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A collection of forty stories drawn from all corners of Brazil: the Amazon, the Northeast, the Central West, and the South, as well as from Brazil's two dominant cities, Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.

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27 brilliant short story writers, including NY Times bestseller Sean Williams and up-and-coming star Katherine Arguile, unpack the idea of beauty and discover that there is no light without darkness. Cracking the core of all things lovely to reveal their innards, these writers ask: What is beauty anyway The answers may surprise you.

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From the strange erotics of household appliances to the shock of a child's first encounter with death, this collection explores the borderland between inner and outer realities, creating a sharply etched portrait of fraught consciousness struggling for balance between the pains and sudden pleasures of being alive.

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Bush Studies (1902) is a collection of short stories which explore the dark side of the Australian bush experience: loneliness, isolation and danger. The stories, often depicting female suffering, are grimly realistic in contrast to the masculine romantic notions of the outback as represented by Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson.

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This collection of twenty-six dark but often humorous short stories features a pantheon of disturbed and disturbing characters, human and otherwise. More than just standard monster stories, the tales in But You Scared Me the Most reveal much more about about human nature and will appeal to a wide range of fans of smart, funny short fiction.

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If CanLit is a steamy boudoir, then Cape Breton is a pair of torn yellow fishnets glowing under the bed.

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This paperback will feature three Christmas-themed stories by the author, led by "The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton," a tale acknowledged as a precursor to Dickens's beloved classic A Christmas Carol. Other featured stories include "What Christmas Is as We Grow Older" and "A Christmas Dinner."

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This paperback will feature three Christmas-themed stories by the author: "Christmas at Red Butte," "A Christmas Inspiration," and "A Christmas Mistake."

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This paperback will feature two Christmas-themed stories: the much-loved classic, "The Gift of the Magi," and "Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking."

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A chance break in a West End theatre production forces a derailed actress to confront her demons and offers her an opportunity to escape her past and live life to the full.

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Albert Camus meets Chamillionaire in these incendiary pop-culture-infused stories.

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Written in the winding-down stages of a severe psychotic episode filled with manic delusions, this extraordinary story chronicles Julja's relationship with drugs, family and friends.

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Following her American debut in "The New Yorker," Australian Cate Kennedy delivers a mesmerizing collection of award-winning stories that daringly travels to the deepest depths of the human psyche.

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From the brokenhearted to the afflicted, the women in these often macabre stories fight like hell to find their voices and survive the darkness inherent in the modern South.

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Both comic and poignant, historical and contemporary, these stories range through vastly different settings, moods and voices. Meed Ned Kelly as you've never seen him. Listen to an articulate budgie ruminating on his destiny. From the domestic to the sublime and the sublimely absurd, these stories will take you out of your comfort zone.

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Similar to the condensed conceptual slyness of Lydia Davis and the unexpected turns of George Saunders, the neurotic discomforts revealed by Hampton's characters become before our eyes less bizarre and more surprisingly familiar portraits of life in our new age of anxiety.