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661) Big Book of Shorts
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This compilation of short stories will take you through different worlds and scenarios. There are 40 different stories in this book. Each one is different, and some were inspired by each other. Everyday events inspired others. Some may cause you to never look at your friends, family, or coworkers the same again.
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In fourteen sweeping and sublime stories, five of which have been published in The New Yorker, the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Known World shows that his grasp of the human condition is firmer than ever
Returning to the city that inspired his first prizewinning book, Lost in the City, Jones has filled this new collection with people who call Washington, D.C., home. Yet it is not the city's power brokers that most concern...
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It's history!It's what we can still learn from today.Four stories of obscure Canadians come alive as they are told in the first person. An incident that was recorded as happening on the prairie in the late 1800s is told as a humor piece. Letters found in a local museum are turned into an overview of the tragedy that was World War I. In our third chapter, we remember the efforts of Donald Carruthers to found the Manitoba Agricultural Museum. We end...
664) Hearts in Darkness
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"Laura Kaye has a gift for writing beautifully damaged men and Caden Grayson leads the pack with enough vulnerability to twist your heart in knots." ~ NYT Bestseller Tessa BaileyTwo strangers...When accountant Makenna James finds herself stranded in a pitch-black elevator, she can't help but wonder about the stranger stuck with her. All she noticed about him before the lights went out was a dragon tattoo; all she knows now is his sexy, gruff voice...
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Hercule Poirot is about to tuck into a very traditional English supper with his old friend Bonnington when a lone diner sparks his interest. Like clockwork, the man has eaten at the restaurant on Thursdays and Tuesdays for the last ten years, but no one on the staff knows his name. When "Old Father Time," as they have fondly nicknamed him, suddenly stops coming, Poirot believes that he might have picked up the one essential clue that could shed light...
666) Strange Appetites
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Winner of the Adirondack Center for Writing's People's Choice Award 2016During heart surgery on a woman, the doctor discovers her sister tucked inside. She doesn't want to come out. A woman traverses boundaries, even walls. By turns surreal, mournful, and droll, this collection of short stories investigates our conflicting urge for intimacy and transcendence.Enter this cabinet of wonders to find your mind and spirit expand. While the concerns and...
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Adults and Other Children follows four women as they navigate life from the confusion and innocence of childhood to the bizarre and darkly humorous complexities of adulthood. Along the way, we meet a vindictive, and imaginary, nanny, who casts doubts about the true identity of a little girl's new baby sister; A group of friends who spend their time obsessing over the gory details of a spate of recent crimes; A college professor who has her boss fired...
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Traffic is piling up, and strange things are headed your way in this new story collection by World Fantasy Award-winning author Tobias S. Buckell. In these twenty-seven stories you'll find inhabitants of a small town who won't vaccinate against a zombie plague, a lone sentry keeping motorists from stumbling into something ancient and evil, a man who puts stranded ghosts to rest, an ex-soldier traveling the seas who trades his new life of hardship...
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One winter night, as the snows fall outside their home, and a boy cannot sleep, his father tells him the story of a Saint.A martyr.She is well known to all Christians in the land. Her, and her infant child.She is credited with stopping the reign of the pagan king.Here is her story...
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Sometimes Thanksgiving doesn't go the way you want it to. When Katie's entire family cancels on her she finds a way to still share good food with good company and maybe make a love match or two in the process.This story is part of the Puppy Love series of short stories that involve cute puppies bringing people together and helping them find love. It will also be available in the Puppy Love Holiday Collection which is a quartet of holiday-themed Puppy...
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For ages, people have been asking themselves these questions: "Where did we come from and where are we going? What is the sense of our existence? Do we have an immortal soul?" And… "Is there a God?"
If you also seek these answers, but find the religious books too heavy and the infamous answer "42" too cryptic, then this short story is just right for you. It may not reveal you "the absolute truth", but it will undoubtedly inspire you to your further...
672) The Second Gong
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Lytcham Close, one of the oldest stately homes in England, is owned by the last remaining heir and ruled by his intolerable whims. Old Hubert demands complete silence when he plays music and times dinner exactly by a resounding gong. Rushing down at the sound of the second-or is it the first? -gong, Joan Ashby is about to find out that not only is dinner delayed, but something is going on that no one can explain. Everyone is thrown into disarray when...
673) Who's Got My Heart
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Three Hearts, Two Choices, One Unforgettable Journey…Jenny, a devoted nurse, thought her life was under control until she met Derick, a kind-hearted man with a secretive past who stirs up unexpected emotions in Jenny. Just as things heat up with Derick, enters Ted, a carefree wanderer with disdain for commitment.Sparks fly, and Jenny finds herself caught in a whirlwind romance that sets her heart racing.With love pulling her in two dissimilar directions,...
674) Yellow Iris
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An alarming telephone call, in which the phrases "it's life and death" and "the table with the yellow irises" are whispered, causes Hercule Poirot to rush to the luxuriant restaurant Jardin des Cygnes, desperate to stop an impending murder and find the person behind the voice on the phone. After bumping into an old acquaintance, he is invited to join a dinner party in full swing. But, just as the dancing and champagne are overflowing, a morbid announcement...
675) The Rajah's Emerald
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James has found himself at the fashionable resort Kimpton-on-Sea, all due to the persuasion of his girlfriend Grace, who during the last few months of their courtship has become more difficult to deal with. Among the upper echelons of society, including the Rajah of Maraputna, James feels disgruntled and out of place. Eager to both irritate and win over Grace, James bypasses the queue to the changing rooms and ducks into the private huts on the beach...
676) Cole
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A military instalove short read ColeI've turned the occasional wandering hiker away before, but Emma and her friend manage to fall in the lake too. Getting her warm again has me all hot and bothered. My cozy mountain cabin might not have the kind of electricity that will turn on lights, but suddenly the air is crackling. EmmaI thought I was hallucinating. But every hard, gorgeous inch of Cole is real. Can I really trust that I mean more to him than...
677) Droll Tales
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Transformation, identity, and speech that conceals and misleads as much as it explains form the core of these fourteen linked stories and novelettes. We are guided through them by "Iris" and her friend "Jacob," who, over the course of the book, appear in a variety of guises. They introduce, interact with, or inhabit various characters, each with their own stories to tell. In the romantic, dark, and sometimes surreal worlds they occupy, the commonplace...
678) Thanksgiftings
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Six Short Stories Celebrating the Season Stories Included are:BARNEY - She looked forward everyday for him to come by. Then came the one day when he didn't.GREEN BEAN CASSEROLE - All it took was one missing ingredient to melt the heart of a lonely old man.AN EXPLOSIVE COMBINATION - In a post-apocalyptic future, a group of survivors reminisce about their first Thanksgiving after that climactic event.THE LEG - Doug was determined to have turkey legs...
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National Bestseller
With a new foreword by Jeff Feuerzeig
A timely reissue of the extraordinary stories by JT LeRoy/Laura Albert that won international acclaim, to be timed with the theatrical release of the documentary Author: The JT LeRoy Story.
"A startling achievement."-Publishers Weekly
This book of interconnected stories depicts the chaotic life of a young boy on the run with histeenage mother. When Sarah reclaims Jeremiah from his foster...
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Waiting for his car to be fixed, Mr. Satterthwaite sits in a tea shop called the Harlequin café, thinking of his friend Harley Quin, whom he hasn't seen in many years. Then, in a burst of sunshine, the very same Mr. Quin walks through the door, along with his diligent dog, Hermes. Satterthwaite is telling him the very long history of the family he is off to visit, when their conversation is interrupted by the abrupt entrance of a member of that very...
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