When jazz musicians of the ’30s and ’40s were gettin’ down, when things were really cookin’ they’d say, Yeah, make it tight like that. It meant things were good, as good as they could get. It’s a good thing in fiction, too. The stories...
Short Stories
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Auteur:Ahdieh, Renée, Carson, Rae, Colbert, Brandy, Cotugno, Katie, Giles, L. R., Gratton, Tessa, Hagen, Bethany, Ireland, Justina, Johnson, Alaya Dawn, Johnston, E. K., Murphy, Julie, Nix, Garth, Roth, Veronica, Tahir, Sabaa, Yovanoff, BrennaSommaire:A collection of sixteen short stories involving love triangles. Includes stories written by Renée Ahdieh, Rae Carson, Brandy Colbert, Katie Cotugno, Lamar Giles, Tessa Gratton, Bethany Hagen, Justina Ireland, Alaya Dawn Johnson, E. K....
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Auteur:Durban, PamSommaire:In Three Little Love Stories, accomplished storyteller Pam Durban introduces us to a trio of women who have known love, hurt and the oftentimes narrow distance between the two. "Riddle Me This" finds a woman freed from a dangerous...
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Auteur:Martin, SamuelSommaire:This Ramshackle Tabernacle is a collection of short stories set in and around the fictional villages of St. Lola and St. Olga in northeastern Ontario. Whether reflecting on the broken lives of others in the community or mourning the...
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Auteur:Oatley, KeithSommaire:On a summer visit to Germany, George, a young medical student at Cambridge, meets Anna von Kleist, whose intellectual force, beauty, and self-assurance smite him full in the heart. It is 1936. Hitler is already in power, and a shift has...
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Auteur:DATLOW, EllenSommaire:Short stories from around the world, many from lesser authors. Adult fairy tales, and ghost and horror tales. Twenty-eight stories. Authors like Silverberg, Egan, Stableford, Ian McDonald and James Patrick Kelly.
- Auteur:WRIGHT, GeoffreySommaire:
Humorous Australian short stories.
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Auteur:London, JackSommaire:A collection of some of Jack London's stories are brought together here.
- Auteur:DOWNIE, Mary AliceSommaire:
The witch canoe, The spectre, The serpent of Lorette, La corriveau, A la Sainte-Catherine, The man from Labrador, The three devils, The loup-garou, How the devil got his cat.
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Auteur:Croza, Laurel, Garrity-Riley, KelseySommaire:Charity takes small steps to escape her controlling father. Jasmine endures the rumors about her at school, even though no one really knows what happened last summer. The Oh! So Perfect Hair Dolly wishes for just the right child to take...
- Auteur:Sparks, AmberSommaire:
Sparks's stories--populated with sculptors, librarians, astronauts, and warriors--form a veritable cabinet of curiosities. Mythical, bizarre, and ... moving, [the book] ... illuminates the search for a brief encounter with the...
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Auteur:Christie, AgathaSommaire:Indomitable detective Hercule Poirot is pitted against nine cunning adversaries in nine tales of murder, deception, terror, disappearance, and suspense.
- Auteur:MORTIMER, JohnSommaire:
Six amusing stories of the erudite and witty defending barrister, upholding the principle of the accused being presumed innocent until proven guilty.
- Auteur:LAURENCE, MargaretSommaire:
The ten stories gathered together in "The Tomorrow-Tamer" are Margaret Laurence's first published fiction. Set in raucous and often terrifying Ghana, where shiny Jaguars and modern jazz jostle for eminence against fetish...
- Auteur:NIVEN, LarrySommaire:
Two stories from `A science fiction argosy'. 1. The third level by Larry Niven 2. Becalmed in hell by J. Finney.
- Auteur:Milne, A. A.Sommaire:
The Sunny Side is a long-forgotten collection of short stories and poems by A.A. Milne. Though Milne is best known for his classic children's books, these tales for adults shine just as brightly, full of wit and wisdom. From summer...
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Auteur:Yalfani, MehriSommaire:Mehri Yalfani’s stories in The Street of Butterflies feature Iranian women dealing with displacement, cultural change, and struggles for survival and adaptation as immigrants in North America. At the same time, the challenges...
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Auteur:MOWAT, FarleySommaire:Central to Farley Mowat's writing is his quest to understand the often-forgotten native people of the vast arctic wilderness. In this moving collection, he allows these people to describe in their own words the adventures they...
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Presents six short stories by the masters of mystery and horror.
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Auteur:OBERMAN, SheldonSommaire:Just a few short decades ago, Inuit families roamed one of the harshest climates on the planet, communing with nature and living in uncluttered harmony with their environment. Simon Tookoome, then just a child, was one of those people...
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