'Exhilarating, like a swift ride through river rapids with a spunky, sexy gal handling the oars.'—Washington Post Book World In Pam Houston's critically acclaimed collection of strong, shrewd, and very funny stories, we meet sma...

Robert Olen Butler served as a translator in Vietnam. In A GOOD SCENT FROM A STRANGE MOUNTAIN, he draws on his experience with that country to write about about postwar Vietnamese TmigrTs in New Orleans, and the Americans whose lives ...

More diabolical tales of suspense. More nerve-jangling shocks.'The grand master of the plot twist' (Booklist) is back.... New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver, who crafted first-rate thrills in the collected stories of Twi...

The Lottery, one of the most terrifying stories written in this century, created a sensation when it was first published in The New Yorker. 'Power and haunting,' and 'nights of unrest' were typical reader responses. This collection, t...

By the #1 bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun, Bella Tuscany and In Tuscany, Swan is a haunting novel set in the deep South -- a resonant tale of long-buried family secrets and mysteries brought suddenly to light.In her celebra...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie burst onto the literary scene with her remarkable debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, which critics hailed as "one of the best novels to come out of Africa in years" (Baltimore Sun), with "prose as lu...

In conventional fiction, war heroes return home minus an arm or a leg--or, to take Hemingway's worst-case scenario, the family jewels. In Aimee Bender's deeply unconventional collection, however, an even more suggestive body part goe...

This collection brings together Dahl's finest work, illustrating his genius for the horrific and grotesque which is unparalleled. 'Dahl has the mastery of plot and characters possessed by great writers of the past, along with a wildne...

With the same wit and sensitivity that have come to characterize her highly praised and beloved novels Animal Dreams and The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver gives us a rich and emotionally resonant collection of twelve stories. Spreadi...

Winner of the National Book AwardThe publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O'Connor's monumental contribution to American fiction. There are thirty-one stories here in all, including twelve that do not a...

A San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Tribune Best Book of the YearIn these ten glittering stories, debut author Karen Russell takes us to the ghostly and magical swamps of the Florida Everglades. Here wolf-like gi...

A series of stories whose shared themes of loss, discovery, and connections with others bind them together as a unified whole. The settings, mostly urban, include a newspaper office, a 1950s coffeehouse, and menacing, wild landscapes....

Flannery O'Connor was working on Everything That Rises Must Converge at the time of her death. This collection is an exquisite legacy from a genius of the American short story, in which she scrutinizes territory familiar to her reader...

"The Corn Maiden" is the gut-wrenching story of Marissa, a beautiful and sweet, but somewhat slow, eleven-year-old girl with hair the color of corn silk. Her single mother comes home one night to find her missing and panics,...

Nine brave, wise, and spellbinding stories make up this award-winning debut. In 'When She is Old and I Am Famous' a young woman confronts the inscrutable power of her cousin's beauty. In 'Note to Sixth-Grade Self' a band of popular gi...

In this haunting, bracing new collection, Dan Chaon shares stories of men, women, and children who live far outside the American Dream, while wondering which decision, which path, or which accident brought them to this place. Chaon mi...

Incest is a chilling tale of sexual experimentation and philosophical exploration carried to its most logical—and devastating—extreme. Foreword by Janet Street–Porter. Marquis de Sade’s semi–autobiograph...

A hilarious re-imagining of the heroes of the Old Testament for a modern world—and the neurotic, demanding reader.In the beginning...there was humor. Sure, it's the foundation for much of Western morality and the cornerstone of worl...

A New York Times Notable BookA Washington Post Notable Work of FictionA Best Book of the Year: The Atlantic, NPR, Vogue, AV ClubIn story after story in this brilliant new collection, Alice Munro pinpoints the moment a person is foreve...

In this moving collection of short stories, James Lee Burke elegantly marries his flair for gripping storytelling with his lyrical writing style and complex, fascinating character portraits. The backdrop of the hurricane-ravaged Gulf ...

In nine strikingly perceptive stories set miles and decades apart, Laura Furman mines the intricate, elusive lives of mothers and daughters—and of women who long for someone to nurture. Meet Rachel, a young girl desperate for her mo...

Alice Munro mines her rich family background, melding it with her own experiences and the transforming power of her brilliant imagination, to create perhaps her most powerful and personal collection yet.A young boy, taken to Edinburg...

Love, in its many forms and complexities, weaves through this collection by Amy Bloom, the New York Times bestselling author of Away. Bloom's astonishing and astute stories illuminate the mysteries of passion, family, and friendship. ...

These twenty-two short stories are measured out with a cup of normal and a pound of the fantastic.  From dark fairytales to alien skies, Monk's stories blend haunting yesterdays, forgotten  todays and twisted tomorrows wherein: ....

"Rumpole is one of the immortals of mystery fiction." -San Francisco Chronicle Of the late Sir John Mortimer's many beloved characters, it is widely agreed that Horace Rumpole was his greatest fictional creation. Here, coll...

With the same deadpan mania and genius for dislocation that he brought to his internationally acclaimed novels A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami makes this collection of stories a ...

Experience the exciting breadth of #1 New York Times bestselling author James Rollins’s wild imagination and adventurous spirit in this anthology of his short masterworks, including a new full-length novella featuring Captain Tu...

A rising literary star debuts with twelve wry, poignant stories of love, hope, and transformation. In 'Some People Must Really Fall In Love,' an assistant professor takes halting steps into the awkward, adult world of office politics ...

Presents a new edition of the acclaimed collection of stories, first published in 1987, that captures the lives and destinies of a variety of complex and eccentric characters, including children, rapists, businessmen, and adulterers w...

Three novellas include 'The Courage Consort,' in which an a cappella ensemble is torn by conflicting artistic temperaments and sexual needs; 'The Hundred and Ninety-Nine Steps,' in which a lonely woman unearths clues to a long-hidden ...