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American humorist James Thurber’s classic short story is about a man who escapes the tedium of his mundane life by retreating into his vivid imagination. This title features a new introduction by Rosemary A. Thurber, James Thurber’s daughter, as well as a selection of Thurber drawings.

Children aren’t the same as kittens, as Miss Mary Mason is reminded when she volunteers to keep two orphans in her home through Christmas. Ragged and dirty, their manners leave much to be desired. Still, Mary perseveres, not willing to return them to a system that will certainly not meet their needs. You won’t want to miss this remarkable story of the far-reaching power of love from internationally read author Annie Acorn!

ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • James M. Cain, virtuoso of the roman noir, gives us a tautly narrated and excruciatingly suspenseful story in Double Indemnity, an X-ray view of guilt, of duplicity, and of the kind of obsessive, loveless love that devastates everything it touches.Walter Huff was an insurance salesman with an unfailing instinct for clients who might be in trouble, and his instinct led him to ...

Steinbeck's last great novel focuses on the theme of success and what motivates men towards it. Reflecting back on his New England family's past fortune, and his father's loss of the family wealth, the hero, Ethan Allen Hawley, characterises successin every era and in all its forms as robbery, murder, even a kind of combat, operating under 'the laws of controlled savagery

UNSAFE TERRITORYWhen a mysterious toxin threatens lives and livelihoods near the border between the U.S. and Canada, Dr. Tessa Cleary is called to trace the source. But when the no-nonsense doctor is forced to work with border patrol agent Jeff Steele, she finds the lone wolf's dedication to his job-and country-chipping away at the walls around her heart. Just as Tessa and Jeff are about to uncover the toxin's deadly source, armed thugs kidnap them in the forest. Now they must trus...

*****A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR*“A wondrous novel, with prose that sparkles like certain sidewalks after rain. . . . That’s it, I thought. That’s exactly what it’s like to live in New York.” —New York Times Book ReviewGhosts of New York is a novel in which the laws of time and space have been subtly suspended. It interweaves four strands: a photographer newly returned to the neighborhood where she grew up, af...

Thompson had a theory about killing grandfather before his own birthso he went into the past.

Susan Hunter is terrified as she is alone at night in a house she considers full of evil. A raging storm adds to her terror. She kept hearing noises in the house. Could it be caused by the storm? Or were there monsters inside?This story is short but intense. The tension is constant and never eases.Will she survive the night?Are there really monsters in the house?You'll be at the edge of your seat reading this and you will never guess the ending.

Dreams do come true . . . and so do nightmaresKaren normally can't remember her dreams, which is especially frustrating since she's taking a psych class where everyone else seems to be able to discuss theirs. But one night, she wakes up screaming and quickly recalls why—a classmate was murdered. It was so vivid—it felt real. The next morning she is shocked to find out it wasn't just a dream—the boy is dead.But the dreams continue, and so do the deaths. Is K...

One summer day Jack Dalton, a college senior, who has taken a job as a lifeguard on Cape Cod, sees a young woman on the beach. In a case of love at first sight, he intuitively feels that she is the one for him. Before he can get up the courage to introduce himself, however, she picks up and leaves. Never again does he see her from his perch on the lifeguard chair. So, afterwards, he spends his free time looking for her. All in vain. Then, one evening while ordering an ice cream from a popu...

Shapero writes in an urgent vernacular that flirts, stings, implores and demands with apparent abandon.”-Houston ChronicleShapero’s poetics has real-world import for the way we use language to talk about messy things.”-VoltaThought-provoking and sardonically expressive, Shapero is a self-proclaimed hard child”-unafraid of directly addressing bleakness as she continually asks what it means to be human and to bring new life into the world. Hard Child