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Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
An anthology about all the things that can go horribly wrong when suspended six miles in the air, hurtling through space at more than 500 mph and sealed up in a metal tube with hundreds of strangers. All the ways a trip into the friendly skies can turn into a nightmare, including some never thought of before. Featuring brand new stories by Joe Hill and Stephen King, as well as fourteen classic tales and one poem from the likes of Richard Matheson,...
2) Daddy
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
In ten remarkable stories, Emma Cline portrays moments when the ordinary is disturbed, when daily life buckles, revealing the perversity and violence pulsing under the surface. She explores characters navigating the edge, the limits of themselves and those around them: power dynamics in families, in relationships, the distance between their true and false selves. They want connection, but what they provoke is often closer to self-sabotage.
3) Leaving Home
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Leaving Home brings together three previously published short pieces, each dealing with a variation on the theme of leaving home.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling.
The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O'Brien, who has
Author
Pub. Date
20161004
Language
English
Description
A collection of stories featuring the working-class struggles and self-sabotaging betrayals of mother and daughter protagonists includes the tales, "My Dog Roscoe," "Blood Work, 1999" and "Home to Die." By the author of Once Upon a River. Reading-group guide available.
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