Anne Porter: 29 books

Eudora Welty said that Katherine Anne Porter ?writes stories with a power that stamps them to their very last detail on the memory.? Set in her native Texas and her beloved Mexico, prewar Nazi Germany and the gothic Old South, they are stories of love, outrage, betrayal, and spiritual reckoning that...

This “dazzling” National Book Award finalist set aboard an ocean liner in 1931 reflects the passions and prejudices that sparked World War II (San Francisco Chronicle). August 1931. An ocean liner bound for Germany sets out from the Mexican port city of Veracruz. The ship’s first-class...

The Library of America presents an exclusive e-book edition of the astonishing 1930 collection that introduced a major new voice in American literature. “If Katherine Anne Porter had written nothing but these short narratives," observed the New York Times, "she would be among the most distinguished masters of her craft in this country.”

Incomparable in their dramatic clarity and emotional force, the nine gems in this 1944 collection, now available in an exclusive Library of America e-book edition, affirm Katherine Anne Porter’s genius for writing stories, as Eudora Welty observed, “with a power that stamps them to their very last detail on the memory.”

This classic 1939 collection of three short novels, now available in an exclusive Library of America e-book edition, elevated Katherine Anne Porter, in the words of one contemporary critic, “into the illustrious company headed by Hawthorne, Flaubert, and Henry James.” In “Noon Wine?”...

Daddy By Design? by Cheryl Anne Porter A funny thing happened on the way to the delivery room Mechanic Trey Cooper has been in some tight spots before-but he's never been stuck in an elevator with a woman about to give birth! Luckily they're rescued before he discovers if changing diapers...

In this book, Anne Porter explores the idea that mobile and sedentary members of the ancient world were integral parts of the same social and political groups in greater Mesopotamia during the period 4000 to 1500 BCE. She draws on a wide range of archaeological and cuneiform sources to show how networks...

HEIßER ABEND IN FLORIDA von PORTER, CHERYL ANNE Ein knisterndes Blind Date im sonnigen Florida? Joes sexy Fantasie wird Wirklichkeit - mit Meg, die ein wahr gewordener Männertraum ist! Verständlich also, dass Joe alles daransetzt, sie in sein Bett zu locken. Doch aus dem erotischen Intermezzo wird...

LIEB MICH JETZT UND IMMER WIEDER von PORTER, CHERYL ANNE Wird auch dieser Valentinstag für Julie so langweilig wie immer? Nicht wenn es nach Julies Mutter geht! Ihre Tochter muss endlich an den Mann gebracht werden. Und sie weiß auch schon, wer der richtige Kandidat für Julie ist: Der umwerfend...

As a child growing up in the once-beautiful city of Budapest, Anna Porter’s grandfather told her stories of heroes and strife and survival, some as old as the Carpathian basin, some still holding the sting of recent war and hardship. Some were fanciful, most were true, and all gave her a personal...

She went out on a limb How did she get into these messes? Once minute Joan O'Leary, unsuspecting accountant to the mob, was witnessing her boss's demise. A minute later, to save her own skin, she'd confessed to the crime herself. After all, jail was pretty safe, wasn't it? But when she was...

The first time Joe Rossi met Meg Kendall, they were both half-naked in the men's fitting rooms. She'd been mortified…and he'd been turned on. He figures his chances of running into her again are nil…until he learns she's the blind date his uncle has set up for him. Here is his chance to get to know...

What Mother wants How far would her mother go to get her married off? That's something Julie Cochran hopes she never finds out. But when Ida Cochran arrives on her doorstep with two-year-old Aaron beside her, Julie can already read the headlines: Woman Resorts To Kidnapping In Desperate Bid...

As a Navy SEAL, Kell is used putting his life on the line. But he can risk his heart again on a woman who keeps walking away from him? Jamie Winslow has been in love with Kellan Chance forever. Only, despite the undeniable chemistry between them, they'd never found a way to make it work. Now...