Fiction: special features

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.

Love and death and the passage between entry into the world and exit from it are the focus of this collection of short stories.

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.

Sammy Kehoe, his sister, Charlotte, and her four-year-old daughter, Maggie, are all each other have left since the car accident that killed the rest of their family.

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.