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A self-styled artist is getting away with murder in Death Valley. If all goes well, so will Nameless. In part two of the Nameless series, the relentless avenger is haunted by nightmares of the past and visions of what’s to come. Palmer Oxenwald’s hunting ground is the Mojave wasteland. His victims are random tourists and hikers. His trophies are cherished photographs of the damage he’s done. His greatest threat is Nameless. Two men with one thing in common: memories of the dead.

Lonely, thanklessly courteous, and without the benefit of status, Gordon Schulmeister is only tolerated in his younger, hip, and gentrified Oakland neighborhood. Now, amid the tensions of a pandemic, the cantankerousness of his landlord, and dog sitting an intimidating pit bull, Gordon has never felt the target on his back so acutely. To keep his neighbors off his heels, with some hope and a sigh, Gordon might have to finally speak up.

The legendary writer Patricia Highsmith is best remembered today for her chilling psychological thrillers The Talented Mr. Ripley and Strangers on a Train. A critically acclaimed, best-selling author in Europe, Highsmith has for too long been underappreciated in the United States. Eleven is Highsmith's first collection of short stories, an arresting group of dark masterpieces of obsession and foreboding, violence and instability.

Presenting an American voice for this legendary Agatha Christie mystery with one of her best denouements.

LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD ONE OF TIME’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 From legendary writer Amy Hempel, one of the most celebrated and original voices in American short fiction: an astounding collection of fifteen stories that are “riveting in...

In her first-ever solo anthology, New York Times best-selling author Rebecca Cantrell demonstrates her award-winning skill with four wonderful stories - including the prequel to her Hannah Vogel series where Ernst Vogel explores the shadowy world of Weimar-era Berlin as he investigates the murder of a young cigarette boy at his cabaret. The collection also includes a journey through the wreckage of postwar Berlin in a search for hope, a fated meeting on a train to a concentration camp, and a supernatural warrior protecting a shtetl in wartime Czechoslovakia.

About Time offers a delightful return to the world of time travel and light comedy that distinguished Jack Finney’s all-time classic Time and Again. The protagonists of these 12 stories are well-meaning but at odds with their surroundings and their lives. The time to which they escape - through time travel - doesn’t always fulfill their expectations in the way they had hoped, but sometimes, they can still find their dreams.

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter...

The Music Coming from the House by Paulo Coelho is a story of human values and the Christmas spirit.

On a mysterious night in 17th-century Salem, young Goodman Brown ventures into the dark forest, leaving behind his wife Faith and his seemingly pious life. What he encounters on his journey challenges everything he believes about his neighbors, his faith, and even his own soul. Is it a dream, a vision, or a glimpse into the hidden sin of humanity?

A collection of thirty short stories that move along the edges of the existential and the social, the tender and the ironic. Set against the backdrop of Greece , and drawing deeply from its unique spirit and contradictions, each story reveals a subtle fracture in the surface of daily life, where a person confronts themselves, the systems that enclose them, and the illusions they invent just to endure. These are finely tuned explorations of the human psyche —part microscope, part mirror— unveiling the quiet absurdities we all share .

In Frau Brechenmacher Attends a Wedding by Katherine Mansfield we have the theme of gender roles, domination, submission, control, struggle, identity and tradition. Taken from her In a German Pension collection the story is narrated in the third person by an unnamed narrator and after reading the story the reader realises that Mansfield may be exploring the theme of control. Throughout the story Frau Brechenmacher is at the beck and call of her husband.

Eines Tages seid ihr plötzlich Männer, die keine Frauen haben. Dieser Tag kommt ganz unerwartet, ohne die leiseste Vorankündigung, ohne jeden Hinweis, ohne Vorgefühl, ohne Ahnung, ohne Klopfen und ohne Räuspern. Wenn ihr um die Ecke biegt, wisst ihr bereits, was dort ist. Aber ihr könnt nicht mehr umkehren. Seid ihr einmal um die Ecke gebogen, wird das eure einzige Welt. Auf dieser Welt nennt man euch "Männer, die keine Frauen haben".

'착한 사람 콤플렉스'에서 자유로워지세요. 내가 먼저 행복한 사람이 되어야 누군가를 행복하게 해줄 수 있습니다. 좋은 관계를 맺는다는 건 어렵고 힘든 일입니다. 때론 정리해야하는 순간도 만나게 되죠. 서로에게 소중한...

집에서 5분만 걸으면 만나는 공원. 조금만 더 걸으면 마주하는 숲과 호수, 그리고 강. 스웨덴은 일부러 찾지 않아도 늘 곁에 숨 쉬고 있는 천혜의 자연환경을 품고 있습니다. 수도인 스톡홀름부터 말이죠. 그 무엇보다 자연의...

내 몸속의 독소를 없앤다는 것은 '무엇을 먹어야 좋은지' 생각하는 게 아니라, '무엇을 덜 먹어야 건강한지'에 대해 고민하고 실천하는 것입니다. 마음이 번잡하신가요? 몸이 무거우신가요? 나만의 우영팟에서 직접 키운...

휴식은 게으른 것도, 멈추는 것도 아닙니다. 우리의 뇌가 과부하되기 전에 적극적으로 휴식을 취해야 더 충만한 에너지를 얻을 수 있으니까요. 스웨덴에선 '피카 타임'을 외치며 일부러 쉬어가는 시간을 갖습니다. 일과 쉼...

습관적으로 들어가는 SNS 속 인생들에 대해 더 이상 궁금해 하지 마세요. 대신 그 시간을 오롯이 나의 에너지를 충전하는 것들로 채우세요. 스마트폰 없는 세상, 이제는 상상하기 힘듭니다. 하지만 가끔은 없어도 살 수...

A beguiling trio of fantastical and farcical anti-fairy tales about a giantess who builds a magical “cottage of one’s own,” battles a silver-scaled sea monster, and defies governesses and gravity alike.

The Advanced Lady is a short story by Katherine Mansfield: “Do you think we might ask her to come with us,” said Fräulein Elsa, retying her pink sash ribbon before my mirror. “You know, although she is so intellectual, I cannot help feeling convinced that she has some secret sorrow. And Lisa told me this morning, as she was turning out my room, that she remains hours and hours by herself, writing; in fact Lisa says she is writing a book! I suppose that is why she never cares to mingle with us, and has so little time for her husband and the child.”