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Between Here and Here
Written by Amy Bloom
Format: eBook
On Sale: December 8, 2009
Price: $1.99
Love, in its many forms and complexities, weaves through New York Times bestselling author Amy Bloom’s astonishing and astute new work of connected stories. Insightful, sensuous, and heartbreakingly funny, Where the God of Love Hangs Out illuminates the mysteries of passion, family, and friendship.
When the father she hated for so... Read more >
Written by Amy Bloom
Format: eBook
On Sale: December 8, 2009
Price: $1.99
Love, in its many forms and complexities, weaves through New York Times bestselling author Amy Bloom’s astonishing and astute new work of connected stories. Insightful, sensuous, and heartbreakingly funny, Where the God of Love Hangs Out illuminates the mysteries of passion, family, and friendship.
When the father she hated for so... Read more >
Compassion and Mercy
Written by Amy Bloom
Format: eBook
On Sale: December 8, 2009
Price: $1.99
Love, in its many forms and complexities, weaves through New York Times bestselling author Amy Bloom’s astonishing and astute new work of connected stories. Insightful, sensuous, and heartbreakingly funny, Where the God of Love Hangs Out illuminates the mysteries of passion, family, and friendship.
In Compassion and Mercy, two lovers—William and... Read more >
Written by Amy Bloom
Format: eBook
On Sale: December 8, 2009
Price: $1.99
Love, in its many forms and complexities, weaves through New York Times bestselling author Amy Bloom’s astonishing and astute new work of connected stories. Insightful, sensuous, and heartbreakingly funny, Where the God of Love Hangs Out illuminates the mysteries of passion, family, and friendship.
In Compassion and Mercy, two lovers—William and... Read more >
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A Good Fall
Stories
Written by Ha Jin
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: November 24, 2009
Price: $24.95
In his first book of stories since The Bridegroom was published in 2000 ("Finely wrought . . . Every story here is cut like a stone."—Chicago Sun-Times), National Book Award–winning Ha Jin gives us a collection that delves into the experience of Chinese immigrants in America.
With the same profound attention... Read more >
Stories
Written by Ha Jin
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: November 24, 2009
Price: $24.95
In his first book of stories since The Bridegroom was published in 2000 ("Finely wrought . . . Every story here is cut like a stone."—Chicago Sun-Times), National Book Award–winning Ha Jin gives us a collection that delves into the experience of Chinese immigrants in America.
With the same profound attention... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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A Good Fall
Stories
Written by Ha Jin
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: November 24, 2009
Price: $24.95
In his first book of stories since The Bridegroom was published in 2000 ("Finely wrought . . . Every story here is cut like a stone."—Chicago Sun-Times), National Book Award–winning Ha Jin gives us a collection that delves into the experience of Chinese immigrants in America.
With the same profound attention... Read more >
Stories
Written by Ha Jin
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: November 24, 2009
Price: $24.95
In his first book of stories since The Bridegroom was published in 2000 ("Finely wrought . . . Every story here is cut like a stone."—Chicago Sun-Times), National Book Award–winning Ha Jin gives us a collection that delves into the experience of Chinese immigrants in America.
With the same profound attention... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Too Much Happiness
Stories
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $25.95
Ten superb new stories by one of our most beloved and admired writers—the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize.
In the first story a young wife and mother receives release from the unbearable pain of losing her three children from a most surprising source. In another, a young woman... Read more >
Stories
Written by Alice Munro
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $25.95
Ten superb new stories by one of our most beloved and admired writers—the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize.
In the first story a young wife and mother receives release from the unbearable pain of losing her three children from a most surprising source. In another, a young woman... Read more >
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Too Much Happiness
Written by Alice Munro
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $25.95
Ten superb new stories by one of our most beloved and admired writers—the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize.
In the first story a young wife and mother receives release from the unbearable pain of losing her three children from a most surprising source. In another, a young woman... Read more >
Written by Alice Munro
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $25.95
Ten superb new stories by one of our most beloved and admired writers—the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize.
In the first story a young wife and mother receives release from the unbearable pain of losing her three children from a most surprising source. In another, a young woman... Read more >
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Too Much Happiness
Stories
Written by Alice Munro
Read by Kimberly Farr and Arthur Morey
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $40.00
Ten superb new stories by one of our most beloved and admired writers—the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize.
In the first story a young wife and mother receives release from the unbearable pain of losing her three children from a most surprising source. In another, a young woman... Read more >
Stories
Written by Alice Munro
Read by Kimberly Farr and Arthur Morey
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $40.00
Ten superb new stories by one of our most beloved and admired writers—the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize.
In the first story a young wife and mother receives release from the unbearable pain of losing her three children from a most surprising source. In another, a young woman... Read more >
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Too Much Happiness
Stories
Written by Alice Munro
Read by Kimberly Farr and Arthur Morey
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $20.00
Ten superb new stories by one of our most beloved and admired writers—the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize.
In the first story a young wife and mother receives release from the unbearable pain of losing her three children from a most surprising source. In another, a young woman... Read more >
Stories
Written by Alice Munro
Read by Kimberly Farr and Arthur Morey
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $20.00
Ten superb new stories by one of our most beloved and admired writers—the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize.
In the first story a young wife and mother receives release from the unbearable pain of losing her three children from a most surprising source. In another, a young woman... Read more >
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Among the Missing
Written by Dan Chaon
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2009
Price: $14.00
In this haunting, bracing new collection, Dan Chaon shares stories of men, women, and children who live far outside the American Dream, while wondering which decision, which path, or which accident brought them to this place. Chaon mines the psychological landscape of his characters to dazzling effect. Each story radiates with... Read more >
Written by Dan Chaon
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2009
Price: $14.00
In this haunting, bracing new collection, Dan Chaon shares stories of men, women, and children who live far outside the American Dream, while wondering which decision, which path, or which accident brought them to this place. Chaon mines the psychological landscape of his characters to dazzling effect. Each story radiates with... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audiobook download and a
trade paperback.
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Miracle and Other Christmas Stories
Written by Connie Willis
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2009
Price: $7.99
The winner of multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, Connie Willis capture the timeless essence of generosity and goodwill in this magical collection if Christmas stories. These eight tales-two of which have never before been published-boldly reimagine the stories of Christmas while celebrating the power of love and compassion. This enchanting treasury includes:
"Miracle," in... Read more >
Written by Connie Willis
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2009
Price: $7.99
The winner of multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, Connie Willis capture the timeless essence of generosity and goodwill in this magical collection if Christmas stories. These eight tales-two of which have never before been published-boldly reimagine the stories of Christmas while celebrating the power of love and compassion. This enchanting treasury includes:
"Miracle," in... Read more >
Also available as a
paperback.
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The Journey Prize Stories 21
The Best of Canada's New Writers
Written by Various
Selected by Camilla Gibb, Lee Henderson and Rebecca Rosenblum
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2009
Price: $17.99
“Discover your next favourite writer…. There’s plenty of homegrown talent to admire here.” — Chatelaine
For more than two decades, The Journey Prize Stories has been Canada’s most celebrated annual fiction anthology, presenting the best stories published each year by some of our most exciting emerging writers.
In a vividly evoked story... Read more >
The Best of Canada's New Writers
Written by Various
Selected by Camilla Gibb, Lee Henderson and Rebecca Rosenblum
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2009
Price: $17.99
“Discover your next favourite writer…. There’s plenty of homegrown talent to admire here.” — Chatelaine
For more than two decades, The Journey Prize Stories has been Canada’s most celebrated annual fiction anthology, presenting the best stories published each year by some of our most exciting emerging writers.
In a vividly evoked story... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Look at the Birdie
Unpublished Short Fiction
Written by Kurt Vonnegut
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $27.00
Look at the Birdie is a collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction. In this series of perfectly rendered vignettes, written just as he was starting to find his comic voice, Kurt Vonnegut paints a warm, wise, and funny... Read more >
Unpublished Short Fiction
Written by Kurt Vonnegut
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $27.00
Look at the Birdie is a collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction. In this series of perfectly rendered vignettes, written just as he was starting to find his comic voice, Kurt Vonnegut paints a warm, wise, and funny... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Journey Prize Stories 21
The Best of Canada's New Writers
Written by Various
Edited by Camilla Gibb, Lee Henderson and Rebecca Rosenblum
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $17.99
“Discover your next favourite writer…. There’s plenty of homegrown talent to admire here.” — Chatelaine
For more than two decades, The Journey Prize Stories has been Canada’s most celebrated annual fiction anthology, presenting the best stories published each year by some of our most exciting emerging writers.
In a vividly evoked story... Read more >
The Best of Canada's New Writers
Written by Various
Edited by Camilla Gibb, Lee Henderson and Rebecca Rosenblum
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $17.99
“Discover your next favourite writer…. There’s plenty of homegrown talent to admire here.” — Chatelaine
For more than two decades, The Journey Prize Stories has been Canada’s most celebrated annual fiction anthology, presenting the best stories published each year by some of our most exciting emerging writers.
In a vividly evoked story... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Memories of the Future
Written by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
Translated by Joanne Turnbull
Introduction by Joanne Turnbull
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $15.95
Written in Soviet Moscow in the 1920s—but considered too subversive even to show to a publisher—the seven tales included here attest to Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s boundless imagination, black humor, and breathtaking irony: a man loses his way in the vast black waste of his own small room; the Eiffel Tower runs amok... Read more >
Written by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
Translated by Joanne Turnbull
Introduction by Joanne Turnbull
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $15.95
Written in Soviet Moscow in the 1920s—but considered too subversive even to show to a publisher—the seven tales included here attest to Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s boundless imagination, black humor, and breathtaking irony: a man loses his way in the vast black waste of his own small room; the Eiffel Tower runs amok... Read more >
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The Suicide Run
Five Tales of the Marine Corps
Written by William Styron
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $24.00
Before writing his memoir of madness, Darkness Visible, William Styron was best known for his ambitious works of fiction–including The Confessions of Nat Turner and Sophie’s Choice. Styron also created personal but no less powerful tales based on his real-life experiences as a U.S. Marine. The Suicide Run collects five of... Read more >
Five Tales of the Marine Corps
Written by William Styron
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $24.00
Before writing his memoir of madness, Darkness Visible, William Styron was best known for his ambitious works of fiction–including The Confessions of Nat Turner and Sophie’s Choice. Styron also created personal but no less powerful tales based on his real-life experiences as a U.S. Marine. The Suicide Run collects five of... Read more >
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The Suicide Run
Five Tales of the Marine Corps
Written by William Styron
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $24.00
Before writing his memoir of madness, Darkness Visible, William Styron was best known for his ambitious works of fiction–including The Confessions of Nat Turner and Sophie’s Choice. Styron also created personal but no less powerful tales based on his real-life experiences as a U.S. Marine. The Suicide Run collects five of... Read more >
Five Tales of the Marine Corps
Written by William Styron
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $24.00
Before writing his memoir of madness, Darkness Visible, William Styron was best known for his ambitious works of fiction–including The Confessions of Nat Turner and Sophie’s Choice. Styron also created personal but no less powerful tales based on his real-life experiences as a U.S. Marine. The Suicide Run collects five of... Read more >
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The Cost of Living
Early and Uncollected Stories
Written by Mavis Gallant
Introduction by Jhumpa Lahiri
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $16.95
A New York Review Books Original
Mavis Gallant is renowned as one of the great short-story writers of our day. This new gathering of long-unavailable or previously uncollected work presents stories from 1951 to 1971 and shows Gallant's progression from precocious virtuosity, to accomplished artistry, to the expansive innovatory spirit that marks... Read more >
Early and Uncollected Stories
Written by Mavis Gallant
Introduction by Jhumpa Lahiri
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $16.95
A New York Review Books Original
Mavis Gallant is renowned as one of the great short-story writers of our day. This new gathering of long-unavailable or previously uncollected work presents stories from 1951 to 1971 and shows Gallant's progression from precocious virtuosity, to accomplished artistry, to the expansive innovatory spirit that marks... Read more >
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The Love of a Good Woman
Stories
Written by Alice Munro
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: September 23, 2009
Price: $15.00
In eight new stories, a master of the form extends and magnifies her great themes--the vagaries of love, the passion that leads down unexpected paths, the chaos hovering just under the surface of things, and the strange, often comical desires of the human heart.
Time stretches out in some of the stories... Read more >
Stories
Written by Alice Munro
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: September 23, 2009
Price: $15.00
In eight new stories, a master of the form extends and magnifies her great themes--the vagaries of love, the passion that leads down unexpected paths, the chaos hovering just under the surface of things, and the strange, often comical desires of the human heart.
Time stretches out in some of the stories... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Arranged Marriage
Stories
Written by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $14.95
Read more >
Stories
Written by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $14.95
Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Willful Creatures
Written by Aimee Bender
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 26, 2009
Price: $13.95
Aimee Bender’s Willful Creatures conjures a fantastical world in which authentic love blooms. This is a place where a boy with keys for fingers is a hero, a woman’s children are potatoes, and a little boy with an iron for a head is born to a family of pumpkin heads. With... Read more >
Written by Aimee Bender
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 26, 2009
Price: $13.95
Aimee Bender’s Willful Creatures conjures a fantastical world in which authentic love blooms. This is a place where a boy with keys for fingers is a hero, a woman’s children are potatoes, and a little boy with an iron for a head is born to a family of pumpkin heads. With... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Southern Woman
Selected Fiction
Written by Elizabeth Spencer
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: August 25, 2009
Price: $16.00
Born in rural Carrollton, Mississippi, Elizabeth Spencer has been writing masterly stories and novellas about Southerners for more than half a century. The Southern Woman collects the best of Spencer’s shorter fiction and displays her range of place–the agrarian South, Italy in the decade after the Second World War, the gray-sky... Read more >
Selected Fiction
Written by Elizabeth Spencer
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: August 25, 2009
Price: $16.00
Born in rural Carrollton, Mississippi, Elizabeth Spencer has been writing masterly stories and novellas about Southerners for more than half a century. The Southern Woman collects the best of Spencer’s shorter fiction and displays her range of place–the agrarian South, Italy in the decade after the Second World War, the gray-sky... Read more >
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The Boat
Stories
Written by Nam Le
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $15.00
The seven stories in Nam Le's masterful collection The Boat take us across the globe, from the slums of Colombia to Iowa City; from the streets of Tehran to a foundering vessel in the South China Sea. They guide us to the heart of what it means to be human —... Read more >
Stories
Written by Nam Le
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $15.00
The seven stories in Nam Le's masterful collection The Boat take us across the globe, from the slums of Colombia to Iowa City; from the streets of Tehran to a foundering vessel in the South China Sea. They guide us to the heart of what it means to be human —... Read more >
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One More Year
Stories
Written by Sana Krasikov
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $15.00
One More Year is Sana Krasikov’s extraordinary debut collection, illuminating the lives of immigrants from across the terrain of a collapsed Soviet Empire. With novelistic scope, Krasikov captures the fates of people–in search of love and prosperity–making their way in a world whose rules have changed. Read more >
Stories
Written by Sana Krasikov
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $15.00
One More Year is Sana Krasikov’s extraordinary debut collection, illuminating the lives of immigrants from across the terrain of a collapsed Soviet Empire. With novelistic scope, Krasikov captures the fates of people–in search of love and prosperity–making their way in a world whose rules have changed. Read more >
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A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You
Stories
Written by Amy Bloom
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 8, 2009
Price: $13.95
"Amy Bloom gets more meaning into individual sentences than most authors manage in whole books."
--The New Yorker
A great short story has the emotional depth and intensity of a poem and the wholeness and breadth of a novel. Amy Bloom writes great short stories. Her first collection, Come to Me, was a... Read more >
Stories
Written by Amy Bloom
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 8, 2009
Price: $13.95
"Amy Bloom gets more meaning into individual sentences than most authors manage in whole books."
--The New Yorker
A great short story has the emotional depth and intensity of a poem and the wholeness and breadth of a novel. Amy Bloom writes great short stories. Her first collection, Come to Me, was a... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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When We Were Wolves
Stories
Written by Jon Billman
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 1, 2009
Price: $19.00
"If you could have been around a hundred and fifty years ago, and passed through the landscape as a beaver-trapping tough with Jim Bridger or Jedediah Smith, before coal barons, before soda ash and oil, before Mormons, before you could stand outside and watch satellites pass through the night sky or... Read more >
Stories
Written by Jon Billman
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 1, 2009
Price: $19.00
"If you could have been around a hundred and fifty years ago, and passed through the landscape as a beaver-trapping tough with Jim Bridger or Jedediah Smith, before coal barons, before soda ash and oil, before Mormons, before you could stand outside and watch satellites pass through the night sky or... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
