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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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Endless Summer: Stories from Days That Last Forever
by Hilderbrand, Elin       
(Hardcover - English - 9780316460910)
The "queen of beach reads" (New York Magazine ) presents nine captivating stories of summer on Nantucket--and days that last forever--to carry us through the off-season. Bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand revisits her most treasured and iconic characters in this magical collection of stories. Collected in a single volume for the first time, Endless Summer ranges from fan favorites to original, never-before-seen works. In "The Surfing Lesson," the marriage at the heart of Beautiful Day crosses uncertain territory when Margot Carmichael encourages her husband to reunite with his ex-girlfriend. The legendary weekend of a Harvard-Yale football game in "The Tai ..
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Galatea: A Short Story
by Miller, Madeline       
(Hardcover - English - 9780063280519)
strong NATIONAL BESTSELLER strong strong An enchanting short story from Madeline Miller that boldly reimagines the myth of Galatea and Pygmalion, now in hardcover for the first time strong strong **A small hardcover edition featuring a new afterword by Madeline Miller** strong In ancient Greece, a skilled marble sculptor has been blessed by a goddess who has given his masterpiece--the most beautiful woman the town has ever seen--the gift of life. After marrying her, he expects Galatea to please him, to be obedience and humility personified. But she has desires of her own and yearns for independence. In a desperate bid by her obsessive husband to keep he ..
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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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Illuminations: Stories
by Moore, Alan       
(Hardcover - English - 9781635578805)
NATIONAL BESTSELLER br NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE From New York Times bestselling author Alan Moore--one of the most influential writers in the history of comics--"a wonderful collection, brilliant and often moving" (Neil Gaiman) which takes us to the fantastical underside of reality. In his first-ever short story collection, which spans forty years of work, Alan Moore presents a series of wildly different and equally unforgettable characters who discover--and in some cases even make and unmake--the various uncharted parts of existence. In "A Hypothetical Lizard," two concubines in a brothel of fantastical specialists fall in love with trag ..
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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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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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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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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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Seven Empty Houses
by Schweblin, Samanta    McDowell, Megan   
(Hardcover - English - 9780525541394)
Winner of the 2022 National Book Award for Translated Literature A blazing new story collection that will make you feel like the house is collapsing in on you, from the 3 time International Booker Prize finalist, "lead[ing] a vanguard of Latin American writers forging their own 21st-century canon." -O , the Oprah magazine The seven houses in these seven stories are strange. A person is missing, or a truth, or memory; some rooms are enticing, some unmoored, others empty. But in Samanta Schweblin's tense, visionary tales, something always creeps back inside: a ghost, a fight, trespassers, a list of things to do before you die, a child's first encounter with da ..
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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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Stories from the Tenants Downstairs
by Fofana, Sidik       
(Hardcover - English - 9781982145811)
"A standout achievement...American speech is an underused commodity in contemporary fiction and it's a joy to find such a vital example of it here." --The Wall Street Journal From a superb new literary talent, a rich, lyrical collection of stories 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. At Banneker Terrace, everybody knows everybody, or at least knows of them. Longtime tenants' lives are entangled together in the ups and downs of the day-to-day, for better or for worse. The neighbors in the unit next door are friends or family, childhood riv ..
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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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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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Afterparties: Stories
by So, Anthony Veasna       
(Paperback - English - 9780063049895)
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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Learning to Talk: Stories
by Mantel, Hilary       
(Hardcover - English - 9781250865366)
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. In the wake of Hilary Mantel's brilliant conclusion to her award-winning Wolf Hall trilogy, Learning to Talk is a collection of loosely autobiographical stories that 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," the child must come to ..
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Sparring Partners: Novellas
by Grisham, John       
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#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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