Short Stories (single author)

  • Say You’re One of Them

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    An Oprah’s Book Club selection: this “electrifying” book (Washington Post) pays tribute to the wisdom and resilience of children even in the face of the most agonizing circumstances.

    Uwem Akpan’s stu

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    • Series: Oprah’s Book Club
    • Author: Akpan, Uwem
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: September 18 2009
    • ISBN10: 0316086371
    • Language: English
  • The Coast of Chicago

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    The stolid landscape of Chicago suddenly turns dreamlike and otherworldly in Stuart Dybek’s classic story collection. A child’s collection of bottle caps becomes the tombstones of a graveyard. A lowly

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    • Author: Dybek, Stuart
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 173
    • Publish Date: April 03 2004
    • ISBN10: 0312424256
    • Language: English
  • Afterparties: Stories

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    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

    WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE’S JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST BOOK

    WINNER OF THE FERRO-GRUMLEY AWARD FOR LGBTQ FICTION

    Named a Best Book of the Year by

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    • Author: So, Anthony Veasna
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: August 03 2021
    • ISBN10: 0063049902
    • Language: English
  • The Complete Stories of Mary Butts

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    For the first time in a single volume, all three of Mary Butts’s (1890-1937) story collections have been gathered, and seven uncollected stories have been added (including two pieces never before publ

    • Author: Butts, Mary
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 432
    • Publish Date: December 01, 2014
    • ISBN10: 1620540096
    • Language: English
  • Marrying Off Mother: And Other Stories

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    “These stories are full of romps, archness, and old-fashioned silliness.”–Boston Globe.

    A world-famous conservationist and humorist, Gerald Durrell shares eight irresistible stories that beg to be r

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    • Author: Durrell, Gerald
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: July 01 2014
    • ISBN10: 161145865X
    • Language: English
  • Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3

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    From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Proulx, an “unforgettable” (Miami Herald) and “vivid” (Oprah Daily) collection of stories set in Wyoming.

    Winner of two O. Henry Prizes, Annie Proulx has been

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    • Author: Proulx, Annie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: September 08 2009
    • ISBN10: 1416571671
    • Language: English
  • Opium and Other Stories

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    A rediscovered classic of Hungarian literature, this spellbinding collection vividly depicts the darkest impulses of the human psyche against the backdrop of Europe’s moral and social decline on the e

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    • Author: Csath, Geza
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: December 13 2022
    • ISBN10: 1609458133
    • Language: English
  • Americana: Stories

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    The many faces of curiosity. Which one do you see?

    Welcome to Bill Hemmig’s Americana, a collection of snapshots that capture the everyday American experience. From filling the bird feeder to a realtor

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    • Author: Hemmig, Bill
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: July 11 2023
    • ISBN10: 9798986119939
    • Language: English
  • The Syrian Ladies Benevolent Society

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    With imaginative aplomb and abiding passion, The Syrian Ladies Benevolent Society masterfully traces the deep roots of the Arab immigrant experience. These unforgettable interlocking stories follow an

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    • Author: Estima, Christine
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: November 14 2023
    • ISBN10: 1487012330
    • Language: English
  • Love Lifted Me: Stories from the Childhood of a Replacement Child

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    As a replacement child, William Noble was born to replace a little boy who died twenty-six years before – just before another pandemic. Born in July 1909, Little William lived for only five years-yet … [more below]

    • Author: Noble, William C.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 94
    • Publish Date: March 21 2023
    • ISBN10: 1664293965
    • Language: English
  • Algernon Blackwood Horror Stories

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    A chilling new collection of supernatural tales from the Victorian master of horror, and the subtle manipulation of dread.

    Algernon Blackwood, a founding father of modern ghost and horror stories, is

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    • Series: Gothic Fantasy
    • Author: Blackwood, Algernon
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 480
    • Publish Date: October 24 2023
    • ISBN10: 1804177091
    • Language: English
  • Cravings

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    Opening with “Hors d’oeuvres” and closing with a “Feast,” the stories in Cravings pulse with longing, missed opportunities, recriminations, and joy. Garnett Kilberg Cohen leads readers through acutely… [more below]

    • Author: Kilberg Cohen, Garnett
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: October 31 2023
    • ISBN10: 0299345246
    • Language: English
  • Under a Glass Bell

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    Although Under a Glass Bell is now considered one of Ana? Nin’s finest collections of stories, it was initially deemed unpublishable. Refusing to give up on her vision, in 1944 Nin founded her own pre… [more below]

    • Author: Nin, Anaïs
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 104
    • Publish Date: October 15 2013
    • ISBN10: 0804011478
    • Language: English
  • Roman Fever and Other Stories

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    A side from her Pulitzer Prize-winning talent as a novel writer, Edith Wharton also distinguished herself as a short story writer, publishing more than seventy-two stories in ten volumes during her li… [more below]

    • Author: Wharton, Edith
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: June 13 1997
    • ISBN10: 0684829908
    • Language: English
  • The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford

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    These Pulitzer Prize-winning stories represent the major short works of fiction by one of the most distinctively American stylists of her day. Jean Stafford communicates the small details of lonelines… [more below]

    • Series: FSG Classics
    • Author: Stafford, Jean
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 512
    • Publish Date: September 01 2005
    • ISBN10: 0374529930
    • Language: English
  • At the Bottom of the River

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    Jamaica Kincaid’s At the Bottom of the River … inspired, lyrical short stories

    Reading Jamaica Kincaid is to plunge, gently, into another way of seeing both the physical world and its elusive inhabi

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    • Author: Kincaid, Jamaica
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: October 15 2000
    • ISBN10: 0374527342
    • Language: English
  • Varieties of Disturbance: Stories

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    Lydia Davis has been called “one of the quiet giants in the world of American fiction” (Los Angeles Times), “an American virtuoso of the short story form” (Salon), an innovator who attempts “to remake

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    • Author: Davis, Lydia
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: May 15 2007
    • ISBN10: 0374281734
    • Language: English
  • The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol: Introduction by Richard Pevear

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    Collected here are Gogol’s finest tales–stories that combine the wide-eyed, credulous imagination of the peasant with the sardonic social criticism of the city dweller–allowing readers to experience

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  • Ward No. 6 and Other Stories, 1892-1895

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    Tales of madness, alienation, and insight from a master of the short story

    Ward No. 6 and Other Stories 1892-1895 collects stories which show Anton Chekhov beginning to confront complex, ambiguous and

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    • Series: Penguin Classics
    • Author: Chekhov, Anton
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: August 27 2002
    • ISBN10: 0140447865
    • Language: English
  • Auras

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    The twelve stories that make up Auras span time from the 1940’s to the present day, They cover ground from New England to the Midwest to the South. But in another respect, all of these stories live in

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    • Author: Fitton, Kevin
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 266
    • Publish Date: September 06 2022
    • ISBN10: 1953236685
    • Language: English
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