Publisher: Charles River Editors
A.A. Milne was an English writer best known for writing multiple books centering around the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh. Milne was also a notable author before his great success with the creation of Winnie-the-Pooh, having written books such as Once on a Time and the Red House Mystery. The Sunny Side, published in 1921, is a collection of short stories, poems, and essays.
A young mother must grow up fast to protect her savant son in this short story by the New York Times–bestselling author of Someone Else’s Love Story. Shandi Pierce got pregnant when she was only seventeen years old. She instantly fell in love with her son Natty, but four years later she’s still more parented than parent. She lives with her mom, her dad pays her bills, and her best friend, Walcott, acts as her white knight. But Natty is no ordinary kid, and when his savant behavior catches the attention of an obsessive stranger, only Shandi sees the true menace. To protect her boy, Shandi must figure out how a daughter with a son can remake herself into a true mother. In this e-original short story, Joshilyn Jackson returns to the world of Someone Else’s Love Story to give a fierce and funny character a standalone adventure of her own.Show book
Trick or treat, trick or treat! Hungry ghouls crave fresh meat… A recovering addict faces the ultimate test when an old friend puts him through a terrifying ordeal. Two brave souls spend the night in a haunted house, only to emerge forever changed. And a cursed photographer goes to horrific lengths when their vision slowly decays… Scare Street is proud to present a new collection of diabolical delights. Twelve nightmarish tales of terror lurk within this sinister tome. Each one is a treat for shivers and shrieks. And the only tricks you’ll find are the ones your mind plays on you, as you feverishly turn another page… Were those footsteps you heard, creaking across the floorboards? Was that whispering outside the window? Or just the whistling of the wind? The sounds grew closer, louder. A horde of tiny ghouls scamper into your room, saliva dripping from their razor-sharp fangs. And you realize there is only one treat they crave. The sweet taste of human flesh… This volume features to following stories: 1. Poor Boys in Poorhouses by Peter Kelly 2. Bitten by A. J. Hartson 3. A Night in the Kohler House by Donna Marie West 4. Hank's Murder by S. B. Duncan 5. Filtered by Sarah Stegall 6. A Case of the Creeps by Melinda Long 7. In the Rearview by Nikki R. Leigh 8. An Old Friend by Montgomery England 9. New Arcadia by Kristen Reid 10. Godbeetle by Mike Morgan 11. Joe Baker Closes Up by Jackson Robinson 12. Millie's Lore by Ron Ripley and Kevin SaitoShow book
“The engaging stories . . . draw on Peru’s violent history, the plight of Lima’s poor and the hopes of immigrants in New York . . . finely crafted fiction.” —Chicago Tribune Winner of the Whiting Writers’ Award In this exquisite collection, Daniel Alarcón takes the reader from Third World urban centers to the fault lines that divide nations and people. Wars, both national and internal, are waged in jungles, across borders, in the streets of Lima, in the intimacy of New York apartments. These are lives at the margins of the globalized and not-yet-globalized worlds, the stories of those who shuttle between them and never quite feel at home in the cities where they were born: an unrepentant terrorist remembers where it all began, a would-be emigrant contemplates the ramifications of leaving and never coming back, a reporter turns in his pad and pencil for the inglorious costume of a street clown. War by Candlelight is a devastating portrait of a world in flux, and Daniel Alarcón is an extraordinary new voice in literary fiction, one you will not soon forget. “[A] raw debut collection filled with dislocated, dutiful souls.” —Entertainment Weekly “Precise, searing language and immediately embraceable characters . . . Alarcón’s skill with language and his eye for the beautiful tragedy of the human condition are on brilliant display in War by Candlelight.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune “Alarcón draws on the plight of Lima’s poor and the hopes of New York’s immigrants in this raw first collection.” —The New York Times Book ReviewShow book
Mary Gleed Tuttiett was born and brought up in Newport on the Isle of Wight on 11th December 1846. She was largely self-educated but of determined character to achieve something with her life. As a young woman she travelled in England and Switzerland working as a governess despite bouts of ill-health. During her writing career her health deteriorated, mainly due to asthma and rheumatism, to such an extent that she was unable to leave her bed for more than a few hours a day. Mary began her literary career by contributing essays, poems, articles, and short stories to various periodicals of the times. In common with several other women of the time she wrote under a male pseudonym, that of Maxwell Gray, and which in literary terms at least, has removed any trace of her life as Mary. Her first novel, ‘The Broken Tryst’, arrived in 1879 to little attention or sales. Mary’s first critical and popular success did not arrive until 1886 with the novel ‘The Silence of Dean Maitland’, an unorthodox ecclesiastical story which was to be later adapted for the stage and screen. With this recognition came a far more prolific output with several of her other works set in a fictionalised Isle of Wight. As well as novels there were collections of short stories and several poetry anthologies. Mary was strongly supportive of women’s rights and the suffragist cause and was one of several writers who petitioned in support of the Women’s Suffrage Bill in 1910, and she wove these and other social themes into several of her novels. After her father's death in 1895, she moved to London and remained there until her own death on 23rd September 1923, aged 76. Her short story ‘An Unexpected Fare’ is a classic fish out-of-water story. A rich, entitled young man has designs on a young woman of a class below his. Wanting to find out more about her he takes on the job of a cabbie, common accent and all, as a way to discover more.Show book
Experience life and hardships in turn-of-the-century Russia with this collection of provocative stories by one of the greatest writers of all time. Anton Chekhov captures life in late-nineteenth-century Russia with these evocative tales. For example, in “The Schoolmistress,” a hard-working, underpaid schoolteacher contemplates dating a man she knows is terrible for her. In “A Nervous Breakdown,” an idealistic young law student cannot handle what he witnesses after a night in Moscow’s red light district. The author of such plays as The Cherry Orchard and Uncle Vanya, Anton Chekhov was also a prolific writer of short stories. His style, as present in this collection, will remind readers of other great nineteenth-century authors such as Guy de Maupassant.Show book
Terminus: A "The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher" Essay by Hilary Mantel. The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher is The New York Times bestselling collection, from the Man Booker prize-winner for Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, that has been called "scintillating" (New York Times Books Review), "breathtaking" (NPR), "exquisite" (The Chicago Tribune) and "otherworldly" (Washington Post).A Macmillan Audio production.Show book
