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Steph Landry, seize ans, a décidé de plaire, d'être la première en tout, bref d'être populaire. Et pour cela, elle a un secret : un vieux bouquin qui donne les recettes pour se faire aimer de tous.

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«Les Nuits blanches» : Ubn beau roman d'amour. La rencontre, puis les rendez-vous volés aux rues de Saint-Pétersbourg, quatre soirées durant, d'un homme et une femme que leur sensibilité commune rapproche. Deux cœurs solitaires s'ouvrent l'un à l'autre dans cette douceur du soir qui est sans doute le pays des âmes-sœurs... Une parenthèse d'amour que la brume d'un matin refermera, laissant aux deux rêveurs tout le loisir de s'aimer désormais en rêve.  «Le Moujik Marey» : Enfermé parmi les forçats, près de perdre son âme, l'auteur se rappelle un souvenir d'enfance, celui du Moujik Marey, qui lui donne un nouveau regard, qui fait disparaître la haine et la colère de son cœur, qui lui redonne la capacité d'aimer les autres. «Krotkaia» («La Douce») : «Imaginez un mari en présence du cadavre de sa femme étendu sur une table. C'est quelques heures après le suicide de cette femme, qui s'est jetée par la fenêtre. Le mari est dans un trouble extrême et n'a pu encore rassembler ses pensées. Il marche à travers l'appartement et s'efforce d'élucider cet événement.» Ce conte prend la forme d'un récit à lire à voix haute. Le narrateur nous fait partager les interrogations et les tergiversations du mari, ancien officier congédié de l'armée, usurier hypocondriaque. «La Centenaire» : Une vieille, très vieille femme, rencontrée dans la rue. Que devient-elle? L'auteur imagine son dernier voyage, sa dernière rencontre et une fin paisible parmi les siens. «L'Arbre de Noël» : Ce conte n'est pas sans rappeler celle de la «petite fille aux allumettes». Un enfant vient de perdre sa mère, est perdu lui-même dans une grande ville, froide, impersonnelle, un soir de Noël, et meurt tout seul, dans une cour derrière un tas de bois. Il est recueilli par Jésus lui-même, qui l'emmène voir son arbre, l'arbre de Noël de Jésus.

Link's engaging and funny second collection -- call it kitchen-sink magical realism -- riffs on haunted convenience stores, husbands and wives, rabbits, zombies, weekly apocalyptic poker parties, witches, superheroes, marriage, and cannons -- and includes several new stories.

From Publishers Weekly

Jack Murnighan, former editor-in-chief of sex-friendly Web site Nerve.com, gathers short erotic excerpts from works by more than 70 authors from the Marquis de Sade to Thomas Pynchon, Sappho to Jeanette Winterson, Ovid to J.G. Ballard. Culled from his popular weekly online column, The Naughty Bits (also Brit slang for genitalia) is billed as "the book that literary perverts have been waiting for." One of several recent Nerve.com tie-ins, it's a great idea and one needn't be especially literary or perverted to enjoy it. Murnighan's thoroughly good-natured, erudite introductions add to the bawdy fun.

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From Library Journal

Most people don't read a good book or have great sex nearly as often as they should; then again, most people don't know that the Great Works e.g., Joyce's Ulysses, Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, and Plato's The Symposium are as rife with "naughty bits" as a frat house is with hormones. The general public has Murnighan, former editor-in-chief of the popular sex web-zine Nerve.com, to thank for gleaning the gamut of world literature for amorous interludes, from the painfully romantic to the puke-inducing. Murnighan first excerpted these findings in the web site's "Naughty Bits" column, of which the cr me de la cr me is collected here. Besides giants like Shakespeare, D.H. Lawrence, Dante, and Herman Melville, lesser-knowns, such as 1960s French teen novelist Catherine Breillant, medieval English autobiographer Margery Kempe, and lesbian playwright Holly Hughes, make appearances alongside contemporary cads Larry Flynt and Kenneth Starr. Almost more savory than the wildly varied extracts are Murnighan's learned prefaces. The fan of erotica, the student of literature, and the aspiring sex worker will all relate to his language, a strangely seamless mix of lit crit and potty talk. Highly recommended for erotica collections and larger world literature collections. Heather McCormack, "Library Journal"
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.

This collection of Japanese fairy tales is the outcome of a suggestion made to me indirectly through a friend by Mr. Andrew Lang. They have been translated from the modern version written by Sadanami Sanjin. These stories are not literal translations, and though the Japanese story and all quaint Japanese expressions have been faithfully preserved, they have been told more with the view to interest young readers of the West than the technical student of folk-lore.

A collection of ten dark stories from Horror Writers Association member Aaron Polson. Witness hotels with shifting rooms...carnivorous beetles bent on devouring a sleepy mountain town...vindictive spirits with beautiful eyes...an undead Marine on his return from Iraq...a pond full of restless dead in the title story, and more.

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