Short Stories (single author)

  • A Curious Land: Stories from Home

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    Winner of the 2016 American Book Award, the 2016 Arab American Book Award, and the 2014 Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction
    Susan Muaddi Darraj’s short story collection about the inhabitants of a Pale… [more below]

    • Series: Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction
    • Author: Darraj, Susan Muaddi
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: November 29 2016
    • ISBN10: 1625342659
    • Language: English
  • Bobcat & Other Stories

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    “Wise and funny . . . [A] near-perfect collection.”
    –Entertainment Weekly

    Rebecca Lee, one of our most gifted and original short story writers, guides readers into a range of landscapes, both foreig

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    • Author: Lee, Rebecca
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: June 11 2013
    • ISBN10: 1616201738
    • Language: English
  • Night Games: And Other Stories and Novellas

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    These artful new translations of nine of Schnitzler’s most important stories and novellas reinforce the Viennese author’s remarkable achievement.

    • Author: Simon, John
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: March 08 2003
    • ISBN10: 1566635063
    • Language: English
  • Dominoes at the Crossroads

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    In Dominoes at the Crossroads Kaie Kellough maps an alternate nation–one populated by Caribbean Canadians who hopscotch across the country. The characters navigate race, class, and coming-of-age. See… [more below]

    • Author: Kellough, Kaie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 180
    • Publish Date: February 01 2020
    • ISBN10: 1550655310
    • Language: English
  • Tierra Amarilla: Stories of New Mexico / Cuentos de Nuevo Mexico

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    A mysterious and majestic white stallion, an angelic but unsophisticated village priest, gossips with scathing tongues, and a blacksmith with awesome strength are among the characters that populate th

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  • Magic for Beginners

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    From MacArthur “Genius Grant” fellow Kelly Link, bestselling author of White Cat, Black Dog and The Book of Love, an “eerie and engrossing” (The Washington Post), “dazzling” (The New York Times Book R[more below]

    • Author: Link, Kelly
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: July 01 2014
    • ISBN10: 0812986512
    • Language: English
  • Where Europe Begins: Stories

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    Chosen as a 2005 Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, Where Europe Begins has been described by the Russian literary phenomenon Victor Pelevin as “a spectacular journey through a world of colli… [more below]

    • Series: New Directions Paperbook
    • Author: Tawada, Yoko
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: May 17 2007
    • ISBN10: 0811217027
    • Language: English
  • Introducing Jeeves: Six Classic Stories

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    British humorist P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975) charmed generations of readers with such whimsical characters as the Honourable Bertie Wooster — a deliciously dim aristocrat — and Jeeves, his imperturb… [more below]

    • Series: Dover Large Print Classics
    • Author: Wodehouse, P. G.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 191
    • Publish Date: May 22 2013
    • ISBN10: 0486433617
    • Language: English
  • Museum Visits

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    The daring, mischievous micro-essays of award-winning French humorist ?ric Chevillard, published in English for the first time

  • The Neon Wilderness

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    As rock and roll novelist Tom Carson writes in his introduction, “The Neon Wilderness is the pivotal book of Nelson Algren’s career–the one which bid a subdued but determined farewell to everything t… [more below]

    • Author: Algren, Nelson
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: October 10 2023
    • ISBN10: 1644212161
    • Language: English
  • A Place Like Home: Short Stories

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    Celebrate life’s journeys with the beloved author whose stories of life and love touched the world.

    A Place Like Home is a spellbinding collection of short stories by internationally bestselling auth

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    • Author: Pilcher, Rosamunde
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: August 23 2022
    • ISBN10: 1250795028
    • Language: English
  • The Man of Jasmine & Other Texts

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    Anagram play meets psychic crisis in Unica Z rn’s acclaimed Surrealist document of mental precarity

    In the 25 years since Atlas Press first published this account by Unica Z rn (1916-70) of her long hi

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    • Author: Zürn, Unica
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: January 12 2021
    • ISBN10: 190056582X
    • Language: English
  • Wild Milk

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    A genre-expanding collection of stories that Publishers Weekly calls “perplexingly captivating” and “astonishing.”

    Wild Milk
    is like Borscht Belt meets Leonora Carrington; it’s like Donald Barthelme … [more below]

    • Author: Mark, Sabrina Orah
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 168
    • Publish Date: October 01 2018
    • ISBN10: 0997366680
    • Language: English
  • Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2

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    Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Annie Proulx returns with another stellar collection of short stories bound to be even more successful than her bestselling, critically acclaimed Close Ra[more below]

    • Author: Proulx, Annie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: October 11 2005
    • ISBN10: 0743260147
    • Language: English
  • Games and Rituals: Stories

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    AN OPRAH DAILY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – The beloved author of Early Morning Riser brings us glittering stories of love–friendships formed at the airport bar, ex-husbands with benefits, mothers of susp[more below]

    • Author: Heiny, Katherine
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: March 05 2024
    • ISBN10: 0593082737
    • Language: English
  • Girl on the Fridge

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    A birthday-party magician whose hat tricks end in horror and gore; a girl parented by a major household appliance; the possessor of the lowest IQ in the Mossad–such are the denizens of Etgar Keret’s

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    • Author: Keret, Etgar
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: April 15 2008
    • ISBN10: 0374531056
    • Language: English
  • The Water Museum: Stories

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    This hard-hitting, beautiful short story collection from one of America’s preeminent literary voices “reflect[s] both sides of his Mexican-American heritage while stretching the reader’s understanding[more below]

    • Author: Urrea, Luis Alberto
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: April 26 2016
    • ISBN10: 0316334391
    • Language: English
  • Burning Bright: Stories

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    “A gorgeous, brutal writer.”
    –Richard Price, New York Times bestselling author of Lush Life and Clockers

    In Burning Bright, Pen/Faulkner finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Serena, Ron

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    • Author: Rash, Ron
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: February 01 2011
    • ISBN10: 0061804126
    • Language: English
  • The Wild Birds: Six Stories of the Port William Membership

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    “Berry is a superb writer. His sense of what makes characters tick is extraordinary . . . Short stories don’t get any better than these.” —People

    As part of Counterpoint’s celebration of beloved Amer

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    • Series: Port William
    • Author: Berry, Wendell
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: May 14 2019
    • ISBN10: 1640092102
    • Language: English
  • Jump and Other Stories

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    Jump and Other Stories collects fifteen thematically and geographically wide-ranging tales from political activist and Nobel Prize-winning author Nadine Gordimer, with settings ranging from suburban L

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    • Author: Gordimer, Nadine
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: March 27 2012
    • ISBN10: 1250003768
    • Language: English
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