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Fitzgerald is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. His works mainly revolved around the themes of society and class, materialism, and romantic idealism. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Beautiful and The Damned, and This Side of Paradise are critically acclaimed writings of Fitzgerald that are still very relevant and popular today.

J. Harris Anderson's popular character Thumper Billington is at a crossroads in his life. A brief and impetuous marriage has ended, a new person has captured his interest. Has she captured his heart too? How can he assure this new relationship will be the one he's always hoped for? An avid foxhunter, he comes to a compelling realization: Life is about The Chase. Through a series of stories and lessons, told with wry humor and sprinkled with a wealth of practical tips, Thumper brings the listener along on his journey of discovery. It's Dave Barry meets Rita Mae Brown meets Dr. Phil!

School’s been great, but now that I have my diploma and a dream job lined up, I can finally chill out. And I know just the place to do it: My older brother’s condo in Key West. The only problem? My brother’s friend, grumpy Captain Ryan. Ryan’s super annoying...and super hot. He’s so ruining my vacation.

New from the author of The Story of My Face, Paradise & Elsewhere is a collection of dark fables at once familiar and entirely strange: Join the Orange Prize-nominated Kathy Page as she notches a new path through the wild, lush, half-fantastic and half-real terrain of fairy tale and myth.

The thirteen stories in Birds of Paradise Lost shimmer with humor and pathos as they chronicle the anguish and joy and bravery of America's newest Americans, the troubled lives of those who fled Vietnam and remade themselves in the San Francisco Bay Area. The past memories of war and its aftermath; of murder, arrest, re-education camps, and new economic zones; of escape and shipwreck and atrocity are ever present in these wise and compassionate stories.

Young lawyer Ed Davis sits in his boss' fancy office, sure he is about to be fired. After two years of gradually slipping into addiction, he has finally hit bottom, and pretty much knows it. Instead though, Ed is offered a mission to an exotic island and a promise of redemption. Find fugitive gambler Orleans Moss and save his career? Seems easy enough. But Ed's personal ghosts follow him to remote Panglao island, where nothing, including himself, is what it seems.

There was once a king's son, no one had so many beautiful books as he. In them he could read of everything that had ever happened in this world, and he could see it all pictured in fine illustrations. He could find out about every race of people and every country, but there was not a single word about where to find the Garden of Paradise, and this, just this, was the very thing that he thought most about.

This is the honest-to-god, authentic account of how I lost my savings, a prized Mercury coupe, and a cavity-prone incisor tooth—all in less than 24 hours. A discontent and disillusioned author from Maine embarks on a road trip and takes an unforgettable detour through Paradise.

Il titolo deriva il concetto dal primo racconto, ma ben si adatta alla filosofia dell'autore, la cui ironia non risparmia nessun luogo o personaggio sacro. Un'ironia tuttavia sempre elegante e rispettosa delle convinzioni altrui: basta che vi sia sufficiente "sense of humor". Le cinque storie sono: L'inferno rivisitato; Storia di San Martino; L'epigrafista; Storia di San Gennaro e del suo omonimo; L'arca di Noah.

In the post-collapse world, animals are once again returned to the top of the food chain as nearly all of the humans on the planet have perished. The budgies and bats of Davao City are expanding their colonies as nature intended when they stumble upon remnants of the human population. The decisions made after this discovery will affect all those involved in ways they could never imagine.

Hace pocos años, una colección de relatos de una escritora ya desaparecida y casi olvidada sacudió el panorama literario internacional. Se trataba de Manual para mujeres de la limpieza, de Lucia Berlin, quien poco después alcanzó el lugar que le correspondía: se convirtió en la escritora favorita de la prensa y los lectores, el título fue libro del año para los medios y su peculiar estilo fue comparado con el de Raymond Carver o Lorrie Moore.

நடைமுறை உலகத்தால் புறக்கணிக்கப்பட்டவர்களேஅவரது கதை மாந்தர்களாக இருந்தனர். அவர்களது வாழ்க்கையே அவருக்குக் கதை நிகழ்வுகளாக இருந்தன. பொறுக்கிகள், வேசிகள், திருடர்கள், முட்டாள்கள், பைத்தியங்கள், ஏமாற்றுப்பேர்வழிகள் எல்லாரும் அவருடைய அன்புக்குரிய பாத்திரங்களாக இருந்தார்கள்.அந்தப் பாத்திரங்கள்மீது வாசகரும் அன்பு பாராட்டக் கட்டாயப்படுத்தியதுதான் பஷீர் கலையின் வெற்றி.

Planeta Paraíso es el primer libro escrito por Tomas Alva Andrei. Una antología de relatos de ciencia ficción (solo hay uno que podría ser de terror y que nos ha recordado algunos de los cuentos de Robert Bloch) que aborda, con un estilo novedoso y a la vez familiar, una serie de temas que van desde la ciencia ficción más clásica, hasta otra mucho más moderna y madura, donde la ecología adquiere casi un papel protagonista en el relato que da título al volumen.

Båten åker genom det kristallklara vattnet och Alessandra vet inte vad hon kan förvänta sig. Allt hon vet är att utflykten är erotisk. Hon betraktar nyfiket de heta besättningsmännen och det unga, sexiga, irländska paret, som ser lika förväntansfullt ut som hon. Misstankarna om att det inte är en vanlig tur för dem heller bekräftas kort efter att de anländer till en paradisisk strand. I harmoni med den härliga tropiska atmosfären börjar de snabbt utforska den vackra naturen, och varandras kroppar.

Alessandra är på semester på Maldiverna och njuter av livet. Hon börjar dock känna sig uttråkad och längta efter fler av de där erotiska utflykterna hon blivit utlovad. Allt runtomkring eggar hennes lust. Tillvaron blir plötsligt mer spännande när hon går till centrumet för vattensporter och träffar instruktören som ser ut som en havsgud. När en storm drar in och deras försök till att åka jetblades inte går som förväntat, inser de att det finns roligare aktiviteter att ägna sig åt.