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4) God's gym
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Language
English
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In God's Gym, the celebrated author John Edgar Wideman offers stories that pulse with emotional electricity. The ten pieces here explore strength, both physical and spiritual. The collection opens with a man paying tribute to the quiet fortitude of his mother, a woman who "should wear a T-shirt: God's Gym." In the stories that follow, Wideman delivers powerful riffs on family and fate, basketball and belief. His mesmerizing prose features guest appearances...
7) Local girls
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Gretel Samuelson grows up in a suburban neighborhood with her best friend Jill, struggling to deal with the everyday disappointments and tragedies that occur on the way to adulthood.
11) Heart Troubles
Author
Publisher
Open Road Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Heart Troubles is a collection of darkly funny and poignant short stories examining the foibles of the human heart, from the bestselling author of "Our Crowd".
12) Wild child
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A collection of fourteen short fiction stories from T. C. Boyle, including the title selection in which Victor, a feral boy living in France during the early nineteenth century, is captured while running through the forests, and others.
16) U.S.A
Author
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Contains American author John Dos Passo's epic "U.S.A." trilogy which provides a collective portrait of America following dozens of characters from the Spanish-American War to the beginning of the Depression.
17) Complete stories
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Language
English
Description
A collection of stories by Dorothy Parker; includes "Big Blonde," "A Telephone Call," and "The Lovely Leave."
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English
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The Throwback Special is the story of twenty-two ordinary guys who gather each fall to reenact what ESPN has called the most shocking play in NFL history: the November 1985 play in which Joe Theismann of the Washington Redskins had his leg horribly broken by Lawrence Taylor of the New York Giants on Monday Night Football. (The play was known by the Redskins as the Throwback Special.) Over the course of a weekend we follow the men as they choose roles;...
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English
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On the day John F. Kennedy is inaugurated, Claire, a young wife and mother obsessed with the glamour of Jackie, struggles over the decision of whether to stay in a loveless but secure marriage or to follow the man she loves and whose baby she may be carrying. Decades earlier in 1919, Vivien Lowe, an obituary writer, is searching for her lover who disappeared in the Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906. By telling the stories of the dead, Vivien...
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