Presents a collection of short stories, including "Call Me Joe," "The Immortal Game," "The Live Coward," and "Then Death Will Come.".
Just Call Me Joe presents a full picture of life in New York City for the working poor. Anna, Joe's older sister, struggles to cope with the terrible factory conditions of the time. Aunt Sophie must take in boarders to make ends meet.
Poor English hampers ten-year-old Russian Jewish immigrant Joseph Wisotsky after he arrives in 1910 New York City, where he and his seventeen-year-old sister Anna must await the arrival of their parents.
Call Me Ishtar is the outrageous manifesto of a goddess determined to right the wrongs of the three-thousand-year-old patriarchy.
Joe Haldeman’s “adept plotting, strong pacing, and sense of grim stoicism have won him wide acclaim” (The Washington Post) and numerous honors for such works as The Forever War, The Accidental Time Machine, and the Marsbound trilogy.
An omnibus volume featuring works by the Hugo Award-winning author features three complete novels--The Pirates of Zan, Gateway to Elsewhere, and The Duplicators--as well as three masterful short stories, including the title tale, an ...
Overweight Joey, whose father's idea of parenting is the strap, falls prey to bullies who inflict on him the derisive nickname "Yubbie" and recounts in his diary how he learns to resist through his experiences as a scout and at his first ...
Steeped in the rich atmosphere of old Yosemite and based on real people and true events,Call Me Floy is about a girl who follows her dream up the steepest path imaginable.
This award-winning science fiction classic explores a far-future world inhabited by intelligent canines who pass down the tales of their human forefathers.
Larry Brown has slapped his own fresh tattoo on the big right arm of Southern Lit.” —The Washington Post Book World Joe Ransom is a hard-drinking ex-con pushing fifty who just won’t slow down--not in his pickup, not with a gun, and ...
This book is an eclectic mix of Poul Anderson's short stories.