Dear Sir,We wish to stop at your hotel, we will book in for a week,If you can only grant me, the permission that I seekTo allow my dog to stay with me, each evening, in my room.Though I realise I'm biased, he is well behaved and groomed.He's the only family I have left, we're sad if we're alone.We have planned to leave the thirteenth, can you let me know by phone?He rang back, and said,"Mate, I've run pubs for many years, and ...

"In The Out Door", takes you on a journey through the eyes of Lester Worthy, a public school music teacher as he travels his career in the imaginary town of Clarity. It is quite a journey! Although it is a novel, it gives a very real view of life for the public school Arts teacher. Offering insight into the daily lives of both Lester Worthy and the most fearsome of beasts, the adolescent student, the story is revealing, often funny, sometimes outrageous and occasionally tragic. John Best g...

Ludwig van Beethoven shook the world with his music. In his last, infirm years, after being almost forgotten, he came forth with some of the greatest music ever known. As his health failed, he wrote some final string quartets that are amazing, pointing to the future of music. The last of these was the "Great Fugue". It wasn't understood then and is just as controversial today. After the poor response to the piece, did he write a second version to please the masses? What happened to it? How...

A Professor at the End of Time tells one professor’s story in the context of the rapid reconfiguration of higher education going on now, and analyzes what the job included before the supernova of technological innovation, the general influx of less-well-prepared students, and the diminution of state and federal support wrought wholesale changes on the profession.

"Magnificent." —People MagazineThe instant New York Times bestseller: Laugh-out-loud, deeply insightful, and emotion-filled essays from multitalented actress, comedian, podcaster, and writer Casey Wilson.Casey Wilson has a lot on her mind and she isn’t afraid to share. In this dazzling collection, each essay skillfully constructed and brimming with emotion, she shares her thoughts on the joys and vagaries of modern-day womanhood and motherhood, introduces the not-quite-typi...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Read with Jenna Book Club Pick as Featured on Today • From the creator of Elle’s “Eric Reads the News,” a heartfelt and hilarious memoir-in-essays about growing up seeing the world differently, finding unexpected hope, and experiencing every awkward, extraordinary stumble along the way.“Pop culture–obsessed, Sedaris-level laugh-out-loud funny . . . [R. Eric Thomas] is one of my favorite writers.”—Lin-Manuel Miranda,

Intense stories of life-and-death suspense—by the teenage girls who survived them.What would you do if your house were robbed—while you were in it? What would you do if you were kidnapped? Or if you needed brain surgery? In Seventeen's Terrifying True Teen Stories, eleven teen girls share how they bravely handled life's most tragic and frightening challenges. The details are crazy, but their stories are amazing!

If you are tired of being shy, don't be! Life coach Marie Dubuque teaches you in this short book how to embrace what she calls an asset, not a character flaw! This book addresses how to keep a conversation flowing, how to give a speech, and that nerve-racking first date! You can survive and thrive in a world full of extroverts!

A trade paperback collection of 16 short stories, some new, some published before, all together for the first time, featuring Tess Monaghan, New York Times Bestselling author Laura Lippman’s acclaimed private eyeFor the first time together in one collection is a mix of brand new Tess Monaghan short mysteries as well as previously published, award-winning short stories.Split into three parts—Girls Gone Wild (seven stories about girls behaving badly); Other Cities, Not My Own...

A pictorial tribute to the filthy, distasteful, gross, and painful moments of parenthood, and the children who make it all possible.Kids: they are the light of your life—and the enemy of all things fragile, intact, and clean. But why cry over spilt milk . . . or paint . . . or the entire contents of a full-size swimming pool? A testament to the messiness of childhood (and parenting), and a memorial to the household items that perished along the way, here are never-...

“Charming. . . . A moving testament to the diversity and depths of love.”—Publishers WeeklyYou’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll be swept away—in less time than it takes to read this paragraph. Here are 175 true stories—honest, funny, tender and wise—each as moving as a lyric poem, all told in no more than one hundred words. An electrician lights up a woman’s life, a sister longs for her homeless brother, strangers dream of what might ha...

We've been expecting you…The morbid 100-word shorts of chaos and pure, sinister evil are back in LESSONS IV: The Dead Carnival and Other Morbid Drabbles. In his latest installment of twenty-nine horrifying and darkly humorous stories, author Michael Crane takes you on a trip to the carnival you'll never forget (and a trip you may not survive). Oh, there will be games that cheat you out of something far more valuable than money. Rides will break down, but not necessarily by accident...