title: The Best Revenge: Short Stories (Hardscrabble Books)
author:  Rebecca Rule 
description: Rule has an unerring ear for idiom and inflection, and her character's voices are spot-on . . . The best of the stories finish on an unexpected yet thoroughly satisfying note . . . A graceful and versatile writer.<i><b>Publishers Weekly</b></i><br /><br />Brisk and (generally) unsentimental stories of New England rural life, by an emerging New Hampshire writer whose flinty wit may remind readers of Maine's Carolyn Chute or Vermont's E. Annie Proulx. <i><b>Kirkus Reviews</b></i><br /><br />The Best Revenge is a superb little book, and the stories in it will bring natives home again and provide readers from other parts a piercingly sharp and warmly generous look at life in New England.<i><b>Nashua Sunday Telegraph; NH.com</b></i><br /><br />Her portraits are exquisite; these stories are sharp, clear, and poignant. Whether she is vibrantly detailing little league baseball, small-town politics, hunting and fishing, or the individual quirks and foibles of relatives and neighbors, Rule renders the commonplace extraordinary; readers will recognize themselves in every story. Highly recommended. <i><b>Library Journal</b></i>
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  > NAUGHTY ALL NIGHT
  
  JENNIFER BERNARD
  
  > CONTENTS
  
  >  _Chapter 1_
  
  >  _Chapter 2_
  
  >  _Chapter 3_
  
  >  _Chapter 4_
  
  >  _Chapter 5_
  
  >  _Chapter 6_
  
  >  _Chapter 7_
  
  >  _Chapter 8_
  
  >  _Chapter 9_
  
  >  _Chapter 10_
  
  >  _Chapter 11_
  
  >  _Chapter 12_
  
  >  _Chapter 13_
  
  >  _Chapter 14_
  
  >  _Chapter 15_
  
  >  _Chapter 16_
  
  >  _Chapter 17_
  
  >  _Chapter 18_
  
  >  _Chapter 19_
  
  >  _Chapter 20_
  
  >  _Chapter 21_
  
  >  _Chapter 22_
  
  >  _Chapter 23_
  
  >  _Chapter 24_
  
  >  _Chapter 25_
  
  >  _Chapter 26_
  
  >  _Chapter 27_
  
  >  _Chapter 28_
  
  >  _Chapter 29_
  
  >  _Chapter 30_
  
  >  _Chapter 31_
  
  >  _Chapter 32_
  
  >  _Chapter 33_
  
  >  _Chapter 34_
  
  >  _Chapter 35_
  
  >  _Chapter 36_
  
  >  _About the Author_
  
  >  _Also by Jennifer Bernard_
  
  > > CHAPTER ONE
  
  Exactly one minute ago, Kate Robinson had been speeding merrily toward town;
  one curve in the rutted road later, she was stuck in the mud with her wheels
  spinning uselessly.
  
  And if that wasn’t a perfect metaphor for her entire life, she didn’t k