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A collection of stories that expose women's clumsy, often doomed, attempts to negotiate a smooth path through life.

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An illustrated collection of short stories concerning the town of Nowhere, USA.

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A perennial classic featuring the very best in contemporary short fiction by well-known and emerging writers alike, these stories push the boundaries of what fiction can show about the world.

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This classic collection explores the varieties of wisdom gained with age and especially those that teach us how to love, as 'in love the young are just beginners and the art of loving matures with age and experience'. Tales of curious marriages and divorce mingle with psychic experiences and curses, acts of bravery and loneliness, love and hatred.

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The stories collected in Original Bliss are concerned, appropriately, with the complexities of sex and the lack of it. She can't find it at home, with the violent, deadly Mr Brindle, but will she find it in Stuttgart when she meets the enigmatic Edward E.

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These 12 stories, filled with the sharp humor, emotional acuity, and joyful language that are sure to become Straub's hallmarks, announce the arrival of a major new talent.

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Pearl Harbor is a collection of four short stories with similar themes of a powerful, almost spiritual love between a man and a woman that transcends time, location, and background.

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Love is an emotion that encompasses the world, even the universe. Love can challenge and overcome other sentiments, but it isn't always victorious. These stories deal with personalities, some powerful and some frail, in collision. From tragedy to comedy, Pebbles in a Stream examines a broad spectrum of different kinds of love and exposes us to unique themes in each story.

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From the author of the award-winning The Great Fire, an extraordinary collection of stories about life in the Organisation - a polyglot crucible in which talent rots and mediocrity thrives and the 'rights of man' are unthinkingly sacrificed on the altar of inter-departmental strife.

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The 79th anniversary of this annual collection of short stories "widely regarded as the nation's most prestigious awards for short fiction" ("The Atlantic Monthly").

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Microdoses of the straight dope, stories so true they had to be wrapped in fiction for our own protection.

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Rossville is a collection of funny...and sometimes tragic...events in the lives of its characters. In its own way, the book's theme of loss winds through each story. With time frames ranging from the 70s through today, the unique plotlines are broad in scope.

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At first glance of the title, one might think this is a children's book. In a way it is--it speaks to the child and adult in each of us. As a collection of short stories, it takes you, the reader, on a literary journey of challenges, downfalls and victories of life. Travel with the narrator as she passes to her granddaughter true stories of her adventures with God, the King.

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Scattered is a book of poetry, short stories, and random thoughts.

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English novelist, journalist, sociologist, and historian, whose science fiction stories have been filmed many times. well's best known works are The Time Machine, one of the first modern science fiction stories, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds. Wells wrote over hundred of books, about fifty of them novels.

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In this collection of short stories, slices of everyday life are illustrated with original art by Turkish author and artist Duygu Kivanc.

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In this sophisticated and provocative story collection, acclaimed author Macy turns her unsparing eye on well-heeled thirtysomething women who, despite their education and affluence, struggle to keep their footing in their relationships with their friends, spouses, and children.