Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> World Literature - American - 20th Century

A Manual for Cleaning Women compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin. With the grit of Raymond Carver, the humor of Grace Paley, and a blend of wit and melancholy all her own, Berlin crafts miracles from the everyday, uncovering moments of grace in the Laundromats and halfway houses of the American Southwest, in the homes of the Bay Area upper class, among switchboard operators and struggling mothers, hitchhikers and bad Christians.

Readers will revel in this remarkable collection from a master of the form and wonder how they'd ever overlooked...

Twenty-something Hollis Kessler languishes in a hopelessly magician-less world (with the exception of a fleet-footed nymph named Xanthe) not too far from where he graduated college. His friends do, too. They sleep late, read too much, drink too much, talk too much, and work and earn and do way too little. But Hollis does have an obsession: there's another world going on in his head, a world of excitement and danger and starships and romance, and it's telling him that it's time to stop dreaming and get serious.

This re-publication of Lev Grossman's debut novel, Warp, shows the...

Praise for R.D. Moore's Dragon Force:
The Last Salute

"An intriguing fast-paced story focused on exploits during the Vietnam War taking Americans beyond the borders of South Vietnam. Drives home the point known by all combat veterans that directives from Washington or higher headquarters, execution is left to the ingenuity and dedication of young officers and non-commissioned officers in unpredictable environments." - Michael Hayes, Brigadier General, U.S. Marine Corps (Ret.) Vietnam 67-68, 70-71

Praise for R.D. Moore's Dragon Force:
The Last Salute

"An intriguing fast-paced story focused on exploits during the Vietnam War taking Americans beyond the borders of South Vietnam. Drives home the point known by all combat veterans that directives from Washington or higher headquarters, execution is left to the ingenuity and dedication of young officers and non-commissioned officers in unpredictable environments." - Michael Hayes, Brigadier General, U.S. Marine Corps (Ret.) Vietnam 67-68, 70-71

For those who still dream and remember, for those yet to experience the hypnotic power of its dark poetry, step inside. The show is about to begin. Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to Green Town, Illinois, to destroy every life touched by its strange and sinister mystery. The carnival rolls in sometime after midnight, ushering in Halloween a week early. A calliope's shrill...