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The Best American Short Plays 2018-2019 by John Patrick Bray (Editor)
Category: Fiction | Series: Best American Short Plays Ser.
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel once said that theater helps us learn how to be comfortable with being uncomfortable with each other. Revolving around the theme of "this is who we are," the one-act plays in this latest edition of the Best American Short Plays series (now in its ninth decad ...Show more
The Best American Short Stories by Richard Russo
Category: Fiction | Series: Best American Short Stories (Paperback)
Edited by the award-winning, best-selling author Richard Russo, this year's collection boasts a satisfying "chorus of twenty stories that are by turns playful, ironic, somber, and meditative" ("Wall Street Journal"). With the masterful Russo picking the best of the best, America's oldest and best-sellin ...Show more
The Best American Short Stories 2011 by Geraldine Brooks
Category: Biography | Series: Best American Short Stories (Paperback)
Edited by the award-winning, best-selling author Geraldine Brooks, this year's collection will be another "sure bet for gripping, emotional challenging reading" ("San Diego Union-Tribune"). With Brooks picking the best of the best, America's oldest and best-selling story anthology is sure to satisfy thi ...Show more
The Birthday Adventure (Famous Five Colour Short Stories) by Enid Blyton
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Famous Five: Short Stories Ser.
Introducing The Famous Five to younger readers! Join Julian, Dick, Anne, George and Timmy the dog in a special adventure for children aged 6 and up, with colour illustrations throughout. Younger readers can discover Enid Blyton's best-loved adventure series with this newly written short story. With vib ...Show more
The Blues : A Very Short Introduction by Elijah Wald
Category: Rock & Roll | Series: Very Short Introductions
Praised as "suave, soulful, ebullient" (Tom Waits) and "a meticulous researcher, a graceful writer, and a committed contrarian" (New York Times Book Review), Elijah Wald is one of the leading popular music critics of his generation. In The Blues, Wald surveys a genre at the heart of American culture. It ...Show more
The Bohemian Girl by Willa Cather
Category: Fiction | Series: Short Story Collections
Uprooted from a well-ordered life in Virginia when she was nine, Willa Cather came of age in the West during the last years of the American frontier. She developed a love for the beauty of the open grassland and an abiding interest in the Old World customs of her neighbors, the dreamers and builders who ...Show more
The Boy Who Cried Wolf by Rob M. Worley
Category: Classics | Series: Short Tales: Fables
The tale concerns a shepherd boy who repeatedly tricks nearby villagers into thinking a wolf is attacking his flock. When a wolf actually does appear, the villagers do not believe the boy's cries for help, and the flock is destroyed. The moral shows how lying is not rewarded.
The Boy Who Cried Wolf (Short Tales Fables) by Rob M. Worley
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Short Tales: Fables
The tale concerns a shepherd boy who repeatedly tricks nearby villagers into thinking a wolf is attacking his flock. When a wolf actually does appear, the villagers do not believe the boy's cries for help, and the flock is destroyed. The moral shows how lying is not rewarded.
The Brain: A Very Short Introduction by Michael O'Shea
Category: Science | Series: Very Short Introductions
Provides an introduction to the main issues and findings in brain research. This book describes the historical developments behind our understanding of what the brain is and what it does, and explores the key questions neuroscientists face concerning the relationship between the brain and thought, memor ...Show more
The Brave Ones: East Timor, 1999: Short Black 5 by John Birmingham
Category: History | Series: Short Blacks
'As the convoy growled and squeaked to a halt in the dark, angry militiamen and soldiers began to shout and wave at the Australians, demanding they move aside. The Brave Ones' vanguard presented as a B-movie vision of some pirate biker gang from Hell, a rat bastard outfit in black tee-shirts, camouflage ...Show more
The British Empire by Ashley Jackson
Category: History | Series: Very Short Introductions
From the eighteenth century until the 1950s the British Empire was the biggest political entity in the world. The territories forming this empire ranged from tiny islands to vast segments of the world's major continental land masses. The British Empire left its mark on the world in a multitude of ways, ...Show more
The Casemate Short History of Tommies by John Sadler; Rosie Serdiville
Category: Military | Series: Casemate Short History Ser.
The Casemate Short History Series presents readable and entertaining introductions to military history topics. British soldiers have been known as Tommies for centuries, but the nickname is particularly associated with the British infantryman in the trenches of World War I. In August 1914, a small profe ...Show more