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Author: Mary Robison
Publisher: Counterpoint Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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Fiction

Author: Beverly Lawn
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780312048358
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 468

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Ethan Brand / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The masque of the red death / Edgar Allan Poe -- Barleby the scrivener / Herman Melville -- Desiree's baby / Kate Chopin -- The lady with the dog / Anton Chekhov -- The open boat / Stephen Crane -- Araby / James Joyce -- The metamorphosis / Franz Kafka -- The rocking-horse winner / D. H. Lawrence -- The grave / Katherine Anne Porter -- Barn burning / William Faulkner -- A clean, well-lighted place / Ernest Hemingway -- The chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck -- A worn path / Eudora Welty -- The swimmer / John Cheever -- Bestiary / Julio Cortazar -- King of the bingo game / Ralph Ellison -- The lottery / Shirley Jackson -- The crowd / Ray Bradbury -- Sonny's blues / James Baldwin -- A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor -- Patriotism / Yukio Mishima -- A & P / John Updike -- Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates -- The sin eater / Margaret Atwood -- A serious talk / Raymond Carver -- Everyday use / Alice Walker -- Health / Joy Williams -- Two kinds / Amy Tan -- Fleur / Louise Erdrich.

Author: Gretchen BeDen Gregory
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1481727923
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 154

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Stories of varied subjects that make you cry, make you laugh, and may surprise you.

Author: Malcolm Bradbury
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141965150
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 544

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This anthology is in many was a ‘best of the best’, containing gems from thirty-four of Britain's outstanding contemporary writers. It is a book to dip into, to read from cover to cover, to lend to friends and read again. It includes stories of love and crime, stories touched with comedy and the supernatural, stories set in London, Los Angeles, Bucharest and Tokyo. Above all, as you will discover, it satisfies Samuel Butler's anarchic pleasure principle: 'I should like to like Schumann's music better than I do; I daresay I could make myself like it better if I tried; but I do not like having to try to make myself like things; I like things that make me like them at once and no trying at all ...'

Author: Zeyn Joukhadar
Publisher: Atria Books
ISBN: 1982121491
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Winner of the ALA Stonewall Book Award—Barbara Gittings Literature Award Named Best Book of the Year by Bustle Named Most Anticipated Book of the Year by The Millions, Electric Literature, and HuffPost ​The author of the “vivid and urgent…important and timely” (The New York Times Book Review) debut The Map of Salt and Stars returns with this remarkably moving and lyrical novel following three generations of Syrian Americans who are linked by a mysterious species of bird and the truths they carry close to their hearts. Five years after a suspicious fire killed his ornithologist mother, a closeted Syrian American trans boy sheds his birth name and searches for a new one. He has been unable to paint since his mother’s ghost has begun to visit him each evening. As his grandmother’s sole caretaker, he spends his days cooped up in their apartment, avoiding his neighborhood masjid, his estranged sister, and even his best friend (who also happens to be his longtime crush). The only time he feels truly free is when he slips out at night to paint murals on buildings in the once-thriving Manhattan neighborhood known as Little Syria. One night, he enters the abandoned community house and finds the tattered journal of a Syrian American artist named Laila Z, who dedicated her career to painting the birds of North America. She famously and mysteriously disappeared more than sixty years before, but her journal contains proof that both his mother and Laila Z encountered the same rare bird before their deaths. In fact, Laila Z’s past is intimately tied to his mother’s—and his grandmother’s—in ways he never could have expected. Even more surprising, Laila Z’s story reveals the histories of queer and transgender people within his own community that he never knew. Realizing that he isn’t and has never been alone, he has the courage to officially claim a new name: Nadir, an Arabic name meaning rare. As unprecedented numbers of birds are mysteriously drawn to the New York City skies, Nadir enlists the help of his family and friends to unravel what happened to Laila Z and the rare bird his mother died trying to save. Following his mother’s ghost, he uncovers the silences kept in the name of survival by his own community, his own family, and within himself, and discovers the family that was there all along. Featuring Zeyn Joukhadar’s signature “magical and heart-wrenching” (The Christian Science Monitor) storytelling, The Thirty Names of Night is a timely exploration of how we all search for and ultimately embrace who we are.

Author: Lauri Kubuitsile
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 1920397310
Category : African fiction (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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The bed, dressed in hand sewn quilt or threadbare blanket, may in and of itself be memorable, but it is what happens in the bed - the sex and lovemaking, the dreams, the reading, the nightmares, the rest, giving birth and dying - which give 'bed' special meaning. Whether a bed is shared with a book, a child, a pet or a partner, whether lovers lie in ecstasy or indifference, whether 'bed' relates to intimacy or betrayal, it is memories and recollections of 'bed', in whatever form, which have triggered the writing of these thirty stories by women from southern Africa. Well known writers Joanne Fedler, Sarah Lotz, Arja Salafranca, Rosemund Handler and Liesl Jobson will delight, but you will discover here new writers from Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Malawi, Namibia and Zambia, each with a unique voice as they cast light on the intimate lives of women living in this part of the world and the possibilities that are both available to and denied them. The BED BOOK of short stories - some quirky and tender, others traumatic or macabre - is the perfect companion to take to bed with you, to keep you reading long into the night.

Author: Kay Boyle
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lesbians
Languages : en
Pages : 396

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Since Kay Boyle spent the years 1922 to 1941 in Europe, many of her characters and settings are European. But a deep love of nature, of mountains and water and forests make these settings universal, while the effect of nature -- a flight of birds, for instance -- on her characters suggests classic Japanese literature. The intensity with which she enters into these characters, their quandaries, their limitations, their resilience in the face of tragedy, makes memorable and honestly felt experience. -- From publisher's description.

Author: Zohra Saed
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 1610752902
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 302

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Since 9/11 there has been a cultural and political blossoming among those of the Afghan diaspora, especially in the United States, revealing a vibrant, active, and intellectual Afghan American community. And the success of Khaled Hosseni's The Kite Runner, the first work of fiction written by an Afghan American to become a bestseller, has created interest in the works of other Afghan American writers. One Story, Thirty Stories (or "Afsanah, Seesaneh," the Afghan equivalent of "once upon a time") collects poetry, fiction, essays, and selections from two blogs from thirty-three men and women—poets, fiction writers, journalists, filmmakers and video artists, photographers, community leaders and organizers, and diplomats. Some are veteran writers, such as Tamim Ansary and Donia Gobar, but others are novices and still learning how to craft their own "story," their unique Afghan American voice. The fifty pieces in this rich anthology reveal journeys in a new land and culture. They show people trying to come to grips with a life in exile, or they trace the migration maps of parents. They navigate the jagged landscape of the Soviet invasion, the civil war of the 1990s and the rise of the Taliban, and the ongoing American occupation.

Author: Connie Solano
Publisher: Wheatmark, Inc.
ISBN: 1604945044
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 105

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History is full of brave men performing heroic deeds. But what aboutwomen? Though their stories are often overlooked, they are no less thrilling: On the night of April 26, 1777, sixteen-year-old Sybil Ludington rode her horse to warn local minutemen that the British were attacking Danbury, Connecticut. Sybil rode all night, covered twice as much ground as Paul Revere, and did not get captured. Betty Zane helped save Fort Henry in the Northwest Territories in 1782 while running to get ammunition for the defenders. Author Zane Grey was her great-great grandson. Susie Taylor was born a slave in 1848. After escaping in 1862, she joined the military. She also taught others to read and write, later opening a private school for black children in Savannah, Georgia. In the early 1700s, Anne Bonney and Mary Read began their careers as pirates. Ride the high seas with them and Calico Jack on theSloop William. Want to know more?Courageous Womenbrings these stories and many others to life in thirty-two intriguing sketches.

Author: Porter Shreve
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780134053318
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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