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  Aliens of Affection - Stories

  Padgett Powell

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  A New York Times Notable Book: The idiosyncratic genius of Padgett Powell shines through in nine stories that bend the conventions of short fiction. Padgett Powell’s literary stage is a blurred vision of the American South. His characters are bored, sad, assured, confused, deluded, and often just one step away from madness. The stories they populate are madder still, delivered by a voice enthralling and distinctive. Whether he’s chronicling a housewife’s encouragement of adolescent lust, following two good ol’ boys on their search for a Chinese healer, or delving into the mind of an unstable moped accident survivor as he awaits a hefty settlement check, Powell revels in the irregularities of the mundane. His people occupy bar stools and strip clubs, pickup truck cabs and mental health clinics, looking for love, drugs, answers. According to the New York Times Book Review, “Mr. Powell is like a fabulous guest at a dinner party, the guy who gets people drinking far too much and licking their dessert plates and laughing at jokes—for which not a few of them will hate themselves in the morning.” 

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  Black Beauty - Audio Book...

  Anna Sewell

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  Animal lovers of all ages will cherish this memorable story.Perhaps the most celebrated animal story of the nineteenth century, Black Beauty is the suspenseful and deeply moving account of a horse's experiences at the hands of many owners — some, sensitive riders who treated him gently; others, cruel drivers who thoughtlessly inflicted lasting damage.An Author's Republic audio production.

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  Blasphemy - New and Selected...

  Sherman Alexie

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  Sixteen new stories and fifteen classics by the National Book Award–winning, New York Times–bestselling author of War Dances. 
   
  Sherman Alexie’s stature as a writer of stories, poetry, and novels has soared over the course of his twenty-book, twenty-year career. His wide-ranging, acclaimed fiction throughout the last two decades—from The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven to his most recent PEN/Faulkner Award–winning War Dances—have established him as a star in contemporary American literature. 
   
  A bold and irreverent observer of life among Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest, the daring, versatile, funny, and outrageous Alexie showcases his many talents in Blasphemy, where he unites fifteen beloved classics with sixteen new stories in one sweeping anthology for devoted fans and first-time readers. Included here are some of his most esteemed tales, including “What You Pawn I Will Redeem,” in which a homeless Indian man quests to win back a family heirloom; “This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona,” a road-trip morality tale; “The Toughest Indian in the World,” about a night shared between a writer and a hitchhiker; and his most recent, “War Dances,” about a man grappling with sudden hearing loss in the wake of his father’s death. Alexie’s new stories are fresh and quintessential, about donkey basketball leagues, lethal wind turbines, a twenty-four-hour Asian manicure salon, good and bad marriages, and all species of warriors in America today. 
   
  An indispensable Alexie collection, Blasphemy reminds us, on every thrilling page, why Alexie is one of our greatest contemporary writers and a true master of the short story. 
   
  Praise for Blasphemy 
   
  “Alexie once again reasserts himself as one the most compelling contemporary practitioners of the short story. In Blasphemy, the author demonstrates his talent on nearly every page. . . . [Alexie] illuminates the lives of his characters in unique, surprising, and, ultimately, hopeful ways.” —Boston Globe 
   
  “Alexie writes with arresting perception in praise of marriage, in mockery of hypocrisy, and with concern for endangered truths and imperiled nature. He is mischievously and mordantly funny, scathingly forthright, deeply and universally compassionate, and wholly magnetizing. This is a must-have collection.” —Donna Seaman, Booklist (starred review) 
   
  “[A] sterling collection of short stories by Alexie, a master of the form. . . . The newer pieces are full of surprises. . . . These pieces show Alexie at his best: as an interpreter and observer, always funny if sometimes angry, and someone, as a cop says of one of his characters, who doesn’t “fit the profile of the neighborhood.”“—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

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  A Collection Of Ten Short...

  Mike Jones

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  This audiobook is a collection of ten short stories for children. They are funny and enjoyable. This audiobook collection contains the following stories: 
  The Latest, The Biggest And The Best (1) A little girl who always got what she wanted. If she didn't get what she wanted, she would scream and scream until she got it. – I Wish I Was Pretty (2) A little girl who was not happy with her looks. She was so depressed she went for a walk in the woods and there she made a discovery which changed her life forever. – It’s Only A Lollipop (3) A little boy who insisted in having a lollipop in his mouth wherever he went. – I Wish, I Wish, I Wish (4) A little girl who was always very sad. She knew the cause of her sadness and what would make her happy... or so she thought. – The Brown Paper Bag (5) A little girl and her grandmother heard a noise on the way back from the shop and made a discovery. – The Lazy Little Boy (6) The laziest little boy that ever lived found out that it was not clever to be lazy. – The King Who Had Everything (7) This King really did have everything and he would wear his crown wherever he went so that people would know that he was the King. One day he lost his crown and in the process learnt a very important lesson. – The Headmaster’s Office (8) A special school for badly behaved children and what happens in the headmaster's office. – The Little Girl With Beautiful Hair (9) A little girl who had long beautiful hair. She enjoyed swimming but she did not like her hair getting wet. She came across two girls that were not very nice to her and it all ended in tears. – The Old Lady And Her Cakes (10) An old lady who loved baking cakes especially for the little children. Everybody enjoyed the smell of the old lady's cakes until one day it stopped.

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  Dracula's Guest and Other Weird...

  Bram Stoker

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  Published two years after Bram Stoker’s death, this collection of short stories from the famed author contains nine pieces filled with horrors and thrills. Filled with haunting rats, inexplicable tension, and an appearance from Dracula himself, Stoker’s short stories uphold his reputation from his previous works and allow new audiences to re-discover the master of horror. This collection includes “Dracula’s Guest,” “The Judge’s House,” “The Gipsy Prophecy,” “The Coming of Abel Behenna,” “The Burial of the Rats,” “A Dream of Red Hands,” “Crooken Sands,” and “The Secret of the Growing Gold.”

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  Poirot Investigates - A Hercule...

  Agatha Christie

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  Poirot Investigates a host of murders most foul—as well as other dastardly crimes—in this intriguing collection of short stories from the one-and-only Agatha Christie. 
  First there was the mystery of the film star and the diamond . . . then came the “suicide” that was murder . . . the mystery of the absurdly cheap flat . . .a suspicious death in a locked gun room . . . a million dollar bond robbery . . . the curse of a pharaoh’s tomb . . . a jewel robbery by the sea . . . the abduction of a prime minister . . . the disappearance of a banker . . . a phone call from a dying man . . .and, finally, the mystery of the missing will. 
  What links these fascinating cases? Only the brilliant deductive powers of Hercule Poirot! 
   

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