A man finds God and finally wants to father a child-- only his wife is now forty-three years old. A coach's son discovers his sexuality on the football field. A roommate's bizarre secret liberates a repressed young woman. From...
Short stories, English
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Author:Donoghue, EmmaSummary: -
Author:Page, KathySummary:The stories in The Two of Us focus on pairs: intense one-on-one relationships and encounters. Characters undergo genetic testing, garden, overeat, starve themselves, consider suicide, travel, have their hair cut, fall pregnant, all...
- Author:Gaiman, NeilSummary:
This collection spans Gaiman's career to date.
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Author:Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, Paget, SidneySummary:The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of short stories, including the adventures of The Silver Blaze, The Musgrave Ritual, and The Final Problem. This collection not only introduces the term "smoking gun", it also introduces...
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Author:Kipling, RudyardSummary:Britain is still an Empire and India still her loyal subject when Carnehan and Dravot set out for the wild northern passes "to be kings."
- Author:Christie, AgathaSummary:
From the Queen of Suspense, an all-new collection of her spookiest and most sinister stories, including an Agatha Christie story never before published in the USA, The Wife of Kenite! A''Reading a perfectly plotted Agatha...
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Author:Stevenson, Robert LouisSummary:Presents a Hawaiian couple who find themselves saddled with a genie in a bottle who is no bargain; and three other supernatural tales: Markheim; Thrawn Janet; and Olalla.
- Author:Stevenson, Robert LouisSummary:
In 1815 in Scotland, having realized that the corpses he and his peers examine in anatomy class are stolen from fresh graves, a young medical student finds that he must procure the next specimen; and The isle of voices, and The waif...
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Fifteen stories explore the darkness of space and the human heart. Turns out, greed and passion are universal truths, and leaving Earth does not mean leaving behind humanity.
- Author:Mantel, HilarySummary:
Stories of dislocation and family fracture, of whimsical infidelities and sudden deaths with sinister causes, brilliantly unsettle the reader in that unmistakably Mantel way.
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Author:Guenther, FayeSummary:Certain Women meets The Mars Room in this debut collection featuring three pairs of stories.
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Author:Wilde, OscarSummary:Does the ghost of Sir Simon de Canterville really exist? And if he does, will he meet his match in the Otis family? Or will the rambunctious Otis children be the very death of him? The answers lie in these witty, hilarious tales.
- Author:Hall, Sarah, Hobbs, PeterSummary:
“What else is there?” — Alice Munro, on why so much of her work deals with the twin themes of sex and death. The drive for life — for survival and reproduction — and the drive for death — for violence and self-destruction — are the two...
- 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.
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Author:Page, KathySummary:The rubble of an ancient civilization. A village in a valley from which no one comes or goes. A forest of mother-trees, whispering to each other through their roots; a lakeside lighthouse where a girl slips into human skin as lightly as...
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A darkly luminous new anthology collecting the most terrifying horror stories by renowned female authors, presenting anew these forgotten classics to the modern reader.
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Author:Athill, DianaSummary:"I can remember in detail being hit by my first story one January morning in 1958." So begins literary legend Diana Athill in the preface to Midsummer Night in the Workhouse, a long-overdue collection of her short fiction, stories which...
- Author:PERRIAM, WendySummary:
SHORT STORIES. A girl with a crippling pea-phobia, a woman driven to murderous rage in an Anger Management Workshop, a wife torn between her dashing artist-lover and her uptight accountant-husband - these are some of the characters in...
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Author:Lahiri, JhumpaSummary:Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Navigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited and the baffling new world, the characters in Jhumpa Lahiri's elegant, touching stories seek love beyond the barriers of cultures and generations....
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Author:Constantine, DavidSummary:David Constantine's short fiction is a revelation. Gorgeous and primally resonant, it belongs alongside the best of the last century, including the works of Flannery O'Connor, Alice Munro, and Thomas Mann. Already regarded as one of the...
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