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  Mrs Pulaska and Other Stories

  Christopher Burns

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  With this new collection the acclaimed novelist Christopher Burns proves his mastery of the short story form. His intelligent but conflicted characters face their decisive moments across wide ranges of time and place, each action reshaping their futures and redefining their pasts. Interplaying with these choices are locations that underpin and define each story, such as a repository of unstable nitrate film, a desert outcrop where a daughter vanished, a winter barn in which a silent refugee works without explanation, and a Parisian suicide that echoes down far more than a century.
  In these stories, landscape itself can be a determinant, as essential to the narrative as the characters that walk into a draining reservoir, a Neolithic cave, or a remote Greek church. For these are driven people – haunted or determined, alert or unaware, lovers or doubters, saviours or perpetrators.
  Several of these stories have previously appeared in publications as diverse as Les Temps Modernes, Granta Shorts, Best British Short Stories, The Time Out Book of New York Stories and Prospect.
  Christopher Burns' work has been praised by Kazuo Ishiguro, Melvyn Bragg, Margaret Drabble, Hilary Mantel and others. He is the author of six novels, including The Flint Bed (shortlisted for the Whitbread award), The Condition if Ice, A Division of the Light, and an earlier collection of short stories, About The Body. He lives in Cumbria.
  This is a wholly distinctive, ambitious and challenging collection that can be read again and again.

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  Winesburg Indiana - A Fork River...

  Bryan Furuness, Michael Martone

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  In the mythical town of Winesburg, Indiana, there lives a cleaning lady who can conjure up the ghost of Billy Sunday, a lascivious holy man with an unusual fetish and a burgeoning flock, a park custodian who collects the scat left by aliens, and a night janitor learning to live with life's mysteries, including the zombies in the cafeteria. Winesburg, Indiana, is a town full of stories of plans made and destroyed, of births and unexpected deaths, of remembered pasts and unexplored presents told to the reader by as interesting a cast of characters as one is likely to find in small town America. Brought to life by a lively group of Indiana writers, Winesburg, Indiana, is a place to discover something of what it means to be alive in our hyperactive century from stories that are deeply human, sometimes melancholy, and often damned funny.

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  Mercury

  D H Lawrence

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  Lawrence uses the  story of a storm and the deaths it causes to revive the feelings for (if not an actual belief in) the old gods, in this case Mercury whose shrine is ignored by the tourists but who takes his revenge.

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  Rooh-e- Ramz

  Mehar Parveen

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  A collection of nazams.

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  Snowbound with the Billionaire

  Carole Mortimer

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  In this classic romantic story by a USA Today–bestselling author, a blizzard reunites estranged spouses on Christmas, but will it be a happy New Year? 
   
  The last person journalist Caro Montgomery expects—or wants—to see at Christmas is her estranged, super-sexy husband, Jake! But this is no accidental meeting . . . billionaire Jake has returned for good and is determined to win back his wife and baby! 
   
  But Caro can’t forgive Jake’s betrayal a year ago and resolves to refuse him in every way . . . Yet her plans soon change when a heavy blizzard leaves them snowed in together on Christmas Eve! This Christmas, will Caro get what she’s always wanted? 
   
  Originally published in 2009 in the anthology ‘Tis the Season.

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  Justine Joe and the Zen Garbageman

  Matthew Licht

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  'From the East Village to West Hollywood, from avant-garde poetry to pre-internet pornography, these stories – touching, scabrous, brutal – tell it like it is. Matthew Licht's effortlessly inventive language, dark and tender, sexually charged, free-wheeling, whimsical, regretful, rummages through the cultural detritus of our crazy mythos, and comes up sweet and headily evocative as roses.' —Charles Lambert, author of Any Human Face and The View from the Tower
  Justine's a famous poet. Joe's a self-styled Private Investigator without a clue. The Garbageman has cleaned his mind through immersion in filth. What he has to offer his clients, and even his enemies, is serenity. Three characters in search of a reader: you.
  'Nobody can push an envelope harder or further than Matthew Licht, though he's not all shock value. There's also intelligence, wit and surprising craft here.' —Dian Hanson, author of Naked as a Jaybird
  'Matthew Licht is an original and a rarity. His writing is smart, warm, engaging but also contains a healthy dose of New York "Fuck you!".' —Geoff Nicholson, author of Bedlam Burning
  'His goal is to disturb rather than enlighten, to impale human folly and absurdity, to unpeel the intellectual bankruptcy of our times.' —John Thackray

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