The massage therapist who struggles to help a veteran who's biggest regret is tattooed in living detail across his back. The retired CIA operative, now a mother of two, who is still packing heat for the just-in-case scenario that has her trigger finger itching...With award-winning reportage, memoir, fiction and photography, Granta has illuminated the most complex issues of modern life through the refractory light of literature. Feel the sting of betrayal via new writing by Ben Marcus, Janine di Giovanni, Karen Russell, Samantha Harvey, Colin Robinson, Jennifer Vanderbes, Callan Wink, John Burnside and a host of others, including debut author Lauren Wilkinson, whose heroine moves through decades with the forward lean of Richard Yates and the grace of Garcia Marquez.

    But when a domestic disturbance call takes a turn for the worse, their friendship is put on the line. The result is a difficult journey into a moral gray area where trust and loyalty struggle for survival against a sobering backdrop of pimps, prostitutes, and criminal lowlifes.A dark duologue filled with sharp storytelling and biting repartee, A Steady Rain explores the complexities of a lifelong bond tainted by domestic affairs, violence, and the rough streets of Chicago.

    Contains the It Girl Series Books 1-3The It GirlNotoriousReckless

    The poet's imagination of romanticism is captured in the vividly described poems. The poems are written in Hindi and the poet not only narrates the poems in the book but has also sung it in tune. The poems are appealing to the young generation and have been read widely by people in India and abroad

    ”You bear countless stories in yourself”.Said the Mountain and the Man on their first encounter.On every page of this book there is a different story… Some narrated by the Mountain and some by the Man.

    All his life, he has longed to be a warrior and to follow in the footsteps of the father he never knew, so he is devastated when he is rejected as an apprentice to Castle Redmont's Battleschool. He's no happier when he's assigned instead to the Ranger Corps, the Kingdom's secret service, as the Rangers are a mysterious group whose uncanny ability to move about unseen is thought by many to be the result of black magic. Will begins training under the dour and enigmatic Halt, and reluctantly learns all the fieldcraft and archery he will need to become a fully-fledged Ranger. But Will soon finds himself needing all his new-found skills as he and Halt set off on a desperate mission to prevent the assassination of the King

    

    At first, the new doctor cures anything

    Ebook comes with main table of contents and interlinked sub table of contents. Ebook contains illustrations and inline footnotes where applicable. Each chapter is clearly marked so user knows which book within the boxset is being read. The Novels. • Narrative Of A. Gordon Pym. (Inline Footnotes) • The Journal Of Julius Rodman. (Illustrated / Inline Footnotes) The Complete Tales. (Inline Footnotes) The Complete Poetry. (Inline Footnotes) The Play. • Politian. The Non Fiction. • The Conchologist’s First Book. • A Chapter On Autography. • Marginalia. (Inline Footnotes) • Fifty Suggestions. (Inline Footnotes) • The Literati. (Inline Footnotes) The Letters Of Edgar Allan Poe 2 Vols. The Complete Essays. (Inline Footnotes) The Biographies. • Death Of Edgar A. Poe. By N. P. Willis. • Edgar A. Poe, A Psychopathic Study By Robertson, John W. (Illustrated / Inline Footnotes) • Edgar Allan Poe by Woodberry, George Edward. (Inline Footnotes) • Figures of Several Centuries by Arthur Symons. • Famous American Writers By Sherwin Cody. • The Home Life of Poe by Susan Archer Talley Weiss. (Inline Footnotes) • Life-Story of Edgar Allan Poe by Mary Newton Stanard. • Edgar Allan Poe by Stedman, Edmund Clarence. (Illustrated / Inline Footnotes) • Edgar Allan Poe A Critical Study By Ransome, Arthur. (Inline Footnotes) • Edgar Allan Poe; How To Know Him By Smith, C. Alphonso. (Inline Footnotes) • Israfel The Life And Times Of Edger Allan Poe Vol I & II By Hervey Allen. (Illustrated / Inline Footnotes) Update 2 - 3rd November 2016 Reviewed and updated all books to include either paragraph indents or correct line spacing between paragraphs to make it easier for the user to read and distinguish paragraph start and end.

    In a critical preface, Bentley finds all four works to be a Gogolian treatment of love - or the lack of love - and by the same token, thoroughly original works of dramatic art. Also includes a piece on Gamblers by the eminent Polish critic Jan Kott.

    Drake brought to his international best-selling books Beautiful Chaos, Black Butterfly and A Brilliant Madness, Robert M. Drake now takes his readers to a deeper level of his consciousness with his highly anticipated debut novel.Wes, a bright and introspective young woman is devoted to Owen, her childhood best friend. One day their mutual connection is severed by tragedy. A few years later Wes finds herself onboard a plane headed toward San Francisco haunted by the loss of friendship and love. Here, Wes, tries to mend her future with her past as she discovers the value between life and death. Between holding on and letting go. Between who she was and who she is meant to be.

    Translated and introduced by H.R. Hays.

    Someone - or something - is leaving bite marks in the avocados, Clay and Kelly's little daughter has an itch, and Carol can't remember who played Gandhi. This work takes a look at phoney liberal values.

    Written in Lallan Scots, it is a most exciting piece of poetic drama.

    Features poems, essays, plays, and works of fiction written in both Filipino and English.