Mort: 59 books

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE T.S ELIOT PRIZE 2013* ‘A stone is lobbed in ’84, hangs like a star over Orgreave. Welcome to Sheffield. Border-land, our town of miracles…’ – ‘Scab’ From the clash between striking miners and police to the delicate conflicts in personal relationships,...

In descriptions of athletes, the word “hero” is bandied about and liberally attached to players with outstanding statistics and championship rings. Gil Hodges: A Hall of Fame Life is the story of a man who epitomized heroism in its truest meaning, holding values and personal interactions to be...

A delectable journey into the world of chocolate--from manufacturing to marketing, French boutiques to American multinationals--by the award-winning author of Olives. Science, over recent years, has confirmed what chocolate lovers have always known: the stuff is actually good for you. It's...

The nation’s favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its sixth year. Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British...

“Ray Bradbury is without a doubt, one of this, or any century’s greatest and most imaginative writers. Shadow Show, a book of truly great stories, is the perfect tribute to America’s master storyteller.” —Stan Lee, legendary comic book writer and former president and chairman of Marvel Comics “Great...

How to train your fingernails into a shape you will be proud to display. You can grow your nails longer and more shapely by following these instructions and using the new UV gel polish products available through Amazon, eBay and other on-line sources. Your nails will go from Freaky to FABULOUS and you will learn how to maintain that look long-term.

Cave Blindness Like Plato's cave-dwellers who only saw inaccurate reflections of reality on the wall, America has been blinded to dangerous realities inside and outside our borders, argues award-winning journalist Mort Rosenblum. Our ignorance is not just deplorable, it is literally killing...

(264 Printed Pages) You see him at PTA meetings, selling peanuts for Kiwanis, mowing his lawn. Michael Louden is your ever-so-average nice guy, your neighbor, your friend--except he wants to kill you and your family and your dog. He's the next door serial psycho, Jack the Ripper in Willy Loman's...

Stories to tell. Too much to think of. Poetry and problems. Poems by M. A. Mortén

Mort Rosenblum, a celebrated foreign correspondent, invites us aboard his fifty-four-foot launch tied up in the center of Paris and introduces us to the characters who share his life along the river, ranging from eccentric movie stars and reclusive novelists to barge families just scraping by. He...

Une mise en abîme des accords entre la France et la Grande Bretagne au Moyen Orient après la fin de la Première Guerre mondiale. Ce texte d’un auteur inconnu, nommé pour la circonstance « Mort O’ Cons » paru en 1940 à Berlin, est ouvertement antisémite. Visiblement bien informé...

Mort Zachter’s childhood revolved around a small shop on Manhattan’s Lower East Side known in the neighborhood as “the day-old bread store.” It was a bakery where nothing was baked, owned by his two eccentric uncles who referred to their goods as “the merchandise.” Zachter grew up sleeping...

Balloon has always been a morbidly obese moron. But recently, something about his feeble brain has changed. Every time he guesses, he’s right. Victory, the girl he’s been crushing on for over ten years, needs his abilities to save her dying father. Desperate for her affection, Balloon agrees to...

This is a valuable, much-needed book that explores how to successfully achieve a reasonable state of happiness throughout our lifetimes while managing the dire challenges we all are certain to face. As Woody Allen would say, “It’s the shit happens phenomenon, it’s only a question of how much...