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The Sun Book of Short Stories - Various
SUMMARY:To celebrate the launch of Quick Reads in 2006, The Sun ran a short story competition called 'Get Britain Reading' in order to find the hidden talent among its ten m... -
The Story of Stuff - Annie Leonard; Ariane Conrad
From Publishers WeeklyLeonard examines conspicuous consumption and its human and environmental costs in an expansion of her short documentary of the same name. The analysis is acce... -
The State of the Art - Iain M. Banks
The first ever collection of Iain Banks's short fiction, this volume includes the acclaimed novella, The State of the Art. This is a striking addition to the growing body of Cul... -
The Short Sweet Dream of Eduard - Jimmy Breslin
Amazon.com ReviewJimmy Breslin's The Story of Eduardo Gutierrez tells the unspeakably sad tale of a young illegal Mexican immigrant who died working at a New York City constructio.... -
The Short Novels of John Steinb - John Steinbeck
Collected here for the first time in a deluxe paperback volume are six of John Steinbeck's most widely read and beloved novels-_Tortilla Flat, The Red Pony, Of Mice and Men, The Mo... -
The Secret Lives of People in L - Simon Van Booy
From Publishers WeeklyA breadth of experience and setting distinguishes this somber first collection of 18 very short stories by New York-based Van Booy. "Little Birds" is narrated... -
The Secret Adversary - Agatha Christie
SUMMARY:Full of energy and short of funds, old chums Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley decide to form the "Young Adventurers," and advertise themselves as willing to "go a... -
The Rescue - Joseph Conrad
Product DescriptionThe shallow sea that foams and murmurs on the shores of the thousand islands, big and little, which make up the Malay Archipelago has been for centuries the scen... -
The Renaissance_ A Short Histor - Paul Johnson
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The Real Story_ The Gap Into Co - Stephen R. Donaldson
Amazon.com ReviewThe Real Story is a short but intense tale set in a future in which humans travel between the stars using "gap drives," controllable brain implants are punishable....