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  • Table for Two
    Table for Two: Fictions
    Amor Towles
    Hardcover: 04/02/2024
     
    From the bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow, and Rules of Civility, a richly ...
  • Neighbors and Other Stories
    Neighbors and Other Stories
    Diane Oliver
    Hardcover: 02/13/2024
     
    A bold and haunting debut story collection that follows various characters as they navigate the day-to-day ...
  • You Glow in the Dark
    You Glow in the Dark
    Liliana Colanzi
    Paperback: 02/06/2024
     
    Introducing the Bolivian writer Liliana Colanzi, You Glow in the Dark glimmers with an unearthly light and a ...
  • Call and Response
    Call and Response: Stories
    Gothataone Moeng
    Paperback: 02/06/2024
     
    Richly drawn stories about the lives of ordinary families in contemporary Botswana as they navigate ...
  • The End of the World Is a Cul de Sac
    The End of the World Is a Cul de Sac: Stories
    Louise Kennedy
    Hardcover: 12/05/2023
     
    Brilliant, dark stories of women's lives by "a very major talent" (Joseph O'Connor, Irish Times)
  • So Late in the Day
    So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men
    Claire Keegan
    Hardcover: 11/14/2023
     
    From Booker Prize Finalist and bestselling author of "pitch perfect" (Boston Globe) Small Things Like These, ...
  • The Privilege of the Happy Ending
    The Privilege of the Happy Ending: Small, Medium, and Large Stories
    Kij Johnson
    Hardcover: 10/24/2023
     
    A surprising and exciting new collection of speculative and experimental stories that explore animal ...
  • Roman Stories
    Roman Stories
    Jhumpa Lahiri
    Hardcover: 10/10/2023
     
    The first short story collection by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author and master of the form since her ...
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