Short stories

  • Afterward: A Ghost Story for Christmas

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    A newly rich American couple buy an ancient manor house in England, where they hope to live out their days in solitude. One day, when the couple are gazing out at their grounds, they spy a mysterious … [more below]

    • Series: Seth’s Christmas Ghost Stories
    • Author: Wharton, Edith
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 64
    • Publish Date: October 11 2016
    • ISBN10: 1771961333
    • Language: English
  • Boundless as the Sky

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    Dawn Raffel’s Boundless as the Sky is a book of the invisible histories that repose beneath the cities we inhabit, and the worlds we try to build out of words. The first of its two parts, stories of r

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    • Author: Raffel, Dawn
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 148
    • Publish Date: January 17 2023
    • ISBN10: 1952386411
    • Language: English
  • The Short Stories of Langston Hughes

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    The Short Stories of Langston Hughes

    This collection of forty-seven stories written between 1919 and 1963–the most comprehensive available–showcases Langston Hughes’s literary blossoming and the dev

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    • Author: Hughes, Langston
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 321
    • Publish Date: August 15 1997
    • ISBN10: 0809016036
    • Language: English
  • The Big Book of Classic Fantasy

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    A FINALIST FOR THE 2020 WORLD FANTASY AWARD – Unearth the enchanting origins of fantasy fiction with a collection of tales as vast as the tallest tower and as mysterious as the dark depths of the fore[more below]

    • Author: VanderMeer, Ann
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 848
    • Publish Date: July 02 2019
    • ISBN10: 0525435565
    • Language: English
  • Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories

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    A repackaged edition of the revered author’s treasury of essays and stories which examine the value of creative writing and imaginative exploration.

    C. S. Lewis–the great British writer, scholar, lay

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    • Author: Lewis, C. S.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: February 14 2017
    • ISBN10: 0062643541
    • Language: English
  • Girls of a Certain Age

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    A fearless, darkly playful debut exploring the many impossible choices that accompany 21st century femaleness.

    What is the right way to handle an abusive partner? An unexpected pregnancy? A toxic fri

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    • Author: Adelmann, Maria
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: February 16 2021
    • ISBN10: 0316450812
    • Language: English
  • The King Is Dead: Stories

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    For the first time ever, a complete collection of short fiction the New York Times bestselling author of The Queen’s Gambit

    Walter Tevis is widely regarded as a master for both his gritty poolhall nov

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    • Author: Tevis, Walter
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 416
    • Publish Date: February 14 2023
    • ISBN10: 0593467523
    • Language: English
  • The Digital Aesthete: Human Musings on the Intersection of Art and AI

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    What happens when AI takes over the creative process?

    Discussion about, and the use of artificial intelligence has exploded across the globe. Some programmers have already speculated that they are witn… [more below]

    • Author: Shvartsman, Alex
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 300
    • Publish Date: November 14 2023
    • ISBN10: 1647101107
    • Language: English
  • A Kind of Madness

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    Finalist for NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Debut

    Finalist for Caine Prize For African Writing

    An Oprah Daily Most Anticipated Book of 2024

    “Steady-handed and gut-punching. I’m in awe.”&#8

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    • Author: Okonkwo, Uche
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: April 16 2024
    • ISBN10: 1959030388
    • Language: English
  • Sixty Stories

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    With these audacious and murderously witty stories, Donald Barthelme threw the preoccupations of our time into the literary equivalent of a Cuisinart and served up a gorgeous salad of American culture… [more below]

    • Series: Penguin Classics
    • Author: Barthelme, Donald
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 480
    • Publish Date: September 30 2003
    • ISBN10: 0142437395
    • Language: English
  • Best Women’s Erotica of the Year, Volume 8

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    It’s Playtime!

    Best Women’s Erotica of the Year, Volume 8 is ready to play! The characters who frolic in these 21 tales play at just about everything: music, sex games, LARPing and more! Edited by th

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    • Series: Best Women’s Erotica #8
    • Author: Bussel, Rachel Kramer
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 284
    • Publish Date: December 06 2022
    • ISBN10: 1627783156
    • Language: English
  • Scorch Atlas: A Belated Primer

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    In this striking novel-in-stories, a series of strange apocalypses have hit America. Entire neighborhoods drown in mud, glass rains from the sky, birds speak gibberish, and parents of young children d… [more below]

    • Author: Butler, Blake
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 188
    • Publish Date: September 08 2009
    • ISBN10: 0977199282
    • Language: English
  • Nightfall and Other Dangers

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    A flyboy volunteers for a suicide mission with a copilot from beyond the stars. A painter’s body is possessed by a malevolent force to render a likeness of its hellish beloved. Hundreds of adults myst… [more below]

    • Author: Mohr, Jacob Steven
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 186
    • Publish Date: April 07 2023
    • ISBN10: 1685100848
    • Language: English
  • Platinum Bible of the Public Toilet: Ten Queer Stories

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    Platinum Bible of the Public Toilet is the first English-language collection of short stories by Cui Zi’en, China’s most famous and controversial queer filmmaker, writer, scholar, and LGBTQ rights act… [more below]

    • Series: Sinotheory
    • Author: Cui, Zi’en
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 312
    • Publish Date: February 06 2024
    • ISBN10: 1478030062
    • Language: English
  • The Garden Party: And Other Stories

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    Introduction by Colm Tb匤

    In fifteen funny, colorful, poignant and mysterious stories, the irreverent modernist Katherine Mansfield, a friend and contemporary of D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf,

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    • Series: Art of the Story
    • Author: Mansfield, Katherine
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: August 09 2016
    • ISBN10: 0062490494
    • Language: English
  • Medusa’s Ankles: Selected Stories

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    A ravishing, luminous selection of short stories from the prize-winning imagination of A. S. Byatt, “a storyteller who could keep a sultan on the edge of his throne for a thousand and one nights” (The[more below]

    • Series: Vintage International
    • Author: Byatt, A. S.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 464
    • Publish Date: September 06 2022
    • ISBN10: 0593466853
    • Language: English
  • Some of Them Will Carry Me

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    “This is a book of wonders, full of intricate beauty, and Giada Scodellaro is an extraordinary talent.” –Katie Kitamura

    Giada Scodellaro’s debut is a fiercely original collection of stories ranging i

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    • Author: Scodellaro, Giada
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 184
    • Publish Date: October 11 2022
    • ISBN10: 1948980150
    • Language: English
  • Folk Songs for Trauma Surgeons: Stories

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    With Folk Songs for Trauma Surgeons, award-winning author Keith Rosson once again delves into notions of family, identity, indebtedness, loss, and hope, with the surefooted merging of literary fiction… [more below]

    • Author: Rosson, Keith
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 206
    • Publish Date: February 23 2021
    • ISBN10: 1946154520
    • Language: English
  • Training School for Negro Girls

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    When you’re black and female in America, society’s rules were never meant to make you safe or free. In this flawlessly executed work that] reinvigorates the short fiction genre, Camille Acker’s relat

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    • Author: Acker, Camille
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 232
    • Publish Date: October 23 2018
    • ISBN10: 1936932377
    • Language: English
  • The Measure of Sorrow: Stories

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    Shirley Jackson Award-winning author J. Ashley-Smith’s first collection, The Measure of Sorrow, draws together ten new and previously acclaimed stories of dark speculative fiction. In these pages a b… [more below]

    • Author: Ashley-Smith, J.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 202
    • Publish Date: June 06 2023
    • ISBN10: 1946154776
    • Language: English
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