Short stories

  • Here’s Your Hat What’s Your Hurry: Stories

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    The singular, enchanting debut story collection from Elizabeth McCracken, now back in print as part of Ecco’s “Art of the Story” series, and with a new introduction from the author

    Called “astonishingl

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    • Series: Art of the Story
    • Author: McCracken, Elizabeth
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: February 05 2019
    • ISBN10: 0062873725
    • Language: English
  • Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls: Stories

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    In this darkly comic and surreal collection from celebrated author Alissa Nutting, misfit women scramble for agency in a series of uncanny circumstances

    Throughout these breathtakingly creative sevente

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    • Series: Art of the Story
    • Author: Nutting, Alissa
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: July 03 2018
    • ISBN10: 0062699857
    • Language: English
  • A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories

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    Grandmasterof American Letters Ray Bradbury presents the 16 vintage stories and novellasthat informed and prefigured the creation of his dystopian classic, Fahrenheit451. Collecting rare and unknown t… [more below]

    • Author: Bradbury, Ray
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 400
    • Publish Date: December 13 2013
    • ISBN10: 0062071025
    • Language: English
  • This Hostel Life

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    Originally published in 2018 by Skein Press.

    • Author: Okorie, Melatu Uche
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: May 24 2022
    • ISBN10: 0349012903
    • Language: English
  • The New Adventures of Helen: Magical Tales

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    A new collection of adult fairy tales from New York Times-bestselling Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, Russia’s greatest living absurdist and surrealist writer.

    • Author: Petrushevskaya, Ludmilla
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 140
    • Publish Date: November 16 2021
    • ISBN10: 1646051033
    • Language: English
  • The Awkward Black Man

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    A masterful collection of stories that showcases one of the country’s most beloved and acclaimed writers–award-winning author, Walter Mosley.

    Bestselling author Walter Mosley has proven himself a mas

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    • Author: Mosley, Walter
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: September 15 2020
    • ISBN10: 0802149561
    • Language: English
  • Let Me Out Here: Stories

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    In her award-winning debut collection, Emily W. Pease is at work redefining the short story. Let Me Out Here explores the underbellies and strange desires of our neighbors, our loved ones, ourselves.[more below]

    • Author: Pease, Emily W.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 232
    • Publish Date: March 19 2019
    • ISBN10: 1938235509
    • Language: English
  • The New Voices of Science Fiction

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    “Superlative.” —Booklist, starred review
    “Stunning.”–Library Journal, starred review
    “Must-read” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

    Your future is bright! After all, your mother is a robot, your fath

    • Author: Rajaniemi, Hannu
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 432
    • Publish Date: November 13, 2019
    • ISBN10: 1616962917
    • Language: English
  • Birds of Paradise Lost

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    *Finalist for the California Book Award*

    The thirteen stories in Birds of Paradise Lost shimmer with humor and pathos as they chronicle the anguish and joy and bravery of America’s newest Americans,

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    • Author: Lam, Andrew
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 216
    • Publish Date: March 01 2013
    • ISBN10: 1597092681
    • Language: English
  • The Sea Is Ours: Tales of Steampunk Southeast Asia

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    Steampunk takes on Southeast Asia in this anthology The stories in this collection merge technological wonder with the everyday. Children upgrade their fighting spiders with armor, and toymakers creat… [more below]

    • Author: Goh, Jaymee
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 270
    • Publish Date: November 30 2015
    • ISBN10: 1495607569
    • Language: English
  • Someone Birthed Them Broken: Stories

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    “Delightfully assertive, subversive and vibrant an original voice.” –Imbolo Mbue, author of the New York Times bestseller and PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction winner Behold the Dreamers “A compel

    • Author: Diaka, Ama Asantewa
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: April 02, 2024
    • ISBN10: 0063259559
    • Language: English
  • Horse Show

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    From the tale of Lady, the mare who read a Duke University psychologist’s mind, to television palomino Mr. Ed’s hypnotic hold over Wilbur Post, the thirteen tales in Horse Show explore how humans have… [more below]

    • Author: Bowers, Jess
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 156
    • Publish Date: April 09 2024
    • ISBN10: 1951631315
    • Language: English
  • Cryptopolis and Other Stories

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    Last week, did you tell your best friend why the King of Cryptopolis has gone insane and why he ordered his guards to behead him? Do you know the secret of the black magician Aleister Crowley-how he w

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    • Author: Guffey, Robert
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 370
    • Publish Date: January 13 2024
    • ISBN10: 1590217683
    • Language: English
  • Ghostroots: Stories

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    In this beguiling collection of twelve imaginative stories set in Lagos, Nigeria, ‘Pemi Aguda dramatizes the tension between our yearning to be individuals and the ways we are haunted by what came bef

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    • Author: Aguda, ‘Pemi
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: May 07 2024
    • ISBN10: 1324065850
    • Language: English
  • A World of Horror

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    Every nation of the globe has unique tales to tell, whispers that settle in through the land, creatures or superstitions that enliven the night, but rarely do readers get to experience such a diversit

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    • Author: Guignard, Eric J.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 330
    • Publish Date: September 10 2018
    • ISBN10: 0998938319
    • Language: English
  • The Wine of Youth

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    This new edition of the legendary Dago Red, first published in 1940, contains seven new stories, including “A Nun No More” and “My Father’s God.”

    • Author: Fante, John
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: September 25 2023
    • ISBN10: 0876855826
    • Language: English
  • Ford County: Stories

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    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – In his first collection of short stories John Grisham takes us back to Ford County, Mississippi, the setting of his first novel, A Time to Kill.

    This riveting collection

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    • Author: Grisham, John
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: August 17 2010
    • ISBN10: 0553386816
    • Language: English
  • The Big Book of the Continental Op

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    Now for the first time ever in one volume, all twenty-eight stories and two serialized novels starring the Continental Op–one of the greatest characters in storied history of detective fiction.

    Dash

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    • Author: Hammett, Dashiell
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 752
    • Publish Date: November 28 2017
    • ISBN10: 0525432957
    • Language: English
  • No Comebacks: Collected Short Stories

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    A collection of taut, electrifying tales from the master of international intrigue, #1 New York Times bestselling author Frederick Forsyth…

    A wealthy philanderer plots to murder the husband of the w

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    • Author: Forsyth, Frederick
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: October 02 2012
    • ISBN10: 0451239415
    • Language: English
  • Spoiled Brats (Including the Story That Inspired the Major Motion Picture an American Pickle Starring Seth Rogen): Stories

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    The “hilarious” (New York Times Book Review) collection of short stories from the award-winning humorist Simon Rich includes the story that inspired the Seth Rogen comedy An American Pickle.

    Twenty

    • Author: Rich, Simon
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: May 26, 2015
    • ISBN10: 0316368652
    • Language: English
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