Short Stories (single author)
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For a Little While
$24.99 Add to cartLong considered one of the most gifted practitioners of the short story, Rick Bass is unsurpassed in his ability to perceive and portray the enduring truths of the human heart. Now, at last, we have t… [more below]
- Author: Bass, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 21 2017
- ISBN10: 0316381144
- Language: English
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Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned: Stories
$20.00 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE
Viking marauders descend on a much-plundered island, hoping some mayhem will shake off the winter blahs. A man is booted out of his home after his wife dis- Author: Tower, Wells
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 02 2010
- ISBN10: 0312429290
- Language: English
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The New York Trilogy: City of Glass/Ghosts/The Locked Room
$18.00 Add to cartThe remarkable, acclaimed series of interconnected detective novels – from the author of 4 3 2 1: A Novel
The New York Review of Books has called Paul Auster’s work “one of the most distinctive niches
- Series: Contemporary American Fiction
- Author: Auster, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0140131558
- Language: English
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Your Duck Is My Duck: Stories
$19.99 Add to cartA much-anticipated collection of brilliantly observant short stories from one of the great American masters of the form.
At times raucously hilarious, at times charming and delightful, at times as sole
- Author: Eisenberg, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0062688782
- Language: English
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Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories
$16.99 Add to cartFrom the legendary literary master, winner of the National Book Award and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, a collection of thirteen mesmerizing stories that maps the eerie darkness
- Author: Oates, Joyce Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 12 2015
- ISBN10: 006235695X
- Language: English
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The Doll
$18.99 Add to cart“Du Maurier is in a class by herself.”
—New York TimesPerhaps best known for her immortal gothic masterwork Rebecca–the basis for the Academy Award-winning motion picture directed by Alfred Hitchcock
- Author: Du Maurier, Daphne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 21 2019
- ISBN10: 0062080342
- Language: English
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Not the Apocalypse I Was Hoping for
$24.99 Add to cartAward-winning author Leslie Greentree presents fourteen short stories in this dark, often funny, deeply compelling collection that asks how we locate, create, and avoid meaning in our lives. These are
- Series: Brave & Brilliant #27
- Author: Greentree, Leslie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: September 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1773853694
- Language: English
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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
$22.00 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
