Fiction: special features

Before she was the queen of romantic satire, Jane Austen was a teenager with a pen-and an unshakable sense of humor.

Mera erzählt unseren liebevollen kleinen Seelen im Garten.

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Der Wanderer und die Fee: Eine Liebe zwischen den Bergen von Grit Roß ist ein bezaubernder Lyrikband, der die Leser in eine Welt voller Magie und Romantik entführt.

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Jessie is tired of dealing with her drunk mother and life in a rough part of town, and when a creepy woman approaches her one morning and advises her to pay attention to Shakespeare's As You Like It in her English class she shrugs off the recommendation.

Grief stricken, a sailor blames a sentient sea for the death of his wife.

The old inn sits by a lake in an ancient forest, shrouded in mystery.

Mahfouz's last novel, an evocative depiction of life in Egypt in the twentieth century as told through the lives of a group of friends, is now available in paperback for the first time On a school playground in the stylish Cairo suburb of Abbasiya, five young boys become friends for life, making a nearby cafe, Qushtumur, their favorite gathering spot forever.

Best Books of 2018 in Crime Fiction by Library Journal"e;Fans of Adrian McKinty's Sean Duffy books and other police procedurals that handle violence and political issues with black humor will welcome this outstanding crime novel.

These are ten totally unconnected short stories springing from a lifetime of adventures of the author.

Praised as utterly remarkable and deeply resonant by Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Viet Thanh Nguyen and Robert Olen Butler, a bold and brilliant debut collection, in the vein of The Refugees, which dramatizes the Chinese diaspora across the globe over the past hundred years.

PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist: A "e;superb story collection"e; about America and Cuba, escape and return, and history and hope (Los Angeles Times).

What happens when a Jewish mother from Brooklyn moves in with her lesbian daughter and partner in small town, Delaware?

Jocelyn is a complete pest, She's constantly playing practical jokes and has no problems beating up boys.

A saint is crucified on the same Mediterranean island where, centuries later, a Japanese soprano recovers her lost voice.

Lady Ludlow is absolute mistress of Hanbury Court and a resolute opponent of anything that might disturb the class system into which she was born.

Second generation Elvis impersonator, Elliot, is content with his small-town circuit and regular gigs at the Holiday Inn, until he attracts a fan who has never heard of the King.

Love Bites is a collection of thirteen stories set in Europe and North America.

The stories in this collection are ones that Cheever wrote in the 1930s and 1940s.

In "e;Tales of Soldiers and Civilians"e; (1892) American journalist and short story writer Ambrose Bierce describes unusual incidents and scenes in the lives of soldiers and civilians during the American Civil War.

Clamor of the Lake begins with the appearance of an old fisherman of unknown origin sailing a black boat.

Jocelyn is a complete pest, She's constantly playing practical jokes and has no problems beating up boys.

This charmingly illustrated volume collects classic works of eerie and ghoulish poetry and prose from the 19th and early 20th centuries.

MY SISTER'S CONTINENT is a contemporary retelling of Freud's infamous "e;Dora"e; case study, following a loosely parallel plot and containing similarly controversial sexual themes and layers of possibilities.

This third collection of naughty stories is a rather mixed bag: There is a rather delicious revenge story, a vampire one with an historical setting and three short shorts that are sensual and erotic more than explicit but feature my heroine Annie who finally ended up (with a different hero) in my novel Power Exchange.

Luana è una star adulata.

Fragmented brings together short stories and sketches, charting a personal journey from squatter and hippy in Seventies London to creative and stable middle age as husband, father, teacher and writer.

A young policeman, anxious to make Detective, goes undercover on a drug bust.

"e;A good choice for anyone who enjoys small-town mysteries and ghost stories.

Dublin is alien territory for young and impoverished Egyptian academic Mutazz, who is preparing a PhD on Irish poet Seamus Heaney.

Leanne Radojkovich's writing is full of crisp, precise details, and often contains a sting.

The stories brought together in Foreigners, Drunks and Babies cast the slanting light of a poet's sensibility on the Imperial Academy of an ancient Eastern empire; detail the musical education of a northern realist parish priest and his sons; travel through the West of Ireland with a couple facing various extinctions; spy on the shadowy private life of a Cold War warrior; engage in hand-to-hand fighting with a classroom full of Soviet teachers; follow the adventures of an Italian girl visiting her sick boyfriend in hospital; discover how hard it can be to get a passport for your first-born; find out why everyone pretends you're not there; investigate a seemingly victimless crime; reveal reasons for a Japanese girl's committing suicide; and realize that there's no need to be forgiven for things you didn't know you hadn't done.

'Deliciously Twisted' In the realms of fantasy, it is foolish to upset the wee folk.

Vivarium is a collection about connection and alienation, belonging and place.

Set in the ancient Upper Egyptian village of Karnak against the backdrop of the British campaigns in Sudan, the Second World War, and the war in Palestine, The Collar and the Bracelet is the stunning saga of the Bishari family a family ripped apart by the violence of history, the dark conduits of human desire, and the rigid social conventions of village life.

Nathaniel P.