20th century

Worldly and debonair, Alex Hawke has pushed himself to excellence -- in seamanship, international business, and free-lance espionage. On a mission to stop a rogue sub with 40 nukes aimed at the United States, he finds a link to his own tragic past.

Contains critical articles which analyze important literary works from the Harlem Renaissance and provide information about the genre's most influential writers and works.

A collection of sixty-one of Cheever's short stories, including four that have never been published in book form.

A collection of fourteen short stories by Elizabeth Berg.

Reports on conditions in Turkey at the beginning of the twenty-first century, looking at the country's potential to become a world leader, and examining the factors that could keep that from happening.

Presents eleven short fiction stories by American author Bobbie Ann Mason, in which she creates ordinary man and women who are trying to find their way in life.

Tells the story of the tragic events that occurred on July 6, 1944 in Hartford, Connecticut when the big top of Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey circus caught fire in the middle of an afternoon performance attended by nearly seven thousand people.

A collection of fifteen short stories by late-twentieth-century American writers.

Gretel Samuelson grows up in a suburban neighborhood with her best friend Jill, struggling to deal with the everyday disappointments and tragedies that occur on the way to adulthood.