Short stories

  • Someone Birthed Them Broken: Stories

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    “Delightfully assertive, subversive and vibrant an original voice.” –Imbolo Mbue, author of the New York Times bestseller and PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction winner Behold the Dreamers “A compel

    • Author: Diaka, Ama Asantewa
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: April 02, 2024
    • ISBN10: 0063259559
    • Language: English
  • Horse Show

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    From the tale of Lady, the mare who read a Duke University psychologist’s mind, to television palomino Mr. Ed’s hypnotic hold over Wilbur Post, the thirteen tales in Horse Show explore how humans have… [more below]

    • Author: Bowers, Jess
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 156
    • Publish Date: April 09 2024
    • ISBN10: 1951631315
    • Language: English
  • Cryptopolis and Other Stories

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    Last week, did you tell your best friend why the King of Cryptopolis has gone insane and why he ordered his guards to behead him? Do you know the secret of the black magician Aleister Crowley-how he w

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    • Author: Guffey, Robert
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 370
    • Publish Date: January 13 2024
    • ISBN10: 1590217683
    • Language: English
  • Ghostroots: Stories

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    In this beguiling collection of twelve imaginative stories set in Lagos, Nigeria, ‘Pemi Aguda dramatizes the tension between our yearning to be individuals and the ways we are haunted by what came bef

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    • Author: Aguda, ‘Pemi
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: May 07 2024
    • ISBN10: 1324065850
    • Language: English
  • A World of Horror

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    Every nation of the globe has unique tales to tell, whispers that settle in through the land, creatures or superstitions that enliven the night, but rarely do readers get to experience such a diversit

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    • Author: Guignard, Eric J.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 330
    • Publish Date: September 10 2018
    • ISBN10: 0998938319
    • Language: English
  • The Wine of Youth

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    This new edition of the legendary Dago Red, first published in 1940, contains seven new stories, including “A Nun No More” and “My Father’s God.”

    • Author: Fante, John
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: September 25 2023
    • ISBN10: 0876855826
    • Language: English
  • Ford County: Stories

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    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – In his first collection of short stories John Grisham takes us back to Ford County, Mississippi, the setting of his first novel, A Time to Kill.

    This riveting collection

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    • Author: Grisham, John
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: August 17 2010
    • ISBN10: 0553386816
    • Language: English
  • The Big Book of the Continental Op

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    Now for the first time ever in one volume, all twenty-eight stories and two serialized novels starring the Continental Op–one of the greatest characters in storied history of detective fiction.

    Dash

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    • Author: Hammett, Dashiell
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 752
    • Publish Date: November 28 2017
    • ISBN10: 0525432957
    • Language: English
  • No Comebacks: Collected Short Stories

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    A collection of taut, electrifying tales from the master of international intrigue, #1 New York Times bestselling author Frederick Forsyth…

    A wealthy philanderer plots to murder the husband of the w

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    • Author: Forsyth, Frederick
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: October 02 2012
    • ISBN10: 0451239415
    • Language: English
  • Spoiled Brats (Including the Story That Inspired the Major Motion Picture an American Pickle Starring Seth Rogen): Stories

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    The “hilarious” (New York Times Book Review) collection of short stories from the award-winning humorist Simon Rich includes the story that inspired the Seth Rogen comedy An American Pickle.

    Twenty

    • Author: Rich, Simon
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: May 26, 2015
    • ISBN10: 0316368652
    • Language: English
  • Let the Dead Bury Their Dead

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    “Nothing short of a wonder-book.”–New York Times Book Review

    The story collection that hailed the arrival of an essential voice in southern literaturea sharp, rich exploration of what it means to p

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    • Series: Harvest American Writing
    • Author: Kenan, Randall
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 348
    • Publish Date: January 03 2012
    • ISBN10: 0156505150
    • Language: English
  • Shadow Show

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    “Ray Bradbury is without a doubt, one of this, or any century’s greatest and most imaginative writers. Shadow Show, a book of truly great stories, is the perfect tribute to America’s master storytelle

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    • Author: Weller, Sam
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 464
    • Publish Date: July 10 2012
    • ISBN10: 0062122681
    • Language: English
  • Ugly Man: Stories

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    ” A] brilliant, triumphantly lurid writer as well as a supremely talented, elegant stylist whose prose is smart and nervy. He might also be the last literary outlaw in mainstream American fiction.” —

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    • Series: P.S.
    • Author: Cooper, Dennis
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: May 26 2009
    • ISBN10: 0061715441
    • Language: English
  • The Terrifying Realm of the Possible: Nearly True Stories

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    A daring, hilariously neurotic literary debut from the acclaimed actor and comedian Brett Gelman (Stranger Things, Fleabag).

    Enter the wonderfully weird, always uncomfortable, side-splittingly funny wo

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    • Author: Gelman, Brett
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: March 19 2024
    • ISBN10: 0063315971
    • Language: English
  • If I Were the Ocean, I’d Carry You Home

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    If I Were the Ocean, I’d Carry You Home, Pete Hsu’s gripping and energetic debut, tells the stories of children and young people navigating a world not made for them, where the presence of death and v[more below]

    • Author: Hsu, Pete
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: October 11 2022
    • ISBN10: 1636280536
    • Language: English
  • To the Stars and Other Stories

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    A boy who feels persecuted by the banality of everyday life yearns to ascend to the cold and majestic plane of the stars. A seamstress finds liberation of a sort in “becoming” a dog and howling at the

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    • Author: Fusso, Susanne
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 280
    • Publish Date: February 28 2023
    • ISBN10: 0231200056
    • Language: English
  • Here Be Icebergs

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    The weird, fetid, familiar discomfort of family is front and centre in these short stories of all the ways we remain a mystery to each other.

    The mysteries of kinship (families born into and families m

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    • Author: Adaui, Katya
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 133
    • Publish Date: June 14 2022
    • ISBN10: 1913867196
    • Language: English
  • American Christmas Stories

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    ** A New York Times New and Noteworthy Book **

    Library of America and Connie Willis present 150 years of diverse, ingenious, and uniquely American Christmas stories

    Christmas took on its modern cast i

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    • Author: Willis, Connie
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 467
    • Publish Date: October 26 2021
    • ISBN10: 1598537067
    • Language: English
  • The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2021: A Mystery Collection

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    Steph Cha, a rising star who brings a fresh perspective as series editor, takes the helm of the new The Best American Mystery and Suspense, with best-selling crime novelist Alafair Burke joining her a[more below]

    • Series: Best American Series (R)
    • Author: Cha, Steph
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: October 12 2021
    • ISBN10: 0358525691
    • Language: English
  • Best Lesbian Erotica of the Year, Volume 5

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    Testing the boundaries of pleasure and pain . . . To be so full of longing you ache for release . . . Coming to climax without a single touch.

    The fifth volume of the Best Lesbian Erotica of the Year

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    • Series: Best Lesbian Erotica #5
    • Author: Sexsmith, Sinclair
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 177
    • Publish Date: December 08 2020
    • ISBN10: 1627783083
    • Language: English
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