Fiction: special features

A woman who cannot leave her house loses everything, her only companion a garrulous radio talk show host; a house fire sets into motion the end of a marriage; a teenage girl cannot extract herself from a doomed relationship with a heroin addict.

Touch Me Not (1887) is a novel by Jose Rizal.

Dos mujeres articulan décadas de amistad en torno a la pizza.

Celebrate the resilience of the human spirit through the stories of everydayspeople whose ordeals allowed them to experience first-hand the healing powersof second chances.

First published as a special issue of Robin Dudding' s literary magazine Islands (Vol.

*Winner of the Rome Prize for Literature 2018-19*Named one of the Best Books of the Year -BookforumSynopsisWith all the brilliance, bravado, and wit of his award-winning debut, A Questionable Shape, Bennett Sims returns with an equally ambitious and wide-ranging collection of stories.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE INDEPENDENT FOREIGN FICTION PRIZE'A writer who has no equal in the contemporary landscape of the Spanish novel.

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD AND THE STORY PRIZE Named a BEST BOOK OF 2022 by Oprah Daily, Vogue, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, and Electric Lit From a prizewinning author comes an ';electric.

Praise for Sallie Bingham:"e;Sallie Bingham binds her collection together with sheer talent.

Immerse yourself in the rich storytelling tradition of Ancient Egypt with Flinders Petrie's second collection of tales.

My father was a gardener.

There's a part of the city that no one much goes to, a collection of rundown old houses and gloomy streets.

This collection of Grimms' Fairy Tales features the original stories by which many popular books, movies, and plays were inspired.

First published in 1878, this book contains volume IV of "e;Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag"e;, a six-volume collection of classic children's stories by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832 - 1888).

Carrer Marsala, which won prizes from the City of Barcelona and the Generalitat de Catalunya-neither of which Bauca bothered to accept-is a relentless monologue delivered by a paranoid hypochondriac obsessed with dental hygiene, sex, and his own squalid rooms in Barcelona.

The people in these eight interlaced stories are "e;bound together by the worst sort of grief,"e; the kind that can devour you after someone close takes his or her own life.

These fourteen stories by the acclaimed master of Jewish-Russian fiction are set in the former USSR, Western Europe, and America.

Written by Victor Hugo in 1834, "e;Claude Gueux"e; is a short story considered to be an example of early 'true crime' fiction.

Der Atlantik hat sich über Nacht von der Küste Floridas zurückgezogen und eine Wüste hinterlassen.

A 1930s cowboy learns about friendship & love while working at a Reno divorce ranch in this comic novel by the bestselling author of Be Frank with Me.

Folk tales take us beyond our own boundaries into unknown lands.

A brand new anthology of previously unpublished and uncollected supernatural mysteries by some of the masters of the Golden Age - thrills, spills and chills perfect for Halloween.

This 2006 collection of short stories is in line with the unsettling, engrossing style of Has other two collections that have been translated into English, the critical and commercial successes Flowers of Mold and Bluebeards First Wife.

Vom Autor des Bestsellers »Monsieur Ibrahim und die Blumen des Koran«Eine Frau besucht den Mörder ihrer Tochter über Jahre im Gefängnis.

An essential anthology of fifteen short stories which provides students with an international selection of works by acclaimed modern writers: from Nobel Laureates (Nadine Gordimer, V.

The Brothers Karamazov, a passionate philosophical novel completed only a few months before his death, is Fyodor Dostoyevskys most expansive, life-embracing work.

The western culture of divorce is slowly creeping into our society.

A series of semi-autobiographical sketches and stories detailing life in Charleston, South Carolina, in the 1930s and '40s.

"e;A heartbreaking portrait of what it means to be a man in a world where violence trumps reason, and bad decisions begin with good intentions.

2016 Unhanged Arthur Award for Best Unpublished First Crime Novel - WinnerWhen a phantom stalker targets her friend, Lacey McCrae's crime-busting skills are tested to their limits.

The stolid landscape of Chicago turns dreamlike and otherworldly in these "e;miraculous tales .

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'This novel is a real, out-of-the-blue original.

In seiner Künstlernovelle »Der Pole« entwirft der Nobelpreisträger J.

The Laughing Prince; A Book of Jugoslav Fairy Tales and Folk Tales.

From the inventor of detective fiction, Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher is a slow-burn masterpiece of gothic horror, full of supernatural forces and chilling psychoanalysis.

The book that inspired major motion picture ONE LIFE, starring Sir Anthony Hopkins and Helena Bonham Carter.

This early work by Jerome K.

Food can bring together families, communities, and cultures.

Ghost Mother is a mesmerizing psychological ghost story that blurs the thin line between reality and delusion.

The Four Million is the first volume of O.

A brand new anthology of previously unpublished and uncollected supernatural mysteries by some of the masters of the Golden Age - thrills, spills and chills perfect for Halloween.

In this short story from the "e;stunning"e; collection More of this World, Maybe Another, a young man grapples with childhood trauma as he comes of age (Dorothy Allison, award-winning author of Bastard Out of California).