Short Stories (single author)
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The Brutal Language of Love: Stories
$15.99 Read moreAlicia Erian’s characters are brave, disarming, affectionate, and deeply flawed. They inhabit the not-so-very-wide space between a good intention and a bad outcome. In “Alcatraz,” we meet a middle-sch… [more below]
- Author: Erian, Alicia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 15 2008
- ISBN10: 1416592717
- Language: English
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Home
$18.00 Add to cart“Home” finds Kossi Komla-Ebri between places and identities, cultures and languages, expectations and realities, Europe and Africa. Across these eleven short stories, Komla-Ebri crosses genres and bor… [more below]
- Series: Crossings #34
- Author: Komla-Ebri, Kossi A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1599541904
- Language: English
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The Mad Kyoto Shoe Swapper and Other Short Stories
$6.99 Add to cart“Otowa has woven a series of delightful vignettes of life in Japan, from a true historical story of feuding villages to a man who steals shoes at temples…and some highlighting the cultural differenc… [more below]
- Author: Otowa, Rebecca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0804856575
- Language: English
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Avalanche
$16.95 Add to cartFeatured on 49th Shelf’s Most Anticipated: 2023 Fall Fiction Preview
“Things used to be easier, but even in those carefree days, the rules were in place for a reason. And that reason is: so we can all
- Author: Westhead, Jessica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 145
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1778430260
- Language: English
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Hero Avenue: A Novel of Short Stories
$35.00 Add to cartIn this collection of serialized short stories, get an intimate look inside the unique, insular world of life on an Army base during the backdrop of the Vietnam War. From 1957 through 1971, follow Arm
- Author: Greyhosky, Babs
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: February 09 2023
- ISBN10: 9798886040906
- Language: English
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Mientras Ellas Duermen / While Women Are Sleeping
$13.95 Read moreUn volumen que coloca a MarÃas entre los maestros del género, entre Cortázar, Salinger, Poe o el primer Capote.
Mientras ellas duermen, tÃtulo a su vez de uno de los relatos de este volumen, sir… [more below]- Author: MarÃas, Javier
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 8466371583
- Language: Spanish
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Fighting For Their Lives
$15.95 Add to cart“Fighting for Their Lives” is a fictional story about a couple. Upon learning they were told they can’t have children, they prayed for a miracle. Though their prayers were answered, tragedy struck whe
- Author: Drunasky, Jacqueline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: May 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1638745641
- Language: English
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The Spirit in My Shoes
$24.95 Add to cartFeaturing twenty-three stories, John Michael Cummings’s debut story collection brims with the vitality and complexity of our shared humanity. In tales that conjure comparisons to John Updike, Raymond
- Author: Cummings, John Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1960329103
- Language: English
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Red Pyramid: Selected Stories
$18.95 Add to cartExtended comic turns like The Queue and relentless, mind-bending, genre-shredding extravaganzas like Ice Trilogy have established Vladimir Sorokin as a master of the contemporary novel. It is to Sorok… [more below]
- Author: Sorokin, Vladimir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1681378205
- Language: English
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I Want to Show You More
$15.00 Read more“Passionate, sensuous, savagely intense, and remarkable . . . Moves between carnality and spirit like some franker, modernized Flannery O’Connor.”–James Wood, The New Yorker
“An obsessive first coll- Author: Quatro, Jamie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 14 2014
- ISBN10: 080212223X
- Language: English
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The Collected Stories of Joseph Roth
$23.99 Add to cartAppearing in English for the first time, The Collected Stories of Joseph Roth includes seventeen novellas and stories that echo the intensity and achievement of his greatest novel, The Radetzky March…. [more below]
- Series: B’Nai B’Rith Jewish Heritage Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Roth, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: June 01 2003
- ISBN10: 039332379X
- Language: English
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Voodoo Heart: Stories
$19.00 Add to cartScott Snyder’s protagonists inhabit a playfully deranged fictional world in which a Wall Street trader can find himself armed with a speargun, guarding a Dumpster outside a pawnshop in Florida; or an … [more below]
- Author: Snyder, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 29 2007
- ISBN10: 0385338422
- Language: English
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Heartbreaker
$15.99 Add to cartIn her debut story collection Heartbreaker, Maryse Meijer peels back the crust of normalcy and convention, unmasking the fury and violence we are willing to inflict in the name of love and loneliness.
- Author: Meijer, Maryse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 12 2016
- ISBN10: 0374536066
- Language: English
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Nimrod Flipout
$19.00 Add to cartFrom Israel’s most popular and acclaimed young writer–“Stories that are short, strange, funny, deceptively casual in tone and affect, stories that sound like a joke but aren’t” (Yann Martel, author o
- Author: Keret, Etgar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 04 2006
- ISBN10: 0374222436
- Language: English
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Chemistry and Other Stories
$18.00 Add to cartChemistry and Other Stories, A Picador Paperback Original
From the pre-eminent chronicler of this forgotten territory, stories that range over one hundred years in the troubled, violent emergence of t- Author: Rash, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 17 2007
- ISBN10: 0312425082
- Language: English
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Emerald City
$15.95 Read moreA collection of masterful stories from the bestselling, award-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad: “Boldly modulated tales of displacement and blazing moments of truth…. Riveting, vaguely
- Author: Egan, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 09 2007
- ISBN10: 0307387534
- Language: English
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Cousin Phillis and Other Stories
$11.95 Read moreElizabeth Gaskell has long been one of the most popular of Victorian novelists, yet in her lifetime her shorter fictions were equally well loved, and they are among the most accomplished examples of t… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Gaskell, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 30 2010
- ISBN10: 0199239495
- Language: English
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Tales of Falling and Flying
$22.00 Add to cart“Mesmerizing and magical. . . . A stunning book.” —NPR.org
“Short stories so imaginative — and yet so perplexingly familiar — they could have formed in a dream. . . . Taut, meticulously balanced an- Author: Loory, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 0143130102
- Language: English
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Gates of Eden
$14.99 Add to cart“A distinctive voice and an offbeat worldview…All of these stories take place in Coen Brothers Land, a parallel universe similar to our own–except it’s weirder, funnier, and better edited.” — New
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Coen, Ethan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 11 2008
- ISBN10: 0061684880
- Language: English
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Spontaneous Human Combustion
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the award-winning author of Disintegration and Breaker comes a new collection of transgressive short stories that push the boundaries of maximalist writing. In a mesmerizing feat, Richard Thomas
- Author: Thomas, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1684427541
- Language: English
