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Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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"In six masterly stories, Johnson delves deep into love and loss, natural disasters, the influence of technology, and how the political shapes the personal. "George Orwell Was a Friend of Mine" follows a former warden of a Stasi prison in East Germany who vehemently denies his past, even as pieces of it are delivered in packages to his door. "Nirvana," portrays a programmer whose wife has a rare disease finding solace in a digital simulacrum of the...
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Pub. Date
20210601
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English
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A virtuosic debut collection that roves across genres and styles, by a finalist for the Caine Prize. In her powerful, genre-bending debut story collection, Nana Nkweti's virtuosity is on full display as she mixes deft realism with clever inversions of genre. In the Caine Prize finalist story "It Takes a Village, Some Say," Nkweti skewers racial prejudice and the practice of international adoption, delivering a sly tale about a teenage girl who leverages...
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"Celebrated for her powerful short fiction, Claire Keegan now gifts us three exquisite stories together forming a brilliant examination of gender dynamics and an arc from Keegan's earliest to her most recent work. In "So Late in the Day," Cathal faces a long weekend as his mind agitates over a woman with whom he could have spent his life, had he acted differently; in "The Long and Painful Death" a writer's arrival at the seaside home of Heinrich Böll...
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Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Mercy Thompson's world just got a whole lot bigger' A collection of all-new and previously published short stories featuring Mercy Thompson, 'one of the best heroines in the urban fantasy genre today' (Fiction Vixen Book Reviews), and the characters she calls friends' Includes the new stories' 'Silver' 'Roses in Winter' 'Redemption' 'Hollow' 'and reader favorites 'Fairy Gifts' 'Gray' 'Alpha and Omega' 'Seeing Eye' 'The Star of David' 'In Red, with...
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When Star Wars: A New Hope was first released in 1977, part of its appeal was that the world it presented felt alive. Landspeeders and starships were dirty. Droids broke down. And it was filled with cool, weird, and really weird background characters. (Really, just take a look around the Mos Eisley cantina.) Never mind Han, Luke, Leia, Darth Vader, and Obi-Wan. Who were these other guys? What was their story? Just seeing them brought up questions...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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With the virtuosic synthesis of memoir, criticism, and journalism for which she has become known, Jamison offers 14 new essays that are by turns ecstatic, searching, staggering, and wise. With the virtuosic synthesis of memoir, criticism, and journalism for which Leslie Jamison has been so widely acclaimed, the fourteen essays in Make It Scream, Make It Burn explore the oceanic depths of longing and the reverberations of obsession. Among Jamison's...
87) Los culpables
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Series
Pub. Date
2019
Language
Español
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"Los culpables es el mejor libro de cuentos de Juan Villoro y el mas arriesgado. Luego de aficionarnos a un estilo original y fulminante, Villoro renueva su prosa a fin de explorar distintos registros orales de los impredecibles y complejos sujetos que pueden ser los mexicanos. El lector no encontrará relatos más estimulantes que estos, duenos de una gran velocidad de despegue, donde las turbulencias son calculadas a fin de aumentar la emoción....
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"[T]his collection of ... stories examines the concept of black identity in this so-called post-racial era .... Some [stories] are darkly humorous--from two mothers exchanging snide remarks through notes in their kids' backpacks, to the young girl contemplating how best to notify her Facebook friends of her impending suicide--while others are devastatingly poignant--a new mother and funeral singer who is driven to madness with grief for the young...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"The book opens with a woman, naked except for her high-heeled shoes, seated in front of the window in an apartment she cannot, on her own, afford. In this exquisitely tense narrative reimagining of Edward Hopper's Eleven A.M., 1926, the reader enters the minds of both the woman and her married lover, each consumed by alternating thoughts of disgust and arousal, as he rushes, amorously, murderously, to her door. In "The Long-Legged Girl," an aging,...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
In Chinese.
"First-person singular" is a "monocular" that intercepts a fragment of the world. There are more and more such cross-sections, and the "monocular" has become an infinitely intertwined "compound eye". At that time, I will no longer be me, and you will no longer be you. By then, what will happen? What will not happen? Welcome to the world of "first-person singular". Eight wonderful short stories with different themes and perspectives, it...
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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"In Pianos and Flowers we are invited, through the medium of sepia images, to glimpse a world long departed. In these stories, inspired by long-lost photographs, the lives of the people in the frame are imagined and then explored, layer by layer. What must have it like to be them? We hold our breath for them. Our heart beats faster for them. We look again at the photograph in a new light, and say Yes, it might have happened just like that. This journey...
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"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 from again--until...
98) Cascade: stories
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Set in the Niagara Falls of Craig Davidson's imagination--known as "Cataract City"--the superb stories of Cascade shine a shimmering light on this slightly seedy, slightly magical, slightly haunted place. The seven gems in this collection each illuminate familial relationships in a singular way: A mother and her infant son fight to survive a car crash in a remote wintry landscape outside of town. Fraternal twins at a juvenile detention center reach...
99) The collectors
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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An anthology of ten stories by young adult authors about surprising and unusual collections.
100) Twice cursed
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In this follow-up to the bestselling Cursed: An Anthology, you'll unearth curses old and new. From a very different take on Snow White, to a new interpretation of The Red Shoes, the best in fantasy spin straw into gold, and invite you into the labyrinth"--
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