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  Hi Lo to Hollywood - A Max Evans...

  Max Evans

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  Short stories and three novellas by award-winning chronicler of the American West, Max Evans.Prolific writer Max Evans produced a wide-ranging body of work representing several genres. From among his numerous publications, Evans selected personal favorites for this collection, which spans most of his writing career. In addition to an essay about a maverick film director—             "Sam Peckinpah: A Very Personal Remembrance"—             this collection includes three short novelsOne Eyed SkyThe MareOld Bum and nine short stories:"Big Shad's Bridge""A Man Who Never Missed"”             The Call”              “             Blizzard""The Ultimate Giver""Sky of Gold""The Wooden Cave" "The Far Cry" "Don't Kill My Dog"  Through them all runs a common thread: the love and understanding that Evans had for the West and its peoples and his ability to convey that understanding with humor and compassion.

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  Sleeping with the Senator:...

  Lacy Wren

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  Forty-something Senator Kirk Norwood does a gorgeous female friend late one night in the office, unaware that a fresh-faced college intern is spying on them. 
  The innocent intern decides that pleasuring herself with the photographic evidence she gathered of the dirty deed isn't enough. She puts a plan in motion lose her innocence to the older man. 
  Beautiful and buxom Washington fixer Lyn Moreno springs into action ready to do whatever (or whomever - in the form of a muscular jock bound to a bed) it takes to handle the sticky situation when a sleazy tabloid obtains a video of Senator Norwood's illicit behavior. 
  Includes several hot sex scenes! 
  Based on the Senator Brick Scrotorum stories by Rod Mandelli.

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  The Burglar in Short Order

  Lawrence Block

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  Four decades ago, Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Lawrence Block introduced the world to one of his most beloved and enduring creations: Bernie Rhodenbarr, the clever, nimble-fingered star of novels such as Burglars Can't Be Choosers, The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling, and The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons. Called “the Heifetz of the picklock” by The New York Times, Bernie has stolen not only antiques, stamp collections, and priceless works of art but also millions of audiences' hearts. 
  Now, for all those craving more adventures of their favorite bookseller-by-day and burglar-by-night, The Burglar in Short Order for the first time ever collects all of Bernie's short-form appearances in one complete volume. From the story in which a prototype of Bernie first appeared (“A Bad Night for Burglars”) to his appearances in Playboy and (maybe? It's kinda complicated) Cosmopolitan...from an essay discussing Bernie's misadventures in Hollywood (how in the world did Whoopi Goldberg ever get cast?) to a piece commissioned by a European publisher for a tourist guide to New York...you'll find every published story, article, and stand-alone excerpt Bernie has ever appeared in—plus two new, unpublished pieces: an introduction discussing the character's colorful origins and an afterword in which the author, contemplating retirement, comes face to face with his own creation.  
  In all of mystery fiction, there has never been a character like Bernie—and in this, his dozenth book, he demonstrates all the charm and wit and kleptophilic ingenuity that has made two generations of audienes welcome their favorite burglar into their homes.

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  Hope and Other Stories

  Laura Hird

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  A “bloody, believable and intoxicating” collection of short stories by the acclaimed author of Born Free (The Herald, UK).   Laura Hird became one of the most exciting new voices in Scottish literature with her Whitbread Award-shortlisted debut novel, Born Free. Known for pitch-perfect characters dealing with the despair and dysfunction of contemporary life, Hird continues to mine this trademark territory in Hope and Other Urban Tales. Set in the low-rent areas of Edinburgh, Hird’s slices of reality are gritty, bleak and often darkly funny. Yet the possibility of hope, always just out of reach, unifies this collection, conveying that just as circumstances can reveal the morally obscure darkness in ‘good’ people, so can seemingly irredeemable characters harbor well-hidden pockets of humanity.“Hird reminds one of an early Ian McEwan or Iain Banks, deeply unsettling, deathly comic and peculiarly tender.”—Sunday Times, UK“Hird controls her material brilliantly. If you like your fiction with razor blades secreted in the soup, then get this, pronto.”—Scotsman, UK

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  The Best of Philip K Dick

  Philip K. Dick

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  Thirteen short stories by the legendary author of The Man in the High Castle and other science fiction classics.   Philip K. Dick didn’t predict the future―he summoned the desperate bleakness of our present directly from his fevered paranoia. Dick didn’t predict the Internet or iPhones or email or 3D printers, but rather he so thoroughly understood human nature that he could already see, even at the advent of the transistor, the way technology would alienate us from each other and from ourselves. He could see us isolated and drifting in our own private realities even before we had plugged in our ear buds. He could see, even in the earliest days of space exploration, how much of our own existence remained unexplored, and how the great black spaces between people were growing even as our universe was shrinking.   Philip K. Dick spent his first three years as a science fiction author writing shorter fiction, and in his lifetime he composed almost 150 short stories, many of which have gone on to be adapted into (slightly watered down) Hollywood blockbusters. Collected here are thirteen of his most Dickian tales, funhouse realities with trap doors and hidden compartments.

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  5 Minute Bedtime Stories for...

  Beatrix Potter, Aesop, Joseph...

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  A selection of short stories aimed at younger children.

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