"Jim Harrison's numerous works have established him as one of the most beloved and popular authors in American fiction. His novel The English Major was a National Indie Bestseller, a New York Times Book Review Notable Title, and a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year. This collection of novellas finds him writing at the height of his powers—and in fresh and audacious new directions.
The three stories in The Farmer's Daughter are as different as they are unforgettable. Written in the voice of a home-schooled fifteen-year-old girl in rural Montana, the title novella is an uncompromising, beautiful tale of an extraordinary character whose youth intersects with unexpected brutality and the reserves she must draw on to make herself whole. In another, Harrison's beloved recurring character Brown Dog, still looking for love, escapes from Canada back to the States on the tour bus of an Indian rock band called Thunderskins. And finally, a retired werewolf, misdiagnosed with a rare blood disorder brought on by the bite of a Mexican hummingbird, attempts to lead a normal life but is nevertheless plagued by hazy, feverish episodes of epic lust, physical appetite, athletic exertions, and outbursts of violence under the full moon.
The Farmer's Daughter is a memorable portrait of three decidedly unconventional American lives. With wit, poignancy, and an unbounded love for his characters, Jim Harrison has again reminded us why he is one of the most cherished and important authors at work today."
"Garcia Mann represents the genre of independent writers that follow in the classic vein of story telling. Barroom Brawls is an eclectic sampling from his latest collection of short stories and poems. The stories address the modern dilemmas of life occasionally tapping into surreal metaphysical absurdities, yet always nested in a familiar and contemporary setting."
"O conjunto de contos chamado Brás, Bexiga e Barra Funda, de Antônio de Alcântara Machado, faz um registro do dia-a-dia dos imigrantes italianos na cidade de São Paulo durante a década de 1930. Mostra seus hábitos, crenças e costumes. Descreve seu jeito de falar e de vestir. Como pano de fundo, aparece a cidade de São Paulo, na época já vibrante, com seus primeiros automóveis, que se desenvolvia impulsionada por uma miscelânea de raças, credos e costumes. O escritor e jornalista Antônio de Alcântara Machado consagrou-se com esta obra, cuja leitura hoje é obrigatória para vários exames de vestibular. A atriz Cristina Mutarelli trabalhou com importantes diretores de teatro e atuou no cinema e na televisão. Convidada para gravar Brás, Bexiga e Barra Funda, encarou o desafio com alegria e muitos sorrisos, deixando fluir sua índole italiana."
"Anton P. Tchekhov (1860-1904) é leitura obrigatória não só para quem está ligado ao teatro ou à literatura mas para quem se interessa em observar o ser humano. Às vezes, muito divertido, às vezes, dramático, Tchekhov tece sua prosa com todos os fios da alma humana. Nela cabem toda a grandeza e toda a mesquinhez inerentes ao ser humano. Cabem as contradições, as mudanças de opinião, as traições, a solidão cortante, o desejo de vingança, a graça das brincadeiras. Tudo isso pontuado por diferentes olhares. Tchekhov fala pelo ponto de vista de um soldado, de uma mulher e até mesmo de um bebê, como faz magistralmente no conto Gricha. Este audiolivro inclui os contos: A Descoberta; Angústia; Aniuta; Brincadeira; Camaleão; Gricha; Inadvertência; Libertinagem; Menino Malvado; No Departamento dos Correios; O Bilhete de Loteria; O Vingador; Senhoras; Sobrenome Cavalar; Veraneio."
"Ao abordar temas como a difícil inserção do negro na sociedade brasileira devido à herança escravocrata, os relacionamentos homossexuais, a exploração sexual de crianças e até o analfabetismo, Marcelino Freire não usa meias palavras. Ao contrário, seu texto, assim como sua leitura, é cortante, cheio de pontuações inesperadas. Sua visão não é a de um observador convencional, mas sim a de quem está em meio a um turbilhão de referências que hoje envolvem o homem brasileiro. No audiolivro Contos Negreiros, assim como em sua escrita, de personalidade forte, a leitura de Marcelino é marcada por um tom cortante, às vezes se arrastando como uma lamúria, às vezes ressoando entre as paredes como uma "bateção" de panelas. "Acho que meu texto e minha fala trazem a lembrança que tenho de minha mãe falando sem pausa, reclamando baixinho para si mesma, batendo panelas, como costumo dizer", conta o autor."
"Valentin, the greatest detective in the world, travels to London on the trail of the most elusive of villains. But a strange trail of clues leads Valentin through London and out into the country. It isn’t until the meandering journey’s end that the short, moon faced Father Brown sets Valentin back on his feet."
"This fourth volume in Orson Scott Card's five-book anthology of short stories features tales with religious themes, exploring the mysteries of ritual, sacrifice, faith, and death.
Mortal GodsIn our mortality lies our greatness.
Saving GraceA story of TV faith healers and those who follow them.
Eye for EyeAn abused child has the gift of creating illness and death in those he is angry with. Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novella in 1988.
St. Amy's TaleA family destroys all technology.
KingsmeatWhen flesh-eating aliens take over a human colony world, one human forestalls total doom by feeding them non-essential bits of his fellow colonists.
HolyA seemingly pointless mission to bring an offering to another culture's shrine takes on unexpected meaning.
'I believe that speculative fiction—science fiction in particular—is the last American refuge of religious literature. Real religious literature, I think, explores the nature of the universe and discovers the purpose behind it.'—Orson Scott Card, from his introduction"
"This second volume of Orson Scott Card's five-book anthology of short stories features seven tales exploring possible future scenarios for the human race.
A Thousand Deaths In Soviet-occupied America, Jerry Crove is found guilty and convicted of knowing about the planned assassination of a Russian high official and not reporting it to the authorities. Instead of a forced confession and apology on television, he gives a speech on American freedom. His sentence is to be repeatedly put to death and brought back to life until he apologizes convincingly.
Clap Hands and Sing An old man travels back in time to fall in love with a women he let get away.
Dogwalker A man hacks into a government database using a system administrator's password. But getting the code right turns out to be very wrong.
But We Try Not to Act like It A man complains to the television office that he cannot turn off his TV and that it—especially the soap operas—disturbs him in his attempts to read, his preferred activity. He's told that he'll be allowed to turn off the TV only if he changes his social status by making some friends or developing a sexual relationship.
I Put My Blue Genes Earth, now an uninhabitable wasteland of biological warfare, is revisited by a contingent of humans who find a small band of 'not-quite-human' beings still fighting an enemy that has long since been annihilated.
In the Doghouse Aliens from a doomed planet relocate to Earth, having preserved only their intellectually superior minds. Forbidden by their moral code from killing another sentient being, they choose Earth's widely beloved dogs as their new vessels—but they soon find out what it means to 'be in the doghouse.'
The Originist In this story set in Isaac Asimov's Foundation universe, a brilliant scientist working on a thorny problem is referred to the Galactic Library, an indexing project of astonishing breadth."
"Charles Dickens is known not only for his novels but also for his shorter works. Particularly notable are his five Christmas novellas, especially A Christmas Carol. In this genre, Dickens's stories had a powerful commercial impulse, for it became an annual tradition for the author to publish one in time for the holiday season between 1843 and 1847. Three Short Stories brings together a trio of the celebrated author's Christmas stories: The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life, and The Haunted Man. All three lay emphasis on family love and the delights of home, but there is more to these stories than surface sentimentality. Each year, a whole nation would eagerly anticipate these tales, telling us much about the age Dickens lived in. And these stories never would have survived without roots and power."
"Created by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887, Sherlock Holmes was a brilliant London-based consulting detective, famous for his intellectual prowess and powers of deductive reasoning. His Last Bow is the fourth of Doyle's Sherlock Holmes short story collections and features eight mysterious tales: "The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge," "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box," "The Adventure of the Red Circle," "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans," "The Adventure of the Dying Detective," "The Disappearance of Lady Francis Carfax," "The Adventure of the Devil's Foot," and the title story, "His Last Bow." It is in this last story that Holmes emerges from a retirement of beekeeping to stop the spy Baron Von Bork from disclosing secret English documents at the approach of World War I."
"Jim Harrison takes us on a journey of the human heart in three novellas in which the irresistible pull of nature becomes a magnificent backdrop for exploring the toughest questions about life and love.
Julip follows a bright and resourceful young woman as she tries to spring her brother from a Florida jail after he shot three of her former lovers "below the belt."
The Seven-Ounce Man continues the picaresque adventures of Brown Dog, a Michigan scoundrel who loves to eat, drink, and chase women, all while sailing along in the bottom ten percent.
The Beige Dolorosa is the haunting tale of an academic who, recovering from the repercussions of a sexual-harassment scandal, turns to the natural world for solace."
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