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Generous Press is a new kind of romance imprint. Someplace Generous—a vibrantly diverse and inclusive anthology of romantic short stories—can be described in one word: yes. Featuring stories by award-winning poets like Richard Siken, Rachel McKibbens, and Brionne Janae; acclaimed fiction writers like Temim Fruchter, Corinne Manning, and Max Delsohn; and popular thinkers like Jessica P. Pryde, Someplace Generous presents voices largely new to the genre of romance, each bringing a fresh take on what it means to tell a love story.

When your ears are itching to hear a great detective story, this boxed set, by some of the cleverest authors in history, can satisfy that itch. This boxed set includes all the stories from Volumes 1,2 and 3 of Classic Detective Stories.

Former FBI-profiler Eva Rae Thomas is back and embedded in a true nightmare reaching deep into her own family in this two-book collection. Never Ever: Ex-agent Eva Rae Thomas is on the run. The past month, she has done things she never knew she was capable of while hunting for her kidnapped daughter. Eva Rae has risked everything. Say You Love Me: Life is not done throwing Eva Rae Thomas curve balls. A phone call turns her life upside down—once again. The call is from her father, the man she hasn’t seen in 36 years, not since he kidnapped her sister in a supermarket.

Bringing Evelyn E. Smith’s public domain works to life again, after a publication lapse of nearly three quarters of a century, has been a passion project for us. The satire and symbolism of her work is as relevant today as when these tales were written, in the latter decade of the 1950’s. Then, her stories and novellas were categorized as futuristic fantasy (or gothic romance, in some cases) for a relatively small market. One senses in her writing that Ms. Smith was creating her fiction more to amuse herself than to leave any lasting legacy — though she most certainly did so.

This is the final box set in the Amish Bonnet Sisters series.

I cinque racconti si rivolgono a un’ampia platea di pubblico. Descrivono le passioni, i sentimenti, i successi, i fallimenti, le aspirazioni, l’ingegnosità, i ricordi di personaggi che recuperano il loro universo famigliare e il contesto sociale in cui sono vissuti: in situazioni che vanno dalla ricerca della paternità e della maternità, al modo sagace con cui affrontare una rapina imprevista e ricca di implicazioni, alla scoperta di un amore che vince sulla vendetta, al mondo dello sport vissuto in una dimensione spensierata e originale.

The collection Tales of the Jazz Age includes the short stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Jelly-Bean ; May Day ; Porcelain and Pink ; Tarquin of Cheapside ; Oh Russet Witch! ; The Lees of Happiness ; Mr. Icky ; Jemina, The Mountain Girl.

Where the Trail Forks is a late 19th century work of literature and is fiction. London's main purpose in this text is to entertain his readers by revealing to them an exciting fictitious event. London ties his story in with naturalism by describing natures terrain and landscape in many instances. Throughout the story there are many encounters with nature itself as well as wild animals such as dogs. Jack londons diction in this piece can be related to the diction reflecting the time period this work of literature was written.

Short story written by Jack London The Son of the Wolf consists of a single man who is known as Mckenzie or "Scruff". The story tells of the hardships of what single men had to endure on the frontier. Often men would venture on journeys that may consist of months or even years just in order to find the right suitor. Scruff had been the toughest of the tough and had lasted the longest on the frontier without the company of a woman. This story connects with naturalism by showing that nature can be just as cruel as it can be forgiving if someone is alone on the frontier.

The Law of Life is a short story by the American naturalist writer Jack London. It was first published in McClure's Magazine, Vol.16, March, 1901. In 1902, it was published in a collection of Jack London's stories, The Children of Frost, by Macmillan Publishers. This short story covers the last 5 hours of the old and dying Inuit chief Koskoosh. His tribe needs to travel in search of clothing and shelter so he is left to die because of his age and inability to see properly. Even his son has to leave him because he has a new family to feed and take care of.

Set in the beauty of the Sierra Nevada mountains, All Gold Canyon is at once a depiction of the quotidian realities of a hard-working gold miner's life, a meditation on the fragility of nature in the face of man's ambition, and a thrilling, no-holds-barred tale of Wild West violence.

To the Man On the Trail is a classic adventure short story by the American writer Jack London, was published in 1900. This is f story about a stranger who stops to rest at Malemute Kid's cabin. He tells the other men a little about himself. A little later, the men hear another story about the stranger from the authorities.

Jack London — a writer whose works are enthusiastically read all over the world. His collection Love of Life is one of the brilliant pearls of his Northern stories cycle. Alaska is the place where each person should reveal their own real features. The North makes equal the poor and the rich; the intense cold does not take into account the infirmity; harsh, biting wind is indifferent to the social status, and a wild beast does not discriminate between social standings.

Die Compilation Jochen Weeber - Kurzgeschichten enthält die folgenden sieben Kurzgeschichten "Wenn und Abba" (Archiv-Nr.: W0658164, ES:10.03.2000), "Apothekenbäume" (Archiv-Nr.: W0658189, ES: 03.11.2000), "Das liturgische Lachen von Nummer 12" (Archiv-Nr.: W0658234, ES: 20.03.2001), "Pizza im Orientexpress" (Archiv-Nr.: W0005369, ES: 30.10.2001), "Der Hollywoodstar" (Archiv-Nr.: W0002540, ES: 01.10.2002), "Anachronismus" (Archiv-Nr.: W0002980, ES: 29.04.2003), "Zwei linke Hände" (Archiv-Nr.: W0049460, ES:02.09.2003), Regie: Rainer Hannes.

Die Compilation Knut Hamsun – Gedichte und Kurzgeschichten enthalt die folgenden drei Erzählungen "was wissen wir..." gelesen von Heiner Schmidt (ES: 04.07.1982), "Eine ganz gewöhnliche Fliege" gelesen von Wolfgang Reinsch (ES: 25.09.1981) und "Neue Erde" gelesen von Dieter Eppler (ES: 02.04.1988), Übersetzer: Julius Sandmeier, Knut Hamsun (1859-1952) ist ein norwegischer Schriftsteller. Seine bekanntesten Werke sind "Hunger", "Mysterien" und "Pan".

Die Kurzgeschichte Absolution (veröffentlicht im Jahr 1924) ist die Geschichte des heranwachsenden Rudolph Miller, eines romantischen Träumers, der versucht, seiner kleinen Stadt im Mittleren Westen zu entkommen, indem er lügt und sich ein anderes Ich schafft. Rudolphs Enthüllungen im Beichtstuhl gegenüber dem Priester, Pater Schwartz, offenbaren seine charakterlichen Schwächen. Ursprünglich als Prolog für "The Great Gatsby" (veröffentlicht im Jahr 1925) geschrieben, wollte Fitzgerald die Kindheit von Jay Gatsby enthüllen, verwarf die Idee jedoch, änderte die Namen und veröffentlichte sie als Kurzgeschichte.

"Io non so che voglia sia questa, ogni volta che torno in Sicilia, di volerla girare e girare, di percorrere ogni lato, ogni capo della costa, inoltrarmi all'interno, sostare in città e paesi, in villaggi e luoghi sperduti, rivedere vecchie persone, conoscerne nuove." Così Consolo scrive in apertura del racconto Comiso, condensando in queste parole la sua profonda sicilianità che si manifesta in uno stile narrativo dalle sorprendenti soluzioni: una forma mista di resoconto storico, lettera, documento, teatrino popolare.

When a one hundred-year-old curse manifests itself as a humanoid corn monster, hell is unleashed upon the small farm town of Bitterroot. Hellbent on murder, mayhem and corny one-liners, the evil vegetable entity won't stop until the task he is compelled to carry out is completed.

The Cloister is a yarn about a young "privileged" chap who is accepted to Cambridge University, to study English Literature. Greville's ambitions are to follow in the comedic footsteps of well known celebrities who were also educated at Cambridge. His plans don't work out as smoothly as he had hoped and involve a 25 year old mystery that he vicariously helps to solve.

Idella Brooks, a mail-order bride, finds her husband-to-be a deal-breaker. Wyatt is not the man she thought he was, and she doesn’t know how to break the relationship. She finds herself with no choice but to tell Wyatt she can’t marry him, but he won’t take ‘no’ for an answer. However, another man in town does catch her attention. Even if she manages to rid herself of Wyatt, how does she get closer to his business associate, the blacksmith? Will she lose her chance with the man that makes her heart beat faster?