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Book SynopsisAfter the Major League Baseball players walk off the field, washout ball player Jake Standen gets a second chance to chase his dream. But Jake and his new teammates have just six weeks to learn how to play like never before.Trade Review"Baseball famously is the one sport played without a clock. Brett Baker's timeless and timeful novel Chasing the Big Leagues is steeped in pastoral passion of the national pastime. This book is in love with the amateur, in love with the pure love of the game that lies in the heart as the clock runs down over the far horizon of the furthest outfield and the sun is always nostalgically setting, turning the diamond into a bright enduring tarp of diamond-tipped and dusty words. This book is a gem, and Baker is the next new Natural."—Michael Martone, author of Michael Martone and The Moon Over Wapakoneta"Brett Baker's Chasing the Big Leagues is set during the now famous 1994–95 baseball strike and the protagonist is called up to play as a scab for the Toronto Blue Jays.Baker knows his baseball . . . the hitting, the fielding, the feel of the ball, what makes a team tick, the coaching.The book is filled with wonderful and arcane baseball details, and it's a good read, a page turner, but of course the setting is during one of the worst of times for baseball so there's a strong element of melancholy in it, too.I strongly recommend it."—John Keeble, author of Yellowfish and Broken Ground

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Book SynopsisAndre Dubus III probes the limits of recovery and absolution in this masterpiece of empathy.Trade Review"Gone So Long is about destruction and redemption and the stupid, stubborn way people have of squandering love." -- The Boston Globe

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Book SynopsisThe Stone Girl is a riveting tale of deception, vengeance and power set against the haunting beauty of the Adirondack wilderness.Trade Review"A sprawling baroque thriller that had me in its grip all the way." -- Richard E. Grant, Oscar-nominated actor"Wittenborn writes seductive prose that juxtaposes the rugged glory of the Adirondacks against the ugly undercurrent of humanity." -- Marilyn Stasio - The New York Times Book Review

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Book SynopsisPart of the Norton Library series The Norton Library edition of The Awakening features the complete text of the first (1899) edition. An introduction by Laura R. Fisher sheds light on the historical and literary contexts of Chopin's most influential work, tracing its trajectory from intense initial backlash to its later revival as a feminist classic. The Norton Library is a growing collection of high-quality texts and translationsinfluential works of literature and philosophyintroduced and edited by leading scholars. Norton Library editions prepare readers for their first encounter with the works that they'll re-read over a lifetime. Inviting introductions highlight the work's significance and influence, providing the historical and literary context students need to dive in with confidence. Endnotes and an easy-to-read design deliver an uninterrupted reading experience, encouraging students to read the text first and refer to endnotes for more information as needed. An affordable price (most $10 or less) encourages students to buy the book and to come to class with the assigned edition. About the Editor: Laura R. Fisher is an Associate Professor of English at Toronto Metropolitan University. She is the author ofReading for Reform: The Social Work of Literature in the Progressive Era.

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Book SynopsisWith her oldest son taking a gap year in Europe, her aging father losing his sight and his memory, and her husband of twenty years announcing that he''s leaving her, Abbie Jowett is surrounded by overwhelming loss. Desperate to mend her marriage and herself, she follows her son, Bobby, to walk the famed Camino pilgrimage. During their journey they encounter Rasa, an Iranian woman working in secret helping other refugees, and Caroline, a journalist who is studying pilgrims on the Camino while searching for answers from her broken past. Each individual has their own reasons for the pilgrimage, but together they learn that the Camino strips you bare and calls you into deep soul-searching that can threaten all your best laid plans. 

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Book SynopsisIn this dual-time narrative, Ivy Rose returns to her hometown to oversee an estate sale but soon discovers her grandmother left behind more than trinkets and photo frames--she provided a path to the truth behind Ivy's adoption.

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Book SynopsisEstranged sisters embark on a hiking trip on the tenth anniversary of their parents' deaths in an attempt to reconnect. In the wilderness of Michigan's Upper Peninsula they'll face their deepest fears, question their most dearly held beliefs, and begin to see that perhaps the best way to move forward is the one way they had never considered.

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Book SynopsisThe first published collection of oral literature of the Koasati Indians, who at the time of first contact with the West lived in the upper Tennessee River valley but now predominantly reside in western Louisiana. The works were gathered from several narrators between 1910 and 1992 and are presented in the original Koasati verse and in English translation.Trade Review"[Kimball] has performed an invaluable service for students of orally expressed verbal art by documenting a corpus of well-translated, well-presented texts from a community that has been underrepresented in the available literature. Koasati Traditional Narratives is an extremely valuable addition to the library of resources on folklore, literature, and American Indian studies."—William M. Clements, Journal of Folklore ResearchTable of ContentsPreface Part One: Mythological Narratives1. Rabbit Stories2. Origin Tales3. Monster Stories4. Animal Tales5. Medicine Origin Tales6. Christian Tales Part Two: Semihistorical Narratives7. Encounter Stories8. War Stories9. Other Semihistorical Stories Appendix 1. Linguistically Analyzed TextsAppendix 2. Transcriptions of Swanton's TextsReferences

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Book SynopsisOffering reader much more than friendly advice, this collection - closely related to the world-famous "Pancatantra" or "Five Discourses on Worldly Wisdom" features numerous animal fables that are interwoven with human stories, all designed to instruct wayward princes. It also contains the compact version of "King Vikrama's Adventures".Trade Review"The Clay Sanskrit Library represents one of the most admirable publishing projects now afoot. . . . Anyone who loves the look and feel and heft of books will delight in these elegant little volumes." * New Criterion *"Published in the geek-chic format." * BookForum *"The books line up on my shelf like bright Bodhisattvas ready to take tough questions or keep quiet company. They stake out a vast territory, with works from two millennia in multiple genres: aphorism, lyric, epic, theater, and romance." -- Willis G. Regier * The Chronicle Review *"No effort has been spared to make these little volumes as attractive as possible to readers: the paper is of high quality, the typesetting immaculate. The founders of the series are John and Jennifer Clay, and Sanskritists can only thank them for an initiative intended to make the classics of an ancient Indian language accessible to a modern international audience." * The Times Higher Education Supplement *"Very few collections of Sanskrit deep enough for research are housed anywhere in North America. Now, twenty-five hundred years after the death of Shakyamuni Buddha, the ambitious Clay Sanskrit Library may remedy this state of affairs." * Tricycle *

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Book SynopsisAvailable for the first time in English, Zofia Nalkowska''s Boundary was originally published as Granica in Poland in 1935. The modernist novel was widely discussed upon its publication and praised for its psychological realism and stylistic and compositional artistry. Over the years, it has been translated into several languages and made into a feature film, and remains a standard text in the Polish secondary school curriculum. Nalkowska was a pioneer of feminist fiction in Central Europe. Her observation of inequality in the treatment of men and women is at the heart of Boundary, which explores a transgressive love affair and its repercussions. She perceived that menespecially of the upper and middle classesfelt free to have sexual relations with lower class women, whereas it was not socially acceptable for women of any class to have sexual relations outside of marriage, or even admit to enjoying sex. This meant that working class women were seduced and then abandoned when Trade ReviewZofia Nalkowska has written a first-class novel.... It is amazing that we have had to wait over eighty years to read it in English, and we should be grateful that we can now do so. * The Modern Novel *Boundary impresses with its formal and stylistic artistry, which comes through in Ursula Phillips's translation, the first into English. * Times Literary Supplement *

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Book SynopsisA retelling of Sophocles' tragedy of the fate of Antigone, who defies her uncle and buries her brother. The text is printed on handmade paper and the volume is slip-cased. The original silk-screened illustrations have a classical Greek flavour.

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Book SynopsisWith humor and verve, Subcortical's dynamic stories delve into the mysteries of the human mind as these haunted characters struggle with economic disparity, educational divides, and the often-contested spaces in which they live.Trade ReviewConell brings the characters in her rich debut collection to life in weird, wise, and often poignant ways.—Publishers WeeklySubcortical urges the reader to take fantasy and fiction seriously, to consider how belief in the supernatural or the unlikely is not only an emotional touch point, but also a potential form of salvation . . . Throughout the collection, Conell never loses touch with the reader; the passion and sense of loss in these stories, their beat and pulse, is never distant. Whether transported to New York or Nashville, the 1940s or the present day, she does not lose sight of what lures and hooks our hearts . . . Dreams, hopes, the unreal-made-real and vice versa, weave and tighten these stories together, rewarding the reader with perspectives that captivate and confound, whirl you around and yet fasten you to the solid reality of the human body.—Cara Dees, The Adroit JournalWith sixteen stories of various lengths, Subcortical is a substantial debut. The shorter pieces, four to five pages each, are elliptical and open-ended, leaving readers wanting more. The longer stories possess the heft of novels, with complex characters who grow in surprising directions. This collection promises a bright future for Conell in longer fictional forms, but here's hoping she returns on occasion to write stories like these, gems of quirky insight and the heartache of difficult lessons. As Conell clearly knows, learning the hard way is the only way we learn anything.—Sean Kinch, Chapter 16Conell invites us into our own world with new eyes that capture the extraordinary details of the everyday and experience the extraordinary as merely mundane . . . These stories ask the reader to look closely at our present moment, to uncover its wonders and marvels. These stories are a reflection rather than a solution. They'll do better than break your heart—they'll shake it up and set the pieces cascading like snow in a globe, settling eventually in a familiar but different arrangement.—Alicia Marie Brandewie, Nashville ReviewTable of Contents1. The Lock Factory2. A Suggestion3. Unit Cell4. What the Blob Said to Me5. My Four Stomachs6. The Rent-Controlled Ghost7. Subcortical8. A Guide to Sirens9. Hart Island10. Recuerdo11. The Afterlife of Turtles12. Guardian13. Ghost Train14. The Sextrology Woman15. A Magic Trick for the Recently Unemployed16. Mutant at the Pierre HotelAcknowledgments

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Book SynopsisA crowning collection from the award-winning short story writer Pamela Painter. Pamela Painter's short stories have been praised by Margot Livesey for their wicked intelligence and ruthless humor. In Fabrications, which brings together 7 new and 24 selected stories, characters struggle to avoid the chaos in their lives, butdriven by addictions and appetitesoften bring on disaster. Nobody is ordinary in Painter's stories. A burglar can't believe what he is asked to do by the woman whose jewelry he is stealing. Hitchhikers, hell-bent on murder, are thwarted by the miracle of story-telling. A wife can make roomsand her husbanddisappear, but saves the family dog. A young woman insists on the romance of being married in an Elvis Presley chapel, but for the wrong reasons. Fabrications is a testament to Painter's lyric skill and psychological insight across her career. Praise for Previous Books by Pamela Painter These wonderful storiesabout dogs and housewives, scholars and teenagersvividTrade Review[Painter's] latest stories, the ones that make up the opening section of her recently released Fabrications: New and Selected Stories (Johns Hopkins University Press), would in and of themselves constitute ample reason to buy and enjoy the book. But in fact, Fabrications draws from her entire career, giving us the finest stories from her four previous collections.—Steve Yarbrough , Fiction Writer's ReviewA great pleasure of Fabrications—and one of the most unusual aspects of the collection—is the variety of forms [used], from very short stories like "Dud"—in which a film editor creates a brilliant preview out of a terrible film—to much more expansive stories like "Her Elvis Presley Wedding.""—Margot Livesay, Lit HubThere are 31 stories in this collection, and I think each is a gem. Plunge headfirst into its pages and read right through or savor the stories slowly over time. There's a Painterly quality to it all. You've entered the house of a master, and you are safe in her hands—Sherrie Flick, SmokeLong QuarterlyFew writers can generate as much tension in so few pages as Painter . . . Painter's art lies in how she so efficiently dramatizes how foolishly we 'exaggerate, lie, edit.'—Arts FusePainter is too wise an artist to conclude that every fabrication, literary or not, must be damaging. Some are downright necessary. Painter's genius for subversion, for skewering her characters with their own self-serving lies and denials, is balanced by awareness of the vulnerabilities that can make reality so hard to bear.—Necessary FictionTable of ContentsNew StoriesHer Elvis Presley WeddingBrochure A Fabricated Life Off Stage DoorsBlood-Red Moon HitchhikersFrom Getting to Know the Weather (1985)The Next Time I Meet Buddy RichIntruders of Sleepless NightsSomething to DoThe KidnappersGetting to Know the WeatherFrom The Long and Short of It (1999)Feeding the Piranha CustodyNew Family CarThe Real StoryThe BridgeThe Second Night of a One-Night StandFrom Wouldn't You Like to Know: Very Short Stories (2010)Appetites and AddictionsA View: Office at NightIce DudDriver's Test Put to Sleep My Honey From Ways to Spend the Night (2016) GriefBreatheReading in His Wake Home Depot Hindsight Ways to Spend the Night AcknowledgmentsAbout the Author

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Book SynopsisSet in central rural Montana in 1925, Waltzing Montana follows midwife Mildred Harrington as she grapples with feelings for her old sweetheart while also trying to overcome the horrific abuse that she suffered as a young teenager.Trade Review"Blew's close attention to gender and what women in particular had to endure living and working on ranches elevates Waltzing Montana in the Western genre. . . . Waltzing Montana is the gritty, beautiful, and startling western love story that does, indeed, satisfy."—Maggie Doherty, Flathead Beacon“What we need most right now are stories that are down-to-the-bone authentic, and Mary Clearman Blew gives us one with her new novel, Waltzing Montana. The women and men in this book are not only resilient but find their true meaning in forging through challenge: drought, war, and the Spanish flu pandemic. And yet Blew artfully nods to their limits too. There’s only so much brutality a person can endure, and the ravages of pain and abandonment Blew portrays in these pages stir acts of forgiveness, patience, and abiding friendship, which allow the deepest wounds to finally heal.”—Debra Gwartney, author of I Am a Stranger Here Myself“Mary Clearman Blew is in the saddle again with a galloping western romance. Set on the Montana plains in the 1920s, Waltzing Montana is an adventure story about a horseback midwife and her cowboy lover, so vivid you can smell the sagebrush.”—Annick Smith, author of Crossing the Plains with Bruno

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Book SynopsisLamentationsis a novel about the first group of families crossing west to Oregon in 1842, from the perspective of the dozen women on the trip. Although none of these women left a written record of her journey, the company clerk’s daily notations provided documentation of historical events. Based on these records and the author’s own decades of work as a historian, Carol Kammen provides an interpretation of the women’s thoughts and feelings as events played out in and around the wagons heading west. In this novel the men are in the background—and we hear the women ponder the land, their right to be passing through, their lives and how they are changing, the other people in the company, the Native Americans they encounter, and their changing roles.Lamentations is about women’s reality as wives or unmarried sojourners, as literate or illiterate observers, and as explorers of the land. Kammen gives voice to these women as Trade Review"A superb look at westering women nearly 200 years ago as they accompanied their families into the unknown."—Sandra Dallas, Denver Post“I firmly believe this is one of the best Western books out there. It’s perfectly timed with today’s realization that women are people too. And the insights are outstanding.”—Melody Groves, author of She Was Sheriff and contributing editor for Round Up magazineTable of ContentsContentsPrefaceThe 1842 Company of TravelersPart 1: Starting Out, Looking BackPart 2: Observing, MarvelingPart 3: Climbing, DescendingPart 4: Getting ThroughPart 5: Beginning and BeyondDebts Owed

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2019 Minnesota Book Award for Novel & Short StoryPoignant portrayals of life on the edge in northern Minnesota border country, from the best-selling author of These Granite Islands and Vacationland Bitter winters are nothing new in Hatchet Inlet, hard up against the ridge of the Laurentian Divide, but the advent of spring can’t thaw the community’s collective grief, lingering since a senseless tragedy the previous fall. What is different this year is what’s missing: Rauri Paar, the last private landowner in the Reserve, whose annual emergence from his remote iced-in islands marks the beginning of spring and the promise of a kinder season. The town’s residents gather at the local diner and, amid talk of spring weather, the latest gossip, roadkill, and the daily special, take bets on when Rauri will appear—or imagine what happened to him during the long and brutal winter. Retired union miner and widower Alpo Lahti is about to wed the diner’s charming and lively waitress, Sissy Pavola, but, with Rauri still unaccounted for, celebration seems premature. Alpo’s son Pete struggles to find his straight and narrow, then struggles to stay on it, and even Sissy might be having second thoughts. Weaving in and out of each other’s reach, trying hard to do their best (all the while wondering what that might be), the residents of this remote town in all their sweetness and sorrow remind us once more of the inescapable lurches of the heart and unexpected turns of our human comedy.Trade Review"Hilarious, smart, moving, and kind, Laurentian Divide is good for the soul, or anyway, it was good for mine."—Richard Russo"There aren’t many writers on the planet who can take a reader’s heart apart and put it back together again with the sureness of Sarah Stonich, who does exactly that over and over again in Laurentian Divide, her best yet. Funny and wise in equal measure, here’s a novel for everyone. What a treasure."—Peter Geye, author of Wintering"With seamless grace, Sarah Stonich has again woven the towering majesty of Minnesota's Arrowhead Country with the endearing miscellany of its denizens, creating a tapestry both elegant and earthy. Here, reader, are joy and artistry."—Faith Sullivan, author of Good Night, Mr. Wodehouse"Laurentian Divide is rich, funny, and overflowing with life—Sarah Stonich at the top of her powers."—Will Weaver, author of Sweet Land"With a nimble hand and wry voice, Sarah Stonich pilots this generous tale—incisive, musical, and spiced with pungent observation so that Laurentian Divide becomes the best sort of trip."—Leif Enger, author of Peace Like a River and Virgil Wander"It was a pleasure to spend time with these characters again and see the family they have created within their community. Sarah Stonich’s beautiful prose, sly humor, and obvious fondness for her subject matter make Laurentian Divide a must-read."—Pamela Klinger-Horn, Excelsior Bay Books"Thanks to Stonich’s keen depictions, this is a small town peopled with actual people: diverse individuals united by a common experience of place. Laurentian Divide transports attention to a ‘scrap of near-nowhere’ because ‘life isn’t something that happens to you—how you choose to react to what happens is life.’"—Foreword Review"Stonich weaves past and present into a lyrical, immersive novel. Fans of Kent Haruf and Paulette Jiles will fall in love with Stonich’s depiction of Minnesota: harsh and welcoming, friendly and unforgiving, all at once. Exploring the consequences of actions set in motion months, years, or even decades ago, Stonich’s slow burn of a novel questions what—and who—can belong to us."—Booklist "Laurentian Divide does what a good sequel should. It fills in details and updates on the characters that we love, but also tells a compelling story of its own. There is an understanding of the bittersweet realities of life, an acceptance of the good and bad that comes with the simple act of living." —Nicole M. Burrell

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Book SynopsisA groundbreaking Jewish feminist short story collection. Short story collections focusing on Jewish writers have—no surprise—typically given women authors short shrift. This new volume represents the best Jewish feminist fiction published in Lilith magazine, and does what no other collection has done before in its geographic scope, its inclusion of twenty-first-century stories, and its Jewish feminist focus. This collection showcases a wide range of stories offering variegated cultures and contexts and points of view: Persian Jews; a Biblical matriarch; an Ethiopian mother in modern Israel; suburban American teens; Eastern European academics; a sexual questioner; a Jew by choice; a new immigrant escaping her Lower East Side sweatshop; a Black Jewish marcher for justice; in Vichy France, a toddler’s mother hiding out; and more. Organized by theme, the stories in this book emphasize a breadth of content, and our hope is that in reading you’ll appreciate the liveliness of the burgeoning self-awareness brought to life in each tale, and the occasional funny, call-your-friend-and-tell-her-about-it moment. Skip around, encounter an author whose other work you may know, be enticed by a title, or an opening line. We hope you’ll find both pleasure and enlightenment—and sometimes revelation—within these pages. Trade Review“Original, entertaining, thought-provoking, Frankly Feminist: Short Stories by Jewish Women from Lilith Magazine will prove to be of special appeal to readers with an interest in Jewish themed literature and short story fiction. While especially and unreservedly recommended for personal, community, and academic library Jewish literature fiction and short story collections, it should be noted that Frankly Feminist: Short Stories by Jewish Women from Lilith Magazine is also available in a digital book format.” * Midwest Book Review *Table of ContentsForewordIntroductionThe Stories1. TRANSITIONSThe New WorldEsther Singer Kreitman (translated from the Yiddish by Barbara Harshav)In Every Girl’s HeartMyla GoldbergIn Vegas That YearAdrienne SharpA Wedding in PersiaGina NahaiNews to Turn the WorldKatie SingerSylvia’s SpoonMichelle BrafmanMax’s Mom Goes to CampJudith ZimmerMy Daughter’s BoyfriendsPenny JacksonUnveilingRacelle Rosett2. INTIMACIES1919: At the Connecticut ShoreJane LazarreThe Curiosa SectionHarriet GoldmanGlassDiana SpechlerThe Wedding Photographer’s AssistantIlana Stanger-RossThe List of PlaguesAudrey FerberRoad KillMiryam SivanProbabilitiesElizabeth EdelglassSound EffectsMichele RubyTake the A Train to ScotlandEllen Umansky3. TRANSGRESSIONSLot’s WifeMichal LembergerPaved with GoldBeth KanterDriving LessonKate SchmierLittle HenEmily Alice KatzThe Proper Care of SilverEmily FranklinBoundariesIlene Raymond RushFace MeElena Sigman ZhidYona Zeldis McDonough Deep in the ValleyCherise Wolas4. WARLa PoussetteRachel HallThe Fronds of KnivesRebecca Givens RollandStreet of the DeportedAnca L. SzilágyiFacts on the GroundRuchama King Feuerman5. BODY AND SOULThe Lives Under the StonesAmy BittermanDo Not Punish UsChana Blankshteyn (translated from the Yiddish by Anita Norich)Working the MikvehAmy GottliebIroningSarah SeltzerWhat Was CutBeth KanellFlash FloodHila Amit (translated from the Hebrew by Ilana Kurshan)All That Remains of EttaErica W. JamiesonThe Neowise Comet Listens InCarolivia Herron6. TO BELONGFlightPhyllis Caron AginsThe MiscreantsTamar Ben-Ozer HomeZeeva Bukai The Woman Who Lost Her NamesNessa RapoportRaised by JewsNaomi SeidmanAuthors and EditorsQuestions For DiscussionAcknowledgements

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Book SynopsisHere is a collection of short stories by the contemporary woman writer Masuda Mizuko, who has been writing actively since the late 1970s and is anthologized in major collections of Japanese women's literary writing, such as Josei sakka shirizu. Throughout her writing, Masuda examines themes of selfhood and autonomy, loneliness and desire, and the deep tensions in female-male relations. Her fiction explores issues of female subjectivity and female biology in ways that are unique and intriguing. These collected stories illustrate the powerful way Masuda's fiction taps into an undercurrent of disquiet and loneliness that pervades contemporary urban society in Japan.

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Book SynopsisA World Apart brings together translations of eight stories by Czech women from the turn of the twentieth century—a period of female political emancipation and impressive literary development in Czechoslovakia. Though they’re little known to an English-language public today, all of the writers featured in the book were recognized in their own day and constitute a cross-section of the literary styles of the period. Anna Maria Tilschová’s “A Sad Time” is written in a naturalist style, while Růžena Jesenská’s “A World Apart” presents themes and motifs that appealed to the Decadents. Helena Malířová’s “The Sylph” is both diaristic and satirical, whereas Růžena Svobodová’s ironical “A Great Passion,” with its rural setting and folklore motifs, calls to mind the writings of Karel Jaromír Erben. Gabriela Preissová’s short story “Eva” may be read as a celebration of folk culture, and Božena Benešová’s “Friends” is interesting for its psychological presentation of a child’s point of view and its implicit criticism of anti-Semitism. The book is accompanied by the biographies of each author and an introduction by editor and translator Kathleen Hayes.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION FRIENDS Božena Benešová A WORLD APART Ružena Jesenská MY FRIEND, MY BROTHER Marie Majerová THE SYLPH Helena Malírová EVA Gabriela Preissová THE TREAD OF FATE Jirí Sumín A GREAT PASSION Ružena Svobodová A SAD TIME Anna Maria Tilschová

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Book SynopsisWritten in a lucid language and style Folk Tales of Sind and Guzarat, can be enjoyed by both the young and the old, and will make the reader experience a gamut of emotions, from joy to dismay, from relief to shocked astonishment.

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Book Synopsis“Downton Abbey meets Dynasty in this richly imagined, captivating family saga,” said USAToday.com about The Bourbon Kings. Now the series continues, as the Bradford family’s facade of privilege and prosperity is threatened by secrets and indiscretions. . . .   The Bradford family is the crème de la crème of high society in Charlemont, Kentucky—just like their exclusive brand of bourbon. But no one is above suspicion once the apparent suicide of the family patriarch begins to look like murder—especially the eldest Bradford son, Edward. The bad blood between his father and him is known far and wide. As the investigation intensifies, he keeps himself busy at the bottom of a bottle—and with two women who may or may not have his best interests at heart...   Then, on the very brink of the family’s demise, someone thought lost to them forever returns to the fold. Maxwell Bradfo

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Book SynopsisSoy homosexual. Futbolista homosexual. Y también soy hijo, hermano, amigo, compañero y un ser humano.Gabriel Baroli llega desde su Argentina natal convertido en el fichaje estrella de uno de los clubes más grandes de España. La inesperada muerte de su padre provoca que Álvaro de la Cruz, el capitán de su nuevo equipo, se convierta en el mayor apoyo del jugador argentino. De esta forma, ambos futbolistas comenzarán a estrechar una amistad que, poco a poco, se acabará convirtiendo en algo mucho más intenso y de consecuencias inimaginables. Así, Gabriel se debatirá entre esconder y negar la relación, o hacer pública su homosexualidad, con todo lo que eso podría conllevar.En su primera y valiente novela, la periodista Lorena González se adentra en temas tabú como la homosexualidad en el fútbol, la salud mental o el suicidio. Y lo hace a través de una emocionante historia de amor que indaga también en la trastienda del deporte rey, un mundo movido a menudo por el dinero, la pre

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