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Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction
by Sheree R. Thomas
A team of editors present an anthology showcasing over 30 original stories that showcase fantasy and science fiction from Africa, including contributions by Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and Zelda Knight.
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The Most
by Jessica Anthony
In 1957, Kathleen, a college tennis champion-turned-Delaware housewife, instead of going to church with her husband and boys, takes a dip in the swimming pool of their apartment complex and refuses to come out, in this tightly wound, consuming story set over the course of eight hours.
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Normal Rules Don't Apply: Short Stories
by Kate Atkinson
A dazzling collection of eleven interconnected stories from the bestselling, award-winning author of Shrines of Gaiety and Life After Life, with everything that readers love about her novels–the inventiveness, the verbal felicity, the sharp observations on human nature, and the deeply satisfying emotional wallop. In this brilliant volume, nothing is quite as it seems. We meet a queen who makes a bargain she cannot keep; a secretary who watches over the life she has just left; a lost man who bets on a horse that may–or may not–have spoken to him. Witty and wise, with subtle connections between the stories, Normal Rules Don't Apply is a startling and funny feast for the imagination, stories with the depth and bite to create their own fully-formed worlds.
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Harbor Lights: Stories
by James Lee Burke
These eight stories move from the marshlands on the Gulf of Mexico to the sweeping plains of Colorado to prisons, saloons, and trailer parks across the South, weaving together love, friendship, violence, survival, and revenge. A boy and his father watch a German submarine sink an oil tanker as evil forces in the disguise of federal agents try to ruin their family. A girl is beaten up outside a bar as her university-professor father navigates new love and threats from a group of neo-Nazis. A pair of undercover union organizers are hired to break colts for a Hollywood actor, whose "Western hero" facade hides darkness. An oil rig worker witnesses a horrific attack on a local village while on a job in South America and seeks justice through one final act of bravery. With his nuanced characters, lyrical prose, and ability to write shocking violence in the most evocative settings, James Lee Burke's singular skills are on display in this superb anthology.
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The Body Farm: Stories
by Abby Geni
This insightful and empathetic collection of eleven stories takes us into the lives and experiences of others to scrutinize the physical self: birth, childhood, transition, mental health, trauma, aging, illness, love, sex, and death.
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Sparring Partners
by John Grisham
The #1 New York Times best-selling author–and master of the legal thriller–presents his first collection of novellas, including the title story in which two successful young lawyers–and brothers–who hate each other run their firm into the ground and only one person can decide their fate.
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Games and Rituals: Stories
by Katherine Heiny
The games and rituals performed by Katherine Heiny's characters range from mischievous to tender: In "Bridesmaid, Revisited," Marlee, suffering from a laundry and life crisis, wears a massive bridesmaid's dress to work. In "Twist and Shout," Erica's elderly father mistakes his four-thousand-dollar hearing aid for a cashew and eats it. In "Turn Back, Turn Back," a bedtime story coupled with a receipt for a Starbucks babyccino reveal a struggling actor's deception. And in "561," Charlene pays the true price of infidelity and is forced to help her husband's ex-wife move out of the family home. ("It's like you're North Korea and South Korea... But would North Korea help South Korea move?") From one of our most celebrated writers, our bard of waking up in the wrong bed, wearing the wrong shoes, late for the wrong job, but loved by the right people, Heiny has delivered a work of glorious humor and immense kindness.
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Dragon Palace
by Hiromi Kawakami
From the bestselling author of Strange Weather in Tokyo comes this otherworldly collection of eight stories, each a masterpiece of transformation, infused with humor, sex, and the universal search for love and beauty–in a world where the laws of time and space, and even species boundaries, don’t apply.
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Seasonal Work: Stories
by Laura Lippman
In a suspenseful collection of stories featuring fierce women–including one never-before-published novella–New York Times bestseller Laura Lippman showcases why she is one of today's top crime writers.
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Table for Two: Fictions
by Amor Towles
The New York Times best-selling author shares six stories based in New York City, which consider the fateful consequences that can spring from brief encounters, and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood, told from seven different viewpoints, which stars the indomitable Evelyn Ross.
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Love and Other Flight Delays
by Denise Williams
Love takes flight in three connected novellas set at an airport, from the acclaimed author of The Fastest Way to Fall. An airport pet groomer meets her frequent-flier crush and ends up in a fake-dating situation with a professional risk assessor who moonlights as a romance author. Two strangers share a romantic night together only to discover months later that they're professional rivals about to embark on an extended business trip together in this grumpy-meets-sunshine romance novella. Two best friends have one week to return a lost love letter found in a candy store at the airport–and work up the courage to confess the deep feelings between them–before one of them leaves the country.
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