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Sub-Categories of Fiction: special features
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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
Junot Diaz (Mass Inst of Technology)
Fiction & Literature; Short stories
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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
Chris Barzak, Harlan Ellison, Kij Johnson
Anthologies (non-poetry); Science fiction; Fantasy; Short stories
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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
Tom Wolfe
Literary essays; Short stories
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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
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
Honore de Balzac
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 ; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Fiction in translation
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Agnes Desarthe
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Fiction in translation
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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
Camilla Lackberg
Fiction & Literature; Crime & mystery; Thriller & suspense; Fiction in translation
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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
Anna Gavalda
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Fiction in translation
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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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Small Wonder: An Anthology of Prose Poems and Microfiction
Julie Chevalier, Linda Godfrey
Poetry anthologies; Fiction & Literature; Short stories
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Here are PROSE POEMS & MICROFICTIONS by thirty contemporary Australian writers on topics ranging from the eroticism of mash... [more]
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