The Golden Argosy: A Collection of the Most Celebrated Short Stories in the English Language

7 best books like The Golden Argosy: A Collection of the Most Celebrated Short Stories in the English Language (Van H. Cartmell): Ubik, Jenny and the Cat Club: A Collection of Favorite Stories about Jenny Linsky, Master and Commander, Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South, Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10, The Pastures of Heaven, Dune Messiah

Ubik

Author	Philip K. Dick
ISBN	8498000831

Glen Runciter está muerto. ¿O lo están todos los demás? Lo que es seguro es que alguien ha muerto en una explosión organizada por los competidores de Runciter. De hecho, sus empleados asisten a un funeral. Pero durante el duelo comienzan a recibir mensajes descorcentantes, e incluso morbosos,...

Jenny and the Cat Club: A Collection of Favorite Stories about Jenny Linsky

Author	Esther Averill
ISBN	1590170474

In Greenwich Village an orphaned black cat lives happily with her master, a sea captain. Still, the gentle Jenny Linsky would like nothing more than to join the local Cat Club, whose members include Madame Butterfly, an elegant Persian, the high-stepping Macaroni, and stately, plump Mr. President....

Master and Commander

Author	Patrick O'Brian
ISBN	0393307050

As the Royal Navy takes part in the wars against Napoleonic France, young Jack Aubrey receives his first command, the small, old, and slow HMS Sophie. Accompanied by his eccentric new friend, the physician and naturalist Stephen Maturin, Aubrey does battle with the naval hierarchy, with his own tendency...

Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South

Author	Anne Moody
ISBN	0385337817

Born to a poor couple who were tenant farmers on a plantation in Mississippi, Anne Moody lived through some of the most dangerous days of the pre-civil rights era in the South. The week before she began high school came the news of Emmet Till's lynching. Before then, she had "known the fear of hunger, hell,...

Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10

Author	Marcus Luttrell
ISBN	0316067598

On a clear night in late June 2005, four U.S. Navy SEALs left their base in northern Afghanistan for the mountainous Pakistani border. Their mission was to capture or kill a notorious al Qaeda leader known to be ensconced in a Taliban stronghold surrounded by a small but heavily armed force. Less then...

The Pastures of Heaven

Author	John Steinbeck
ISBN	0141186097

Each of these delightful interconnected tales is devoted to a family living in a fertile valley on the outskirts of Monterey, California, and the effects that one particular family has on them all. Steinbeck tackles two important literary traditions here; American naturalism, with its focus on the...

Dune Messiah

Author	Frank Herbert
ISBN	0593098234

Book Two in the Magnificent Dune Chronicles--the Bestselling Science Fiction Adventure of All Time

Dune Messiah continues the story of Paul Atreides, better known--and feared--as the man christened Muad'Dib. As Emperor of the Known Universe, he possesses more power than a single man was...