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First Person Singular: Stories
by Murakami, Haruki    Gabriel, Philip   
(Hardcover - English - 9780593318072)
"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 br br A mind-bending new collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed Haruki Murakami. 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 himself. Is it memoir or ..
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The Things They Carried
by O'Brien, Tim       
(Paperback - English - 9780618706419)
"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 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 tour in Vietnam t ..
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The Hemingway Stories: As Featured in the Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick on PBS
by Hemingway, Ernest    Wolff, Tobias   
(Paperback - English - 9781982179465)
A new collection showcasing the best of Ernest Hemingway's short stories including his well-known classics, as featured in the magnificent three-part, six-hour PBS documentary by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick--introduced by award-winning author Tobias Wolff. Ernest Hemingway, a literary icon and considered one of the greatest American writers of all time, is the subject of a major documentary by award-winning filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. This intimate portrait of Hemingway--who brilliantly captured the complexities of the human condition in spare and profound prose, and whose work remains deeply influential in literature and culture--interweaves a close s ..
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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)
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR br A NATIONAL BESTSELLER Nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories--two being published for the very first time--all from the mind of the incomparable Ted Chiang. 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. ..
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Tales from the Folly: A Rivers of London Short Story Collection
by Aaronovitch, Ben       
(Paperback - English - 9781625675095)
Return to the world of Rivers of London in this first short story collection from #1 Sunday Times bestselling author, Ben Aaronovitch. Tales from the Folly is a carefully curated collection that gathers together previously published stories and brand new tales in the same place for the first time. Each tale features a new introduction from the author, filled with insight and anecdote offering the reader a deeper exploration into this absorbing fictional world. This is a must read for any Rivers of London fan. Join Peter, Nightingale, Abigail, Agent Reynolds and Tobias Winter for a series of perfectly portioned tales. Discover what's haunting a lonely moto ..
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Stories of Your Life and Others
by Chiang, Ted       
(Paperback - English - 9781101972120)
From the author of Exhalation , an award-winning short story collection that blends absorbing storytelling with meditations on the universe, being, time and space ... raises questions about the nature of reality and what it is to be human (The New York Times). br br Stories of Your Life and Others delivers dual delights of the very, very strange and the heartbreakingly familiar, often presenting characters who must confront sudden change--the inevitable rise of automatons or the appearance of aliens--with some sense of normalcy. With sharp intelligence and humor, Chiang examines what it means to be alive in a world marked by uncertainty, but also by beauty a ..
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Milk Blood Heat
by Moniz, Dantiel W.       
(Hardcover - English - 9780802158154)
strong "A gorgeous debut" (Lauren Groff) from Dantiel W. Moniz, one of the most exciting discoveries in today's literary landscape, Milk Blood Heat depicts the sultry lives of Floridians in intergenerational tales that contemplate human connection, race, womanhood, inheritance, and the elemental darkness in us all. strong A livewire debut from Dantiel W. Moniz, one of the most exciting discoveries in today's literary landscape, Milk Blood Heat depicts the sultry lives of Floridians in intergenerational tales that contemplate human connection, race, womanhood, inheritance, and the elemental darkness in us all. Set among the cities and suburbs of Florida, ea ..
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Interpreter of Maladies
by Lahiri, Jhumpa       
(Paperback - English - 9780358213260)
International Bestseller - Winner of the Pulitzer Prize - PEN Hemingway Award Winner br With a New Foreword by Domenico Starnone br This stunning debut collection unerring charts the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the barriers of nations and generations. In stories that travel from India to America and back again, Lahiri speaks with universal eloquence to everyone who has ever felt like a foreigner. ..
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The Souvenir Museum: Stories
by McCracken, Elizabeth       
(Hardcover - English - 9780062971289)
strong A Most Anticipated Book From: OprahMag.com * Refinery 29 * Seattle Times * LitHub * Houston Chronicle * The Millions * Buzzfeed strong strong Award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken is an undisputed virtuoso of the short story, and this new collection features her most vibrant and heartrending work to date strong In these stories, the mysterious bonds of family are tested, transformed, fractured, and fortified. A recent widower and his adult son ferry to a craggy Scottish island in search of puffins. An actress who plays a children's game-show villainess ushers in the New Year with her deadbeat half brother. A mother, pining for her children ..
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Tiny Tales: Stories of Romance, Ambition, Kindness, and Happiness
by Smith, Alexander McCall    McIntosh, Iain   
(Hardcover - English - 9780593316009)
It is often said that the best things in life come in small packages; anyone in search of proof need look no further than the stories in this collection: brief, utterly engaging tales that offer lasting surprise and delight. In Tiny Tales, Alexander McCall Smith explores romance, ambition, kindness, and happiness in thirty short stories accompanied by thirty witty cartoons designed by Iain McIntosh, McCall Smith's longtime creative collaborator. Here we meet the first Australian pope, who hopes to finally find some peace and quiet back home in Perth; a psychotherapist turned motorcycle racetrack manager; and an aspiring opera singer who gets her unlikely break ..
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A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
by MacLean, Norman    Redford, Robert   
(Paperback - English - 9780226472065)
When Norman Maclean sent the manuscript of A River Runs through It and Other Stories to New York publishers, he received a slew of rejections. One editor, so the story goes, replied, "it has trees in it." Forty years later, the title novella is recognized as one of the great American tales of the twentieth century, and Maclean as one of the most beloved writers of our time. The finely distilled product of a long life of often surprising rapture--for fly-fishing, for the woods, for the interlocked beauty of life and art--A River Runs through It has established itself as a classic of the American West. This new edition will introduce a fresh audience to Maclean' ..
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The Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction
by Gaiman, Neil    James, Marlon   
(Hardcover - English - 9780063031852)
strong An outstanding array-- strong strong 52 pieces in all-- strong strong of selected fiction from the multiple-award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman, introduced with a foreword by Booker Prize-winning author Marlon James strong Spanning Gaiman's career to date, The Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction is a captivating collection from one of the world's most beloved writers. A brilliant representation of Gaiman's groundbreaking, entrancing, endlessly imaginative fiction, this captivating volume includes excerpts from each of his five novels for adults --Neverwhere, Stardust, American Gods, Anansi Boys , and The Ocean at the ..
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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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Sabrina & Corina: Stories
by Fajardo-Anstine, Kali       
(Paperback - English - 9780525511304)
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - Latinas of Indigenous descent living in the American West take center stage in this haunting debut story collection--a powerful meditation on friendship, mothers and daughters, and the deep-rooted truths of our homelands. "Here are stories that blaze like wildfires, with characters who made me laugh and broke my heart."--Sandra Cisneros WINNER OF THE AMERICAN BOOK AWARD - FINALIST FOR THE STORY PRIZE - FINALIST FOR THE PEN ROBERT W. BINGHAM PRIZE FOR DEBUT SHORT STORY COLLECTION Kali Fajardo-Anstine's magnetic story collection breathes life into her Latina characters of indigenous ancestry and the land they inhabit in the A ..
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Afterparties: Stories
by So, Anthony Veasna       
(Hardcover - English - 9780063049901)
strong A Roxane Gay's Audacious Book Club Pick! strong strong Named a Best Book of Summer by: Wall Street Journal * Thrillist * Vogue * Lit Hub * Refinery29 * New York Observer * The Daily Beast * Time * BuzzFeed * Entertainment Weekly 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 strong Seamlessly transitioning between the absurd and the tenderhearted, balancing acerbic humor with sharp emotional depth, Afterparties offers an expansive portrait of the lives of Cambodian-Americans. As the children of refu ..
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To Be a Man: Stories
by Krauss, Nicole       
(Hardcover - English - 9780062431028)
strong O, The Oprah Magazine 's 20 Best Titles of the Year strong strong Tim e Magazine's 100 Books to Read in 2020 strong strong Financial Times ' Best Books of 2020 strong strong Esquire 's Best Books of 2020 strong strong New York Times Editors' Choice strong strong br strong strong Lit Hub's Best Books of 2020 strong strong Bustle 's Best Short Story Collections of 2020 strong strong Electric Literature's Favorite Short Story Collections of 2020 strong strong Library Journal's Best Short Stories of 2020 strong strong "Superb. . . . Krauss's depictions of the nuances of sex and love, intimacy and dependence, call to mind th ..
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We Two Alone: Stories
by Wang, Jack       
(Hardcover - English - 9780063081789)
strong Praised as "utterly remarkable" and "deeply resonant" by Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Viet Thanh Nguyen and Robert Olen Butler, a bold and brilliant debut collection, in the vein of The Refugees, which dramatizes the Chinese diaspora across the globe over the past hundred years. strong Set on five continents and spanning decades, We Two Alone traces the arc and evolution of the Chinese immigrant experience. A young laundry boy risks his life, pretending to be a girl to play organized hockey in Canada in the 1920s. A Canadian couple is caught when Shanghai succumbs to violence during the Second Sino-Japanese War. A family sttempts to buy a home in ..
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The (Other) You: Stories
by Oates, Joyce Carol       
(Hardcover - English - 9780063035201)
strong A powerful reckoning over the people we might have been if we'd chosen a different path, from a master of the short story strong br br In this stirring, reflective collection of short stories, Joyce Carol Oates ponders alternate destinies: the other lives we might have led if we'd made different choices. An accomplished writer returns to her childhood home of Yewville, but the homecoming stirs troubled thoughts about the person she might have been if she'd never left. A man in prison contemplates the gravity of his irreversible act. A student's affair with a professor results in a pregnancy that alters the course of her life forever. Even the experi ..
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The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
by Liu, Ken       
(Paperback - English - 9781481424363)
Featured in the Netflix series Love, Death & Robots Bestselling author Ken Liu selects his multiple award-winning stories for a groundbreaking collection--including a brand-new piece exclusive to this volume. With his debut novel, The Grace of Kings , taking the literary world by storm, Ken Liu now shares his finest short fiction in The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories . This mesmerizing collection features many of Ken's award-winning and award-finalist stories, including: "The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary" (Finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, and Theodore Sturgeon Awards), "Mono No Aware" (Hugo Award winner), "The Waves" (Nebula Award finalist), "The Bo ..
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