Sparrow: 140 books

Commitment phobes are not easy human beings to love because they fight you for simply loving them, crazy isn’t it. Needing a commitment phobe to validate you in a relationship only gives them the power they need to hurt you. In order to handle a commit-a-phobe you must know where you stand and how...

Mother keeps me as her servant and her bitch. I’m a mistake that she desperately tries to cover up. She would probably be ecstatic if I was a whore and a liar, but since I’m neither, she despises me. In time, you’ll come to know why I’ve decided to tell the world my tumultuous story. I wouldn’t...

In 1981, John Martin published Lucia Berlin’s first book of stories, and in 1993 her last. With the recent publication of A Manual for Cleaning Women, and the sustained critical acclaim it has received, Berlin has finally been recognized as a master of the short story, allowing her work to reach the...

One stormy night in 1826, just north of Galveston Bay, Old Bull, a Cheyenne Indian who had just seen the ocean for the first time, found himself trying to outrace a hurricane. Lifted from his horse, spun around, and thrown down in the bayou, Old Bull rode the current into a small canyon, and survived....

Set mainly in Los Angeles, Lucia Berlin’s gritty working-class stories bridge the gap between the Americas—rich and poor, North and South, Anglo and Hispanic. While her style has been compared to Raymond Carver’s, and her dream- and drink-addicted characters to Richard Yates’, her fictional territory and fatalistic humor are hers alone.

Two lightly intertwined stories of strangers lost in strange lands. Lassoed, knocked down, face planted in the dirt -- best thing to happen to Frank Bowen in years. When wife Liz went missing in the wilds of Belize, the constables of San Ignacio could find no trace. Years later, on a pilgrimage...

Eleven short stories about bog men, swamp hags, witches' curses, hell hounds, pagans, slavic gods, death wishes, bucket lists, professional vigilantes, musical necromancy, artificial intelligence, demonic possession, aphrodisiacs and satyrs.

Aerie Walker should be famous or dead or both by now, just like her idol, bassist Scott LaFaro, who in 1961, at the peak of his fame, died in a fiery wreck in upstate New York. She plays upright bass too, and plays it very well. Won awards and acclaim, but could never manage a living. When...

Enjoy these 3 children's books for first and second level readers, (ages-3-9). Adorable and sweet Little Miss Maple has been inspired by the teacher to think big, she has taken it serious. She simply wants to change the world with her big way of thinking and big bright ideas, but lately that’s all...

This hilarious picture book is for level-one readers. Adorable Betty won't stop talking no matter how hard she tries. Whenever she's around, you won't get a word in edgewise, I promise. But when she gets sick, she suddenly stops talking and learns the lesson that although it's okay to talk its never okay to talk over others.

A Sweet and delightful story about a croc who just wants to sunbathe. Cookie the croc just wants her very own spot. When she loses her spot to a group of crocs, she searches for another one to call her own. Finding the perfect spot to sunbathe was all Cookie the croc wanted and when she found it,...

Adorable and sweet Little Miss Maple has been inspired by the teacher to think big, she has taken it serious. She simply wants to change the world with her big way of thinking and big bright ideas, but lately that’s all she seems to think about. Day or night, Little Miss Maple, daydreams about the...

A Sweet and delightful story about a croc who just wants to sunbathe. Cookie the croc just wants her very own spot. When she loses her spot to a group of crocs, she searches for another one to call her own. Finding the perfect spot to sunbathe was all Cookie the croc wanted and when she found it,...

Adorable little Ida doesn’t like jelly and jam. Jelly and jam for little Ida is to soupy and to thick not to mention it makes her feel sick, so she doesn’t want it on her toast. It’s not until grandma Dixie makes rolls filled with jelly and jam that little Ida accidentally taste it and falls in love with jelly and jam for the first time, now jelly and jam is all she wants to eat.