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Almost Famous Women: Stories
Megan Mayhew Bergman - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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From the acclaimed author of Birds of a Lesser Paradise, a dazzling new collection that explores the lives of unforgettable women in history.The fascinating characters in Megan Mayhew Bergman's new stories are defined by their creative impulses, fierce independence, and sometimes reckless... |
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Turtleface and Beyond: Stories
Arthur Bradford - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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Darkly funny stories by the man David Sedaris calls the most outlandish and energetic writer I can think of Paddling down a remote, meandering river, Georgies friend Otto decides to do something both spectacular and stupid He scales a sandy cliff that rises from the water and runs down... |
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Mothers, Tell Your Daughters: Stories
Bonnie Jo Campbell - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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From the author of National Book Award finalist American Salvage comes a dazzling and suspenseful new story collection.Named by the Guardian as one of our top ten writers of rural noir, Bonnie Jo Campbell is a keen observer of life and trouble in rural America, and her working-class protagonists... |
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Mary and O'Neil: A Novel in Stories
Justin Cronin
Format: Paperback
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Mary and O'Neil frequently marveled at how, of all the lives they might have led, they had somehow found this one together. When they met at the Philadelphia high school where they'd come to teach, each had suffered a profound loss that had not healed. How likely was it that they |
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Middle Men: Stories
Jim Gavin - Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In Middle Men, Stegner Fellow and New Yorker contributor Jim Gavin delivers a hilarious and panoramic vision of California, portraying a group of men, from young dreamers to old vets, as they make valiant forays into middle-class respectability. In Play the Man a high-school basketball... |
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Redeployment
Phil Klay - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction"Redeployment is hilarious, biting, whipsawing and sad. Its the best thing written so far on what the war did to peoples souls." - Dexter Filkins, The New York Times Book ReviewSelected as one of the best books of the year by The New York... |
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Belfast Noir
Adrian McKinty - Akashic Books
Format: Book
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"The works are short, allowing readers to savor each snippet or devour the entire compelling book in a day, depending on just how deliciously gloomy they're feeling."--Shelf Awareness, Starred review"All the stories are compelling and well executed...Great writing for fans... |
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One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories
B.J. Novak - Vintage
Format: Print book
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B.J. Novak's One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories is an endlessly entertaining, surprisingly sensitive, and startlingly original debut that signals the arrival of a brilliant new voice in American fiction. A boy wins a $100,000 prize in a box of Frosted Flakes—only to discover... |
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