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Mandy's Favorite Short Story Collections
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Click on any title or cover to find the item in the SWAN Online Catalog. |
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Love Medicine
by Louise Erdrich
The lives and destinies of the Kashpaws and the Lamartines intertwine on and around a North Dakota Indian reservation from 1934 to 1984, in a tale of survival, tenacity, tradition, injustice, and love.
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Smoke and Mirrors : short fictions and illusions
by Neil Gaiman
The creator of the popular Sandman series of graphic novels follows his best-selling debut solo novel, Neverwhere, with a collection of fantastic tales, several of them brand-new, of strange inventions, miraculous encounters, and bizarre discoveries.
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The Nimrod Flipout
by Etgar Keret
Already featured on This American Life and Selected Shorts and in Zoetrope: All Story and L.A. Weekly , these short stories include a man who finds equal pleasure in his beautiful girlfriend and the fat, soccer-loving lout she turns into after dark; shrinking parents; a case of impotence cured by a pet terrier; and a pessimistic Middle Eastern talking fish. A bestseller in Israel, The Nimrod Flipout is an extraordinary collection from the preeminent Israeli writer of his generation.
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Magic for Beginners
by Kelly Link
A follow-up collection to Stranger Things Happen celebrates the intersection between the worlds of reality and the supernatural, in an anthology that features such topics as a haunted convenience store and a weekly apocalyptic poker party.
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Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman : twenty-four stories
by Haruki Murakami
From the surreal to the mundane, a masterful anthology of short fiction by the award-winning Japanese writer captures a full range of human experience, emotion, and relationship in works that chronicle a chance reunion in Italy, a holiday in Hawaii, a romantic exile in Greece, and more.
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One More Thing : stories and other stories
by B. J. Novak
A debut collection by a writer for the Emmy Award-winning series The Office includes the title story, in which a boy's lucrative sweepstakes win proves more harm than good for his family.
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The Mother Garden : stories
by Robin Romm
A first collection of short works explores a theme of loss with tales that feature such protagonists as a man who uses a chicken egg to test his readiness for fatherhood, a daughter who plants a garden of mothers to replace her own, and a woman who discovers her deadbeat father asleep in the desert after more than a quarter century's absence.
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Tenth of December : stories
by George Saunders
A collection of stories by the author of Pastoralia includes "Home," a wryly whimsical account of a soldier's return from war; "Victory Lap," a tale about an inventive abduction attempt; and the title story, in which a suicidal cancer patient saves the life of a young misfit.
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