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Stories
by Karen Russell
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by Caleb Johnson
Published May 2019
Read ReviewsTreeborne is a celebration and a reminder: of how the past gets mixed up in thoughts of the future; of how home is a story as much as a place.
by Ottessa Moshfegh
Published Dec 2017
Read ReviewsAn electrifying first collection from one of the most exciting short story writers of our time.
by Violet Kupersmith
Published Feb 2015
Read ReviewsThese stories - based on traditional Vietnamese tales - blends the old world and the new with fantastical, chilling, and original explorations of the ghosts that continue to haunt us: those of the Vietnam War.
by Marisha Pessl
Published Jul 2014
Read ReviewsBrilliant, haunting, breathtakingly suspenseful, Night Film is a superb literary thriller by the New York Times bestselling author of the blockbuster debut Special Topics in Calamity Physics.
by Helene Wecker
Published Jan 2014
Read ReviewsA chance meeting between mythical beings takes readers on a dazzling journey through cultures in turn-of-the-century New York.
by Lydia Millet
Published Nov 2013
Read ReviewsFunny and heartbreaking, Magnificence is the story of a woman emerging from the sudden dissolution of her family.
by Ann Napolitano
Published Jun 2012
Read ReviewsHeartbreakingly beautiful and inescapably human, ordinary and extraordinary people chart their own courses in life. In the aftermath of one tragic afternoon, they are all forced to look at themselves and face up to the observation that the truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
The Little Giant of Aberdeen County
by Tiffany Baker
Published Jan 2010
Read ReviewsA multi-generational tale with many dark aspects and a touch of witchcraft, The Little Giant of Aberdeen County is the story of Truly - a girl grown massive due to a pituitary problem. Reviled and brought up in poverty, Truly finds her calling and a future that none expected.
by Rebecca Stott
Published Jun 2008
Read ReviewsFilled with evocative descriptions of Cambridge, past and present, of seventeenth-century glassmaking, alchemy, the Great Plague, and Newtons scientific innovations, Ghostwalk centers around a real historical mystery that Rebecca Stott has uncovered involving Newtons alchemy.
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