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The Things They Carried
by O'Brien, Tim       
(Paperback - English - 9780618706419)
strong "O'Brien has written a vital, important book--a book that matters not only to the reader interested in Vietnam, but to anyone interested in the craft of writing as well."-- Michiko Kakutani, New York Times strong A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O'Brien, who has survived his t ..
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Sparring Partners: Novellas
by Grisham, John       
(Hardcover - English - 9780385549325)
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - John Grisham is the acknowledged master of the legal thriller. In his first collection of novellas, law is a common thread, but America's favorite storyteller has several surprises in store. "Homecoming" takes us back to Ford County, the fictional setting of many of John Grisham's unforgettable stories. Jake Brigance is back, but he's not in the courtroom. He's called upon to help an old friend, Mack Stafford, a former lawyer in Clanton, who three years earlier became a local legend when he stole money from his clients, divorced his wife, filed for bankruptcy, and left his family in the middle of the night, never to be heard fro ..
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Night of the Living Rez
by Talty, Morgan       
(Paperback - English - 9781953534187)
Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Rez is a riveting debut collection about what it means to be Penobscot in the twenty-first century and what it means to live, to survive, and to persevere after tragedy. In twelve striking, luminescent stories, author Morgan Talty--with searing humor, abiding compassion, and deep insight--breathes life into tales of family and a community as they struggle with a painful past and an uncertain future. A boy unearths a jar that holds an old curse, which sets into motion his family's unraveling; a man, while trying to swindle some pot from a dealer, discovers a friend passed out in the woods, his hair frozen ..
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Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
by Machado, Carmen Maria       
(Paperback - English - 9781555977887)
Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction " These stories] vibrate with originality, queerness, sensuality and the strange."--Roxane Gay "In these formally brilliant and emotionally charged tales, Machado gives literal shape to women's memories and hunger and desire.couldn't put it down."--Karen Russell In Her Body and Other Parties , Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her own. In this electric and provocative debut, Machado bends ..
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Exhalation
by Chiang, Ted       
(Paperback - English - 9781101972083)
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR - Nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories--two published for the very first time--all from the mind of the incomparable author of Stories of Your Life and Others Tackling some of humanity's oldest questions along with new quandaries only he could imagine, these stories will change the way you think, feel, and see the world. They are Ted Chiang at his best: profound, sympathetic, revelatory. Ted Chiang tackles some of humanity's oldest questions along with new quandaries only he could imagine. In "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate," a portal through time force ..
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Endless Summer: Stories
by Hilderbrand, Elin       
(Hardcover - English - 9780316460910)
In this dazzling collection, Elin Hilderbrand offers nine delicious stories--prequels, sequels, and "missing chapters" from her cherished books--some of which have never been published, until now. Inside the collection, you'll find: - Three years after Mallory Blessing's death (in 28 Summers ), her friends gather for another eventful Labor Day celebration on Nantucket in "The Sixth Wedding." - The marriage at the heart of Beautiful Day enters uncertain territory when Margot Carmichael encourages her husband to reunite with his ex-girlfriend in "The Surfing Lesson." - In "The Tailgate" the weekend of a Harvard Yale football game recharts the course of "M ..
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Interpreter of Maladies
by Lahiri, Jhumpa       
(Paperback - English - 9780358213260)
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE - PEN HEMINGWAY AWARD WINNER. With a new foreword by Domenico Starnone, this stunning debut collection flawlessly charts the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the barriers of nations and generations. br br With accomplished precision and gentle eloquence, Jhumpa Lahiri traces the crosscurrents set in motion when immigrants, expatriates, and their children arrive, quite literally, at a cultural divide. br br A blackout forces a young Indian American couple to make confessions that unravel their tattered domestic peace. An Indian American girl recognizes her cultural identity during ..
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The Black Phone [Movie Tie-In]: Stories
by Hill, Joe       
(Mass Market Paperbound - English - 9780063215139)
strong Joe Hill's award-winning story collection, originally published as 20 strong sup strong th strong sup strong Century Ghosts , featuring "The Black Phone," soon to be a major motion picture from Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions strong Jack Finney is thirteen, alone, and in desperate trouble. For two years now, someone has been stalking the boys of Galesberg, stealing them away, never to be seen again. And now, Finney finds himself in danger of joining them: locked in a psychopath's basement, a place stained with the blood of half a dozen murdered children. With him in his subterranean cell is an antique phone, long since disconnect ..
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Black Swans: Stories
by Babitz, Eve    Danler, Stephanie   
(Paperback - English - 9781640090507)
Babitz's talent for the brilliant line, honed to a point, never interferes with her feel for languid pleasures. --The New York Times Book Review A new reissue of Babitz's collection of nine stories that look back on the 1980s and early 1990s--decades of dreams, drink, and glimpses of a changing world. Black Swans further celebrates the phenomenon of Eve Babitz, cementing her reputation as the voice of a generation. With an introduction by Stephanie Danler, bestselling author of Sweetbitter . On the page, Babitz is pure pleasure--a perpetual-motion machine of no-stakes elation and champagne fizz. --The New Yorker br ..
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Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory: Stories
by Bob-Waksberg, Raphael       
(Paperback - English - 9780525432722)
Written with all the scathing dark humor that is a hallmark of BoJack Horseman , Raphael Bob-Waksberg delivers a fabulously off-beat collection of short stories about love--the best and worst thing in the universe. br br Featuring: - A young engaged couple forced to deal with interfering relatives dictating the appropriate number of ritual goat sacrifices for their wedding. - A pair of lonely commuters who ride the subway in silence, forever, eternally failing to make that longed-for contact. - A struggling employee at a theme park of U.S. presidents who discovers that love can't be genetically modified. And fifteen more tales of humor, romance, whimsy ..
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Homesick for Another World: Stories
by Moshfegh, Ottessa       
(Paperback - English - 9780399562907)
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017 An electrifying first collection from one of the most exciting short story writers of our time bcan't recall the last timelaughed this hard at a book. Simultaneously, I'm shocked and scandalized. She's brilliant, this young woman.--David Sedaris Ottessa Moshfegh's debut novel Eileen was one of the literary events of 2015. Garlanded with critical acclaim, it was named a book of the year by The Washington Post and the San Francisco Chronicle , nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, short-listed for the Man Booker Prize, and won the PEN Hemingway Award for debut fiction. But as many critics n ..
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First Person Singular: Stories
by Murakami, Haruki    Gabriel, Philip   
(Paperback - English - 9780593311189)
NATIONAL BEST SELLER - A mind-bending new collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author. - "Some novelists hold a mirror up to the world and some, like Haruki Murakami, use the mirror as a portal to a universe hidden beyond it." --The Wall Street Journal The eight stories in this new book are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator. From memories of youth, meditations on music, and an ardent love of baseball, to dreamlike scenarios and invented jazz albums, together these stories challenge the boundaries between our minds and the exterior world. Occasionally, a narrator may or may not be Murakami hi ..
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The Black Phone [Movie Tie-In]: Stories
by Hill, Joe       
(Paperback - English - 9780063214835)
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Shit Cassandra Saw: Stories
by Kirby, Gwen E.       
(Paperback - English - 9780143136620)
"Kirby has mastered the art of short fiction...A stunning collection from a writer whose talent and creativity seem boundless." br --NPR "Kirby takes joy in subverting the reader's expectations at every turn. Her characters might be naïve, even reckless, but they aren't about to be victims: They're strong, and brave, and nearly always capable of rescuing themselves." br --New York Times Book Review Margaret Atwood meets Buffy in these funny, warm, and furious stories of women at their breaking points, from Hellenic times to today. Cassandra may have seen the future, but it doesn't mean she's resigned to telling the Trojans everything she knows. In this e ..
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Sparring Partners: Novellas
by Grisham, John       
(Paperback - English - 9780593632369)
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - John Grisham is the acknowledged master of the legal thriller. In his first collection of novellas, law is a common thread, but America's favorite storyteller has several surprises in store. "Homecoming" takes us back to Ford County, the fictional setting of many of John Grisham's unforgettable stories. Jake Brigance is back, but he's not in the courtroom. He's called upon to help an old friend, Mack Stafford, a former lawyer in Clanton, who three years earlier became a local legend when he stole money from his clients, divorced his wife, filed for bankruptcy, and left his family in the middle of the night, never to be heard fro ..
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Stories from the Tenants Downstairs
by Fofana, Sidik       
(Hardcover - English - 9781982145811)
Set in a Harlem high rise, a stunning debut about a tight-knit cast of characters grappling with their own personal challenges while the forces of gentrification threaten to upend life as they know it. Like Gloria Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place and Lin Manuel Miranda's In the Heights , Sidik Fofana's electrifying collection of eight interconnected stories showcases the strengths, struggles, and hopes of one residential community in a powerful storytelling experience. Each short story follows a tenant in the Banneker Homes, a low-income high rise in Harlem where gentrification weighs on everyone's mind. There is Swan in apartment 6B, whose excitement ab ..
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Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century
by Fu, Kim       
(Paperback - English - 9781951142995)
strong The strange and wonderful define Kim Fu's story collection, where the line between fantasy and reality fades in and out, elusive and beckoning. --The New York Times Book Review br strong strong A LitHub, ALTA, and PureWow Best Book of the Month br strong strong A BuzzFeed and WIRED Pick for a Book You Need to Read This Winter strong ..
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Learning to Talk: Stories
by Mantel, Hilary       
(Hardcover - English - 9781250865366)
Learning to Talk is a dazzling collection of short stories from the two-time winner of the Booker Prize and #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Wolf Hall trilogy. br br With a New Preface In the wake of Hilary Mantel's brilliant conclusion to her award-winning Wolf Hall trilogy, this collection of loosely autobiographical stories locates the transforming moments of a haunted childhood. Absorbing and evocative, these drawn-from-life stories begin in the 1950s in an insular northern village "scoured by bitter winds and rough gossip tongues." For the young narrator, the only way to survive is to get up, get on, get out. In "King Billy Is a Gentleman, ..
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The Complete Stories
by O'Connor, Flannery    Giroux, Robert   
(Paperback - English - 9780374515362)
Winner of the National Book Award The publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O'Connor's monumental contribution to American fiction. There are thirty-one stories here in all, including twelve that do not appear in the only two story collections O'Connor put together in her short lifetime--Everything That Rises Must Converge and A Good Man Is Hard to Find . O'Connor published her first story, The Geranium, in 1946, while she was working on her master's degree at the University of Iowa. Arranged chronologically, this collection shows that her last story, Judgement Day--sent to her publisher shortly before her death--is a brilli ..
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Afterparties: Stories
by So, Anthony Veasna       
(Hardcover - English - 9780063049901)
strong INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER strong strong WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE'S JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST BOOK strong strong WINNER OF THE FERRO-GRUMLEY AWARD FOR LGBTQ FICTION strong strong Named a Best Book of the Year by: New York Times * NPR * Washington Post * LA Times * Kirkus Reviews * New York Public Library * Chicago Public Library * Harper's Bazaar * TIME * Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air * Boston Globe* The Atlantic strong strong A vibrant story collection about Cambodian-American life--immersive and comic, yet unsparing--that offers profound insight into the intimacy of queer and immigrant communities s ..
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