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Roar
by Cecelia Ahern
A collection of thought-provoking short stories from the author of P.S., I Love You includes the tales of a woman who has inexplicably bite marks appear on her skin and a wife who returns her boring husband at the store.
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Otherworld Chills: Final Tales of the Otherworld
by Kelley Armstrong
A collection of short stories from the #1 best-selling author of the Women of the Otherworld series features some of her favorite characters, including Nick, Hope, Karl and Cassandra having new adventures and conflicts.
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The State We're In: Maine Stories
by Ann Beattie
An award-winning short story master presents a collection of new, linked tales that impart the diverse perspectives of women orbiting around a disaffected teen who is staying with relatives while attending summer school.
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Where the God of Love Hangs Out
by Amy Bloom
The National Book Award-finalist author of Away presents a series of interconnected stories in which a young woman struggles to come to terms with her roommate's murder, in-laws confess their indiscretions in an unlikely place and two middle-aged friends discover a comedic attraction.
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Strange Brew by P. N. ElrodAn anthology of nine urban fantasy tales includes contributions by some of today's most popular paranormal-genre authors, in a collection that includes Charlaine Harris's "Bacon," Patricia Briggs's "Seeing Eye," and Jim Butcher's "Last Call." Original.
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Stay Awake
by Dan Chaon
Presents a collection of suspenseful tales in which fragile and searching characters wander between ordinary life and a psychological shadowland after experiencing intense loss or displacement.
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Miss Marple: the Complete Short Stories
by Agatha Christie
Present a collection of twenty stories featuring Miss Jane Marple, an amateur sleuth who bases her solutions to crimes on past experiences and on the belief that human nature is the same everywhere.
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This is How You Lose Her
by Junot Díaz
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao presents a lyrical collection of stories that explores the heartbreak and radiance of love as it is shaped by passion, betrayal and the echoes of intimacy.
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American Housewife
by Helen Ellis
A collection of stories featuring conventional, if ruthless, housewives features a rigged reality television show, a unique book club initiation ritual and the fitting room of a legendary lingerie shop.
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Difficult Women
by Roxane Gay
A collection of stories by the award-winning author of Bad Feminist explores the hardscrabble lives, passionate loves and quirky human connections experienced by diverse protagonists, including a woman who pretends she does not know that her husband and his identical twin switch places with her.
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Nightmare Town
by Dashiell Hammett
The inimitable Sam Spade and the Continental Op take on new cases in a collection of long-unavailable short stories by the author of The Maltese Falcon, in an anthology of mysteries and short fiction that also includes Hammett's first study for The Thin Man.
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Mary Russell's War: and Other Stories of Suspense
by Laurie R. King
A dynamic short story collection that illuminates many hidden corners of the beloved, best-selling Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes series. Since the first book-length 'memoir' appeared in 1994, famous partner, Sherlock Holmes, has excited a community of readers, young and old. With this collection, nine previously published short stories and one never-before-seen Sherlock Holmes mystery are brought together for the first time.
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Her Body and Other Parties
by Carmen Maria Machado
Contains short stories about the realities of women's lives and the violence visited upon their bodies.
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Music for Wartime
by Rebecca Makkai
The award-winning author of The Hundred-Year House presents a collection of wide-ranging, evocative short stories, including several inspired by her family history or featuring protagonists whose lives are shaped by irony.
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Thunderstruck & Other Stories
by Elizabeth McCracken
The author of The Giant's House—a National Book Award finalist—presents a stunning collection of stories that navigate the fragile space between love and loneliness, including the title story in which a family finds their lives irrevocably changed by their teenage daughter's risky behavior.
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Homesick for Another World
by Ottessa Moshfegh
A highly anticipated first collection by the award-winning author of Eileen features protagonists who stumble on their own base impulses in their unsettling and laugh-out-loud pursuits of fulfillment.
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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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The Doll-Master: and Other Tales of Terror
by Joyce Carol Oates
A collection of six psychologically daring stories by the National Book Award-winning author of them includes the tale of a boy's obsession with a doll in the aftermath of a cousin's leukemia-related death and a teen's confrontation with an intruder while housesitting for her teacher.
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The Trading Post and Other Frontier Stories
by Hazel Rumney
A collection of short story set on the American frontier includes "The Trading Post," by Michael Zimmer, in which an old trader stands his ground against the nephew of the company store owner.
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Public Library and Other Stories
by Ali Smith
A new collection by the author of The Accidental celebrates the power of books and the libraries they live in, tracing the stories of such protagonists as a scholar who debates Wilfred Owen with her deceased father, a girl who discovers books bound with sheet music and a woman whose dreams seem to be set in a 1960s novel.
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We are Taking Only What We Need
by Stephanie Powell Watts
Presents a collection of stories that feature rural African Americans as they explore questions regarding such issues as family relationships, racism, love, and faith.
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