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  • Dirty Love
    Dirty Love
    Andre Dubus III
    Paperback: 06/10/2014
     
    In this heartbreakingly beautiful book of disillusioned intimacy and persistent yearning, beloved and ...
  • Blasphemy
    Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories
    Sherman Alexie
    Paperback: 10/08/2013
     
    An indispensable collection of new and classic stories, Blasphemy reminds us, on every thrilling page, why ...
  • Say You're One of Them
    Say You're One of Them
    Uwem Akpan
    Paperback: 07/15/2009
     
    Uwem Akpan's stunning stories humanize the perils of poverty and violence so piercingly that few readers will ...
  • St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
    St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves: Stories
    Karen Russell
    Paperback: 08/14/2007
     
    A collection of ten short stories, beautifully written and exuberantly imagined, with an emotional precision...
  • Sightseeing
    Sightseeing: Short Stories
    Rattawut Lapcharoensap
    Paperback: 01/28/2005
     
    A glorious fiction debut written with exceptional acuity by an award-winning twenty-five-year-old Thai-...
  • A Brief History of The Flood
    A Brief History of The Flood
    Jean Harfenist
    Paperback: 07/01/2003
     
    In this funny, sad and somehow good natured book Jean Harfenist explores the interface between love and ...
  • Local Girls
    Local Girls
    Alice Hoffman
    Paperback: 05/01/2000
     
    Hoffman evokes the world of the Samuelsons, a family torn apart by tragedy and divorce in a world of bad ...

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