Ten stories portray life on a block in Harlem, sharing the lives of Peaches and her daughter Squeezie, Monkeyman, Mother Fletcher, Kitty, Billy, and Big Joe.

Ten stories portray life on a block in Harlem

An anthology that presents a collection of twenty tales from this literary contest's prize-winning volumes from the past twenty years.

Product Description: 21 Essential American Short Stories is a collection of beloved stories that have comprised an important part of the fabric of our culture, from the earliest days of our nation to the twentieth century. Some of the stories, such as Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle," O...read more

If the melt-down, flood, plague, the third World War, new Ice Age, Rapture, alien invasion, clamp-down, meteor, or something else entirely hit today, what would tomorrow look like? Some of the biggest names in YA and adult literature answer that very question in this short story anthology, each story exploring the lives of teen protagonists raised in catastrophe's wake—whether set in the days after the change, or decades far in the future. New York Times bestselling authors Gregory Maguire, Garth Nix, Susan Beth Pfeffer, Carrie Ryan, Beth Revis, and Jane Yolen are among the many popular and award-winning storytellers lending their talents to this original and spellbinding anthology.

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Product Description: These powerful stories limn the complexities and dilemmas of life in Kansas, a state at "the center of the center of America," as a billboard in one story announces. Andrew Malan Milward explores the less visible aspects of the Kansas experience―where its agrarian past comes into conflict with the harsh present reality of drugs, fundamentalism, and corporatism, relegating its agrarian identity to museums and amusement parks...read more

Product Description: Are we alone? From War of the Worlds to Invasion of the Body Snatchers, ET to Close Encounters, creators of science fiction have always eagerly speculated on just how the story of alien contact would play out. Editor Marty Halpern has gathered together some of the best stories of the last 30 years, by today's most exciting genre writers, weaving a tapestry that covers a broad range of scenarios: from the insidious, to the violent, to the transcendent...read more

Product Description: Finalist for the 2011 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: "Watson's talent is singular, truly awesome; [his stories] are infused with an uncanny beauty."―A. M. Homes In this, his first collection of stories since his celebrated, award-winning Last Days of the Dog-Men, Brad Watson takes us even deeper into the riotous, appalling, and mournful oddity of human beings...read more

This book provides structural designers with a practical guide to choosing the most appropriate structures for building purposes. The author has had thirty years of experience in this field during which he has designed some 400 buildings. In this book he brings that wealth of experience together for the benefit not only of structural designers, but also architects and building contractors. The author begins by introducing the reader to various structural systems, and describing in detail the various requirements the structures must fulfil. The method for choosing the appropriate structure is then described, together with the subsequent effects of the decision, the materials to be used, the details to be designed, the effect on the subsoil and site conditions, the ways in which the structure affects architectural and mechanical engineering decisions, and the way these in turn react on the structural system itself. The process by which the structural designer, together with other designers, finally produces a structure which suits all the requirements and is practical for construction purposes is also described.

“Whale Island” by Cathy Lamb Family secrets and imposing friends are making Chalese feel like an outsider in her very own home on beautiful Whale Island. But it’s only when a shocking revelation makes her feel truly lost that she opens her heart to the possibilities the past offers – including a chance at love with the last man she expected… “Queen of Hearts” by Judy Duarte Her high school reunion is coming up, and advice columnist Jenn Kramer couldn’t be dreading it more – until she lays eyes on Marcos. Jenn hardly noticed him when they were kids, but now he’s all grown up…and how deliciously he’s changed… “The Honeymoon House” by Mary Carter It doesn’t get more romantic than Andy Beck’s cottage on Martha’s Vineyard. But love is the last thing on his mind – he just wants to get the cottage ready for his best friend’s honeymoon. At least that’s the plan, until he finds the gorgeous Maid of Honor ransacking his house – in the most irresistible way… “The Marrying Kind” by #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber High school sweethearts Katie and Jason haven’t seen each other in ten years – and now she’s walked back into his life. With one look, the love they shared comes flooding back – only now the odds seem stacked against them. But when something’s meant to be, all bets are off…

Product Description: Old flames reignite and new passions burn when lovers follow their hearts back to the place they once called home….“Whale Island” by Cathy LambFamily secrets and imposing friends are making Chalese feel like an outsider in her very own home on beautiful Whale Island...read more

Product Description: There was, oh what there was in the oldest of days and ages and times... Once upon a time, we asked authors with published or forthcoming novels from Casperian Books to contribute a short story representative of their writing to an anthology...read more

Product Description: Containing 20 classic short stories by a variety of renowned authors, including Leo Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Kate Chopin, Rudyard Kipling, James Joyce and Edith Wharton, The Anthem Guide to Short Fiction has been designed to offer students and instructors both inspiration and guidance when thinking and writing about literary texts and their construction...read more

Book by Areeda, Phillip E., Hovenkamp, Herbert