Short Stories (single author)
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The Shehnai Virtuoso: And Other Stories
$15.95 Add to cart“Dhumketu is a wonderfully gripping storyteller, and translator Jenny Bhatt has certainly done him justice in this excellent selection.” -Jennifer Croft, translator of The Books of Jacob
The tragic lov
- Author: Dhumketu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1646051688
- Language: English
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Nobody Gets Out Alive: Stories
$26.99 Add to cartLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD AND THE STORY PRIZE
Named a BEST BOOK OF 2022 by Oprah Daily, Vogue, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, and Electric Lit From a prizewinning author comes an “elec- Author: Newman, Leigh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1982180307
- Language: English
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All the Shining People
$17.99 Read moreFinalist, 2023 Trillium Book Award
Finalist, Writers Union of Canada 2023 Daunta Gleed Literary Award
Finalist, 2023 ReLit Award for Short FictionTwelve exquisitely written stories depicting the s
- Author: Friedman, Kathy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1487010400
- Language: English
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Mad Prairie: Stories and a Novella
$21.95 Add to cartIn this scary, funny, and slyly political short story collection, Kate McIntyre conjures a fever dream of contemporary Kansas. Boundaries between fantasy and reality blur, and grotesque acts birth str… [more below]
- Series: Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction #119
- Author: McIntyre, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0820360740
- Language: English
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In the Year 2889
$4.99 Add to cartFrom an author with countless beloved science fiction classics, In the Year 2889 is a short work of science fiction that imagines the future. Set in the year 2889, George Washington Smith is a wealth
- Series: Mint Editions (Scientific and Speculative Fiction)
- Author: Verne, Jules
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 20
- Publish Date: February 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1513269860
- Language: English
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The Fox’s Tower and Other Tales: A Collection of Magical Short Stories
$14.99 Read more“Locus Award winner Lee (Phoenix Extravagant) takes on the folktale form in a collection of 25 gorgeous, magical stories, tiny jewels of worldbuilding that tap into mythic themes to feel somehow both … [more below]
- Author: Ha Lee, Yoon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 1524868132
- Language: English
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How to Dispatch a Human: Stories and Suggestions
$16.95 Add to cartIn this daring collection of speculative fiction, Stephanie Andrea Allen attends to the lives of Black women, mostly lesbian or queer, all keenly aware of the forces seeking to consume them.
A Black le
- Author: Allen, Stephanie Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1735906506
- Language: English
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Conversational German Dialogues: 50 German Conversations and Short Stories
$14.99 Add to cartWhen face-to-face with a real German speaker, do you freeze?
Do you fear not knowing how to ask for directions in German or even worse, struggle to communicate if there’s an emergency?
If your answer to
- Series: Conversational German Dual Language Books #1
- Author: Language Learning, Touri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: June 30 2020
- ISBN10: 1953149200
- Language: English
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Maggie Brown & Others: Stories
$21.99 Add to cartIn this powerful and virtuosic collection of interlocking stories, each one “a marvel of concision and compassion” (Washington Post), a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and “master of his f… [more below]
- Author: Orner, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 28 2020
- ISBN10: 0316516120
- Language: English
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Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It
$24.00 Add to cartOne of the New York Times 10 Best Books of 2009– now adapted into the feature film Certain Women, starring Kristen Stewart– award-winning writer Maile Meloy’s short stories explore complex lives in… [more below]
- Author: Meloy, Maile
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 06 2010
- ISBN10: 1594484651
- Language: English
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Hell’s Bottom, Colorado
$16.00 Add to cartWinner of the PEN USA Award for Fiction. “An admirable, steely-eyed collection of stories and vignettes featuring a family of ranchers.”–Publishers Weekly
On Hell’s Bottom Ranch, a section of land bel
- Author: Pritchett, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 148
- Publish Date: October 15 2001
- ISBN10: 1571310363
- Language: English
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Extinction Events: Stories
$17.95 Add to cartIn this collection of short stories, Liz Breazeale explores the connections between humans and the natural world by examining the processes and history of our planet. A myriad of extinction events lar… [more below]
- Series: Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction
- Author: Breazeale, Liz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 138
- Publish Date: September 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1496215621
- Language: English
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The Empty Family
$17.99 Add to cartThe bestselling and award-winning author of Brooklyn, Colm T?b?, returns with a stunning collection of stories–“a book that’s both a perfect introduction to T?b? and, for longtime fans, a bracing ple… [more below]
- Author: Toibin, Colm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 03 2012
- ISBN10: 143919596X
- Language: English
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The Brutal Language of Love: Stories
$15.99 Add to cartAlicia Erian’s characters are brave, disarming, affectionate, and deeply flawed. They inhabit the not-so-very-wide space between a good intention and a bad outcome. In “Alcatraz,” we meet a middle-sch… [more below]
- Author: Erian, Alicia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 15 2008
- ISBN10: 1416592717
- Language: English
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Home
$18.00 Add to cart“Home” finds Kossi Komla-Ebri between places and identities, cultures and languages, expectations and realities, Europe and Africa. Across these eleven short stories, Komla-Ebri crosses genres and bor… [more below]
- Series: Crossings #34
- Author: Komla-Ebri, Kossi A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1599541904
- Language: English
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The Mad Kyoto Shoe Swapper and Other Short Stories
$6.99 Add to cart“Otowa has woven a series of delightful vignettes of life in Japan, from a true historical story of feuding villages to a man who steals shoes at temples…and some highlighting the cultural differenc… [more below]
- Author: Otowa, Rebecca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0804856575
- Language: English
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Avalanche
$16.95 Add to cartFeatured on 49th Shelf’s Most Anticipated: 2023 Fall Fiction Preview
“Things used to be easier, but even in those carefree days, the rules were in place for a reason. And that reason is: so we can all
- Author: Westhead, Jessica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 145
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1778430260
- Language: English
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Hero Avenue: A Novel of Short Stories
$35.00 Add to cartIn this collection of serialized short stories, get an intimate look inside the unique, insular world of life on an Army base during the backdrop of the Vietnam War. From 1957 through 1971, follow Arm
- Author: Greyhosky, Babs
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: February 09 2023
- ISBN10: 9798886040906
- Language: English
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Mientras Ellas Duermen / While Women Are Sleeping
$13.95 Read moreUn volumen que coloca a MarÃas entre los maestros del género, entre Cortázar, Salinger, Poe o el primer Capote.
Mientras ellas duermen, tÃtulo a su vez de uno de los relatos de este volumen, sir… [more below]- Author: MarÃas, Javier
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 8466371583
- Language: Spanish
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Fighting For Their Lives
$15.95 Add to cart“Fighting for Their Lives” is a fictional story about a couple. Upon learning they were told they can’t have children, they prayed for a miracle. Though their prayers were answered, tragedy struck whe
- Author: Drunasky, Jacqueline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: May 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1638745641
- Language: English
