Short stories

A nostalgic collection of seasonal tales and reflections capturing the heart of a Victorian Christmas.

Delight in this treasury of Old-World charm, warmth, and winter wonder collected in fifteen enchanting Christmas tales.

In diesem Geschenkbuch für die schönste und besinnlichste Zeit des Jahres hat die beliebte Theologin und Bestsellerautorin Margot Käßmann wunderbare Weihnachtsgeschichten und -Gedichte zusammengestellt, die ihr persönlich lieb und wichtig sind.

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Poe furs 21.

Your thoughts shape your destiny.

A locked gate.

In the aftermath of war, they searched for meaning-in love, in travel, and in themselves.

Über die Kunst zu leben und ein Leben für die Kunst.

SHORTLISTED FOR 2007 PREMIER'S QUEENSLAND LITERARY AWARDS: AUSTRALIAN SHORT STORY COLLECTIONIn these sublimely sophisticated tales, Cate Kennedy opens up worlds of finely observed detail.

Despues de cualquier fiesta hay que baldear y todo vuelve a ser como era.

El fenomeno de la intimidacion escolar surge como un problema en la convivencia entre ninos o adolescentes que deja huellas profundas, dolorosas y duraderas.

Eight rooms.

Warum sind Milliardare hierzulande die am besten geschutzte Minderheit?

Empieza la cuenta atras para el momento mas magico del ano.

Los relatos de El mar de noche se mueven en una zona fronteriza de la realidad donde lo cotidiano da paso a lo excepcional.

La autora conoce los secretos del cuento breve del Río de la Plata, en ese collar de perlas que enseguida enumera a Liliana Heker, a Inés Garland, a Norberto Soares, a Martini Real.

El cuento es a la novela, como decia Cortazar, lo que una fotografia es a una pelicula.

Translated by Jonathan Wright, Taxi by Khaled Al Khamissi is a sharp, engaging portrait of Cairo told through 58 fictional monologues from its taxi drivers.

Lene liebt Pferde.

En un pueblo castigado por la sequia, el jaguar regresa de las estrellas para recordar a los hombres el valor de la memoria ancestral y el respeto por la Madre Tierra.

Porras, dueno de una prosa medida, distante de cualquier posibilidad onirica que, sin duda, estos ambitos del encierro y el delirio pueden ofrecer, sin recurrir a rupturas temporales o espaciales, escribe historias surcadas por temas constantes que definen la condicion humana: la solidaridad y la soledad, los celos y el amor, la venganza y la muerte.

from No. 1 bestseller Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman

'Under any name King mesmerizes the reader' Chicago Sun-Times

It's all coming to an end for Barton Dawes. The city's Highway 784 extension is in the process of being constructed right across town and inexorably through every aspect of Bart's existence - whether it's about to barrel over the laundry plant where he makes a living, or soon to smash through the very home where he makes a life.

As a result, something's been happening inside Bart's head that a heartless local bureaucracy isn't prepared for . . .

As the wheels of progress and a demolition crew continue unabated throughout Bart's neighbourhood, he's not about to give everything up without a fight. As a matter of fact, he's ready and waiting to ignite an explosive confrontation with the legislative forces gathered against him.

Follow the ingenious mysteries of the ‘Tuesday Night Club’ with this special edition of Agatha Christie’s complete Miss Marple short stories.

THE ORIGINAL WEEKDAY MURDER CLUB

‘Well,’ said Joyce, ‘it seems to me we are a pretty representative gathering. How would it be if we formed a Club? What is today? Tuesday? We will call it The Tuesday Night Club. It is to meet every week, and each member in turn has to propound a problem. Some mystery of which they have personal knowledge, and to which, of course, they know the answer.’

Two years before The Murder at the Vicarage, Agatha Christie first introduced the world to Jane Marple and the stories of murder and intrigue told by each member of the Tuesday Night Club. Time and time again, crimes so wicked they have confounded even Scotland Yard’s finest are solved by St Mary Mead’s sharpest mind and everyone’s favourite armchair detective.

Anton Chekhov: Earliest Stories offers the first comprehensive translation in English And it is supremely juvenile in the best way.

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The ten stories in Winter Money are set in rural Kentucky and West Virginia, in dim horse racing and river towns.

In the eleven kaleidoscopic stories that make up Bright Shards of Someplace Else, Monica McFawn traces the combustive, hilarious, and profound effects that occur when people misread the minds of others.

With a reporter's eye for the inside story and a historian's grasp of the ironies in our collective past, Greg Downs affectionately observes some of the last survivors of what Greil Marcus has called the old, weird America.

Sandra Thompson takes us inside the lives of women struggling to find their places among lovers, husbands and ex-husbands, mothers, and children in relationships where old rules do not apply and new rules have not yet been set.

To read Curled in the Bed of Love is to feel the incessant tug between devotion and desire that can unmake even the closest couple.

In The Piano Tuner, Peter Meinke writes of the foreignness that awaits us when we go abroad and when we answer our own front door to admit a stranger, that confronts us in unfamiliar cities and villages and in the equally disquieting surroundings of our memories and regrets.

The stories in Drowning Lessons engage water as both a vital and a potentially hazardous presence in our lives.

Set against the stark but seductive landscape of the American Southwest, the stories in All My Relations explore the inner landscape of mind and heart, where charting the simplest course is subject to a complex constellation of relationships.

In Daniel Curley's stories, passionate rage and cool, clear hatred alter the terms of even the most basic human relationships, etching odd patterns on the surface of the natural world-a man applies the methods of Mata-Hari to the task of keeping track of his ex-wife; the victim of a pickpocket plots psychological revenge on the criminal population of a Mexico City bus line; a spurned lover summons all his strength and courage to liberate a roomful of snakes held captive by his rival.

In the limbo bounded by rebellion and resignation, belonging and solitude, Ed Allen's middle Americans seem to be either freely adrift or uncomfortably vested in an exit strategy wholly inadequate for their circumstances.

In this funny, touching collection about music, identity, liars, and love, Geoffrey Becker brings us into the lives of people who have come to a turning point and lets us watch as they take, however clumsily, their next steps.

Mary Hood's fictional world is a world where fear, anger, longing-sometimes worse-lie just below the surface of a pleasant summer afternoon or a Sunday church service.

The lives on view in Nervous Dancer are complex and precarious.

The stories collected in The Consequences of Desire describe a modern urban society in its extraordinary complexity, its often apparent absence of fixed values, and its resistance to easy understanding.

The eleven stories in Wendy Brenner's debut story collection concern people who are alone or feel themselves to be alone: survivors negotiating between logic and faith who look for mysterious messages and connections in everyday life, those sudden transformations and small miracles that occur in mundane, even absurd settings.

The eleven stories in Kellie Wells's debut collection cover a wide range of eccentric characters-from a young girl experiencing her friend's strange demise to a set of opposite-sex conjoined twins.

In her debut collection, Melinda Moustakis brings to life a rough-and-tumble family of Alaskan homesteaders through a series of linked stories.

Ghost Traps is a collection of twelve stories about characters who are on the edge and under duress, individuals backed against a wall as they try to free themselves from their own limitations, habits, and destructive desires.

At the heart of this collection of five short stories and the title novella is the powerful interconnection between parents and children, nostalgia and memory, and the collective emotional intimacies and transactions that configure human behavior.