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Carried Away: A Personal Selection of Stories

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Dancing Girls and Other Stories

Margaret Atwood · 243 pages

A selection of Atwood's short fiction. With flashes of fantasy, humor, and unexpected violence, the stories reveal the complexities of human relationships and bring to life characters who touch us deeply, evoking terror and laughter, compassion and recognition.

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The Golden Apples

Eudora Welty

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The Matisse Stories

A.S. Byatt · 134 pages

These three stories celebrate the eye even as they reveal its unexpected proximity to the heart. For if each of A.S. Byatt's narratives is in some way inspired by a painting of Henri Matisse, each is also about the intimate connection between seeing and feeling--about the ways in which a glance we meant to be casual may suddenly call forth the deepest reserves of our being. Beautifully written, in

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Leaf Storm and Other Stories

Gabriel García Márquez · 146 pages

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The Garden Party and Other Stories

Katherine Mansfield · 255 pages

Very early morning. The sun was not yet risen, and the whole of Crescent Bay was hidden under a white sea-mist. The big bush-covered hills at the back were smothered. You could not see where they ended and the paddocks and bungalows began. The sandy road was gone and the paddocks and bungalows the other side of it; there were no white dunes covered with reddish grass beyond them; there was not

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You Have a Friend In 10A

Maggie Shipstead · 272 pages

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Complete Stories

Clarice Lispector · 672 pages

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Almost Famous Women: Stories

Megan Mayhew Bergman · 281 pages

A collection of stories that explores the lives of talented, gutsy women throughout history. Now Megan Mayhew Bergman resurrects these women, lets them live in the reader's imagination, so we can explore their difficult choices. Nearly every story in this collection is based on a woman who attained some celebrity--she raced speed boats or was a conjoined twin in show business; a reclusive painter

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Sabrina & Corina

Kali Fajardo-Anstine · 212 pages

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In Other Rooms, Other Wonders

Daniyal Mueenuddin · 247 pages

In Other Rooms, Other Wonders illuminates a place and people as it describes the overlapping worlds of an extended Pakistani landowning family. Servants, masters, peasants and socialites, all inextricably bound to each other, confront the advantages and constraints of their station, the dissolution of old ways, and the shock of change. These richly textured stories reveal the complexities of Pakis

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Our Trees Still Grow In Dehra

Ruskin Bond · 164 pages

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Searoad

Ursula K. Le Guin · 256 pages

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Amok and Other Stories

Stefan Zweig · 130 pages

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Cities I've Never Lived In: Stories

Sara Majka · 160 pages

"Linked stories ... of a young New England woman whose life must begin afresh after divorce. Traveling the roads of Maine and the train tracks of Grand Central Station, moving from vast shorelines to unmade beds of strangers, these fourteen stories circle the dreams of a narrator who finds herself turning to storytelling as a means of working through the world and of understanding herself"--Page 4

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All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories

Edward P. Jones · 403 pages

A collection of fourteen short stories is set in Washington, D.C., and follows morally complex characters caught between the old ways of the South and the temptations of modern city life

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The Turning

Tim Winton · 317 pages

A collection of short stories set in coastal Western Australia.

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Unaccustomed Earth

Jhumpa Lahiri · 352 pages

These eight stories by beloved and bestselling author Jhumpa Lahiri take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand, as they explore the secrets at the heart of family life. Here they enter the worlds of sisters and brothers, fathers and mothers, daughters and sons, friends and lovers. Rich with the signature gifts that have established Jhumpa Lahiri as one of our most essential writers,

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Three Tales

Gustave Flaubert · 128 pages

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First Love and Other Sorrows: Stories

Harold Brodkey · 223 pages

In First Love and Other Sorrows, the young Brodkey chronicles the world of the educated and affluent middle class of the 1950s, at leisure and in love. He establishes themes that would appear throughout his career: the painful uncertainties of childhood and the halting intimacies of social life. This edition includes three never-before-collected stories, to complete an anthology of rare tenderness

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A Model World and Other Stories

Michael Chabon · 207 pages

A collection of short stories includes "A Model World", "Millionaires", and a series of tales about a young boy experiencing the pain of his parents' imminent divorce.

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Bobcat and Other Stories

Rebecca Lee · 256 pages

A collection of stories includes the tales of a student who is entangled in her professor's shadowy past, a dinner party that marks the end of multiple marriages, and a matchmaker who is hired to find a partner for her soulmate.

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