Short stories
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Light Skin Gone to Waste: Stories
$24.95 Add to cartIn 1962 Philip Arrington, a psychologist with a PhD from Yeshiva, arrives in the small, mostly blue-collar town of Monroe, New York, to rent a house for himself and his new wife. They’re Black, someth
- Series: Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction
- Author: Johnson, Toni Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0820363065
- Language: English
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The Granta Book of the American Short Story: Volume 2
$17.95 Add to cartRichard Ford, one of the finest American novelists and short-story writers, introduced the first Granta Book of the American Short Story, which Granta Books published in 1992.
It became the definitive
- Author: Ford, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 786
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1847080405
- Language: English
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Uncle Yah Yah: 21st Century Man of Wisdom
$17.95 Add to cartRead this book and you will agree that if there ever was any One Who Flew Over the Cuckoo s Nest, it had to be Al Dickens the author of this book. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. Even nature
- Author: Dickens, Al
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: February 26 2010
- ISBN10: 0975964682
- Language: English
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Orientation and Other Stories
$15.00 Add to cartBreakfast’s boiled egg, the overhead hum of fluorescent lights, the midmorning coffee break–daily routines keep the world running. But when people are pushed–by a coworker’s taunt, a face-to-face en
- Author: Orozco, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 22 2012
- ISBN10: 0865478716
- Language: English
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Knockemstiff
$16.95 Add to cart“More engaging than any new fiction in years.” –Chuck Palahniuk
An unforgettable work of fiction that peers into the soul of a tough Midwestern American town to reveal the sad, stunted but resilient- Author: Pollock, Donald Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 10 2009
- ISBN10: 076792830X
- Language: English
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The Best Short Stories by Black Writers: 1899 – 1967
$25.99 Add to cartA classic anthology of short stories by Black writers including James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, and Richard Wright — edited and with an introduction by Langston Hughes.
Originally published in 19- Author: Hughes, Langston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 31 2012
- ISBN10: 0316380318
- Language: English
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The Oxford Book of English Short Stories
$22.99 Add to cartFrom Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens, and Thomas Hardy, through Rudyard Kipling, H.G. Wells, D.H. Lawrence, and Virginia Woolf, right up to Graham Greene, J.G. Ballard, Angela Carter, Ian McEwan, an… [more below]
- Series: Oxford Books of Prose & Verse
- Author: Byatt, A. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 07 2009
- ISBN10: 0199561605
- Language: English
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I’m Not Going Anywhere
$16.95 Add to cartRazor-sharp social commentary, Jane Austen for contemporary feminists unafraid to confront a dark world
In her latest translated volume of collected short fiction, Rumena Buzarovska delivers more of wh
- Series: Macedonian Literature
- Author: Buzarovska, Rumena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1628974540
- Language: English
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I Walk Between the Raindrops: Stories
$28.99 Read moreAn electric collection of new short stories from the inimitable, bestselling writer of Talk to Me and Outside Looking In
In the title story of Walk Between the Raindrops, a woman sits down next to a m
- Author: Boyle, T. C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 13, 2022
- ISBN10: 0063052881
- Language: English
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Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions: A Novel in Interlocking Stories
$27.99 Read more“I couldn’t put this book down and I loved spending time in the lives of Nonso, Remi, Aisha, and Solape. Truly this book will grab hold of your heart and mind and everything in between.”–Roxane Gay,
- Author: Ogunyemi, Omolola Ijeoma
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 13, 2022
- ISBN10: 0063117045
- Language: English
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Black Jesus and Other Superheroes: Stories
$17.95 Add to cart2018 PEN America Literary Award Winner-Los Angeles
Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, Black Jesus and Other Superheroes chronicles ordinary people achieving vivid extrasensory perc… [more below]- Series: Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction
- Author: Blackburn, Venita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: September 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1496201868
- Language: English
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Pre-Approved for Haunting: And Other Stories
$16.99 Add to cartIn this terrifyingly relatable and surprisingly terrifying collection of short stories, Pre-Approved for Haunting spotlights supposedly familiar terrors and fears in new and unexpected ways.
- Author: Barb, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1684429471
- Language: English
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The Whole Animal
$17.95 Read moreA refreshingly original debut collection of short stories that grapple with the self-alienation and self-discovery that make us human.
For fans of Souvankham Thammavongsa, Lynn Coady, and Lisa Moore co… [more below]
- Author: Chong, Corinna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1551529157
- Language: English
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The Blue Bedroom: & Other Stories
$22.00 Add to cartCelebrate life’s journeys with the beloved author whose stories of life and love have touched the world.
Dive into the work of acclaimed author Rosamunde Pilcher in this captivating collection of shor- Author: Pilcher, Rosamunde
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 01 1991
- ISBN10: 1250055733
- Language: English
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Because They Wanted to: Stories
$16.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book
A man tells a story to a woman sitting beside him on a plane, little suspecting what it reveals about his capacity for cruelty and contempt. A callow runaway girl is stra- Author: Gaitskill, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 04 2016
- ISBN10: 0684841444
- Language: English
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The Dominant Animal: Stories
$15.00 Add to cartNamed a Best Book of 2020 by The Guardian, Southwest Review, and Publishers Weekly
The stories] are short, but their mood and imagery are lasting, and reflective of brutal truths of the commerce of- Author: Scanlan, Kathryn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0374538298
- Language: English
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Gothic Tales
$18.00 Add to cartElizabeth Gaskell’s chilling Gothic tales blend the real and the supernatural to eerie, compelling effect. ‘Disappearances’, inspired by local legends of mysterious vanishings, mixes gossip and fact; … [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Gaskell, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 01 2001
- ISBN10: 014043741X
- Language: English
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We Live in Water: Stories
$15.99 Add to cartONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2019
From the New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins, the first collection of short fiction from Jess Walter–a suite of diverse and sear
- Author: Walter, Jess
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 12 2013
- ISBN10: 0061926620
- Language: English
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Pretend It’s My Body: Stories
$17.95 Read moreInformed by the author’s experience in and between genders, this debut story collection blurs fantasy and reality, excavating new meanings from our varied dysphorias.
Misfit mothers, prodigal “undaugh
- Author: Blue, Luke Dani
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 18, 2022
- ISBN10: 1952177030
- Language: English
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Born for Trouble: The Further Adventures of Hap and Leonard
$16.95 Add to cartIn Edgar Award winner Joe R. Lansdale’s newest Hap and Leonard story collection, the boys are back with more righteous ass-kickings, highly improbable adventures, and disastrous fishing trips. These n… [more below]
- Author: Lansdale, Joe R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: March 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1616963700
- Language: English
