When Elderly Miss Allie sees her new great-grandbaby for the first time, she discovers a shocking truth about her own past, a truth that causes Miss Allie to sneak away into the woods with the baby -- who, in Miss Allie's memory-addled mind, is only a heavy doll, one she can carry no longer.
Best of the West 2019 - 2nd Place in 20th- to 21st-Century Western Mystery Fiction by TrueWest Magazine"e;Wortham's writing style is easygoing, relying on natural-sounding dialogue and vivid descriptions to give us the feeling that this story could well have taken place.
Meet the people who make it all happenthe photographers, chefs, and the writers who have helped orchestrate and document the perfect day for countless couplesas they find their own happy endings in three sweet novellas.
From the author of Between Everything and Nothing, "e;an inspired collection of twenty stories, brilliant in its command of tone and narrative perspective"e; (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
With perhaps one exception, these short stories are about the human mind and its interaction with whatever environment it happens to encounter during life, and span a period from ancient to modern times.
';From the absurdly comic to the acutely moving'eleven fearless stories of love, friendship, faith and family under siege (The New York Times Book Review).
Back in the dog days of the early twenty-first century a pair of lovebirds fleeing a murder charge in Cairo pull in to Alexandria's main train station.
The best of the shorter adventures of Inspector Ghote, 'one of the great creations of detective fiction' (Alexander McCall Smith), are brought together in this page-turning collection of short stories - with a brand-new introduction by bestselling author Vaseem Khan.
Meet the people who make it all happenthe photographers, chefs, and the writers who have helped orchestrate and document the perfect day for countless couplesas they find their own happy endings in three sweet novellas.
Srdan Srdic's collection of short stories, Combustions, establishes this author's position as one of the best prose writers in Serbia and across the region.
In Riyadh, against the events of the second Gulf War and Saddams invasion of Kuwait, we learn the story of Munirawith the gorgeous eyesand the unspeakable tragedy she suffers as her male nemesis wreaks revenge for an insult to his character and manhood.
Born in what is now North Korea, Kang wrote all her fiction in Manchuria during the Japanese occupation and witnessed the violence and daily struggles experienced by ethnic Koreans living in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo.
From the author of Between Everything and Nothing, "e;an inspired collection of twenty stories, brilliant in its command of tone and narrative perspective"e; (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
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.
Winner of the 2012 Naguib Mahfouz Medal, this novel is set in an idyllic Egyptian village from the time it was discovered by Muhammad Ali's mission in the early nineteenth century to the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, movingly intertwining events on the world scene with the life dramas of its protagonists.
';From the absurdly comic to the acutely moving'eleven fearless stories of love, friendship, faith and family under siege (The New York Times Book Review).
"e;The Longchamp mysteries combine history and mystery in a gritty way that makes them feel different from most amateur-sleuth fare-dark-edged rather than cozy.
To a future girl, Mishell, who flies with the aid of anti-gravity wings, the death in a freak accident of a beloved older brother, Mykel, is hard to accept.
Beautiful, rich short stories, drawing on myth and folklore to bring to life women's remarkable ability to transform themselves in the face of seemingly impossible circumstances.
