Pissing in the Snow and Other Ozark Folktales
10 best books like Pissing in the Snow and Other Ozark Folktales (Vance Randolph): Where the Rivers Flow North, The Architecture of the Arkansas Ozarks, Folklore, Memoirs, and Other Writings, Collected Stories, Arabian Nights: The Marvels and Wonders of The Thousand and One Nights, The Best Short Stories by Black Writers: 1899 - 1967, Northern Tales: Stories from the Native Peoples of the Arctic and Sub-Arctic Regions, The Magic Orange Tree and Other Haitian Folktales, Best Short Stories of Ring Lardner, Thuggin In Miami (The Family Is Made : Part 1)
Where the Rivers Flow North
| Author | Howard Frank Mosher |
| ISBN | 1584653639 |
The stories of Where the Rivers Flow North are “superior work, rich in texture and character,” says the Wall Street Journal; “the novella is brilliantly done.” That novella, the title story of the collection, was also made into a feature film starring Rip Torn and Michael J. Fox. These six stories,...
| Author | Donald Harington |
| ISBN | 1592640737 |
Jacob and Noah Ingledew trudge 600 miles from their native Tennessee to found Stay More -- a small town nestled in a narrow valley that winds among the Arkansas Ozarks and into the reader's imagination. The Ingledew saga -- which follows six generations of Stay Morons through 140 years of abundant living...
Folklore, Memoirs, and Other Writings
The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the "finest-looking, longest-lasting editions ever made" (The New Republic), Library of America volumes make a fine gift for...
| Author | Wallace Stegner |
| ISBN | 0143039792 |
In a literary career spanning more than fifty years, Wallace Stegner created a remarkable record of the history and culture of twentieth-century America. Each of the thirty-one stories contained in this volume embody some of the best virtues and values to be found in contemporary fiction, demonstrating...
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780451525420
Bawdy and exotic, Arabian Nights, features the wily, seductive Scheherazade, who saves her own life by telling tales of magical transformations, genies and wishes, flying carpets and fantastical journeys, terror and passion to entertain...
| Author | Langston Hughes |
| ISBN | 0316380318 |
Long before we even heard of great contemporary writers we get amazing, touching, slice-of-life and memoirs such as Alice Walker's "To Hell With Dying", Mary Elizabeth Vroman's "See How They Run" to Kristin Hunter's "An Interesting Social Study".
Here, Hughes showcases shorts from some...
| Author | Howard Norman |
| ISBN | 0375702679 |
From Greenland to Siberia, from Alaska to Japan, from Canada to North Pole, here are more than one hundred folktales from more than thirty tribal peoples who make their home in the arctic and subarctic regions.By turns tragic and comic, fantastic and earthy, uncanny and profound, these tales transport...
| Author | Diane Wolkstein |
| ISBN | 0805210776 |
When Diane Wolkstein, herself a well-known storyteller traveled throughout the Haitian countryside in search of stories, she harvested a rich collection of twenty-seven tales, each of which is illuminated by fascinating introductory notes. From orange trees growing at the command of a child to...
| Author | Ring Lardner |
| ISBN | 0684183633 |
Liked just about this whole collection. Just the five stories before the last two fell utterly flat for me, but there's still 300 pages worth of great stories here.
Despite the age of these writings, I was chuckling like a fool for most of them. Very masculine-oriented; even the stories that...
| Author | R.A. Robinson |
| ISBN | 0985399538 |
After the death of his father, Rich Kid takes his destructive, malicious, and loyal team of hustlers, known amongst them-selves as The Family, to the next level of thuggin. Using his relationships within the drug distribution realm, Richard catapults his growing empire, taking down anyone who stands...
| Author | David Lubar |
| ISBN | 0765334607 |
Master of the macabre David Lubar turns his attention to dark and twisted tales for teens with Extremities: Stories of Death, Murder, and Revenge
A group of high school girls takes revenge on their sadistic gym teacher in the most fitting way possible. Two stowaways find themselves on a ship...
| Author | Susan Perabo |
| ISBN | 0743290372 |
Behind every face in Who I Was Supposed to Be is a singular quirk to explore, a peculiarity to celebrate. In Susan Perabo's world, nothing can be taken for granted: here, a retired grocer takes up jewel theft in his twilight years; a data processor squanders her inheritance on one of Princess Diana's gowns;...
| Author | Larry McMurtry |
| ISBN | 0684868830 |
The Real Western Canon
Larry McMurtry, the preeminent chronicler of the American West, celebrates the best of contemporary Western short fiction, introducing a stellar collection of twenty stories that represent, in various ways, the coming-of-age of the legendary American frontier.
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| Author | Larry Niven |
| ISBN | 1596063319 |
These stories demonstrate Niven's tremendous range and literary prowess in the fields of SF, fantasy, nonfiction, and mystery. This spellbinding collection is a must for fans of classic SF. - Publishers Weekly
With the publication of his first story, 'The Coldest Place', in 1964 Larry Niven...
| Author | Shann Ray |
| ISBN | 1555975887 |
Winner of the 2010 Bakeless Prize for Fiction, a muscular debut that reconfigures the American West
The American West has long been a place where myth and legend have flourished. Where men stood tall and lived rough. But that West is no more. In its place Shann Ray finds washedup basketball players,...
Ever heard of an Exquisite Corpse? It's not what you might think. An Exquisite Corpse is an old game in which people write a phrase on a sheet of paper, fold it over to conceal part of it and pass it on to the next player to do the same. The game ends when someone finishes the story, which is then read aloud.
Our...
| Author | James A. Michener |
| ISBN | 0449220923 |
In these sixteen wonderful stories, bestselling author James A. Michener lights up nature's most awesome and beguiling handiwork--from the sublime shaping and reshaping of earth's land and seas to the ridiculous armadillo whose assault on a bit of Texas real estate paid off handsomely. Chosen from...
| Author | Ruth Ann Musick |
| ISBN | 0813101360 |
" West Virginia boasts an unusually rich heritage of ghost tales. Originally West Virginians told these hundred stories not for idle amusement but to report supernatural experiences that defied ordinary human explanation. From jealous rivals and ghostly children to murdered kinsmen and omens...
| Author | Katharine M. Briggs |
| ISBN | 0394508068 |
Katharine Briggs took her fairies seriously. She was a folklore scholar, with several Oxford degrees, and did not think fairy tales were strictly the province of children. The tales she liked were those handed down over generations by people who believed in them, as opposed to the ones “made up as...
| Author | Preston Lauterbach |
| ISBN | 0393076520 |
The first history of the network of black juke joints that spawned rock 'n' roll through an unholy alliance between vice and entertainment.
A definitive account of the birth of rock 'n' roll in black America, this book establishes the Chitlin' Circuit as a major force in American musical history....
| Author | Dave Eggers |
| ISBN | 0618570489 |
The Wall Street Journal says, "After a decade in which reading was considered about as hip as the Bee Gees, the under-25 set is now buying books for leisure reading at three times the rate of the overall market."
The Best American Non-Required Reading is a selection for young people of the best...
| Author | Barry Lopez |
| ISBN | 0679781412 |
"Perfectly crafted. . . . [These] stories expand of their own accord, lingering in the mind the way intense light lingers in the retina." --Los Angeles Times
"Animals and landscapes have not had this weight, this precision, in American fiction since Hemingway's young heroes were fishing...
