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This intriguing debut collection of short stories displays craft, discipline and narrative strength.

On my book, Fly on the Wall and Other Stories, This intriguing debut collection of short stories displays craft, discipline and narrative strength.

Susan Boynton mug. "I will," Birdie said, smiling. "Haven't you already read this?" he asked,

Its eyes locked onto Yoakum, shining with an unwholesome hunger.

She heard irony in his tone and the bitter pain gliding, sharklike, beneath it.

That grin was so evil I'm sure Paul heard it.

But ask any fan, and she'll tell you that it's Taylor's voice that is the most identified with the Hanson sound.

And that's like my world." Annie pointed up to the stars again. "Inaccessible." "Not," I said to her softly, "to unicorns. Nothing's inaccessible to unicorns. Not even--not even white birds.

Well, of course I think people can be forgiven. But our justice system is not set up to dispense forgiveness. You can go to the local priest for that.

For such an important task, we need to have our thoughts and attitudes and our dreams and desires shaped by Scripture.

The fact is, successful relationships and healthy cultures are not built on the claiming of rights but on the yielding of rights.

Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, doubtless two of the most exquisitely adolescent of fictions.

Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.

Oh, the spectacles - I have to wear them when I go abroad, I have such kind eyes you see, beggars and things cluster round and annoy me.

Liberation theology often ends up as little more than theological frosting on a Marxist cake.

As long as Christianity is treated as "moral poetry" and "tales of consolation," it poses no threat to the sovereignty of secularism.

Idolatry is thus the hidden sin driving all other sins.

Other good reading from Japan includes Banana Yoshimoto's Kitchen, with its heroine who finds whatever comfort she can in food; Miyuki

She advised self-preservation. What a relief! How remarkable!

Whenever Mr. Peanuts is feeling especially lonely, he goes to the bookstore. That always cheers him up.

Within a day Mercy heard the news. She never forgot it. A few months later, that riot became the backdrop for her first political satire.

to capture those momentous events in print seemed as daunting to Mercy as was the triumph of the Revolution itself.

With the distanced drumbeat of the Revolution, the chink of coins suddenly became more important than commitment to the cause.

Confound my genteel upbringing! I could not think of any name foul enough to call him.