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Featuring kleptomaniacs, convicts, roof-walkers and homicidal hippies, this work is populated with lives both ordinary and extraordinary. It tells stories that pull at the sinews of the strange until the strangeness shapes itself into something familiar. At the same time, they mould the day-to-day into something new and wholly unexpected.

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A collection of eight linked stories, set in Vancouver's West End, all funny, and all taking place at Christmastime. The stories deal with the seasonal tug-of-war between expectation and disappointment that always occurs as the light begins to deepen.

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If I Were the Ocean, Id Carry You Home, Pete Hsus gripping and energetic debut, tells the stories of children and young people navigating a world not made for them, where the presence of death and violence is found everywhere: Vegas casinos, birthday parties, church services, and sunny days at the beach.

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Noted for its literary legacy, Ireland has been a top travel destination. This collection of short stories features some of Ireland's greatest writers as engaging tour guides for those who would like to better understand the prodigious literary heritage of an island which has produced the likes of James Joyce, Sean O'Faolain, and Edna O'Brien.

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From Kenya to Quebec, these wry and unconventional stories explore the different ways we're haunted.

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Lisa Blower celebrates her characters with stories that they wouldn't want told. She makes the bleak funny, in a voice reminiscent of Alan Bennett, and strikes a new chord in regional and working-class fiction.

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A collection of nine short stories connected by clumsy encounters, personal impotence, and the allure of transgression.

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The best new African writers - winner and shortlisted stories from the continent's leading literary award.

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A collection of stories by Pakistan's women writers - including Jamila Hashmi, Mumtaz Shirin, and Fahmida Riaz. Here, these writers mirror the events of their convoluted history - nationalism and independence, wars with India, the creation of Bangladesh, the ethnic conflicts in Karachi.

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KARMAGEDDON: Mostly True Short Stories is a collection of tales that focus on the ironies of life. These stories contain factual information that often take unexpected and humorous twists and turns through the human psyche and beyond.

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A hardboiled novel of deception and betrayal in 1960s Israel, where tough men and desperate women all play a role.

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Last Pages brings together some of the most thought-provoking and engaging works of Oscar Mandel, a noted Belgian-American playwrite, essayist, poet, fiction writer, and scholar. Comprising essays, a novella, a one-act play, and poetry, Last Pages dances through Mandel's archives with wit, sharp intelligence, and sometimes controversy, as with his essay on Judaism, "To be or not be a Jew."

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From the Best Translated Book Awardwinning author, a novel of revenge, insanity, lies, and Hitler.

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Timely, Tarkovskian collection of stories by Sakharov Peace Prize-winning Ukrainian film director whose political imprisonment in Russia since 2014 is an international cause celebre

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A suite of dark, unflinching elegies for a working-class city and community driven to the brink.