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Homeland and Other Stories

Barbara Kingsolver - HarperCollins e-books
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver delivers a collection of 12 original tales in Homeland and Other Stories that are every bit as emotionally resonant, humorous, and heartfelt as her much-beloved novels.In settings ranging from eastern Kentucky to northern California and the Caribbean...
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This Is a Voice from Your Past: New & Selected Stories

Merrill Joan Gerber
Format: Book

"Every woman gets a call like this sooner or later. The phone rings, a man says: 'This is a voice from your past.'" The opening of the compelling title story of Merrill Joan Gerber's collection sets the tone for each of the thirteen remarkable pieces therein, two of them
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Ford County: Stories

John Grisham - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

In his first collection of short stories John Grisham takes us back to Ford County, Mississippi, the setting of his first novel, A Time to Kill.Wheelchair-bound Inez Graney and her two older sons, Leon and Butch, take a bizarre road trip through the Mississippi Delta to visit the youngest...
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All the Time in the World: New and Selected Stories

E.L. Doctorow - Random House; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

From Ragtime and Billy Bathgate to Worlds Fair, The March, and Homer Langley, the fiction of E. L. Doctorow comprises a towering achievement in modern American letters. Now Doctorow returns with an enthralling collection of brilliant, startling short fiction about people who, as the author...
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Interpreter of Maladies

Jhumpa Lahiri - Mariner Books
Format: Paperback

Navigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited and the baffling new world, the characters in Jhumpa Lahiri's elegant, touching stories seek love beyond the barriers of culture and generations. In "A Temporary Matter," published in The New Yorker, a young Indian-American...
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Twisted: The Collected Stories of Jeffery Deaver

Jeffery Deaver - Simon & Schuster; 1ST edition
Format: Hardcover

"New York Times" bestselling author Jeffery Deaver has long thrilled fans with tales of masterful villains and their nefarious ways, and the brilliant minds who bring them to justice. Now the author of the Lincoln Rhyme series has collected for the first time his award-winning,...
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Mean Rooms: A Short Story Collection

Julie Smith

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One More for the Road: A New Story Collection

Ray Bradbury - William Morrow
Format: Book

America has no finer teller of tales than Ray Bradbury. For more than fifty years he has regaled us with wonders, enchanted us with memories, and startled us with simple truths, enabling us to view from fresh perspectives the world we inhabit, and see others we never dreamed existed.Now...
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Up All Night: A Short Story Collection

Peter Abrahams - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

A brush with the supernatural? A rock concert? A reunion? A poolside revelation? The need to know what''s up? The confessions of a friend? The dream of escape? A sick pet? An English assignment? The rear-window view of a murder next door? The search for the mother you never met?...
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