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In his confident debut, Greg Bechtel offers ten charged stories about the impossible-turned-possible—secrets, paranoia, sex, conspiracies, and magic—that the strangeness of the world around us.

The title story of this collection of short stories features the tale of the "most honest and upright" town of Hadleyburg, whose residents boast of their unsmirched moral character.

Tom's plan to become famous involves Huck Finn and his friend Jim in a crusade to the Holy Land by balloon ascension.

Tom Sawyer is a high-spirited but basically good kid growing up on the Mississippi River, pining for Becky Thatcher and getting into run-of-the-mill trouble.

Huck Finn fakes his own death to escape a cushy life with a kind widow because he is sick of wearing shoes. Back on the river where he belongs, he teams up with an escaped slave named Jim.

When a mulatto slave woman switches her own infant with the look-alike son of a wealthy merchant, it takes Pudd'nhead Wilson, the town eccentric, to put things right again.

A blow on the head transports a Yankee to 528 A.D. where he proceeds to modernize King Arthur's kingdom.

Twain grew up on the river, achieved his boyhood dream of being a river pilot, and then had the good sense to write about it.

Two American originals, Mark Twain and the West, come together in this documentary of the author's seven-year "pleasure trip" to the silver mines of Nevada.

In perhaps the most satirical children’s book of all time, Mark Twain dishes out outrageous, witty, and practical advice for girls with ease.

Can love conquer all? Kate and Tom are the original star-crossed lovers. Kate is a beautiful model; Tom a successful football star at the peak of his career.

The riches to rags to riches again story of a film star and her family and their coming to terms with a homosexual son and tragedy.

This is the story of a successful business man faced with the death of his wife from cancer, a custody suit for her child, and the adjustment to his life this causes.

Contemporary novel of two people from different worlds whose lives are changed by 'five days in Paris'.

Charles Waterston's marriage ends abruptly and he is sent to work in New York.