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Twelve stories of women caught in the emotional turbulence of romance in Manhattan. For the twelve narrators of Susan Minot's breathtaking collection - artists and lawyers, teenagers and thirty-somethings - love in New York doesn't come easy. And as they struggle to reconcile their yearnings for romance with their needs for independence, they face resistance to emotional commitment at every turn. In intense snapshots of these women's most intimate...
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First published in 2014, this tenth-anniversary edition of the award-winning collection includes three new stories.A young mother intrudes in the life of an older woman, thinking she knows what's best. An academic becomes convinced that he is haunted by his double. Two children spy on their supposedly criminal neighbours. A man enables his cousin's predatory impulses out of loyalty, and a circus performer dreams of a perfect wedding. These characters...
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A fresh, thoughtful, and always surprising short story collection from a rising young star in the world of Japanese literature.
Composed of the title novella and three short stories, People Who Talk to Stuffed Animals Are Nice sensitively explores gender, friendship, romance, love, human interaction and its absence, and how a misogynistic society limits women and men.
In the title story, Nanamori and Mugito, two university students appalled by...
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A breathtaking debut collection of interrelated stories suffused with magical realism
In stories that evoke the haunting beauty and loneliness of New England beaches, Sofia T. Romero blurs the lines between life and death, reality and fantasy. A deceased woman counsels her son's fiancée on how to be a good wife to him, with disastrous consequences. A mysterious, commanding cat appears in a young woman's home, as inexplicable as the demise of her...
5) Wanted
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Wanted is a DARK GRAY romance novella with high spice and low plot. This home invasion story will leave you questioning if you should leave your door open at night.I'm wanted.On the lam, running from the law and my mistakes. The house tucked into the trees seems safe-an excellent place to hide out. Once inside, I find something unexpected. A nurse that can do more than heal my wounds. But the longer I'm awake, the more reality starts to blur, and...
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A provocative collection of interconnected tales, bridging the worlds of mysticism and heresy, faith and desire-from the award-winning author of Everything Is God and The Heresy of Jacob Frank.
The Secret That Is Not a Secret: Ten Heretical Tales invites you into a hidden world of faith, desire, transgression, and revelation. The inhabitants of its interlocking stories are pious and rebellious, mystical and queer, from a Hasidic woman tormented...
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Some secrets should stay buried. When renowned architect Arania Webb returns to Bristol Zoo, her childhood sanctuary and now a derelict ruin, she discovers her late father's hidden underground lab that harbors a dark obsession.Inside, she uncovers his journals of twisted experiments fusing arachnid DNA with humans to create unnatural creatures that blur the line between species. As Arania descends into the shadowy depths and explores further, she...
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*** LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 UNCHARTED THRILLING SHORT STORY AWARD *** Fame can be a nightmare. Crime thriller author Robert Keeney has a recipe for success: he daydreams about being interviewed on The Jeremy Sparkles show, and uses his questions as inspiration for stories. But when the line between fiction and reality starts to blur, Robert questions his own sanity. Could Jeremy have a mind of his own?
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A mysterious figure stalks the murky backwoods of the Midwest on an unrelenting mission for revenge, with nothing but a Bowie knife to protect him against the monsters that haunt the forest. And even if he's able to find what he needs… it's already too late. From A. J. Payler, author of The Killing Song, Lost In the Red, and Bank Error in Your Favor comes The Rumble of Heat Lightning Above the Deep Midwestern Woods-a story of the world we live in...
10) The Ukraine
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A masterful portrayal of a country between wars and at war as experienced by the idiosyncratic people the narrator encounters in towns and villages and desolate stretches across the land-from wanderers inside the Chernobyl irradiated zone, to townspeople terrorized by marauding bears, from travelers on a train skipping stops where hostilities have broken out, to a young couple looking for an apartment in Kyiv before the arrival of their firstborn....
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Intergenerational conflicts unfold in a context of environmental change and degradation in this eerily original debut short fiction collection.
Intergenerational conflicts unfold in a context of environmental change and degradation in this eerily original debut short fiction collection.
Emily Paskevics takes her characters--mothers, daughters, fathers, sisters--into the wilderness to lose themselves in their primal nature . . . or to find what...
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Acid trips, terrorists, and one hundred birthday candles. Icy baths, burning bodies, and everything in between.
This thought provoking debut short story collection from Cathleen Davies pulls no punches. Expertly skewering readers' expectations on failing relationships, cabin fever, police violence, feminism, loss, and loyalty; each unique character tells a tale of the dissatisfied, the angst-laden, and the justifiably outraged.
Elder members...
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The second collection from the author of Kissing Carrion.
As two-time Bram Stoker Award winner Paula Guran said in Horror Garage, "Nobody in a Gemma Files story puts a hand on a doorknob and opens the door they shouldn't-these folks are already in the other side." The inhabitants of the stories in The Worm in Every Heart include gods and madmen, arsonists and ancient vampires, monsters and mothers who don't know how to love. No matter where they...
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A playful and deeply affective short story collection about the histories, technologies, and generational divides that shape our relationships-from the award-winning writer of Days of Distraction
Compelling and perceptive, Tomb Sweeping probes the loyalties we hold: to relatives, to strangers, and to ourselves. In stories set across the US and Asia, Alexandra Chang immerses us in the lives of immigrant families, grocery store employees, expecting...
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A bold and haunting debut story collection that follows various characters as they navigate the day-to-day perils of Jim Crow racism from Diane Oliver, a missing figure in the canon of twentieth-century African American literature, with an introduction by Tayari Jones
A remarkable talent far ahead of her time, Diane Oliver died in 1966 at the age of 22, leaving behind these crisply told and often chilling tales that explore race and racism in 1950s...
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Strange, poignant tales of life on tomorrow's Earth and in outer space from multiple Hugo Award–winning Grand Master of Science Fiction Clifford D. Simak. Virtually every major author from science fiction's fabled golden age-including Poul Anderson, Isaac Asimov, and Robert A. Heinlein-agreed that Clifford D. Simak was one of the greatest among them. Named Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America, the award-winning author created enduring...
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A haunting collection of short fiction from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club, A Head Full of Ghosts, and The Cabin at the End of the World.
Paul Tremblay has won widespread acclaim for illuminating the dark horrors of the mind in novels and stories that push the boundaries of storytelling itself. The fifteen pieces in this brilliant collection, The Beast You Are, are all monsters of a kind, ready to loudly (and lovingly) smash through...
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From tales of alien invasions and intergalactic war to visions of dystopian tomorrows, an astonishing collection from one of literary science fiction's all-time greats, Hugo Award winner Clifford D. Simak. The twentieth century's so-called golden age of science fiction produced many great writers-including Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, and Robert Heinlein-yet none is greater than Clifford D. Simak, named Grand Master by the Science...
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In this engaging social history New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, completes his epic “Last Kingdom” series with this companion book featuring three exclusive short stories and sixty recipes that bring Uhtred's world to life as never before.
My name is Uhtred. I am the son of Uhtred, who was the son of Uhtred and his father was also called Uhtred...
“The Last Kingdom” is one of the most successful historical fiction series...
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Everyone-everyone said that getting the Artery Boys back together was impossible… and once, high-powered music manager Alec Rodenbaugh might even have agreed.But nothing in this world is truly impossible for someone who wants it badly enough. And even if what seemed like the perfect cover might instead turn out to be the perfect crime… well, sometimes, people just have things they have to do.From A. J. Payler, author of The Killing Song, Bank...
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