This volume brings together Andre Dubus' third and fourth collections of short stories and novellas--Finding a Girl in America and The Times Are Never So Bad--with a thought-provoking new...
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Author: Dubus, AndreSummary:Genre: Short stories
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Author: Bump, Gabriel, Chang-Eppig, Rita, Cuti, Vanessa, Duque, Jenzo, Hobson, Brandon, Kochai, Jamil Jan, Krauss, Nicole, Means, David, Murray, Yxta Maya, Osunde, Eloghosa, Pek, Jane, Peyton, Tracey Rose, Romanosky, Christa, Saunders, George, Sigers, Shanteka, Soileau, Stephanie, Vijay, Madhuri, Washington, Bryan, Wilson, Kevin, Zhang, C PamSummary:
In her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2021, guest editor Jesmyn Ward says that the best fiction offers the reader a "sense of repair." The stories in this year's...
Genre: Canadian fiction, Short stories -
Author: Neuhaus, NeleSummary:
The body of a ninety-two-year-old Holocaust survivor is found shot to death in his house near Frankfurt. A five-digit number is scrawled in blood at the scene. The autopsy reveals an old tattoo on...
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Author: Neuhaus, NeleSummary:
After the brutal murder of a sixteen-year-old girl no one will identify, a popular television reporter is attacked, raped, and locked in the trunk of her car, perhaps because of her investigations...
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Author: Neuhaus, NeleSummary:
On a rainy November day, police detectives Pia Kirchhoff and Oliver von Bodenstein are summoned to a mysterious traffic accident: a woman has fallen from a pedestrian bridge onto a car driving...
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Author: Farkas, AndrewSummary:
Andrew Farkas reports on his bold explorations of the indoors--the waiting rooms, kitchens, malls, bars, theaters, roadside motel rooms, and other places that feature temperature control,...
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Author: Golden, ChristopherSummary:
A documentary film crew in Siberia encounters otherworldly beasts and inexplicable phenomena along a highway built over a massive graveyard, as if the ghosts of Stalin's victims were haunting...
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Author: MacInnes, HelenSummary:
He demanded the immediate dispatch of two suitably trained operatives to Salzburg. Extreme measures might be necessary. In 1945, with their thousand-year empire falling around them and the Allies...
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Author: Deaver, JefferySummary:
For years Frederick Lowell has quietly managed the estate of the revered novelist Edward Goodwin. Though the author of only one novel, that book has gone on to sell hundreds of millions of copies...
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Author: Smil, VaclavSummary:
The modern world was created through the combination and complex interactions of five grand transitions. First, the demographic transition changed the total numbers, dynamics, structure, and...
Genre: History and geography