Short Stories (single author)
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By: Slechta, Mary
Mulberry Street Stories
$19.95PaperbackRead moreIn 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
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By: Kafka, Franz
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
$13.95PaperbackAdd to cartIt 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
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By: Choukri, Mohamed
Tales of Tangier: The Complete Short Stories of Mohamed Choukri
$16.00PaperbackAdd to cartThe 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 “Ch- Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
- Author: Choukri, Mohamed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 0300251351
- Language: English
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By: Sneed, Christine
Direct Sunlight: Stories
$20.00PaperbackRead moreA 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- Author: Sneed, Christine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: June 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0810146169
- Language: English
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By: Grisham, John
Sparring Partners: Novellas
$31.00PaperbackRead more#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
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You Think It, I’ll Say It: Stories
$17.00PaperbackRead more“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- Author: Sittenfeld, Curtis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 0525508708
- Language: English
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By: Jen, Gish
Thank You, Mr. Nixon: Stories
$17.00PaperbackRead moreThe 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
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By: Fosse, Jon
Scenes from a Childhood
$15.95PaperbackAdd to cartWINNER 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
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By: Flattery, Nicole
Show Them a Good Time
$17.99PaperbackRead more“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- Author: Flattery, Nicole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1639730737
- Language: English
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By: Mantel, Hilary
Learning to Talk: Stories
$19.99HardcoverRead moreA 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- Author: Mantel, Hilary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1250865360
- Language: English
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Fat Time and Other Stories
$16.00PaperbackRead more* 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- Author: Allen, Jeffery Renard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1644452391
- Language: English
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On Booze
$10.95PaperbackRead more“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
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By: Mark Twain
The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain
$7.95Mass Market PaperboundRead moreFor 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
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By: Eggers, Dave
The Comebacker
$16.00HardcoverRead moreLionel 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
- Author: Eggers, Dave
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1963270010
- Language: English
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Uncommon Weather: Alaska Stories
$21.95PaperbackAdd to cartUncommon 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
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By: Yoon, Paul
The Hive and the Honey: Stories
$18.00PaperbackAdd to cartWinner 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
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By: Rulfo, Juan
The Burning Plain
$21.95PaperbackAdd to cartA 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
- Author: Rulfo, Juan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 147732996X
- Language: English
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By: Schuyler, Nina
In This Ravishing World
$19.95PaperbackRead moreIn 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
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Pleasantview
$18.95PaperbackAdd to cartWinner 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
- Author: Mohammed, Celeste
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 25 2021
- ISBN10: 1632462028
- Language: English
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By: Jones, Mary
The Goodbye Process: Stories
$17.99PaperbackAdd to cart“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
- Author: Jones, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1958506621
- Language: English








