Short stories
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You Never Get It Back
$16.00 Read moreThe linked stories in Cara Blue Adams’s precise and observant collection offer elegantly constructed glimpses of the life of Kate, a young woman from rural New England, moving between her childhood in… [more below]
- Series: Iowa Short Fiction Award
- Author: Adams, Cara Blue
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: December 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1609388135
- Language: English
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Seeking Fortune Elsewhere: Stories
$26.00 Read more*Winner of the 2022 New American Voices Award*
Finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for D
*Winner of the 2023 Oregon Book Award for Fiction*
*Winner of the Writers’ League of Texas Book Award*- Author: Bhanoo, Sindya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1646220870
- Language: English
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The Circuit
$18.99 Add to cart“‘La frontera’…I heard it for the first time back in the late 1940s when Papa and Mama told me and Roberto, my older brother, that someday we would take a long trip north, cross la frontera, enter C
- Series: Circuit #1
- Author: Jiménez, Francisco
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 25 1999
- ISBN10: 0395979021
- Language: English
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Moral Disorder and Other Stories
$17.00 Read moreFrom the bestselling author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments – This brilliant collection of connected short stories strings together several decades of moments in the life of one woman–as an
- Author: Atwood, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 12 2008
- ISBN10: 0385721641
- Language: English
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Short Cuts: Selected Stories
$16.00 Add to cartFrom “one of the great short story writers of our time” (The Philadelphia Inquirer)–nine stories and a poem that offer a searing portrait of American innocence and loss–and formed the basis for the … [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries #0000
- Author: Carver, Raymond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 14 1993
- ISBN10: 0679748644
- Language: English
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Let Me Tell You: New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings
$23.00 Add to cartNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR – From the renowned author of “The Lottery” and The Haunting of Hill House, a spectacular volume of previously unpublished and uncollected stories, essa… [more below]
- Author: Jackson, Shirley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 07 2016
- ISBN10: 0812987322
- Language: English
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The Fox and the Crow
$8.95 Read moreCrow is not beautiful. He can’t sing like the other birds, either. But he finally has something that all the other animals want. And he won’t share it with anyone! Will a clever fox find a way to get … [more below]
- Series: Aesop’s Fables
- Author: Anderson, Shannon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 24
- Publish Date: November 27 2023
- ISBN10: 9798887354026
- Language: English
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The Ants and the Grasshopper
$27.93 Read moreWho wants to work when it’s nice outside? Grasshopper plays all summer long. But what’s a bug to do when winter comes and all the food is gone? The hardworking ants spend their summer saving up food. … [more below]
- Series: Aesop’s Fables
- Author: Anderson, Shannon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 24
- Publish Date: November 27 2023
- ISBN10: 9798887353135
- Language: English
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Five-Minute Stories
$13.99 Read moreA bumper collection of five-minute short stories by the world’s best-loved storyteller. Perfect for children aged 5 and up!
Whizz through five-minute tales in this brilliant collection by Enid Blyton- Author: Blyton, Enid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1444969218
- Language: English
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Waystations of the Deep Night
$16.95 Add to cartA canonical gem of the nocturnal fantastic, in the tradition of German Romantics such as E.T.A. Hoffmann and Novalis
First published in France in the dark year of 1942, the story collection Waystations
- Author: Brion, Marcel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1939663504
- Language: English
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You Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked.
$20.00 Read moreFinalist for the 2021 Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction
Finalist for the 2021 Amazon Canada First Novel Award
A Globe and Mail Best Book Debut of 2020A young translator living in Toronto fr
- Author: Sheung-King
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 195
- Publish Date: October 27 2020
- ISBN10: 1771666412
- Language: English
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If I Had Two Wings: Stories
$16.95 Read moreIn Kenan’s fictional territory of Tims Creek, North Carolina, an old man rages in his nursing home, a parson beats up an adulterer, a rich man is haunted by a hog, and an elderly woman turns unwitting
- Author: Kenan, Randall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 10 2021
- ISBN10: 0393867404
- Language: English
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Tainna: The Unseen Ones, Short Stories
$16.95 Read moreWinner of the 2021 Governor General’s Literary Award! A short story collection illuminating Inuit experience south of the tundra
Drawing on both lived experience and cultural memory, Norma Dunning brin
- Author: Dunning, Norma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 27 2021
- ISBN10: 1771622717
- Language: English
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Magnus Chase Y Los Nueve Mundos / 9 from the Nine Worlds
$16.95 Read moreNueve historias para Nueve Mundos.
Mientras Magnus est? visitando a su prima Annabeth, sus amigos de Asgard andan envueltos en todo tipo de aventuras: Mallory Keen se enfrenta a un drag?n en el g?lido- Series: Serie Magnus Chase y los Dioses de Asgard / Magnus Chase And
- Author: Riordan, Rick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 24 2021
- ISBN10: 8417922814
- Language: Spanish
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Common Life
$17.95 Read moreA wry, cinematic tour through multiple forms: the poem, the vignette, the play–all set in our laughably lamentable contemporary world.
In three poems, one play, and three short stories, St駱hane Bouq
- Author: Bouquet, Stéphane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 164362153X
- Language: English
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¿Cuántos Cuentos Quieres?: Cuentos Para Leer En 2, 5 Y 10 Minutos Antes de IR a Dormir / How Many Stories Do You Want Me to Read to You?
$14.95 Read moreCuentos clásicos para irse a dormir en dos, cinco y diez minutos.
Cuántos cuentos quieres que te cuente hoy? Una nueva recopilación de los cuentos clásicos preferidos de adultos y niños, reedita- Author: Masip, Inés
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 19 2022
- ISBN10: 8448859820
- Language: Spanish
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Three Famous Short Novels: Spotted Horses, Old Man, the Bear
$16.95 Read more“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” –William Faulkner
These short works offer three different approaches to Faulkner, each representative of his work- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Faulkner, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 06 2011
- ISBN10: 0307946754
- Language: English
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The Last Wolf & Herman
$14.95 Add to cartThe Last Wolf (translated by George Szirtes) is Krasznahorkai in a maddening nutshell–it features a classic obsessed narrator, a man hired (by mistake) to write the true tale of the last wolf in Spa
- Author: Krasznahorkai, László
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 17 2019
- ISBN10: 081122905X
- Language: English
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The Eight-Year-Old Legend Book
$16.95 Read moreThis collection of stories is based upon tales told by the Buddha to his monks 2500 years ago. Isabel Wyatt’s enchanting retelling conjures up a rich world of eastern legend, ruled by courtly kings an
- Author: Wyatt, Isabel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: September 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0863157130
- Language: English
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The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
$8.95 Read moreWhat is a wolf who is a terrible hunter supposed to do? Wolf has to figure out a way to get dinner. What will he cook up as a plan? And will anyone fall for it? Includes a support page of teaching tip… [more below]
- Series: Aesop’s Fables
- Author: Anderson, Shannon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 24
- Publish Date: November 27 2023
- ISBN10: 9798887354002
- Language: English
