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Short Stories
- Author:London, Jack, Stevenson, Robert Louis, Kipling, RudyardSummary:
- Author:ASIMOV, IsaacSummary:
The Great Sherlock, Dr. Watson and one of Holmes' distant cousins, plus various spiritual descendants, enjoy traditional, extraterrestrial and alien adventures.
- Author:Walbert, KateSummary:
From Kate Walbert, the highly acclaimed, National Book Award nominee, comes a dazzling, career-spanning collection of new and selected stories.In these twelve deft, acutely funny and often heartbreaking stories, Kate Walbert delves into...
- Author:WATSON, IanSummary:
A collection of science fiction and fantasy short stories from a master of the genre.
- Author:Willard, NancySummary:
The bedroom wallpaper is dotted with islands, shepherds, and small boats. One afternoon, Anatole gets inside the wallpaper and his fantastical adventures begin.
- Author:MUNRO, AliceSummary:
At the centre of Runaway are three stories connected into one marvellously rich, long narrative, about Juliet - who escapes from teaching at a girls' school into a wild and passionate love match; then returns to the home of her...
- Author:Lopez, Barry HolstunSummary:
An acclaimed nature writer evokes and celebrates the forces, settings, rituals, movements, and imperatives of a river, as it calls us back to unity with the natural world.
- Author:Scarry, RichardSummary:
Ace detectives Sam Cat and Dudley Pig take on three mysteries involving stolen pies, food theft in a supermarket, and a stolen necklace on a cruise ship.
- Author:Ogawa, YōkoSummary:
An aspiring writer moves into a new apartment and discovers that her landlady has murdered her husband. Elsewhere, an accomplished surgeon is approached by a cabaret singer, whose beautiful appearance belies the grotesque condition of...
- Author:WESTAWAY, JaneSummary:
Snapshots of life in the 1990s. Kelly wants to live in Paris, Marama wants to live in Auckland, Jeany wants to live anywhere but with her father. Mariah wants to keep her cat, Hamish wants to keep a dog, Lou just wants to keep her...
- Author:Burgess, TonySummary:
Winner, 2011 ReLit Award. From the author of Pontypool Changes Everything,
Ravenna Gets is a new collection of “wheeled” stories that continue the author’s exploration of “apocalypse fiction.” In a single convulsion of homicide,...
- Author:Queen, EllerySummary:
This rare volume is a collection of some of Queen's best, containing three novelettes and two short stories. The stories include "The Death of Don Juan," "The Wrightsville Heirs," and more.
- Author:Worrell, P. J.Summary:
In these stories, readers will not find heartwarming sentimentality, but mature literary prose with surprising twists and indeterminate endings, and women of intense substance and spirit. P. J. Worrell understands girls who dream of...
- Author:THACKER, BrianSummary:
Whether you're an explorer or tourist, the journey often proves to be more exciting than the place your arrive at. Not to mention more alarming, entertaining, spectacular, dangerous or farcical. All of which is closely connected to...
- Author:Rendell, RuthSummary:
Internationally celebrated novelist Ruth Rendell offers a collection of unforgettable stories evocative of Edgar Allan Poe, Stephen King, and other masters of the chilling touch.
- Author:Macpherson, MargaretSummary:
A small-town Bill Clinton look-alike agonizes over whether to accept a tempting offer from the CIA; an obese young woman finds love in a prairie cafe; a lonely child encounters a supernatural being; a teenage girl struggles with a...
- Author:FORSYTH, FrederickSummary:
Ten highly entertaining short stories, each with a twist in the tail to surprise and delight.
- Author:Williams, JoySummary:
Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Joy Williams has a one-of-a-kind gift for capturing both the absurdity and the darkness of everyday life. In Ninety-Nine Stories of God, she takes on one of mankind's most confounding...
- Author:Perrotta, TomSummary:
The new collection from the New York Times bestselling author of The Leftovers and Little Children, featuring stories focusing on Perrotta's familiar suburban nuclear families. Tom Perrotta’s first book, Bad Haircut, consisted of...
- Author:PATRICK, WilliamSummary:
It's over 100 years since men took to the air and since then there have been many accounts of strange happenings. This is a selection of short stories which explore these mysteries.