Short Stories (single author)

  • Atavists: Stories

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    The word atavism, coined by a botanist and popularized by a criminologist, refers to the resurfacing of a primitive evolutionary trait or urge in a modern being. This inventive collection from Lydia M

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    • Author: Millet, Lydia
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: April 22 2025
    • ISBN10: 1324074418
    • Language: English
  • The Way You Want to Be Loved: Short Stories

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    “A collection of poignant, finely crafted stories set against the backdrop of violence that has long racked north-eastern India.” -Amitav Ghosh, via Twitter

    “A new voice in the burgeoning oeuvre of ang

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    • Author: Kashyap, Aruni
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: October 01 2024
    • ISBN10: 1958652083
    • Language: English
  • Get Down

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    Asali Solomon’s characters are vivid misfits–a heathen at Jesus camp, a scheming prep-school student, a middle-aged mom pining for her salsa-dancing salad days, a scheming twentysomething virgin, a c

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    • Author: Solomon, Asali
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: January 22 2008
    • ISBN10: 0374531463
    • Language: English
  • The Half-White Album

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    This powerful debut collection explores lives lived between worlds. Sylvester masterfully weaves together fiction, poetry, and nonfiction to give readers a poignant though fractured view of her charac… [more below]

  • While We Were Dreaming

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    Rico, Mark, Paul and Daniel were 13 when the Berlin Wall fell in autumn 1989. Growing up in Leipzig at the time of reunification, they dream of a better life somewhere beyond the brewery quarter. Ever

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    • Author: Meyer, Clemens
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 528
    • Publish Date: September 19 2023
    • ISBN10: 1804270288
    • Language: English
  • Gordon B. White is Creating Haunting Weird Horror(s)

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    From Gordon B. White, finalist for the Shirley Jackson and Bram Stoker Awards, come fifteen tales of evocative prose and unparalleled imagination. From spirit-possessed postcards in the award-nominate

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    • Author: White, Gordon B.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: October 13 2023
    • ISBN10: 1685100945
    • Language: English
  • So Many People, Mariana

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    Long discounted by a literary culture that actively rejected women’s writing, Maria Judite de Carvalho’s biting and bitterly funny work has since exploded across the world. Collecting the entirety of … [more below]

    • Author: de Carvalho, Maria Judite
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 450
    • Publish Date: October 10 2023
    • ISBN10: 1949641511
    • Language: English
  • The Lonesome Bodybuilder: Stories

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    Winner of the Akutagawa Prize and the Kenzaburo Oe Prize, these eleven surreal tales, set in the offices, zoos, bus stops, boutiques, and homes of contemporary Japan “are reminiscent, at least to this[more below]

    • Author: Motoya, Yukiko
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: November 06 2018
    • ISBN10: 1593766785
    • Language: English
  • The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies

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    A much-awaited collection of prose and poetry from one of the great cosmic masters of the supernatural

    Not just any fantasy, horror, and science fiction author could impress H. P. Lovecraft into calli

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    • Series: Penguin Classics
    • Author: Smith, Clark Ashton
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 400
    • Publish Date: March 25 2014
    • ISBN10: 0143107380
    • Language: English
  • The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel

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    Amy Hempel is a master of the short story. This celebrated volume gathers together her complete work — four short collections of stunning stories about marriages, minor disasters, and moments of reve… [more below]

    • Author: Hempel, Amy
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 432
    • Publish Date: September 18 2007
    • ISBN10: 0743291638
    • Language: English
  • How It Went: Thirteen More Stories of the Port William Membership

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    Thirteen new stories of the Port William membership spanning the decades from World War II to the present moment

    For those readers of his poetry and inspired by his increasingly vital work as advocate

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    • Series: Port William
    • Author: Berry, Wendell
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: November 07 2023
    • ISBN10: 1640096159
    • Language: English
  • You Have a Friend in 10A: Stories

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    From the Booker Prize nominee and New York Times bestselling author of Great Circle, a piercing, irresistible, “immersive” (The New York Times) first collection of short stories exquisite in their cra[more below]

    • Series: Vintage Contemporaries
    • Author: Shipstead, Maggie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: April 18 2023
    • ISBN10: 1984897713
    • Language: English
  • Slug and Other Stories

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    “Carefully considered, successful instances of experimental fiction” disrupt gender, genre, and identity in this deranged, otherworldly collection (Literary Hub).

    A woman metamorphoses into a giant slu

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    • Author: Milks, Megan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: November 09 2021
    • ISBN10: 1952177847
    • Language: English
  • Songs on the Water

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    Hard-living tricksters, backwoods queers, and vengeful scoundrels collide with Southern-gothic history, religion, and apocalypse, pushing the boundaries of time-tested traditions in Songs on the Water[more below]

    • Author: Culpepper, Jackson
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 204
    • Publish Date: October 24 2023
    • ISBN10: 1956368647
    • Language: English
  • Bruno’s Challenge: And Other Stories of the French Countryside

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    Martin Walker’s first collection of stories featuring all the familiar characters from his Bruno novels and the glories of the P?rigord region of France, with ample helpings of food and wine.

    “Whether

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    • Series: Bruno, Chief of Police
    • Author: Walker, Martin
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: February 14 2023
    • ISBN10: 0593467361
    • Language: English
  • Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

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    A dazzling collection of fifteen short stories from Margaret Atwood, the internationally acclaimed, award-winning author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments.

    Margaret Atwood has established hers

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    • Author: Atwood, Margaret
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: April 04 2023
    • ISBN10: 0593677943
    • Language: English
  • The Jungle Book

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    “For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack,” –Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

    Penned by English Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling in 1894, The Jungle Book is a

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    • Series: Word Cloud Classics
    • Author: Kipling, Rudyard
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: October 28 2014
    • ISBN10: 1626862583
    • Language: English
  • Lost in the City

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    The nation’s capital that serves as the setting for the stories in Edward P. Jones’s prizewinning collection, Lost in the City, lies far from the city of historic monuments and national politicians. J

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    • Author: Jones, Edward P.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: November 30 2004
    • ISBN10: 006079528X
    • Language: English
  • Chrysalis: Stories

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    Winner, 2023 Governor General’s Literary Award
    Winner, 2023 Writers Trust Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2+ Emerging Writers

    Longlisted for the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction

    Genre-blending storie

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    • Author: Varghese, Anuja
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: March 14 2023
    • ISBN10: 1487011660
    • Language: English
  • Exhalation: Stories

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    NATIONAL BESTSELLER – ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR Nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories–two published for the very first time–all from the mind of the in[more below]

    • Author: Chiang, Ted
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: May 07 2019
    • ISBN10: 1101947888
    • Language: English
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