Category: Short Stories

American Short Story, The Granta Book of the

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Penguin Adult HC/TR : September 1992

Seller ID: 51194

ISBN-13: 9780670845279

This selection from the best works of American short fiction published in the last fifty years is fast becoming one of the most important anthologies of contemporary writing. The collection begins in the 1940s with Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty, and Paul Bowles, and ends in the 1990s with some of the most affecting stories written today, including work by Raymond Carver, John Updike, Tobias Wolff, and Jamaica Kincaid.
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Bittersweet Pieces: A Collection of Dutch Short Stories (Prose Series 13)

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Guernica Editions : January 1991

Seller ID: 51216

ISBN-13: 9780920717486

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

This collection of short stories by eleven prominent Dutch writers from the last two decades of Dutch literature were originally selected for a radio project by Radio Netherlands, the Dutch International Service. Authors included: F.L. Bastet, J.M.A. Biesheuvel, J. Bernlef, Bob den Uyl, Hermine de Graaf, J.A. Deelder, Gerrit Krol, Nicolaas Matsier, Levi Weemoedt, Maarteen 't Hart, and Vonne van des Meer. {Guernica Editions}
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Death Cruise: Crime Stories on the Open Seas

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Cumberland House Publishing : May 1999

Seller ID: 75293

ISBN-13: 9781581820072

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

Death Cruise"": Crime Stories on the Open Sea, edited by Lawrence Block, is a collection of murder mysteries with settings aboard cruise ships and written by several members of the International Association of Crime Writers, including Agatha Christie, Nancy Pickard, Piet Teigeler, Edward D. Hoch, Ralph McInerny, John Mortimer, and Carolyn Wheat.""
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Face Relations: Eleven Stories About Seeing Beyond Color

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Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers : May 2004

Seller ID: 72728

ISBN-13: 9780689856372

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Why can't a white kid sit with the black kids in the cafeteria? What happens when a biracial girl from Trinidad falls for a guy from a very different culture? How does a teen deal with being the only Palestinian boy or the only Japanese girl in a small American town? "Face Relations" offers eleven original works by celebrated authors Joseph Bruchac, Marina Budhos, M. E. Kerr, Kyoko Mori, Jess Mowry, Naomi Shihab Nye, Rene Saldana Jr., Marilyn Singer, Rita Williams-Garcia, Sherri Winston, and Ellen Wittlinger that explore the possibilities of embracing diversity in a world still rife with big...
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Iguana Dreams: New Latino Fiction

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Harper Perennial : September 1992

Seller ID: 65242

ISBN-13: 9780060969172

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

With an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Oscar Hijuelos, this important anthology of contemporary fiction represents the wide range of cultures and experiences that mark the diverse ethnic groups of the Latino community.
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Irresistible Forces

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Berkley : February 2004

Seller ID: 65288

ISBN-13: 9780451211118

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

New York Times bestselling authors Mary Jo Putney, Jo Beverley, and Lois McMaster Bujold join forces with award-winning authors Catherine Asaro, Jennifer Roberson, and Deb Stover in this all-new anthology of original stories proving that love can conquer all...even the boundaries of time and space. From sixteenth-century Britain to the farthest reaches of outer space, from medieval adventures to tales of inter-galactic love, here is a compilation that explores the wonderfully kinetic forces that lovers share--forces too great to resist...
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Tel Aviv Noir (Akashic Noir)

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Akashic Books : October 2014

Seller ID: 75249

ISBN-13: 9781617751547

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

Gon Ben Ari's story "Clear Recent History" has been named a finalist for the Private Eye Writers of America Shamus Award for Best P.I. Short Story "This consistently strong collection showcases a group of Israeli writers who are not well known in the U.S. Definitely one of the highlights in the long-running Akashic series."--Booklist, Starred review "May be the very best in a generally solid series....This collection escapes the limits of formula fiction and sets the bar high for subsequent Noir offerings. The genre is hot, Tel Aviv is exotic, and this volume is outstanding. What's not to lik...
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Terrestrial Intelligence: International Fiction Now from New Directions

Price: $3.00

Publisher: New Directions : April 2006

Seller ID: 75289

ISBN-13: 9780811216500

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

New Directions, the discoverer of the greatest of the great contemporary world writerssuch as W. G. Sebald and Roberto Bolano, Inger Christensen and Bei Dao, Victor Pelevin and Javier Mariasnow puts them on display in a showcase anthology.Terrestrial Intelligence gathers the best new ground-breaking fiction from around the world, from W. G. Sebald ("one of the most gripping writers imaginable," The New York Review of Books) and Roberto Bolano ("his generation's premier Latin-American writer, his] reputation and legend are in meteoric ascent," The New York Times) to the Russian enfant terrible...
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The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1899 -1967 [and] Children of The Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967-1995

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company : January 2002

Seller ID: 65249

ISBN-13: 9780316740920

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

The Oxford Book of Modern Women's Stories

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press : September 1994

Seller ID: 65243

ISBN-13: 9780192142320

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

"The inadequate acknowledgement of women short story writers in standard anthologies is a cause for wonder or affront. How else, indeed, can you view it, given the riches overlooked?" So states editor Patricia Craig in her introduction to The Oxford Book of Modern Women's Stories, a rich, wide-ranging collection that, at last, redresses this historical imbalance by bringing together forty examples of the very best women's stories--from established authors such as Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf, Eudora Welty, and Katherine Mansfield, to such modern masters as Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Bharat...
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The Rough Road Home: Stories by North Carolina Writers

Price: $3.00

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press : November 1992

Seller ID: 77403

ISBN-13: 9780807843970

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

This anthology of twenty-two short stories by contemporary North Carolina writers, selected by Gingher, the longtime book review editor of the Greensboro News and Record, is a testament to the vitality of the literary tradition of the state. Contributors include Alice Adams, Maya Angelou, Doris Betts, Fred Chappell, Clyde Edgerton, Kaye Gibbons, Allan Gurganus, Randall Kenan, Reynolds Price, and Lee Smith.

The Short Stories of Larry Potterfield. in Shrinkwrap. Volume 2.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Midway : January 2018

Seller ID: 51233

ISBN: B07HRGK7ZS

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

The Hunt Out of the Thicket: Stories

By: Adler, John Morel

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Algonquin Books : September 1990

Seller ID: 65263

ISBN-13: 9780945575061

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

This stunning book of short stories introduces the literary world to an author who writes of the outdoors with rare artistry and exactitude. John Morel Adler knows the woods, thickets, swamps, rivers, and coasts of his native Georgia and South Carolina Lowcountry. He knows its wildlife and its people. These tales of outdoor life are equally and simultaneously stories of what another writer about the Southern wilderness, William Faulkner, called "the truths of the human heart in conflict with itself," and they search keenly into the meanings of life and death, youth and love, time and change....
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Collected Stories of Sholom Aleichem (Tevye's Daughters and The Old Country) DeLuxe Illustrated Edition. 2 Vols

By: Aleichem, Sholom

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Crown Publishers, Inc. : NY : January 1953

Seller ID: 34420

ISBN: B000ZMEWYI

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Boxed set. Some sun discoloration of spine but tightly bound and in excellent shape.
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Basilio Boullosa Stars in the Fountain of Highlandtown

By: Alvarez, Rafael

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Citylit Press : September 2017

Seller ID: 72714

ISBN-13: 9781936328222

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

Commemorating the 20th anniversary of the publication of The Fountain of Highlandtown, this new collection of fiction from a master storyteller continues to mine the lives of Americans we rarely hear about. In Basilio Boullosa Stars in the Fountain of Highlandtown, Rafael Alvarez returns to his main theme of exile, the heartbreak of leaving and being left behind set to the sound track of the Beatles, Dylan, and Zappa. From the East Baltimore immigrants stirring the old country back to life in deep-bellied pots and cast iron skillets to the lovers stroking the relics of lost romance, Alvarez's ...
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Storyteller

By: Alvarez, Rafael

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Baltimore Sun : May 2001

Seller ID: 75247

ISBN-13: 9781893116221

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

Mona and Other Tales

By: Arenas, Reinaldo

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Vintage : September 2001

Seller ID: 72726

ISBN-13: 9780375727306

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

Mona and Other Tales covers Reinaldo Arenas's entire career: his recently rediscovered debut (which got him a job at the Biblioteca Nacional in Havana), stories written in a political prison, and some of his last works, written in exile. Many of the stories have not previously appeared in English. Here is the tender story of a boy who recognizes evil for the first time and decides to ignore it; the tale of a writer struggling between the demands of creativity and of fame; common people dealing with changes brought about by revolution and exile; a romp with a famous, dangerous woman in the Metr...
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Articulated Short Story Anthology 2016

By: Authors, Multiple

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Next Revelation Press : June 2016

Seller ID: 65237

ISBN-13: 9781944505318

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

The seventeen stories in this collection take will you from a grunge bar in the '90s to a land of magical trees to the middle of the night ocean. Come along for a ride that is one part postmodern, one part magical, and several parts heart. With a bevy of protagonists spanning from a Bulgarian orchard worker to a jaded-yet-still-earnest skateboarder to an octogenarian about to get conned, the stories in this collection represent a wide range of the best of today's fiction. Tayen Lane Publishing is proud to present this multifaceted collection that includes emerging, established, and first-time...
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Servants of the Map: Stories

By: Barrett, Andrea

Price: $5.00

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc : February 2002

Seller ID: 75275

ISBN-13: 9780393043488

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

Spanning two centuries, an intricately woven collection of stories and novellas journeys across landscapes of yearning, awakening, loss, and unexpected discovery as the lives of extraordinary characters unfold in a borderland between science and passion.
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Ship Fever: Stories

By: Barrett, Andrea

Price: $3.00

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : November 1996

Seller ID: 51199

ISBN-13: 9780393316001

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

The elegant short fictions gathered hereabout the love of science and the science of love are often set against the backdrop of the nineteenth century. Interweaving historical and fictional characters, they encompass both past and present as they negotiate the complex territory of ambition, failure, achievement, and shattered dreams. In "Ship Fever," the title novella, a young Canadian doctor finds himself at the center of one of history's most tragic epidemics. In "The English Pupil," Linnaeus, in old age, watches as the world he organized within his head slowly drifts beyond his reach. And i...
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Category: Short Stories