Books like Jase & the deadliest hunt by John Luke Robertson

Seventeen-year-old Gene has passed as a vampire for years, carefully following every rule, but now, just as he finds a girl worth fighting for, he is chosen to participate in the hunt for the last remaining humans among ruthless vampires who soon suspect his true nature.

This collection contains: The most dangerous game / Richard Connell Hunters in the snow / Tobias Wolff The destructors / Graham Greene How I met my husband / Alice Munro Interpreter of maladies / Jhumpa Lahiri Everyday use / Alice Walker Miss Brill / Katherine Mansfield The man who was almost a man / Richard Wright Welding with children / Tim Gautreaux The darling / Anton Chekhov A worn path / Eudora Welty Once upon a time / Nadine Gordimer Paul's case / Willa Cather The lottery / Shirley Jackson The jilting of Granny Wetherall / Katherine Anne Porter Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence Young goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne The ones who walk away from Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin A very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel Garcia Marquez The drunkard / Frank O'Connor Rape fantasies / Margaret Atwood The guest / Albert Camus Roman fever / Edith Wharton A new leaf / F. Scott Fitzgerald Civil peace / Chinua Achebe The swimmer / John Cheever [The story of an hour ](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20078864W)/ Kate Chopin A rose for Emily / William Faulkner A jury of her peers / Susan Glaspell The gilded six-bits / Zora Neale hurston The real thing / Henry James Bartleby the scrivener / Herman Melville The cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe A & P / John Updike The eagle / Alfred, Lord Tennyson Winter / William Shakespeare Dulce et decorum est / Wilfred Owen Shall I compare thee to a summer's day / William Shakespeare The whipping / Robert Hayden The last night that she lived / Emily Dickinson Ballad of Birmingham / Dudley Randall Kitchenette building / Gwendolyn Brooks The red wheelbarrow / William Carlos Williams Constantly risking absurdity / Lawrence Ferlinghetti Terence, this is stupid stuff / A.E. Housman Archibald MacLeish The man he killed / Thomas Hardy A study of reading habits / Philip Larkin Is my team plowing / A.E. Housman Break of day / John Donne There's been a death, in the opposite house / Emily Dickinson When in Rome / Mari Evans Animals are passing from our lives / Philip Levine Question / May Swenson Mirror / Sylvia Plath The clod and the pebble / William Blake Ethics / Linda Pastan Storm warnings / Adrienne Rich. There is no frigate like a book / Emily Dickinson When my love swears she is made of truth / William Shakespeare Pathedy of manners / Ellen Kay Naming of parts / Henry Reed Cross / Langston Hughes The world is too much with us / William Wordsworth Desert places / Robert Frost Let no charitable hope / Elinor Wylie A hymn to God the Father / John Donne One art / Elizabeth Bishop 35/10 / Sharon Olds Meeting at night ; Parting at morning / Robert Browning Spring / Gerard Manley Hopkins The widow's lament in springtime / William Carlos Williams The man with night sweats / Thom Gunn I felt a funeral, in my brain / Emily Dickinson Living in sin / Adrienne Rich The forge / Seamus Heaney After apple-picking / Robert Frost Those winter Sundays / Robert Hayden An August night / Seamus Heaney The snow man / Wallace Stevens / To autumn / John Keats Harlem / Langston Hughes Bereft / Robert Frost It sifts from leaden sieves / Emily Dickinson The author to her book / Anne Bradstreet The telephone / Maya Angelou Bright star / John Keats Mind / Richard Wilbur I taste a liquor never brewed / Emily Dickinson Metaphors / Sylvia Plath Toads / Philip Larkin Ghost of a chance / Adrienne Rich A valediction: forbidding mourning / John Donne To his coy mistress / Andrew Marvell Introduction to poetry / Billy Collins The road not taken / Robert Frost A noiseless patient spider / Walt Whitman The sick rose / William Blake Digging / Seamus Heaney To the virgins, to make much of time / Robert Herrick Peace / George Herbert The writer / Richard Wilbur Fire and ice / Robert Frost Up-hill / Christina Rossetti Harlem hopscotch / Maya Angelou I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growin

The man who knew how / Dorothy L. Sayers -- [The most dangerous game](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL5278311W) / Richard Connell -- The treasure hunt / Edgar Wallace -- [Man from the South](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504421W) / Ronald Dahl -- Puzzle for Poppy / Patrick Quentin -- Treasure trove / F. Tennyson Jesse -- Your truly, Jack the Ripper / Robert Bloch -- The dilemma of Grampa Dubois / Clayre and Michel Lipman -- The birds / Daphne du Maurier.

An authoritative bestseller for over fifty years, PERRINE'S LITERATURE: STRUCTURE, SOUND, AND SENSE continues to be an essential and highly effective introduction to literature for today's students. Written for students beginning a serious study of literature, the text introduces the fundamental elements of fiction, poetry, and drama in a concise and engaging way, addressing vital questions that other texts tend to ignore, such as "Is some literature better?" and "How can it be evaluated?" A remarkable selection of classic, modern, and contemporary readings serves to illustrate the elements of literature and ensure broad appeal to students of diverse backgrounds and interests.

Contains: Leiningen versus the ants / Carl Stephenson To build a fire / Jack London Cooper's Creek / Alan Moorehead Walk well, my brother / Farley Mowat Three Skeleton Key / George G. Toudouze Shipwreck of the Whaleship Essex / Owen Chase [The most dangerous game](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL5278311W) / Richard Connell "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" / Rudyard Kipling A first-rate tragedy / Diana Preston Two mountain men / George Laycock Three days / John Haines The open boat / Stephen Crane The long walk / Slavomir Rawicz Alive / Piers Paul Read Annapurna / Maurice Herzog The boat journey / Sir Ernest Shackleton The Devil's Thumb / Jon Krakauer.

High School level

For as long as he can remember, Ethan has envied his dad's hunting trips. His dad has always promised to bring Ethan along when he's old enough, and finally, this year is the year! But on their hunt, Ethan discovers some dead deer left in the woods. A poacher is killing the animals for fun. Ethan knows that's against the Hunter's Code . . . after all, he broke that rule himself.

316 pages : 21 cm

The reader's decisions control the course of an adventure on a mysterious Caribbean island thought to be haunted by spirits of the cannibals that once lived there.

Fifty years ago, Laurence Perrine pioneered a new and better approach to teaching literature. That breakthrough has made his unique textbooks best-selling favorites for generations. Now, Perrine's straightforward answers to tough questions, diverse and exciting example pieces, and step-by-step guides to understanding and appreciating literature have been updated for today's students. The perfect all-purpose resource for courses emphasizing literature, Perrine's Literature covers fiction, poetry, and drama, and is designed to develop the essential skills required for success in almost any college class: critical reading, careful analysis, and effective writing.