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Men in the making
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Bruce Machart |
"From the author of The Wake of Forgiveness ten remarkable stories that tackle what it means to be a man. Whether they find themselves walking the fertile farmland of south Texas, steering trucks th… |
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Aerogrammes
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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 … |
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Siege 13
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Tamas Dobozy |
"Built around the events of the Soviet Budapest Offensive at the end of World War II and its long shadow, the stories in Siege 13 are full of wit, irony, and dark humor. In a series of linked stories… |
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Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego
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Mariana Enríquez |
A haunting collection of short stories all set in Argentina. |
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The Scatter Here Is Too Great
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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… |
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Bark
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L'Olivier,Lorrie Moore |
A new collection of stories by one of America’s most beloved and admired short-story writers, her first in fifteen years, since Birds of America (“Fluid, cracked, mordant, colloquial . . . Will stand… |
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Faulty predictions
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Karin Lin-Greenberg |
"In Karin Lin-Greenberg's Faulty Predictions, young characters try to find their way in the world and older characters confront regrets. In "Editorial Decisions," members of the editorial board of a … |
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Once you break a knuckle
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D. W. Wilson |
"In the remote Kootenay Valley in western Canada, good people sometimes do bad things. Two bullied adolescents sabotage a rope swing, resulting in another boy's death. A heartbroken young man chooses… |
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Tell me one thing
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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… |
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All the rage
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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… |
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The isle of youth
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Laura Van den Berg |
"Beautiful, strange, and compulsively readable stories from an already-celebrated young writer"-- |
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The people in the castle
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Kelly Link,Joan Aiken,Lizza Aiken |
"Here is the whisper in the night, the dog whose loyalty outlasted death, the creak upstairs, that half-remembered ghost story that won't let you sleep, the sound that raises gooseflesh, the wish you… |
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Catapult
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Emily Fridlund |
Sometimes calculating, other times bewildered, Catapult's characters orbit around each other enacting the deeply human tragicomedy of wit and misunderstanding and loss. With dexterous, atmospheric, a… |
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Points north
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Howard Frank Mosher |
The final book by one of America's most treasured writers. Upon his passing in January 2017, Howard Frank Mosher was recognized as one of America's most acclaimed writers. His fiction set in the worl… |
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Dreadful young ladies and other stories
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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… |
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The wilds
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Elliott, Julia (Fiction author) |
"At an obscure South Carolina nursing home, a lost world reemerges as a disabled elderly woman undergoes newfangled brain-restoration procedures and begins to explore her environment with the assista… |
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Barefoot dogs
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Antonio Ruiz-Camacho |
"An unforgettable debut of linked stories that follow the members and retinue of a wealthy Mexican family forced into exile after the patriarch is kidnapped. On an unremarkable night, Jose; Victorian… |
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A manual for cleaning women
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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… |
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Bright magic
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Alfred Döblin |
"Alfred Doblin was a titan of modern German literature. This collection of stories--astonishingly, the first collection of his stories ever published in English--shows him to have been equally adept … |
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Difficult Loves
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Italo Calvino |
ix, 307 pages ; 21 cm |
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