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A collection of the year's best short stories, selected by National Book Award finalist Min Jin Lee and series editor Heidi Pitlor.
Min Jin Lee, author of the highly acclaimed National Book Award Finalist Pachinko, selects twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.
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"Claude works as a security guard at the AGO (Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto), and he becomes fascinated with the Henry Moore sculptures on display in the gallery. Then entranced, then possessed with an incredible connection with the personality of each sculpture, then convinced that there is an entity trapped within each sculpture..." From the Challenging Destiny review by James Schellenberg.Schellenberg says of the stories in this collection,...
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Not everything in this book may be for everyone, but there is something in it for each person. Because this book is more than a collection of stories. It is something different and not easy to pigeonhole. That is precisely its greatest virtue.This anthology is made up of 63 short stories selected that span different genres, realities, and emotions. Some are extensive, others mere whispers. Some will seem familiar to you, while others may seem strange,...
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Blue is the second volume of short stories by multi-genre author, Wodke Hawkinson. Blue contains three novelettes, which in and of themselves make the book a must-read. In addition, Blue also features eleven shorter works that run the gamut from bawdy humor in "The Erotic Adventure of Dick Speed" to the contemplative surrealism of "Death Hates His Job".Wodke Hawkinson's writing includes a tasty variety of subjects which are peopled with unique and...
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"The Essential Alcott: Selected Works and Short Stories" brings together a timeless collection of Louisa May Alcott's most cherished works, showcasing the enduring brilliance of this beloved American author. Immerse yourself in the enchanting world of Alcott with the beloved classic "Little Women," a heartwarming tale of the March sisters navigating the challenges of adolescence and womanhood.
Explore the captivating narratives of "An Old-Fashioned...
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Catch Her in the Rye contains the tragic love story by that name plus thirty other short stories in a wide variety of themes, from the surrealistic "I Wish" to the heartwarming "Homeless Thanksgiving". These short tales offer a cross-genre experience, with literary tidbits that include science fiction, horror, contemporary fiction, and those hard-to-classify yarns that fit neatly into no category. In addition to the eerie "Ain't No Lights", the collection...
8) Weird Tales of Weird Tails - A Fine Selection of Supernatural Short Stories about Were-Cats and O
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These early works by various authors were originally published in the late 19th century and early 20th century and we are now republishing them with a brand new introduction as part of our Cryptofiction Classics series. 'Weird Tales of Weird Tails' contains a collection of short stories about supernatural felines, and includes 'The King of the Cats' by Thomas Lyttelton (1807), 'The Gray Cat' by Barry Pain (1901), 'Ancient Sorceries' by Algernon Blackwood...
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Tor Publishing Group
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2024.
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A collection of personal essays, insightful interviews and genre-bending short stories from the popular and Galaxy Award-winning science fiction writer from the People's Republic of China highlight his creative journey across three decades.
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2024.
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"The body cannot tell any lies. From birth to death, and through all the transitions in between, the body stores our knowledge and history, our feelings and experiences. Our betrayals. These insightful and empathetic stories shine new light on our physical vessels set against our physical world, two landscapes irretrievably connected and altered over time. These eleven stories take us into the lives and experiences of others to scrutinize the physical...
11) Stitches
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"A tumor shaped like a man's face slowly moves across a woman's body. The sea shoots glowing balls into the sky, much to the distress of beachgoers. And a girl dressed up for a holiday has no eyes, no nose, nothing--her face is a total blank"--
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Usborne Publishing Ltd
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2020.
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A fantastic selection of dragon stories from all over the world, gorgeously illustrated by Khoa Le, and starring a wide variety of dragons. Here you will find four dragons from China who save their country, alongside a dragon whose tears cause tulips to bloom, and a reluctant dragon who refuses to fight - even when St. George comes to town.
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Penguin Books
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2024.
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"A "smart and deft" fabulist debut collection of stories re-imagining the nine-tailed fox spirit of Asian folklore (C. Pam Zhang). A fox spirit avenges a teen girl by seducing her abuser. A shapeshifting woman finds herself chased through the woods by foxhunters; meanwhile, an assassination plot called Operation Fox Hunt unfolds against the last Queen of Korea. Chinese migrants hoping to make new lives as "paper children" in America find their pasts--and...
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Library of America ; 377
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Library Of America
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[2024]
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"The 72 columns selected here by editor Dan Barry, more than half of which have not been reprinted since initial publication, reveal Breslin at his best, addressing stories of national and global importance but more often uncovering tales of ordinary New Yorkers, by turns tragic or absurd but always gripping to read. Gathered here are the highlights of his consummate deadline artistry: his celebrated interview with the man who dug the grave for John...
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City Lights Books
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2024.
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"Short stories from 25 emerging and established writers of Middle Eastern and North African origins, a unique collection of voices and viewpoints that illuminate life in the global Arab/Muslim world. Stories from the Center of the World gathers new writing from the Greater Middle East, a vast region that stretches from Southwest Asia, through the Middle East and Turkey, and across Northern Africa. The 25 authors included here are either native to...
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Prometheus Books
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[2024]
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English
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"Damn you, Entropy! presents 1,001 of the greatest quotations from science-fiction novels, short stories, tales published in the old Golden Age pulp magazines, films, television series, and comics. Spanning five centuries, these quotes are highlights, the supernovae of the genre, selected for their emotional and/or intellectual impact"--Introduction.
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New York Review Books
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[2024]
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In the biographical note accompanying one of her books, Cristina Campo said of herself: "She has written little and would like to have written less". That little is almost all collected in this book and will impose an observation on every perceptive reader: these pages belong to the most beautiful Italian prose has been shown in the last fifty years. Cristina Campo was unforgivable, in the sense that the word has in the essay that gives the title...
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