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Short Story Collections May 2022
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Ordinary Life : Stories
by Elizabeth Berg F BER
Exploring diverse facets of women's lives, a new collection of short fiction reflects on seemingly ordinary and insignificant moments in life when events and memories come together to create a sense of wholeness and understanding in such works as "White Dwarf," "Today's Special," and the title story.
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Out There : Stories
by Kate Folk F FOL
With a focus on the weird and eerie forces that lurk beneath the surface of ordinary experience, Kate Folk's debut collection is perfectly pitched to the madness of our current moment. Prescient and wildly imaginative, Out There depicts an uncanny landscape that holds a mirror to our subconscious fears and desires. Each story beats with its own fierce heart, and together they herald an exciting new arrival in the tradition of speculative literary fiction.
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Trigger warning : short fictions and disturbances
by Neil Gaiman F GAI
Trigger Warning explores the masks we all wear and the people we are beneath them to reveal our vulnerabilities and our truest selves. Here is a rich cornucopia of horror and ghosts stories, science fiction and fairy tales, fabulism and poetry that explore the realm of experience and emotion.
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Difficult Women
by Roxane Gay F 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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Hitting a straight lick with a crooked stick : stories from the Harlem Renaissance
by Zora Neale Hurston F HUR
Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick is an outstanding collection of stories about love and migration, gender and class, racism and sexism that proudly reflect African American folk culture. Brought together for the first time in one volume, they include eight of Hurston's "lost" Harlem stories, which were found in forgotten periodicals and archives. These stories challenge conceptions of Hurston as an author of rural fiction and include gems that flash with her biting, satiric humor, as well as more serious tales reflective of the cultural currents of Hurston's world.
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Five Tuesdays in winter : stories
by Lily King F KIN
King collects ten of her finest short stories, opening fresh realms of discovery for fans and new readers alike. Told in the intimate voices of uniquely endearing characters of all ages, these tales explore desire and heartache, loss and discovery, moments of jolting violence and the inexorable tug toward love at all costs. Romantic, hopeful, brutally raw, and unsparingly honest, some even slipping slyly into the surreal, these stories are, above all, about King's enduring subject of love.
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Interpreter of Maladies : Stories
by Jhumpa Lahiri F LAH
This stunning debut collection unerringly charts the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the barriers of nations and generations. In stories that travel from India to America and back again, Lahiri speaks with universal eloquence to everyone who has ever felt like a foreigner.
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Tiny tales : Stories of Romance, Ambition, Kindness, and Happiness
by Alexander McCall Smith F MCC
In Tiny Tales, Alexander McCall Smith explores romance, ambition, kindness, and happiness in thirty short stories accompanied by thirty witty cartoons designed by Iain McIntosh, McCall Smith's longtime creative collaborator. These tales and illustrations depict the full scope of human experience and reveal the rich tapestry of life - painted in miniature.
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Homesick for another world
by Ottessa Moshfegh F MOS
Homesick for Another World is a master class in the varieties of self-deception across the gamut of individuals representing the human condition. But part of the unique quality of her voice is the way the grotesque and the outrageous are infused with tenderness and compassion. The flesh is weak; the timber is crooked; people are cruel to each other, and stupid, and hurtful. But beauty comes from strange sources. And the dark energy surging through these stories is powerfully invigorating.
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The awkward black man : stories
by Walter Mosley F MOS
The Awkward Black Man collects seventeen of Mosley's most accomplished short stories to display the full range of his remarkable talent. Mosley presents distinct characters as they struggle to move through the world in each of these stories - heroes who are awkward, nerdy, self-defeating, self-involved, and, on the whole, odd. He overturns the stereotypes that corral black male characters and paints a subtle, powerful portrait of each of these unique individuals. Touching and contemplative, each of these unexpected stories offers the best of one of our most gifted writers.
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First person singular : stories
by Haruki Murakami F MUR
The eight stories in this new book are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator. From memories of youth, meditations on music, and an ardent love of baseball, to dreamlike scenarios and invented jazz albums, together these stories challenge the boundaries between our minds and the exterior world. Occasionally, a narrator may or may not be Murakami himself. Is it memoir or fiction? The reader decides. Philosophical and mysterious, the stories in First Person Singular all touch beautifully on love and solitude, childhood and memory...all with a signature Murakami twist.
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The complete stories
by Flannery O'Connor F OCO
The publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O'Connor's monumental contribution to American fiction. Taken together, these stories reveal a lively, penetrating talent that has given us some of the most powerful and disturbing fiction of the twentieth century.
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The secret lives of church ladies
by Deesha Philyaw F PHI
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies explores the raw and tender places where black women and girls dare to follow their desires and pursue a momentary reprieve from being good. The nine stories in this collection feature four generations of characters grappling with who they want to be in the world, caught as they are between the church's double standards and their own needs and passions.
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Grand union : stories
by Zadie Smith F SMI
In her first short story collection, she combines her power of observation and inimitable voice to mine the fraught and complex experience of life in the modern world. She explores a wide range of subjects, from first loves to cultural despair, as well as the desire to be the subject of your own experience. In captivating prose, she contends with race, class, relationships, and gender roles in a world that feels increasingly divided.
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Afterparties : stories
by Anthony So F SO
Short stories that portray of the lives of Cambodian-Americans still dealing with the inherited weight of the Khmer Rouge genocide including a young, disillusioned teacher obsessed with Moby-Dick and a child whose mother survived a school shooting.
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Growing things : And Other Stories
by Paul Tremblay F TRE
From global catastrophe to the demons inside our heads, Tremblay illuminates our primal fears and darkest dreams in startlingly original fiction that leaves us unmoored. As he lowers the sky and yanks the ground from beneath our feet, we are compelled to contemplate the darkness inside our own hearts and minds.
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A simple murder : a Kate Burkholder short story collection
by Linda Castillo M CAS
Together for the first time in print, this collection of six short stories, starring chief of police Kate Burkholder, includes “A Hidden Secret,” in which Kate is called in to investigate the case of an abandoned baby left on the Amish bishop’s front porch.
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Miss Marple : the complete short stories
by Agatha Christie M CHR LP
Presents 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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Love & other crimes : stories
by Sara Paretsky M PAR
In this spellbinding collection, Paretsky showcases her extraordinary talents with fourteen short stories, including one new V.I. story and seven other classics featuring the indomitable detective.
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How long 'til black future month?
by N. K Jemisin SCI JEM
N. K. Jemisin challenges and delights readers with thought-provoking narratives of destruction, rebirth, and redemption that sharply examine modern society in her first collection of short fiction, which includes never-before-seen stories. Spirits haunt the flooded streets of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In a parallel universe, a utopian society watches our world, trying to learn from our mistakes. A black mother in the Jim Crow South must save her daughter from a fey offering impossible promises. And in the Hugo award-nominated short story "The City Born Great," a young street kid fights to give birth to an old metropolis's soul.
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