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Short stories, American
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Author:Samms, Jamie, Lichtenberg, Jacqueline, Maxfield, Z. A., Zampa, C., Valentine, Lex, Michael, Patric, Colcroft, Karenna, Adams, Tame, Banis, Victor J., Holliday, Brian, Jones, Jambrea Jo, Calmes, Mary, Irving, Jan, Lorrah, Jean, Munder, Chrissy, McCain, Moira, London, Clare, Marchwell, D. W., Lochland, Taylor, Lane, AmySummary: -
Author:Wilson, AdamSummary:Bankers prowl Brooklyn bars on the eve of the stock market crash. A debate over Young Elvis versus Vegas Elvis turns existential. Detoxing junkies use a live lobster to spice up their love life. Students on summer break struggle to...
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Author:Baldwin, Shauna SinghSummary:A Quill & Quire Book of the Year. Ten years after her stunning debut, Shauna Singh Baldwin returns to Goose Lane with an outstanding new collection of ten stories. Migrating from Central America to the American South, from Metro...
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Author:Alexie, ShermanSummary:As a 41-year-old man confronts his own mortality in this collection's title story, he recalls his Spokane Indian father's chilling death from alcoholism and diabetes. Another tale features an eccentric salesman pursuing a...
- Author:Sharp, Anthea, Tweedie, Jim, Anderson, Pam, Eisner, Keith, Macvie, Meagan, Williams, Caelyn, Anderson, Beth, Koerber, Laura, Marcus, Edward, Staples, Suzanne, De Danaan, Llyn, Hambruch, Eve, Weaver, Jessie, Yunker, Barbara, O'Hara, Kim K., Wanless, KathrynSummary:
Timberland Writes Together explores each writer’s take on optimism and serves as a catalyst for community conversations; myriad and far ranging.Supported by its Foundation, Timberland Regional Library invited writers and artists within...
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Author:Henry, O.Summary:The collected stories of O. Henry make entertaining listening.
- Author:Dick, Philip K.Summary:
A collection of short stories by the acclaimed science fiction writer.
- Author:Jackson, ShirleySummary:
"The Lottery," one of the most terrifying stories of the twentieth century, created a sensation when it was first published in the New Yorker. This collection unites "The Lottery" with twenty-four equally unusual stories. Together they...
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Author:Rice, H. WilliamSummary:The Lost Woods is a collection of 15 short stories, most of them set in and around the fictional small town of Sledge, SC. The events narrated in the stories begin in the 1930s and continue to the present day. The stories aren't...
- Author:Dick, Philip K.Summary:
Every legend has a beginning. Dreamscape Media presents a collection of thirteen early short stories penned by Philip K. Dick. Exploring themes of authoritarianism, alternate universes, and altered consciousness, the stories (including...
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Author:Fitzgerald, F. ScottSummary:This collection of four of F. Scott Fitzgerald's most memorable short stories begins with 'The curious case of Benjamin Button,' in which the protagonist is born an old man and ages in reverse until he becomes a baby, and then finally...
- Author:Willis, ConnieSummary:
All ten of her Hugo and Nebula award-winning short stories.
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Author:King, StephenSummary:A master storyteller at his best-the O. Henry Prize winner Stephen King delivers a generous collection of stories, several of them brand-new, featuring revelatory autobiographical comments on when, why, and how he came to write (or...
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Author:Freeman, JohnSummary:Thirty-six major contemporary writers examine life in a deeply divided America-including Anthony Doerr, Ann Patchett, Roxane Gay, Rebecca Solnit, Hector Tobar, Joyce Carol Oates, Edwidge Danticat, Richard Russo, Eula Bliss, Karen...
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Author:Durban, PamSummary:Pam Durban's new collection of stories explores the myriad ways people lose, find, and hold on to one another. When all else fails her characters — science, religion, family, self — the powerful act of storytelling itself keeps their...
- Author:Ohlin, AlixSummary:
Features 16 compelling tales about the connections between people--and the decisions that have the power to alter their lives. In the title story, a married couple decides to divorce. The next night, the man falls into a coma--and his...
- Author:Brody, Marjorie, Kimball, Allan, Stevens, Robert, Dean, Marla, Cosgrove, Julie B., Finfrock-Farrar, Diana, Lord, Cyndi, Towers, Yvie, Smith, Jackie, Furlong, Kendal, Beeb, Bert, Riggs, T. B., Hartl, Tamara, Casas, Juan Manuel, Collins, Shalanna, Lydon, Katelyn, Shriver, P. G., Bourgeois, B. Alan, Simone, JaySummary:
A collection of award winning short stories written by Texas Authors. This is Volume 1 with 20 stories. Many are from award winning authors that have books in print.
- Author:Hall, Sarah, Hobbs, PeterSummary:
“What else is there?” — Alice Munro, on why so much of her work deals with the twin themes of sex and death.The drive for life — for survival and reproduction — and the drive for death — for violence and self-destruction — are the two...
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Author:Thompson, Hunter S.Summary:Thompson's three short stories are as salacious, unsettling, and brutally lyrical as it has been rumored to be since the private printing in 1991.
- Author:Reynolds, ClaySummary:
Off the beaten path, concealed behind the weather-worn clapboard walls of decaying farm houses, desperate folk struggle and strive. These are their stories.
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