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  • The King Is Always Above the People
    The King Is Always Above the People: Stories
    Daniel Alarcon
    Paperback: 10/30/2018
     
    A slyly political collection of stories about immigration, broken dreams, Los Angeles gang members, Latin ...
  • What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky
    What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky: Stories
    Lesley Nneka Arimah
    Paperback: 04/03/2018
     
    A dazzlingly accomplished debut collection explores the ties that bind parents and children, husbands and ...
  • The Love Object
    The Love Object: Selected Stories
    Edna O'Brien
    Paperback: 02/07/2017
     
    Collected here for the first time are stories spanning five decades of writing by the "short story master." (...
  • Fortune Smiles
    Fortune Smiles: Stories
    Adam Johnson
    Paperback: 10/04/2016
     
    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his acclaimed and bestselling novel The Orphan Master's Son, Adam Johnson is ...
  • Dog Run Moon
    Dog Run Moon: Stories
    Callan Wink
    Hardcover: 02/09/2016
     
    In the tradition of Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, and Kent Haruf comes a dazzling debut story collection by a ...
  • You Should Pity Us Instead
    You Should Pity Us Instead
    Amy Gustine
    Paperback: 02/09/2016
     
    A debut collection of short stories which sympathetically explores some of the toughest dilemmas we face in ...
  • The Wonder Garden
    The Wonder Garden
    Lauren Acampora
    Paperback: 02/09/2016
     
    Deliciously creepy and masterfully complex The Wonder Garden heralds the arrival of a phenomenal new talent in...

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