Short Stories (single Author)

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Gossip Girl

Cecily Von Ziegesar

When the beautiful Serena van der Woodsen returns to Spenford after mysteriously getting kicked out of boarding school, the gossip flies among the privileged coeds at the Upper East Side private high school. A first novel. Original.

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Published: Oct 2003

This Is How You Lose Her

Junot Diaz

Pulitzer Prize-winner Junot Díaz's first book, Drown, established him as a major new writer with "the dispassionate eye of a journalist and the tongue of a poet" (Newsweek). His first novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar...

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Published: Sep 2013

Road Rage: Includes 'Duel' and 'Throt...

Joe Hill

Road Rage unites Richard Matheson's classic Duel and the contemporary work it inspired—two power-packed short stories by three of the genre's most acclaimed authors. Duel, an unforgettable tale about a driver menaced by a semi truc...

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2009

Because They Wanted to: Stories

Mary Gaitskill

Reading a Mary Gaitskill short story is like getting into a no-holds-barred fight: mean, raw, and dangerous. She's fond of portraying characters who seem strangely comfortable living in emotional extremity. She never takes the safe ro...

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Published: Feb 1998

All Aunt Hagar's Children: Selected S...

Edward P. Jones

In fourteen sublime stories, the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Known World shows that his grasp of the human condition is firmer than ever. Returning to the city that inspired his first prizewinning book, Los...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2006

Tell Tale: Stories

Jeffrey Archer

Gripping short stories from master storyteller and #1 New York Times bestseller Jeffrey Archer.Nearly a decade after his last volume of short stories was published, Jeffrey Archer returns with his eagerly-awaited, brand-new collection...

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Published: Oct 2018

20th Century Ghosts

Joe Hill

Imogene is young, beautiful . . . and dead, waiting in the Rosebud Theater one afternoon in 1945. . . . Francis was human once, but now he's an eight-foot-tall locust, and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing...

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Published: Sep 2008

Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Love...

Alice Munro

A new collection of short fiction by the author of The Love of a Good Woman explores the complex mysteries of human relationships and emotions in stories about a housekeeper entering old-maidhood whose life is transformed by two teena...

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Published: Oct 2002

Mary and O'Neil

Justin Cronin

Mary and O'Neil frequently marveled at how, of all the lives they might have led, they had somehow found this one together. When they met at the Philadelphia high school where they'd come to teach, each had suffered a profound loss th...

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Published: Aug 2005

The Dark Tower and Other Stories

C. S. Lewis

A collection of Lewis's complete shorter fiction, including two previously unpublished works, "The Dark Tower" and "The Man Born Blind." Edited and with a Preface by Walter Hooper.

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Published: Nov 2002

Knockin' Boots

Tracy Price-Thompson

An erotic tale of love, lust, and fantasy in uniform follows the passionate adventures of Kevin Lawson, an Army sergeant with an addiction to sexual adventure; his wife Fancy, a woman confronting the truth about her husband; Emile Pin...

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Published: Oct 2005

And Thereby Hangs a Tale

Jeffrey Archer

Millions of readers around the world have relished Jeffrey Archer's short stories. Taking inspiration from his favorite short story writers - F. Scott Fitzgerald, Maupassant, H. H. Munro, W. Somerset Maugham and O. Henry - Jeffrey Arc...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2010

Once Upon a Time, There Was You

Elizabeth Berg

From the beloved New York Times bestselling author of Home Safe and The Last Time I Saw You comes a beautiful and moving novel about a man and woman, long divorced, who rediscover the power of love and family in the midst of an unthin...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2011

Bagombo Snuff Box

Kurt Vonnegut

From out of the blue, here's a new collection of Vonnegut fiction--his first magazine stories from the 1950s in book form at last, with some charming reminiscences (and three new endings for old stories) by the author. Vonnegut says t...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jun 2007

Moral Disorder

Margaret Eleanor Atwood

Eleven linked stories tell a woman's life story in MORAL DISORDER, a beguiling collection by the savagely talented Margaret Atwood. In stories ranging from childhood in the 1930s until old age in the 21st century, Atwood traces the mi...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2006

Pilgrims

Elizabeth Gilbert

Gilbert's spry stories roam from Wyoming to New York City, from Minnesota to Texas. Cowboys, strippers, magicians--her characters are 'everyday people whose...rich exterior lives mask simple, if brave, hopes and dreams' (Detroit Free ...

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Published: Apr 2008

Cat O'Nine Tales

Jeffrey Archer

Cat ONine Tales is the fifth collection of irresistible short stories from the master storyteller. Ingeniously plotted, with richly drawn characters and Jeffrey Archers trademark of deliciously unexpected conclusions, some of these th...

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Published: Jun 2007

Mothers and Sons

Colm Toibin

Each of the nine stories in this beautifully written, intensely intimate collection centers on a transformative moment that alters the delicate balance of power between mother and son, or changes the way they perceive one another. Wit...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 2008

Wild Child: and Other Stories

T. Coraghessan Boyle

The fourteen stories in this rich new collection display T.C. Boyle s astonishing range and imaginative muscle. Nature is the dominant player in many of these stories, whether in the form of a catastrophic mudslide that allows a cynic...

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Published: Jan 2010

A Quiver Full of Arrows

Jeffrey Archer

From London to China, and New York to Nigeria, Jeffrey Archer takes the reader on a tour of ancient heirlooms and modern romance, of cutthroat business and kindly strangers, of lives lived in the realms of power and lives freed from t...

Abridged CD
Published: Feb 2006

Tenth of December: Stories

George Saunders

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYPeople • The New York Times Magazine • NPR • Entertainment Weekly • New Yo...

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Published: Jan 2014

The Best American Short Stories 2001

Barbara Kingsolver

This year's Best American Short Stories is edited by the critically acclaimed and best-selling author Barbara Kingsolver, whose latest book is Prodigal Summer. Kingsolver's selections for The Best American Short Stories 2001 showcase ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2001

Stone Mattress: Nine Tales

Margaret Atwood

A collection of highly imaginative short pieces that speak to our times with deadly accuracy. Vintage Atwood creativity, intelligence, and humor: think Alias Grace.Margaret Atwood turns to short fiction for the first time since her 2...

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Published: Jun 2015

Who Killed the Mayor?: And Other Stor...

Jeffrey Archer

Nearly a decade after his last volume of short stories was published, Jeffrey Archer returns with his eagerly-awaited audiobook collection. Tell Tale gives listeners a fascinating, exciting and sometimes poignant insight into the peop...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2017

A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected...

Lucia Berlin

Stories from a lost American classic "in the same arena as Alice Munro" (Lydia Davis) "In the field of short fiction, Lucia Berlin is one of America's best kept secrets. That's it. Flat out. No mitigating conditions.&qu...

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Published: Aug 2016

Notwithstanding

Louis De Bernieres

As the world around it marches forward, the bucolic English village of Notwithstanding remains unchanged. It is, as it always has been, a place of pubs and cricket pitches, where local eccentrics—a retired colonel who has eschewed c...

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Published: Oct 2016

Muscle Cars

Stephen G. Eoannou

The stories in Muscle Cars explore the unique and sometimes flawed relationships between men, their families, and their friends. Featuring a diverse cast of inarticulate misfits-including a compulsive body builder obsessed by the deat...

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Published: Apr 2015

The Woman Who Borrowed Memories: Sele...

Tove Jansson

An NYRB Classics Original  Tove Jansson was a master of brevity, unfolding worlds at a touch. Her art flourished in small settings, as can be seen in her bestselling novel The Summer Book and in her internationally celebrated cartoon...

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Published: Oct 2014

Charlie Martz and Other Stories CD: T...

Elmore Leonard

A collection of fifteen stories, eleven of which have never been previously published, from the early career of bestselling American master Elmore Leonard.Over his long and illustrious career, Elmore Leonard was recognized as one of t...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jun 2015

The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and R...

Alice Munro

The stories are convincingly imagined and interestingly told, with sudden shifts in time that would stop the narrative flow of a novel but which this less linear hybrid happily accommodates....Moving, hard, lucid, [these stories] thro...

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Published: May 1991
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