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For Esme - With Love And Squalor by J.D. Salinger
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The Law of Life: a Jamestown classic adapted from Jack London
Walter Pauk - 1976
Tales of Conjure and the Color Line: 10 Stories
Charles W. Chesnutt - 1998
Edited and with an Introduction by Joan Sherman.
Twittering from the Circus of the Dead
Joe Hill - 2013
The show's about to begin. Step right up for the Circus of the Dead: where YOU are the concessions. #CircusoftheDead
Transformations
Anne Sexton - 1971
The fairy tale-based works of the tortured confessional poet, whose raw honesty and wit in the face of psychological pain have touched thousands of readers.
At the Clinic
Sally Rooney - 2016
It’s November and Marianne is having a wisdom tooth removed.Connell is driving her to the clinic because he’s her only friend with a car, and also the only person in whom she confides about distasteful medical conditions like impacted teeth. He sometimes drives her to the doctor’s office when she needs antibiotics for urinary tract infections, which is often.They are twenty-three.
Love, Creekwood
Becky Albertalli - 2020
Perfect for fans of Becky Albertalli, the movie Love, Simon, and the new Hulu series spin-off, Love, Victor!It’s been more than a year since Simon and Blue turned their anonymous online flirtation into an IRL relationship, and just a few months since Abby and Leah’s unforgettable night at senior prom.Now the Creekwood High crew are first years at different colleges, navigating friendship and romance the way their story began—on email.
Juice Like Wounds
Seanan McGuire - 2020
All too often these go unreported—perhaps because the adventurers in question fail to return to the main narrative due to death or other distractions, and sometimes because the chronicler of the events decide to edit out that part of that particular history for reasons of their own (historians are never infallible)—but occasionally we get another window into our heroes' world. In Juice Like Wounds we once again get to meet Lundy, and some of her companions. Lundy's main adventure is detailed in In an Absent Dream (which is nominated for a Hugo Award, this year!) and you should definitely read that. Before or after this tale is up to you. Remember: side quests are fun. For the reader, at least...
Thank You, M'Am
Langston Hughes - 1991
Each book in the series has been designed with today's young reader in mind. As the words come to life, students will develop a lasting appreciation for great literature.The humor of Mark Twain...the suspense of Edgar Allan Poe...the danger of Jack London...the sensitivity of Katherine Mansfield. Creative Short Stories has it all and will prove to be a welcome addition to any library.
Nine Lives
Ursula K. Le Guin - 1968
Pulphouse Press Short Story Hardback #30."Nine Lives" was first published in Playboy, November 1968.**Nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novelette in 1969.
All You Zombies
Robert A. Heinlein - 1959
It further develops themes explored by the author in a previous work, "By His Bootstraps", published some 18 years earlier.
Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.: Tales
Eve Babitz - 1977
in the 1960s in a wildly original, totally unique voice. These stories are time capsule gems, as poignant and startling today as they were when published in the early 1970s. Eve Babitz is not well known today, but she should be. Her first hand experiences in the L.A. cultural scene, translated into haunting fiction, are an unforgettable glimpse at a lost world and a magical time.