Category: Fiction Anthologies

Zaftig: Well Rounded Erotica by Hanne Blank

By Hanne Blank

"Zaftig, in Yiddish, ability juicy. It additionally potential voluptuous, plump, and around in a deliciously sensuous type of way," writes Hanne clean. "Used to consult people's our bodies, it indicates opulence and abundance, a kind of unconventional good looks outfitted on heft and curves and softness. Zaftig is additionally, usually, a euphemism for announcing that somebody is fat." Hanne clean offers Zaftig, the 1st erotica assortment celebrating the sexuality of voluptuous girls, a full-bodied quantity packed with impressive, steamy tales showcasing the intercourse lives of ladies of measurement and their admirers.

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Niedersächsische Einladung: Erzählungen, Geheimnisse und by Britta Voß,Alexander Nitsche,Helge Hommers,I. J.

By Britta Voß,Alexander Nitsche,Helge Hommers,I. J. Tonk,Anna-Lena Richter,Dörte Müller,Ingo Cesaro,Andrea Z. Rhein,Hanna Bertini,Andreas Bohnensack,Liv Hallafors,Britta Lübbers,Gabriele Schuster,Katerina Metallinou-Kiess,Anke Schüür,Manfred Voita,Edit Engel

Niedersachsen. Es erstreckt sich von den Ostfriesischen Inseln, die ebenso zum Baden einladen wie die Küste des Festlands, bis zum Harz mit seinen mystischen Wäldern und Hexenlegenden. In der Mitte befindet sich die quirlige Landeshauptstadt, die grüne Lüneburger Heide und die weltberühmte Rattenfängerstadt Hameln. Doch wie bringt guy ein Flächenland, das so uneinheitlich wie kaum ein anderes deutsches Bundesland ist, auf den Punkt? Ganz einfach: Mit einer gastfreundlichen literarischen Einladung.

Kommen Sie, lernen Sie durch diese Buchseiten die variationsreiche Identität Niedersachsens kennen! Das Land mit dem stolzen weißen Ross im Wappen wartet mit zahlreichen Überraschungen und Verblüffendem auf Sie. Denn die Autorinnen und Autoren, die zum 70. Geburtstag der Gründung Niedersaschens zur Feder gegriffen haben, sind Ihre Gastgeber. Mit Poesie in friesischem Plattdeutsch oder Lügengeschichten des Barons von Münchhausen und dessen Auswirkungen bis heute, mit ungewöhnlichen Aufenthalten in Kurstädten oder gefährlichen Erlebnissen im idyllischen Landleben, mit nachdenklichen Gedichten, fröhlichen Krimis und der einen oder anderen Prise Ironie erzählen prominente und neuentdeckte Schriftsteller über ihre Heimat, die Liebe zum mitteldeutschen Wald oder dem Nordmeer, über den Wind, die Sehnsucht und die Zeit.

Kommen Sie, nehmen Sie Platz am Tisch! Traditionelle Gerichte wie Labskaus oder Hackbraten, wiederentdeckte Rezepte für Haferflockenpralinen oder Kugelis bis hin zu einem brandneuen Cocktail aus Niedersachsen warten darauf, von Ihnen zubereitet zu werden. Die Menschen, ihre Geschichten und ihre Gerichte – Alte, Junge, Fremde – weighted down Sie ein.

Werden Sie ein Freund. Sie sind willkommen mitten in Europa. In Niedersachsen. Mit Erzählungen, Geheimnissen und Rezepten.

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The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women by Various,Hollis Robbins,Henry Louis Gates

By Various,Hollis Robbins,Henry Louis Gates

A landmark assortment documenting the social, political, and inventive lives of African American girls in the course of the tumultuous 19th century
 
The moveable Nineteenth-Century African American ladies Writers is the main finished anthology of its type: a unprecedented diversity of voices delivering the expressions of African American girls in print sooner than, in the course of, and after the Civil conflict. Edited via Hollis Robbins and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., this assortment contains paintings from forty-nine writers prepared into sections of memoir, poetry, and essays on feminism, schooling, and the legacy of African American girls writers. lots of those items interact with social routine like abolition, women’s suffrage, temperance, and civil rights, however the thematic middle is the mind and private ambition of African American girls. the various choice contains recognized writers like Sojourner fact, Hannah Crafts, and Harriet Jacobs, in addition to lesser-known writers like Ella Sheppard, who bargains a firsthand account of lifestyles within the world-famous Fisk Jubilee Singers. Taken jointly, those marvelous works insist that the writing of African American ladies writers be learn, remembered, and addressed.
 
For greater than seventy years, Penguin has been the best writer of vintage literature within the English-speaking global. With greater than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents an international bookshelf of the simplest works all through heritage and throughout genres and disciplines. Readers belief the sequence to supply authoritative texts more suitable by means of introductions and notes by means of individual students and modern authors, in addition to updated translations by way of award-winning translators.

From the alternate Paperback edition.

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Aufs Gefühl kommt es an: Liebesroman (German Edition) by Carly Phillips,Jennifer Crusie

By Carly Phillips,Jennifer Crusie

Carly Phillips: Einfach sexy

Grace Montgomery ist entschlossen, ihr Leben endlich in die eigenen Hände zu nehmen. In vollen Zügen will sie ihren Neuanfang in manhattan genießen. Da kommt ihr Nachbar Ben Callahan wie gerufen: horny und ein bisschen verwegen. used to be macht es da schon, dass sie nicht viel über ihn weiß? Mehr als Grace ahnt …

Jennifer Crusie: Beim zweiten Mann ist alles anders

Seit der Scheidung schwebt Lucy in Gefahr -- jemand hat es auf die abgesehen! Wie es scheint, ist ihr Exmann in kriminelle Machenschaften verstrickt. Trotz dieser brisanten Umstände hat der Cop Tom Warren seine liebe no longer, Lucy davon zu überzeugen, dass er für ihren Schutz nur garantieren kann, wenn er bei ihr einzieht. Und Tag und Nacht ein Auge auf sie hat -- natürlich alles rein beruflich, oder?

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CVC6: Carter V Cooper Short Fiction Anthology, Book Six by Gloria Vanderbilt

By Gloria Vanderbilt

From author, artist and philanthropist, Gloria Vanderbilt, who sponsors one of many biggest literary prizes in Canada, and who helps this distinct Canadians-only brief fiction e-book. "I am proud and overjoyed that each one those marvelous writers are provided within the CVC Anthology. Carter, my son, Anderson Cooper's brother, was once simply 23 while he died in 1988. He used to be a promising editor, author, and, from the time he was once a small baby, a voracious reader. Carter got here from a relations of storytellers, and tales have been a advisor which helped him notice the world."

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Vengeance by Joshua Sisson

By Joshua Sisson

Vengeance is an anthology of brief tales, every one of which revolves round the titular suggestion. The characters in each tale own their respective connections to revenge and fight to reach at a answer that's congruent to their ideals and aspirations. on the center of this paintings is the wish to demonstrate the larger impacts of this phenomena, and the way it's embedded inside of greater than the mere person. it's a research in relationships and feelings that's aside of a better continuum of human retrospection.

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A Treasure House of Chinese Fables: Second Edition by Chi Him Chiu

By Chi Him Chiu

greater than formal histories, fables and folklore hold nationwide traditions via centuries and over miles. In each state, in each tradition, they inform the tales of daily humans and rulers -- of farmers and retailers and of emperors and their servants. They distill nationwide, tribal, and ethnic variations whereas simply as sincerely displaying their similarities as they're informed around the globe.

China is now an everyday presence in worldwide politics and trade, but nonetheless anything of a contradiction to Western international locations who see it either as a magic position and a strong competitor. Chi Him Chiu's translations in A Treasure condo of chinese language Fables, provided the following in a moment and a little shorter version, navigate and clarify chinese language background, dynasties, and geography with stories that variety from ask yourself and pleasure to the main points of army strategy.

You'll learn the following, with a twinge of the typical, of the tiger that paid a debt of gratitude to an previous girl for elimination a thorn from its paw. you are going to additionally examine King Hui of Qin and the way he took over different states by means of heeding the recommendation contained in an outdated story of 2 tigers. you will examine even more.

And you are going to input one other international and study its knowledge and achieve its joys.

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The Female Complaint: Tales of Unruly Women by Rosalie Morales Kearns

By Rosalie Morales Kearns

The thirty-six tales during this anthology, all by means of girls authors, focus on girl characters who persist with their very own paths and inform the powers-that-be what they do not are looking to listen. those girls get up for themselves, for every different, for his or her ideals. The characters contain housewives and highschool scholars, a humorist, an artist, an attendant at a nursing domestic, numerous scientists. there is a lady who becomes a leopard; a chemist who involves the rescue of a resuscitated Isaac Newton; and a feminine substantial who metes out tough justice in a futuristic penal colony for male criminals. Navigating a good line among anger and laughter, those are raucous tales of harmony, resistance, transformation, and pleasure. individuals contain Gina Ochsner, Kathleen Alcalá, Theodora Goss, Kim Chinquee, and Katherine Vaz.

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15 Views of Miami by Jaquira Díaz

By Jaquira Díaz

15 perspectives of Miami is a literary portrait of the Magic urban advised in fifteen loosely associated tales by means of fifteen Miami authors. Sprawling from Hialeah to dwelling house, from Wynwood to Stiltsville, those tales hide a variety of cultures, languages and lives, reflecting the range and drama of a big and infrequently misunderstood urban. individuals contain John Dufresne, Lynne Barrett, Jennine Capó Crucet, Patricia Engel, and plenty of extra award-winning authors.

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