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The day the dancers came: Selected prose works (Filipino literary classics)

The day the dancers came: Selected prose works (Filipino literary classics)

Selected Short Stories (Penguin Modern Classics)

by Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf tested the boundaries of fiction in these short stories, developing a new language of sensation, feeling and thought, and recreating in words the 'swarm and confusion of life'. Defying categorization, the stories range from the more traditional narrative style of "Solid Objects" through the fragile impressionism of "Kew Gardens" to the abstract exploration of consciousness in "The Mark on the Wall". (more)

Things That Never Were: Fantasies, Lunacies & Entertaining Lies

Things That Never Were: Fantasies, Lunacies & Entertaining Lies

by Matthew Rossi

From Sodom and Gomorrah to the Siberian taiga, from Roanoke Island to lost cities in Africa populated by ape-men in Elizabethan garb, THINGS THAT NEVER WERE is a travelogue of mental expeditions to weird and imaginary places. In this book, demons caper, dinosaurs are dismayed and bewildered, vampires walk in our hospitals and gods die at the hands of men.

Legends of Chivalry: Medieval Myth (Myth and Mankind)

Legends of Chivalry: Medieval Myth (Myth and Mankind)

by Tony Allan, Clifford Bishop, Charles Phillips

Complete StoriesFlannery Oconnor

Complete Stories

by Flannery Oconnor

The Best of 6th a Bowl of Chicken Soup for the Soul: More Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit (Chicken Soup Series)

The Best of 6th a Bowl of Chicken Soup for the Soul: More Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit (Chicken Soup Series)

by Jack Canfield

Eternal "soup lovers" will discover there is only one "recipe" for compassion, wisdom, inspiration, and love--the latest serving of "Chicken Soup for the Soul".

I Got Somebody in Staunton: Stories

by William Henry Lewis

In twelve graceful, sensual stories, William Henry Lewis traces the line between the real and the imaginary, acknowledging the painful ghosts of the past in everyday encounters. Written in a style that has been acclaimed by our finest writers, from Edward P. Jones and Nikki Giovanni to Dave Eggers, I Got Somebody in Staunton is one of the most highly praised literary events to take on contemporary America. ... (more)

Memory Fever: A Journey Beyond El Paso Del Norte (Camino Del Sol)

Memory Fever: A Journey Beyond El Paso Del Norte (Camino Del Sol)

by Ray Gonza?lez

For poet Ray Gonzalez, growing up in El Paso during the 1960s was a time of loneliness and vulnerability. He encountered discrimination in high school not only for being Latino but also for being a non-athlete in a school where sports were important. Like many young people, he found diversion in music; unlike most, he found solace in the desert. In these vignettes, Gonzalez shares memories of boyhood that... (more)

Tales from the Dark Tower

by Joseph Vargo

Vampires who dwell deep within forbidden crypts, lost souls who wander mist-shrouded cemeteries, and gargoyles of living stone... Herein lie the dark legends scribed long ago. These tragic tales of myth and forbidden lore chronicle a sinister legacy, as it unfolded in the forgotten past, and the curse that yet lurks within the shadow of the Dark Tower. This lavishly illustrated anthology features 13 sinister and... (more)

The Heavenly Village

by Cynthia Rylant

Here is Cynthia Rylant's most memorable writing yet -- a spiritual novel about the wonders of life and the afterlife. In this book, a series of touching vignettes, she paints a moving picture of the stopping place between heaven and earth -- and in the process, she reminds us that life is an extraordinary gift, and that those we love are never really far away.

The Ultimate Dracula - 19 Original StoriesByron Preiss (Editor)

The Ultimate Dracula - 19 Original Stories

by Byron Preiss (Editor)

Twelve Gothic Tales (Oxford Twelves)

In this anthology we see a dozen fine examples of Gothic literature, spanning over one hundred and fifty years from Mary Shelley and Charles Maturin, through to an unexpected master of the macabre, Gerald Durrell. All feature sinister settings of castles and ancient houses, with the protagonists haunted by the tyranny of the past, and physically or spiritually incarcerated by their circumstances. Designed to... (more)

Carmilla and 12 Other Classic Tales of MysteryJ. Sheridan Le Fanu

Carmilla and 12 Other Classic Tales of Mystery

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Sheridan Lefanu, Leonard Wolf

An anthology of stories by the Victorian writer widely considered the inventor of the ghost story, who inspired such authors as Bram Stoker and Mary Shelley, includes the story of a young woman seduced by a dead man.

The Mammoth Book of Heros: True Tales of Courage from Ancient Times to September 11, 2001

The Mammoth Book of Heros: True Tales of Courage from Ancient Times to September 11, 2001

Whoever is heroic will always find crises to try their edge," Ralph Waldo Emerson writes in his essay "Heroism," and popular Mammoth editor Jon E. Lewis has chosen crises throughout history that have tested human courage to the extreme. Heroism has inspired writers from Livy (on Horatius at the bridge) to Tom Wolfe (on Chuck Yaeger’s breaking the sound barrier), from Plato (on the death of Socrates) to St. John... (more)

Nebula Awards Showcase 2003 (Nebula Awards Showcase)

Nebula Awards Showcase 2003 (Nebula Awards Showcase)

Here is the ssential index of one year in SF and fantasy, full of winners and nominees of the prestigious Nebula Award. For groundbreaking works in the genre, the Nebula is perhaps the highest honor in the field-and a beacon for readers looking for the best quality science fiction and fantasy around.

Fast Lanes

by Yvonne Jacquette, Jayne Anne Phillips

Jayne Anne Phillips has always been a master of portraiture, both in her widely acclaimed novels and in her short fiction. The stories in Fast Lanes demonstrated the breadth of her talent in a tour de force of voices, offering elegantly rendered views into the lives of characters torn between the liberation of detachment and the desire to connect. Three stories are collected in this edition for the first... (more)

The Police Know Everything

by Sanford Phippen

A collection of "stories of Downeast Maine" by native Maine writer Sanford Phippen, whose stories have been praised for hilarity and poignance in equal measure and whose characters are splendidly human and uniquely "Maine". Originally published by Puckerbrush Press in 1982, and now available again from Blackberry.

Not Child's Play: An Anthology on Brother-Sister Incest

Not Child's Play: An Anthology on Brother-Sister Incest

by Risa Shaw

Not Child’s Play is the first collection ever dedicated to the important topic of women survivors of incest perpetrated by their brothers. This unprecedented book is a collection of short stories, poetry, prose and art (black and white and color) by 35 women from the United States, Canada and England, presented in an extraordinarily courageous way. This anthology is immensely readable, uplifting and... (more)

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