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I lived in france and so can you
A police raid! Unfaithful spouses! A baseball player running the wrong way around the bases! In France! Somewhere between travelogue and a ‘Dummy’s Guide to Running a Business in France’ (if there were such a thing), I Lived in France and So Can You is a serious but light-hearted exploration of ...
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The backslider
Belfast in the 1970s. Marius Moonston, age 13, is out and the streets are filled with danger and excitement.
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This old heart of mine
Merrill Joan Gerber holds the record of having sold more short stories to Redbook Magazine than any other writer. This selection of twenty-five linked tales, published in Redbook from 1964 to 1991, chronicles the passionate (domestic) adventures of Janet, Danny and their three daughters.
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Greetings from duluth: essays on destruction
Join B.J. Hollars as he takes readers on a whirlwind tour of destruction: from Fort Wayne’s almost-obliteration at the hands of Adolf Hitler, to Tuscaloosa’s 2011 tornado, and finally, to a triple lynching that occurred in Duluth in the summer of 1920. Spanning nearly a continent and a century, ...
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Garbage
Shaney Fleet is the owner of a working-class bar, and his problem is garbage. When a private hauler tries to coerce Shaney into purchasing collection services, he resists. Soon no hauler will remove his black-listed trash, and garbage that is not even his own begins to appear at his front door. U...
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Honeymoon
This exceptional book of short stories, chosen for inclusion in the prestigious Illinois Short Fiction Series, contains Gerber's powerful tale "I Don't Believe This," which won an O. Henry Award.
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The long white
The winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award, The Long White is predominantly set in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, a place where the land and weather frequently dictate one's life. In Dilworth's hands, place and character merge to create wonderfully interesting worlds and scenarios often finding ind...
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The old reactor
Moldenke is sent to the "free" prison town at Altobello with an indeterminate sentence. He has a rare bowel condition. Altobello is full of "Jellyheads" and features an old nuclear reactor on the edge of town. No one seems to remember what the reactor really is, until it's almost too late.
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The guild of saint cooper
An obscure author, drawn in by the mysterious Guild of Saint Cooper, must rewrite the history of a dying city. But the changes become greater than those he set out to make, and the story quickly unspools backward into its own alternate history a world populated by giant rhododendrons, space ali...
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A man to conjure with
Jonathan Baumbach's debut--a comic novel with tragic concerns. Peter Becker finds himself coming back after fourteen years to try to pick up his life where he had left it.
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Free agents
“Shows just how well comedy and criticism can mix with understanding. The story parodies the form and language”--Bookforum
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The heart has its reasons and its own velocity
Set in Cuba in the early aughts, The Heart Has Its Reasons and Its Own Velocity is a deeply felt debut novel steeped in miracles and motherhood, perfect for fans of Louise Erdrich and Megha Majumdar Actress Mia is adrift. Tucked away in snowy Montreal, she feels wrecked on the shoals of her own l...
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Death and so forth
With Death and So Forth, esteemed writer and editor Gordon Lish returns with a new book of scintillating short fiction. With his trademark precision, wit, and wiliness, Lish writes outside the margins and around the edges of the death, loss, and the fractiousness and fragmentation of language. De...
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Not constantinople
Fred and Virginia, two expats living in Istanbul and working at the university, come home one night to find their apartment occupied by a family of Greeks. Barred by a quirk of Turkish law from evicting them, Fred comes to a strange kind of understanding with their new squatters; he’s in Istanbu...
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Farewell transmission
In Farewell Transmission, Will McGrath guides us on a rambling quest into the enlightenment of other lives. Funny and weird, heartbreaking and galvanizing, these essays take us from Yemen to Lesotho to the Bronx and beyond. We find Caravaggio at an Arizona homeless shelter and Elvis in rural Cana...
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The return of service
Part of the Illinois Short Fiction Series, a collection of short stories.
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Come, the restorer
Goyen's fifth novel is a fable of sexuality, Texas country life in the first half of the twentieth century, religious revivalism, and the money madness and ecological destruction caused by the oil boom. The narrative is composed of the brief linked episodes and tales that are Goyen's trademark, a...
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Like a woman
Like a Woman follows Taylor, a working class white girl too tough and too tender for her own good, who helps friends, rescues strays, and carries her battered copy of Ghandi on Non-Violence everywhere she goes. She reads curled up in the sewer drain by Venice Beach under the shot-out flashing C...
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Jamestown
A group of survivors arrive in Virginia from the demolished Manhattan, planning to establish an outpost, find oil, and exploit the Indians controlling the area. Plans go awry however in both violent and humorous manners. At the heart of the story is Pocahontas, who speaks Valley Girl, Ebonics, Ol...
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You are always safe with me
In this powerful love story that takes place on a Turkish sailing vessel, Lily, a professor at a Florida college, finds herself required to be the companion of her newly widowed mother as they take a cruise along the Turkish coastline on a small sailing ketch. Expecting to endure, though not enj...
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And then the gray heaven
RE Katz’s And Then the Gray Heaven centers on Jules, whose partner B has recently died in a freak accident. Confronting the red tape of the hospital, the dissociation and cruelty of B’s family, and the unimaginable void now at the center of their lives, Jules and new friend Theo embark on a road ...
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Preparations for search
Preparations for Search was a section removed from the classic Women and Men that stands alone as a great short work of fiction.
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Whipple's castle
Set in Williams' fictional city of Leah, New Hampshire, Whipple's Castle is a mansion within the town where the Whipple family resides--husband, wife, three sons and a daughter, each with their own worries and dilemmas. Williams takes a close look at the darker side of small-town life through thi...
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Seasons smooth & unkempt
A debut collection of poetry from Henry Williams.
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A tendency to be gone
"Ryder is a vigilance, a pervigilance, a field guide with scruples on every page." - Gordon Lish
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The body in four parts
A non-linear passion play; an eloquent demand for a return to the roots of our being, our most ancient and elemental natureair, earth, fire, water.
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The seeker
It is 1925 and India’s struggle for independence is in disarray, impeded by factionalism among its leaders and rising incidents of unrest across the country. Meanwhile, having withdrawn himself from active politics, Mahatma Gandhi is in an ashram immersed in what he considers the most important u...
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Tiny ladies
Tiny Ladies is a stark and suspenseful novel about remorse, the ironies of intervention and the terrible courage it sometimes takes to start again.
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Origins of the universe and what it all means: a memoir
In her debut memoir, Carole Firstman traces her strained relationship with her eccentric and distant father, a gifted biology professor whose research on scorpions may have contributed to the evolutionary theories of Stephen Jay Gould. Through unexpected formsfrom footnotes and diagrams to start...
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The art of knock
In the three-part title story of The Art of the Knock, a travelling salesman knocks with inventive delight on the stubborn, closed doors of his prospective customerspeople who find themselves on the wrong side of their own invisible doors. In the face of their mutual solitudes, they devise odd,...
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Before the mango ripens
In Rabata, everyone has secrets—especially since the arrival of the white American missionaries.Twenty-year-old Jummai is a beautiful and unassuming house girl whose dreams of escaping her home life are disrupted when an unexpected pregnancy forces her to hide her lover's identity. Tebeya, an amb...
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Equipment for lovers
Winner of the 2025 Dzanc Short Story Collection Prize, Equipment for Lovers explores strangers and strangeness in twelve intimate, uncanny stories perfect for fans of Don DeLillo and Torrey Peters A self-help group for people with fears of the apocalypse meets in an abandoned warehouse, where one...
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Now molly knows
Now Molly Knows is a novel about a girl's sexual discovery, from early teens and high school through college and on up into marriage. It's set in the American fifties.
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In the devil's territory
Debut collection from highly regarded story and non-fiction author.
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Kamby bolongo mean river
What love and telephones do to the heart. Lopez dazzles, a novel that exposes the core.
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Time and place
The time is 1952. The place is a dusty western hamlet called Fort Appelby, a quiet town with old memories—of Indian raids and land grabs, or passions and scandal—memories that still haunt the living. 1952 is the year the polio epidemic sweeping America finally reaches this tiny town—destroying li...
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Ecstasy
The story of a young Brahmin growth into a guru--traveling with him from the time of his youth, through life in a monastery and up to becoming a mentor to another young boy.
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Knuckleheads
These stories explore generational intersections - teens making, and adults looking back on, choices that define their lives.
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The downtown jews: portraits of an immigrant generation
The Downtown Jews focuses generally on the political culture of the Lower East Side around the turn of the century and more specifically on the thoughts, life, and writings of Abraham Cahan, the editor of the Jewish Daily Forward.
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You, or the invention of memory
Baumbach's well received post-modern story of a not easily defined relationship with a complex and variable woman known as You.
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The loved ones
Winner of the Dzanc Nonfiction Prize, The Loved Ones presents an intimate portrait of family grief, for fans of Maggie Nelson’s Jane: A Murder and Kristin Prevallet’s I, AfterlifeThere are so many ways to bury the dead. In an autobiographical series of essays, The Loved Ones explores the deaths o...
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Judge
When beloved Judge William Dupree dies at eighty-two, he leaves his widow, two adult sons, and a more than devoted clerk to mourn him. The Judge-gentle, reserved, henpecked, and a lifelong Republican-was appointed to the United States District Court by Richard Nixon. But once on the bench, he inv...
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It takes a worried man
The narrative interweaves history, myth, rumor, and news with the experiences of a young girl living in the flatness of South Florida. Like Grace Paley's narrators, she is pensive and eager, hungry for experience but restrained. Into the sphere of her regard come a Ted Bundy reject, the God Osiri...
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Pagan babies
From the fleeting optimism of Kennedy’s Camelot to the fearsome specter of the age of AIDS, this impressive, powerfully written debut novel follows the lives of two young people and their stormy relationship that parallels the moral confusion of America over the next thirty years.
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