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The Road to Madness
Written by H.P. Lovecraft
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: October 12, 2011
Price: $11.99
One of the most influential practitioners of American horror, H.P. Lovecraft inspired the work of Stephen King, Anne Rice, and Clive Barker. As he perfected his mastery of the macabre, his works developed from seminal fragments into acknowledged masterpieces of terror. This volume traces his chilling career and includes:
IMPRISONED WITH THE... Read more >
Written by H.P. Lovecraft
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: October 12, 2011
Price: $11.99
One of the most influential practitioners of American horror, H.P. Lovecraft inspired the work of Stephen King, Anne Rice, and Clive Barker. As he perfected his mastery of the macabre, his works developed from seminal fragments into acknowledged masterpieces of terror. This volume traces his chilling career and includes:
IMPRISONED WITH THE... Read more >
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The Whore's Child
and Other Stories
Written by Richard Russo
Read by Various
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: October 11, 2011
Price: $15.00
To this irresistible debut collection of short stories, Richard Russo brings the same bittersweet wit, deep knowledge of human nature, and spellbinding narrative gifts that distinguish his best-selling novels. His themes are the imperfect bargains of marriage; the discoveries and disillusionments of childhood;the unwinnable battles men and women insist on fighting... Read more >
and Other Stories
Written by Richard Russo
Read by Various
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: October 11, 2011
Price: $15.00
To this irresistible debut collection of short stories, Richard Russo brings the same bittersweet wit, deep knowledge of human nature, and spellbinding narrative gifts that distinguish his best-selling novels. His themes are the imperfect bargains of marriage; the discoveries and disillusionments of childhood;the unwinnable battles men and women insist on fighting... Read more >
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City of Boys
Stories
Written by Beth Nugent
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: October 5, 2011
Price: $11.99
Set in New York City, middle America, the beaches of Florida and rural highways, suburban kitchens, and cross-country trains, the ten stories of City of Boys evoke a haunting landscape at once familiar and strange. A small-town girl flees her domineering mother and falls into an obsessive love affair with an... Read more >
Stories
Written by Beth Nugent
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: October 5, 2011
Price: $11.99
Set in New York City, middle America, the beaches of Florida and rural highways, suburban kitchens, and cross-country trains, the ten stories of City of Boys evoke a haunting landscape at once familiar and strange. A small-town girl flees her domineering mother and falls into an obsessive love affair with an... Read more >
Stealing Time
Stories
Written by Mary Grimm
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: October 5, 2011
Price: $11.99
Fourteen stories, many of which appeared in the New Yorker. In "Buying a Pumpkin," a father struggles with three children after his wife leaves him, in "Research, " college girls draw up a list of boys with whom to lose their virginity.
From the Hardcover edition. Read more >
Stories
Written by Mary Grimm
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: October 5, 2011
Price: $11.99
Fourteen stories, many of which appeared in the New Yorker. In "Buying a Pumpkin," a father struggles with three children after his wife leaves him, in "Research, " college girls draw up a list of boys with whom to lose their virginity.
From the Hardcover edition. Read more >
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Gold Boy, Emerald Girl
Stories
Written by Yiyun Li
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: September 27, 2011
Price: $15.00
Stories
Written by Yiyun Li
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: September 27, 2011
Price: $15.00
In these spellbinding stories, Yiyun Li, a Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award winner, a MacArthur Fellow, and one of The New Yorker’s top 20 fiction writers under 40, gives us exquisite stories in which politics and folklore magnificently illuminate the human condition. A professor introduces her middle-aged son to a favorite student, unaware...
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The Journey Prize Stories 23
Selected by Alexander MacLeod, Alison Pick and Sarah Selecky
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: September 27, 2011
Price: $13.99
Discover some of Canada's best new writers with this highly acclaimed annual anthology, made possible by the generosity of Pulitzer Prize-winning author James A. Michener.
For more than two decades, The Journey Prize Stories has been presenting the best short stories published each year by some of Canada's most exciting new writers... Read more >
Selected by Alexander MacLeod, Alison Pick and Sarah Selecky
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: September 27, 2011
Price: $13.99
Discover some of Canada's best new writers with this highly acclaimed annual anthology, made possible by the generosity of Pulitzer Prize-winning author James A. Michener.
For more than two decades, The Journey Prize Stories has been presenting the best short stories published each year by some of Canada's most exciting new writers... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Journey Prize Stories 23
Selected by Alexander MacLeod, Alison Pick and Sarah Selecky
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: September 27, 2011
Price: $17.99
Discover some of Canada's best new writers with this highly acclaimed annual anthology, made possible by the generosity of Pulitzer Prize-winning author James A. Michener.
For more than two decades, The Journey Prize Stories has been presenting the best short stories published each year by some of Canada's most exciting new writers... Read more >
Selected by Alexander MacLeod, Alison Pick and Sarah Selecky
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: September 27, 2011
Price: $17.99
Discover some of Canada's best new writers with this highly acclaimed annual anthology, made possible by the generosity of Pulitzer Prize-winning author James A. Michener.
For more than two decades, The Journey Prize Stories has been presenting the best short stories published each year by some of Canada's most exciting new writers... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Field Notes
The Grace Note of the Canyon Wren
Written by Barry Lopez
Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2011
Price: $11.99
In this new collection of twelve stories, one of our most admired writers evokes the longing we feel for beauty in our relationships with one another, with the past. with nature. In these stories, we find men or women -- sometimes at odds with themselves, sometimes transcendently well grounded -- who... Read more >
The Grace Note of the Canyon Wren
Written by Barry Lopez
Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2011
Price: $11.99
In this new collection of twelve stories, one of our most admired writers evokes the longing we feel for beauty in our relationships with one another, with the past. with nature. In these stories, we find men or women -- sometimes at odds with themselves, sometimes transcendently well grounded -- who... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Light Action in the Caribbean
Stories
Written by Barry Lopez
Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2011
Price: $9.99
Moving from fable and historical fiction to contemporary realism, this book of stories from Barry Lopez is erotic and wise, full of irresistible characters doing things they shouldn't do for reasons that are mysterious and irreducible. In "The Letters of Heaven," a packet of recently discovered 17th-century Peruvian love letters presents... Read more >
Stories
Written by Barry Lopez
Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2011
Price: $9.99
Moving from fable and historical fiction to contemporary realism, this book of stories from Barry Lopez is erotic and wise, full of irresistible characters doing things they shouldn't do for reasons that are mysterious and irreducible. In "The Letters of Heaven," a packet of recently discovered 17th-century Peruvian love letters presents... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Shiloh and Other Stories
Written by Bobbie Ann Mason
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2011
Price: $9.99
"These stories will last," said Raymond Carver of Shiloh and Other Stories when it was first published, and almost two decades later this stunning fiction debut and winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award has become a modern American classic. In Shiloh, Bobbie Ann Mason introduces us to her western Kentucky people and... Read more >
Written by Bobbie Ann Mason
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2011
Price: $9.99
"These stories will last," said Raymond Carver of Shiloh and Other Stories when it was first published, and almost two decades later this stunning fiction debut and winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award has become a modern American classic. In Shiloh, Bobbie Ann Mason introduces us to her western Kentucky people and... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Everyone but You
Stories
Written by Sandra Novack
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: September 13, 2011
Price: $13.99
Sandra Novack has earned great acclaim with her short fiction, which has appeared in more than thirty literary venues, including The Gettysburg Review, Gulf Coast, and The Iowa Review. Now, in this new collection of stories, she further demonstrates her mastery of the form while exploring a universal theme: the desire... Read more >
Stories
Written by Sandra Novack
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: September 13, 2011
Price: $13.99
Sandra Novack has earned great acclaim with her short fiction, which has appeared in more than thirty literary venues, including The Gettysburg Review, Gulf Coast, and The Iowa Review. Now, in this new collection of stories, she further demonstrates her mastery of the form while exploring a universal theme: the desire... Read more >
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Looking for Jake
Stories
Written by China Mieville
Read by Various
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: September 13, 2011
Price: $22.50
What William Gibson did for science fiction, China Miéville has done for fantasy, shattering old paradigms with fiercely imaginative works of startling, often shocking, intensity. Now from this brilliant young writer comes a groundbreaking collection of stories, many of them previously unavailable in the United States, and including four never-before-published tales–one... Read more >
Stories
Written by China Mieville
Read by Various
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: September 13, 2011
Price: $22.50
What William Gibson did for science fiction, China Miéville has done for fantasy, shattering old paradigms with fiercely imaginative works of startling, often shocking, intensity. Now from this brilliant young writer comes a groundbreaking collection of stories, many of them previously unavailable in the United States, and including four never-before-published tales–one... Read more >
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eBook and a
trade paperback.
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The Ways of White Folks
Stories
Written by Langston Hughes
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: September 7, 2011
Price: $9.99
In these acrid and poignant stories, Hughes depicted black people colliding--sometimes humorously, more often tragically--with whites in the 1920s and '30s.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
Stories
Written by Langston Hughes
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: September 7, 2011
Price: $9.99
In these acrid and poignant stories, Hughes depicted black people colliding--sometimes humorously, more often tragically--with whites in the 1920s and '30s.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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We Others
New and Selected Stories
Written by Steven Millhauser
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: August 23, 2011
Price: $27.95
“Every reader knows of writers who are like secrets one wants to keep, and whose books one wants to tell the world about. Millhauser is mine.”
—David Rollow, Boston Sunday Globe
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author: the essential stories across three decades that showcase his indomitable imagination.
Steven Millhauser’s fiction has consistently, and to... Read more >
New and Selected Stories
Written by Steven Millhauser
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: August 23, 2011
Price: $27.95
“Every reader knows of writers who are like secrets one wants to keep, and whose books one wants to tell the world about. Millhauser is mine.”
—David Rollow, Boston Sunday Globe
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author: the essential stories across three decades that showcase his indomitable imagination.
Steven Millhauser’s fiction has consistently, and to... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
We Others
New & Selected Stories
Written by Steven Millhauser
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: August 23, 2011
Price: $11.99
“Every reader knows of writers who are like secrets one wants to keep, and whose books one wants to tell the world about. Millhauser is mine.”
—David Rollow, Boston Sunday Globe
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author: the essential stories across three decades that showcase his indomitable imagination.
Steven Millhauser’s fiction has consistently, and to... Read more >
New & Selected Stories
Written by Steven Millhauser
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: August 23, 2011
Price: $11.99
“Every reader knows of writers who are like secrets one wants to keep, and whose books one wants to tell the world about. Millhauser is mine.”
—David Rollow, Boston Sunday Globe
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author: the essential stories across three decades that showcase his indomitable imagination.
Steven Millhauser’s fiction has consistently, and to... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
Written by Nikolai Gogol
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Format: eBook, 464 pages
On Sale: August 17, 2011
Price: $12.99
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Written by Nikolai Gogol
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Format: eBook, 464 pages
On Sale: August 17, 2011
Price: $12.99
Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
The New York Stories of Edith Wharton
Written by Edith Wharton
Introduction by Roxana Robinson
Format: eBook, 464 pages
On Sale: August 17, 2011
Price: $17.95
A New York Review Books Original
Edith Wharton wrote about New York as only a native can. Her Manhattan is a city of well-appointed drawing rooms, hansoms and broughams, all-night cotillions, and resplendent Fifth Avenue flats. Bishops’ nieces mingle with bachelor industrialists; respectable wives turn into excellent mistresses. All are governed by... Read more >
Written by Edith Wharton
Introduction by Roxana Robinson
Format: eBook, 464 pages
On Sale: August 17, 2011
Price: $17.95
A New York Review Books Original
Edith Wharton wrote about New York as only a native can. Her Manhattan is a city of well-appointed drawing rooms, hansoms and broughams, all-night cotillions, and resplendent Fifth Avenue flats. Bishops’ nieces mingle with bachelor industrialists; respectable wives turn into excellent mistresses. All are governed by... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
The New York Stories of Henry James
Written by Henry James
Introduction by Colm Toibin
Format: eBook, 592 pages
On Sale: August 17, 2011
Price: $17.95
Henry James led a wandering life, which took him far from his native shores, but he continued to think of New York City, where his family had settled for several years during his childhood, as his hometown. Here Colm Tóibín, the author of the Man Booker Prize shortlisted novel The Master, a... Read more >
Written by Henry James
Introduction by Colm Toibin
Format: eBook, 592 pages
On Sale: August 17, 2011
Price: $17.95
Henry James led a wandering life, which took him far from his native shores, but he continued to think of New York City, where his family had settled for several years during his childhood, as his hometown. Here Colm Tóibín, the author of the Man Booker Prize shortlisted novel The Master, a... Read more >
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Tevye the Dairyman and The Railroad Stories
Written by Sholem Aleichem
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: August 17, 2011
Price: $12.99
Of all the characters in modern Jewish fiction, the most beloved is Tevye, the compassionate, irrepressible, Bible-quoting dairyman from Anatevka, who has been immortalized in the writings of Sholem Aleichem and in acclaimed and award-winning theatrical and film adaptations.
And no Yiddish writer was more beloved than Tevye’s creator, Sholem Rabinovich (1859–1916)... Read more >
Written by Sholem Aleichem
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: August 17, 2011
Price: $12.99
Of all the characters in modern Jewish fiction, the most beloved is Tevye, the compassionate, irrepressible, Bible-quoting dairyman from Anatevka, who has been immortalized in the writings of Sholem Aleichem and in acclaimed and award-winning theatrical and film adaptations.
And no Yiddish writer was more beloved than Tevye’s creator, Sholem Rabinovich (1859–1916)... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Girl in the Flammable Skirt
Stories
Written by Aimee Bender
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: August 10, 2011
Price: $11.99
A grief-stricken librarian decides to have sex with every man who enters her library. A half-mad, unbearably beautiful heiress follows a strange man home, seeking total sexual abandon: He only wants to watch game shows. A woman falls in love with a hunchback; when his deformity turns out to be a... Read more >
Stories
Written by Aimee Bender
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: August 10, 2011
Price: $11.99
A grief-stricken librarian decides to have sex with every man who enters her library. A half-mad, unbearably beautiful heiress follows a strange man home, seeking total sexual abandon: He only wants to watch game shows. A woman falls in love with a hunchback; when his deformity turns out to be a... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Dancing After Hours
Stories
Written by Andre Dubus
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: July 20, 2011
Price: $9.99
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
From a genuine hero of the American short story comes a luminous collection that reveals the seams of hurt, courage, and tenderness that run through the bedrock of contemporary American life. In these fourteen stories, Dubus depicts ordinary men and women confronting injury... Read more >
Stories
Written by Andre Dubus
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: July 20, 2011
Price: $9.99
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
From a genuine hero of the American short story comes a luminous collection that reveals the seams of hurt, courage, and tenderness that run through the bedrock of contemporary American life. In these fourteen stories, Dubus depicts ordinary men and women confronting injury... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Slapboxing with Jesus
Written by Victor LaValle
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: July 20, 2011
Price: $11.99
Twelve original and interconnected stories in the traditions of Junot Díaz and Sherman Alexie. Victor D. LaValle's astonishing, violent, and funny debut offers harrowing glimpses at the vulnerable lives of young people who struggle not only to come of age, but to survive the city streets.
In "ancient history," two best friends... Read more >
Written by Victor LaValle
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: July 20, 2011
Price: $11.99
Twelve original and interconnected stories in the traditions of Junot Díaz and Sherman Alexie. Victor D. LaValle's astonishing, violent, and funny debut offers harrowing glimpses at the vulnerable lives of young people who struggle not only to come of age, but to survive the city streets.
In "ancient history," two best friends... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
After You've Gone
A Novel
Written by Alice Adams
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: July 13, 2011
Price: $11.99
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A Novel
Written by Alice Adams
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: July 13, 2011
Price: $11.99
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The New York Stories of Elizabeth Hardwick
Written by Elizabeth Hardwick
Introduction by Darryl Pinckney
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: July 13, 2011
Price: $15.95
Elizabeth Hardwick was one of America’s great postwar women of letters, celebrated as a novelist and as an essayist. Until now, however, her slim but remarkable achievement as a writer of short stories has remained largely hidden, with her work tucked away in the pages of the periodicals—such asPartisan Review, The New... Read more >
Written by Elizabeth Hardwick
Introduction by Darryl Pinckney
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: July 13, 2011
Price: $15.95
Elizabeth Hardwick was one of America’s great postwar women of letters, celebrated as a novelist and as an essayist. Until now, however, her slim but remarkable achievement as a writer of short stories has remained largely hidden, with her work tucked away in the pages of the periodicals—such asPartisan Review, The New... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Once in Europa
Written by John Berger
Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: July 13, 2011
Price: $11.99
A luminous collection of interwoven stories, Once in Europa is a portrait of two worlds−a small Alpine village bound to the earth and by tradition, and the restless, future-driven culture that will invade it−at their moment of collision. The instrument of entrapment is love: the passion of a willful shepard for a... Read more >
Written by John Berger
Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: July 13, 2011
Price: $11.99
A luminous collection of interwoven stories, Once in Europa is a portrait of two worlds−a small Alpine village bound to the earth and by tradition, and the restless, future-driven culture that will invade it−at their moment of collision. The instrument of entrapment is love: the passion of a willful shepard for a... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
