Deceit and Other Possibilities: Stories, Paperback - Vanessa Hua

Reducere. " A] searing debut." --O, The Oprah Magazine In her powerful collection, first published in 2016 and now featuring new stories, Vanessa Hua gives v...

What's scarier than a murderer? Someone with the charisma to compel others to kill for them . . . or to kill themselves. Meet these cult leaders--a...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Rene GirardThis study extends beyond the scope of literature into the psychology of much of our contemporary scene, includi...

Reducere. After finding the strength to start her life over again, Emily and her daughters end up navigating what she thought they had left behind. Such as a...

Publisher: Other Press LLCAuthor(s): Vanessa PlaceNumber of pages: 322Publication date: 2015Dimensions: 141 x 208 x 31Cover type: Paperback / softb...

A whirling library of ghost story, funny story, love story, scary story, and more. Like Russian dolls, separate yet invisibly linked, they unfold f...

A mind-warping excursion into the wildly improbable truths of science.Publisher: Icon BooksAuthor(s): John GribbinNumber of pages: 160Publication d...

Reducere. Yu Hua, autorul bestsellerurilor internationale In viata si Cronica unui negustor de sange, ne ofera un roman despre cea mai pura si mai induiosato...

Reducere. A superb collection of science fiction and fantasy stories, The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories is a book that transcend...

Reducere. Lao Tzu, the legendary author of the Tao Te Ching , is also credited with the authorship of the Hua Hu Ching , which embodies some of his later tea...

Reducere. On a sunny spring day in 1934, local lothario Frankie Russo is murdered in broad daylight. It seems no one saw anything, but things are not always ...

Publisher: Prince ClassicsAuthor(s): Leo TolstoyNumber of pages: 358Collection: Prince ClassicsPublication date: 2019Dimensions: 146 x 222 x 30Cove...

Reducere. Cuvanta ploaia cea sihastra. Cantarea poeziei clasice chinezesti Studiu introductiv, traducere si note de Florentina Visan Cand este caracterizata ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. In the world of Love Stories, the seams of reality have been subtly loosened. Anteater professors battle impostor syndrome, trains search for soulm...

Sky-faring ships, deadly science experiments and a vanished period of eleven days feature in this set of short stories ideal for early forays into ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Some of the Sneetches have bellies with stars, but the plain-bellied ones have none upon thars! But an unexpected visitor soon leads them to discov...

Amid the oppressive heat, and in the aftermath of the exuberance of Seville's Expo '92, Marina spends a chaotic summer with her grandmother while h...

Reducere. A Geologist Lies Comatose in a Portland, Maine Hospital in A World of Deceit, a Detective Joe Burgess Thriller by Kate Flora --Portland, Maine-- Un...

Publisher: Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdAuthor(s): Gerta VrbovaIllustration(s): illNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2006Dimensions: 228 x 151 x...

How authoritarian and racist discourse functions

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. A fearless, hardworking seeker, veteran actress Samantha Harper Macy (widow of comedic TV and film actor, Bill Macy) has written an open, honest te...

Through war and its aftermaths, a woman fights to keep her daughters safe. As a girl she sees her village sacked and her beloved father and brother...

A queer countercultural icon opens up about all things artistic, radical and romantic. Winner of the PEN American Center essay prize.

When her partner disappears, a young woman drifts towards Open Door, a small town in the Argentinean Pampas named after its psychiatric hospital. S...

Reducere. One story can change the world. What will your story be? Message from the Author: You've probably heard that storytelling is the best way to raise ...

Reducere. Bad Jews and Other Stories is a nuanced and comic vision of life, love, and spiritual adventurism among the determinedly secular class of contempor...

From mid-century working-class experimentalist Ann Quin, author of Berg, comes this poetic, erotic and psychologically charged mystery.

Compressed, delicate and brutally precise, Proleterka is a fierce coming-of-age story.

A short, suspenseful Norwegian winter's tale crafted in beautifully spare and precise prose. A harrowing, tragic story of a mother and her son.

This enigmatic novel, from one of Britain's most important writers of the post-war avant-garde, explores suicide, marriage and class.

Reflecting on the passing of time, Cesar Aira's fascinating vision of life and literature.

Beauty and poverty; violence, addiction and brotherhood. Written with unstoppable flow, Wretchedness mixes high and low culture in an inimitable way.

Mr and Mrs Malgas are going about their lives when a mysterious squatter appears and convinces Mr Malgas to help him build an imaginary home next d...

A divorce leads a man to Buenos Aires. In a trendy cafe he witnesses a minor accident involving Enrique, the owner of his guest house; this acciden...

This cutting but compassionate debut novel charts a young girl's rise from life in a squalid rural foster home to a dazzling career in the big city...

A smart and stylish account of the bigotry lurking in hearts and institutions alikePublisher: And Other StoriesAuthor(s): Paulo ScottTranslator: Da...

The grim and lovely follow-up to Eva Baltasar's acclaimed Permafrost explores the darker sides of love and motherhood for two women determined to l...

In this searching lament by the award-winning author of We That Are Young, Taneja interrogates the language of terror, trauma and grief; the fictio...

A new novel from the author of Malarky, this takes readers into the head of a pervert haunting the London underground. Explores the treatment of se...

The first collection of short stories from the author of }Accidents In The Home{ and }Everything Will Be All Right{, examining the extraordinary an...

From the author of People in the Room, a literary memoir from Argentina's rediscovered modernist writer, a friend of Borges, Neruda and Lorca.

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In this hilarious book, featuring three timeless fables, Dr. Seuss explores the pitfalls of growing too big for your boots!

First published in 1888, The Happy Prince and Other Stories brings together beloved children's stories by Oscar Wilde, including The Happy Prince, ...

A teacher asked me a question, and I opened my mouth as a sort of formality but closed it softly, knowing with perfect certainty that nothing would...

'Perhaps the luminous novel is this thing that I started writing today, just now. Maybe these sheets of paper are a warm-up exercise. [...] But it'...