The Houseguest: And Other StoriesThe first collection in English of an endlessly surprising, master storyteller Like those of Kafka, Poe, Leonora Carrington, or Shirley Jackson, Amparo Dvilas stories are terrifying, mesmerizing, and expertly craftedyoull finish each one gasping for air. With acute psychological insight, Dvila follows her characters to the limits of desire, paranoia, insomnia, and fear. She is a writer obsessed with obsession, who makes nightmares come to life through

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and the controversial "bicker" system through which students have been selected for the University's private eating clubs

The Crying of Lot 49 is a 1966 novella by the American author Thomas Pynchon

addressing such themes as discriminatory admission policies

M Coetzee radically reinvents the story of Robinson Crusoe

She retired in 2012 after more than a decade of service to the school

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steelworkers

”—Jim Collins

Beneath the shimmering surface of his life he is hiding a secret: a silent longing that can never be fulfilled