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Behind the stage lights and word-perfect soliloquies, sinister
secrets are lurking in the wings. The mysteries in this collection
reveal the dark side to theatre and performing arts: a world of
backstage dealings, where unscrupulous actors risk everything to
land a starring role, costumed figures lead to mistaken identities,
and on-stage deaths begin to look a little too convincing. . . This
expertly curated thespian anthology features fourteen stories from
giants of the classic crime genre such as Dorothy L. Sayers, Julian
Symons and Ngaio Marsh, as well as firm favourites from the British
Library Crime Classics series: Anthony Wynne, Christianna Brand,
Bernard J. Farmer and many more. Mysteries abound when a player's
fate hangs on a single performance, and opening night may very well
be their last.
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The Nanny
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Melissa Nathan
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Twenty-three-year-old Jo Green knows that if she has to spend one more night in ultra-provincial Niblet-Upon-Avon she'll go completely bonkers! So she answers an ad in the paper, bids her devoted boyfriend Shaun adieu, and heads off to the big city. With a new job that offers excitement; a cool car; and her own suite with a TV, DVD player, and a cell phone, how can she go wrong? Then she meets . . . the Fitzgeralds -- Dick and Vanessa and their unruly brood of rugrats who have suddenly been entrusted into Jo's care. There's eight-year-old "psycho-babe" Cassandra; bloodthirsty Zak, the six-year-old Terminator; and timid little Tallulah. So what else could go wrong? How about the arrival of Dick's children from his first marriage: teenage Toby and (gulp!) all-grown-up-and-very-nicely-at-that Josh the accountant? And now that she has to temporarily share her room with Josh, Jo's head is really in a spin -- because with her hometown beau still in the picture and a sexy possibility sleeping just a foot away, life has suddenly gotten very complicated indeed!
The most-trusted and best-selling anthology continues to set the
bar with a vibrant revision of the Major Authors Edition. Major
Authors offers new complete major works, new contemporary writers,
and new dynamic and convenient digital resources. Now the Norton is
an even better teaching tool and, as ever, an unmatched value for
students.
Until now, only the twelve jurors who sat in judgment were able to
appreciate these virtuoso performances, where weeks of testimony
were boiled down and presented with flair, wit, and high drama. For
five years the authors researched every archive from those of the
"L.A. Times" to the dusty stacks of the National Archives in
Washington, D.C., and readers can now lose themselves in the
summations of America's finest litigators.
Clarence Darrow saves Leopold and Loeb from the gallows in the
Roaring Twenties. Gerry Spence takes on the nuclear power industry
for the death of Karen Silkwood in a modern-day David and Goliath
struggle. Vincent Bugliosi squares off against the madness of
Charles Manson and his murderous "family" in the aftermath of their
bloody spree. Clara Foltz, the first woman to practice law in
California, argues passionately to an all-male jury, defending her
place in the courtroom. Bobby DeLaughter brings the killer of
civil-rights leader Medgar Evers to justice after thirty years and
two mistrials. Aubrey Daniel brings Lt. William Calley, Jr., to
justice for the My Lai massacre. William Kunstler challenges the
establishment after the '68 Chicago riots in his defense of yippie
leaders known as the Chicago Seven.
Each closing argument is put into context by the authors, who
provide historical background, a brief biography of each attorney,
and commentary, pointing out the trial tactics used to great effect
by the lawyers, all in language that is jargon-free for the benefit
of the lay reader.
Available for the first time in trade paperback, the first of five
volumes collecting the complete fiction of William Hope Hodgson, an
influential early twentieth-century author of science fiction,
horror, and the fantastic. William Hope Hodgson was, like his
contemporaries Algernon Blackwood and Arthur Machen, one of the
most important, prolific, and influential fantasists of the early
twentieth century. His dark and unsettling short stories and novels
were shaped in large part by personal experience (a professional
merchant mariner for much of his life, many of Hodgson's tales are
set at sea), and his work evokes a disturbing sense of the
amorphous and horrific unknown. While his nautical adventure
fiction was very popular during his lifetime, the supernatural and
cosmic horror he is most remembered for only became well known
after his death, mainly due to the efforts of writers like H. P.
Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith, who often praised his work and
cited it as an influence on their own. By the later half of the
twentieth century, it was only his weird fiction that remained in
print, and his vast catalog of non-supernatural stories was
extremely hard to find. Night Shade Books's five-volume series
presents all of Hodgson's unique and timeless fiction. Each volume
contains one of Hodgson's novels, along with a selection of
thematically-linked short fiction, including a number of works
reprinted for the first time since their original publication. The
first of the five-volume set, The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" and
Other Nautical Adventures, collects all of Hodgson's series
nautical fiction, including the Sargasso Sea Story cycle. The
Complete Fiction of William Hope Hodgson is published by Night
Shade Books in the following volumes: The Boats of the "Glen
Carrig" and Other Nautical Adventures The House on the Borderland
and Other Mysterious Places The Ghost Pirates and Other Revenants
of the Sea The Night Land and Other Romances The Dream of X and
Other Fantastic Visions
A special reissue from Head of Zeus's bestselling anthology
collection of 100 scary stories to read with the lights on,
selected and introduced by award-winning author Louise Welsh.
Haunted houses, mysterious counts, weeping widows and restless
souls, here is the definitive anthology of all that goes bump in
the night. Hand-picked by award-winning author Louise Welsh, this
beautiful collection of 100 ghost stories will delight, unnerve,
and entertain any fiction lover brave enough... Here are gothic
classics, modern masters, Booker Prize-winners, ancient folk tales
and stylish noirs, proving that every writer has a skeleton or two
in their closet. The all-star cast of authors inlude: Hilary
Mantel, William Faulkner, Kate Atkinson, Henry James, Kazuo
Ishiguro, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Franz Kafka, Ruth Rendell,
Edgar Allan Poe, William Trevor, Helen Simpson, Haruki Murakami,
Dylan Thomas, Bram Stoker, H.P. Lovecraft, Lydia Davis, Sir Walter
Scott, Annie Proulx, Bram Stoker, Angela Carter and Stephen King.
The most-trusted and best-selling anthology continues to set the
bar with a vibrant revision of the Major Authors Edition. Major
Authors offers new complete major works, new contemporary writers,
and new dynamic and convenient digital resources. Now the Norton is
an even better teaching tool and, as ever, an unmatched value for
students.
Somewhere in this book is one or several perfect monologs or
dialogs for your audition, Short cuttings from some of the very
best plays in theatre yesterday and today. All selections are by
leading international playwrights: Pinter, Goldsmith, lonesco,
Marnet and many more. Powerful moments. Some soft and quiet. Others
strident and commanding. The choices are many. The book explains
how to find the right audition monolog for your voice, your face,
your style, your stage persona. Valuable tips on how to develop
your audition monolog for performance and how to build a systematic
file of scenes for your personal working repertoire. Featuring
scenes from: John Pielmeier's Agnes of God, Harold Pinter's Family
Voices, G.B. Trudeau's Doonesbury, Eugene lonesco's Man with Bags,
Larry Shue's The Nerd, David Mamet's The Hat and many, many more.
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Kink
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R. O. Kwon, Garth Greenwell
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'This anthology of literary fiction features an all-star ensemble'
Cosmopolitan 'A reflective and must-read collection' Stylist Kink
is a groundbreaking anthology of literary short fiction exploring
love and desire, BDSM, and interests across the sexual spectrum,
edited by lauded writers R.O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell, and
featuring a roster of all-star contributors including Alexander
Chee, Roxane Gay, Carmen Maria Machado, and more. Kink is a dynamic
anthology of literary fiction that opens an imaginative door into
the world of desire. The stories within this collection portray
love, desire, BDSM, and sexual kinks in all their glory with a bold
new vision. The collection includes works by renowned fiction
writers such as Callum Angus, Alexander Chee, Vanessa Clark,
Melissa Febos, Kim Fu, Roxane Gay, Cara Hoffman, Zeyn Joukhadar,
Chris Kraus, Carmen Maria Machado, Peter Mountford, Larissa Pham,
and Brandon Taylor, with Garth Greenwell and R.O. Kwon as editors.
The stories within explore bondage, power-play, and
submissive-dominant relationships; we are taken to private estates,
therapists' offices, underground sex clubs, private estates, and
even a Victorian-era sex theater. While there are whips and chains,
sure, the true power of these stories lies in their beautiful,
moving dispatches from across the sexual spectrum of interest and
desires, as portrayed by some of today's most exciting writers.
A new edition of the Russian Nobelist's collection of novellas,
short stories, and prose poems
"Stories and Prose Poems" contains twenty-two works of widely
varied style and character from the Nobel Prize winner Aleksandr
Solzhenitsyn. These shorter pieces demonstrate the extraordinary
mastery of language that places Solzhenitsyn among the greatest
Russian prose writers of the twentieth century.
When the two superb stories "Matryona's House" and "An Incident at
Krechetovka Station" were first published in Russia in 1963, the
Moscow "Literary Gazette," the mouthpiece of the Soviet literary
establishment, wrote: "His talent is so individual and so striking
that from now on nothing that comes from his pen can fail to excite
the liveliest interest."
For some readers the most exciting discovery will be the
astonishing group of sixteen prose poems. In these works of varying
lengths, Solzhenitsyn has distilled the joy and bitterness of
Russia's fate into language of unrivaled lyrical purity.
"The beauty of good writing is that it transports the reader inside
another person's experience in some other physical place and
culture," writes Padma Lakshmi in her introduction, "and, at its
best, evokes a palpable feeling of being in a specific moment in
time and space." The essays in this year's Best American Travel
Writing are an antidote to the isolation of the year 2020, giving
us views into experiences unlike our own and taking us on journeys
we could not take ourselves. From the lively music of West Africa,
to the rich culinary traditions of Muslims in Northwest China, to
the thrill of a hunt in Alaska, this collection is a treasure trove
of diverse places and cultures, providing the comfort, excitement,
and joy of feeling elsewhere. THE BEST AMERICAN TRAVEL WRITING 2021
INCLUDES KIESE MAKEBA LAYMON - LESLIE JAMISON - BILL BUFORD - JON
LEE ANDERSON - MEGHAN DAUM LIGAYA MISHAN - PAUL THEROUX and others
Wat is dit dan met my dat ek alewig op soek is na 'n huis? So vra
Riana Scheepers ook in een van die sketse van hierdie bundel. Oral
waar sy reis - en dis beslis vele reise wat hierdie skrywer met
passie onderneem, is sy ook alewig op soek na 'n huis wat sy kan
koop, al is dit net met die oe. En dan stel sy voor hoe so 'n huis
bewoon kan word, of dit nou 'n herehuis in Ierland is of 'n
Karoohuisie in Loxton, 'n trappiesgewelhuis of 'n skuur naby
Malmesbury. Of les bes, die liefste huis van almal - haar
eenvoudige vissershuisie aan die Weskus, soos die mooi voorblad
aandui. Vir Scheepers is huise die hulsels waarin en waaruit gelewe
word, waar mense mekaar ontmoet, waar kosbaarhede versamel word,
waar gul maaltye berei word, maar ook vanwaar paaie na ver plekke
aangedurf kan word, vanwaar jy beweeg om ander te ontmoet.
When a different kind of justice is needed---swift, effective, and
personal---a new type of avenger must take action. VENGEANCE
features new stories by bestselling crime writers including Lee
Child, Michael Connelly, Dennis Lehane, and Karin Slaughter, as
well as some of today's brightest rising talents.
The heroes in these stories include a cop who's seen too much, a
woman who has been pushed too far, or just an ordinary person doing
what the law will not. Some call them vigilantes, others claim they
are just another brand of criminal.
Edited and with an introduction by Lee Child, these stories reveal
the shocking consequences when men and women take the law into
their own hands.
Full list of contributors:
Alafair Burke
Lee Child
Michael Connelly
Mike Cooper
Brendan DuBois
Jim Fusilli
Michelle Gagnon
Darrell James
C.E. Lawrence
Dennis Lehane
Steve Liskow
Rick McMahan
Adam Meyer
Dreda Say Mitchell
Michael Niemann
Twist Phelan
Zoe Sharp
Karin Slaughter
Orest Stelmach
Anne Swardson
Janice Law Trecker"
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A Very Mexican Christmas
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Carlos Fuentes, Laura Esquivel, Amparo Davila, Sandra Cisneros, Carmen Boullosa, …
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Today, translated crime fiction is in vogue - but this was not
always the case. A century before Scandi noir, writers across
Europe and beyond were publishing detective stories of high
quality. Often these did not appear in English and they have been
known only by a small number of experts. This is the first ever
collection of classic crime in translation from the golden age of
the genre in the 20th century. Many of these stories are
exceptionally rare, and several have been translated for the first
time to appear in this volume. Martin Edwards has selected gems of
classic crime from Denmark to Japan and many points in between.
Fascinating stories give an insight into the cosmopolitan cultures
(and crime-writing traditions) of diverse places including Mexico,
France, Russia, Germany and the Netherlands.
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