18 books like This Year It Will Be Different
Under the duvet
From the acclaimed bestselling author of Sushi for Beginners and Angels comes a collection of personal essays on shopping, writing, moviemaking, motherhood and all the assorted calamities involved in being a savvy woman in the new millennium.Her novels are read and adored by millions around the world, and with Under the Duvet, Marian Keyes tackles the world of nonfiction. These are her collected…
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Stories of Your Life and Others
Ted Chiang's first published story, "Tower of Babylon," won the Nebula Award in 1990. Subsequent stories have won the Asimov's SF Magazine reader poll, a second Nebula Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, and the Sidewise Award for alternate history. He won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1992. Story for story, he is the most honored young writer in modern SF.
Now,…
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A Twist in the Tale
Jeffrey Archer's collection of twelve spellbinding stories, A Twist in the Tale, will sweep you on a journey of thwarted ambition, undying passion, and unswerving honor that you'll never forget. No one can weave a web of suspense, deliver a jolt of surprise, or teach a lesson in living like bestselling author Jeffrey Archer. From Africa to the Middle East, and from London to Beijing, Archer…
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Little Faith
"A Wisconsin family grapples with the power and limitations of faith when one of their own falls under the influence of a radical church"--
Lyle Hovde lives a mostly content life in rural Wisconsin with his wife, Peg, daughter, Shiloh, and six-year old grandson, Isaac. After a troubled adolescence, Shiloh has become deeply involved with an extremist church, and the devout pastor courting her is…
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Rip Van Winkle and Sleepy Hollow
In the first of these stories from the Catskill Mountains, a superstitious schoolmaster encounters a headless horseman; in the second, a man sleeps for twenty years, waking to a much-changed world.
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Spinning-wheel stories
A collection of twelve heart warming stories for children. Premise: a winter storm forces a family, who have gathered for the winter holidays, to stay inside and listen to their grandmothers stories.
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The Faulkner Reader
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The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales
Part 1 Beginnings:
"Sir Bertrand - A Fragment" (1773), Anna Laetitia Aiken
"The Poisoner of Montremos" (1791), Richard Cumberland
"The Friar's Tale" (1792), Anonymous
"Raymond - A Fragment (1799), "Juvenis"
"The Parricide Punished" (1799), Anonymous
"The Ruins of the Abbey of Fitz-Martin" (1801), Anonymous
"The Vindictive Monk, or The Fatal Ring" (1802), Isaac Crookenden.
Part 2 The 19th…
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My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead
A collection of love story excerpts from classic literary works, culled by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Middlesex, includes selections by such writers as Alice Munro, William Faulkner, and Milan Kundera, in a volume published to benefit the McSweeney literacy project 826 Chicago.
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In black and white
Tales of native life in India, in Oriental style.
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I Sing the Body Electric!
Eighteen stories with bizarre and whimsical themes which transcend time and space.
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Fiction
Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne --
Masque of the Red Death / Edgar Allan Poe --
The necklace / Guy de Maupassant --
The storm / Kate Chopin --
The lady with the pet dog / Anton Chekhov --
Roman fever / Edith Wharton --
Paul's case / Willa Cather --
The dead / James Joyce --
The horse dealer's daughter / D.H. Lawrence --
The jilting of Granny Weatherall --
A rose for Emily / William…
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The Best Short Stories of the Modern Age -- Revised
Tell-tale Heart/ Edgar Allan Poe
The jewels / Guy de Maupassant
Gooseberries / Anton Chekhov
The tree of knowledge / Henry James
A clean, well-lighted place / Ernest Hemingway
Youth / Joseph Conrad
The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence
Bliss / Katherine Mansfield
The dead / James Joyce
Little Herr Friedemann / Thomas Mann
Sophistication / Sherwood Anderson
The story of my dovecot / Isaac…
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La route d'Altamont
First published in French in 1966, The Road Past Altamont pierces to the heart of a child's world, creating a delicate, yet substantial network of impressions, emotions, and relationships. In her writing, Gabrielle Roy allowed "nothing extraneous or false to stand," according to the translator, Joyce Marshall. The literary style of Roy, whose fiction reflects her childhood on the Canadian…
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The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales
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Christian short stories
This New York Times bestselling work reimagines world history though the belief systems of Freemasons, Rosicrucians, Kabbalists, and others.
They say that history is written by the victors. But what if history as we know it written by the wrong people? What if everything we've been told is only part of the story? In this groundbreaking and controversial work, Mark Booth embarks on an enthralling…
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Debits and credits
Debits and Credits, Rudyard Kipling. TEI XML version of http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/k/kipling/rudyard/debits/ .
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After the People Lights Have Gone Off
A collection of stories that tap into the horrors and fears of the supernatural-- as well as the everyday.
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