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  The Best American Series: Short...

  Series The Best American

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  A collection of eleven fiction and nonfiction selections from the 2011 editions of the Best American Series, highlighting 2011’s best American writing. The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. The guest editor then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected—and most popular—of its kind. This special ebook contains eleven selections from the 2011 editions. From The Best American Short Stories edited by Geraldine Brooks:“Housewifely Arts” by Megan Mayhew Bergman“Phantoms” by Steven Millhauser From The Best American Essays edited by Edwidge Danticat:“Chapels” by Pico Iyer“There Are Things Awry Here” by Lia Purpura From The Best American Mystery Stories edited by Harlan Coben:“A Crime of Opportunity” by Ernest J. Finney From The Best American Science and Nature Writing edited by Mary Roach:“The Killer in the Pool” by Tim Zimmermann“The Whole Fracking Enchilada” by Sandra Steingraber From The Best American Sports Writing edited by Jane Leavy:“The Surfing Savant” by Paul Solotaroff“New Mike, Old Christine” by Nancy Hass From The Best American Travel Writing edited by Sloane Crosley:“My Year at Sea” by Christopher Buckley “Miami Party Boom” by Emily Witt

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  The Vesels: The Fate of a...

  Josette Baer

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  This book deals with the Slovak National Uprising (SNP) that was launched on 29 August 1944 in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia. In the West, the uprising is an under-researched topic in the history of WWII. The Slovak state was an ally of Nazi Germany, but the uprising proved that the population did not share the regime’s ideology.

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  To Cuba and Back - A Vacation...

  Richard Henry Dana

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  “The Master is a policeman as well as a Judge. His revolver and rife are always loaded. He has his dogs, his trackers and seizers. No man rides unarmed.”Join Abolitionist Richard Henry Dana, as he explores Spanish Cuba of 1859, where kidnapped Black Africans were slaves on vast sugar plantations, along with impoverished Chinese Coolies, suffering under unbreakable eight- year contracts.Dana visited Cuba on a fact finding mission he calls a “vacation voyage.”  He describes Cuban slavery, explores Cuban society, institutions, educational systems and exposes a corrupt prison system, where the more a prisoner pays, the less he is punished.

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  Top 10 Short Stories The -...

  George Eliot, John William...

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  Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart.  A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. 
   
  In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?  
   
  The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme.  Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. 
   
  Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made.  If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. 
   
  As each page turns, secrets are revealed that compel our attention as we await the damning waves of shudders and fears.  We may well know what’s coming, what these unfriendly faces and ogres are about say in these classic and classic literary gems. 
  01 - The Top 10 - British Horror - An Introduction 
  02 - The Dead Hand by Wilkie Collins 
  03 - The Coach by Violet Hunt 
  05 - The Lifted Veil by George Eliot 
  05 - The Withered Arm by Thomas Hardy 
  06 - August Heat by W F Harvey 
  07 - The Monkey's Paw by W W Jacobs 
  08 - Lost Hearts by M R James 
  09 - The Vampyre. A Tale by John Willaim Polidori 
  10 - The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  11 - Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker

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  Spirit of Place - Letters and...

  Lawrence Durrell

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  The definitive collection of travel writings by one of the twentieth century’s best-loved journeyersFrom the moment of his birth, Lawrence Durrell was far from home. A British child in India, he was sent to England to receive an education, and by his early twenties had already tired of his native land. With family in tow, he departed for Greece, and spent the rest of his life wandering the world. He traveled not to sightsee but to live, and made homes in Egypt, France, Yugoslavia, and Argentina. Each time he landed, he rooted himself deep into the native soil, taking in not just the sights and sounds of his new land, but the essential character of the country. In these letters and essays, Durrell exhibits the power of poetic observation that made his travel writing so extraordinary to post–World War II readers. In these pages he reminds us not just of each country’s hidden charms, but of the unique characteristics that persist through the generations.

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  Forward - A Memoir

  Abby Wambach

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  ""Lucid and wrenching...Forward puts [Wambach's] achievement in context with painful and beautiful candor."" —NPR 
  ""Forward is the powerful story of an athlete who has inspired girls all over the world to believe in themselves.""  —Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO, New York Times Bestselling author of Lean In  
  “This is the best memoir I’ve read by an athlete since Andre Agassi’s Open.”  —Adam Grant, Wharton professor and New York Times bestselling author of Originals and Give and Take 
   
  Abby Wambach has always pushed the limits of what is possible.  Named by Time magazine as one of the most influential people of 2015, the iconic soccer player captured the nation’s heart when she led her team to its recent World Cup Championship.  Admired for her fearlessness and passion, Abby is a vocal advocate for women’s rights and equal opportunity, pushing to translate the success of her team to the real world. She has become a heavily requested speaker to a wide a range of audiences, from college students to executives at Fortune 500 companies. 
  In Forward, Abby recounts her own decisions, wins, losses, and the pivotal moments that helped her become the world class athlete and leader she is today. Wambach’s book goes beyond the soccer field to reveal a soulful person grappling universal questions about how we can live our best lives, and become our truest selves. Written with honesty and heart, Forward is an inspiring blueprint for individual growth and a rousing call to action.

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