Short Stories (single author)

  • Mulberry Street Stories

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    In this electric collection, Mary Slechta brings magical realism and U.S. history to bear on the community of Mulberry Street– an African-American neighborhood with a disputed past. Is this enclave t… [more below]

    • Series: Kimbilio National Fiction Prize
    • Author: Slechta, Mary
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 190
    • Publish Date: September 15 2023
    • ISBN10: 1954245742
    • Language: English
  • The Metamorphosis and Other Stories

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    It is one of the most memorable first lines in all of literature: “When Gregor Samsa woke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed into some kind of monstrous vermin.” So begins Ka… [more below]

    • Series: Oxford World’s Classics
    • Author: Kafka, Franz
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: July 26 2009
    • ISBN10: 0199238553
    • Language: English
  • Tales of Tangier: The Complete Short Stories of Mohamed Choukri

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    The complete short stories of acclaimed Moroccan author Mohamed Choukri, translated into English and collected in one volume for the first time

    A World Literature Today Notable Translation of 2023

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  • Direct Sunlight: Stories

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    A collection of twelve stories by award-winning author Christine Sneed

    The stories in Direct Sunlight, award-winning author Christine Sneed’s latest, are inspired by the memorable strangeness of ever

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    • Author: Sneed, Christine
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 248
    • Publish Date: June 15 2023
    • ISBN10: 0810146169
    • Language: English
  • Sparring Partners: Novellas

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    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – John Grisham is the acknowledged master of the legal thriller. In his first collection of novellas, law is a common thread, but America’s favorite storyteller has severa[more below]

    • Author: Grisham, John
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 416
    • Publish Date: June 07 2022
    • ISBN10: 0593632362
    • Language: English
  • You Think It, I’ll Say It: Stories

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    “Every bit as smart, sensitive, funny, and genuine as her phenomenally popular novels,”* a dazzling collection from the New York Times bestselling author of Prep, American Wife, and Eligible

    “I reall

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    • Author: Sittenfeld, Curtis
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: March 05 2019
    • ISBN10: 0525508708
    • Language: English
  • Thank You, Mr. Nixon: Stories

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    The acclaimed, award-winning author of The Resisters takes measure of the fifty years since the opening of China and its unexpected effects on the lives of ordinary people. It is a unique book that on[more below]

    • Author: Jen, Gish
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: November 01 2022
    • ISBN10: 0593314093
    • Language: English
  • Scenes from a Childhood

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    WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

    Scenes from a Childhood is the latest collection of stories by Jon Fosse, one of Norway’s most celebrated authors and playwrights, famed for the minimalist… [more below]

    • Author: Fosse, Jon
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: November 06 2018
    • ISBN10: 191069553X
    • Language: English
  • Show Them a Good Time

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    “Show Them a Good Time is a master class in the short story-bold, irreverent and agonizingly funny.” Sally Rooney, Author of Normal People and Conversations with Friends

    Show Them a Good Time tells th

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    • Author: Flattery, Nicole
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: July 11 2023
    • ISBN10: 1639730737
    • Language: English
  • Learning to Talk: Stories

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    A dazzling collection of short stories from the two-time winner of the Booker Prize and #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Wolf Hall trilogy.

    In the wake of Hilary Mantel’s brilliant conclusi

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    • Author: Mantel, Hilary
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: June 21 2022
    • ISBN10: 1250865360
    • Language: English
  • Fat Time and Other Stories

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    * LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION *

    A ferocious, innovative story collection about Black lives in the past, present, and future

    “A potentially transformative exh

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    • Author: Allen, Jeffery Renard
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: June 20 2023
    • ISBN10: 1644452391
    • Language: English
  • On Booze

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    “First you take a drink,” F. Scott Fitzgerald once noted, “then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.” Fitzgerald wrote alcohol into almost every one of his stories. On Booze gathers debu… [more below]

    • Series: New Directions Pearls #0
    • Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: June 28 2011
    • ISBN10: 0811219267
    • Language: English
  • The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain

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    For deft plotting, riotous inventiveness, unforgettable characters, and language that brilliantly captures the lively rhythms of American speech, no American writer comes close to Mark Twain. This spa… [more below]

    • Author: Twain, Mark
    • Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
    • Page Count: 679
    • Publish Date: March 01 1984
    • ISBN10: 0553211951
    • Language: English
  • The Comebacker

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    Lionel Vratimos is a beat reporter covering the San Francisco Giants — an enviable job if not for the soggy fries, and the so-so weather, and the Giants’ losing record, and the shoe Lionel paid a Rom

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    • Author: Eggers, Dave
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 72
    • Publish Date: October 22 2024
    • ISBN10: 1963270010
    • Language: English
  • Uncommon Weather: Alaska Stories

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    Uncommon Weather is an eclectic mix of character-driven stories that delivers a panoramic picture of Alaska– from the cold city streets of Anchorage to picturesque but emotionally treacherous small A… [more below]

    • Series: Alaska Literary
    • Author: Chiappone, Richard
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 168
    • Publish Date: September 16 2024
    • ISBN10: 1646426363
    • Language: English
  • The Hive and the Honey: Stories

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    Winner of The Story Prize
    Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize
    A Time Top 10 Best Fiction Book of 2023 and Must Read Book of 2023
    A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
    Named a Best Book o[more below]

    • Author: Yoon, Paul
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: October 08 2024
    • ISBN10: 1668020807
    • Language: English
  • The Burning Plain

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    A new translation of El Llano en llamas, an iconic collection of short stories that changed the course of Mexican and Latin American literature.

    Since its publication in 1953, Juan Rulfo’s The Burning

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    • Author: Rulfo, Juan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: September 03 2024
    • ISBN10: 147732996X
    • Language: English
  • In This Ravishing World

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    In this Ravishing World is a sweeping, impassioned short story collection, ringing out with joy, despair, and hope for the natural world. Nine connected stories unfold, bringing together an unforgetta… [more below]

    • Author: Schuyler, Nina
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 294
    • Publish Date: July 02 2024
    • ISBN10: 1646034422
    • Language: English
  • Pleasantview

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    Winner of the 2022 CLMP Firecracker Award for Fiction

    Winner of the 2022 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature

    “In one of Chekhov’s stories, a character says that every happy man should have someone

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    • Author: Mohammed, Celeste
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: May 25 2021
    • ISBN10: 1632462028
    • Language: English
  • The Goodbye Process: Stories

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    “Short story fans might just discover their new favorite author in this arresting collection, a must-have.”–The Library Journal (starred review)

    What happens when you are forced to let go of the thin

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    • Author: Jones, Mary
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: July 30 2024
    • ISBN10: 1958506621
    • Language: English
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