist V.I. has tangled with in the past. But when disputes arise over the poignant and divisive winning essay, violence strikes Mirabel High. To protect the students and teachers, and reveal a killer in their midst, V.I. must employ all her skills as a detective, as well as delve into the darkest moments of her childhood, to solve this deeply personal case.Hailed by P.D. James as “the most remarkable” of modern crime writers, Sara Paretsky is the New York Times bestselling author of twenty-one novels, including the renowned V.I. Warshawski series. She is one of only three living writers—alongside John Le Carré and Lawrence Block—to have received both the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America and the Cartier Diamond Dagger from the Crime Writers Association of Great Britain. She lives in Chicago with her husband.Heartbreaker: Stories
By Maryse Meijer. 2016
In her debut story collection, Heartbreaker, Maryse Meijer, flashlight in hand, goes deep into the darkest rooms of the psyche.…
With gorgeously restrained and exacting prose that packs a cumulatively devastating punch, she unapologetically unmasks the violence we are willing to perform upon one another in the name of love and loneliness and the unremitting desire to survive. In doing so, she lights societal convention and reader expectation on fire, exploring the darker emotional truths surrounding love and sex, femininity and masculinity, family and girlhood.Metaphor and Memory: Essays
By Cynthia Ozick. 1989
Cynthia Ozick writes about Saul Bellow and Henry James, William Gaddis and Primo Levi. She observes the tug-of-war between written…
and spoken language and the complex relation between art's contrivances and its moral truths. She has given us an exceptional book that demonstrates the possibilities of literature even as it explores them.Now Showing
By Ron Elliott. 2013
Brimming with cinematic references, this collection of short fiction ably combines humor with pulsating action. Readers will be able to…
celebrate the celluloid as they read their way through novellas that evoke a noir film, a romantic farce, a comedy heist, a thriller, and a classic road movie. The book also includes an introduction on how to adapt film scripts to stories. Cinephiles and lovers of crime fiction alike will be utterly drawn in by these unforgettable characters and stories.Laura and Alan (Éveiller Drive Ser. #3)
By Melanie James. 2016
When a marriage is in trouble, the women of Éveiller Drive come together with advice and support, and you will…
be surprised by the solutions they concoct. Laura and Alan from New York Times and USA Today bestselling contemporary romance author Melanie James is book 3 in the hot sexy Éveiller Drive romance series.Laura has perfected the art of time management. Her tightly watched schedule is the only thing that keeps her busy life from slipping into chaos. After all, not only is she a devoted mother of two children, she is the head of advertising for a real estate development company-a growing business that she started with her equally busy husband, Alan.Fourteen years into their marriage, Laura notices that Alan has been emotionally distant, and wonders if there is something going on. Has Laura's meticulous scheduling gone too far? Has Alan given up? When she confronts him with her fears about their marriage, she receives a surprising response. Now, the question is if she will be able to take a kinky leap of faith in her marriage. Will her friends on Éveiller Drive be there for her?This contemporary erotic romance contains adult content and situations, and is not intended for readers under the age of 18.Previously Published: (2014) Melanie James, Black Paw PublishingGente reconciliada
By Michael La Ronn, Vanesa Tifni. 2016
La vida está llena de desafíos, y cómo reaccionamos a ellos determina quiénes somos realmente. En estos relatos cortos, personas…
diferentes enfrentan desafíos que no son siempre lo que parecen. Un nativo-americano ignora su cultura y sus ancestros le causan una alucinación. Dos cazadores de ciervos se encuentran huyendo a toda velocidad después de que un accidente saliera terriblemente mal. Una mujer en búsqueda del amor por medio de internet va a la cita más loca de su vida. Un padre trata desesperadamente de mejorar la relación espiritual con su hijo adolescente en la avenida Strip, en las Vegas, cuando alguien inesperado aparece. Éstas y muchas más. ¿Se reconciliarán con sus miedos (y debilidades) y se elevaran a la altura de los desafíos de la vida?Girlfriends, Ghosts, and Other Stories
By Tom Whalen, Robert Walser, Nicole Kongeter, Annette Wiesner. 2016
Girlfriends, Ghosts, and Other Stories brings together eighty-one brief texts spanning Robert Walser's career, from pieces conceived amid his early…
triumphs to later works written at a psychiatric clinic in Bern. Many were published in the feuilleton sections of newspapers during Walser's life; others were jotted down on slips of paper and all but forgotten. Together they string together small nutshells of consciousness, idiosyncratic and vulnerable, genuine in their irony, wistful in their humor. The portraits and landscapes here are observed with tenderness and from a place of great anxiety. Some dwell on childish or transient topics--carousels, the latest hairstyles, an ekphrasis of the illustrations in a picture book--others on the grand themes of nature, art, and love. But they remain conversational, almost lighter than air. Every emotion ventured takes on the weight of a sincerity that is imperiled as soon as it comes into contact with the outside world, which retains all of the novelty it had in childhood--and all of the danger. Walser's speakers are attuned to the silent music of being; students of the ineffable and neighbors to madness, they are now exhilarated, now paralyzed by frequencies inaudible to less sensitive ears.Rube
By Alec Silva, Marta Lorenzo Carballo. 2016
Entre la lectura de libros pequeños acompañados de un conejo de peluche y escuchar a la madre leer historias el…
domingo, la pequeña Rube descubre mucho sobre el poder de la lectura y la imaginación. Y entender, poco a poco, cuánto es especial para los padres.El Pequeño Cuarto Oscuro del Alma
By Adriana Rojas, Matthew Pallamary. 2016
No puede haber luz sin oscuridad. El sol no puede levantarse sin la noche que le precede, y el sol…
poniente del día debe inevitablemente desvanecerse en oscuridad. Si la vida todo fuera rayos de sol y rosas, no habría contraste. La luz perpetua seria ambos cegadora y devastadora. Necesitamos la oscuridad. Es una parte integral del todo. Parte de nosotros. Las historias de terror son un reflejo de nuestro lado oscuro. En una era de verdaderos terrores como el SIDA, cáncer, y terrorismo, las historias que nos asustan pueden desarrollar una función útil dejándonos a los lectores vivir y experimentar el miedo en una moda controlada y lidiar con horrores en sus propios términos. Si llega a ser demasiado, siempre pueden cerrar el libro y ponerlo aparte. Experimentar el horro de esta manera funciona como una liberación de ansiedad porque es una forma tangible de lidiar con el escape de terrores en la vida moderna. La emoción de horror nos mantiene en contacto con los aspectos más oscuros de nuestro ser mientras nos permite confrontar nuestra vulnerabilidad y muerte inevitable. Leer horror es una válvula que nos permite desfogar para escapar cuando el muro es demasiado grande, aun la funcionalidad de esto nos da un escape de una confrontación que podría sobre abrumarnos. Provee una liberación catártica sin oprimiéndonos con no más de lo que podemos soportar. Demasiado seguido rehuimos nuestro lado oscuro, en la esperanza de que si no lo vemos, no existe. Aun nos da un Ed Gein, Charlie Manson, Ted Bundy, Hannibal Lecter, Jeffrey Dahmer, a cualquier otro ejemplo macabro del lado oscuro de naturaleza humana, y expresamos una mórbida fascinación que es el borde del frenesí. No podemos evitar más que desacelerar en la autopista a papar moscas en la carnicería de la prematura, desordenada muerte de otro o espiar ele culpable vistazo de la deformidad o des fortuna de otro. Solo tenemos que mirar.Uncommon Champions: Fifteen Athletes Who Battled Back
By Marty Kaminsky. 2000
These fifteen motivating stories prove that integrity and honor are not entirely missing from the playing fields. Readers will share…
the excitement as blind mountain climber Erik Weihenmayer scales the heights of Mount McKinley; as sprinter Gail Devers returns from a life-threatening illness to defend her Olympic title . . . and more. Despite facing incredible adversity, each of these stars found the heart and stamina to persevere.Akin to Anne: Tales of Other Orphans
By L. M. Montgomery. 1988
In this heartwarming collection of nineteen short stories L.M. Montgomery returns to the enchanting shores of beautiful Prince Edward Island…
to tell about orphans much like Anne of Green Gables -- vulnerable, sensitive, and full of hope and courage. There's the lonely young girl on a quest for a real-life mother, a budding artist who dreams of fame and fortune, and old family quilt that unites two sisters with a long-lost relative, an ancient Egyptian doll that invokes an unusual spell for a little girl yearning for a special friend. L.M. Montgomery brings to life a magical place and a circle of characters who will long be treasured and remembered.The Red Triangle
By Arthur Morrison. 2012
The affair of Samuel's diamonds -- The case of Mr. Jacob Mason -- The case of the Lever Key --…
The case of the burnt barn -- The case of the Admiralty code -- The adventure of Channel Marsh.Love It When You Come, Hate It When You Go: Stories
By Sharon Leach. 2014
Sharon Leach's Love It When You Come, Hate It When You Go occupies new territory in Caribbean writing: the characters…
of her stories are neither the folk of the old rural world, the sufferers of the urban ghetto familiar from reggae, nor the old prosperous brown and white middle class of the hills rising above the city, but the black urban salariat of the unstable lands in between, of the new housing developments. These are people struggling for their place in the world, eager for entry into the middle class but always anxious that their hold on security is precarious. These are people wondering who they are—Jamaicans, of course, but part of a global cultural world dominated by American material and celebrity culture. Her characters want love, self-respect, and sometimes excitement, but the choices they make quite often offer them the opposite. They pay lip service to the pieties of family life, but the families in these stories are no less spaces of risk, vulnerability, abuse, and self-serving interests. Bringing a cool, unsentimental eye to the follies, misjudgments, and self-deceptions of her characters, Leach never loses sight of their humanity or their individual natures.The Ten Days Executive: Short Stories
By Rhoda Bharath. 2015
Told through a distinctive range of individual voices, Rhoda Bharath's stories of contemporary Trinidad visit the domestic and public spaces…
of a country moving too fast between the knowing innocence of its past and the experience of a globalized present. Caught in the antagonisms of race, class, and gender, the violence that comes with the trade in cocaine, and an Anancy politics where government power is the means to personal wealth made secure by favors to one's ethnic supporters, Bharath's characters are often engaged in a struggle to balance a desire for meaning and self-worth with the temptations of survival by any means. Bharath brings a bold, prophetic voice of alarm over a world that seems to have lost its moral compass.Sic Transit Wagon and Other Stories
By Barbara Jenkins. 2013
The stories in this collection move from the all-seeing naïveté of a child narrator trying to make sense of the…
world of adults, through the consciousness of the child-become-mother, to the mature perceptions of the older woman taking stock of her life. Set over a timespan from colonial-era Trinidad to the hazards and alarms of its postcolonial present, these stories have, at their core, the experience of uncomfortable change, but seen with a developing sense of its constancy as part of life, and the need for acceptance. The stories deal with the vulnerabilities and shames of a childhood of poverty; the pain of being let down; glimpses of the secret lives of adults; betrayals in love; the temptations of possessiveness; conflicts between the desire for belonging and independence; and the devastation of loss through illness, dementia, and death. What brings each of these not uncommon situations to fresh and vivid life is the quality of the writing: the shape of the stories, the unerring capturing of the rhythms of the voice and a way of seeing that includes a saving sense of humor and the absurd and also delights in the characters that people these stories.The Whale House: And Other Stories
By Sharon Millar. 2015
A boy is killed on a government minister's orders as part of his mission to clean up the country and…
others made complicit must explore their consciences; a youth gets ready to play his role in the country's lucrative kidnap business; a sister tries to make peace with the parents of the white American girl her brother has murdered; a gangster makes his posthumous lament. Trinidad in all its social tumult is ever present in these stories, which range across the country's different ethnic communities, across rural and urban settings, from locals and expatriates to the moneyed elite and the poor scrabbling for survival. What ties the collection together is Sharon Millar's achievement of a distinctively personal voice: cool, unsentimental and empathetic. If irony is the only way to inscribe contemporary Trinidad, there is also room for both generous humor and the possibility of redemption.The O. Henry Prize Stories 2018 (The O. Henry Prize Collection)
By Laura Furman. 2018
The O. Henry Prize Stories 2018 contains twenty prize-winning stories chosen from thousands published in literary magazines over the previous…
year. The winning stories come from a mix of established writers and emerging voices, and are uniformly breathtaking. They are accompanied by essays from the eminent jurors on their favorites, observations from the winning writers on what inspired their stories, and an extensive resource list of magazines that publish short fiction."The Tomb of Wrestling," Jo Ann Beard, Tin House "Counterblast," Marjorie Celona, The Southern Review "Nayla," Youmna Chlala, Prairie Schooner "Lucky Dragon," Viet Dinh, Ploughshares "Stop ’n’ Go," Michael Parker, New England Review "Past Perfect Continuous," Dounia Choukri, Chicago Quarterly Review "Inversion of Marcia," Thomas Bolt, n+1 "Nights in Logar," Jamil Jan Kochai, A Public Space "How We Eat," Mark Jude Poirier, Epoch "Deaf and Blind," Lara Vapnyar, The New Yorker "Why Were They Throwing Bricks?," Jenny Zhang, n+1 "An Amount of Discretion," Lauren Alwan, The Southern Review "Queen Elizabeth," Brad Felver, One Story "The Stamp Collector," Dave King, Fence "More or Less Like a Man," Michael Powers, The Threepenny Review "The Earth, Thy Great Exchequer, Ready Lies," Jo Lloyd, Zoetrope "Up Here," Tristan Hughes, Ploughshares "The Houses That Are Left Behind," Brenda Walker, The Kenyon Review "We Keep Them Anyway," Stephanie A. Vega, The Threepenny Review "Solstice," Anne Enright, The New YorkerPrize Jury for 2018: Fiona McFarlane, Ottessa Moshfegh, Elizabeth TallentFather Fell Down the Well: Classic Stories From Downeast
By Kendall Morse. 2015
Storyteller Captain Kendall Morse is a member of Maine Country Music Hall of Fame, a Grammy nominee and three times…
was voted Maine Folksinger of the Year. Father Fell Down the Well is a collection of traditional Downeast stories that Kendall told during his performing career.One Good Road Is Enough: Essays
By Robert James Waller. 1990
The Artifact
By W. Michael Gear. 1990
In a galaxy on the brink of civil war, the Brotherhood seeks to keep peace through diplomacy, subterfuge, and control…
of both technological advances and the carefully gathered knowledge of countless worlds. But now Speaker Archon, formerly a privateer and currently head of the world of Star’s Rest, has brought news of a discovery that may prove a great boon to humankind or a catalyst for its destruction. The Brotherhood ship Boaz, carrying diplomats representing all the human planets, stations, and colonies, is launched on a journey to distant Star’s Rest. Only Archon and his daughter know what awaits them there. And neither they nor Captain Carrasco can anticipate the treacherous games of intrigue and betrayal about to be played out aboard Boaz. Yet the greatest danger is that they will actually survive to reach Star’s Rest and the alien Artifact. For this creation of a long-vanished civilization has been waiting patiently for millennia to lure humans to extinction....