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Walking WoundedSet in both the rural and the urban South, the stories in Walking Wounded are about the physical, mental, and emotional wounds that can afflict any of us and direct our lives. These stories consider the events and relationships that burden and challenge and shape the characters in the stories. Enter the world of a young Marine suffering from loss of his leg and loss of illusion, a mother demanding the honor due her dead son, a woman with a secret life outside an abusive marriage, a man who finds love at a dangerous place in the road, a man who marries but never truly knows a blind dancer. |
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Captains All and OthersJacobs wrote a great many sea stories in his time; he also authored the unforgettably eerie, frightening tale, The Monkey's Paw. Included in this volume are Captains All, The Boatswain's Mate, The Nest Egg, The Constable's Move, Bob's Redemption, The Four Pigeons, The Temptation of Samuel Burge, The Madness of Mr. Lister, and The White Cat. |
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Edgewater PeopleEdgewater People |
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A Quiver Full of ArrowsA Quiver Full of Arrows |
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My Lady Ludlow: Mrs. GaskellLady Ludlow is absolute mistress of Hanbury Court and a resolute opponent of anything that might disturb the class system into which she was born. She will keep no servant who can read and write and insists that the lower orders have no rights, but only duties. But the winds of change are blowing through the village of Hanbury. The vicar, Mr Gray, wishes to start a Sunday school for religious reasons; Mr Horner wants to educate the citizens for economic reasons. But Lady Ludlow is not a rigid as one may think. An Academy Victorian Classic. |
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Jesus' Son: StoriesAn intense collection of interconnected stories that portray life through the eyes of a young man in a small Iowa town, by the author of Angels and Resuscitation of a Hanged Man. Each story's perception distinguishes Johnson's hauntingly beautiful vision of American life. |
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El Rio del Tiempo: The River of TimeAutobiography and novel, memoirs and reflections, the past and the present, reality and hallucination come together in this volume of short stories by the author of La Virgen de los Sicarios. Written against all odds, against any moral judgment, against all norms, El rio del tiempo breaks any scheme of the literary genre. |
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Another Marvelous ThingAnother Marvelous Thing is perfect for anyone who knows firsthand that opposites actually do attract. These spare and unsentimental stories display how two very different people -- a tough-minded and tenderhearted woman and an urbane, old-fashioned older man -- fall in love despite their differences, get married, and give birth to a child. |
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Cuentos Claros/clear StoriesA collection of stories features characters who turn to love as a sublimation of their solitudes and feign bonds with the world, providing an overall depiction of a crucial period in argentine literature. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved. |
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The Breakdown So FarThe Breakdown So Far |
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