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Written by Saki
Illustrated by Edward Gorey
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $14.95
The whimsical, macabre tales of British writer H. H. Munro—better known as Saki—deftly, mercilessly, and hilariously skewer the banality and hypocrisy of polite upper-class English society between the end of Queen Victoria’s reign and the beginning of World War I. Their heroes are clever, amoral children and other enfants terribles who... Read more >
Written by John D. MacDonald
Introduction by Dean Koontz
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $11.99
End of the Tiger and Other Stories, a classic collection of short fiction from crime writer John D. MacDonald, the beloved author of Cape Fear and the Travis McGee series, is now available as an eBook.
As prolific a novelist as John D. MacDonald was in his time, his output as... Read more >
Short Stories
Written by John D. MacDonald
Introduction by Dean Koontz
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $11.99
The Good Old Stuff, a classic collection of short fiction from crime writer John D. MacDonald, the beloved author of Cape Fear and the Travis McGee series, is now available as an eBook.
Before embarking upon a truly iconic career as a novelist, John D. MacDonald cut his teeth perfecting... Read more >
Short Stories
Written by John D. MacDonald
Introduction by Dean Koontz
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $11.99
More Good Old Stuff, a classic collection of short fiction from crime writer John D. MacDonald, the beloved author of Cape Fear and the Travis McGee series, is now available as an eBook.
The companion to The Good Old Stuff, this anthology features fourteen more early stories by one of America’s... Read more >
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Relatos
Written by Junot Diaz
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $15.00
Así es como la pierdes es un libro sobre mujeres que quitan el sentido y sobre el amor y el ardor. Y sobre la traición porque a veces traicionamos lo que más queremos, y también es un libro sobre el suplicio que pasamos después –los ruegos, las lágrimas, la sensación de estar... Read more >
Relatos
Written by Junot Diaz
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $9.99
Así es como la pierdes es un libro sobre mujeres que quitan el sentido y sobre el amor y el ardor. Y sobre la traición porque a veces traicionamos lo que más queremos, y también es un libro sobre el suplicio que pasamos después –los ruegos, las lágrimas, la sensación de estar... Read more >
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Stories
Written by Bernhard Schlink
Translated by Carol Janeway
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $15.00
From Bernhard Schlink, the internationally best-selling author of The Reader, come seven provocative and masterfully calibrated stories. A keen dissection of the ways in which we play with truth and less-than-truth in our lives. Summer Lies brims with the delusions, the passions, the outbursts, and the sometimes irrational justifications people make...
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Written by Truman Capote
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $23.00
Most readers know Truman Capote as the author of Breakfast at Tiffany’s and In Cold Blood, or they remember his notorious social life and wild and witty public appearances. But he was also the author of superb short tales that were as elegant as they were heartfelt, as compassionate as they... Read more >
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Stories
Written by Charles Yu
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $15.00
The author of the widely praised debut novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe returns with a hilarious, heartbreaking, and utterly original collection of short stories.
A big-box store employee is confronted by a zombie during the graveyard shift, a problem that pales in comparison to his inability to...
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And Other Stories
Written by Sandra Cisneros
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: April 30, 2013
Price: $9.99
NOW AVAILABLE IN EBOOK FOR THE FIRST TIME
A collection of stories, whose characters give voice to the vibrant and varied life on both sides of the Mexican border. The women in these stories offer tales of pure discovery, filled with moments of infinite and intimate wisdom. Read more >
Written by Mark Richard
Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: April 24, 2013
Price: $11.99
With Charity, Mark Richard again secures the distinction of poet laureate of the orphaned poor, the broken, the deceived, and the unrelieved. In stylistic brilliance, he renders their conditions with grace and compassion, and redeems and transports their tragedy with wicked humor.
In the much-anthologized "The Birds for Christmas," two hospitalized boys... Read more >
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Stories
Written by Mark Richard
Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: April 24, 2013
Price: $11.99
In these ten stories, Mark Richard, winner of the 1990 PEN/Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award, emerges as the heir apparent to Mark Twain, Flannery O'Connor, and William Faulkner. Read more >
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Written by Brian Kimberling
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $24.95
A great, hilarious new voice in fiction: the poignant, all-too-human recollections of an affable bird researcher in the Indiana backwater as he goes through a disastrous yet heartening love affair with the place and its people.
Nathan Lochmueller studies birds, earning just enough money to live on. He drives a glitter-festooned truck...
Written by Brian Kimberling
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $12.99
A great, hilarious new voice in fiction: the poignant, all-too-human recollections of an affable bird researcher in the Indiana backwater as he goes through a disastrous yet heartening love affair with the place and its people.
Nathan Lochmueller studies birds, earning just enough money to live on. He drives a glitter-festooned truck...
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Written by Brian Kimberling
Read by MacLeod Andrews
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $17.50
A great, hilarious new voice in fiction: the poignant, all-too-human recollections of an affable bird researcher in the Indiana backwater as he goes through a disastrous yet heartening love affair with the place and its people.
Nathan Lochmueller studies birds, earning just enough money to live on. He drives a glitter-festooned truck...
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Written by Javier Marias
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $15.00
A dozen stories by Javier Marías, "the most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature" (The Boston Globe).
Victims of mistaken identity, sponging relatives, amateur sleuths, eavesdroppers, professional liars, assassins, and failed bodyguards populate the short stories in When I Was Mortal. Plots turn on curious exigencies--a woman about to star... Read more >
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Written by Javier Marias
Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $9.99
A dozen stories by Javier Marías, "the most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature" (The Boston Globe).
Victims of mistaken identity, sponging relatives, amateur sleuths, eavesdroppers, professional liars, assassins, and failed bodyguards populate the short stories in When I Was Mortal. Plots turn on curious exigencies--a woman about to star... Read more >
(Spanish-language edition of Drown)
Written by Junot Diaz
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2013
Price: $11.99
El lector tiene en sus manos una colección de relatos que viene precedida de una enorme expectación. Su autor, seleccionado por Newsweek como uno de los diez nuevos rostros para el noventa y seis, nos transporta desde los pueblos y parajes polvorientos de su tierra natal, la República Dominicana, hasta los... Read more >
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Stories
Written by Jeanette Winterson
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2013
Price: $9.99
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson's delectable first novel, announced the arrival of 'a fresh voice with a mind behind it,' as Muriel Spark has written. 'She is a master of her material, a writer in whom great talent deeply abides'--and her reputation and accomplishment have grown with each... Read more >
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Written by Henry Hughes
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $15.00
Fishing Stories nets an abundant catch of wonderful writing in a wide variety of genres and styles. The moods range from the rollicking humor of Rudyard Kipling’s “On Dry-Cow Fishing as a Fine Art” and the rural gothic of Annie Proulx’s “The Wer-Trout” to the haunting elegy of Norman Maclean’s “A...
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Written by George Saunders
Format: eBook, 21 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $0.99
From the author of the instant New York Times bestseller Tenth of December comes a darkly comic short story, a fable about the all too real impact that we humans have on the environment—now available for the first time as an eBook.
Fox 8 has always been known as the... Read more >
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A Story
Written by George Saunders
Read by George Saunders
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $1.99
From the author of the instant New York Times bestseller Tenth of December comes a darkly comic short story, a fable about the all too real impact that we humans have on the environment.
Fox 8 has always been known as the daydreamer in his pack, the one his fellow foxes regarded... Read more >
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Written by Hanan al-Shaykh
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2013
Price: $11.99
Since the U.S. publication of Women of Sand and Myrrh--which has now sold more than 35,000 copies and was selected as one of the Fifty Best Books of 1992 by Publishers Weekly--Hanan al-Shaykh has attracted an ever larger following for her dazzling tales of contemporary Arab women. In these seventeen short... Read more >
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Stories
Written by T.C. Boyle
Read by Jonathan Reese
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: April 2, 2013
Price: $20.00
T.C. Boyle was first feted as a master of the short story for his critically acclaimed Greasy Lake. With these stories applauded by People magazine as "wickedly comical," he displays once again a virtuosity and versatility rare in literary America today. Without a Hero zooms in on American phenomena such as... Read more >
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and Other Stories
Written by Nikolai Leskov
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Format: Hardcover, 608 pages
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $35.00
The award-winning translators of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, and Gogol now bring us a Russian writer ripe for rediscovery, whose earthy and exuberant stories, famous in his own country, have never before been adequately translated into English.
Leskov was Chekhov’s favorite writer and was greatly admired by Tolstoy and Maxim Gorky. His...
