A dazzling collection of short stories from the New York Times bestselling author of Prep, American Wife, and Eligible Curtis Sittenfeld has established a reputation as a sharp chronicler of the modern age who humanizes her subjects...
Short stories, American
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Auteur:Sittenfeld, CurtisSommaire: - Auteur:Shipstead, MaggieSommaire:
In this collection of stories, Maggie Shipstead dives into eclectic and vivid settings, from an Olympic village to a deathbed in Paris to a Pacific atoll, and illuminating a cast of indelible characters, Shipstead traverses ordinary and...
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Auteur:Samms, Jamie, Lichtenberg, Jacqueline, Maxfield, Z. A., Zampa, C., Valentine, Lex, Michael, Patric, Colcroft, Karenna, Adams, Tame, Banis, Victor J., Holliday, Brian, Jones, Jambrea Jo, Calmes, Mary, Irving, Jan, Lorrah, Jean, Munder, Chrissy, McCain, Moira, London, Clare, Marchwell, D. W., Lochland, Taylor, Lane, AmySommaire:A Special Project by Dreamspinner Press & ManLoveRomance Press How much impact can someone have on your life if you’ve never met them face to face? In this electronic age of E-mails, electronic publishing and social networks, quite...
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Auteur:Wilson, AdamSommaire:Bankers prowl Brooklyn bars on the eve of the stock market crash. A debate over Young Elvis versus Vegas Elvis turns existential. Detoxing junkies use a live lobster to spice up their love life. Students on summer break struggle to...
- Auteur:Baldwin, Shauna SinghSommaire:
A Quill & Quire Book of the Year. Ten years after her stunning debut, Shauna Singh Baldwin returns to Goose Lane with an outstanding new collection of ten stories. Migrating from Central America to the American South, from Metro...
- Auteur:Adams, John JosephSommaire:
Famine, Death, War, and Pestilence--the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the harbingers of Armageddon--these are our guides through the Wastelands. From the Book of Revelation to The Road Warrior, from A Canticle for Leibowitz to The...
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Auteur:Alexie, ShermanSommaire:As a 41-year-old man confronts his own mortality in this collection's title story, he recalls his Spokane Indian father's chilling death from alcoholism and diabetes. Another tale features an eccentric salesman pursuing a married woman...
- Auteur:Butcher, JimSommaire:
Villains have all the fun-everyone knows that-and this anthology takes you on a wild ride through the dark side! The top villains from sixteen urban fantasy series get their own stories-including the baddies of New York Times...
- Auteur:Sharp, Anthea, Tweedie, Jim, Anderson, Pam, Eisner, Keith, Macvie, Meagan, Williams, Caelyn, Anderson, Beth, Koerber, Laura, Marcus, Edward, Staples, Suzanne, De Danaan, Llyn, Hambruch, Eve, Weaver, Jessie, Yunker, Barbara, O'Hara, Kim K., Wanless, KathrynSommaire:
Timberland Writes Together explores each writer’s take on optimism and serves as a catalyst for community conversations; myriad and far ranging.Supported by its Foundation, Timberland Regional Library invited writers and artists within...
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Auteur:Ahdieh, Renée, Carson, Rae, Colbert, Brandy, Cotugno, Katie, Giles, L. R., Gratton, Tessa, Hagen, Bethany, Ireland, Justina, Johnson, Alaya Dawn, Johnston, E. K., Murphy, Julie, Nix, Garth, Roth, Veronica, Tahir, Sabaa, Yovanoff, BrennaSommaire:A collection of sixteen short stories involving love triangles. Includes stories written by Renée Ahdieh, Rae Carson, Brandy Colbert, Katie Cotugno, Lamar Giles, Tessa Gratton, Bethany Hagen, Justina Ireland, Alaya Dawn Johnson, E. K....
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Auteur:Friedman, Bruce JaySommaire:In the Foreword to his The Collected Short Fiction Bruce Jay Friedman wrote: "In her late years, my mother confessed to me that she had dropped me on my head when I was two. As I've grown older, I've come to believe that her presumably...
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Auteur:Henry, O.Sommaire:The collected stories of O. Henry make entertaining listening.
- Auteur:Urrea, Luis AlbertoSommaire:
From one of America's preeminent literary voices comes a new story collection that proves once again why the writing of Luis Alberto Urrea has been called "wickedly good" (Kansas City Star), "cinematic and charged...
- Auteur:Philyaw, DeeshaSommaire:
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...
- Auteur:Child, Lee.Sommaire:
Inspired by the ongoing international success of the city-based Akashic Noir Series ( Brooklyn Noir, Boston Noir, Paris Noir , etc.), Akashic created the Drug Chronicles Series in 2011. Following The Speed Chronicles (William T....
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Auteur:Dick, Philip K.Sommaire:A collection of short stories by the acclaimed science fiction writer.
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Auteur:Jackson, ShirleySommaire:"The Lottery," one of the most terrifying stories of the twentieth century, created a sensation when it was first published in the New Yorker. This collection unites "The Lottery" with twenty-four equally unusual stories. Together they...
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Auteur:Rice, H. WilliamSommaire:The Lost Woods is a collection of 15 short stories, most of them set in and around the fictional small town of Sledge, SC. The events narrated in the stories begin in the 1930s and continue to the present day. The stories aren't...
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Auteur:Huynh, PhilipSommaire:Finalist, City of Vancouver Book Award 2019A man returns to Hoi An in his retirement to compose a poem honouring his parents. Two teenagers, ostracized in a private school, forge an unlikely bond. A son discovers the truth about his...
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Auteur:Dick, Philip K.Sommaire:Every legend has a beginning. Dreamscape Media presents a collection of thirteen early short stories penned by Philip K. Dick. Exploring themes of authoritarianism, alternate universes, and altered consciousness, the stories (including...
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