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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Aerogrammes Aerogrammes Tania James "From the highly acclaimed author of Atlas of Unknowns ("Dazzling. . . One of the most exciting debut novels since Zadie Smith's White Teeth" --San Francisco Chronicle) a bravura collection of short … OL16134724W
Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego Mariana Enríquez A haunting collection of short stories all set in Argentina. OL17319533W
The Scatter Here Is Too Great The Scatter Here Is Too Great Bilal Tanweer La jaquette indique : "The Scatter Here Is Too Great heralds a major new voice from Pakistan with a stunning debut - a novel told in a rich variety of distinctives voices that converge at a single ho… OL17573887W
Tell me one thing Tell me one thing Deena Goldstone "A collection of unforgettable short stories that explore the wondrous transformation between grief and hope, a journey often marked by moments of unexpected grace. Set in California, Tell Me One Thi… OL17922936W
All the rage All the rage A.L. Kennedy "A. L. Kennedy's latest collection of stories is an investigation of "certain types of threat and the odder edges of sweet things"--Another intense and luscious feast of language from the author of T… OL18159289W
The isle of youth The isle of youth Laura Van den Berg "Beautiful, strange, and compulsively readable stories from an already-celebrated young writer"-- OL19664306W
Dreadful young ladies and other stories Dreadful young ladies and other stories Kelly Regan Barnhill,John Lee A short story collection featuring elements of magic realism while touching on the themes of love, knowledge, grief, hope, and jealousy. Teeming with uncanny characters whose lives unfold in worlds a… OL19730215W
There once lived a mother who loved her children, until they moved back in There once lived a mother who loved her children, until they moved back in Li͡udmila Petrushevskai͡a "The masterly novellas that established Ludmilla Petrushevskaya as one of the greatest living Russian writers . After her work was suppressed for many years, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya won wide recognit… OL19993416W
Refund Refund Karen E. Bender "We think about it every day, sometimes every hour: Money. Who has it. Who doesn't. How you get it. How you don't. In Refund, Bender creates an award-winning collection of stories that deeply explore… OL19993762W
Make something up Make something up Chuck Palahniuk "Stories you'll never forget--just try--from literature's favorite transgressive author. Representing work that spans several years, Make Something Up is a compilation of 21 stories and one novella (… OL19999551W
Time ages in a hurry Time ages in a hurry Antonio Tabucchi As the collection's title suggests, time's passage is the fil rouge of these stories. All of Tabucchi's characters struggle to find routes of escape from a present that is hard to bear, and from plac… OL20000766W
A manual for cleaning women A manual for cleaning women Lucia Berlin "Stories from a lost American classic "in the same arena as Alice Munro" (Lydia Davis) "In the field of short fiction, Lucia Berlin is one of America's best kept secrets. That's it. Flat out. No miti… OL20007324W
Interpreter of maladies Interpreter of maladies Jhumpa Lahiri Oorspr. titel: Interpreter of maladies. - Boston : Houghton Mifflin. Verhalen over Indiase emigranten in de Verenigde Staten. OL2001058W
Difficult Loves Difficult Loves Italo Calvino ix, 307 pages ; 21 cm OL20207677W
Both ways is the only way I want it Both ways is the only way I want it Maile Meloy Presents a volume of eleven short works that explores the complexity of life in austere landscapes of the American West, from the tale of a ranch hand who falls for a reluctant newcomer to the story … OL24815804W