Réquiem

When the ambitions of two former friends clash, a much-loved, small-town community school could become the casualty. Sprucedale Community School principal Joyce Stone has dedicated her career to revitalizing struggling, small-town schools, but now, her career bucket list is empty. Retirement is the next step, or so she thinks, until an unexpected opportunity at the esteemed Silver Heights Preparatory School changes her plans. Former trust fund baby Vanessa Landry is desperately trying to climb her way back up the social ladder after shunning her family's fortune to become a schoolteacher's...

The Fox and Dr. Shimamura toothsomely encompasses East and West, memory and reality, fox-possession myths, and psychiatric mythmaking. As an outstanding young Japanese medical student at the end of the nineteenth century, Dr. Shimamura is sent―to his dismay―to the provinces: he is asked to cure scores of young women afflicted by an epidemic of fox possession. Believing it's all a hoax, he considers the assignment an insulting joke, until he sees a fox moving under the skin of a young beauty... Next he travels to Europe and works with such luminaries as Charcot, Breuer and Freud―whose...

Esta colecccin contiene todos los cuentos de "El Tramo Final," un conjunto de relatos sobre la comunidad china en el Per que viera luz en 1986; todos los cuentos de "La Primera Espada del Imperio," un libro de cuentos publicado en 1988 por el Instituto Nacional de Cultura; y una serie de seis relatos inditos escritos entre los aos 1997 y 1998.

Thisbe Moreland estaba acostumbrada a que los hombres no la tomaran en serio. Como científica, solía ser la única mujer participante en conferencias y reuniones, siendo su presencia recibida con desprecio y mofa. De modo que fue una agradable sorpresa poder sentarse al lado de un atractivo joven que, además, estaba interesado en mantener una conversación sobre ciencia. Desmond Harrison no podía creer su buena suerte cuando le tocó sentarse junto a Thisbe, inteligente e impresionantemente hermosa. Desde el principio anheló volver a verla. Sin embargo, se avergonzaba de su baja cuna,...