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An Apple for the Creature

An Apple for the Creature

Charlaine Harris, Toni L P Kelner

Anthologies (non-poetry); Fantasy; Short stories

Hardback

The worst school nightmares pale in comparison to these 13 stories that take academic anxiety to whole new realms. Edited... [more]

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This Is How You Lose Her

This Is How You Lose Her

Junot Diaz (Mass Inst of Technology)

Fiction & Literature; Short stories

Hardback

A Pulitzer Prize winner turns his prodigious talent to the haunting, impossible power of love. Hilarious and devastating,... [more]

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Nebula Awards Showcase: The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy

Nebula Awards Showcase: The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy

Chris Barzak, Harlan Ellison, Kij Johnson

Anthologies (non-poetry); Science fiction; Fantasy; Short stories

Paperback

Collects the year's Nebula Award-nominated and winning stories and poems, as voted on by the members of the Science Fiction... [more]

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Hooking Up

Hooking Up

Tom Wolfe

Literary essays; Short stories

Paperback

Ranges from coast to coast, observing the 'lurid carnival actually taking place in the mightiest country on earth in the year... [more]

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Tales of the Jazz Age

Tales of the Jazz Age

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Short stories

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Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) contains some of Fitzgerald's best short stories, including 'May Day' and 'The Diamond as Big... [more]

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The Wild Ass's Skin

The Wild Ass's Skin

Honore de Balzac

Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 ; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Fiction in translation

Paperback

A young man, in despair over gambling debts, buys a magical animal skin that grants his every wish but hastens its owner's... [more]

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The Inheritance

The Inheritance

Robin Hobb

Fantasy; Short stories

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A collection of novellas and stories from one of the most critically acclaimed authors in the fantasy genre, Robin Hobb. Including... [more]

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Carnage

Carnage

Maxime Chattam

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Crime & mystery; Fiction in translation

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When a massacre takes place in a Harlem school, Lamar, A New York detective for twelve years, is called to the scene. A student,... [more]

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Holy City

Holy City

Guillermo Orsi

Fiction & Literature; Thriller & suspense; Fiction in translation

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Welcome to the Holy City, where bent cops are ten a peso, and it is only the degree of corruption that is ever in question.... [more]

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The Weight of a Human Heart

The Weight of a Human Heart

Ryan O'Neill

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Short stories

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Sometimes comic, sometimes tragic, this short-story collection is always startlingly original. Dazzlingly inventive and devastatingly... [more]

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The Nightmare

The Nightmare

Lars Kepler

Fiction & Literature; Thriller & suspense; Fiction in translation

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He knows your darkest dreams. Then he makes them come true. [more]

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About Love: Three Stories by Anton Chekhov

About Love: Three Stories by Anton Chekhov

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Fiction & Literature; Short stories

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Three of Chekhov's lesser-known stories, now beautifully rendered into English by novelist David Helwig. Sublimely illustrated... [more]

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Granta 119: Britain

Granta 119: Britain

John Freeman

Anthologies (non-poetry); Fiction & Literature; Short stories

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It is a nation defined by tradition and built on expansion. Now it has more languages spoken within its capital than any other... [more]

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Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley

Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley

Robert Sheckley

Science fiction; Short stories

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Mordant, absurdist, and deadpan, the best of Sheckley's dissident farces represent science fiction's high-water mark as an... [more]

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The Incarceration of Captain Nebula and Other Lost Futures

The Incarceration of Captain Nebula and Other Lost Futures

Michael D Resnick, Mike Resnick

Science fiction; Short stories

Hardback

A collection of short fiction that explores a range of the human experience in a science fiction world. [more]

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Madrid Tales

Madrid Tales

Helen Constantine

Anthologies (non-poetry); Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Short stories; Fiction in translation; Travel & holiday

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The buzzing life of bars, warm evenings by the Manzanares river, the subterranean terrors of the Metro, student days in the... [more]

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The Sorrows of Young Werther

The Sorrows of Young Werther

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Fiction in translation

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Visiting an idyllic German village, Werther, a sensitive young man, meets and falls in love with sweet-natured Charlotte.... [more]

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The Source of the Sound

The Source of the Sound

Patrick Holland

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Short stories

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The Source of the Sound traces the journeys of exiles in search of home. The collection is littered with the mise-en-scene... [more]

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Monsieur Linh and His Child

Monsieur Linh and His Child

Philippe Claudel

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Fiction in translation

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Monsieur Linh and His Child is a remarkable novel with an extraordinary twist, a subtle portrait of friendship and a dialogue... [more]

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The Complete Short Stories

The Complete Short Stories

Muriel Spark

Fiction & Literature; Short stories

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From the cruel irony of 'A Member of the Family' to the fateful echoes of 'The Gp-Away Bird' and the unexpectedly sinister... [more]

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The Foundling

The Foundling

Agnes Desarthe

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Fiction in translation

Paperback

From the author of Chez Moi, a tenderly drawn and hauntingly beautiful novel of loss and loneliness, friendship and love.... [more]

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The Stranger

The Stranger

Camilla Lackberg

Fiction & Literature; Crime & mystery; Thriller & suspense; Fiction in translation

Paperback

To avoid disappointment please note this novel was previously titled THE GALLOWS BIRD. Scandinavian crime sensation and No.... [more]

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Someone I Loved

Someone I Loved

Anna Gavalda

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Fiction in translation

Hardback

When Chloe's husband leaves her and their children for another woman, she is devastated. Unexpectedly, it's her usually distant... [more]

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A Stark and Wormy Knight

A Stark and Wormy Knight

Tad Williams

Fantasy; Short stories

Hardback

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Small Wonder: An Anthology of Prose Poems and Microfiction

Small Wonder: An Anthology of Prose Poems and Microfiction

Julie Chevalier, Linda Godfrey

Poetry anthologies; Fiction & Literature; Short stories

Paperback

Here are PROSE POEMS & MICROFICTIONS by thirty contemporary Australian writers on topics ranging from the eroticism of mash... [more]

$22.99  $20.70

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