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  Mothers & Other Monsters

  Maureen F. McHugh

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  Nancy Pearl selected Mothers & Other Monsters as a "Books for a Rainy Day" on Morning Edition on NPR.
  
   
  In her luminous, long-awaited debut collection, award-winning novelist Maureen F. McHugh wryly and delicately examines the impacts of social and technological shifts on families. Using beautiful, deceptively simple prose, she illuminates the relationship between parents and children and the expected and unexpected chasms that open between generations.
  
  — A woman introduces her new lover to her late brother.
  — A teenager is interviewed about her peer group's attitudes toward sex and baby boomers.
  — A missing stepson sets a marriage on edge.
  — Anthropologists visiting an isolated outpost mission are threatened by nomadic raiders.
  
  McHugh's characters—her Alzheimers-afflicted parents or her smart and rebellious teenagers—are always recognizable: stubborn, human, and heartbreakingly real.
  
   
  Print editions, including a collector's limited edition, are available from Small Beer Press.
  Listed by Unglue.it.

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  Flappers and Philosophers

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  Flappers and Philosophers was the first collection of short stories written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1920. It includes eight stories:* "The Offshore Pirate"* "The Ice Palace"* "Head and Shoulders"* "The Cut-Glass Bowl"* "Bernice Bobs Her Hair"* "Benediction"* "Dalyrimple Goes Wrong"* "The Four Fists"(Introduction by Wikipedia)

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  Ten Little Indians - Stories

  Sherman Alexie

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  Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist: A “stellar collection” of stories about navigating life off the reservation, filled with laughter and heartbreak (People). In these lyrical, affectionate tales from the author of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, characters navigate the crossroads of culture, battle stereotypes, and find themselves through everything from politics to basketball. Richard, the narrator of “Lawyer’s League,” grows up in Seattle, the son of “an African American giant who played defensive end for the University of Washington Huskies” and “a petite Spokane Indian ballerina.” A woman is caught in a restaurant when a suicide bomb goes off in “Can I Get a Witness.” And Estelle Walks Above (née Estelle Miller), studies her way off the Spokane Indian Reservation and goes on to both enjoy and resent the company of the white women of Seattle—who see her as a shamanic genius, and look to her for guidance on everything from sex and fashion to spirituality.   These and the other “warm, revealing, invitingly roundabout stories” in Ten Little Indians run the gamut from earthy wit to sobering emotional truth, mapping the outer reaches of the human heart (The New York Times Book Review).   From a New York Times–bestselling and National Book Award–winning author, these tales, “rambunctious and exuberant, bristle with an edgy and mordant humor” (Chicago Tribune).  This ebook features an illustrated biography including rare photos from the author’s personal collection. 

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  Fiction Favours the Facts

  Mark Morgan

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  A first book of Bible-based micro-tales Fiction Favours the Facts is a collection of the first 22 micro-tales from the Bible Tales Newsletter.  
   
  Micro-tales? What are they? They are short stories about Bible characters or events. Bible-based fiction - the facts of the Bible rounded out with imaginative detail to help us recognise the lives and feelings of real people. Some are about Bible characters you have never heard of, while others concentrate on an incident in the life of one of the more famous Bible characters.  
   
  Cain and Abel, Noah and his family, Moses and Aaron, Daniel, Ebed-Melech, Mark, Peter, Paul and Silas, and Judas Iscariot share their experiences with us.  
   
  Lives from long ago are made real so that we can share their difficulties, triumphs and failures - and expand our own understanding of what makes our life worthwhile to God.

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  Night Terrors Vol 8 - Short...

  Nika Župan, Justin Boote, Chisto...

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  When you turn out the lights, the terror begins… 
  A young man returns home and discovers the monster he feared as a child may be real after all. An accident in the shower traps an elderly woman in a nightmarish struggle for survival. And when a ghost hunter investigates the death of his lover, he learns that a local ghost story may hide a sinister grain of truth… 
  Nightmares slither from the shadows in Scare Street’s latest spine-tingling collection. Thirteen tales of the macabre await in this chilling new volume. 
  Can you hear them in the darkness, creeping closer to your bed? The horrifying whispers of undead souls, the wet splash of tentacles writhing across the floor, and the soft rustle of something tugging at your bed sheets… 
  Don’t worry. It’s probably just your imagination playing tricks on you, as you devour one terrifying tale after another. After all, there’s no such thing as monsters. 
  But perhaps it’s best to turn the lights back on, just in case… 
  This volume features the following stories: 
  1. The Windman by Nika Župan 
  2. Meeting Death by Justin Boote 
  3. One Ghost Turned Deserves Another by Chisto Healy 
  4. A Slide Infinite by Caleb Stephens 
  5. The Culling by Melissa Burkley 
  6. The Other Side of the Mirror by Stephen Johnson 
  7. A Nice Place for Dogs by C. I. I. Jones 
  8. Sister Steals Fire by S. R. Worman 
  9. Sweetheart by Bryson Tuckerman 
  10. Duplex by S. E. Denton 
  11. Dendrites in Her Eyes by Irina Slav 
  12. The Cat and the Crawlspace by J. Herrera Kamin 
  13. Elsbeth’s Promise by Ron Ripley

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  Send Her Back and Other Stories

  Munashe Kaseke

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  In Send Her Back and Other Stories, Munashe Kaseke offers an awfully intimate, fresh telling of the immigrant black woman experience in the United States, equally awash with a myriad of challenges as well as the joys of exploring a new world. With sumptuous candor, her complicated, and often tangled, female Zimbabwean protagonists navigate issues of identity, microaggressions, and sexism in vibrant and indelible settings, and at times a tense US political climate. Yet again, these are not only stories of overcoming, they're also marked by characters who've risen to the top of their professional fields, seized the American dream, and who travel the world in glee. Kaseke peels back on the inner wranglings of characters caught between two worlds be it by stories of dating outside one's culture and race or failing to assimilate upon returning home after spending time abroad. Uncanny. Witty. Gripping. Send Her Back and Other Stories dazzles, leaving you newly awakened to the world we live in. 

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