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1. The Burning House
By: Ann Beattie , Robin Desser
3.85
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The now-classic, utterly unique voice of Ann Beattie is so dry it throws off sparks, her eye endowe… read more
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- short stories
2. A Thatched Roof (Allways trilogy, #2)
By: Beverley Nichols , Rex Whistler
4.31
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
Beverley Nichols fans, armchair gardeners, and literature enthusiasts will delight in this reprint … read more
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"On and on we wander in these pages--and we never reach the point because, happily, there is no point to reach."-Beverley Nichols, A Thatched Roof (Allways trilogy, #2)
"The low lintels of the cottage have many disadvantages, but they have one supreme advantage. They afford an immediate topic of conversation. They make things start, quite literally, with a bang."-Beverley Nichols, A Thatched Roof (Allways trilogy, #2)
"They came on one of April's most brilliant days--a day as sparkling as a newly-washed lemon...a day when even the shadows were a melange of blue and orange and jade, like the shadows that poured from…"-Beverley Nichols, A Thatched Roof (Allways trilogy, #2)
"There are a thousand 'greatest' melodies, just as there are a thousand 'greatest' poems and a thousand 'greatest' pictures, because there are a thousand moods in the mind of man when a certain note r…"-Beverley Nichols, A Thatched Roof (Allways trilogy, #2)
3. Leaf by Niggle
By: J.R.R. Tolkien
4.26
Format: 22 pages, ebook
Leaf by Niggle is a short story about a painter who is working on a picture leaf by leaf. Niggle, t… read more
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- short stories
"Feeria è meglio della sensazione che non ci sia niente al di là dell'usato mondo di tutti i giorni"-J.R.R. Tolkien, Leaf by Niggle
"He was going to learn about sheep, and the high pasturages, and look at a wider sky, and walk ever further and further towards the Mountains, always uphill. Beyond that I cannot guess what became of …"-J.R.R. Tolkien, Leaf by Niggle
4. Village in a Valley
By: Beverley Nichols
4.36
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
This reprint of the third book in Nichols's Allways trilogy contains a new foreword by Bryan Connon… read more
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5. The Catbird Seat
By: James Thurber
3.26
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
Short story first published in The New Yorker, Nov. 14, 1942. Mr. Martin, a man of exemplary habits… read more
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- short stories
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- short stories
7. Thank You, M'Am
By: Langston Hughes , Allen Hughes
3.86
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
Do your students enjoy a good laugh? Do they like to be scared? Or do they just like a book with a … read more
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- short stories
8. The Diary of a Nobody
By: George Grossmith , Weedon Grossmith
3.88
Format: 588 pages, Paperback
Weedon Grossmith's 1892 book presents the details of English suburban life through the anxious and … read more
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9. Vera
By: Elizabeth von Arnim
3.00
Format: 285 pages,
First published in 1921, Verais a darkly comic story about Lucy Entwhistle and Everard Wemyss. Both… read more
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10. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
By: Ambrose Bierce
3.50
Format: 262 pages, ebook
The condemned man stands on a bridge, his hands bound behind his back. A noose is tied around his n… read more
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11. The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
By: Mark Bramhall , Michael Finkel
3.90
Format: 5 pages, Audio CD
Many people dream of escaping modern life, but most will never act on it. This is the remarkable tr… read more
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"I read. That's my form of travel."-Mark Bramhall, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
"The word "noise" is derived from the Latin word nausea."-Mark Bramhall, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
"He left because the world is not made to accommodate people like him."-Mark Bramhall, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
"There was no one to complain to in the woods, so I did not complain,' Knight said."-Mark Bramhall, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
12. The Complete Fairy Tales
By: Oscar Wilde
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde includes the two definitive story collections The Happy Pri… read more
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13. A Christmas Memory
By: Truman Capote
3.27
Format: None pages, Audio CD
First published in 1956, this much sought-after autobiographical recollection of Truman Capote's ru… read more
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14. The Most Dangerous Game
By: Richard Connell
3.94
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
The Most Dangerous Game features a big-game hunter from New York who becomes shipwrecked on an isol… read more
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- short stories
"But you can’t mean—"-Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game
"The world is made up of two classes - the hunters and the huntees."-Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game
"Sometimes I think evil is a tangible thing - with wave lengths, just as sound and light have."-Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game
15. The Awakening
By: Kate Chopin
3.68
Format: 195 pages, Paperback
When first published in 1899, The Awakening shocked readers with its honest treatment of female mar… read more
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"The morning was full of sunlight and hope."-Kate Chopin, The Awakening
"She had resolved to never take another step backward."-Kate Chopin, The Awakening
"She wanted to destroy something. The crash and clatter were what she wanted to hear."-Kate Chopin, The Awakening
"She felt that her speech was voicing the incoherency her thoughts, and stopped abruptly."-Kate Chopin, The Awakening
16. The Lottery and Other Stories
By: Shirley Jackson
4.32
Format: 480 pages,
The Lottery, one of the most terrifying stories written in this century, created a sensation when i… read more
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17. The North Water
By: Ian McGuire
3.98
Format: 255 pages, Hardcover
A ship sets sail with a killer on board . . . 1859. A man joins a whaling ship bound for the Arcti… read more
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"The redundancy of flesh, he thinks, the helplessness of meat, how can we conjure spirit from a bone?"-Ian McGuire, The North Water
"Oh, the others will talk and plan and make oaths and promises, but there are precious few fuckers who will do."-Ian McGuire, The North Water
"Cleverness, he thinks, will get you nowhere; it is only the stupid, the brilliantly stupid, who will inherit the earth."-Ian McGuire, The North Water
"Death, he believes, is a kind of making, a kind of building up. What was one thing, he thinks, is become something else."-Ian McGuire, The North Water
18. Hour of the Witch
By: Chris Bohjalian
3.84
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
A young Puritan woman--faithful, resourceful, but afraid of the demons that dog her soul--plots her… read more
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"A small thing, yes, but the world was rich with small things that in truth were signs of great importance."-Chris Bohjalian, Hour of the Witch
"We are mortal. Nothing that touches us or we touch here is forever. Even rocks are rubbed small by the river."-Chris Bohjalian, Hour of the Witch
". . . in her heart she feared it was something more: it was a sign. Because, if one looked around carefully, wasn’t everything?"-Chris Bohjalian, Hour of the Witch
"I am a raft of secrets, she thought, and she imagined herself on timbers from a shipwreck, the water around her endless in all directions."-Chris Bohjalian, Hour of the Witch
19. Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life
By: Arnold Schwarzenegger
4.14
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The seven rules to follow to realize your true purpose in life—di… read more
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"The fact that I had such vivid impressions and expectations at all is the reason I got there in the first place."-Arnold Schwarzenegger, Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life
"The beauty of pain, not only is it temporary...is it tells you when you begin to give enough of yourself in pursuit of your dreams. If the work hasn't hurt or cost you anything, or at least made you …"-Arnold Schwarzenegger, Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life
20. Winterset Hollow
By: Jonathan Edward Durham
3.99
Format: 274 pages, Paperback
Everyone has wanted their favorite book to be real, if only for a moment. Everyone has wished to me… read more
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"Winterset Hollow was one of those timeless, inimitable books that was simple and pure and patently entertaining on the surface, but so much more underneath. It spoke about life and loss and struggle,…"-Jonathan Edward Durham, Winterset Hollow
21. Charlie (Kate Chopin)
By: Kate Chopin
3.33
Format: None pages, Library Binding
Dès l'enfance, le terrible pouvoir de la petite Charlie s'est révélé : qu'un objet, un animal, un ê… read more
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22. Something Bright
By: Zenna Henderson
4.00
Format: None pages, short story
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