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Capek, Karel Apocryphal Tales (Adobe Reader) eBook

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The stories in this collection tackle great events and figures of history, myth, and literature in unexpected ways, questioning views on such basic concepts as justice, progress, wisdom, belief, and patriotism.

Capek, Karel Tales from Two Pockets (Adobe Reader) eBook

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Capek wrote 48 stories that deconstruct the mystery story by breaking one rule here, three rules there, and yet also make for wonderful reading. His unique approaches to the mysteries of justice and truth are full of the ordinary and the extraordinary, humor and humanism.

Ford, Elaine The American Wife (Adobe Reader) eBook

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Bell, M. Shayne HOW WE PLAY THE GAME IN SALT ( (Adobe EPUB) eBook

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Capek, Karel Cross Roads (Adobe Reader) eBook

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Written during and right after World War I, this volume pairs two short story collections from Karel Capek, considered one of the greatest Czech writers. The first collection, "Wayside Crosses," presents an agonized and unsuccessful search for God and truth. These metaphysical tales are not about finding God as much as they are about discovering man's limitations, his terror and helplessness, and understanding the value of the ongoing search. The second collection, "Painful Tales," contains more realistic stories of characters being forced to make choices in which one good conflicts with another.

Mortimer, John A Rumpole Christmas eBook

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The first ever collection of Rumpole Christmas stories- just in time for the holidays

A Rumpole Christmas is a collection of five holiday stories-never before published in book form- depicting the Old Bailey Hack at his lovable best. In "Rumpole and Father Christmas," the English barrister encounters a familiar-looking Santa who he thinks is a thief. In "Rumpole's Slimmed Down Christmas," he goes to a new-age spa when "She who must be obeyed" insists that he lose a few pounds. In "Rumpole and the Christmas Break," he protects Hilda as a shady judge flirts with her while on a holiday that turns out to be anything but relaxing.

Witty and compulsively readable, this irresistible new collection will provide solace to the legions of fans lamenting John Mortimer's death early this year.

Cooper, Dennis The Noll Dynasty eBook

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A short story from the collection Ugly Man by Dennis Cooper.

Thien, Madeleine Simple Recipes: Stories (Adobe EPUB) eBook

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With delicate language and wisdom, Madeleine Thien explores the longing of families pulled apart by conflicts between generations, cultures, and values.Each of these stories captures a deeply personal world in which characters struggle to reconcile family loyalty with individual desires. In "House," a 10-year-old girl longs for the alcoholic mother who left the house one day never to return. In "Dispatch," a woman tries to hold her marriage together even after finding proof that her husband is in love with someone else. In "A Map of the City, " a young woman's troubled relationship with her father overshadows the course she takes in her adult life. Thien's fresh perspective and spare, haunting prose have already won her prizes and the praise of established masters. "Simple Recipes" is the beginning of a luminous writing career.

Cooper, Dennis One Night in 1979 I Did Too Much Coke and Couldn't Sleep and Had What I thought Was a Million-Dollar Idea to Write the Definitive Tell-all Book About eBook

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A short story from the collection Ugly Man by Dennis Cooper.

Cooper, Dennis The Fifteen Worst Russian Gay Porn Web Sites (Palm Pilot) eBook

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A short story from the collection Ugly Man by Dennis Cooper.

Willis, Connie MIRACLE & OTHER XMAS STORIES eBook

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Chaon, Dan AMONG THE MISSING eBook

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Neason, Rebecca The Truest Power eBook

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Wallace, David Foster Brief Interviews with Hideous Men: Stories eBook

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Ellison, Harlan DEATHBIRD STORIES (Adobe EPUB) eBook

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Harlan Ellison's masterwork of myth and terror as he seduces all innocence on a mind-freezing odyssey into the darkest reaches of mortal terror and the most dazzling heights of Olympian hell in his finest collection.
Deathbird Stories is a collection of 19 of Harlan Ellison's best stories, including Edgar and Hugo winners, originally published between 1960 and 1974. The collection contains some of Ellison's best stories from earlier collections and is judged by some to be his most consistently high quality collection of short fiction. The theme of the collection can be loosely defined as God, or Gods. Sometimes they're dead or dying, some of them are as brand-new as today's technology. Unlike some of Ellison's collections, the introductory notes to each story can be as short as a phrase and rarely run more than a sentence or two. One story took a Locus Poll Award, the two final ones both garnered Hugo Awards and Locus Poll awards, and the final one also received a Jupiter Award from the Instructors of Science Fiction in Higher Education (discontinued in 1979). When the collection was published in Britain, it won the 1979 British Science Fiction Award for Short Fiction.
Table of Contents
Foreword: Oblations At Alien Altars The Whimper Of Whipped Dogs Along The Scenic Route On The Downhill Side O Ye Of Little Faith Neon Basilisk Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes Corpse Shattered Like A Glass Goblin Delusion For A Dragon Slayer The Face Of Helene Bournouw Bleeding Stones At The Mouse Circus The Place With No Name Paingod Ernest And The Machine God Rock God Adrift Just Off The Islets Of Langerhans: Latitude 3854'n, Longitude 7700'13"W The DeathbirdHis stories will rivet you to the floor and change your heartbeat...as unforgettable a chamber of horror, fantasy and reality as you'll ever experience.-Gallery
"Brutally and flamboyantly shocking, frequently brilliant, and always irresistibly mesmerizing."-Richmond Times-Dispatch

Ellison, Harlan OVER THE EDGE (Adobe EPUB) eBook

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A brilliant collection of Harlan Ellison's short fiction, featuring an introduction by Norman Spinrad.Table of Contents: Foreword: The Frontiers Of Edgeville by Norman Spinrad Introduction: Brinkmanship by Harlan Ellison Pennies, Off a Dead Man's Eyes The End of The Time of Leinard 3 Faces of Fear: An Essay Blind Lightning Walk the High Steel Shadow Play The Words in Spock's Mouth: An Essay From A Great Height Night Vigil Xenogenesis: An Essay Rock God Ernest and The Machine God

Ellison, Harlan Deadly Streets, The (Adobe EPUB) eBook

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Remember Charles Bronson stalking the streets of New York blowing holes in muggers in Death Wish? Remember Glenn Ford standing off the vicious juvenile delinquents in Blackboard Jungle? Well, it's more than fifty years and two different worlds from 1955 to now. And something the author of these stories knows, that you're scared to admit, is that reality and fantasy have flip-flopped. They have switched places. The stories that scare you today are the ones about rapists and thugs, psychos who'll carve you for a dollar and hypes who'll bust your head to get fixed. Glenn Ford's world was yesterday, and Bronson's is today. And in the stalking midnight of this book, one of America's top writers, Harlan Ellison, invades he shadows of both!

Ellison, Harlan APPROACHING OBLIVION (Adobe EPUB) eBook

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The New York Times called him "relentlessly honest" and then used him as the subject of its famous Sunday Acrostic. People Magazine said there was no one like him, then cursed him for preventing easy sleep. But in these stories Harlan Ellison outdoes himself, rampaging like a mad thing through love ("Cold Friend", "Kiss of Fire", "Paulie Charmed the Sleeping Woman"), hate ("Knox", "Silent in Gehenna"), sex ("Catman", "Erotophobia"), lost childhood ("One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty") and into such bizarre subjects as the problems of blue-skinned, eleven-armed Yiddish aliens, what it's like to witness the end of the world and what happens on the day the planet Earth swallows Barbra Streisand. Oh yeah, this one's a doozy!

Ellison, Harlan ELLISON WONDERLAND (Adobe EPUB) eBook

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Originally published in 1962 and re-issued in 1974 and in 1983, Ellison Wonderland contains sixteen stories with copyrights ranging from 1956 to 1961. This edition contains an Introduction written for the 1974 edition and updated for the 1983 edition.This collection was among Ellison's first and it shows a writer with a wide-ranging imagination, ferocious creative energy, devastating wit and an eye for the wonderful and terrifying and tragic. Among the gems are "All The Sounds of Fear", "The Sky is Burning", "The Very Last Day of a Good Woman" and "In Lonely Lands". Though they stand tall on their own merits they also point the way to the sublime stories that followed soon after and continue to come even now, more than forty years later.Ellison Wonderland Table of Contents Introduction The Man on The Mushroom Commuter's Problem Do-It-Yourself The Silver Corridor All The Sounds of Fear Gnomebody The Sky Is Burning Mealtime The Very Last Day of A Good Woman Battlefield Deal From The Bottom The Wind Beyond The Mountains Back To The Drawing Boards Nothing For My Noon Meal Hadj Rain, Rain, Go Away In Lonely Lands

Ellison, Harlan Beast That Shouted Love At the Heart of the World, The (Adobe EPUB) eBook

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"It crouches near the center of creation. There is no night where it waits. Only the riddle of which terrible dream will set it loose. It beheaded mercy to take possession of that place. It feasts on darkness from the minds of men. No one has ever seen its eyeless face. When it sleeps we know a few moments of peace. But when it breathes again we go down in fire and mate with jackals. It knows our fear. It has our number. It waited for our coming and it will abide long after we have become congealed smoke. It has never heard music, and shows its fangs when we panic. It is the beast of our savage past, hungering today, and waiting patiently for the mortal meal of all our golden tomorrows. It lies waiting."--Harlan Ellison15 stories by Harlan EllisonTable of ContentsForeword: by Neil Gaiman Introduction: The Waves in Rio by Neil Gaiman The Beast That Shouted Love at The Heart Of The World Along The Scenic Route Phoenix Asleep: With Still Hands Santa Claus VS. S.P.I.D.E.R. Try a Dull Knife The Pitll Pawob Division The Place with No Name White on White Run For the Stars Are You Listening? S.R.O. World to Kill Shattered Like a Glass Goblin A Boy and His Dog

Ellison, Harlan CHILDREN OF THE STREETS (Adobe EPUB) eBook

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When he's down, kick for the head and groin. Avoid cops. Play it cool. There aren't many rules in the primer for gang kids, but they all count. They're all easily understood, because they use a simple and sound philosophy-it's a stinking life, so get your kicks while you can. The gang is home, take what you want, tell them nothing-and don't get caught.Two gangs of juvenile delinquents run riot in New York City. They constantly try to outdo each other with their clothes, weapons, language and lack of morals. They are not just kids playing at war-they mean business. The only person who can infiltrate the gang is someone they can trust, someone like themselves. Someone who knows how to handle a knife and a gun...

Tyree, Omar Dirty Old Men eBook

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The New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of Pecking Order offers a daring collection of erotic tales about the undeniable attraction older men have for younger women.

Omar Tyree is known by his fans for pulling the sheets all the way off in his writing, and Dirty Old Men (And Other Stories) is no different. Dirty Old Men (And Other Stories) include:

- "The Bartender": a married man is tempted by a young female bartender at his after-work hangout.

- "Skin Deep": a veteran photographer falls head over heels for a young model, who in turn is the mistress of a magazine publisher.

- Not even strokes or heart attacks can stop one older man from sleeping with younger women in "Addicted to It."

- In "Sugar Daddy Rules," an older man teaches a friend how to score with younger women.

With Tyree's signature frank sex talk and insight into the historical attractionolder men have for younger women, Dirty Old Men (And Other Stories) is an energizing, erotic read.

Styron, William SUICIDE RUN eBook

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William Styron (1925-2006) , a native of the Virginia Tidewater, was a graduate of Duke University and a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps. His books include Lie Down in Darkness, The Long March, Set This House on Fire, The Confessions of Nat Turner, Sophie’s Choice, This Quiet Dust, Darkness Visible, and A Tidewater Morning. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the Howells Medal, the American Book Award, the Légion d’Honneur, and the Witness to Justice Award from the Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation. With his wife, the poet and activist Rose Styron, he lived for most of his adult life in Roxbury, Connecticut, and in Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts, where he is buried.

From the Hardcover edition.

Munro, Alice LOVE OF A GOOD WOMAN eBook

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Alice Munro grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario. She has published eight previous collections of stories--Dance of the Happy Shades, Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You, The Beggar Maid, The Moons of Jupiter, The Progress of Love, Friend of My Youth, Open Secrets, and her Selected Stories--as well as a novel, Lives of Girls and Women.

During her distinguished career she has been the recipient of many awards and prizes, including three Governor General's Literary Awards: Canada's highest; the Lannan Literary Award; and the W. H. Smith Award, given to Open Secrets as the best book published in the United Kingdom in 1995. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages.

Alice Munro and her husband divide their time between Clinton, Ontario, near Lake Huron, and Comox, British Columbia.

From the Hardcover edition.

Metcalfe, Kaylia M. Links: A Collection of Short Stories (Adobe Reader) eBook

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Discover what connects people and also what keeps them apart in this dazzling collection of short stories.

A mother struggles to forge a connection with a daughter she lost years ago, a couple tries to battle the emptiness and frustration of a lonely marriage, while others remain focused on enjoying the sweet, sexual coming of age.

These are just a few glimpses of the successes, failures and hopes that connect everyone. Travel deep into the hearts and minds of the regular people who embody contemporary culture and remember what it means to be human, to be linked.

While the characters within each story do not know each other, their common desire to find meaning in life reverberates throughout the story lines, connecting each tale with themes of loss, change and forgiveness.

Join an extraordinary cast of characters as they weave together a chain that will leave you thinking of what it means to be human, what makes us different and what brings us together in Links: A Collection of Short Stories.