Garrison Keillor

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Delaware

Twenty humorous stories tackle the subject of the American guy

The Book of Guys

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

North Carolina

Stories

You Think It, I'll Say It

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Texas

Steve Hall

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Tennessee

Gathers stories of 55 or fewer words, contributed by obscure and well-known authors writing new creations or parodies of famous novels, addressing love, romance, death, and suspense.

World's Shortest Stories of Love and Death

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Steve Moss

Murder. Love. Horror. Suspense. All This and Much More...

This is a quintessential short story book for r everyone who thinks they don't have any time to read. Each story is less than 55 words long - ideal for the beach, bus , train, anywhere.

World's Shortest Stories

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Illinois

The linked stories of "Love and Obstacles" center around a young man from Yugosalvia who immigrates to America. In dazzling prose, Hemon (himself an immigrant from Yugoslavia) portrays the complications, "the obstacles," of growing up in a Communist butcosmopolitan country, and the disintegration of that country and the consequent uprooting and move to America in young adulthood.

Love and Obstacles

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Holly Black

California

Twelve short stories by a variety of authors seek to answer the question of whether zombies are better than unicorns.

Zombies vs. Unicorns

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

The Collected Short Fiction of Bruce Jay Friedman 

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Helen Oyeyemi

Kentucky

A Novel

“Enchanting . . . the most surprising, confounding, and oddly insightful couple’s trip in recent literary history.” —Entertainment Weekly The prize-winning, bestselling author of Gingerbread; Boy, Snow, Bird; and What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours returns with a vivid and inventive new novel about a couple forever changed by an unusual train voyage. When Otto and Xavier Shin declare their love, an aunt gifts them a trip on a sleeper train to mark their new commitment—and to get them out of her house. Setting off with their pet mongoose, Otto and Xavier arrive at their sleepy local train station, but quickly deduce that The Lucky Day is no ordinary locomotive. Their trip on this former tea-smuggling train has been curated beyond their wildest imaginations, complete with mysterious and welcoming touches, like ingredients for their favorite breakfast. They seem to be the only people on board, until Otto discovers a secretive woman who issues a surprising message. As further clues and questions pile up, and the trip upends everything they thought they knew, Otto and Xavier begin to see connections to their own pasts, connections that now bind them together. A spellbinding tale from a star author, Peaces is about what it means to be seen by another person—whether it’s your lover or a stranger on a train—and what happens when things you thought were firmly in the past turn out to be right beside you.

Peaces

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Kansas

From the acclaimed, prize-winning Catalonian author of the novel Lost Luggage, a collection of nine masterful short stories about adulthood, heartbreak, and outsiders in search of their place in the world. As one of Catalonia’s most acclaimed literary talents, Jordi Puntí’s writing is “full of invention and consistently gripping” (The Times Literary Supplement). Now, he returns to his American audience with this breathtaking short story collection. Sharing the title of the David Bowie song, it travels from Spain to America and back, showing the differences between the two places. A man recalls a past love as he strolls through the lonely streets of Barcelona. A hitchhiker on the outskirts of the city of Vic carries his secrets in a briefcase. In northern Catalonia, a villager receives letters from a long-estranged brother and grapples with how to respond. Then there’s the man who wants to surprise his wife with a trip to Paris, only to swap it for a solitary cruise. Showcasing “the author’s vivid imagination” (Kirkus Reviews), the stories in This Is Not America are effortless evocations of the strangeness of everyday life and the universal search for love and belonging.

This Is Not America

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A wickedly wry, tender new collection from one of our finest internationally acclaimed short story writers.

Nine virtuoso stories that take up the preoccupations and fixations of time's passing and of middle age and that take us from today's London and Berlin to the wild west of the USA and the wilder shores of Mother Russia; stories finely balanced between devastation and optimism.
     In the title story, long-ago school pals take the London Underground to the end of the Piccadilly line--Cockfosters Station--to retrieve a lost pair of newly prescribed bifocals ("The worst thing about needing glasses is the bumbling," says Julie. "I've turned into a bumbler overnight. Me! I run marathons!"); each station stop prompting reflections on their shared past, present, and possible futures . . . In "Erewhon," a gender-role flip: after having sex with his wife, who has turned over and instantly fallen asleep, a man lies awake fretting about his body shape, his dissatisfaction with sex, his children, his role in the marriage . . . In "Kythera," lemon drizzle cake is a mother's ritual preparation for her (now grown) daughter's birthday as she conjures up memories of all the birthday cakes she has made for her, each one more poignant than the last; this new cake becoming a memento mori, an act of love, and a symbol of transformation ... And in "Berlin," a fiftysomething couple on a "Ring package" to Germany spend four evenings watching Wagner's epic, recalling their life together, reckoning with the husband's infidelity, the wife noting the similarity between their marriage and the Ring Cycle itself: "I'm glad I stuck it out but I'd never want to sit through it again."

Cockfosters

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Thomas Colchie

An amazing collection of short stories from authors across Latin America.

Minnesota

Short Fiction from the Latin Americas

A collection of twenty-one short stories representing some of the finest work by today's Latin American writers.

A Whistler in the Nightworld

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Presents eleven tales about characters who take on a risky personal search for the unique place where faith can thrive for each one of them, whether it is a run-down hotel, an animal shelter, or the embrace of an ex-convict.

Hotel of the Saints

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Cara Bruce

Florida

"Best Bisexual Women's Erotica" explores the steamy sex lives and loves of bisexual women in various settings and combinations. Contributors include Carol Queen, Marcy Sheiner, Kathleen Bryson, and Anne Marino. Excerpts in "Playboy, Penthouse, " and "Cosmopolitan."

Best Bisexual Women's Erotica

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Anita Brookner

A definitive collection of short stories by the author known for her insight into the lives of women and men trying to reconcile the desires of the heart with the demands of society, in a volume that also includes an introduction by the Booker Prize-winning author of The Hotel du Lac. Reprint.

The Collected Stories of Edith Wharton

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Curtis Sittenfeld

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A. M. Homes

The breakthrough story collection that established A. M. Homes as one of the most daring writers of her generation

Originally published in 1990 to wide critical acclaim, this extraordinary first collection of stories by A. M. Homes confronts the real and the surreal on even terms to create a disturbing and sometimes hilarious vision of the American dream. Included here are "Adults Alone," in which a couple drops their kids off at Grandma's and gives themselves over to ten days of Nintendo, porn videos, and crack; "A Real Doll," in which a girl's blond Barbie doll seduces her teenaged brother; and "Looking for Johnny," in which a kidnapped boy, having failed to meet his abductor's expectations, is returned home. These stories, by turns satirical, perverse, unsettling, and utterly believable, expose the dangers of ordinary life even as their characters stay hidden behind the disguises they have so carefully created.

The Safety of Objects

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Anthony Glavin

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~ Set variously in Donegal, Dublin, Boston, Nicaragua and Majorca, the stories in The Draughtsman and the Unicorn charts the bittersweet and comic misadventures of its protagonists as they encounter such mysteries as love, betrayal and a policeman on holidays suddenly confronted with the nature of his trade; a mother haunted by a childhood hoax; a young woman who fancies herself as the last unicorn. Ambient and enchanting, Glavin's second short story collection (his first, One For Sorrow) offers a series of slowly revealed, unexpected and often devastating insights into the nuances and vagaries of the human condition. 'Astonishingly accomplished and evocative' --The Irish Times

New Mexico

Stories set in Donegal, Dublin, Boston Nicaragua and Majorca chart the mis-adventures of his protagonists as they encounter love, betrayal and mortality.

The Draughtsman and the Unicorn

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Kim Bo-young

Oklahoma

And Other Stories

"Her fiction is a breath-taking piece of a cinematic art itself. Reminiscent of the world we experienced in Matrix, Inception, and Dark City, still it leads us to this entirely original structure, which is a ground-breaking, mystic literary and cinematic experience. Indeed, powerful and graceful."--Bong Joon-ho, Oscar-winning director of Parasite In this mind-expanding work of speculative fiction, available in English for the first time, one of South Korea's most treasured writers explores the driving forces of humanity--love, hope, creation, destruction, and the very meaning of existence--in two pairs of thematically interconnected stories. Two worlds, four stories, infinite possibilities In "I'm Waiting for You" and "On My Way," an engaged couple coordinate their separate missions to distant corners of the galaxy to ensure--through relativity--they can arrive back on Earth simultaneously to make it down the aisle. But small incidents wreak havoc on space and time, driving their wedding date further away. As centuries on Earth pass and the land and climate change, one thing is constant: the desire of the lovers to be together. In two separate yet linked stories, Kim Bo-Young cleverly demonstrate the idea love that is timeless and hope springs eternal, despite seemingly insurmountable challenges and the deepest despair. In "The Prophet of Corruption" and "That One Life," humanity is viewed through the eyes of its creators: godlike beings for which everything on Earth--from the richest woman to a speck of dirt--is an extension of their will. When one of the creations questions the righteousness of this arrangement, it is deemed a perversion--a disease--that must be excised and cured. Yet the Prophet Naban, whose "child" is rebelling, isn't sure the rebellion is bad. What if that which is considered criminal is instead the natural order--and those who condemn it corrupt? Exploring the dichotomy between the philosophical and the corporeal, Kim ponders the fate of free-will, as he considers the most basic of questions: who am I?

I'm Waiting for You

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Gathered into one volume, the first four short story collections of T.C. Boyle, winner of the 2015 Rea Award for the Short Story

T. C. Boyle is one of the most inventive and wickedly funny short story writers at work today. Over the course of twenty-five years, Boyle has built up a body of short fiction that is remarkable in its range, richness, and exuberance. His stories have won accolades for their irony and black humor, for their verbal pyrotechnics, for their fascination with everything bizarre and queasy, and for the razor-sharp way in which they dissect America's obsession with image and materialism. Gathered together here are all of the stories that have appeared in his four previous collections, as well as seven that have never before appeared in book form. Together they comprise a book of small treasures, a definitive gift for Boyle fans and for every reader ready to discover the "ferocious, delicious imagination" (Los Angeles Times Book Review) of a "vibrant sensibility fully engaged with American society" (The New York Times).

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Garrison Keillor

The Book of Guys

Curtis Sittenfeld

You Think It, I'll Say It

Curtis Sittenfeld

You Think It, I'll Say It

Steve Hall

World's Shortest Stories of Love and Death

Steve Moss

World's Shortest Stories

Curtis Sittenfeld

You Think It, I'll Say It

Aleksandar Hemon

Love and Obstacles

Holly Black

Zombies vs. Unicorns

Bruce Jay Friedman

The Collected Short Fiction of Bruce Jay Friedman

Helen Oyeyemi

Peaces

Jordi Punti

This Is Not America

Helen Simpson

Cockfosters

Thomas Colchie

A Whistler in the Nightworld

Ursula Hegi

Hotel of the Saints

Cara Bruce

Best Bisexual Women's Erotica

Anita Brookner

The Collected Stories of Edith Wharton

Holly Black

Zombies vs. Unicorns

Curtis Sittenfeld

You Think It, I'll Say It

Curtis Sittenfeld

You Think It, I'll Say It

A. M. Homes

The Safety of Objects

Anthony Glavin

The Draughtsman and the Unicorn

Helen Oyeyemi

Peaces

Kim Bo-young

I'm Waiting for You

T. C. Boyle

T. C. Boyle Stories