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Aerogrammes
and Other Stories
Written by Tania James
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2012
Price: $24.00
From the highly acclaimed author of Atlas of Unknowns (“Dazzling . . . One of the most exciting debut novels since Zadie Smith’s White Teeth”—San Francisco Chronicle; “An astonishment of a debut”—Junot Díaz), a bravura collection of short stories set in locales as varied as London, Sierra Leone, and the American... Read more >
and Other Stories
Written by Tania James
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2012
Price: $24.00
From the highly acclaimed author of Atlas of Unknowns (“Dazzling . . . One of the most exciting debut novels since Zadie Smith’s White Teeth”—San Francisco Chronicle; “An astonishment of a debut”—Junot Díaz), a bravura collection of short stories set in locales as varied as London, Sierra Leone, and the American... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
Aerogrammes
and Other Stories
Written by Tania James
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2012
Price: $11.99
From the highly acclaimed author of Atlas of Unknowns ("Dazzling...One of the most exciting debut novels since Zadie Smith's White Teeth" --San Francisco Chronicle),a bravura collection of short stories set in locales as varied as London, Sierra Leone, and the American Midwest that captures the yearning and dislocation of young men... Read more >
and Other Stories
Written by Tania James
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2012
Price: $11.99
From the highly acclaimed author of Atlas of Unknowns ("Dazzling...One of the most exciting debut novels since Zadie Smith's White Teeth" --San Francisco Chronicle),a bravura collection of short stories set in locales as varied as London, Sierra Leone, and the American Midwest that captures the yearning and dislocation of young men... Read more >
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The Complete Stories of Truman Capote
Written by Truman Capote
Introduction by Reynolds Price
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2012
Price: $11.99
Written by Truman Capote
Introduction by Reynolds Price
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2012
Price: $11.99
A landmark collection that brings together Truman Capote’s life’s work in the form he called his “great love,” The Complete Stories confirms Capote’s status as a master of the short story.
Ranging from the gothic South to the chic East Coast, from rural children to aging urban sophisticates, all the unforgettable...
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Music For Chameleons
Written by Truman Capote
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2012
Price: $9.99
Written by Truman Capote
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2012
Price: $9.99
In these gems of reportage Truman Capote takes true stories and real people and renders them with the stylistic brio we expect from great fiction. Here we encounter an exquisitely preserved Creole aristocrat sipping absinthe in her Martinique salon; an enigmatic killer who sends his victims announcements of their forthcoming demise...
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On the River Styx
And Other Stories
Written by Peter Matthiessen
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: May 9, 2012
Price: $11.99
Since the 1950s Peter Matthiessen has written fiction and nonfiction of elemental power and moral vision, including the acclaimed novels At Play in the Fields of the Lord and Far Tortuga and works of naturalism and exploration like the National Book Award-winning The Snow Leopard.
This stunning collection of short stories, available... Read more >
And Other Stories
Written by Peter Matthiessen
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: May 9, 2012
Price: $11.99
Since the 1950s Peter Matthiessen has written fiction and nonfiction of elemental power and moral vision, including the acclaimed novels At Play in the Fields of the Lord and Far Tortuga and works of naturalism and exploration like the National Book Award-winning The Snow Leopard.
This stunning collection of short stories, available... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Friend of My Youth
Stories
Written by Alice Munro
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: April 25, 2012
Price: $11.99
The ten miraculously accomplished stories in Alice Munro's Friend of My Youth not only astonish and delight but also convey the unspoken mysteries at the heart of all human experience.
"[Friend of My Youth is] a wonderful collection of stories, beautifully written and deeply felt."--Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
From the Trade... Read more >
Stories
Written by Alice Munro
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: April 25, 2012
Price: $11.99
The ten miraculously accomplished stories in Alice Munro's Friend of My Youth not only astonish and delight but also convey the unspoken mysteries at the heart of all human experience.
"[Friend of My Youth is] a wonderful collection of stories, beautifully written and deeply felt."--Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
From the Trade... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Sugar and Other Stories
Written by A.S. Byatt
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: April 25, 2012
Price: $9.99
A.S. Byatt's short fictions, collected in paperback for the first time, explore the fragile ties between generations, the dizzying abyss of loss and the elaborate memories we construct against it, resulting in a book that compels us to inhabit other lives and returns us to our own with new knowledge, compassion... Read more >
Written by A.S. Byatt
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: April 25, 2012
Price: $9.99
A.S. Byatt's short fictions, collected in paperback for the first time, explore the fragile ties between generations, the dizzying abyss of loss and the elaborate memories we construct against it, resulting in a book that compels us to inhabit other lives and returns us to our own with new knowledge, compassion... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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A Rose for Emily and Other Stories
A Rose for Emily; The Hound; Turn About; That Evening Sun; Dry September; Delta Autumn; Barn Burning; An Odor of Verbena
Written by William Faulkner
Format: eBook, 36 pages
On Sale: April 18, 2012
Price: $7.99
Here is a classic collection from one of America’s greatest authors. Though these short stories have universal appeal, they are intensely local in setting. With the exception of “Turn About,” which derives from the time of the First World War, all these tales unfold in a small town in Mississippi, William... Read more >
A Rose for Emily; The Hound; Turn About; That Evening Sun; Dry September; Delta Autumn; Barn Burning; An Odor of Verbena
Written by William Faulkner
Format: eBook, 36 pages
On Sale: April 18, 2012
Price: $7.99
Here is a classic collection from one of America’s greatest authors. Though these short stories have universal appeal, they are intensely local in setting. With the exception of “Turn About,” which derives from the time of the First World War, all these tales unfold in a small town in Mississippi, William... Read more >
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The PEN O. Henry Prize Stories 2012
Including stories by John Berger, Wendell Berry, Anthony Doerr, Lauren Groff, Yi
Written by Laura Furman
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2012
Price: $11.99
The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2012 gathers twenty of the best short stories of the year, selected from thousands published in literary magazines. These remarkable stories explore the boundaries of the imagination in settings as various as an army training camp in China, the salt mines of Detroit, a divided Balkan town... Read more >
Including stories by John Berger, Wendell Berry, Anthony Doerr, Lauren Groff, Yi
Written by Laura Furman
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2012
Price: $11.99
The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2012 gathers twenty of the best short stories of the year, selected from thousands published in literary magazines. These remarkable stories explore the boundaries of the imagination in settings as various as an army training camp in China, the salt mines of Detroit, a divided Balkan town... Read more >
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The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2012
Including stories by John Berger, Wendell Berry, Anthony Doerr, Lauren Groff, Yi
Written by Laura Furman
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2012
Price: $15.95
The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2012 gathers twenty of the best short stories of the year, selected from thousands published in literary magazines. These remarkable stories explore the boundaries of the imagination in settings as various as an army training camp in China, the salt mines of Detroit, a divided Balkan... Read more >
Including stories by John Berger, Wendell Berry, Anthony Doerr, Lauren Groff, Yi
Written by Laura Furman
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2012
Price: $15.95
The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2012 gathers twenty of the best short stories of the year, selected from thousands published in literary magazines. These remarkable stories explore the boundaries of the imagination in settings as various as an army training camp in China, the salt mines of Detroit, a divided Balkan... Read more >
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I Am an Executioner
Love Stories
Written by Rajesh Parameswaran
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2012
Price: $24.95
An explosive, funny, wildly original fiction debut: nine stories about the power of love and the love of power, two urgent human desires that inevitably, and sometimes calamitously, intertwine.
In I Am an Executioner, Rajesh Parameswaran introduces us to a cast of heroes—and antiheroes—who spring from his riotous, singular imagination. From the... Read more >
Love Stories
Written by Rajesh Parameswaran
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2012
Price: $24.95
An explosive, funny, wildly original fiction debut: nine stories about the power of love and the love of power, two urgent human desires that inevitably, and sometimes calamitously, intertwine.
In I Am an Executioner, Rajesh Parameswaran introduces us to a cast of heroes—and antiheroes—who spring from his riotous, singular imagination. From the... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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I Am An Executioner
Love Stories
Written by Rajesh Parameswaran
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2012
Price: $11.99
An explosive, funny, wildly original fiction debut: nine stories about the power of love and the love of power, two urgent human desires that inevitably, and sometimes calamitously, intertwine.
In I Am an Executioner, Rajesh Parameswaran introduces us to a cast of heroes—and antiheroes—who spring from his riotous, singular imagination. From the... Read more >
Love Stories
Written by Rajesh Parameswaran
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2012
Price: $11.99
An explosive, funny, wildly original fiction debut: nine stories about the power of love and the love of power, two urgent human desires that inevitably, and sometimes calamitously, intertwine.
In I Am an Executioner, Rajesh Parameswaran introduces us to a cast of heroes—and antiheroes—who spring from his riotous, singular imagination. From the... Read more >
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Swim Back to Me
Written by Ann Packer
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2012
Price: $14.95
Ann Packer is one of our most talented observers of family life, with its hidden crevasses and unforeseeable perils. In these unforgettable, emotionally searing stories, she explores the moral predicaments that define our lives, the frailty of ordinary grace, and the ways in which we are shattered and remade by loss... Read more >
Written by Ann Packer
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2012
Price: $14.95
Ann Packer is one of our most talented observers of family life, with its hidden crevasses and unforeseeable perils. In these unforgettable, emotionally searing stories, she explores the moral predicaments that define our lives, the frailty of ordinary grace, and the ways in which we are shattered and remade by loss... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and an
eBook.
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Amsterdam Stories
Written by Nescio
Translated by Damion Searls
Introduction by Joseph O'Neill
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $14.00
No one has written more feelingly and more beautifully than Nescio about the madness and sadness, courage and vulnerability of youth: its big plans and vague longings, not to mention the binges, crashes, and marathon walks and talks. No one, for that matter, has written with such pristine clarity about the... Read more >
Written by Nescio
Translated by Damion Searls
Introduction by Joseph O'Neill
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $14.00
No one has written more feelingly and more beautifully than Nescio about the madness and sadness, courage and vulnerability of youth: its big plans and vague longings, not to mention the binges, crashes, and marathon walks and talks. No one, for that matter, has written with such pristine clarity about the... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Amsterdam Stories
Written by Nescio
Translated by Damion Searls
Introduction by Joseph O'Neill
Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $14.00
No one has written more feelingly and more beautifully than Nescio about the madness and sadness, courage and vulnerability of youth: its big plans and vague longings, not to mention the binges, crashes, and marathon walks and talks. No one, for that matter, has written with such pristine clarity about the... Read more >
Written by Nescio
Translated by Damion Searls
Introduction by Joseph O'Neill
Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $14.00
No one has written more feelingly and more beautifully than Nescio about the madness and sadness, courage and vulnerability of youth: its big plans and vague longings, not to mention the binges, crashes, and marathon walks and talks. No one, for that matter, has written with such pristine clarity about the... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Let Me be the One
Written by Elisabeth Harvor
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 15, 2012
Price: $9.99
Intimate and unforgettable, these eight stories play with themes of great emotional intensity: infatuation, tenderness, resentment, hope. The perceptive gallantry of a man in his early twenties leads an older woman to fall more than a little in love with him. While interviewing a woman painter who boasts about her sexual... Read more >
Written by Elisabeth Harvor
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 15, 2012
Price: $9.99
Intimate and unforgettable, these eight stories play with themes of great emotional intensity: infatuation, tenderness, resentment, hope. The perceptive gallantry of a man in his early twenties leads an older woman to fall more than a little in love with him. While interviewing a woman painter who boasts about her sexual... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Birds of America
Stories
Written by Lorrie Moore
Format: eBook, 291 pages
On Sale: March 7, 2012
Price: $11.99
A long-awaited collection of stories--twelve in all--by one of the most exciting writers at work today, the acclaimed author of Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? and Self-Help. Stories remarkable in their range, emotional force, and dark laughter, and in the sheer beauty and power of their language.
From the opening story... Read more >
Stories
Written by Lorrie Moore
Format: eBook, 291 pages
On Sale: March 7, 2012
Price: $11.99
A long-awaited collection of stories--twelve in all--by one of the most exciting writers at work today, the acclaimed author of Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? and Self-Help. Stories remarkable in their range, emotional force, and dark laughter, and in the sheer beauty and power of their language.
From the opening story... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Like Life
Written by Lorrie Moore
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: March 7, 2012
Price: $9.99
In Like Life’s eight exquisite stories, Lorrie Moore’s characters stumble through their daily existence. These men and women, unsettled and adrift and often frightened, can’t quite understand how they arrived at their present situations. Harry has been reworking a play for years in his apartment near Times Square in New York... Read more >
Written by Lorrie Moore
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: March 7, 2012
Price: $9.99
In Like Life’s eight exquisite stories, Lorrie Moore’s characters stumble through their daily existence. These men and women, unsettled and adrift and often frightened, can’t quite understand how they arrived at their present situations. Harry has been reworking a play for years in his apartment near Times Square in New York... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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You Think That's Bad
Written by Jim Shepard
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $15.00
Following Like You’d Understand, Anyway—awarded the Story Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award—Jim Shepard returns with an even more wildly diverse collection of astonishingly observant stories. Like an expert curator, he populates the vastness of human experience—from its bizarre fringes and lonely, breathtaking pinnacles to the hopelessly mediocre... Read more >
Written by Jim Shepard
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $15.00
Following Like You’d Understand, Anyway—awarded the Story Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award—Jim Shepard returns with an even more wildly diverse collection of astonishingly observant stories. Like an expert curator, he populates the vastness of human experience—from its bizarre fringes and lonely, breathtaking pinnacles to the hopelessly mediocre... Read more >
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Sweet Talk
Written by Stephanie Vaughn
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: February 28, 2012
Price: $14.95
Stephanie Vaughn is a writer’s writer, one whose debut collection of stories, Sweet Talk, was published more than two decades ago to critical acclaim. Readers have come to these stories over the years through word of mouth, posting glowing reviews to their Goodreads pages and on their blogs—unanimously agreeing that this... Read more >
Written by Stephanie Vaughn
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: February 28, 2012
Price: $14.95
Stephanie Vaughn is a writer’s writer, one whose debut collection of stories, Sweet Talk, was published more than two decades ago to critical acclaim. Readers have come to these stories over the years through word of mouth, posting glowing reviews to their Goodreads pages and on their blogs—unanimously agreeing that this... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Sweet Talk
Written by Stephanie Vaughn
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 28, 2012
Price: $12.99
Stephanie Vaughn is a writer’s writer, one whose debut collection of stories, Sweet Talk, was published more than two decades ago to critical acclaim. Readers have come to these stories over the years through word of mouth, posting glowing reviews to their Goodreads pages and on their blogs—unanimously agreeing that this... Read more >
Written by Stephanie Vaughn
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 28, 2012
Price: $12.99
Stephanie Vaughn is a writer’s writer, one whose debut collection of stories, Sweet Talk, was published more than two decades ago to critical acclaim. Readers have come to these stories over the years through word of mouth, posting glowing reviews to their Goodreads pages and on their blogs—unanimously agreeing that this... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Girls at War
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: February 22, 2012
Price: $9.99
Twelve stories by the internationally renowned novelist which recreate with energy and authenticity the major social and political issues that confront contemporary Africans on a daily basis.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: February 22, 2012
Price: $9.99
Twelve stories by the internationally renowned novelist which recreate with energy and authenticity the major social and political issues that confront contemporary Africans on a daily basis.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Self-Help
Written by Lorrie Moore
Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: February 22, 2012
Price: $9.99
In these tales of loss and pleasure, lovers and family, a woman learns to conduct an affair, a child of divorce dances with her mother, and a woman with a terminal illness contemplates her exit. Filled with the sharp humor, emotional acuity, and joyful language Moore has become famous for, these... Read more >
Written by Lorrie Moore
Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: February 22, 2012
Price: $9.99
In these tales of loss and pleasure, lovers and family, a woman learns to conduct an affair, a child of divorce dances with her mother, and a woman with a terminal illness contemplates her exit. Filled with the sharp humor, emotional acuity, and joyful language Moore has become famous for, these... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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In-Flight Entertainment
Stories
Written by Helen Simpson
Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
On Sale: February 21, 2012
Price: $24.00
A new collection of stories—dazzling, poignant, wickedly funny, and highly addictive—by the internationally acclaimed writer whose work The Times (London) calls “dangerously close to perfection.” These thirteen stories brilliantly focus on aspects of contemporary living and unerringly capture a generation, a type, a social class, a pattern of behavior. They give... Read more >
Stories
Written by Helen Simpson
Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
On Sale: February 21, 2012
Price: $24.00
A new collection of stories—dazzling, poignant, wickedly funny, and highly addictive—by the internationally acclaimed writer whose work The Times (London) calls “dangerously close to perfection.” These thirteen stories brilliantly focus on aspects of contemporary living and unerringly capture a generation, a type, a social class, a pattern of behavior. They give... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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In-Flight Entertainment
Stories
Written by Helen Simpson
Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: February 21, 2012
Price: $11.99
A new collection of stories—dazzling, poignant, wickedly funny, and highly addictive—by the internationally acclaimed writer whose work The Times (London) calls “dangerously close to perfection.” These thirteen stories brilliantly focus on aspects of contemporary living and unerringly capture a generation, a type, a social class, a pattern of behavior. They give... Read more >
Stories
Written by Helen Simpson
Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: February 21, 2012
Price: $11.99
A new collection of stories—dazzling, poignant, wickedly funny, and highly addictive—by the internationally acclaimed writer whose work The Times (London) calls “dangerously close to perfection.” These thirteen stories brilliantly focus on aspects of contemporary living and unerringly capture a generation, a type, a social class, a pattern of behavior. They give... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
