DescriptionIn this short story from Nathan Englander's collection For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, a young man living in Jerusalem witnesses the effects of terrorist bombings on the citizens' everyday lives.
DescriptionIn this short story from Nathan Englander's collection For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, an Orthodox Jewish wife is abandoned and made miserable because her husband will not consent to a religious divorce.
DescriptionIn this short story from Nathan Englander's collection For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, an aging wigmaker becomes, for a single moment, beautiful.
DescriptionAt an inn in the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts, former schoolmates gather for a wedding. Nora, the owner of the inn, has reinvented herself following the death of her husband. Avery still hears echoes from a horrific event twenty-six years ago. Agnes longs to tell a secret. Bridget, the mother of a fifteen-year-old boy, has agreed to marry Bill, an old high school lover whom she has recently re-met. Bill passionately wants this wedding and has brought everyone together for an astonishing weekend of revelation, forgiveness and redemption...
DescriptionCall him Pavel Medved or Paulie or Paul Theroux. It doesn't matter - his memoirs are a hoax. He's a writer with no story of his own, so he's reconstructed his past, giving it wit and life, tragedy and pathos, and imposed an order on it through careful editing. Inordinately fond of train travel, he takes the listener on a journey over a career spanning 30 years, and with many guises, from his early days as a fledging novelist in literary London, under the wing of the rapacious Lady Max, to his grief at finding himself alone, at age 50, in the town of his youth. The real Paul Theroux weaves this stylish and clever biography of a writer whose fall from grace sets him adrift until he recognizes the redeeming power of his art.
DescriptionOne of the most exciting collections of short mystery delivers once again with a delightful mixture of the genre's best writers, past and present. This volume includes "Specialty of the House" by Stanley Ellin, "The Snail-Watcher" by Patricia Highsmith, "The Man Who Never Told a Lie" by Isaac Asimov, "The Blind Spot" by Barry Perowne, "Horn Man" by Clark Howard, "Kill or Be Killed" by Ogden Nash, and "Stand Up and Die" by Mickey Spillane. It was edited and compiled by award-winning mystery connoisseur Otto Penzler.
DescriptionThis fine collection of short mysteries is edited by award-winning mystery connoisseur Otto Penzler. It includes "A Terribly Strange Bed" by Wilkie Collins, "Recipe for Murder" by C.P. Donnell, Jr., "The Chaser" by John Collier, "I Have" by John Gardner, "A Journey" by Edith Wharton, "The Catbird Seat" by James Thurber, "The Corpus Delicti" by Melville D. Post, and "The Gioconda Smile" by Aldous Huxley. Penzler's selections form a delightful mixture of mystery and suspense.
DescriptionIn this collection of classic and contemporary stories and poems, actor Burt Reynolds helps bring the American West to life. The selections span the entire range of the genre, from its 19th-century origins in the bitter whimsy of Bret Harte ("Salomy Jane's Kiss") through the traditional Western stylings of Zane Grey ("The Desert Crucible") and Louis L'Amour ("War Party") to the contemporary work of Max Evans ("Candles in the Bottom of the Pool"). Rounding out the collection are "The Bird in the Bush" by Eugene M. Rhodes, "The Slaughter" by Benjamin Capps, and poetry by Robert Service, the bard of the West. Country stars Eddie Rabbit and Juice Newton also narrate.
DescriptionOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is one of the most electrifying, most admired novels of our time. Set in the bleak confines of a state mental hospital and narrated by a half-Indian patient named Chief Bromden, it's the story of a titanic battle of wills between two unforgettable characters. On one side is Big Nurse, who rules her ward with iron discipline. On the other is Randle Patrick McMurphy, a lustful, brawling, life-loving new inmate who refuses to knuckle under to Big Nurse's soul-destroying methods. In the end, McMurphy pays the ultimate price for his defiance, but not before the rebellious spirit has shown Chief Bromden the way to reclaim his future.
DescriptionThis unique collection of lesser-known tales and poems from a master of the macabre demonstrates Poe's literary range. From the title story, which examines the behavior of an old man walking through Baltimore, to the beautiful poetry in "The Sleeper" and "Annabel Lee, " these often hard-to-find works are superbly narrated by Ralph Cosham. Also included in the collection is "MS. Found in a Bottle" (one of Poe's first major works), the account of a man who boards the Flying Dutchman; "Eleonora, " a tale of a vow of love; "The Oval Portrait, " in which a young artist literally captures the life force of his new bride; "Berenice, " about a premature burial - with a particularly unnerving effect; "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, " about a macabre experiment in hypnotism; and "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether" and "The Man That Was Used Up, " 2 stories that demonstrate Poe's humor.
