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The Short Story America Anthologies, Volume I
through 7, features selected great short stories by today’s top
short-story writers. Every story is captivating, entertaining and
thought-provoking, staying with the reader long after the experience
of reading it. The stories in this book touch the themes of the
human condition as fully and eclectically as any collection of
stories ever has. Short Story America has brought the reader, author
and short story together with this treasure trove of contemporary
tales that is sure to be a classic collection.
TOC: Vol 1
Vol2
Vol 3
Vol 4
Vol 5
Vol 6
Vol 7 |
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When a third Mafia boss in a third major city
is murdered by an unknown entity, FBI organized-crime agents Jack
Hanratty and Neville Parker are assigned to lead the national
investigation of what the media dubs ‘Ḁe Godfather Assassinations.’
As the cabal continues to eliminate the leadership of the powerful
Maἀa, La Cosa Nostra’s ruling ‘Commission’ responds by importing
Fingo, the legendary Sicilian mercenary, to track down the killers.
When Fingo kidnaps Agent Hanratty’s pregnant wife, Jack faces an
impossible ransom request: to save Rachel’s life, Jack and Neville
must deliver the Godfather Assassins to Fingo rather than arrest the
vigilantes. Jack and Neville race against time and two formidable
enemies toward an epic showdown between justice and injustice,
colored by the gray area that complicates human decisions. |
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You come home from a day of no surprises,
thinking you’ll just relax with a hot drink and something amusing to
read. But then you pick up a short story from T.D. Johnston instead
and, almost immediately, you’re knocked off balance. It’s just an
insistent little nudge at first, but the nudges get more and more
insistent, along with the knot forming in your stomach. You never
see the end that’s coming because it sneaks in around a corner where
you never thought to look. T.D. Johnston isn’t just a master of
suspense. He’s a master of surprise.
This collection by T.D. Johnston settles the reader in a comfortable
easy chair and then proceeds to prick him with electrifying barbs,
pelt him with bizarre happenings, or turn time and place upside
down. The table of contents include The Errand, Friday Afternoon,
Gratuity, The Closing, A Game of Chess, Sixth Period, The Guest, The
First Key, Carpool, The Interruption of Thomas Darrow, A Morning
Along the Way, and Marco Polo. |
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"This remarkable collection cements T.D.
Johnston’s status as one
of America’s best short-story writers.”
– Martin McCaw, two-time winner of the Global Short Story Prize |
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In this superb debut collection of short stories, Mathieu Cailler
weaves tales which bring to life the deeply-human experience with
loss and its range of outcomes. From loneliness to recovered
relationships, from despair to redemption, from heartbreak to humor,
these fifteen stories illuminate the sadness, bewilderment, conflict
and ultimate hope which can come from each human being's inevitable
encounters with loss. Author Laurie Alberts writes: "LOSS ANGELES
doesn't focus on the bright lights of Tinseltown, but rather on the
quiet day-to-day pain of marginalized people paralyzed by loss, poor
choices, obsessions, and love. These subtle, beautifully wrought,
and richly realized stories showcase Cailler as an intrepid fiction
writer who is always compassionate to his characters and their moral
quandaries." |
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In
this third novel in the classic saga which includes THE HEADMASTER'S
PAPERS and THE HEADMASTER'S WIFE, Richard Hawley brilliantly weaves
the diary writings of headmaster John Greeve's cancer-stricken wife
and estranged grown son into a tale which, when combined with the
letters of John Greeve, paints a haunting picture of the spiraling
sadness which comes from the dread of impending loss, the distant
wanderings of grown children, and the tragedy of unexpressed love
punctuated by death. GREEVES PASSING completes a poignant trilogy
told entirely through the written expression of unfortunate events,
unfulfilled dreams and the untold secrets of a well-educated
American family. As John Irving writes, "Richard Hawley has the
poise and vision to create an entire world." |
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THE OTHER WORLD, by Richard Hawley (author of the
1983 classic award-winning novel, THE HEADMASTER'S PAPERS, among many books of
fiction, non-fiction, poetry and essays). THE OTHER WORLD is a collection which
also works brilliantly as a novel, and is as good a work of literary fiction as
you will find today. These brilliant and poignant tales are told by the main
character, Jonathan Force, beginning with the story "Born Into Christmas," and
ranging chronologically from Jonathan's birth to childhood, adolescence, his
middle and high school years, and finally on the verge of going to college,
revealing along the way a boy who is caught in the conflict, as so many are,
between the yearning for a world which he feels born to explore and the world
which others expect him to dutifully inhabit. Blake Bailey, author of CHEEVER: A
LIFE, writes: "Richard Hawley explores, with eloquence and sensitivity, the
secret lives of children and the unexpected moments that linger in memory and
give shape to our souls. A stunning collection." Ann Hood, author of THE
OBITUARY WRITER, calls THE OTHER WORLD "both a tender and harsh coming-of-age
story." As John Irving writes of the author, "Richard Hawley has the poise and
vision to create an entire world."
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Tony Jarvis may have been the most distinctive
private school headmaster of the past half century,
if not in the history of American schooling. He was for thirty years headmaster
of Boston’s Roxbury Latin
School, the oldest school in continuous operation in the United States, founded
in 1645 by the Puritan divine John Eliot,
Apostle to the Indians. Roxbury Latin School today is a school of 300 boys in
grades seven through twelve, and it is
annually ranked among the best, and sometimes the best, scholastically
performing school in the United States. But
its scholastic performance, though impressive, is probably the least interesting
thing about the school, which states its
mission to be a place “where e very boy is known and loved.” |
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