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Katz shares 16 tales of heartwarming relationships between humans and their four-legged friends. The title story features a housekeeper who loses her job, then discovers that her dogs have a special talent--one that could help her family get back on its feet.

Machart pens this critically acclaimed collection of 10 nuanced tales. The characters in Machart's affecting fiction find themselves attempting to measure up to their own beliefs in what it means to be a man, even as they struggle and often fail to be good providers, to protect their wives from violence, and to shield their children from life's brutality.

Always on the verge of something better, Brown's characters in this short story collection are often hard drinking and fast driving--tending to be both violent and religious. And as they grasp for hope, they sometimes make a leap into a new life.

McCall Smith delivers a collection of stories about dating, with emotions running from the thrill of finding happiness to the humiliation and loneliness of rejection.

As a 41-year-old man confronts his own mortality in this collection's title story, he recalls his Spokane Indian father's chilling death from alcoholism and diabetes. Another tale features an eccentric salesman pursuing a married woman from airport to airport. And then there's the film editor who sees nothing wrong with altering footage to fit preconceived views--until he becomes the target of media distortion.

In these tales, Lord John vows to avenge a murder, investigates a terrifying "night-hag" on the battlefields of Europe, and discovers treason in His Majesty's ranks.

The collected stories of O. Henry make entertaining listening.

Presents four short stories by the 19th century New England writer.

A baby is born in a mining camp and soon orphaned. The miners band together to raise the baby and he brings them luck in finding gold.

Presents five of the author's most acclaimed short stories.