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"Daniel Carter used to be a homicide detective, but his last case -- the hunt for a serial killer -- went wrong in strange ways and soured the job for him. Now he's a private investigator trying to live a quiet life. Strangeness, however, has not finished with him. First he inherits a bookstore in Providence from someone he's never heard of, along with an indignant bookseller who doesn't want a new boss. She's Emily Lovecraft, the last known descendant...
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English
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"From the award-winning author and New Yorker contributor, a riveting novel about secrets and scandals, psychiatry and pulp fiction, inspired by the lives of H.P. Lovecraft and his circle. Marina Willett, M.D., has a problem. Her husband, Charlie, has become obsessed with H.P. Lovecraft, in particular with one episode in the legendary horror writer's life: In the summer of 1934, the "old gent" lived for two months with a gay teenage fan named Robert...
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This anthology of American and English prose literature which includes selected works by Herman Melville, George Eliot, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Washington Irving aims to promote the habit of good reading in boys and girls of high school age. Study questions are included.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Based on Matt Ruff's novel, this series follows Korean war vet Atticus Freeman, his friend Letitia and his Uncle George on a journey across 1950s Jim Crow America where they face racist terrors and the terrifying monsters of an H.P. Lovecraft paperback.
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Publisher
Andrii Ponomarenko
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This collection is a compilation of novels and short stories by some of the greatest masters of fiction literature.
The collection includes works spanning over 150 years from the beginning of the 19th century to the second half of the 20th century.
The works vary in genre, including humorous, lyrical, psychological, romantic, detective, fantastic, adventurous, and mystical prose.
It features classics of American, British, Irish, French, German,...
Author
Publisher
Andrii Ponomarenko
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This collection is a compilation of novels and short stories by some of the greatest masters of fiction literature.
The collection includes works spanning over 150 years from the beginning of the 19th century to the second half of the 20th century.
The works vary in genre, including humorous, lyrical, psychological, romantic, detective, fantastic, adventurous, and mystical prose.
It features classics of American, British, Irish, French, German,...
7) At the end of the century: the stories of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala ; with an introduction by Anita Desai
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Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Counterpoint hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"Caught between cultures herself, nobody has written so powerfully of the relationship between and within India and the Western middle classes than Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. In this definitive collection, her ability to tenderly and humorously view the all-too-human situations faced by three (sometimes interacting) cultures-Europeans, post-independence Indians and Americans-is never more acute. In this vivid collection of stories, pathos, despair, sensuality...
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Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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A collection of short stories set in California from the author of Godshot include the tales of a woman stealing a baby from a shelter, a phone-sex operator who meets a lavender-eyed cowboy and teenagers playing a dangerous online game.
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Symphony Space, Inc
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Unabridged
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English
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"...he took his hands off the controls in a paroxysm of joy and shouted, 'Strap on your safety belt, Mrs. Gadshill! We're going to make a loop-the-loop!'"
—From Christmas is a Sad Season for the Poor by John Cheever
A compilation of classic tales by great American writers performed by terrific actors, with a lineup including Pulitzer Prize winners, National Book Award winners, and PEN Award winners.
Amy Tan's
Rules
...11) A Touch of Magic
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Publisher
Symphony Space, Inc
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"Remarkable how the nursery caught the telepathic emanations of the
children's minds...The children thought lions, and there were lions..."
-From The Veldt by Ray Bradbury
By turns funny, moving, romantic and surreal, and filled with unexpected twists and turns, each of the tales on this lineup has a magical element.
Andrew Lam's
The Palmist
performed by James Naughton
A chance encounter on a bus between a fortune-teller
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Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
"... a collection of award-winning short fiction set in the world of the First Law, with a brand new novella and three exclusive short stories, and featuring a rogue's gallery of characters old and new, including the dashing Colonel Glokta, the heroic Nicomo Cosca, and the most feared man in the North, the Bloody-Nine ..."--from NoveList Plus.
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Description
A collection of the year's best short stories, selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer and series editor Heidi Pitlor.
Andrew Sean Greer, "an exceptionally lovely writer, capable of mingling humor with sharp poignancy" (Washington Post), selects twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.
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Publisher
Cooper Square Press
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Forty-nine short stories, selected for their richness of detail, accurate depictions of human passion, and international scope, fill this collection. The authors include Americans such as Hemingway, Faulkner, Saul Bellow, and Flannery O'Connor, 19th and 20th century Western European giants such as Proust, Sartre, Flaubert, Kafka, Mann, Pirandello, Rilke, and Balzac, Russian icons Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Pushkin, Turgenev, and Chekhov, and Asian writers...
19) Troublemakers
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Language
English
Description
A special new collection of Ellison's short stories, selected especially for this volume by the author, including the newly revised and expanded tale "Never Send to Know for Whom the Lettuce Wilts." In a career spanning more than fifty years, Harlan Ellison has written or edited seventy-five books, more than seventeen hundred stories, essays, articles, and newspaper columns, two dozen teleplays, and a dozen movies. Now, for the first time anywhere,...
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Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Ideal for students of German as well as crime story enthusiasts, this dual-language edition contains ten short stories. Selections range from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century classics by Friedrich Schiller ("Der Verbrecher aus verlorener Ehre"/"The Criminal of Lost Honor") and Willibald Alexis ("Das Gelobnis der drei Diebe"/"The Pledge of the Three Thieves") to tales by such popular contemporary authors as Iris Klockmann ("Der Kuss des Todes"/"The...
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