Twelve stories about animals, insects, and other subjects include "How the Whale Got His Throat, " "The Elephant's Child, " "How the Alphabet Was Made, " and "The Butterfly that Stamped."

A collection of short stories of Sherlock Holmes.

Dalgliesh's godfather implores him to reinvestigate a notorious murder that might ease the godfather's mind about an inheritance, but which will reveal a truth that even the supremely upstanding Adam Dalgliesh will keep to himself. Each of these stories is as playful as it is ingeniously plotted, the author's sly humor as evident as her hallmark narrative elegance and shrewd understanding of some of the most complex--not to say the most damning--aspects...

Recounts the meeting of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson and some of their more famous cases. The story of Sherlock Holmes adapted for young readers. The Greatest Detective Ever! Sherlock Holmes is the mastermind detective of the ages. So loyal are his fans that even today, thousands of people all over the world belong to clubs and societies devoted to him. Here, in one volume, are three of Sherlock's most celebrated cases: THE RED HEADED LEAGUE,...

"The Secret Lives of Church Ladies explores the raw and tender places where black women and girls dare to follow their desires and pursue a momentary reprieve from being good. The nine stories in this collection feature four generations of characters grappling with who they want to be in the world, caught as they are between the church's double standards and their own needs and passions"--

Account of an 1882 cattle drive from Texas to the Blackfoot Agency in Montana.THE LOG OF A COWBOY, published in 1903 is one man?s reaction to the dime novel depictions of cowboy life that so distorted its true nature. Andy Adams had, by that time, spent ten years living that life. This fictionalized account of a trail drive from the southern tip of Texas to Montana on the Great Western Cattle Trail set the record straight. THE LOG OF A COWBOY has...

"The four never-before-published novellas in this collection represent horror master King at his finest, using the weird and uncanny to riff on mortality, the price of creativity, and the unpredictable consequences of material attachments. A teenager discovers that a dead friend's cell phone, which was buried with the body, still communicates from beyond the grave in 'Mr. Harrigan's Phone,' which reads like a Twilight Zone episode infused with an...

In his darkly comic short story collection, the author brilliantly weaves memory, fantasy, and stark realism to paint a complex, grimly ironic portrait of life in and around the Spokane Indian Reservation. These twenty-four interlinked tales are narrated by characters raised on humiliation and government-issue cheese, yet filled with passion and affection, myth and dream. There is Victor, who as a nine-year-old crawled between his unconscious parents...

"Will Trent is undercover at Fort Knox. His assignment: to investigate a twenty-two-year-old murder. His suspect's name: Jack Reacher. Jack Reacher is in Fort Knox on his own mission: to bring down a dangerous criminal ring operating at the heart of America's military. Except now Will Trent is on the scene.But there's a bigger conspiracy at play - one that neither the special agent nor the ex-military cop could have anticipated. And the only option...

Each night since he attempted suicide, the old man has come to the cafe -- a clean, well-lighted place -- to get drunk, staying until closing time at 2:30 a.m. But on this night, the younger of the two waiters turns the old man out an hour early, anxious to go home to his wife. How might this confident young man feel if he knew that his somewhat older coworker is also looking for a clean, well-lighted place? This 1994 dramatization of Hemingway's...