New Arabian Nights

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Susan Kiernan-Lewis

The one thing Mike and Sarah know after three years of life in a post-apocalyptic world is that nothing ever stays the same. Just when life had begun to settle down--and all their immediate needs met--a threat comes at the little compound from a totally unexpected source. Not England, nor the US, not rampaging gypsies or even the Middle East. This time it's the land itself--the very bushes and trees of Ireland that they'll have to protect themselves from. Could the bomb have opened an ancient portal long kept shut? Could there really be fairies and mystical beings running through the woods? Or is the evil that's creeping out of that portal something very, very human? -- from Amazon.

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Kathi Mills

Seven short stories explore such themes as peer pressure, death, jealousy, responsibility, parents' divorce, fear, and cheating and the help that faith and prayer can give.

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Padgett Powell

Aliens of Affection marks new territory for Padgett Powell, picking up where his first collection of stories, Typical, left off. Although his characters continue to revolt against the received instructions of modern American living - refusing to be dunked in what Saul Bellow has called the "marinade of correctness" - their concerns are less for independence than for the maintenance of sanity itself. Emotional estrangement seems both inevitable and worth fighting against to the middle-aged heroine of the O. Henry prizewinner "Trick or Treat"; to the unmistakably American roofer of "Wayne" (who was introduced in Typical); to the deserted husband, father, and non-vet of "Dump"; and to the fantastic heroes in three stories grouped as "All Along the Watchtower."

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Rafik Schami

»Als ich dort angefangen habe, war ich der erste Ausländer im Betrieb. Später kamen Jugoslawen und Türken dazu, aber am ersten Tag haben mich die Leute angeglotzt, als wäre ich von einem anderen Stern...« Rafik Schami schreibt vom täglichen Leben der Arbeitsemigranten bei uns, von Heimweh und Diskriminierung, von Einsamkeit und Mißverständnissen, von Behördenkrieg und Sprachschwierigkeiten. Aber auch von manchem kleinen Sieg über den grauen Alltag.