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The more than 600 stories written by O. Henry provided an embarrassment of riches for the compilers of this volume. The final selection of the thirty-eight stories in this collection offers for the reader's delight those tales honored almost unanimously by anthologists and those that represent, in variety and balance, the best work of America's favorite storyteller. They are tales in his most mellow, humorous, and ironic moods. They...
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2016.
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English
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Four previously uncollected murder mysteries, two of which feature the young Adam Dalgliesh: The newly appointed Sgt. Dalgliesh is drawn into a case that is pure Agatha Christie; A pedantic, respectable, censorious clerk's secret taste for pornography is only the first reason he finds for not coming forward as a witness to a murder; A best selling crime novelist describes the crime she herself was involved in fifty years earlier; Dalgliesh's godfather...
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McSweeney's
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English
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"The very short stories of Diane Williams have been aptly called 'folk tales that hammer like a nail gun,' and these forty new ones are sharper than ever. They are unsettling, yes, frequently revelatory, and more often than not downright funny."--Publisher website.
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English
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In "Miss Bianca," a young girl becomes involved in espionage when she befriends a mouse in a laboratory that is conducting dark experiments. Ten-year-old V.I. Warshawski appears in "Wildcat," embarking on her very first investigation to save her father. A hardboiled New York detective and elderly British aristocrat team up to reveal a murderer in Chicago during the World's Fair in "Murder at the Century of Progress." In the new title story, "Love...
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Independently published
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[2022]
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English
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"You have to stand up and fight for what you believe in. Monica is determined to bring down and expose the dirty secrets of a hypocritical State Senator who voted against Roe. Monica and the other eleven short stories in this collection are a snapshot of America today. Monica is standing up and fighting for abortion rights and for her personal freedom to choose. Sometimes, we all have to take a stand for something."-- provided by publisher.
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Random House
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©2015.
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English
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"In a small Southern town, a teenage girl anxiously waits for her date to arrive. A little boy meets his dream dog in Central Park. A woman fights to save the life of a child who has her lover's eyes. Best friends discuss the theoretical murder of husbands. In these never-before-published stories, written by Truman Capote when he was in his teens and twenties, Capote-the-Writer is already recognizable. His prose: witty, poignant, and crystal-clear....
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Headline
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2019.
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English
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"From riotous misbehaviour in Victorian London to ingenious feats of scientific invention (powdered water - just add water!), and from a chaotic Nativity play starring a vengeful Angel Gabriel to an illegal expedition to Mars, Jodi Taylor knows how to spin a good yarn."--Publisher.
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"A new collection from an acclaimed author weaves together the real and unreal, fairy tale, sci-fi, and myth"--Provided by publisher.
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Penguin Books
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2013.
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English
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"A haunting and psychologically driven collection from Shirley Jackson that includes her best-known story "The Lottery". At last, Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" enters Penguin Classics, sixty-five years after it shocked America audiences and elicited the most responses of any piece in New Yorker history. In her gothic visions of small-town America, Jackson, the author of such masterworks as The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the...
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