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Search results: The best new books - Book reviews & excerpts from exceptional short stories and essay collections.
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Ordinary Life: Stories
by Elizabeth Berg
Hardcover: Feb 2002
Paperback: 1 Jun 2003
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| In this superb collection of short stories, Berg takes us into the times in women's lives when memories and events cohere to create a sense of wholeness, understanding, and change. |
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Small Wonder
by Barbara Kingsolver
Hardcover: Apr 2002
Paperback: 1 Apr 2003
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| Sometimes grave, occasionally hilarious, and ultimately persuasive,
Small Wonder is a hopeful examination of the people we seem to be, and
what we might yet make of ourselves. |
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Flights of Love: Stories
by Bernhard Schlink
Hardcover: Oct 2001
Paperback: 1 Nov 2002
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| A collection of stories that weave themselves around the idea of love---love to seek and love to flee; love as desire, as guilt, as confusion or self-betrayal; love as habit, as affair, and as life-changing rebellion. |
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True Believer
by Virginia Euwer Wolff
Hardcover: Feb 2001
Paperback: 1 Sep 2002
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| LaVaughn is fifteen and big questions separate her from her friends. Wolff (author of Make Lemonade) unmasks the secret thoughts adolescents hold sacred and, in so doing, lets her readers know they are not alone. Ages 12+. |
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Any Small Thing Can Save You: A Bestiary
by Christina Adam
Hardcover: Nov 2001
Paperback: 1 Sep 2002
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| Like the richest classical paintings, these 26 short stories explore the surprises and beauty of the natural world. Read a complete short story now. Great gift! |
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Dogwalker
by Arthur Bradford
Hardcover: Aug 2001
Paperback: 1 Aug 2002
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| With a pitch-perfect ear for dialogue and a sensibility as unique as his subjects, Arthur Bradford peels back a surface layer of depravity and violence to reveal a world of surprising gentleness, compassion, and innocence. |
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Come Up and See Me Sometime
by Erika Krouse
Hardcover: Jun 2001
Paperback: 1 Apr 2002
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| Potently witty, neurotic and nervy, this debut collection about sex and the single girl is smart, sharp-tongued and delightfully addictive, and marks the arrival of an irresistible new voice in fiction. |
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Perfect Recall
by Ann Beattie
Hardcover: Dec 2000
Paperback: 1 Feb 2002
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| Perfect Recall comprises Beattie's strongest work in years. It is a riveting commentary on the way we live now by a spectacular prose artist. |
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