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English
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"The millions of readers of Amor Towles are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories set in New York City and a novella in Los Angeles. The New York stories, most of which are set around the turn of the millennium, take up everything from the death-defying acrobatics of the male ego, to the fateful consequences of brief encounters, and the delicate mechanics of comprise which operate at the heart of modern marriages. In...
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Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
This ... collection features short stories by great writers from America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Western Europe. Ranging from the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries, writers include Poe, Chekhov, Joyce, Kafka, Faulkner, Pirandello, Mann, and other major writers of world literature.
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Compay
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The Six-Gun Justice Podcast celebrates the blazing six-gun action of the Western genre in books, movies, TV, and any other media at home on the range. A marshal transports a deadly criminal through the hot Colorado summer... A cagey snake lays siege to a defiant fox... A determined young Texas woman faces an uncertain future... Plus ten more blood-churning tales culled from the finest of the Six-Gun Justice Patreon reward stories by the best of today's...
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University of Nevada Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Inspired by Victoria Kelly's experiences as the wife of a fighter pilot during three wartime deployments, this collection follows women whose lives have been impacted by war and military service as they struggle with their fragile ideas of home.
In "Prayers of an American Wife," a Navy wife grapples with loneliness when she discovers that her neighbor, also a Navy wife, is having an affair while their husbands are deployed on the same aircraft carrier....
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A collection of stories about Connor, Risa, and Lev after they have destroyed the Proactive Citizenry and are, apparently, free to live in a peaceful future.
Connor, Risa, and Lev have destroyed the Proactive Citizenry and are, apparently, free to live in a peaceful future. Or are they? As these short stories show, in a world that has accepted the unacceptable, there are still ways of unwinding a different take on events.
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In this brash and unputdownable collection, we meet a sex bot trying to outlast her return policy, a skeptical lesbian grappling with her wife's mysterious pregnancy, and a post-Earth colonist struggling to maintain her faith in humanity as she travels to "Planet B." Whether they exist in the grounded realism of a college dance studio or the speculative world of Deep Space, these women push against social norms and family expectations to reclaim...
