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“Short stories can act like little tuning forks, helping us to clarify our own values,” writes guest editor Celeste Ng. “In a time when our values are being tested daily, it’s hard to think of anything more important.” The Best American Short Stories 2025 resonates precisely at this...

From evoking a scene to charting a plot to revising your drafts, Writing Great Fiction: Storytelling Tips and Techniques offers a master class in storytelling. Taught by award-winning novelist James Hynes, a former visiting professor at the famed Iowa Writers' Workshop, these 24 insightful lectures show you the ins and outs of the fiction writer's craft.

The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes investigates the trade routes between Rome and the powerful empires of inner Asia, including the Parthian regime which ruled ancient Persia (Iran). It explores Roman dealings with the Kushan Empire which seized power in Bactria (Afghanistan) and laid claim to the Indus Kingdoms. Further chapters examine the development of Palmyra as a leading caravan city on the edge of Roman Syria and consider trade ventures through the Tarim territories that led Roman merchants to Han China.

Unlock the mysteries of the human body with Anatomy for Beginners: A Simple Guide to Understanding the Human Body. This straightforward, easy-to-read guide is perfect for anyone curious about how their body works. Whether you're a student, a fitness enthusiast, or just someone who wants to better understand your body, this book breaks down complex anatomical concepts into simple terms.

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The 1925 New York edition of Ernest Hemingway’s In Our Time trails readers through the years before, during, and after World War I. The collection’s first two stories, “Indian Camp” and “The Doctor and the Doctor’s Wife,” introduce Hemingway’s semiautobiographical character Nick Adams as a child. In total, seven stories portray the young man’s coming of age. All fourteen, including interspersed vignettes, embody the themes that Hemingway would return to throughout his career: alienation, grief, loss, and separation, as well as the regenerative powers of nature.

Long neglected in world history, the Ottoman Empire was a hub of intellectual fervor, geopolitical power, and enlightened pluralistic rule. Yet, despite its towering influence and centrality to the rise of our modern world, the Ottoman Empire's history has for centuries been distorted, misrepresented, and even suppressed in the West. Now Alan Mikhail presents a vitally needed recasting of Ottoman history, retelling the story of the Ottoman conquest of the world through the dramatic biography of Sultan Selim I (1470-1520).

Meet the Otis family: Mister and Missus, and their four children - Washington; the twins called Stars and Stripes; and their daughter, Virginia. They've just moved from America and into the English country manor of Canterville Chase. Though rumors persist that the house is haunted, the Otis' have none of it, and set about making the house their own. Then come the mysterious clanking chains and the bloodstains on the floor, and soon even the Otis family must come face to face with that most feared of creatures - The Canterville Ghost. But will the Ghost be able to survive his encounters with the erstwhile Americans?

This is a biography of James Baldwin, author, one-time preacher, and civil rights activist. He chose David Leeming, a close friend and colleague, to write his biography and granted him access to his correspondence. Leeming traces his life from his birth in Harlem in 1924 to his self-imposed exile in Europe, his later years as political activist, and his public funeral in 1987.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The first book in an acclaimed graphic novel series, adapted for audio, inspired by the author’s own childhood tells an amazing story of unlikely friends, sisters, and home. "Like [Raina] Telgemeier, [Lucy] Knisley has a knack for crystallizing coming-of-age anxieties...

Emery has never felt more alone. Raising her daughter is both her pleasure and her pain as she struggles to hold on to her job as a bartender and keep a roof over their heads. With no one to help them - no support system - any unexpected expense or late bill could turn their whole world upside down. Reeling from the death of his twin brother and bandmate, rock star Oliver Smith is trying to drink his problems away. Apparently he isn’t very good at it; they follow him wherever he goes. Also in hot pursuit are the paparazzi, who catch Oliver at his lowest low.

This audiobook helps people to master English pronunciation and intonation and helps to make their speech clear and easy to understand. It is instrumental in overcoming the barrier to speak English.

子どもの頃に幼稚園や小学校で歌っていた、日本の懐かしく・素敵な童謡を、世界の子どもとも仲良くなれるように、親子で英語で一緒に歌ってみませんか。本オーディオブックは有名な数々の日本の童謡の中から、選りすぐりの13曲を英訳し収録されております。ネイティブスピーカーによる英詩の朗読、オリジナルの日本語詩の朗読が交互に入り、自然と日本語の響きの美しさと英語の学習にもなります。朗読トラックを聴いてから歌のトラックを一緒に歌うという方法でより正しい英語を、美しい日本語を、たのしく学ぶことができます。幼少期からの英語教育がその後の英語能力に大きく差が出ることは実証されており、語学は生活、文化の一環として取り入れることこそが、最大の上達の決め手ともなります。英語教育の一環として、そして何より親子のコミュニケーションの一環として、一枚で何度でも聴いて喋って歌ってみることで、みんなが幸せになれる珠玉の童謡を、ネイティブの発音で語り、日本人のパパでもできるように日本人の歌手が歌唱しています。肩肘張らず、リラックスしておうちで、車の中でお子さんと一緒に歌ってみてください。※本商品はマザー・ターキー編訳 英訳童謡集より、人気の高い作品を厳選して制作されました。(C)マザー・ターキー

With vast erudition, Foucault cuts across disciplines and reaches back into seventeenth century to show how classical systems of knowledge, which linked all of nature within a great chain of being and analogies between the stars in the heavens and the features in a human face, gave way to the modern sciences of biology, philology, and political economy. The result is nothing less than an archaeology of the sciences that unearths old patterns of meaning and reveals the shocking arbitrariness of our received truths.

No one survived the last battle unscathed. Flint is angry at the world, Jaxon is turning into something I don’t recognize, and Hudson has put up a wall I’m not sure I’ll ever break through. Now war is coming, and we’re not ready. We’re going to need an army to have any hope of winning. But first, there are questions about my ancestors that need answers. Answers that might just reveal who the real monster is among us.

You have the fulfillment and astonishment of a story whose themes are insightful, dominant and compelling, whose characters are believably unbelievable, unforgettable and authentic, and whose plot has captivating tension and resolution. You are immersed in another realm, you are splendidly touched and transported in a certain fashion and direction and the experience ...remains and raves with you long after you have put down the text.

Joe now has a steady girlfriend and plans for the future. But will that last when a new, wiggly butt comes around?

No one survived the last battle unscathed. Flint is angry at the world, Jaxon is turning into something I don't recognize, and Hudson has put up a wall I'm not sure I’ll ever break through. Now war is coming, and we're not ready. We're going to need an army to have any hope of winning. But first, there are questions about my ancestors that need answers. Answers that might just reveal who the real monster is among us.

Everything Poppy has ever believed in is a lie, including the man she was falling in love with. Thrust among those who see her as a symbol of a monstrous kingdom, she barely knows who she is without the veil of the Maiden. But what she does know is that nothing is as dangerous to her as him. The Dark One. The Prince of Atlantia. He wants her to fight him, and that's one order she's more than happy to obey. He may have taken her, but he will never have her.

Kazar has fallen. All that is left of the border city is a caravan of refugees skirting the edge of the deadlands and the dangers that lurk there. The situation is grim but Viv is not done for. The Kazarans are alive and looking for revenge, and Viv? She has all the tools to provide it.