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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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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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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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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 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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The Largesse of the Sea Maiden
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Denis Johnson |
A collection of stories contemplates subjects ranging from old age and mortality to the unexpected ways the mysteries of the universe manifest, depicting haunted characters trying to atone for the pa… |
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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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Prophecies, libels and dreams
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Ysabeau S. Wilce |
"Praise for Ysabeau S. Wilce's previous books:"This fresh and funky setting is rich with glorious costumes, innovative language, and tantalizing glimpses of history."--Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewT… |
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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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Make something up
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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 (… |
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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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Both ways is the only way I want it
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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 … |
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Close Range
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Annie Proulx |
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author of The Shipping News and Accordion Crimes comes one of the most celebrated short-story collections of our time.
Annie Proulx's masterful langu… |
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