Vanishing and Other Stories
10 best books like Vanishing and Other Stories (Deborah Willis): Simple Recipes, Lovecraft Unbound, The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy, Our Homesick Songs, Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing, Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen, La straniera, Benevolenza cosmica, Vastarien: A Literary Journal
| Author | Madeleine Thien |
| ISBN | 0771085117 |
Winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and the City of Vancouver Book Award, and a Regional Finalist for the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book
Longing, familiarity, and hope suffuse these stories as they mine the charged territory of relationships – subtly weaving in conflicts...
| Author | Ellen Datlow |
| ISBN | 1595821465 |
The stories are legendary, the characters unforgettable, the world horrible and disturbing. Howard Phillips Lovecraft may have been a writer for only a short time, but the creations he left behind after his death in 1937 have shaped modern horror more than any other author in the last two centuries:...
| Author | Rachel Joyce |
| ISBN | 0385682824 |
When Queenie Hennessy discovers that Harold Fry is walking the length of England to save her, and all she has to do is wait, she is shocked. Her note had explained she was dying. How can she wait?
A new volunteer at the hospice suggests that Queenie should write again; only this time she must tell...
From Emma Hooper, critically acclaimed author of Etta and Otto and Russell and James, a People magazine “Pick of the Week,” comes a lyrical, charming, and mystical story of a family on the edge of extinction, and the different way each of them fights to keep hope, memory, and love alive.
The...
| Author | Lydia Peelle |
| ISBN | 0061724734 |
With its quick pace, modern society leaves scant time for us to pause and take a deep breath of fresh air, to watch the clouds move across the sky, or to appreciate the earth and its cycles of birth and death. Once out of the fray -- far from our cubicles and the relentless rat race -- and back into nature, we...
Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss
| Author | Rajeev Balasubramanyam |
| ISBN | 1784742546 |
Professor Chandra is an expert at complex problems. There's just one he can't crack: the secret of happiness.
In the moments after the bicycle accident, Professor Chandra doesn’t see his life flash before his eyes, but his life’s work.
He’s just narrowly missed out on the Nobel...
Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
| Author | Jose Antonio Vargas |
| ISBN | 0062851365 |
Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, called “the most famous undocumented immigrant in America,” tackles one of the defining issues of our time in this explosive and deeply personal call to arms.
“This is not a book about the politics of immigration. This book––at...
| Author | Claudia Durastanti |
| ISBN | 8893447754 |
"La storia di una famiglia somiglia più a una cartina topografica che a un romanzo, e una biografia è la somma di tutte le ere geologiche che hai attraversato". Come si racconta una vita se non esplorandone i luoghi simbolici e geografici, ricostruendo una mappa di sé e del mondo vissuto? Tra la Basilicata...
A Kurt O'Reilly non ne va bene una. Ma una, eh? Il medico cui si rivolge per un piccolo fastidio gli spiega, esterrefatto, che in tutti i casi conosciuti quel problema ha un esito nefasto – tranne che nel suo. Sul lettino di un tatuatore, una sensazionale pornostar gli lascia intravedere un paradiso...
Vastarien: A Literary Journal
| Author | Dagny Paul |
| ISBN | 0692089276 |
VASTARIEN is a source of critical study and creative response to the corpus of Thomas Ligotti as well as associated authors and ideas. The journal includes nonfiction, literary horror fiction, poetry, artwork and non-classifiable hybrid pieces.
Vol. 1, Issue 1 Contents:
• Foreword...
