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  The History of Vegas - Stories

  Jodi Angel

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  A collection of dark short fiction about neglected and troubled teenagers, named a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year. 
   
  Trouble. From the first page of each of the edgy and unrelentingly intense stories in this debut collection, the teenaged characters are headed for big trouble. The adult world has mostly failed them, and they find themselves entering into highly charged situations where they make their own rules, with misguided understanding of the consequences. The stories burn hot and fast, providing searing insights into their world of sex, drugs, drinking, violence, and accidental grace, played out in small, tough towns. Written with raw directness and understanding that makes these stories impossible to forget, The History of Vegas announces an exciting, fresh talent.  
   
  “Bright, brooding, iconic, and dark.” —Anthony Swofford, New York Times bestselling author of Jarhead 
   
  “In essence, Angel is writing a kind of abbreviated naturalism, the kind of fiction that writers like Raymond Carver and Larry Brown honed to perfection. Angel excels at it as well, whether the setting is the urban jungle of Las Vegas, the dirt roads of the lonely, expansive West or even the seemingly placid suburbs.” —San Francisco Chronicle Book Review

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  When the Time Comes and Other...

  M.H. Lee

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  A collection of ten speculative fiction stories that explore worlds that don't exist. (Or at least that we hope will never exist.) Includes both fantasy and science fiction stories.

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  Tales of the Out & the Gone -...

  Amiri Baraka

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  Stories spanning over three decades, many previously unpublished, from “a keen observer of the outlandish and outrageous in politics and human behavior” (Booklist). 
   
  Comprising short fiction from the early 1970s to the twenty-first century—most of which has never been published—Tales of the Out & the Gone reflects the astounding evolution of America’s most provocative literary anti-hero. 
   
  The first section of the book, “War Stories,” offers six stories enmeshed in the volatile politics of the 1970s and 1980s. The second section, “Tales of the Out & the Gone,” reveals Amiri Baraka’s increasing literary adventurousness, combining an unpredictable language play with a passion for abstraction and psychological exploration. 
   
  Throughout, Baraka’s unique and constantly changing style will enlighten readers on the evolution of one of America’s most accomplished literary masters of the past four decades.

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  Father Goriot

  Honoré de Balzac

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  'Pere Goriot' is the tragic story of a father whose obsessive love for his two daughters leads to his financial and personal ruin. Interwoven with this theme is that of the impoverished young aristocrat, Rastignac, come to Paris from the provinces to make his fortune, who befriends Goriot and becomes involved with the daughters. The story is set against the background of a whole society driven by social ambition and lust for money

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  Five Detective Stories by Ernest...

  Ernest Bramah

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  Ernest Bramah (1868-1942) was an English author of 21 novels and numerous short stories and features. His humorous works have been ranked with Jerome K. Jerome and W. W. Jacobs, his detective stories with Conan Doyle, his politico-science fiction with H. G. Wells, and his supernatural stories with Algernon Blackwood.In his stories of detection, Bramah hit on the idea of a blind detective, Max Carrados, whose triumphs are all the more amazing because of his disability.This collection features five of Max Carrados's most puzzling cases: "The Curious Circumstances of the Two Left Shoes", "The Game Played in the Dark", "The Last Exploit of Harry the Actor", "The Comedy at Fountain Cottage", and "Who Killed Charlie Winpole?"

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  Classic Horror and Supernatural...

  Edgar Allan Poe, W.W. Jacobs,...

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  CONTENTS:W.W. Jacobs - The Monkey's PawEA Poe - The Pit and the pendulumEA Poe - The RavenEA Poe - Annabel LeeEA Poe - The Fall of the House of UsherWashington Irving - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

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