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By Sonia Rivera-Valdés, Sonia Rivera-Valdes. 2001
One by one the friends and neighbors of Marta Veneranda confide in her their deepest secrets, divulging their broken taboos…
and twisted desires. A woman confesses how she liberated herself from an abusive husband through an unusual interpretation of a self-help program. Descriptions of sex. Spanish language. 2000By Victor Villaseñor, Victor Villasenor. 2001
Abriendo con las bodas de oro de Lupe y Salvador, la familia Villaseñor vive con la pobreza, volencia y perjuicios…
de la gran Depresión en el sur de California. La familia se sostiene con amor, humor y alegría de vivir. Sigue a Lluvia de Oro (RC 50714). Contiene descripciones de índole sexual, de violencia y lenguaje injuriosoBy Carlos Fuentes, Julio Ortega. 2000
Anthology of thirty-nine short stories from various Latin American countries. Includes old masters of the form such as Jorge Luis…
Borges, Julio Cortázar, and Gabriel García Márquez and recent authors Fernando Ampuero, Juan Villoro, and Rodrigo Fresán. Some explicit descriptions of sex, some violence, and some strong language. 1998By Mark Twain. 1996
Compiles 136 comic pieces written between 1862 and 1904, making up a complete collection of Twain's humorous works. Includes thirty…
selections from his five books about travel. Arranged chronologically by year of first publication, with an introduction by the editor, Charles NeiderBy Frederick Buechner. 1997
Nineveh, circa 650 B.C. Archangel Raphael carries two prayers for death to the Most High and fulfills the command to…
set everything right. Tobit, a blind man, and Sarah, a reluctant bride accused of murdering seven grooms, find unexpected answers to their mutual prayerBy Robert Polito. 1997
Six crime novels that follow the actions and thoughts of the bad guy. Includes "The Postman Always Rings Twice" and…
"They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" Includes brief biographical sketches of the authors. Companion to Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s (DB 46412). Strong language and some violenceBy Linda Howard, Kasey Michaels, Carla Neggers, Jayne Ann Krentz, Linda Lael Miller. 1995
Collection of short stories about love from five romance authors. In Krentz's story, a young woman in Washington state pretends…
to be the fiancee of a private investigator she has hired. In Linda Miller's tale, set in Montana territory in 1888, a woman's husband returns after seven years--just as she is planning to marry again. Explicit descriptions of sex. BestsellerBy Aldous Huxley. 1992
Twenty-one short stories originally published in 1957 reflect Huxley's penchant for mysticism and interest in social commentary. Includes "Happily Ever…
After," "The Death of Lully," "Sir Hercules," "Little Mexican," "Young Archimedes," "Chawdron," "Fairy Godmother," and "The Claxtons."By Martha Brooks. 1994
Eleven stories by the author of Paradise Cafe (DB 33408). In the title story, a girl visits her father and…
the man for whom he left her mother. In "The Kindness of Strangers," an old man befriends a runaway youth who has been betrayed by his mother. The final stories form a trilogy about Sidonie and Kieran, teenagers who have each lost a parent. For high school and older readers. Some strong language. 1994By David Bowman. 1992
At eighteen Bud Salem heads east to escape his obese television- evangelist mother. He hitches a ride with fortyish Sylvia…
Cushman, who regularly does a cross-country jaunt to escape her own home. Bud, now obsessed with Sylvia and her idol Emily Dickinson, meets Sylvia's cruel husband. The title comes from the horrific role dogs play in Mr. Cushman's work on automobile safety. Strong language, violence, and some explicit descriptions of sexBy Reynolds Price. 1993
Fifty stories, set mainly in Price's native South, including two collections published in 1963 and 1970, as well as some…
new work. Price writes about people, as in "Bess Waters," born into slavery but as wise as anyone in the world. He writes about love and how it can bring both joy and pain, as in "A Dog's Death." And he writes about the mysteries that accompany a child into adulthood, as in "The Enormous Door." Some strong languageBy Peter Kussi, Karel Capek, Karel C̈apek. 1990
English translations of three plays and several short stories, essays, and assorted sketches on gardening and travel provide a sampling…
of the work of this prolific Czechoslovakian writer. The word "robot" from his 1922 play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), included here, has entered everday languageBy Jun'Ichiro Tanizaki, Paul McCarthy, Junʾichirō Tanizaki. 1990
Three stories first published in Japanese between 1918 and 1936. In the title story, Shozo strives to assert himself in…
a world dominated by females--his ex-wife, his new wife, his mother, and his cat--the subject of a custody battle. In "The Little Kingdom," another power struggle takes place, between a schoolteacher and a bossy pupil. And in "Professor Rado," a journalist finds a noted academic has an unknown sideFirst published in 1930, this collection includes "The Picture of Dorian Gray," a novel about a beautiful youth whose portrait…
has supernatural qualities; "The Importance of Being Earnest," a comic, satirical play about a rakish nobleman; "Lady Windermere's Fan," a comedy of manners; "The Ballad of Reading Gaol," an autobiographical account of Wilde's imprisonment; and other short works of drama, prose, and poetryBy Dick Francis, John Welcome. 1990
Many people, from peers and prime ministers to rich entrepreneurs and the average person on the street, have sought out…
the delights of the racecourse. For those who love the sport, this collection of fourteen stories includes selections by such American and British authors as Dick Francis, A. Conan Doyle, John Galsworthy, Molly Keane, Edgar Wallace, and Beryl MarkhamBy Antonina W. Bouis, Sergei Dovlatov, Sergeĭ Dovlatov. 1990
It is an old suitcase made of plywood, covered with fabric that is torn in several places, and its lock…
doesn't work. But it contains everything he brought with him when he emigrated from Russia to the United States. Now, four years later, he opens the suitcase for the first time and reflects on each of the items he brought with him--a suit, socks, boots, belt, shirt, jacket, hat, and gloves. Some strong languageBy Ralph Waldo Emerson, Malcolm Cowley, Carl Bode. 1981
Selections from the works of essayist and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882). Includes his first published work, "Nature," which contains…
the essence of his transcendentalist philosophy; his address to the Phi Beta Kappa society at Harvard, "The American Scholar;" and his controversial address to the graduating class of the Cambridge Divinity School in 1839. Also includes other essays and twenty-two poemsBy Willa Cather. 1988
By Anton Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Avrahm Yarmolinsky. 1978
A collection of twenty-eight short stories including "The Man in a Shell," "Gooseberries," and "The Darling;" two plays, "The Boor,"…
and "The Cherry Orchard;" and selected letters of Chekhov. Includes a chronology of his life and a selected bibliography of his worksBy Barbara Pym. 1988
Collection of early novels, stories, and an autobiographical essay, written from the late 1930s to the 1970s. As she has…
always done in her work, Pym pokes gentle fun at English village life, spinsters, and handsome, artistic men with feet of pleasantly middle-class clay