A short story about a man who has many girlfriends and children without marriage and not taking care of them, but in the end, he wants to see all his children before he die.

In a small rodeo town in eastern Oregon, seventeen-year-old Maura is used to carrying more than most. Between caring for her younger sister and managing her father's worsening diabetes, she's learned how to hold everything together—even when it feels like it's falling apart.But when her father leaves on a desperate hunting trip in the Blue Mountains—and doesn't come back—Maura's carefully balanced world unravels.Enter Alex: her neighbor's troubled grandson, newly arrived an...

Paige Walker is finally done pouring drinks for bad tips and dodging wandering hands. After years behind the bar at The Carlisle, she's on the verge of everything she's worked for: a promotion to acting manager and a fresh start.There's just one tiny complication.The gorgeous stranger she spent one reckless, unforgettable night with? He walks straight into her morning staff meeting—holding the keys to the manager's office.Now Paige's dream job comes with a nightmare...

Tatiana M.F. Cruz is Hazel Dick Leonard Endowed Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Race, Gender, & Sexuality Studies at Simmons University.

“I do not know of any one in the United States who writes better prose.” —W. H. AudenA practical, culinary, and philosophical guide on how to eke out joy and delight in difficult times.There is perhaps no other book that speaks so powerfully to hunger and its pangs and to the ingenuity of those who seek to cook their way out of its snapping jaws. Originally written in the depths of World War II and then revised in the shadow of the Cold War...

A playful, thoughtful, and delicious A to Z of M.F.K. Fisher’s food writing.In An Alphabet for Gourmets, M.F.K. Fisher creates a wide-ranging, whimsical, and profound miscellany of food that moves readers from A (for dining alone) to Z (zakuski, the classic accompaniments to a shot of Russian vodka), traversing a broad swath of human history, taste, and sensation along the way. Fisher’s mercurial, searching prose and her inimitable sense of the unique and ...

The sentimental and culinary education of M.F.K. Fisher.In 1929, a newly married M.F.K. Fisher embarked on a journey that would change her life. In The Gastronomical Me, readers get a firsthand look at the travels that formed the culinary education of one of our greatest modern food writers. As the twenty-one-year-old Fisher and her husband made their way through France—and then much farther afield—a whole new world of flavors and experiences open...

A witty, idiosyncratic guided tour through culinaria past and present by the inimitable M.F.K. Fisher.In Serve It Forth, her first book, M.F.K. Fisher takes readers on an animated journey through culinary history, beginning with the honey-loving Greeks and the immoderate Romans. Fisher recalls a hunt for snails and truffles with one of the last adepts in that art and recounts how Catherine de Medici, lonely for home cooking, touched off a culinary revoluti...

A deep dive into the culinary, literary, and underwater lives of that most noble and inscrutable bivalve, the oyster.In Consider the Oyster, M.F.K. Fisher explores the many lives of the mysterious oyster—from its strange cloistered existence in the watery depths to the many roles it has played in our culinary history as table fare both humble and refined. In this canonical study of one of the ocean’s most intriguing inhabitants, Fisher combines folklore, f...

Lazlo Percival Danes, the most feared criminal in Fairmont Hallow, quickly finds his life falling into complete shambles. His magic can't save him from the worst betrayal from someone close to him. Finding out who the mastermind behind the manipulation throws him out of sorts making him question himself. Little did he expect to find his best ally would be from the other side.Detective Dillan McKanely found herself a chance to prove herself and to expand her families private detecti...

A collection of three tales - two short stories and one novella, each exploring the werewolf myth from a different angle. In "The Wolf Hunt" the line between savior and destroyer is blurred when a big game hunter is sent to rid an 18th century German village of the supposed wolf pack that's terrorizing it. Psychologically probing, "The Werewolf of Hagen" is set in a small, quiet North American town that suddenly develops a predator problem. When two boarding house mates get involved, each ...

Literally the last word for Hollywood trivia buffs, a celebrity death certificate is also strangely compelling. Its matter-of-fact reportage makes the famous ordinary, illuminating previously well-lit profiles with the unfiltered light of the everyday. A death certificate may also reveal information that stars concealed, such as actual birthdates. In California, death certificates are a matter of public record--a real mine of information.This follow-up to M.F. Steen's previous two ...