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The Time Mirror
By Clark South. 2012
Monkey on his Back
By Charles V. Devet. 2012
The Professional Approach
By Charles Leonard Harness. 2012
Pastoral Affair
By Charles Stearns. 2012
The Surf Guru
By Doug Dorst. 2010
A book of brilliant, adventurous stories from the award-winning Doug Dorst. With the publication of his debut novel, Alive in…
Necropolis, Doug Dorst was widely celebrated as one of the most creative, original literary voices of his generation-an heir to T. C. Boyle and Denis Johnson, a northern California Haruki Murakami. Now, in his second book, The Surf Guru, his full talent is on display, revealing an ability to explore worlds and capture characters that other writers have not yet discovered. In the title story, an old surfing-champion-turned-surfwear- entrepreneur sits on his ocean-front balcony watching a new generation of surfers come of age on the waves, all but one of whom wear wet suits emblazoned with the Surf Guru's name. An acid-tongued, pioneering botanist who has been exiled from the academy composes a series of scurrilous (and hilarious) biographical sketches of his colleagues and rivals, inadvertently telling his own story. A pair of twenty-first- century drifters course through a series of unusual adventures in their dilapidated car, chased west out of one town and into the next, dreaming of hitting the Pacific. Dorst's characters have all successfully cultivated a particular expertise, and yet they remain intent on moving toward the horizon, seeking hope in something new. Likewise, each of Dorst's stories is a virtuoso performance balancing humor and insight, achieving a perfect pitch, pulsing with a gritty and punchy, distinctly American realism- and yet always pushing on into the unexpected, taking us some place new.The Tree of Life
By Catherine Lucille Moore. 2012
The Crusade of the Excelsior
By Bret Harte.
Hunted Down
By Charles Dickens. 2012
One might not necessarily think of Dickens as a mystery writer, but detectives and criminals do figure into much of…
his work. This...gathers a dozen of his stories featuring cops of one kind or anotherStories of a Western Town
By Octave Thanet.
The Huddlers
By William Campbell Gault. 2012
The Cuckoo Clock
By Wesley Barefoot. 2012
Jimsy and the Monsters
By Walter J. Sheldon. 2012
Red Gloves, Volumes I & II
By Christopher Fowler. 2017
Two chilling volumes are better than one! This collection of twenty-five mystery, horror, and fantasy short stories by award-winning author…
Christopher Fowler includes a pair featuring Bryant & May, the disreputable detectives from his beloved Peculiar Crimes Unit series. Red Gloves: Volume One escorts readers to the high streets and back alleys of London, where deceptively ordinary events such as an evening out at a local pub can lead to ghastly consequences. Spirits, monstrosities, death, revenge, redemption—it’s all in a night’s work for the shadowy hands reaching out to seize the unwary. Red Gloves: Volume Two offers a macabre tour around the world. Despite the exotic locations, the fates here are no less terrifying. As innocent travelers wander far from home for a vacation in the Far East or a trip to the French Riviera, they find themselves confronting their deepest, darkest fears—as well as profound epiphanies. Look for Christopher Fowler’s fantasy and horror classics, now available as ebooks: CALABASH | DISTURBIA | PSYCHOVILLE | RED GLOVES | ROOFWORLD | SPANKYForeign Brides
By Elena Lappin. 1999
Funny, irreverent, dark, and tender - a startling and sexy debut collection. Women (and men) cope with foreign marriages in…
Elena Lappin's shrewd domestic comedies of the absurd, set in London, New York, and a constellation of European and Israeli cities. Transplanted across oceans and ensconced in strange houses where appliances malfunction and husbands are not what they seem, women like Noa, Vera, and Paula settle into lives of persistently unfamiliar routine, stirred up from time to time with a very crooked stick. In 'Noa and Noah', Noa, an Israeli, has been married for two years before her English improves and she realizes that her British husband, Noah, is not a glamorous young businessman but a dull junior debt collector. In revenge she begins to frequent a nonkosher butcher-and that's just the beginning. Vera, a Russian, married to an unsuccessful British butler, takes to cab driving and extortion in 'Peacock'; Paula, a German, married to her dead best friend's husband, writes stories and snorts cocaine in 'Bad Writing'. With perfect pitch and a poker face, Lappin writes insidiously funny tales about love and survival in an international no-man's-land of marriage.Close Encounter
By Caliente Morgan. 2016
Hot Cop Series - Tough, sexy men in uniform - The strong women who love them Three Short Stories: Close…
Encounter Alicia Morgan Babcock, a slightly OCD ADHD mature woman trying to keep order in her life, is running errands. Sergeant David Owens hadn't meant to get involved in anything when he stopped at the bank. He certainly hadn't planned on getting shot by a protected witness. It was a life-altering experience, they said. They got that right! Now he has to choose. Should he stay with his career, or join the woman who saved his life in exile? The Italian Job As a writer, Sally-Ann Mayfield found herself in another banquet room atg a conference, and goes fan-girl at the sight of the Italian heartthrob, Mario Alonzo. He takes note of the one woman who had recognized him. A lot of note. After a dinner, a long conversation, and little too much Italian wine, can he talk her into leaving everything she knows behind and fly away with him to Rome?Act Now, Think Later When Miriam Evans rescues a fallen officer, it isn't her skill with a weapon that he remembers. Once out of rehab, Brett Stevens makes a beeline to her front door. Because the curves on his rescuer had eclipsed her skill with a gun. And a reprimand was worth it to get a peek under her shirt. Would she want more than a simple thank you?Silver Thaw and Selected Stories
By Ron Johnson. 2005
Silver Thaw is set in the late '60s in the Great Central Valley of California. It's a story of four…
friends forced to confront the moral, sexual and political parameters which will define their adult lives. There is the loss of innocence precipitated by the Vietnam War, but the main battle is an internal struggle that each must encounter and confront within themselves. Art is a quiet, independent-minded college student who wants to become a high school shop teacher. He has recently become intimate with June, a survivor of the working class trailor park, where her mother died of alcoholism. She is attending college to escape the pain of her past. Her roomate Honey is seeking a life with a man she can believe in. An elemental, aggressive woman, sexually confident, Honey is a woman by whom men define themselves. She is falling in love with Jess, who is finishing college under the Army ROTC program. Jess wants a part of Vietnam, and he wants Honey. The war can't wait, and she can. To survive, the four must recognize their own flawed human nature, and must learn to defend the notion of human decency in the ordinary conduct of their affairs. Selected Stories: Award winning stories previousy released in some of America's favorite literary journals, these works of fiction will leave the reader wanting for days gone by, a more innocent time in our history.You Know When the Men Are Gone
By Siobhan Fallon. 2011
There is an army of women waiting for their men to return in Fort Hood, Texas. Through a series of…
loosely interconnected stories, Siobhan Fallon takes readers onto the base, inside the homes, into the marriages and families - intimate places not seen in newspaper articles or politicians' speeches. When you leave Fort Hood, the sign above the gate warns, You've Survived the War, Now Survive the Homecoming. It is eerily prescient.Peasants
By Anton Chekhov.
Some Roundabout Papers
By William Makepeace Thackeray.
Several Works
By Emile Zola.